The first lady is sweet and sweet

Chapter 677 Not Fresh

"If you believe it, you have it, if you don't believe it, you don't have it." Shen Zhouheng bowed and replied.

Emperor Yongtai chuckled and shook his head when he heard the words, "Do you believe it or not!"

"The sage said: Respect ghosts and gods and stay away." Shen Zhouheng said respectfully again.

"Believe it or not, give me an exact word." Emperor Yongtai looked at Gu Zuozhi, who really wanted to know.

"Go back to the emperor, what are those who go to temples and Taoist temples to pray to gods and worship Buddhas?" Shen Zhou bowed his hands and bowed.

"Does it need to be said? I want to be rich! They all want to make a lot of money." Emperor Yongtai said without thinking, "Of course, those who are officials want to be prosperous. Whether it's for yourself, or for your daughter or daughter-in-law." Blinking his black eyes, he looked at him and said, "What are you asking for?"

Shen Zhouheng looked at him with quiet eyes and said, "Report to the emperor, Fuxi's family told us that people should rely on themselves, it is better to ask God than others, and it is better to ask for yourself. What is the most reliable thing to rely on yourself, rely on others, his mouth If you say it's fine, then if he doesn't do anything, there's nothing you can do about it."

When Emperor Yongtai heard the words, a faint light flashed in his black eyes, and he looked at him thoughtfully, a little interesting. Why should he beg God and worship Buddha when he can do it himself!

In short, if the world is well governed, why should the common people go to worship the clay bodies enshrined in the temples, or let them continue to be outsiders, ignoring the facts of the world.

In this way, people who want to take advantage of gods and Buddhas will have no soil.

After all, my son is here.

"Okay! It's back to the original point again." Emperor Yongtai frowned and looked at him and said, "This will move the whole body in one stroke, and all the games will be lost in one accident. What should I do?" The index finger tapped the imperial case Said, "There is still money at the root. How can you destroy them without disturbing them, and you can't make waves without money."

"Salt! Most of these people have salt lead, and even smuggle salt." Shen Zhouheng looked at him with bright eyes and said.

"Yan Yinzhen knows that the government issued it, and the royal family has it." Emperor Yongtai stopped and looked at him and said, "How is this smuggling done? These salt wells are owned by the official family and cannot be touched by ordinary people."

"Reporting to the emperor, this is like reselling the grain from the grain depot." Shen Zhouheng frowned at him and said, "Find a way in the transportation link to turn official salt into private salt."

"How is this going to change?" Emperor Yongtai looked at him puzzled and asked. After pondering for a moment, his index finger sketched on the imperial case, and suddenly his black eyes froze, "This needs to get through many links."

Shen Zhouheng's glittering eyes looked at him. The emperor's comprehension was very high. He nodded hastily and said, "Yes! Let's take the salt merchants in Jiangnan as an example." Then he said, "I dare to draw maps easily."

"Come on!" Emperor Yongtai pointed to the imperial court and spread out a piece of rice paper himself.

"The water system in the south of the Yangtze River is developed, and if you transport salt, you need to use waterways." Shen Zhouheng sketched the road roughly, "We will use the canal, the Yangtze River, and the cities above to briefly talk about how to turn official salt into private salt."

"Assume Yangzhou, for example, take the official salt north along the canal." Shen Zhou pointed at the canal, "Arrange the water bandits with good water skills to find a place with wide water and few people, and take advantage of the dark and windy night to send the official ship to the canal. It's leaked." Shen Zhouheng thought for a while and said, "If the collusion is done, the salt doesn't need to be soaked in water, it is directly moved to a small boat, and the official boat is towed away directly, and it will be changed, and then it will be said that the official boat has been smashed by water bandits. It leaked, and the official salt sank to the bottom and disappeared."

"Then the government will arrange for someone to investigate?" Emperor Yongtai said innocently.

"Your Majesty, it's a collusion between officials and bandits. You ask them to investigate by themselves. What can they find out? The investigation file will say it's true." Shen Zhou looked at Emperor Yongtai with cold eyes and said.

"Dare to do this for the crime of deceiving the king." Emperor Yongtai looked at him in astonishment and said.

Although he has read a lot of books, he really does not know the details of the matter.Because there is not much description in the book.

Shen Zhouheng blinked at him and said, "The mountain is high and the emperor is far away."

In fact, Emperor Yongtai regretted it when he said it, and dared to fool himself under his eyes.

Emperor Yongtai looked at him for a while and said, "As you said, load the official salt onto the boat, how will it be transported! How can you do it without a guide."

He pursed his lips and said, "I dare to scuttle the official ship. It should be easy to get some official road guides!"

"That's right! There are officials issued by the official water transport envoy to guide the canal without obstruction. You can easily escape the inspection of the river patrol officer." Shen Zhou's brown eyes looked at him and said mockingly.

"Wait a minute, their ultimate purpose is to make money, but the official salt price is not high! The capital is twenty cents a bucket." Emperor Yongtai remembered and looked at him and said.

Since knowing that an egg is ten cents a piece, he has arranged for someone to go to the vegetable market in the capital to inquire about the daily price of vegetables.

"It won't make money. Using so many people, is it enough?" Emperor Yongtai smacked his lips and looked at him and said, "It's not worth it."

"The price of salt is inherently high and low because of regional differences." Shen Zhouheng looked at him with deep and clear eyes and said.

"Make the difference! It is possible to do business without capital, but will the risk be too great." Emperor Yongtai looked at him with a puzzled face and said.

"Of course the difference is less, and we can artificially create a salt shortage." Shen Zhouheng stretched out four fingers and said, "The price of salt can be driven up to a few hundred cents a bucket."

"What?" Emperor Yongtai looked at him in disbelief.

Shen Zhou's amber pupils looked at the shocked Yongtai Emperor, and drew a circle on the simple map, "Along the canal north, the Huaihe area does not produce salt. These officials in Yangzhou used their position and authority to coerce these local officials and curb parity. In this way, they will dominate the salt markets all over the Huaihe River, and then let the salt merchants who have colluded with them sell the official salt they have dumped to the counties in the salt shortage at a high price and make huge profits. "

"It's full of loopholes, what about this water bandit? My navy is not at the mercy of others." Emperor Yongtai asked his own question.

"Your Majesty, is this water bandit really a water bandit?" Shen Zhouheng looked at him with his bottomless eyes and said, "Maybe it's a canal worker who seeks a living along the canal. It's just right for the navy to suppress it, anyway, there are millions of water workers. , Some are people, and they have saved their wages."

Emperor Yongtai looked at him dumbfounded, and after a long time he found his own voice and said, "How can they be so bad."

"This is nothing new, it applies to any place, in terms of military generals, killing the good and taking advantage of it." Shen Zhou's black pupils looked at him and said, "The most terrifying thing is that the people who seek a living on both sides of the river are either hanging on to their last breaths, etc. Die, the courageous and knowledgeable Shangjing will sue the imperial court."

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