Luck in the heavens starts from the Red Mansion.

Chapter 278 Ridiculous (please subscribe)

It's July now, and the weather is already quite hot.

On the other side of Jinmen, the sea-going fleet heading to Goryeo set off again, this time the scale was much larger than last time. There were more than a dozen sea ships in one go.

I heard that this is a benefit that the current emperor gives to his closest officials. They can purchase ships and follow the fleet of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to go to Goryeo to make a fortune.

Today's hardcore players are quite active, and their cheerful attitude all day long makes people feel sick.

Prince Zhongshun was so angry that he almost vomited blood!

He didn't expect that he would be so shameless today, and this act of generosity to others was played so smoothly.

It was like a slap in the face, and it was done in public.

Although the overseas trade with Goryeo was not monopolized by him, he was just a pioneer.

But Prince Zhongshun still felt that such behavior today was too much.

You really want to win over people, can you do it in private, or do you want to make it so public?

For those who don’t know, I thought you were deliberately targeting me. How can you be so embarrassed to go out and meet people in the future?

Fortunately, the fleet under Prince Zhongshun had other intentions when heading to Goryeo. Otherwise, if they were just doing overseas trade, they would probably be pissed to death.

Not only was he angry, the other members of the clan were also quite angry.

They haven't had time to get involved, and now they are pulling their subordinates and confidants to make a fortune together. Are they looking down on their clan brothers?

Goryeo is so big, and even if its population were to be large, it would only be around ten million at most!

There are only a few people who have the strength and ability to buy products from the Central Plains!

If we go back and forth several times a year, I'm afraid Goryeo won't be able to absorb so many products.

At another internal gathering, Prince Zhongshun expressed his heartache.

This was revealed to this person privately by someone sent by Jia Huan. The purpose was naturally self-evident.

Sure enough, the clan members who were originally calm suddenly panicked.

Thinking about it carefully, what Prince Zhongshun said makes sense, but this is not true!

Then, the current emperor and the Supreme Emperor encountered harassment from members of the clan.

Anyway, the meaning is the same, everyone is our own blood, don't turn your elbows outward.

This time, Jin Jin was shocked.

He really didn't expect that the clan members' reaction would be so great.

Looking back, the concerns of these clan members are not unreasonable!

Goryeo is just a small country, and it has been harassed by Hou Jin's gang of barbarians all year round. It should have a lot of money in its hands, and its purchasing power is also limited.

Now we don't want to cause the collective dissatisfaction of the clan members, so we have no choice but to give a guarantee that the size of the fleet sent to Goryeo will not continue to expand unless there are ships from clan members joining.

But at this moment, bad news came from the south.

Several imperial envoys sent out to investigate the salt tax all died after encountering various unexpected changes in less than half a month. When the news came back to the capital, it immediately caused a tremor in the court.

Now he was extremely angry and laughed, and burst into rage in the court, demanding that the cabinet and local governments investigate the matter strictly.

At the same time, a higher-level investigation team sets off immediately!

Ever since Prince Zhongshun exposed the salt tax issue, the court has been agonizing over it for almost half a year.

At the beginning, Prince Zhongshun's men and horses were doing all kinds of things, with the purpose of killing today's trusted ministers and causing trouble for today. Later, more and more court officials were implicated. After all, the oil and water in the salt administration was too rich.

At the end of the day, I just couldn’t hold back my greed and wanted to touch the powder keg of salt tax.

After all, a salt tax of five million taels a year is not at the same level as a salt tax of eight or even nine million taels a year, okay?

If we can completely fix the annual salt tax to 700 or even 8 million taels through this effort, why not do it?

Today's thinking is obvious. An official with a major interest in salt politics has quit.

If it were possible now, their annual income would be reduced by a lot in the future.

The reason is simple. If more official salt is sold, the share of private salt will naturally decrease rapidly, and the benefits that stakeholders can obtain will naturally decrease with it.

Of course, the ones who will really suffer a major blow are the big salt merchants in Yangzhou.

The amount of money that the court bosses should receive every year cannot be reduced at all!

But they also know that this cannot last long!

When the big salt merchants go bankrupt, it will be impossible for them to make the huge profits they are making now.

Therefore, the quarrel over the salt policy in the court became bigger and bigger, and more and more officials became unlucky, but there was still a steady stream of officials involved.

Not to mention that we must stop today's random behavior, at least we can't do it according to today's thoughts.

When Lin Ruhai was the salt inspector in Yangzhou, the big salt merchants in Yangzhou were miserable. If the tasks of the salt inspectors in the future were to be closer to those of Lin Ruhai's period, it would be fatal.

In short, because of the Yanzheng matter, the court was in chaos.

The current emperor and his confidants are in a wave, and the opposing courtiers are in another wave. There are also neutral courtiers, and there are also many people who fish in troubled waters.

Later, he got tired of it and simply sent several imperial teams south to investigate the salt administration affairs in detail.

The purpose is to understand the specific situation of the Lianghuai Salt Service and then make a decision based on the specific situation.

Of course, the tasks of several imperial teams will not be that simple, and naturally they have other tasks and responsibilities.

But today's move has made some courtiers and local powerful people unable to sit still.

As the saying goes, some things should be kept hidden, and once they are exposed, it is no joke.

Once the huge chain of interests involving private salt trading is discovered, the consequences will be disastrous.

Then, those few imperial envoys were in trouble.

Either he was killed by bandits, baptized by a fire dragon, or the boat capsized and fell into the water.

In short, there are various ways to die, which well explains to today the huge risks of traveling far away.

This time, not to mention today, even the instigator, Prince Zhongshun, was also shocked.

He really didn't expect that the guy below would be so bold and reckless. He simply didn't care about the majesty of the court. If he didn't react with thunder, he would be in big trouble.

As for the local area, no one would care about the apology papers delivered in a four-hundred-mile expedited manner.

In particular, the apology sheet places most of the blame on the bandits, which is even more disgusting.

Damn it, do you really think that the Gonggun princes in the court today are fools?

Ahem, some courtiers really believe that the contents of the apology document handed over by the local government are very credible. This is the most uncomfortable part.

Well, since some court officials think so, the court cannot remain indifferent.

Therefore, Prince Zhongshun personally petitioned the imperial court to dispatch local garrisons to carry out thunderous attacks on famous bandit and bandit dens everywhere.

As the top candidate in the last martial arts examination, the third-class guard Jia Cong wrote a letter asking for orders, and took the initiative to go to the local area to participate in the extermination of bandits and bandits, so as to share the worries of the present.

(End of this chapter)