The daily life of the science master's book-wearing group

The entire Huai'an city was sealed off because of the arrival of His Royal Highness the First Prince.

More than half a month has passed, and nothing has been revealed.

The entire Nanzhili officialdom is wary of the arrival of His Royal Highness the Great Prince.

Something happened to Yan's family in Yancheng County. At first, the group of salt merchants didn't know that the person who checked them was the fifth prince, but they thought it was a stunned young man who had just entered Yushitai, so they teamed up with pirates and arrested him.

After that little stunned young man was arrested, he kept calling himself the fifth prince, and told them not to court death, but let him go quickly.

At first, they thought that this stupid Lengtouqing was tricking them into letting him go.

But later, when Jin Yiwei started dispatching in large numbers to Huai'an to find someone, they began to realize that they might really have caught the wrong person.

They wanted to let the pirates release them, but the pirates refused to do it, and even blackmailed them.

The group of salt merchants had nothing to do, and under the instigation of the salt merchant surnamed Du, they collectively wrote a letter, threatening the emperor and letting them go.

The salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River were all panicked when they heard about the incident in Huai'an.

I don't know what's wrong with the brains of the group of people in Huai'an Mansion. Who knows if they will be implicated?
After the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Li Zhao left Huai'an Mansion and went to Nanjing.

No one knows what happened in Huai'an Fucheng.

However, Li Zhao stayed in Nanjing for more than ten days, and it is said that he did nothing and stayed in the Six Departments of Nanjing every day to check old files.

Officials invited him to a banquet, but he refused.

After being tossed by the vegetable oil soaked in deer penis and bull penis, Li Zhao was really scared.

Sometimes, the most terrifying thing in this world is not what Mencius said, "suffer your mind, work your muscles, starve your body, and empty your body", but endless desires.

He didn't want to make Song Qingyue sad just because of this physical desire.

Compared to this little bit of patience, being separated from Song Qingyue is a more terrifying thing.

Li Zhao was unwilling to take any risk.

In addition to checking the old archives of the Six Ministries of Nanjing, he also summoned the prefect of Yingtianfu to listen to the reports of the prefectures and counties in Southern Zhili.

Wang Shengtao, the president of the Jiangsu Salt Chamber of Commerce, who had been listening to the new concubine singing ditties on the banks of the Pingjiang River in Suzhou, heard that the First Prince had come to Nanjing, and was so frightened that he took a fast boat overnight to meet him.

After handing out invitations for several days in a row, he was finally summoned by His Royal Highness the First Prince.

"Grassman pays homage to Your Highness!"

Wang Shengtao bowed down on the battlefield with dignity.

I saw an extremely handsome young man sitting in the middle of the hall, casually playing with a round clear water blue dragon and phoenix jade pendant in his hand.

Li Zhao thought it was funny to see the big lump of fat lying on the ground. With a move of his finger, he hid the jade pendant in his sleeve and said with a smile, "Sit down when you come, what are you doing lying on your stomach?"

"Grassmen dare not!" Wang Shengtao was still lying on the ground and did not dare to stand up straight.

Li Zhao said with a smile, "It's been nearly ten years since we parted. The head of the Wang family has not aged, but he is still so energetic, so... rich."

Wang Shengtao quickly apologized with a smile: "It's all thanks to His Highness's care."

Li Zhao asked people to watch tea, and didn't talk about business at all, but said: "I heard that Wang Da's family has recruited a stunning beauty in Suzhou. Not only is she beautiful, but she also has a superb singing voice. Wang Da's family is so lucky!"

"Speaking of stunning beauty, it's nothing more than flattering each other with old friends and spreading rumors!"

Cold sweat dripped from Wang Shengtao's black temples, and he hastily denied it.

Li Zhao chuckled: "The former singer named Ming Feng in Su Wang's mansion was dedicated to my father by you, and my father liked it very much. I don't know whether Feng Ming is better than the one who is in charge of Wang Da."

The two kept chatting about two cups of tea, Li Zhao only talked about trivial matters, and Wang Shengtao became more and more restless.

He is the hidden stake of King Su's mansion in the south of the Yangtze River, but since King Su went to the capital, he has gradually escaped from the control of King Su's mansion.

Wang Shengtao knew that it was time to settle the accounts.

But he can't be blamed for this, how did he know that Su Wang's mansion was capable of secretly raising an army of 10 people in the south, let alone that Su Wang's mansion had such a magical weapon in its hands.

If he knew, he wouldn't change his court and help the Duke of Jing's mansion!

