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Chapter 255
"Mubang adherents, I implore Shangguo to uphold justice!"

There is no need to translate this sentence, this Baden Ding said in Chinese, but he just said this sentence, or he was waiting for someone to answer, or he just said a sentence to see if it had any effect, and did not speak again.

Hu Guang didn't know where Mubang was. From the literal meaning, it seemed that the vassal state wanted to ask for help. Just such a thoughtless sentence, he couldn't finish worrying about his own affairs, so he ignored it and switched to work in Dongchang Group, asked Cao Huachun about the situation in Suzhou.

"Your Majesty, the Ma family is very powerful in Suzhou. The former Dongchang fan accidentally showed his traces and was killed by him. The bones have been found. The branch of the Yongchang stock office of Shanxi Merchants has its shares, and the prefect of Suzhou and the county magistrate also have it. The servant girl found out that the Ma and Fan families cooperated with each other in the bank and the salt industry. The servant girl brought troops from Yingtian Mansion, and the relevant people have all been captured. For the time being, they have obtained as much as 100 million taels of silver, and the rest of the land and other assets Still counting..."

The big salt merchant is also a big fat sheep!After reading Cao Huachun's report, Hu Guang couldn't help but sigh.If before, if they ransacked the Shanxi merchants and then ransacked the salt merchants, they would have made a fortune!
However, this is the only way to think about it.If the emperor said he would copy anyone's house, the world would be chaotic, or if the world was not chaotic, the emperor would have changed!

The Shanxi merchants were able to be inspected before because the Shanxi merchants caused too much public outrage.If the Shanxi merchants were inspected before the Jianlu invaded the capital, things might not go so smoothly, and many people from all walks of life would come out to oppose it in other ways!
Even if the Shanxi merchants harmed the interests of so many people, among them were civil servants and military generals of the capital, royal relatives and dignitaries, and the search could only be done in moderation.Min Hongxue's analysis is the best proof.

And those big salt merchants are different from Shanxi merchants and Tonglu. They may have shady methods in doing business, but they are far from the obvious harm caused by Tonglu. It can even be said that the methods of the big salt merchants are basically Not only salt merchants, but also merchants from all walks of life are using it.If a large-scale inspection of salt merchants is carried out for this reason, the rebound from all walks of life will be far more severe than what Min Hongxue analyzed before, I don't know how many times!

As for the Ma family in Suzhou, they still took advantage of the collusion with Shanxi merchants, plus the illegal things Ma Fugui revealed in the group.Hu Guang believes that many people are staring at Suzhou. If there is a tendency to expand, even Cao Huachun, the admiral of the East Factory, may not be able to suppress it.

Hu Guang was thinking about it, when he suddenly heard that Yang He, the governor of Shaanxi Province, had rushed to play.

The situation in Shaanxi was one of the things he was most concerned about.Because of this, he had previously decreed that the memorials at the level of the governor of Shaanxi should be directly submitted to the imperial court.

Hearing it at this time, Hu Guang quickly asked someone to submit a memorial to read.

Yang He mainly talked about five things. First, it is estimated from the current situation that the severe drought in northern Shaanxi will spread to the whole of Shaanxi in all likelihood, and the situation of the disaster is not optimistic.

The second is that with the spread of the drought in Shaanxi, there have been many major civil uprisings, and the momentum is very fierce. For example, Fugu King Jiayin captured Fugu County and so on. , leading to a resurgence.

The third is that Yang He made it clear that these civil uprisings were unavoidable, and most of the people were victims of disasters, and no one survived, and they had to follow the bandits.

Fourth, Yang He advocated appeasement, and begged the court to allocate money and food to appease him, so as to show the virtue of God's good life and the emperor's generosity and benevolence.

Fifth, when the governor of Yansui was sick, Yang He recommended Hong Chengchou, a military officer, to participate in politics. .

After reading it, Hu Guang frowned, thought for a while, and immediately called a group of ministers to discuss matters in the Wenhua Hall.

He first showed Yang He's memorial to his subordinate cabinet ministers and six ministers, and then asked: "What do you think?"

"I think that Governor Yang's words are reasonable, and most of the thieves are victims of disasters, so we should appease them!" Sun Yuanhua, the left servant of the Ministry of Rites and temporarily serving as the minister, was the first to bow and play.

The reason why he is so active is that he is grateful to the emperor.After all, he was recommended by his teacher Xu Guangqi, and after an interview with the emperor, he was promoted without merit.

Others listened and echoed, even Bi Ziyan, Minister of the Household Department who was holding a purse, was the same.

This is also something that can't be helped, just like generals must have military merits, civil servants must have fame.Only in this way, it is possible to stand in the officialdom without falling.If Yuqian's words can be spread, it will only take a little bit of saliva, but it can reap the gratitude and gratitude of the people of Qin. Such a good thing, why not do it!

Seeing that all the courtiers have the same attitude, Hu Guang couldn't help but wonder, didn't later generations explain that some minister wrote a poem condemning why the people didn't stay at home and starve to death, but came out to cause chaos for the court?
Thinking about it carefully, I guess it was a rumor, or one of the allusions of the dark Ming Dynasty in the later generations.If it weren't for which minister would be so brain-dead!
This idea flashed by, and Hu Guang also agreed with the views of these courtiers. In addition, he had seized the Shanxi merchants and gained confidence, so he asked again: "How to appease?"

On this specific level, the ministers below were silent at first, and then expressed their opinions, but they were not the same.

Some people said that the money and food were allocated directly, and the censor was sent there to let the victims receive the money and food and return to their original places.

Some people immediately objected to this idea, saying that it was too unrealistic to transport the food, and they could not afford to consume it on the road.

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Hu Guang frowned as he listened, this matter is really difficult!
The food definitely cannot be transported there, but if the money is distributed, even if it is exchanged for banknotes, it can be easily transported, but after the victims receive the money, the price of goods will skyrocket.It was already affected by the disaster, and supplies are in short supply. If there is too much money, there will be money and no food at that time, so what's the use?

He was troubled here, and far away on Phi Island in the east, a large group of Ming army generals were also troubled, noisy and even very discordant.

When Yuan Chonghuan, the former governor of Ji and Liao Dynasty, killed Mao Wenlong, he divided [-] Dongjiang soldiers into four associations. Wenlong's son Mao Chengzuo was in charge of the first association, and Xu Fu was in charge of the first association. Guerrilla Liu Xingzuo was in charge. Two associations remain.Later Liu Xingzuo went to Guanning, and his association was led by his younger brother Liu Xingzhi.

The purpose of Yuan Chong's doing this at the beginning was to let them restrain each other and balance their strengths so that one family could not dominate, so that he could control or other purposes.

As a result, the four generals of Dongjiang Town refused to obey anyone, they argued and fought with each other when things went wrong, they rushed to do good things, and no one wanted to do difficult things. Dongjiang Town, which was a mess, was actually abolished.

　The monthly ticket was doubled, and I owed another change, and two changes. Let's see if I can pay back one change tonight.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)