Invincible Zhengde

Chapter 123 Lianghuai Salt Field
Looking at this memorial, Zhu Youtang sighed a little helplessly. Of course, he could see the significance of this memorial.Obviously, Shouning Hou made several cabinet scholars feel nervous, but what should I do?This is a difficult thing to decide.

If they disagree with this memorial, then they will strictly investigate other salt farms and attribute all salt farms to Xun Xun and his relatives.

This would cause division and would be detrimental to unity. After pondering for a moment, Zhu Youtang picked up a pen and wrote red on the memorial, which was regarded as agreeing with the cabinet's idea.After a long while, Zhu Youtang put down the red pen and sighed softly. He didn't know whether it was right for him to do so, and what his son would think of it, but it was indeed helpful to eliminate the disputes between the court and China.

Once this memorial is over, the debate on the Lianghuai saltworks can be put to rest, and there will be no more resistance in the court.

There were many disputes in the imperial court, but as long as the opinions of the cabinet and the emperor were unified, it would be useless for other people to have any opinions.

Yangzhou.

Zhu Houzhao glanced at the neatly packed imperial convoy behind him, and said expressionlessly, "Let's go!"

The matter in Yangzhou has come to an end for Zhu Houzhao. Those who should be arrested and copied should be copied. As for the remaining issue of how to punish, Zhu Houzhao is not going to intervene. Let this problem be left to the big bosses of the court to have a headache. !It has been so long since the calculation of the salt policy, and it is nothing more than winning a Yangzhou and Lianghuai salt farm.

Zhu Houzhao also knows that there are actually people behind this, such as the big bosses of Shanxi merchants, such as the big bosses of Zhejiang merchants, and the big bosses of Huizhou merchants, but Zhu Houzhao is not going to chase after them.

From the beginning to the end, Zhu Houzhao never forgot his original intention to take back the salt farm and the profits of the salt government. Once he started to pursue these people, it would be the opposite.With the matter of Yangzhou, it is enough. What Zhu Houzhao has to do now is to go to the Lianghuai Salt Field, and then return to Beijing. It is estimated that the capital has come to an end. After all, the capital has not sent any news to him so far. It should be the father who handles it. up.

The crown prince left Yangzhou, and the affairs of Yangzhou were left to Yang Lian to finish. Facing Yang Lian again, no one in Yangzhou dared to underestimate this little Eunuch Yang.

Now Yang Lian's status in Yangzhou is not to say that it is to stop children crying at night, but it is probably not much worse. The name of the dog has long been on the top of his head.

Lianghuai Salt Field, also known as Subei Salt Field.It is mainly distributed along the coast of the Yellow Sea north of Gaoguan River in Jiangsu.Because it is in the north and south of the mouth of the old Huaihe River, it is named Lianghuai Salt Field.Among them, the one north of Huaihe River is called Huaibei Salt Field, and the one south of Huaihe River is called Huainan Salt Field.When it comes to Lianghuai saltworks, there is one place that cannot be bypassed, and this place is Yancheng.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Shicheng led the salt people to revolt and established the Dazhou regime, which persisted for 14 years. Zhang Shicheng was born as a private salt dealer.

Zhu Yuanzhang's "Hongwu San" is also known as "Red Scarf San". More than 4000 landless farmers in Suzhou, Songjiang, Jiaxing, Huzhou, Hangzhou and other places moved to Jiangbei, and some settled in Yancheng. Although Yancheng is only a county seat, the prosperity here is far away. The reason for the extraordinary state capital is also very simple, just because of one word, that is salt, a word that runs through the lifeblood of the empire.

Naturally, the Yangzhou incident cannot be concealed. Although Yancheng has not been involved in anything, many people here have already started to panic.

When the crown prince's imperial guards set foot in Yancheng, the whole Yancheng was filled with a weird atmosphere, and the magistrate of Yancheng was so frightened that he fell ill immediately.After Zhu Houzhao came to Yancheng, the county magistrate couldn't even pick him up. He looked as if he was lying on the bed and died soon. There is no need to check this. The county magistrate of Yancheng must be unclean, so don't even think about it.

After arranging the residence, Zhu Houzhao found Mu Bin. Mu Bin in Yangzhou did a good job, so Zhu Houzhao naturally wanted to take him with him.

Mu Bin also had troubles that he couldn't tell. He had to do things in Yangzhou, and it was the same here in Yancheng.The errand is done beautifully, the prince is happy, the majesty is happy, as for the other things, it is out of control, who cares about them to die.

"See Your Highness!" Mou Bin walked into the room and bowed in salute. For His Highness the Crown Prince, Mou Bin still couldn't figure out the depth of his family.

In fact, since the prince came to Yangzhou from Beijing, he seems to have done nothing. He seems to have just come and walked, and everything seems to have been arranged. As soon as he arrived in Yangzhou, Liu Qi, the transfer envoy of Yangzhou, knelt down and poured beans into a bamboo tube. He betrayed Yangzhou up and down all over again, picked up all the scapegoats, and then it was himself.

From the beginning to the end, His Highness the Crown Prince did nothing, and within a few days after arriving in Yangzhou, His Highness the Crown Prince fell ill, but Mou Bin still did not dare to underestimate the Crown Prince.

"Mu Qing is here? Sit down!" Zhu Houzhao greeted Mou Bin with a smile. After Mou Bin sat down, Zhu Houzhao said: "A few days ago, I asked Mou Qing to check the situation in Yancheng. How did the investigation go?"

"Returning to Your Highness, Jin Yiwei has already conducted a survey in secret, and the salt farm has also finished the survey. The entire Lianghuai Salt Farm is rotten from top to bottom. The salt farm ambassadors, warehouse managers, and small officials are all profiting from it. Illegal salt is rampant. Households embezzled and sold private salt, I thought that if we wanted to change the appearance of the Lianghuai Salt Fields, we would have to clean up the Salt Fields from top to bottom.”

Zhu Houzhao nodded. These things don't need to be checked, and Zhu Houzhao didn't come here for this.

The ambassadors and storekeepers of the Lianghuai saltworks, officials of this level, let alone let Zhu Houzhao take care of them personally, they would never see Zhu Houzhao even if they wanted to.

Zhu Houzhao glanced at Mou Bin, and then asked, "Who is the most powerful?"

"Go back to Your Highness, the Ye family in Huai'an!" Mou Bin didn't dare to neglect, and quickly said: "We also investigated the Ye family in Yangzhou, copied their garden, and arrested their people, but the roots of the Ye family are in Huai'an. In the saltworks. Among the saltworks, nearly half of the ambassadors of the saltworks are members of the Ye family."

"Who has committed the most crimes?" Zhu Houzhao asked again.

"Returning to Your Highness, Ye Li, the ambassador of the T-shaped salt field in Huaibei, is a distant relative of the Ye family. He takes advantage of the power of the Ye family to be domineering, bully men and women, and commit all kinds of crimes. He is the most evil person in this generation." Mou Bin knew what His Royal Highness wanted. If he wanted to stand alone, he pushed Ye Li out without hesitation.

Glancing at Mu Bin, Zhu Houzhao sighed in his heart. Apart from other things, Mu Bin really knows how to do things. Whatever you want, he can do for you.Nodding his head, Zhu Houzhao said: "Tomorrow, I will go to the Huaibei T-shaped salt field, and I will meet the first villain in Lianghuai for a while."

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