Chapter 499: Letter to Xu Guangqi

Bi Ziyan suddenly proposed in the court that in addition to the necessary punishment, he should put education and correct their mistakes first. As soon as this was said, all the ministers were shocked! Some guys with sharp noses had already smelled such a slightest thing, but they didn't know what the emperor should do, and they could only guess roughly what the emperor had planned.

"Your Majesty, I agree. I think that just punishing these people is a lesson for them, but just a lesson is not enough. Master Bi is right. In addition to the necessary punishment and punishment of the past and preventing future, he also needs to cure the disease and save the people. He also needs to know that this group of people should know that they are wrong, and know where they are wrong, and make corrections. In this way, it will be worthwhile to open up a life of life to avoid harming the peace of the world..." Shi Feng came to see the emperor and smiled, and knew that the emperor was very satisfied with this sentence. Although he didn't quite understand what the emperor was doing, he also knew that the emperor liked it very much. So he immediately came out to follow the trend and set up a place for the emperor. As for the emperor's purpose, he was confused...

"Report to Your Majesty, I also agree that 'knowing mistakes should be worthy, and there is no great thing to do'. Since there is a mistake, we should correct it. Now these salt merchants have obviously made mistakes, so they should educate and correct it. Now they have to forgive their Majesty, and they have luck to have a way out. If they do not educate and do not repent, wouldn't it be a waste of His Majesty's hard work? Otherwise, wouldn't they repeat the same mistake in the future? The saint said 'there is no distinction between education', and I think that the court should treat these people with the teachings of the saints. Although these people have made big mistakes, they should give them a chance to correct them and cannot discriminate or despise these people..." The Minister of War also stood up.

"Report to Your Majesty, I agree..." More imperial parties immediately launched an effort to put the re-education of salt merchants into a foregone conclusion. Although the imperial parties did not know what the emperor was thinking about, they looked at the emperor's attitude towards this matter, and they were smiling. It was obvious that they liked this advice, so they should let this advice pass.

As the imperial party members made their efforts, there were immediately a voice of approval in Wenhua Palace to settle the matter. Some people who were not the imperial party, seeing that the emperor and the imperial party were working together, were not easy to deal with, had to agree to this matter, which was not good or bad. It depends on what the emperor was thinking about. Why did he suddenly do this? The consequences of this matter are good or bad. Now, we still cannot understand them thoroughly.

Besides, in the matter of the salt merchant, the emperor has already opened the door of convenience. If he fights against the emperor on this small issue, he is afraid that the emperor will finally be merciless and open the door of convenience, and the direct consequence is that many people in the south will be "eated".

"Hahaha..., yes, what you said is reasonable. Since there is something wrong, you should correct it. You should let them know that it is amazing. You should educate these salt merchants well. If you make such mistakes in the future, don't blame me for not being taught. This is how, everyone, please tell me, who is more suitable to send to the south to educate these salt merchants?" Yang Jing asked with a smile.

Who should I send? Many people are still confused and cannot figure out what the emperor is going to do, Han Du wiped his forehead and immediately stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I agree. I think this matter is not something that a respected minister of the country can do."

Everyone looked at Han Du in surprise. Why is this Han Du so active today? He is even more imperial than the Imperial Party? This is a job that Shi Feng has taken!

Han Yu is an old fox. When he grows old, he becomes a spirit. He looks at problems much more deeply than others. He can't even care about everyone's surprise eyes. He only hopes that the emperor will send people to "educate" this group of people as soon as possible. Now the salt merchants who donated their wealth all follow the example, donated their wealth, live in temples, or Taoist temples to show their innocence, but now it has become a big problem. The temple Taoist temple is a place where anyone can go. If there is no capable person to protect them, they will not last long. I am afraid they will be "eated" by others. What is the emperor doing?

I am afraid that I will really try to protect these salt merchants in order to fulfill my promise. To educate these salt merchants, I must gather these salt merchants together to ensure the safety of these salt merchants. You must know that if something happened to the student, the teacher must be responsible. After thinking about it, the emperor's intention was probably to let Xu Guangqi be responsible for educating these people. In the south, Xu Guangqi can protect these people. After figuring out what he thought, he immediately sweated. He did not care about everyone's surprise eyes and jumped out to agree.

