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When Zhao Yingce came to the interrogation room, he couldn't help being slightly surprised to see Lu Xiucai's powerless appearance. He thought that the Manichaeans should be the kind of vicious desperadoes.

After Zhao Yingce took his seat, Qin Hao said to Lu Xiucai, "Lu Xiucai, please."

Lu Xiucai slowly put down his teacup, and quietly said: "In the first year of Jiayou, I failed the provincial examination again, and my mother passed away because of years of hard work. During my filial piety, a wandering monk came to talk to me. At first I saw him Since I am knowledgeable, I intend to make friends, and it was not until three years later that I found out that the other party's identity turned out to be a Manichaean elder."

Qin Hao is not surprised. Religions often use the same means to control people. At first, they are kind to people, and after gaining your trust, they start to spread his ideas.

There are two most difficult things in this world, one is to put your money in my pocket, and the other is to put my thoughts in your head.

Religion is precisely the best among the latter, in fact, Confucianism and Taoism are also the same, but the teachings of Manichaeism are extremely extreme, and it is easy to lead people to destruction.

Lu Xiucai took another sip of tea and moistened his somewhat parched throat: "In the fourth year of Jiayou, I became the little leader of the Manichaeism in the Jinling area. For business, in addition to Yuehua Building, there are also gambling stalls, silk shops, and dyeing workshops, and most of these industries are also affiliated with some honorable names in Jinling City, which saves a lot of trouble."

"In the sixth year of Jiayou, I was promoted to protect the Dharma of the Manichaeism because of my merits in business management, and I was in charge of all affairs in Jinling. During this period, we also recruited and bought a group of Jinling officials and nobles. They know about Manichaeism."

Zhao Yingce sneered and said, "So you are a business genius. Why didn't you just start a business and make a living? Why bother to join such a cult and live a life of fear?"

Lu Xiucai was so choked that he couldn't speak.

Qin Hao said: "Who is your superior? You usually communicate in this way. By what means did you deliver the finances you collected for the Manichaeism? In addition, list all the members of the Manichaeism in Jinling City."

Lu Xiucai breathed a sigh of relief: "My superior is the monk who introduced me to the teaching. This person is extremely mysterious. I don't know the real identity of the other party. I only know his Dharma name: Xuankong. He usually sends people to contact me. If there is an urgent matter, I will light two long and one short three incense sticks in front of my mother's memorial tablet in the Putuo Temple outside the city. As for the looted funds, they will be directly transported to Yangzhou by merchant ships. Someone will take over there. I will not know who it is. understood."

"That's all?" Qin Hao stared at Lu Xiucai with sharp eyes.

Lu Xiucai was terrified by Qin Hao, and suddenly panicked: "That's all I know, Lord Hou, what I said is true."

Zhao Yingce said in a low voice, "Shouldn't he be punished?"

Qin Hao shook his head: "People from the Imperial City Division are coming soon, so we should hand them over to them. We don't need to do this kind of dirty work."

Zhao Yingce thought so, so he asked someone to prepare a pen and ink, and asked Lu Xiucai to make a list.

After seeing the list, Zhao Yingce was in a cold sweat. There were actually hundreds of core believers of the Manichaeism in Jinling City, and many of them held official positions in the imperial court. The highest positions had reached the level of regimental trainers. …

If he was developed by Manichaeism for more than ten or twenty years, and then encountered turmoil in the court, maybe he might really be taken advantage of.

"Take it down." Qin Hao waved his hand, and two soldiers lifted Lu Xiucai up.

Lu Xiucai struggled and shouted: "Master Hou, give me a good time, I've told you everything I know!"

Qin Hao reminded Cui Zhi: "Take care, don't let him die."

"promise."

Zhao Yingce was holding the list, and under the background of the candlelight, his face was cloudy and cloudy. After a while, he stood up and said to Qin Hao: "Zihan, take the person first, so as not to have long nights and dreams."

That night, the four gates of the entire Jinling City were closed tightly, and no one could enter or leave. The officers and soldiers attacked everywhere, holding torches like fire dragons, illuminating the night sky of the entire Jinling City as if it were daytime.

Hundreds of people were arrested overnight, except for a few more vigilant Manicheans who escaped early, the rest were all caught up in the net. Through their interrogation, some hidden Manicheans were confessed, and the number has reached hundreds .

