If there was no Zhao Pu, let alone the sage mother, or Huang Baoyi, so what if there was a mansion? But with Zhao Pu, not to mention the sage mother, even an ordinary palace maid in Li Yu's time in Jinling would have happened.

There is another way: I can’t give it to someone, but I can’t give it to Li Yu. It’s the one who died, and Song Jiu couldn’t bear it.

After thinking hard for a long time, the next day, Song Jiu came to the Secretariat and brought two memorials into the palace.

The first memorial was written by Guo Mi, the right-hand man said that one pound of official salt in Jiannan was 70 cents, but because the two rivers lacked salt, the price of salt was much higher than that of official salt. Therefore, the rich and cunning officials became traitors, bought the officials at a low price, and then the nobles were given to the people, and a pound of salt often reached hundreds of cents. Therefore, asking the court to increase the price of salt to one pound of 150 cents, which would be unreasonable, and the people would eat cheap salt. Zhao Kuang followed his meaning and sent the memorial to the Secretariat for review.

When we arrived at the Secretariat, because it was economic government affairs, several people took the initiative to hand it over to Song Jiu, but asked Song Jiu to stay at Zhong and not send him a speech.

In other words, he didn't think of a solution and had no reply yet.

The second memorial is about the tea and salt administration of the country. The court is preparing to implement tea deliberation in Jiangnan provinces. If tea farmers keep or sell tea privately for more than 1,000 yuan, they will be exiled, and the woman will be a iron worker. The merchants will be punished with half of the crimes of this tea farmers. The officials will steal tea for officials and sell tea, with less than 500 yuan, and they will be exiled for three years. The tea garden household intends to destroy tea trees and calculates the price of tea.

The same is true for salt.

In fact, many regions across the country began to implement the salt tea production, and this edict mainly promoted it to Jiangnan.

Song Jiu opened the first memorial and Zhao Kuangyi read it. He said, "Song Qing, what are you going to say?"

It seems simple. Liangchuan’s salt production is low and salt is short of salt, so the salt price is definitely more than 70 cents per catty. Guo Mi proposed that not only attacked the powerful and profitable, but also increased the income of the court.

But that's not the case.

Song Jiu said slowly: "Your Majesty, I have been staying at the Central Committee and I haven't thought about it. After receiving this report, I sent officials to the Sansi to inquire about the salt production of salt from Bashu. There are many salt produced in Nanchuan and Dongchuan. Where is the mountain roads hard, transportation costs are high, and well salt is difficult to mine, and the mining cost is also high. After the country denied salt, part of the salt was transported to Jingnan. The salt price became higher, and the people mostly ate it lightly. Once the price of official salt was increased, the people would still eat it lightly, but the powerful could not make profits, and the government could also increase the income of the salt administration."

Zhao Kuangyi's head.

"Your Majesty, the salt administration is followed by the Tang Dynasty's salt administration. At first, when Tianbao was not implemented, the salt administration was only ten cents per bucket, and each bucket was only ten cents per kilogram. The fifth Qi changed the salt method, and one bucket was more than a hundred cents, so the salt price was raised to one hundred cents per pound. Liu Yan's fifth Qi was the fifth Qi. The salt method was even more dense. At the highest, the salt price in the two ponds in the river reached 370 cents. As a result, the pavilion households broke the law. Private sale continued, and the policemen were everywhere in prefectures and counties. The merchants took advantage of the time to shoot profits, and the poor people in the distant villages had high prices, and there were light food."

"Your Majesty, that's it. A pound of salt is only thirty cents. Now that the Jiannan provinces have increased to 70 cents, I am not satisfied. I want to increase to 150 cents. How much money is a bucket? How many people will eat it indifferently?"

"Since His Majesty ascended the throne, he has been kind to the people and has implemented many good policies."

"But Jiannan Shaoyan, where is Zhao Kuangyi interrupted Song Jiu's words.

"It's a little salt. I heard that some officials have blackmailed the people to increase their salt production in order to seek personal gain or political achievements. However, the salt wells in Liangchuan have been mined since ancient times, and many salt wells have become waste wells. In addition, the exploitation of the powerful people in Liangchuan is heavy, and the people have always had resentment. If the salt price increases, the two rivers will be unstable."

"What does Song Qing mean?"

Song Jiu gave the second edict to Zhao Kuangyi.

"You mean Jiangnan cannot implement tea and salt?"

"No, the imperial court implemented tea and salt in Jiangnan. The edict said that except for some pond salt in Jiangnan, the remaining Huai salt enters Jiangnan. This is okay. The imperial court also promoted the salt drying method of officials in Guangdong and Guangxi. The salt in the sea is endless. However, if Huai salt enters the river, it would be fine if it was Hongzhou or even Jizhou. If it was a large ship to transport salt, the transportation cost could be within the psychological receiving range of the people. But if it was transported upwards and reached Qianzhou, it would be necessary to change a small boat and then transported by carriages and horses to various places. The freight would be astonishing."