Yang Jing looked at Han Dong with some surprise. What's wrong with this old fox today? He is so active in his own affairs? He has no villain style at all! Yang Jing began to worry again. This old fox has seen through his plan and made trouble for himself. Han Dong's hurrying look made Yang Jing nervous.

"Oh, hehe, who is the most respected official of the country?" Yang Jing asked with a smile, and said, winked at Shi Fenglai, hoping that Shi Fenglai would follow up on this or delay it. Han Yu was so busy, so don't ruin his own affairs. As soon as Han Yu was messing around, Yang Jinglai began to get nervous.

"Report to Your Majesty, it must be Xu Zixian." Han Yu jumped out immediately without waiting for the others to speak and said hurriedly. If the emperor sent a guy from the capital to Jiangnan, and when this guy arrived in Jiangnan, the group of salt merchants would not know how many more could be left, so he didn't care about anything at the moment and immediately said.

As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at Han Dong in surprise. What's wrong with this? This old fox is not as good as the tyrant, so some people began to curse Han Dong in secret.

Shi Fenglai even glanced at Han Du with a resentful look. This person who snatched jobs was too shameless.

"Hahaha..." Yang Jing was also inexplicably worried that Han Yu would ruin his own affairs if he saw through his plan, but he did not expect that the old fox had gone to some extent and hurriedly asked Xu Guangqi to be the one who educated this group of people. This matter was a different end. Just as his purpose, he laughed loudly.

The important officials looked at the emperor and then Han Yu. Today, the Wenhua Palace is very strange. Everyone has their own ulterior motives and keeps everyone in the dark. I don’t know what’s wrong.

After a while of this strange scene, some ministers carefully recalled what Han Yu said, and suddenly understood why Han Yu was so anxious. He did not send someone to gather the salt merchants and let them live in temples. He was afraid that before the day of the case was closed, there would not be many of these people left. They all admired Han Yu for his quick thinking and thorough understanding of the problem.

However, everyone's doubts arose again. What was the emperor thinking? The emperor's original intention was obviously not the same as Han Du. Han Du wanted to use Xu Zixian to protect the salt merchants. So what did the emperor want to use Xu Zixian to do? I was afraid that it was not only just to protect the salt merchants. Looking at the emperor's expression, he also seemed very surprised by Han Du's actions.

Wenhua Palace was strange for a while, and the scene gradually recovered.

"Haha, then this matter is decided like this. Master Xu will teach this group of salt merchants on my behalf, so that they can correct their mistakes, understand their own mistakes, understand their problems, and dare not commit them in the future. They will also warn others not to despise the national law..." Yang Jing said with a smile, which was considered to have ended this strange scene.

"Your Majesty is wise!" The important officials agreed this way.

"Okay! Since you all think there is no problem, then this one is the case. The big aspect should be done according to the agreed upon in the court. Leave some small problems and specific details to Master Xu at your discretion." Yang Jing decided on this one again.

"Your Majesty, wise." The ministers shouted again. This was almost a good ending. Most of the salt merchants who were related and needed protection were among the best. As for those who were not eye-catching and hesitant, they could only say that they deserved to die.

"Then let's discuss the next article. Salt merchants eat national treasury and eat people's blood. They must be severely punished to serve as a warning. Therefore, Master Xu has decided to punish all salt merchants who are on the case and will not be allowed to operate the salt industry within the next three generations. Do you have any opinions on this article?" Yang Jing began to discuss the next article again.

This article completely cut off the salt merchants and the salt industry today, which laid the foundation for the emperor to take over the salt industry and salt classes. Some ministers were only sad after hearing the rule formulated by the emperor. Even if there was no such rule, there would be no possibility for the salt merchants to do the salt industry again. Liulizhai took over the world to make salt, so how could these salt merchants get involved? The salt is not produced in their own hands. If they want to compete with Liulizhai and make waves, they will undoubtedly seek death.

This article has not been passed much debate.

I discussed several more items, either they had to pass or they were certain to pass, and they were different.

"Let's talk about this one..." Yang Jingwei was also a little dry. Xu Guangqi has compiled the crimes and suggestions for punishment for the salt merchant. It is a problem to finalize them one by one.