Such a large workload is also troublesome for the interrogation. Qin Hao doesn't have so many interrogators under his command, so he can only detain them alone.

Fortunately, two days later, Liu Jinzhong from the Imperial City Division came, and Qin Hao was also happy to be at leisure, leaving the matter of interrogation to him directly.

Of course, for Lu Xiucai and the others, this is not good news. Lu Xiucai was wronged like a child. He obviously said everything, but Liu Jinzhong gave him all the punishments.

In Liu Jinzhong's words, he doesn't believe in criminals who confessed without punishment, at least not completely.

After interrogating Liu Jinzhong, he really found some news that Qin Hao hadn't detected. For example, there was a shadow of Manichaeism behind King Yan's rebellion.

According to the idea of ​​Manichaeism, King Yan's rebellion was wiped out. It would be best for King Yan to kill Emperor Renzong, and then trigger a rebellion of the clan and vassals. The entire Song Dynasty fell apart, and finally Manichaeism took advantage of the situation.

It's just that Manichaeism didn't expect that Zhao Zongquan suddenly appeared, quickly extinguished the rebellion, and won the approval of Emperor Renzong, becoming a new generation of king.

In the imperial city of Bianjing, after Zhao Zongquan saw Liu Jinzhong's secret letter, he broke out in a cold sweat. This meant that he was lucky, otherwise the world would be chaotic and he would have no chance of succeeding to the throne.

"Manichaeism must be eradicated!" This secret letter further strengthened Zhao Zongquan's belief in eradicating Manichaeism.

In the same night, Zhao Zongquan came to the bedroom of Empress Dowager Cao and handed the secret letter to Empress Dowager Cao.

Empress Dowager Cao couldn't help being shocked when she saw this, especially in the secret letter, it was mentioned that someone in the branch of the Cao family had mixed up with the Manichaeism.

"What do the officials want Ai's family to do?" Empress Dowager Cao looked at the secret letter in a daze, and only after a while did she say quietly.

Zhao Zongquan knelt down on the ground and said earnestly: "If the Manichaeism is not eradicated for a day, it will be a huge threat to the country and the country. I implore the Queen Mother and the ministers to work together to keep the country of the Song Dynasty!"

Empress Dowager Cao also knew that the advantage was not on her side now, and Zhao Zongquan was able to give her a step down at this time, which was considered quite good.

"Okay, then follow the official's wishes."

Of course, cooperation belongs to cooperation, and the salt tax reform must continue. However, Zhao Zongquan also saved some face for the Cao family, and led the salt from Jiangnan West Road and Jiannan Road to the Cao family, allowing them to continue to operate. …

As for the other Yanyin, they followed Qin Hao's method to cooperate with nobles from various places, which not only brought the tax back to the national treasury, but also helped Zhao Zongquan establish contact with the nobles in the localities.

As for the affairs of the Manichaeism, it was directly handed over to Liu Jinzhong. Qin Hao did not intervene, but concentrated on the salt tax reform.

It took more than a year to travel to more than half of the territory of the Song Dynasty, and finally formulated a complete set of salt introduction system integrating salt production, transportation and sales.

To put it simply, it is to conduct exclusive sales, and the salt farm produces according to the quantity of salt imported, so that more than half of the purchase channels for private salt are eliminated.

In the past, the flood of illegal salt was mainly due to the collusion between the chief official of the saltworks and the private salt dealers, and sold the excess salt to the private salt dealers for huge profits. , and even reckless control of human life.

Zhao Yingce was a little worried at the beginning, whether the lack of private salt would make ordinary people unable to afford official salt.

Qin Hao took him to the market for a walk. The price of official salt is indeed more expensive, but in fact, the price of private salt is not much cheaper. After all, the transportation and sales costs of salt are the same, and private salt is the only one. The advantage is that you don't have to pay taxes.

But in fact, there are quite a few places that private salt dealers need to manage. After all, the big money is actually made by those corrupt officials. Those private salt dealers are at the risk of being beheaded. Private salt is actually about 10% cheaper than official salt.

The reason why the price of official salt was high before was that the Cao family sold private salt for profit and the price was too high, but Qin Hao reset the price of official salt and increased the quantity of salt imports. Generally speaking, official salt is enough to satisfy the market need.

Of course, as long as private salt is profitable, some people will definitely take risks, which cannot be prohibited by a single administrative order.

