Ming Dynasty: The Rampant Crown Prince

There are so many people in the Nanzhen Fusi, it is better to set up two yamen, one is specifically to keep an eye on the Beizhen Fusi, in case these people are out of proportion, and second, to set up a commercial crime investigation department, specifically to keep an eye on those black-hearted businessmen who dare to smuggle salt, smuggle iron, maliciously buy and sell, and encroach on the people's fertile land, and collude with officials and businessmen to do some illegal things.

"Your Highness, the Internal Investigation Division, the minister understands, but the Commercial Crime Investigation Division, the minister can't understand it all.

When Yang Si heard this, he felt a little fresh, and for a moment he didn't know what it meant.

"The minister didn't understand either. "

Don't talk about Yang Si, even Li Ruolian doesn't know when he hears this, so he knows every word, and he knows it together, but he doesn't understand the meaning.

Zhu Cihong picked up the brush and wrote down these words and handed them to the two.

He said: "The meaning of the Commercial Crime Investigation Department is to investigate the illegal yamen of businessmen, such as the collusion between officials and businessmen for profit, smuggling salt, iron, grain, maliciously raising prices, maliciously encroaching on fertile land, cutting down trees

without permission, mining without permission, etc., understand?" Now he wants to monopolize salt and iron, and of course he wants to crack down on those illegal businessmen.

As soon as His Highness said this, the minister understood.

Yang Si suddenly realized, and then knelt on the ground again, knocked his head three times, and said solemnly: "The minister has today, it all depends on His Royal Highness's appreciation, please rest assured, Your Highness will definitely let the South Town Fu Division share the worries for His Royal Highness like the North Town Fu Division!"

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Five days later.

After the decree was issued by the cabinet, the government across the country began to strictly control the loose management of the poisonous salt mines, and then began to dig and extract the poisonous salt, and then transported it to the capital one by one.

"Your Highness, the Minister of Agriculture, Lord Song Yingxing has no problem with salt, he has already started to build a salt-making factory, and the craftsmen selected are all carefully selected, and each process is a different person, and no one knows the complete salt-making process and steps.

Qiu Zhizhong finished reading a booklet in his hand, and then picked up another booklet and read.

"Li Ruolian has counted all the properties of the eight families and their nine clans in Shanxi, as well as the nine clans of Zhou Yanru, among which the property in Shanxi, including its eight families and nine clans, all the cash silver is 56 million taels of silver and 1 million taels of gold, and most of its real estate is mansions, fertile land, shops, and goods, of which there are 200,000 hectares (about 6 million mu) of fertile land in Shanxi, and 500,000 stones (50 million catties) of grain are hoarded.

"After Jiang Ming arrived in Shanxi, he left three million taels of silver for Jinyiwei to operate.

Qiu Zhizhong said, took out the booklet with the property of Zhou Yanru's nine clans, and read it.

"Your Highness, all the property of Zhou Yanru and his nine clans is 2.7 million taels of silver, and 30,000 hectares of fertile land.

After Qiu Zhizhong finished reading, he handed the two booklets to Zhu Cihong, and said: "All the silver has been transported to the inner treasury of the East Palace, but the grain is still stored in Shanxi, and Li Ruolian plans to send another 3,000 people to transport it."

"In addition, a thousand horses and a thousand weapons have been delivered to the camp, five hundred sheep have been delivered to the Department of Agriculture, and the one hundred and twenty wagons have all been handed over to the household department for receipt and into the state treasury. "

Your Highness, the gold and silver recorded in the East Palace now are: 69,700,000 taels of silver and 1,600,000 taels of gold. After

Qiu Zhizhong read these figures, he felt terrified, let alone seeing it, he had never heard of it before, who could have such a property, even Daming's annual tax revenue was less than 10 million.

Not to mention Qiu Zhizhong, Zhu Cihong was lying on the recliner, and he was shocked when he heard these figures, he knew that the eight families in Shanxi were very rich, and it was rumored that during the Qing Dynasty, the assets of the eight families in Shanxi exceeded 100 million, but that had been decades.

It's only been a long time now, and there are more than 50 million silver in the eight families in Shanxi, which is really terrifying, and of course, there are nine clans of the eight families in it, but even then it is very scary.

In comparison, Zhou Yanru and his nine clans are much more shabby, only 2.7 million yuan is no longer in his eyes, and with such a huge amount of money in his hand, he is much more down-to-earth.

"Sure enough, it's more profitable to raid the house, especially the Zhulian Nine Clan, with this kind of sophisticated society, a family is an official, developed, and its relatives must be blinded, doing business, and land annexation is certain.

