I, Jiajing, successfully cultivated immortality

Chapter 206

This case, which caused a lot of noise in the capital, was solved in this way, and soon the government posted an announcement, explaining in detail the whole process of the case and the way these craftsmen were handled.

"If you want me to say, the government is still too kind to them!"

"It would be better to take all these craftsmen who dared to commit troubles to beheaded, but now why do you only punish the culprits and ignore the threats?"

"Boring, I want to see blood flow into rivers."

……

In the prison, Ren Shiwang curled up in a corner, motionless.

Even though he was diagnosed and treated by a doctor invited by the government, his leg was permanently broken and he could no longer stand up!
Recalling everything before, he couldn't help but start to resent himself: "Why didn't you kill a few more officials?"

In a trance, he dreamed of his son again, dreamed of a family eating happily at the dinner table, only heard a few 'clicks' and a few drops of tears fell down.

"Why, is he still refusing to eat?"

There was such a voice outside the prison.

"Yes, my lord, since the criminal was imprisoned, he has been unwilling to eat. It seems that he intends to die on a hunger strike!"

Seeing the question from the superior, the jailer at the side quickly responded respectfully.

"Then what are you still doing here? You can't let him die in our prison. Even if it's hard feeding, you have to pour something into his stomach!"

"It's not time to ask to be killed. If we die in prison, we can't get rid of the responsibility!"

"Yes, my lord, I'll do it later!"

Then there was a "squeak", the door of the prison was opened, and several strong jailers walked in carrying a food box.

"Don't be delusional, I will never eat!"

Seeing the jailer come in, a look of determination appeared on Ren Shiwang's face, and he said in a deep voice.

"Hold him down and stuff something into his mouth!"

As soon as the words fell, Ren Shiwang was restrained by the jailer, unable to move his limbs.

Immediately afterwards, one jailer opened his mouth, and the other opened the food box, stuffing the food inside into his mouth, maybe because he was afraid that he would choke to death, he would feed him some food from time to time. spoon soup.

"No no no."

Ren Shiwang kept struggling, but his mouth was already stuffed with food, making him speechless.

After a long time, the food in the food box had bottomed out, and the jailers released him.

As soon as he was freed, Ren Shiwang stuck his index finger into his throat, trying to induce vomiting, but all this was stopped by a jailer with sharp eyes and quick hands.

"Tie him up and don't let him move around!"

"Yes, my lord!"

After the jailers responded, they tied up Ren Shiwang.

……

As for the matter of the Maritime Trade Department, after a period of fermentation, it officially came to fruition today!
Early in the morning, the Ministry of Officials announced the list of members of the Maritime Trade Department, and this naturally aroused discussions among the ministers of the DPRK and China.

"Hey, have you heard? The Maritime Trade Department already has an exact list?"

"When did it happen, why didn't I know?"

"This kind of news, officials of our rank, are usually the last to know, and most of the time, it's not for us!"

"Yeah, you said you're not angry? Our hot face is close to us, and people don't even want to post our cold ass!"

"I heard that last time, after the news that the imperial court was going to set up a Maritime Trade Department came out, many officials came to visit that night, trying to find an official position among them, but without exception, they all failed!"

"I've also heard about this matter. It seems that I haven't even met in person, but Mr. Gao Ge personally recommended a candidate to His Majesty. It seems to be called, Yang Zongtai is here?"

"Yes, yes, this is Yang Zongtai, who seemed to be a county magistrate in Quanzhou before! I don't know what kind of luck it was, but he was able to be recommended by Mr. Ge himself."

……

In the cabinet, everyone is reviewing today's memorial.

"By the way, this matter of the Maritime Trade Department has attracted a lot of discussions from the ministers of the DPRK and China!"

Yan Song got up and poured himself a cup of hot tea, looked around, and said so.

"Yeah, in such a powerful and rich department, any official wants to squeeze in to get a piece of the pie!"

"In recent days, the people who came to visit almost broke the threshold of these few people."

