Ming Dynasty: The Rampant Crown Prince

"Who is the deputy envoy of the two Huai Salt Transports?"

Zhu Cihong looked at the faces of everyone, sneered in his heart, and cut directly to the topic, he wanted to see how these people explained this point

, "Yang Huairen, the deputy envoy of the two Huai Salt Transport, has seen His Royal Highness the Prince.

A middle-aged man in the crowd walked out, Yang Huairen's face was calm, he had already thought of the rhetoric in his heart, and he had also thought that His Royal Highness might ask about the salt tax, so he was naturally fully prepared.

"Can you tell this palace why the salt in Jiangnan is 300 yuan a catty, but the annual salt tax is only one million, can you explain.

Zhu Cihong looked at Yang Huairen with a light smile, the two Huai Yanzheng had already been locked up in the capital, but this deputy envoy didn't seem to be panicked at all, I'm afraid it was also a hard stubble, it was impossible to get this person to explain honestly, first try to delay the time as much as possible, and wait for the 10,000 tax troops to enter the city, everything will be easy.

"Back to Your Highness, the matter of this salt tax has been clear to all dynasties, and there is only one scourge, and that is private salt.

When Yang Huairen heard His Royal Highness's question, he did not sit still, but stepped forward and said flatly: "It is because of the flood of private salt and repeated prohibitions, so the official salt of salt merchants everywhere cannot be sold, and since the official salt cannot be sold, then the salt tax will naturally not go up."

"In that case, then why do you need 300 yuan a pound for salt?"

Zhu Cihong sat on the steps with a smile on his face, his mood has always been as steady as an old dog, and when he heard this answer to shirk responsibility, there was no change in mood, which made people unable to see through.

"First, although the private salt is not clean, but it is also suppressed, so the people want to buy private salt is also very troublesome, second, because now, natural disasters, wars continue, there are many victims, but the materials are decreasing year by year, and now the private salt has also risen to 300 Wen a catty, the salt merchants used to buy the official salt under the long-term impact of private salt, it is a loss of money, if the price of salt is also reduced, then those salt merchants can not even guarantee the principal, then there is not so much capital to go to the salt field next year, so that there is no way to supply salt to all parts of the two Huai, then the salt industry of the two Huai is bound to be paralyzed。

Yang Huairen was calm, his eyes were staring at the ground, his head shook slightly, and he continued: "This is not enough, the salt industry in Jiangnan and Huai is paralyzed, then next year's salt tax will not be collected, and the people around the country will have one less way to buy salt, if they can't buy private salt because of the suppression of illegal salt, then they will have no strength to farm, if they don't have the strength to farm, then next year's tax on Lianghuai will be reduced by half, and when the time comes, the tax on Jiangnan and Lianghuai will not come up, but it will shake the country, Your Highness."

As soon as these words came out, everyone present looked at Yang Huairen with admiration, this statement is simply irrefutable, and there is a threat in and out of the words, the salt tax of one million is because of private salt, but you can't move this salt, the deeper meaning, it is also through, you can't move the official salt, otherwise everyone will strike, and you will not be able to move the private salt, otherwise the people will not be able to eat salt, and if they can't eat salt, they won't be able to collect taxes, but it won't shake the country.

This Yang Huairen is worthy of being an old fritter in the officialdom, and the money handed over to Nanjing from all over the country every year, the two Huai Salt Administration, and the deputy envoy of the two Huai Salt Transport collect a lot more money than ordinary people.

Zhu Cihong kept a smile on his face, but his heart was full of murderous intent, this Yang Huairen's meaning was to tell him: Your Highness, you don't want to fight the idea of salt, just live so peacefully, there is at least one million salt taxes every year, if Your Highness insists on being more serious, then don't want this million, and there is a threat, this group of people eat official salt and private salt at both ends, of course they want to be stable at both ends.

He really couldn't refute this, he couldn't find a point to refute it, although he knew that what Yang Huairen said was, but what he said was reasonable, and Zhu Cihong didn't plan to find the fault of the salt tax loophole to kill people, but directly found the evidence of these people's crimes, and then didn't care about the disadvantages of salt affairs.

When the time comes, how to sell the salt, all the cards will be shuffled, and the rules will be reformulated.

Qian Qianyi saw that His Royal Highness didn't speak, and he knew that he couldn't refute this at all, and he couldn't help but worry in his heart, if His Highness didn't return in vain, then His Highness's prestige would be completely lost.

He could only look at the few people who had promised to support His Highness, blinking vigorously and motioning for them to speak.

