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Chapter 202 Lao Zhu's crime of collaborating with the enemy, beheaded
Li Wenzhong's words were flat, and he didn't seem to be angry, but the businessmen still felt a little cold. Except for Second Master Wen, the rest all sat down on their chairs with a plop.

After looking at Shen to see if he knew it, Li Wenzhong then stared at the person who got up, pointed at Second Master Wen and said, "Sit down for me too, or I won't recognize anyone."

Zhu Biao finally understood that the old Shanxi merchant who moved over from the previous dynasty was the thorn in here.When Li Wenzhong threatened them with his domineering attitude, Zhu Biao sat behind the screen and drank tea slowly.

"My lord, if the Wen family is in business and neither steals nor robs, if the court finds it difficult, then this is too unreasonable." Second Master Wen said.

Li Wenzhong is usually simple and honest, so he is definitely not the opponent of this businessman.It's like he ran to every house and couldn't find anyone.

But Zhu Biao didn't intend to go out, and continued to listen.

……

In the end, Li Wenzhong let the group of businessmen go. Zhu Biao didn't care about the proud Wen Erye downstairs.

Not surprisingly, Jin Yiwei's speed is extremely fast.

After sending Li Wenzhong away, Shen Zhishi walked behind the screen, lowered his head and said aggrievedly: "Your Highness, do you know if you didn't handle this matter well, please punish him."

Zhu Biao stretched out his hand to pull her over, tapped her forehead twice and said, "Don't blame yourself, you girl did a good job."

Before leaving, Zhu Biao took out the firecracker and handed it to her, taught her how to use it, and told her to carry it for self-defense, so that she could use it in an emergency.

Ordinary firecrackers are not as good as that kind of revolver after all, but they are considered the best now.

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Nanjing city.writer.

After Second Master Wen went back, he immediately told Mr. Wen's family what had happened.

"You are stupid. If you don't cooperate with the court in handling the salt affairs, they will get angry. What will they do if they find out the grain?"

"Brother, don't worry, I dragged the Shen family into trouble. I lied about harvesting grain and bought it at a high price, and deceived Shen Qiancheng to Beidi. Their Shen family is an imperial merchant, and when the time comes..."

"Second brother, don't be careless, I'm going to the study now."

Later, in the study, the master of the Wen family found that the account books and secret letters he had locked in the secret room were gone, and he had a premonition that the situation was not good.

I want to ask the housekeeper immediately.

The butler has been with him since he was a child, and he doesn't hide anything from him, but the butler can't find him now.

The uncle of the Wen family immediately called the second master of the Wen family and Wen Shujiang to discuss.

"Second brother, call me immediately everyone who knows to transport grain to Yunnan." Uncle Wen's eyes were fierce: "Butler Wen is gone."

"Brother? Butler Wen won't do it." Second Master Wen knew what his elder brother meant.

"I can't control that much, gather them together, invite them to drink tonight, and make them drunk and burn them to death. Go now, the secret letter of the account book is lost, this matter is related to the life and death of our Wen family."

"yes, Sir."

"Wait a minute." Uncle Wen looked at his middle-aged brother and said, "If you find Steward Wen, kill him, or die by accident."

These words were clearly heard by the Jin Yiwei on the roof.

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Then Zhu Biao took Sanbao back to the palace, and wanted to meet Lao Zhu after dinner.

In the evening, when Zhu Biao was having dinner in the East Palace, Lao Zhu sent him to ask him to go to Qianqing Palace.

At this time, in Qianqing Palace, Lao Zhu was flipping through the memorabilia as high as a hill in front of him, his face expressionless.

I heard Yu Yi talk on Zhu Biao Road, about those retail salt merchants.

Salt is a profiteering industry, and it is one of the sources of finance.Zhu Biao will never let go of this opportunity.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Guan Zhong, a famous minister of Qi State, proposed to monopolize the salt industry.

Although the management of the salt industry has been different in the past dynasties, in general, the management rights of the salt industry are in the hands of the imperial court most of the time.

Beginning in the Tang Dynasty, Yangzhou salt and iron envoys changed the original mode of purchasing, transporting, and selling table salt by the imperial court to purchasing by the imperial court and reselling it to those merchants for transportation and sales.The salt merchants officially appeared in this group.

In the third year of Hongwu in history, the Ming Dynasty implemented the "Open Central System". Merchants transported grain and grass to the north. After the grain and grass arrived, the imperial court distributed salt to the merchants according to a certain proportion, and those merchants used salt to attract salt from various salt farms.

The saltworks date back to the Shanxi area before 6000 BC.Salt is a strategic resource, and many people are vying for it, including the pool salt in Shanxi.

It is now September of the second year of Hongwu, and Zhu Biao wants to establish the Daming Salt Bureau in advance.

I originally thought that the cooperation of those businessmen would be a win-win situation, but I didn't expect that the Wen family was still a picky one.