Xu Jie at the side heard the words, turned his eyes to the remaining three people, and said slowly.

"However, they made a wrong calculation. This department was established by His Majesty himself. If anyone dares to do something behind the scenes, His Majesty will definitely not let him go lightly!"

After Yan Song finished speaking, he drank the tea in the cup and said slowly.

"Yeah, these guys really miscalculated."

After listening to Yan Song's words, Xu Jie also opened his mouth to agree.

"When the Maritime Trade Department is established, if the tax is collected, it will still follow the previous practice?"

"Well, let's do it as before, [-]% for rough goods (daily necessities), and [-]% for fine goods (luxury goods)."

Xu Jie nodded after listening, so said.

"When the time comes, the Maritime Trade Department will officially sell the corresponding sea-going certificates. How much should it be priced?"

After Yan Song finished speaking, he suddenly found himself in trouble and began to meditate.

After a while, Gao Gong stood up and said in a loud voice: "Why don't we use an auction instead, a certificate of going to sea, the reserve price is 1 taels of silver, and there is no cap on it! How about it?"

After listening to Gao Gong's proposal, everyone's eyes shone with an unknown light, and Yan Shifan couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, got up from his seat, and added.

"In this way, the Maritime Trade Department will temporarily release [-] certificates for going to sea, and then release the news to the outside world. At present, there are only [-] certificates for going to sea!"

"And these thirty certificates for going to sea are all sold in the form of auction. The reserve price is 1 taels of silver, and there is no upper limit! If the auctioned price is lower than 20 taels of silver, this auction will be void."

"In this way, not only can it immediately contribute at least 600 million taels of income to the imperial court, but it can also take this opportunity to greatly enhance the influence of the Maritime Trade Department."

After listening to Yan Shifan's supplementary words, everyone was quite impressed by this.

"That's right, that's right. If we can act accordingly, not only will the Department of Maritime Trade be on the right track as soon as possible, but His Majesty will also see results soon! It really kills two birds with one stone."

After listening to the measures proposed by Yan Shifan, Xu Jie also quite agreed.

"Since this is the case, then the matter is settled like this. When the time comes, choose a good day and officially conduct the auction!"

"By the way, I will also mention this matter to His Majesty at the next cabinet meeting."

Seeing that no one had any objection to this, Yan Song finally made the final decision.

……

The Forbidden City, the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Jiajing is sitting cross-legged on the futon at this moment, his eyes seem to be closed but not closed, surrounded by purple air.

The exercises he practiced were automatically activated, and the purple energy surrounding him was absorbed by Jiajing into his body with every breath.

At this moment, Jiajing's whole body was wrapped in lavender mana. After being absorbed by him, the purple energy passed through the meridians of his whole body and finally gathered at the dantian.

After realizing that the mana that could be contained in the dantian was about to reach its limit, Jiajing gradually stopped practicing and slowly opened his eyes.

"It seems that we have encountered a bottleneck!"

Jiajing silently said to himself after perceiving the situation in his body.

Immediately afterwards, Jiajing poured out the elixirs in the storage bag, looking at those round and natural elixirs, he couldn't help recalling the tragedy when he swallowed the elixirs last time.

"When you practice next time, you will swallow the elixir, and break through the realm in one go!"

"At that time, the ecstasy formation will be drawn, and then the formation will be engraved on the flag. After the reform of the guard system is completed, it will be handed over to our Ming army for use."

"In this way, I, Da Ming, will truly be invincible in the world!"

Jiajing thought so, then put the pill back into the storage bag, and slowly got up from the futon.

When Jiajing pushed open the gate of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, he realized that Lu Fang had been waiting outside the hall for his instructions.

Seeing Jiajing coming out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Lu Fang hurriedly saluted, "Your Majesty!"

Jiajing just nodded, and then said: "Lu Fang, let's go shopping with me."

"The slaves obey!"

After Lu Fang respectfully responded, she followed Jiajing's footsteps step by step.

(End of this chapter)