The heavens start from saving Daming

Chapter 18 I Want It All!

Li Yunze wouldn't go in and out with the salt merchants, and they fought openly and secretly for many rounds.

He pays attention to a crisp and neat way of doing things, and cuts through the mess quickly.When the strength is strong enough, then crush it.

The emperor's righteousness is in his hand, but he didn't know that it was a sand sculpture to use.

Since it is the emperor, then use the imperial power to directly suppress and sweep away all monsters and monsters.

If you have the ability, you rebel.

Li Yunze was really looking forward to their rebellion, so he just had a spoonful of it.

When it comes to money and materials, Li Yunze, who is backed by the modern world, is much better than these guys.

As far as the powerful soldiers and horses are concerned, the prestige of the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years is still there, and the soldiers and horses in various places still listen to the emperor in terms of civil and military justice.

If they really dared to rebel, few people would follow.

Since there are so many advantages, of course Li Yunze has to choose the simplest, most convenient and quickest way to solve the problem.

Salt sales income of 2000 million taels a year.

It doesn't matter who you are, anyone who dares to rob him of this source of income will be Yizu Special!
"Long live!"

Xu Hongji, who was in a panic, knelt down and bowed directly, "There are many people who are entangled in the matter of salt affairs. Even the palaces of vassal princes and princes in various places have salt quotations! Long live, is it true that the salt quotations of the kings will also be abolished?"

This matter is Zhu Yuanzhang's fault.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was poor and crazy when he was young, stipulated that in order to get more money for future generations, he stipulated that a certain amount of salt should be distributed to the palaces of vassal princes and princes in various places every year to increase the income of the palaces.

More than 200 years have passed, and the vassal kings have already exceeded the prescribed quantity, selling salt wantonly and destroying the market.

The relatives of the royal family took the lead in doing this, so the private salt dealers from all over the country were naturally more unscrupulous when they started selling private salt.

As for the so-called private salt dealers, their origins are very complicated.

Desperadoes who work alone or in small groups, small businessmen and peddlers are not in the mainstream.

The real big private salt dealers are all real official salt merchants, dignitaries, gentry, court officials and so on.

In their view, what princes can do, they can also do.

Anyway, the sky is falling, and there are tall people holding it up.

The result of these people being salt lords is that the official salt cannot be sold, and naturally they cannot collect much money for selling salt.

This is the real reason why the Ming Dynasty paid 2000 million taels of salt every year, but the salt tax received by the court was only 67 taels.

Xu Hongji, who was red-eyed, poked open this layer of paper at this time, and that was the last hope of everyone present.

Even the emperor can't ignore family affection.

If the royal relatives and relatives are really offended, the world will be unstable that day.

If the royal relatives can pass the test, then they will have something to say.

These people don't have a front and back view, and they have no idea of ​​the despair that Daming will face in the next ten years or so.

At that time, it didn't matter what feudal lord you were, just make it Fu Lu Shou.

Knowing this, Li Yunze never cared about them.

If it weren't for replacing Chongzhen, he wanted to save Daming.He has already pulled up the team, smashed everything and started from scratch.

"The kings?" Li Yunze looked at the beauty of the garden in front of him, but what he was thinking about was how bloody and cruel it must have been when the city of Yangzhou was destroyed.

"In my eyes, a good feudal lord is one who can protect the Ming Dynasty. Those who harm the interests of the Ming Dynasty are all national thieves! I will never be soft on national thieves."

As soon as these words came out, there was silence on the platform.The hearts of the people are full of despair.

This emperor is too ruthless, he doesn't even talk about family affection.

"Xu Hongji."

Li Yunze sighed, and started to do things, "You will be removed from the post of admiral Jiang Fang. From now on, all the military guards in the south of the Yangtze River will be under the command of Cao Wenzhao. Are you willing to accept the order?"

The first thing to do is to win the military power everywhere in the south of the Yangtze River, there is no doubt about this.

Whether it is for the convenience of doing things later, or to reduce the destruction of the Jiangnan land, it is necessary to gather military power.

Xu Hongji, who was kneeling on the ground, raised his head to argue, and happened to see Luo Yangxing, who was standing not far away with a smirk on his face, and his hand was already on the handle of the Xiuchun knife.

Only then did he suddenly come to his senses, the emperor had already made up his mind to attack them before going south!

There is no doubt that if he dares to utter half of the word 'no', then next year's today will be the anniversary of his family's death.

The trembling Xu Hongji bowed his head, "I obey the order."

"You're wise." Li Yunze showed regret. "Actually, after you crossed the river, Cao Bianjiao took over the city defense and navy of Yingtianfu with the imperial decree."

Many people on the platform were ashamed, the emperor was too quick and too ruthless.

"Wen Tiren, go to deal with the salt affairs."

Wen Tiren, who knew he was going to take the blame, also had no choice but to "lead the order."

"Cao Wenzhao, seal the city and send troops to wipe out the salt lords everywhere."

Cao Wenzhao, who had already been on the alert, immediately responded loudly, "Minister, lead the decree!"

"Luo Yangxing, arrest and interrogate him severely."

"I accept the decree!" Luo Yangxing, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, waved his hand after receiving the decree, "Take it!"

A group of Jinyi guards swarmed up and took down all the salt merchants and gentry.

Li Yunze pointed to the trembling Jiangnan civil and military officials and honored nobles, "Please follow along, don't leave without permission."

He knows very well what it means to shoot a man first and shoot a horse first, and to capture a thief first and capture the king first.

If these people are under control, even if the land in the south of the Yangtze River wants to cause chaos, they will not be able to find a few people with enough prestige to take the lead.

There is nothing much to say, this group of people must all be brought with them, brewing slowly one by one.