He wanted to do more meritorious deeds, tell all kinds of dirty things, and tell Li Zhao where the fifth prince is now, but he was afraid that it would be self-defeating and make Li Zhao think that he was with the gang in Huai'an.

In fact, they were indeed in the same group, and even had connections with those pirates, but the matter of arresting the Fifth Prince had nothing to do with him at all!

In this matter, he was really wronged! ,

Li Zhao chatted with him for so long, seeing that the fat man still didn't speak, Li Zhao's patience ran out, and he picked up a teacup to see off the guests: "The king is in charge, it's getting late. The king still has official duties, we Let's talk some other day?"

chat?
How to chat?
Whether to sit and chat, or go to the prison and hold a knife to chat, but it is not certain.

Wang Shengtao was so nervous that he was in a daze, and when he stood up, his body even shook.

Li Zhao watched him walk towards the door step by step with a half-smile.

Walking to the threshold, Wang Shengtao's feet were lifted up, put down, lifted up, and put down again.

Li Zhao didn't speak, just holding the teacup, sitting there quietly watching with cold eyes, his fingertips tapped on the case, the sound was so soft that it was almost inaudible, but it hit Wang Dadang's heart every time, Made him almost breathless.

In between breaths, the fat man suddenly turned around, walked back to Li Zhao in a few steps, slammed his knees on the ground with a thud, hugged Li Zhao's thighs, and cried, "Your Highness, the grass-roots plead guilty! The grass-folk plead guilty! Please, Your Highness!" Forgive me, Your Highness, please let Caomin's family go! Caomin knows where the Fifth Prince is hidden! Caomin will take His Highness to find the Fifth Prince tonight!"

Li Zhao then put down the teacup: "What else?"

"The villain will take the initiative to pay back the salt tax that the Wang family has evaded all these years... No, double pay!"

"Just your family?" Li Zhao narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Caomin has records of Jiangsu salt merchants selling private salt. Although it is incomplete, it is not bad. There are also records of all bribes received by Jiangsu prefectural salt officials over the years!"

These things were kept by Wang Shengtao or used to threaten officials, or to save his life in the current situation.

But Li Zhao smiled, still dissatisfied: "Are you avoiding the important and taking the light of it? You know what this king wants!"

Wang Shengtao swallowed his saliva, and added another sentence: "There are also...there are also those who try to drive away the salt merchants from Fujian and Guangdong, control the canal and prevent them from passing, and collude with the Nanjing government to drive up the price of salt in the south of the Yangtze River."

"So that's how it is... It seems that shopkeeper Wang still wants to meet the commander of our Jinyiwei."

Wang Shengtao felt that he was almost driven to a desperate situation. He really had no way to retreat. His teeth were about to be crushed. He lay on the ground and kowtowed, trying to beg His Royal Highness to soften his heart. Kill them all.

"Master Wang, you know that this is the will of the father, and no one can change it. Here is a pen and paper, write down everything you know, the clearer the better, and try to atone for the crime. Maybe the father will see it in the past. For the strength you have sold for King Su's mansion, spare your family's life."

Blood came out of Wang Shengtao's forehead.

Lie on the ground and weep bitterly.

He shouldn't have stayed in Jiangnan with a fluke mentality.

As soon as King Su came to the throne, he should leave all his wealth and wealth and go to Nanyang with his wife and children.

Five days later, Li Zhao's secret book was delivered to the emperor.

The Dongyang Navy cooperated with Jinyiwei and Dongchang to take almost all the officials from the Six Departments of Nanjing.

Li Zhao's goal in coming to the south this time is not the salt merchants in Jiangnan, but the small imperial court in Nanjing.

A country does not need two courts.

It's okay for the treasury to spend some money to support redundant officials, but the large tracts of land occupied by the families of these officials are something the emperor cannot tolerate.

Of course, what the emperor couldn't tolerate the most were the officials who fled south from the capital during the mutiny.

Most of these officials came to Jiangnan.

In the hands of the abolished prince, there is also the edict of the late emperor.

It was a true will with no flaws.

Jiangnan has money, soldiers, and a spare court.

As long as the abolished prince makes a little effort, he can directly ascend the throne in Nanjing.

At that time, a large number of squires, landlords, and scholars who opposed the integration of officials and gentry will gather around the abolished prince and fight against the northern court.

The emperor did not allow such a thing to happen. He would rather bear the stigma of the tyrant and kill Jiangnan until blood flowed into rivers, but also push the matter of "officials and gentry pay food together".

No one can stop his determination.