Li Shen's most satisfying thing is his execution, although his wrists are not smooth enough, but to solve the problems of today's Dayu is not to rely on a group of harmony.

What's more, Li Xu also knows that his current policy is, in the final analysis, four words "I am shameless".

Sending the King of Shu to serve as Jingzhao Yin, and then appointing Niu Monk and Yu as the King of Shu as the Changshi of Jingzhao Shaoyin, this appearance can already be said to be very ugly.

Then let Li Shen generously embezzle the property of those Hu merchants, and finally sell the silk back for the copper money in the Hu merchants' pockets.

"Your Majesty, these Hu merchants can also be regarded as meritorious. "Niu Monk and Yu are still ready to fight for these rich people in Bai Yujing. "Since the outbreak of the Kwantung Rebellion, the Tibetans took advantage of the fire to seize the lands of Longyou and Hexi, and our country was geographically cut off from the Western Regions, thanks to the Uighur steppe road to connect with the Western Regions. Most of these Hu merchants are people with the surname Zhaowu Jiu, Cao State, and Shi State, and they are trying their best to maintain the capital of our Western Regions, which is really a meritorious ...... to the country."

After the Guandong Rebellion, Dayu was unable to control the Western Regions, and most of the local protectorates relied on these Hu people to maintain, and they faced the erosion of Tubo, and finally maintained the banner of Dayu in the Western Regions for a period of time.

"They can vote for Tibet, and see if those thieves will give them silk to make money. Li Shen directly pointed out that these Hu merchants maintained the military towns in the Western Regions purely out of profit: "The thieves want to make them slaves......

"These are small things, and the reason why I have called you two here is because I have something to discuss with you. Li Xu is not ready to continue to worry about whether these Hu people have merit or not.

Anyway, this money must be scraped out of Bai Yujing's Hu Shang, it doesn't matter what these people have done before, the important thing is that the emperor needs their money.

In addition to Hu Shang, Li Xu is now eyeing another group of people.

"A few days ago, there were no less than 100 people killed or injured in the evil young weapons fight in the capital, how is this investigation?"

The daily newspaper submitted to him by the Criminal Prison Envoy Department contained the recent murders and serious criminal cases in Beijing, and the number of cases of deaths caused by brawls between gangsters and evil teenagers in the daily newspaper has remained high, and a few days ago a weapon fight broke out in which nearly 1,000 people participated, killing and injuring no less than 100 people, and many good people in the rivers and lakes were involved in it.

Since His Majesty the Emperor became interested in these evil young brawls, Li Shen immediately began to investigate the cause of the incident, and it didn't take much effort for him to find out what was going on.

The cause of such a serious crowd brawl is actually very simple, that is, idleness and nothing to do.

To Han Xiang and Zhou Guogong's Hongfu, the entertainment life of the people in Bai Yujing has always been very rich, if you want to listen to the commentary, you can go to the teahouse, if you want to see the Han fighting, you can go to the arena, and there are some Keju competitions, horse races or something.

But the dominant of these entertainment is polo.

The people of Bai Yujing like polo to the point of obsession, regardless of the rich and poor, men, women and children, basically everyone is obsessed with polo games. This serious brawl occurred just after the polo match was over.

After the game, one of the sides was already unhappy because of the loss, and the other side took advantage of the victory to mock wantonly, and finally made a fuss, and the two sides also moved. Li Shen introduced the general cause and then continued: "Because these two polo teams belong to the names of the two gang leaders, the two gangs are also involved in it, and they are inseparable all of a sudden. ”

Gang, Li Xu snorted coldly, and motioned for Li Shen to continue, he hadn't thought about cleaning up those city fox club rats, but he didn't expect them to run out by themselves.

"On one side is Wu Hong, the hall master of the White Tiger Hall of the Giant Whale Gang, and on the other side is the head of the White Sand Society, the golden face owl. ”

Li Shen introduced to the emperor, "The Giant Whale Gang was originally a group of people who worked for the imperial court, and later several Jianghu people set their sights on this business, so they organized the people to set up a giant whale gang and set up halls in various places, Xiangyang, Yangzhou, Yizhou, Luoyang and other places have halls, and their main business is water transportation, and there are some illegal part-time jobs." ”

Compared with a national organization like the Giant Whale Gang, the scale of the White Desert Society is much smaller.

"The Baisha Society mainly trafficked the salt from the Shuofang Salt Pond to Beijing for sale, and there were salt ponds in Shuofang, which produced a lot of salt, and the cunning villains stole salt and sold it to the mainland to make huge profits. ”

Caoyun and the salt industry are the pillars of the country, Li Xu sneered in his heart when he heard this, these two people who were head-killing and dared to make such a big fuss, they really didn't know how to die.

"Illicit salt. As soon as Li Xu heard it, he knew that the golden-faced owl must have some background.

The salt industry of the Yu Dynasty originally implemented a policy of both official and private operations, and was generally relatively relaxed. Later, when the Kwantung Rebellion broke out, the income of the imperial court was tight, and the military expenditure was large, so it was changed to an official system. Salt supervisors were set up in salt-producing areas and government monopolies were implemented. The monopoly of salt also accounts for the bulk of government revenue.

At present, the income from the monopoly of salt industry accounts for half of the total income of the imperial court, reaching 6 million guan, and the position of salt and iron envoy has always been concurrently held by Han Gang.

Monopoly will inevitably bring a certain degree of corruption, and the gold-faced owl can get Shuofang's salt to be sold in the capital, and he is obviously a market hero with good hands and eyes.

As for Wu Hong, the master of the White Tiger Hall who fought against him, he thought he was also a figure.

"Si Di, the first thing I did after taking office was to sweep away these city fox society rats. Li Xu's words decided the fate of these two Jianghu figures.

Wechen understood. ”

"Don't startle the snake first, don't worry about others, this Wu Hong will get rid of whatever Wu Hong says. Li Xu thought about what he explained to Yuan Zhen and said. "This golden-faced owl...... Where the hell did it come from?"

"The golden-faced owl is the adopted son of Han Xiang's housekeeper. Li Shen looked at Niu Monk and Child with complicated eyes: "Han Xiang has an old family member named Han Erliu, this golden-faced owl is Han Erliu's righteous son, and he is a little bit involved with Han Xiang, and then this relationship can gain a foothold in the private salt industry." ”

The prime minister's door is a seven-grade official, and the prime minister's housekeeper is afraid that he also has five grades. Li Xu smiled dumbly when he thought of this, since there is such a relationship as Han Gang behind him, it is even more necessary to let the golden-faced owl mess around for a few more days.

It's just about saving money for yourself.

"I have no other requirements for you, only one thing, take care of Bai Yujing. Li Xu looked at Niu Monk and Li Shen. "No matter what means you use or what tricks you use, I will give you a year, and after a year, there will be a look from top to bottom in Beijing. ”

"The Manichaean thing cannot be repeated. Li Xu breathed a long sigh of relief and instructed the two.