Emperor Chongzhen suddenly spoke, "The people on both sides are there, and they can't escape. You can go to the canal transportation first and see what the canal is like now.

Also, I have heard that there are salt gangs among the people who sell private salt. You can see for me whether it is the people who sell it spontaneously to eat or change some money to live, or has become a climate that controls the salt road."

Emperor Chongzhen was bored and miserable after traveling through time.

There are many things that you just need to talk about, and the rest will naturally be done by civil and military ministers.

There are not many opportunities for this kind of situation like leading troops to the grassland to cut people, and there will be fewer and fewer in the future.

The boring and miserable life gave Emperor Chongzhen a lot of time to miss the TV series in later generations.

For example, when Xu Xianchun was about to go to Shandong to find the Mo family, Emperor Chongzhen remembered "Mo Gong" and then a TV series "Li Wei Being an Official" that he didn't know how to evaluate.

The broken TV series was used to whitewash Jiannu, and there is nothing to say, but there is a story about Li Wei, a gangster who abandoned his official position and mixed in with the Salt Gang, which seems to involve the canal transportation.

As for what the Salt Gang did during the Miqing period, Emperor Chongzhen didn’t know. Even if he knew, he would probably have to praise him.

But if the Salt Gang and Caoyun are causing trouble in the Ming Dynasty, then they will not be able to bear it.

Now I just took the opportunity to think about it, so I simply let Xu Xianchun take a look together.

Xu Xianchun bowed and responded, and then asked, "Your Majesty, what if it involves high-ranking officials and nobles from all over the country?"

Emperor Chongzhen knew what Xu Xianchun was talking about.

High officials and nobles are not the target Xu Xianchun is concerned about at all.

To put it bluntly, no matter how high an official is, he will be as cowardly as a grandson when he is found by the Jinyiwei.

But there are still some vassal kings everywhere.

For example, King Zhou, King Lu, King De, and King Heng, the fiefs of these four guys are in Shandong and Zhejiang.

If these vassal kings were involved, although they would inevitably be unlucky according to the character of Emperor Chongzhen, they could not deal with it directly.

Emperor Chongzhen sneered and said, "Remember it first. Wait until the Mo family's affairs are over, and it will be their turn."

Since the incident of King Fu's death, Emperor Chongzhen has been completely annoyed by the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty.

If it weren't for Zhu Youjian's performance in front of him, Emperor Chongzhen would have thought that these vassal kings were hopeless pigs.

After Xu Xianchun left the palace, he ordered his men and headed straight for Tongzhou next to the capital.

There were two Tongzhou in the Ming Dynasty, one in the south and one in the north.

To the south is Tongzhou, Jiangsu, the end of the southern part of the canal, and is called Nantongzhou.

To the north is Tongzhou outside the capital. From the end of the pseudo-Yuan Yuan Dynasty, Tonghui River was opened, the canal transport was promoted, Tongzhou warehouse was built, and the lien city was built on the south bank of Tonghui River, and the prototype of Tongzhou City was formed.

By the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, a new city was rebuilt on the basis of the pseudo-Yuanli City, which was the Tongzhou City of the Ming Dynasty.

The newly built city is at the intersection of Tonghui River and the North Canal: the waterway from Tongzhou to Beijing is Tonghui River, the waterway from Tongzhou to Tianjin is the North Canal, and Tongzhou becomes the last transfer center on the end of the north-south canal transport.

Perhaps because he had been following Emperor Chongzhen for a long time, Xu Xianchun also fell in love with the gameplay of the micro-dress. He took a group of merchants disguised as merchants and took a boat from Tongzhou to Tianjin.

But just left Tianjin and headed south, and before even Shandong arrived, Xu Xianchun became very unhappy.

I really can't be happy.

In order to see the real situation of the canal transportation, Xu Xianchun chose to take the canal gang's ship south.

Since Xu Xianchun was generous along the way and was happy to give money, the treatment he received was quite good, and all the fish in the river were live fish.

You can move freely on the tall boat surface without having to stay in the cabin all the time.

It is precisely because of this that Xu Xianchun has seen many scenes that he had never seen before.

The Cao Gang is very awesome, and there are some even more awesome existences. The only thing that is hard for them is ordinary ships.

Whether it is the Cao Gang ship or the ships hanging with a certain mansion, just sail on the canal. As for the people's ships, give in.

As for places where boats are difficult to walk, places where people need to use people to pull fibers, ordinary boats need to pay for people to pull fibers.

But none of the Cao Gang or the ships from certain mansions paid the money at all.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of docking and repairing, Xu Xianchun sent his Jinyiwei out.

He traveled south and sent all the way. When he arrived in Yangzhou, Xu Xianchun was surrounded by three or four Jinyiwei households and hundreds of households.