Soon, Zhu Biao entered the Qianqing Palace, but Yu Yi wisely did not follow.

As soon as he looked up, he saw Lao Zhu sitting there looking at him with a serious expression.Zhu Biao was a little flustered, because Lao Zhu's expression...

"Father... Emperor."

Old Zhu asked Jin Yiwei to find out what had happened in the past few days. Seeing that his son was a little panicked, Lao Zhu's expression became gentler.

"Before we were busy recovering the Northern Territory, now we should pay attention to the matter of salt and iron, Biaoer, based on what Wen Er said, we can kill him."

"Father!"

Zhu Biao didn't say much, Lao Zhu must know everything.

"The emperor kills people for no reason, not to mention selling their family of writers to the rebels in Yunnan at a high price. Provided by the butler."

Zhu Biao was sweating, this old Zhu's Jin Yiwei turned the housekeeper's strategy so quickly, it was amazing.

Then he recalled what Old Zhu had said.

"Sell food to the rebels?"

Zhu Biao was stunned. He thought that the worst thing for the Wen family would be to hoard food, but he didn't expect to sell it to the Yunnan rebels.

Up to now, Fu Youde, Mu Ying and the others are still struggling to fight against the Yuan army in Yunnan, but they never thought that this Wen family was actually...

"What Mao Xiang collected was that the Wen family purchased grain, and then collected a profit of [-] Wen per stone, and then joined them in Sichuan. Here is a list of all the participants, as well as their transportation methods and route drawings." The old man said. Zhu Tieqing's face was pale.

Sichuan is the Ming Shengxia regime, and it has not been recovered yet.

Zhu Biao didn't dare to search, he was afraid that if there was someone from the Shen family, after all, Shen knew whether he had feelings for him, and he couldn't ignore it.

Seeing his son like this, Lao Zhu understood in his heart, and said, "You still need to temper yourself, and you must not be soft-hearted. There is also a secret letter about the Wen family's dealings with the rebels for profit."

"Yes, my son, remember, the crime of collaborating with the enemy for profit, beheaded!"

Zhu Biao turned to the first page... the second page, the third page, but there was no name of the Shen family, his shoulders suddenly loosened.

"Biaoer, Shen Qiancheng helped Wen's family go to Shandong to collect grain. We have to let them investigate this matter. If they don't know, we will beat him. If they want to help the enemy, behead them!"

"Yes. My son wrote it down."

"This literary family was a well-known wealthy businessman in the previous dynasty. Later, during the war in the North, his family moved to the south of the Yangtze River. In just a few years, many of them were annexed.

It's just that this Shanxi merchant writer is very simple and doesn't pay attention to pleasure.

They are intertwined with some officials, but let’s not talk about it in advance, they are guilty of not cooperating with you in building the Yangzhou Salt Bureau.

The Wen family colluded with the enemy to sell food and obtain huge profits. There is no lower limit. We must behead them. We will hand over the others who have connections to the Ministry of Criminal Justice. "

Old Zhu has a small bright yellow book, which is very thick. It records all the affairs of those corrupt officials, and he circled it with black pen if he did not continue to be corrupt.

Those who oppress the common people, collude with the officials, and those who are insatiable, are in the circle of Zhubi.

Zhu Biao nodded: "For the matter of salt affairs, I will let the monitoring officers of the Academy of Science and Technology go to various places to find salt mines, salt lakes, and salt ponds..."

"For the matter of salt affairs, my son believes that fair and honest people should be selected. The salt affairs bureau, weaving bureau, tea and mines, etc., the money does not need to go through the hands of the household department, and goes directly to the treasury."

"Do you have a good candidate?" Old Zhu looked at him with a smile.

"Yes, my son wants that Zan Lilang of Taichang Temple who just took office, Dao Tong."

"Daotong? The Daotong Yuan Ren who is filial to his parents?" Lao Zhu said with a smile: "Let him try, and then continue to improve the salt mine system. You can start it first, and we will wait for the snow-white salt you mentioned , not Bai Ruxue, you are just deceiving Junfu."

"Yes, father." Zhu Biao said with a smile.

How to arrange and organize salt merchants and the institutional structure of the Salt Bureau all require reasonable planning.

Old Zhu walked up to Zhu Biao, put his hand on Zhu Biao's shoulder, and said, "We're going to copy the Wen family, and those things have been found out. Apart from selling grain, this Wen family has done a lot of other unscrupulous things. He'll be wronged, you son of a bitch profiteer."

Old Zhu suddenly said something cursing.

"That's right. Your mother and queen are leaving the palace tomorrow. Has your Ming Qi No. [-] been repaired?"

"Going back to my father, I am changing the wheels. There are some problems with the previous material." Zhu Biao answered truthfully.

The father and son had a private conversation for a while.Then Lao Zhu asked Yu Yi to give orders to Jin Yiwei.

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