Zhao Kuangyi was pondering.

Song Jiu continued: "To prevent the changes of barbarians, like Hebei, Guangdong and Guangxi implemented the trading law, and the price of salt is cheap. There are waterways to reach the foot of Wuling and roads to Qianzhou. However, most of the five ridges are barbarians, so there must be unscrupulous merchants colluding with the barbarians and transporting private salt to Qianzhou. If the government does not deal with it seriously, the salt system will collapse at the southern end of the south of the Yangtze River. If it is handled seriously, the people will be in a turbulent manner, and even barbarians will change. This principle is similar to the states in the southern end of Hunan."

"I understand that I can set up checkpoints in Wuling, and moderately impose some salt taxes, so that the salt can enter Jiangnan and some areas in southern Hunan."

"Your Majesty is wise."

"What is the connection with the salt administration in Liangchuan?"

"Same, well salt is inconvenient to mine, and the people suffer. The high price of salt in Jiannan has nothing to do with unreasonable prices. The insufficient salt production is the foundation. Official salt is 70 cigarettes, and private salt is more than 100 cigarettes. If official salt is more than 100 cigarettes, finding private salt will reach more than 200 cigarettes. Guo Mi is not a fundamental solution, so I ask Your Majesty to send the Sansi to plan the cost and allow Huai salt to enter Jingnan. At the same time, Beichuan does not produce salt. Please allow salt removal to enter the Hanzhong area to reduce your dependence on the salt wells in the two rivers."

"Then there are many ways across Jiangnan, East and West Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Guangdong and Guangxi."

The result of crossing the road is administrative chaos. Zhao Kuangyi made the two Sichuan Transportation Commander to take the other party's position, which was an amazing progress, but like Song Jiu, it would be impossible to hold multiple positions.

Song Jiu replied slowly: "It's okay. If the country wants to be stable, it must centralize the imperial court. The three departments will send officials to verify the cost and output, and then the three departments will plan and carry out the transfer envoys in various places."

"Centralized court?" Zhao Kuangyi took a few steps. Guo Mi's strategy would increase the country's income by more than 100,000 yuan a year. However, if it was true that as Song Jiu said, a pound of salt would increase to more than 200 ci, the people would suffer a lot, so he said, "I'll give it."

There is another place, that is, the northwest and northwest green salt flows back to all parts of Shaanxi, and even the capital. If it is prohibited, it will accelerate the resilience of the Qiang. If it is done like Song Jiu, it will divide Shaanxi into various states at its cost and enter the Qinggu. It may strengthen the cohesion between the Qiang and the court, and may also make the Qiang more powerful and accelerate the rebellious spirit. Song Jiu will not say anything that he had not thought of, so he pretended to be deaf and dumb, just like other officials.

Zhao Kuangyi took a few more steps and finally figured it out. Ruo Ru Song Jiu did this. It seemed more trivial, but after actual implementation, it alleviated Jiannanyan's tense situation and improved his policies this spring.

So he smiled and said, "I did not see you wrong."

"I dare not take it, I will report another thing."

"Tell me."

"I took a maid while in Jiangzhou."

"Maid?" Zhao Kuangyi was surprised: "Is she a criminal?"

That is, officials who commit crimes as officials and prostitutes. Otherwise, Song Jiu would not have been able to talk about a maid here.

"No, when Li Yu's ex-wife Da Zhou was critically ill, he took a fancy to Da Zhou's 14-year-old sister Xiao Zhou. They joked in front of her, and Da Zhou went to ill in shame and anger."

Song Jiu looked at Zhao Kuangyi again. He said intentionally that this little Zhou family is not good, so you better not touch her.

It will be too late to say it after a while.

"After the death of the Great Zhou clan, Li Yu ignored the opposition of others and insisted on taking Xiao Zhou clan as his wife. However, this girl was far from being as jealous as her sister. Although Li Yu favored some palace maids, under the insistence of Xiao Zhou clan, none of them gave her a title and even sent her out of the palace. Only one woman, Huang Baoyi, served her very humble, was able to be safe. When Li Yu surrendered to the capital, he brought Xiao Zhou clan and Huang Baoyi. But there was also a palace maid named Wei Niang."

"That dancer?"

"It's her."

"I have also heard of it. It seems that she has shown up in Yangzhou, but she has nowhere to go after she arrives in the capital."

Song Jiu looked strange.

"It's okay, keep talking."

"When Li Yu was not on the boat, General Cao Bin allowed him to bring some gold and silk from the palace to Beijing, but someone ransomed the road. After entering Beijing, Li Yu was not left with much life. He could not give up the young Zhou family, and Huang Baoyi was reluctant to give up. He happened to hear that he went to Jiangzhou to take office, so he asked his grandmother to go to Jiangzhou to find him and let him take him in."