After waiting in Yangzhou for seven or eight days, the people sent out along the way slowly gathered together.

After all the people reported on their own, Xu Xianchun's face became more and more gloomy.

After a while, Xu Xianchun spoke: "The salt gangs in Yangzhou will find ways to touch their bottoms. We will go to Shandong in two days."

Miao Shoumo, who has been quite bullish recently, was thrown into Shaanxi as the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen. Zhu Gang is always following Emperor Chongzhen. Now the people who are following him are loyal and capable enough, but they always feel that they are missing something.

At this time, Xu Xianchun, who was unwilling to take risks, chose the safest way. After collecting almost the same news along the way, he first brought the successors of the Mo family into the capital.

As for the Cao Gang and Yan Xiao along the way, just figure out the situation and wait for the rest to make decisions.

However, Xu Xianchun could not imagine how rampant the private salt in Yangzhou was in Yangzhou.

Like the previous Tang Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was both a salt and iron official camp.

However, if there is a salt industry, there must be private salt.

The stricter the salt industry sells, the easier it is to sell private salt, and the higher the profit. This is an objective rule.

The Ming Dynasty also had no tricks on this rule.

When the Ming Dynasty was founded, there were still Yuan troops stationed outside the northwest, threatening the security of the Central Plains, so the Ming Dynasty stationed troops in that area.

If there is a garrison, it will take years to supply food and grass, which has become a major burden on the Ming Dynasty's finances.

Therefore, Emperor Hongwu, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, came up with a good way to open the middle system. Later, the opening middle system was changed to the color-shaving system. As long as the silver is paid, merchants in any region can receive salt and trade.

But there is a key issue in this, you have to pay first!

Originally, anyone who could get salt was a good thing for salt dealers, but by doing so, this matter would not make people so happy.

But just like the saying "There are policies and countermeasures" above, since you have to spend money to get salt, wouldn't it be more beautiful to find a way to spend less money or simply get salt without spending money?

If you have the truth, you must act if you are moved. If you don’t miss the opportunity, you won’t come again. Hui merchants and Shanxi merchants took action immediately.

Since you want to make money, you have to spend money first. Otherwise, how can you enter the market?

But there are some considerations to spending money.

Otherwise, you will just give money if you go up alone. Do you dare to accept it? Who can you give money? Do you know that I have always regarded money as dirt?

Since it’s not OK to give money directly, it’s okay, let’s just change the routine.

I send calligraphy and paintings, antiques, and famous seals. In short, everything is inconspicuous but valuable, and can also be related to the elegance. I can just give it to you with it.

How big is it to carry a thousand taels of silver to the door? It's so polite.

However, a famous calligraphy and painting may be worth a thousand taels, and it does not take up any space when rolled up, and can be carried to the door at will.

As an official, you can’t refuse the gifts of the guests, right? They are not valuable things, right?

The adults said that this painting is worth 1,000 taels of silver?

Oh, my Master Qingtian, this is something that the little one bought from Wang Ermazi on the street for five taels of silver. If you can’t appreciate this thing, you can’t tell whether it’s good or bad.

Isn't this just happening to be a good master in appreciating calligraphy and painting? So, did the younger one come here with this thing to ask for advice?

If an adult thinks this painting is good, only five taels of silver will be sold to you.

What? The adults are honest and have no money, but they like this painting very much?

Oops, look, this is a matter. I have heard that you are a wise man and love the people as you are. Now a family spends a lot, and that little salary is really unsaved.

That's it, this painting is here for you. You can appreciate it for the villain. Let's go to the Red Mansion and get together next day.

After just a few moments, don’t we become friends?

Since everyone has become friends, is it appropriate for friends to help each other?

When the matter is done, will there be a friendship between friends? Adults and villains are friends. Now the court is stingy, the adults are tight, and even villains can’t stand it anymore!

Let's do this, there are dozens of taels of silver here, so I will use it first.

But how did these dozens of taels become hundreds of thousands of taels? This may be the money bank made a mistake.

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Facts have proved that the officials and men of the Ming Dynasty don’t care about principles or principles at all, and no one takes the thing about the Ming Dynasty as much as Hai Rui seriously. After all, there are very few idiots like Hai Rui.

Just like in order to eliminate the problem of private salt, the Ming Dynasty specially set up the Lianghuai Salt Transportation History and the Lianghuai Salt Transportation Censor in Yangzhou.

However, the largest salt owl, Lin Weifeng, is also in Yangzhou.

Moreover, Lin Weifeng, who is a Hui merchant, is different from those of Shanxi merchants.

Or the Hui merchants are not as stingy as the Shanxi merchants.

What do you do when you have money?

If you have money, you have to enjoy life, right?

Let’s see how the old stingers from the northwest do it?

The house he built has a momentum and is strong, but not good-looking, gray, and it looks depressing.
To be continued...