Even in later generations, ways to make money quickly are written in the criminal law, so Qin Hao can only strengthen the investigation and punishment of illegal salt at the port.

Over the past year or so, Qin Hao and Zhao Yingce have cooperated more and more tacitly. Usually, Qin Hao sings the bad face and Zhao Yingce sings the red face, which also earned Zhao Yingce the reputation of "Wise King".

Jinling, which was the first to implement salt tax reform, has also handed in a satisfactory answer in the past year, paying 400,000 guan salt taxes, which is four times higher than before. According to estimates, The salt tax alone can bring more than ten million yuan in tax revenue to the national treasury, and Sheng Wei has also become a celebrity in front of Zhao Yingce.

On the way back to Bianjing, Zhao Yingce said to Qin Hao with emotion: "If there is no Zihan on this trip, such a complicated situation would seem like a mess, and I just can't make sense of it."

Qin Hao smiled and shook his head: "Why is His Royal Highness Huan so self-effacing? If His Royal Highness Huan was not there, how would I instruct those nobles?"

This is the truth. Although Qin Hao is the founder of the country, his foundation is still shallow. If he came alone, those nobles might not sell his face. As King Huan is the candidate for the future crown prince, those nobles would naturally be eager to grab him. If you get in touch with him, many things will be solved easily.

After more than a year, I returned to Bianjing again. …

The ancient society was a little bit better, let alone a year, it was ten years or a hundred years, many places were still the same, Qin Hao could not even notice the passage of time.

Until on the pier, a little one rushed towards him, threw himself into his arms, and called sweetly: "Daddy."

Qin Hao picked up his daughter with emotion. When he left, this girl was only one and a half years old, and she was struggling to walk. Now she can run and dance.

"Sister Lan, do you miss Daddy?" Qin Hao kissed his daughter on the face.

Maybe it was the stubble on Qin Hao's face that caused the little girl a little pain, she tilted her head to avoid it, and giggled.

"Think about it."

"Where do you think?"

"Think about it here." The little girl patted her chest with her chubby hands.

Qin Hao laughed loudly, and got bored with his daughter again.

Yu Yanran couldn't stand it any longer, she walked up to her son with her arms in her arms, and complained, "You only have your daughter in your eyes."

Seeing his son looking at him timidly, Qin Hao also knelt down and picked him up.

"Brother Ming, do you miss Daddy?"

Brother Ming nodded vigorously, seeing that Yu Yanran was a little depressed, this child is good at everything, but his mouth is not sweet enough, and he is not like a girl who can speak well.

"Haha, Zihan has both sons and daughters, it's really gratifying, I'm envious of others." Zhao Yingce laughed.

Yu Yanran hurriedly greeted Zhao Yingce.

"Miss Yu doesn't need to be too polite, she's all her own. In the future, she will bring her children to visit the palace. Sister Lan is so smart, the princess will definitely like it when she sees her." Zhao Yingce waved his hand and said with a smile.

Qin Hao looked at Zhao Yingce with some vigilance: "His Royal Highness Huan, let's make it clear first, my daughter may not be a baby girl."

Yu Yanran secretly tugged on Qin Hao's sleeve, this is His Highness Prince Huan, the future heir, and his son may also be the official family in the future, if the marriage can be achieved, the Qin family will be relatives of the emperor in the future.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Yingce scolded with a smile: "I don't know how many people want to marry my brother Quan, but you still despise it."

Qin Hao smiled faintly, and looked at his daughter's swollen face: "My daughter does not want to be famous, but she wants to be a husband and wife who are of the same heart and never leave each other."

Yu Yanran's eyes were slightly red, which was what she thought when she was a girl, but the family environment at that time did not allow her to expect too much. If she hadn't married Qin Hao, how could she have the life she has today?

Afterwards, Qin Hao and Zhao Yingce went to the palace to return to their orders, while Yu Yanran took the child and Qin Hao's luggage back to Jinghaihou Mansion.

Inside the palace.

Seeing Qin Hao, Zhao Zongquan praised Qin Hao: "Qin Aiqing is indeed a capable minister. In just over a year, the salt tax reform has achieved initial results. It is really indispensable."

Qin Hao bowed slightly: "This matter is not due to the humble minister alone, if it were not for the support of the officials and His Highness Prince Huan, it would not have such an effect."

