Chapter 9: Beauty Wanruo (1)

"Your Majesty, are you going to that empress's palace tonight?" Wang Chengen learned his lesson and held the tray that flipped the signs. He didn't ask Zhu Yinglong whether to flip the signs, but asked him what he had in mind.

Zhu Yinglong raised his head and glanced at Wang Chengen and said, "Wang Chengen, I don't seem to have seen you much in the past few days. Tell me, what are you doing?"

Wang Chengen laughed a few times and said embarrassedly: "The emperor ordered that all the business in the palace be made public. We slaves are happy from the bottom of our hearts. We don't need to sneak into making some pocket money in the future. Now it's spreading in the palace, saying that you are not only the true dragon emperor, but also the Bodhisattva descending to earth!"

"Oh. Do you say that to me?" Zhu Yinglong was happy to hear this and asked with a smile: "Why haven't I heard of it at all?"

"The emperor is busy with all kinds of things, and it is not surprising that you haven't heard of some small things that are big in sesame."

"What you said is right. Even if I hear these small things, I will turn around and forget them!" Zhu Yinglong said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, you'd better turn the sign." Wang Chengen raised the tray in the middle of his hand slightly.

"Okay, I'll just flip through this sign today!" Zhu Yinglong put down the memorial in his hand, reached out and grabbed a jade sign casually.

Zhu Yinglong opened it and saw the word "Chenfei" was imprinted in his eyes. Speaking of Chenfei, he was Shen Qianqian, the daughter of Shen Xi. He had been in the palace for several months, but he had never favored her yet. Every time he flipped through her sign, he stayed in the Palace of Yangxin. Chenfei's Xianfu gate never stepped in. Thinking of this, he couldn't help feeling a little sorry for this innocent girl. Since she had signed her as a concubine, she was really cruel to her.

Zhu Yinglong was stunned for a while when he touched the jade token, and then he put the jade token into Wang Chengen, who had received the jade token with both hands.

"Empress Chen Concubine is here to receive the kindness!" Wang Chengen sang. The eunuch who was in charge went to Xianfu Palace to inform Chen Concubine Shen Qianqian to take a shower and change clothes, waiting for the emperor to favor him.

It happened that the next memorial was actually a memorial written by Shen Xi, a salt supervision agency in Yangzhou, asking the court to regain the power to operate salt and re-regulate operations to crack down on illegal sales of private salt.

The salt and iron were always specialized in the court, but now most of the salt citations are concentrated in the royal family, Xunqi and others. Take the Fu King of Luoyang as an example. The court gave him 30,000 salt citations every year. About 6 million kilograms of salt, and he also set up a yamen to sell salt, bully the market, and monopolize the transactions. According to the previous emperors, it was the money of the country. The money of the court was the money of their family, and they were all given to their own homeland anyway. This was the idea. The money that originally belonged to the country reached the capital of the powerful and nobles, and the country wanted money but no money, so they wanted it.

What to do when fighting is a war? I can only take care of the people's physical levies. The country originally wanted to endure the pain and shave the people one by one and overcome the difficulties, but when it comes to the hands of the officials below, it is not as simple as shave it, and it is peeled off layer by layer. This becomes the officials forcing the people to rebel. In the end, no money is self-sufficient, and it is also cooked and eaten by others. To put it bluntly, it is just digging a hole and burying itself. This is what the emperors of the Ming Dynasty persist in doing, and they think about it. This is how they want to perish themselves!

This is another difficult problem. The previous emperors dug too deep into the pit. It was too difficult to fill it up by themselves. Unfortunately, they are also the descendants of the Zhu family and the emperor. If they really attack the royal family, it would not be as simple as an earthquake. I am afraid that the sky will fall. You must know that it is not only salt, but also tea and mine mining rights. If the imperial court takes back all the royal families and force them to unite and rebel, they will never understand the imperial court. They only have their own interests in their eyes!

Can the cancer that has been accumulated for hundreds of years be cut? There are also Qingliu people who are clamoring to restore the support of the vassal kings when Taizu was in their lives. The court is so poor that it is now. The court compiled by these people gives them a lot of profitable operations and also takes care of the court to support them all day long. It is so shameless. The shameless scholars and officials are still shouting for these royal family members who drink the blood of the country all day long. Zhu Yinglong becomes more angry and becomes more angry. Who are these people? No wonder Zhu Youjian, who has worked hard for more than ten years, has not been able to get rid of the fate of the country and the family!

If it really doesn't work, just kill it. If it doesn't work, just assassinate it. Isn't the shadow there a place below? Kill a few powerful people first, and the remaining little fish and shrimps are not afraid of how big the waves they can make. If you want to cut the mess quickly, you can only do this. You won't let the court take back these things that should belong to the court. I'm sorry, although my surname is Zhu, I'm definitely not a descendant of the Zhu Ming royal family. Anyway, you people can't live long in history. It's better to make the last contribution to the nation without having to live that humiliating century.

Zhu Yinglong immediately summoned Zhou Wenyuan and planned to secretly implement this plan. Only Zhou Wenyuan could do such shameful things, and it would be a good idea to do it properly, and it would not make any mistakes.

Zhou Wenyuan was really shocked by the emperor's crazy idea. No one conspired to assassinate the royal family relatives, but they were all connected by blood. It was unprecedented in his heart so cold-blooded. How could he know that the emperor in front of him had no feelings for these so-called blood-connected royal family relatives!

"Your Majesty, do you really want to do this?" Zhou Wenyuan, who had developed a cold face and a cold heart, was shocked when he heard Zhu Yinglong's plan and sweated in his back. His voice was a little trembling, and his palms were covered in sweat.

"Do you think I'm so cold-blooded?" Zhu Yinglong asked back.

What Zhou Wenyuan can say and what he dares to say is all like this, and it is not cold-blooded.

"What can I do if I don't do this? The court wants to take back the management rights of salt, iron and minerals in their hands. Will they hand over it obediently? If I have time, I don't want to do this. But now I don't have much time. If I can't reverse the current situation and completely rectify the chaos, my Ming Dynasty will perish within twenty years!"

Zhu Yinglong also thought of using the production technology or shares of new things such as cement and glass to exchange for the salt, tea, and mineral management rights in the hands of these people, but these people are different from merchants. But for now, there are strong enemies around the outside and thieves rebellious inside. If a more moderate approach is adopted, perhaps the ten-year poverty-stricken goal can be achieved. The reason for such a radical approach is to eliminate the leaders among them, whether they are letting them die naturally or demoted to ordinary people, in short, they cannot wait until the court decides to take back these business powers and let them be held together to fight the court. If it causes a turmoil in the domestic political situation, it will give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it.
Chapter completed!