Nuclear Warlord

Chapter 181 The Wrath of the Two Great Families

In fact, it's not that the Wang family doesn't have a better way to purify coarse salt, but it's just that the refined salt is far from reaching the quality of Li Changfeng's refined salt.

Purifying coarse salt according to their backward technology will greatly increase the cost.

Therefore, except for personal consumption and for high-ranking officials and nobles, the official salt supplied by the Wang family to ordinary people is almost directly dried in seawater or salt wells, and then roughly processed, which often leads to people being poisoned by eating these coarse salts.

In the past, it was not that no one sued the Wang family, but because the Wang family was powerful, and because Emperor Qianwu feared that the Wang family controlled the officials, and worried that they would take the opportunity to make trouble, they could only let it go.

The Wang family also became more and more unscrupulous because they controlled the attitude of the official salt and Emperor Qianwu, and they didn't care about the quality of the official salt at all.

But this time is different.

Emperor Qianwu issued a decree to Dali Temple, asking them to investigate and collect relevant evidence, as if they were business-like.

Dali Temple, which has always been procrastinating, showed an uncharacteristically high efficiency, and immediately launched an investigation into the matter.

In the face of the undeniable facts, Dali Temple immediately judged that the low quality of the Wang family's official salt was indeed poisonous, and sent a large number of officials to search all the official salt in the Wang family's salt shops in the capital with the assistance of Dongchang.

All the official salt inside was taken as evidence and transported to Li Changfeng's warehouse, where he took it for secondary processing to produce refined salt.

Then Dali Temple issued an announcement saying that the batch of official salt from the Wang family was unqualified after random inspection, and ordered the Wang family to re-upload qualified official salt, and reminded the people to be cautious in purchasing official salt from the Wang family.

Such movement, coupled with Li Changfeng's secret contribution to the flames, spread the matter quickly in the capital, and people were discussing it in the streets and alleys after dinner.

"Have you heard that there is another problem with the official salt of the Wang family!"

"How could you not have heard of such a big commotion? The Wang family really went too far. They don't take the life and death of our common people seriously at all!"

"Look at how fresh your words are. It's not the first time this kind of thing happened. When did the Wang family take it seriously?"

"I'm afraid the Wang family can't take it seriously this time. It seems that His Majesty can't take it anymore this time, and is going to clean up the Wang family."

"Your Majesty is wise, it's time to clean up!"

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For a while, the reputation of the Wang family fell to the bottom, and everyone criticized them verbally and in writing.

However, some measures of Emperor Qianwu were appreciated by the people, who all praised him as a wise emperor.

It is clear at a glance whether the people's support is against or against.

Wang Jingzhi, the patriarch of the Wang family, was very angry when he got the news. He guessed that Emperor Qianwu was playing tricks, otherwise neither Dali Temple nor other dignitaries would have the guts to target their Wang family.

Soon, the Wang family confirmed this conjecture through the courtiers who secretly connected with them, and the head of the Wang family, Wang Jingzhi, was furious.

"Bastard! What an audacity!"

"Emperor Ganwu, Emperor Ganwu, we have always kept the water in the well, if you dare to disturb my royal family, then don't blame me for being rude!"

"Don't think that you can act recklessly because you are the emperor. I will let you know how powerful my royal family is, and I will let you apologize to me in person!"

After roaring for a while, Wang Jingzhi regained his composure, and immediately began to arrange a counterattack.

On the other side, Li Changfeng came to the warehouse and looked at the huge amount of official salt that had just been checked from Wang's salt shop, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth.

With these official salts, he will soon be able to produce sufficient refined salt, and the next plan can be implemented.

He first sent people to secretly lay out sales channels for refined salt in major cities across the country, and at the same time let the shops in the capital that had already been located near the official salt shops of the Wang family start renovations and prepare for business.

At the same time, he also asked people to mobilize a large amount of refined salt from the refined salt factory in Baishi City and transport it to major cities and towns across the country.

Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner.

The Zhao family was also involved in the attack on the Artillery Battalion, and since Li Changfeng had been assassinated before, Emperor Qianwu would naturally not let it go.

Under his instruction, Gao Dali sent a large number of masters from the East Factory to investigate Zhao's other industries outside the capital with the assistance of Liufanmen.

It's called an investigation, but it's actually fabricating various charges and confiscating the Zhao family's property to fill the treasury, which is revenge for the Zhao family's previous actions.

The patriarch of the Zhao family, Zhao Tianquan, was furious when he heard about this, and smashed everything he could see in the meeting hall to vent his anger.

"How courageous! Is the dog emperor going to completely tear the skin off with my Zhao family?!"

"Does he not want to be the emperor? If not, we will support another obedient emperor!"

After failing to assassinate Li Changfeng before, Li Changfeng retaliated against the Zhao family that night, and burned many properties of the Zhao family under the pretext of chasing down the assassin.

On the second day, when Emperor Qianwu knew about this, he intensified his efforts, directly making people search the Zhao family's properties in the capital on trumped-up charges.

This series of actions caused the Zhao family to suffer heavy losses.

That's all.

Now Emperor Qianwu even sent people to search the properties of the Zhao family in other places, as if he wanted to punish the Zhao family to death.

The Zhao family has been passed down for hundreds of years and has never been bullied like this. Zhao Tianquan was naturally furious and determined to teach Emperor Qianwu a lesson.

Zhao Zhijing, the elder of the Zhao family, bowed and stood aside. After Zhao Tianquan had vented enough and his anger had subsided a lot, he opened his mouth cautiously.

"Patriarch, I have already got the news through the inside line in the palace. Emperor Qianwu has found out that it was us and the dead soldiers sent by the Wang family who attacked the secret military camp at night. I am afraid that this move will offend Emperor Qianwu. Our Zhao family made the move."

In fact, Zhao Zhijing disagreed with the dispatch of the dead.

He felt that Emperor Qianwu hid the secret camp so deeply, it must be very important to Emperor Qianwu, and a rash attack would make him crazily retaliate.

But he was only an elder after all, and the head of the Zhao family still had the final say, so he could only let Zhao Tianquan arrange this matter.

As a result, Emperor Ganwu sent heavy troops to defend the secret camp afterwards, which fully confirmed his conjecture, and the revenge came like a storm as he had guessed.

"So what if he touches the Martial Emperor Nilin?" Zhao Tianquan sneered, but he recovered his composure, realizing that what he did before was a bit reckless, and slow infiltration is the best policy.

Zhao Zhijing knew that Zhao Tianquan had regained his composure, but now he was still talking hard and just needed a step down.

He coughed dryly and said: "Emperor Ganwu is still angry at this time, and doing things openly may attract even more crazy revenge from Emperor Ganwu. Anyway, that little loss is a drop in the bucket for us. It's better to hide our strength and bide our time."

The Zhao family has been passed down for hundreds of years, so the loss of this little money is really nothing to them, and it is completely within the acceptable range.

In addition, Emperor Qianwu was indeed a courageous and talented emperor, Zhao Tianquan was already a little shaken in his heart.

But he was still a little unwilling: "Do you just let Emperor Qianwu, the dog emperor?"

(End of this chapter)