"Is it her?"

"It's her, but I can't accept it. Even if she is just a palace maid and a court minister, I must be careful. But I didn't know at that time that when my wife went to Jiangzhou, I was still in Pengze. She looked for my wife and said that after the imperial officers and soldiers arrived in Jinling, her husband fled to Jinling. She searched for her husband all the way to Jiangzhou. At that time, I was intrigue with Zhang Ji and did not want to have trouble, but my wife couldn't bear it. I had no choice but to take her in and sent someone to send a letter to Yang Kerang, the governor of Shengzhou, asking him to inquire about this husband Li Xiu for me, where could I find out?"

"Li Xiu, Li Zaobaby." Zhao Kuangyi said disdainfully. Not to mention the emperor, he is just a minister who doesn't do serious business, writes poems, lyrics, practices calligraphy and paintings all day long, and is greedy for pleasure. What did that happen?

Song Jiu laughed: "Your Majesty, you are the one who is here, but she has caused trouble for me."

Zhao Kuangyi stared at Song Jiu and said, "Song Qing, he is just a palace maid, why are he so timid?"

Song Jiu thought to himself, there is no need to be timid now, but soon I will be timid.

But I can't say that, "It would be fine if Li Yu was willing to be a happy wait like Liu Yu, but after he came to Beijing, he was depressed and immersed himself in the little order. I heard that he wrote a poem about a happy meeting with the other person, and went to the west building without saying a word. The moon is like a hook, the lonely paulownia tree, and the deep courtyard is locked in the clear autumn. It's hard to cut it, it's still messy, it's sorrow of parting. It's different from the feeling in my heart..."

Zhao Kuangyi was indeed very evil after hearing this, and his eyebrows were furrowed together.

Also, the song "Popular" will be truly deadly in the future.

Zhao Kuangyi was silent for a while and said, "He has a good idea."

"It's a good idea. Once you have arranged a good place for your mother, you may have a relationship with me and you can talk to him in the future."

"How do you know her identity?"

"A few days ago, His Majesty gave Li Yu five million yuan to help him live. The reward was just coming to his mansion and Zhang Yu went to ask for it later. Li Yu had no choice but to give Zhang Yu the most expensive item in his home, the Platinum Noodle utensil, to Zhang Yu, and then he left apologetically."

"How did Zhang Wei do this?"

"Li Yu was inappropriate in employing people and was humiliated by himself. But Your Majesty must remember that although Zhang Shi was beautiful, he was not a gentle person."

"Li Yu's family is in a dilemma, so they sent someone to inform the little palace maid and asked her to ask you to plead with me for Li Yu?"

"That's right, Ke Chen did not come to plead for Li Yu."

"That……"

"I am worried about my identity as a mother, but I have been in it for more than half a year. I am not going to accept it now, nor is it not going to accept it. I am going to make them suffer."

"Those who don't know are not guilty. By the way, does your concubine Yuping have whereabouts?" Zhao Kuangyi thought that Song Jiu was a big deal. It's okay to say gossip, but can you talk about it on the stage? It's better to say Yuping than to say it. At least Zhao Kuangyi was deeply impressed by Yuping, a very good woman.

"The Khitan thought that strange goods were a habitable, and the key was the strength of the country. If our dynasty continues to develop strongly, don't talk about Yuping, it's her family. If the court asked the Khitan to hand over it, how dare not hand over it?"

"That's right, let's come from Beihan first."

"But Your Majesty should not underestimate the Khitan. Your Majesty gave Xue Juzheng, Chen Lun (avoid the taboo, omitted the word "中文), Lu Duoxun, Cao Bin, Chu Zhao's auxiliary money was 5 million, and silver was 300 kilograms. He also gave Pan Mei and the Northern Court envoy Wang Renhao and his ministers three million, five million pieces of silver, two hundred kilograms of silver, ten thousand pieces of silk on Qi, five million pieces of silk on Wugong County, five million pieces of silk on Xingyuan Yin, three million pieces of silk on Xingyuan. I did not dissuade this reward."

Why not dissuade them? Because these people are the most important figures in the court and their official positions have reached their extreme, they have to reward money to calm their hearts and allow Zhao Kuangyi to take over the state's regime smoothly.

Song Jiu continued: "The late emperor did not use the money and silk of Zuozangku to buy the heads of Khitan. His intention was to recapture Jin Yan, and he would have to fight hard with the Khitan. However, Jin Yan was not as rich as Jiangnan in the two rivers, and the soldiers could not gain anything, and they would not be too enthusiastic. They were also powerful enemies. Without heavy rewards and proper pensions, it would be very difficult to defeat the Khitan."

"That's true," Zhao Kuangyi said.
Chapter completed!