Zhu Cihong took the booklet, flipped through it, looked at it, and suddenly had a terrible thought in his heart: Why don't you go and find out who is who, and then destroy the nine clans?"

But soon, the idea was extinguished, this is hell, and once you fall into it, you will be infernal.

There is no way to be caught by him, but you can't deliberately study this kind of thing because of this, if you really want to investigate, then all the officials of the Ming Dynasty are afraid that they will be beheaded, which is not the right way.

"Spread the word Li Ruolian, the grain in Shanxi is left there, let Jiang Ming watch, I will be of great use.

Zhu Cihong sat up from the recliner, staring at the ground, thinking about how to make the Longmen Chamber of Commerce the largest grain merchant in the Ming Dynasty, and then put all the grain into the Grain Reserve Division, unify the grain price, and completely put an end to those black-hearted grain merchants, maliciously storing grain at low prices and selling at high prices.

"Also, reward 300,000 taels of Jinyiwei, shout Li Ruolian, go to Shanxi to investigate the case of Jinyiwei reward a little more, this time the three law division will be tried fortunately, the Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple, each reward 100,000 taels, another 2 million to the household department, into the treasury.

After Zhu Cihong finished speaking, he stood up, walked out, and walked all the way to the small kitchen, he was busy all morning, and he was a little hungry.

In the small kitchen, Jiang Xuezhu was cutting vegetables at the moment, and the two palace maids next to him were helping, one was burning the fire and the other was washing vegetables.

"Slaves and maids, see His Royal Highness the Prince.

As soon as the two palace maids saw Zhu Cihong walking in, they immediately came over to salute.

"Your Highness, why are you here, didn't you make you wait?" Jiang

Xuezhu also put down the kitchen utensils when he heard this, wiped his hands on his apron, turned around and smiled.

"I'm here to see you cook.

Zhu Cihong smiled, to be honest, Jiang Xuezhu's cooking skills are average, of course, for him, a modern person, the main thing is that there are too few dishes, not like modern times, all kinds of vegetables and fruits, but when the vegetables and fruits on the side of the Department of Agriculture are harvested, they will be abundant.

"Your Highness doesn't know how to cook, what's there to see, besides, Your Highness is a person who cares about the world, how can you come to this small kitchen.

Jiang Xuezhu fanned away the smoke that floated in front of Zhu Cihong with both hands, and said that he was about to drive people away.

"Who said I couldn't cook.

Zhu Cihong rolled up his sleeves and said with a smile: "Let me teach you how to cook today." "

Are there any ribs?"

"No."

Jiang Xuezhu looked puzzled.

Hearing this, it was Zhu Cihong's turn to look puzzled, and sure enough, the ancients didn't know much about how to eat pork.

"Come, go to the Shangshan Supervisor to get the pork ribs, and later, after the meat is cut off, don't throw away the bones, and send them all here."

Zhu Cihong ordered a palace maid to go out, and then began to look for materials, what green onions, ginger, garlic, star anise, sugar, soy sauce.

"Your Highness, do you really know how to cook?" Jiang

Xuezhu looked incredulous, and said as he took off his apron and handed it over.

"Of course.

Zhu Cihong took the apron and said, "Teach you a dish, called braised pork ribs, learn to order." Soon

, several eunuchs came running with a basket of ribs.

"Your Highness, ribs. "

Alright, you'll be in charge of the diet.

Zhu Cihong waved his hand. Then start boiling water.

"After the water is boiled, blanch the pork ribs, then cut the ginger, shallots and garlic, pour oil into the pot, put sugar, stir-fry over low heat, stir-fry until smoking, pour in the ribs, stir-fry until golden brown, then add ginger, shallots and garlic and stir-fry, and finally add water, star anise, soy sauce for a quarter of an hour, then low heat for two quarters of an hour, and finally put salt when collecting the juice.

He explained while operating, and after he got it done, he clapped his hands and asked, "How

is it, is it clear?" and Jiang Xuezhu on the side was stunned, couldn't help but give a thumbs up, and said stunned: "Your Highness, it looks so powerful, but I don't know if it's delicious."

"Wait.

Zhu Cihong took off his apron, waited for a quarter of an hour, and then put the pot into another stove with a low fire.

After two quarters of an hour, the juice is collected and the salt is added.

At the dinner table, Jiang Xuezhu looked at the braised pork ribs, and his saliva was about to flow down, because it was so fragrant.

"Eat.

Zhu Cihong took the lead in picking up the dishes and chopsticks and ate them.

"Well, it's delicious!"

Jiang Xuezhu picked up a piece of pork ribs, put it in his mouth and gave a thumbs up.