Shi Kefa, Gao Hongtu and others saw Qian Qianyi looking at them, and they were also helpless, the disadvantages of this salt have been more than 200 years, it's not that no one can't find it, but if they do, they can't change it.

They promised to support His Royal Highness and support the new policy, but even if they support the rectification of the salt affairs, they can't solve this problem.

Yang Huairen glanced up at His Royal Highness the Prince, and saw that His Royal Highness was silent for a long time, and sneered in his heart, you little prince, you are still too tender, you can be powerful in the capital, but not in Jiangnan, now the Ming Dynasty is stormy, internal and external troubles, natural disasters are repeated, the capital is no longer able to control the governors of the country, prince, don't you still see the situation clearly, and only those few loyal people will listen to the will of the imperial court, but Jiangnan does not have such fools.

Many local generals resist the thieves, but in fact, they are just protecting their own territory and interests, and by the way, they are just leading the military salaries of the imperial court.

"Lord Yang is right.

"Yes, that's the salt dilemma right now.

"We have tried our best to cooperate with the suppression of smuggled salt, but we cannot eradicate it.

Zhu Guobi and the others also echoed, looking at the young prince who had nothing to say, everyone sneered in their hearts, and they couldn't even figure out the new policies of the imperial court, so they thought of engaging in salt affairs, naïve.

Zhu Cihong looked at the faces of this group of people, and felt very helpless, you said that this group of moths is not removed, how can you get it, their disaster is better than the Jiannu outside the Guan, and it is better than the northwest anti-thieves, if it weren't for these moths constantly encroaching on the economy of the Ming Dynasty, what anti-thieves, Jiannu and the like, would have been extinguished long ago.

It is because there is no money, in addition to natural disasters, the number of displaced people increases, it is equivalent to the continuous increase of anti-thieves, the salaries of the front-line soldiers, and the lack of supply of military rations, so they naturally centrifuge the imperial court, and their combat power declines.

Therefore, as soon as he took power, he carried out a big purge of the Beijing camp, promoted new people, and developed into his own people, and then did not be mean to those soldiers at all, stingy, and constantly showed his face to win people's hearts, speeches, strengthen the cohesion of the army, strengthen the concept and belief of the country, and give enough money and guarantees, otherwise, the last time the Qing army of 50,000 troops entered the customs, where could they be beaten, and how could those troops be so loyal to him, His Royal Highness the Prince.

In addition to the Beijing camp, Lu Xiangsheng's army, like the army that was assigned to Mao Yuanyi in Shanxi, was loyal to him, and it can be said that he was absolutely loyal to him.

These are all a lot of money guarantees, constantly showing their faces to close relatives and soldiers, personally commanding battles, fighting on the battlefield together, plus inspiring and cohesive speeches, you think it's simple.

If you want money to make money, this interest group in Jiangnan must be killed, the rules must be reformulated, the cards reshuffled, and a new group of people who abide by the rules will come up.

At this time, the role of the huge amount of money invested in the army in the early stage was reflected, and the 10,000 tax army was not transferred from Beijing, and it was also his loyal army, otherwise there was no such army that would fight wherever he wanted, how could he dare to come to Jiangnan to do things, there was no absolutely loyal army, and he didn't even plan to engage in the new deal.

"Since they are all talking about illegal salt, then the anti-private people will go to crack down on them, and they will take those illegal salt dealers around Nanjing.

Zhu Cihong got off the donkey down the slope, and then continued, trying to delay it for as long as possible.

"Back to Your Highness, hundreds of people from private offices also need military pay every time they go out, and it is not easy to suppress the smugglers who are currently more active. "

Yang Huairen didn't expect that His Royal Highness would actually go to suppress any private salt now, he really wanted to come out and see it today, but in this way, the news from the capital seems to be exaggerated, without His Majesty's support, this prince will not be able to stand at all, let alone supervise the country, it is estimated that it is just a name, and the people who were killed are estimated to have been killed by His Majesty in the name of the prince.

Your Majesty's good reputation is known to everyone in the court.

"Ruan Siyuan, you allocate military pay to the private investigators to exterminate the smugglers of salt.

Zhu Cihong looked at Yin Ruan Siyuan of Ying Tianfu, the household department is the tax treasury, and Ying Tianfu has its own treasury silver, which is specially used to govern the people's livelihood.

At the same time, he also sneered in his heart, this Yang Huairen is really bold, he feels as if he has won a game, and he has begun to gain inches, as a public official in the yamen, eating the state's money, to suppress a smuggled salt dealer, he is going to start bargaining about the price?

Okay!

Yang Huairen, the deputy envoy of the two Huai Salt Transports, is it

! You have a kind!