Anyway, there was Wei Ni's big basket before, and now there is the pit of Yanwu, it's too easy to pretend to be someone.

Because these guys are not clean.

"Your Majesty~ Your Majesty~~ The grass people are wronged~~~"

Li Yunze, who strode away from the platform with his hands behind his back, stopped when he heard the cry of injustice.

He looked sideways at Jiang Chun, who was streaming with snot and tears, "Three months ago, I sent Jinyiwei and Dongchang personnel to investigate secretly."

He walked up to Jiang Chun, who was held down by Jin Yiwei, and looked down at him condescendingly, "You are a salt merchant on the surface, but secretly you are the largest private salt dealer in Lianghuai. Do you think I don't know? You are already a salt dealer. Brazenly selling the official salt!"

Raising his hand, a big man went over and slapped Jiang Chun down.

"Are you still calling for injustice? Don't insult the word injustice!"

"And you!"

Stretching out his hand and looking around, many salt merchants and gentry said, "One by one, they are using official salt channels to sell private salt, it is really lawless!"

Li Yunze pointed his fingers at Jiangnan's civil, military and nobles, "You can feed them with silver beauties, but you can't feed me. I want them all!"

He left this scenic platform, leaving behind a large group of mourners.

No matter how famous and powerful these people were before.

But when facing the pressure of the imperial power directly, everything in the past has become a joke.

With all the leading figures in the south of the Yangtze River under control, this is the end of the world.

That is to say, in this time period, Li Yunze can still do it so smoothly.

If it is really the time after the post-Jin breaks through and completely shatters the last majesty of Ming Dynasty to do this, it will inevitably stir up huge waves.

Seeing Li Yunze's leaving back, Gu Hengbo, who had been ignored all this time, clutched his heart, his breathing was rapid and his cheeks were hot.

Of these people on the platform, which one in the past was not a big shot who could make the land of Jiangnan tremble three times by stomping his feet.

But at this time, in front of the emperor, they were as humble as ants.

Is this the power of the Son of Heaven?

Gu Hengbo, who was mentally shocked, only saw Li Yunze's back in his winking eyes.

This is a charm that completely surpasses that of a talented and handsome scholar!The charm of a real man!

The bustling and bustling city of Yangzhou fell into unprecedented panic.

A large number of sergeants from the Longxiang Army cooperated with Jinyiwei to arrest people and ransack their homes everywhere.

And Yangzhou City is the largest gathering place of salt owls in the entire Huaihe River.

Most of the salt smugglers are valiant and brave. The salt smugglers who do not want to be caught resist desperately, and fierce battles will break out from time to time.

They dare to fight and fight hard, and their martial arts are also very good.

For example, the private salt team supported by Jiang Chun has thousands of people, and they are all desperadoes recruited from all corners of the country.

However, when the fight really started, the situation was completely one-sided.

On the one hand, private salt dealers only have knives, guns, bows and arrows in their hands, and it would be nice to have a few crossbows.

As for the armor or something, there is no such thing at all.

It's not that they can't afford it, but which private salt dealer would wear shining armor to sell private salt?Isn't this just reminding people in the government everywhere, come and arrest me~~~
In Daming, selling private salt was naturally a death penalty, but hiding armor was also punishable by beheading.

All Longxiang soldiers wear armor, and the coverage rate of iron armor is as high as more than [-]%.

It's not that Li Yunze can't buy enough iron armor, but that the crossbowmen and musketeers don't need it.

The huge gap in equipment is enough to decide the outcome.

What's more, the Longxiang Army is an army, organized and trained, and has a righteous name.

Facing those private salt dealers who fight with blood and courage, the battle is naturally one-sided.

The salt merchants in Lianghuai are all superficial salt merchants and secretly salt lords.

They use their identities as salt merchants to link up and down to gain channel share.

Then use the identity of a salt lord to sell private salt and earn a lot of wealth.

Because Jiangnan was fed up and down, he was completely unscrupulous and even blatant when doing things.

The spies from Jinyiwei and Dongchang easily found the warehouses where the salt was stored.

Now, these warehouses are all the main targets.

In addition, the mansions, manors, and other courtyards of the salt lords were all taken down.

Seeing the families and children of the salt merchants being taken away crying, Li Yunze didn't have the slightest sympathy.

When they were enjoying the fine clothes and fine food brought by the illegal salt, they never sympathized with the common people of Ming Dynasty who were suffering from the illegal salt.

The salt merchants deliberately sold the official salt badly, causing no one to care about the official salt, and then sold the private salt at a high price to earn wealth.

Their family's fine clothes and fine food are enjoyed by the hard-earned money of the common people of Ming Dynasty.

I have enjoyed extravagantly the hard-earned money of the common people to buy salt, now is the time to pay the due price.

The next thing is naturally to have the ministers to do things.

Li Yunze, who has been busy running around for most of the day, went to rest and sleep when he returned to the Yanzheng Yamen.

When I woke up, it was already evening.

Wang Chengen, who came to serve, asked, "My lord, do you want to pass on the food?"

"No, you all go out."

Li Yunze knew very well that he had offended too many people by rectifying the salt affairs.

Cutting people's money, when they are forced to die, some people dare to do the thing of "willing to cut the whole body, dare to pull the emperor off the horse".

For his own safety, Li Yunze chose to go back to the modern world to eat.

After Wang Chengen and others went out, he changed his clothes and opened the door of time and space, returning to the modern world.

As soon as he came out, he was in the warehouse he rented. Looking at the mountain of salt in the warehouse, Li Yunze rubbed his chin and smiled.

"Just waiting for you to fight a salt war, I have unlimited bullets."

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