"Haha, King Huan is also doing well." As a father, Zhao Zongquan was somewhat proud when he heard someone praise his son.

Zhao Zongquan didn't promote Qin Hao this time, after all, he is already from the second rank now, and if he rises up at this age, if he makes meritorious service in the future, there will be no reward. …

Therefore, after Qin Hao returned to the mansion, the imperial decree came down immediately, rewarding some rare treasures and two Huangzhuangs. In addition, the biggest reward was that Yu Yanran's decree was promoted to the second rank. In terms of rank , she is now half a level higher than Qin Hao.

When Yu Yanran received the imperial decree, she had a completely dreamy expression.

"I'm the second-rank imperial order now?"

She is only more than 20 years old now, and after the death of Marquis Ning Yuan, Xiao Qin finally gave her the imperial edict of the second rank.

After being stunned for a while, when she turned her head again, she found that Qin Hao had already returned to the front hall with his son and daughter in his arms.

Sister Lan hugged Qin Hao's thigh and sat on the seesaw. This was their favorite game before, but Sister Lan was still young at that time, and now Qin Hao's legs felt a little sore after sitting for a while.

Seeing this, Yu Yanran quickly pulled her daughter down: "Your father just came back today, can't you stop for a while?"

Sister Lan pursed her lips, looking aggrieved, Qin Hao hugged her up with some distress: "Okay, the child has not seen me for a long time, and misses me. If you cling to her for a while, stop nagging."

"Hmph, just spoil her, spoil her to the point where she's spoiled, and that in-law's family will dare to want her in the future!" Yu Yanran said unconvinced.

Qin Hao proudly said: "There will be so many girls in my family that people will be vying for them, don't you believe me, let's make a bet?"

"Hmph, I'm too lazy to talk to you, let's go wash up, the hot water is ready." Yu Yanran curled her lips, how could she really hope that her daughter would not get married?

In the room, Qin Hao was halfway through the shower when Yu Yanran came in and picked up a towel to wipe Qin Hao's back.

Qin Hao grabbed Yu Yanran's still smooth hand and said with a smirk, "Why don't you wash it together?"

Yu Yanran rolled her eyes coquettishly: "Don't make trouble, look how dark the water has become."

"Okay, how dare you dislike your husband and ask for a beating."

After speaking, Qin Hao stood up from the barrel, wiped his body briefly, and hugged Yu Yanran horizontally.

After some sex, Qin Hao and Yu Yanran embraced each other and fell asleep.

This time Qin Hao slept soundly, and it was the next morning in a blink of an eye.

Qin Hao opened his eyes and found that Yu Yanran was looking at him with distressed eyes. Qin Hao gently held her in his arms and asked softly, "What's wrong?"

"Husband must be working hard outside, right?"

Qin Hao shook his head with a smile: "It's really hard work, but it's far worse than going to sea."

Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit sad, Qin Hao rolled his eyes and said with a smirk: "This time in Jiangnan, your husband and I have visited brothels several times, tsk tsk, that's really thin and fat."

Yu Yanran looked at Qin Hao playfully, and then asked coquettishly, "Oh? Why didn't the husband bring him back?"

Well, being seen through, Qin Hao said softly: "Actually, I have seen all those oirans, and they are not as beautiful as my wife."

"Pfft." Yu Yanran was both moved and funny.

"My husband is used to making people happy, but I heard that Yangzhou's thin horse has the appearance of a closed moon and shameful flowers. How can I compare?"

Qin Hao kissed Yu Yanran on the face: "But I just think they are not as good-looking as my wife."

Yu Yanran's pretty face flushed slightly, even though she was already a mother of two children, she still couldn't help her mouth dry after hearing such love words.

Just when Qin Hao was about to do some morning exercises, the door of the room was pushed open suddenly, and Sister Lan ran to the bed on short legs.

"Daddy, mother."

Well, Qin Hao was instantly discouraged, and Yu Yanran couldn't help but gloated and laughed out loud when she saw this.

I had no choice but to coax the child out, change clothes and get up.

Not long after Qin Hao woke up, Qin Liu's mother came to ask Qin Hao to have dinner.

Qin Hao simply took Yu Yanran and the two little guys to have dinner, but when he arrived, he found that Xiao Qin and Gu Tingwei were also there.