"...Master Xu said that when investigating the Tonglu case of the salt merchants, he donated his family property to help me eliminate the Donglu and determined to split the salt merchants of Tonglu. In addition to the above things, these salt merchants also did a good thing, that is, to help Master Xu stabilize the salt market and not let the people in the world eat salt, which is indeed commendable. I was originally worried that after running so many salt merchants, there would be turmoil in the world and difficulties in eating salt. Unexpectedly, the salt merchants also knew the righteousness and knew how to serve the court.

The salt merchants who helped the court to relieve their worries can be seen that not all the salt merchants are bad people. Master Xu said that salt merchants should be severely punished, but they should treat them differently. I also agree that they should give some preferential treatment to those salt merchants who donated their property and stabilize the salt market. The punishment should not be too severe. It should be different from ordinary salt merchants... Among them, Wang, Liang, Guo and others did a good job..." Yang Jing threw out this most important one, and the punishment was finished, so it was time to say it was time to fulfill the promise.

Some ministers were overjoyed when they heard the emperor say this. It seemed that the group of people who donated their money first had a clear understanding of the way. According to the emperor's words, these people were probably "living after death."

"Your Majesty is kind..."

"Your Majesty's Holy Wisdom..."

No one objected to this. The emperor opened the door to convenience and fulfilled the promise in full, and fulfilled it in a clear manner, which shows the emperor's credibility.

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After deciding on the punishment plan for the salt merchant, Yang Jingwei had no easy time. He went straight back to the Ganqing Palace. Once he returned to the Ganqing Palace, he locked himself in the warm pavilion and wrote a letter to Xu Guangqi.

All the things discussed today are just open matters. In fact, there are more important things that cannot be said openly and must be done quietly.

"... Today, Master Xu's memorial was discussed in Wenhua Palace. Master Xu will know the specific results soon. I will not be tired of it. In addition, Master Xu needs to remember a few things, and there are a few things that Master Xu must grasp..."

"The first thing I want to tell Master Xu is that this time, although it looks so glorious and won a happy life, I got a lot of money. The Chinese people said that the salt merchant fell and I was full. In the face of these words, I laughed it off. The Chinese people didn't know my difficulties, nor did they know the difficulties of state affairs..."

"... I think the more than 30 million I get this year is calculated as 40 million. In fact, it will not take two years, and the money will be gone. These 40 million will need to make up for the immigration funds of last year, so I will go for 40 million taels. This year is another year of disaster. The scale may be even greater than this year. The immigration scale is probably more than this year. In other words, the new immigration funds this year are also more than 5 million taels, so I have to spend as much as 10 million taels. If we count the new army and the military pay of the border army, I will spend millions of taels every year. The war in the north has begun this year, and the additional expenses must be millions of taels. In addition, I will give the border army some cotton coats, some salary, and some more money. I am afraid that I will have to spend tens of millions of taels. If other expenses are included, the expenses this year will definitely be more than 20 million, and in the next few years, I am afraid that the expenses will only be above this. Therefore, I am worried..., I can receive the taxes in my current dynasty, and I can control them, but only more than one million. Alas..., the difficulties of state affairs are not something outsiders can imagine. Although salt classes are a foregone conclusion, they are only only tens of millions. Apart from some necessary expenses, such as Lin Qiong's school funds and the Ministry of Revenue, I don't have much left. I have to support more than 20 million taels per year. I don't know how long it will last..."

"...I feel restless day and night whenever I think of this. I have mentioned to Master Xu that to solve such a big hole, I must have additional resources of wealth. It is absolutely inappropriate to just rely on the salt merchant's wealth. There is a salt merchant to copy this year. What about next year? What about the next year? Who will copy again? This time I got the salt merchant's wealth for 200 years, so I have this scale. Will I copy Liulizhai in the future..."

"... After thinking about it, the land tax must not be added again. I am restless day and night because I am adding more than 4 million taels of land tax, for fear of arousing civil unrest. After thinking about it, I can only focus on commercial taxes and tariffs. Only in this way can I fill such a big hole..."

"... Master Xu also knows that the national policy set by my Taizu is to hide wealth from the people. Commercial tax has always been paid very little, and it has become a habit not to pay commercial tax. If I want to collect commercial tax on a large scale, I dare not think about it. Now, in order to start a salt merchant, I will never be willing to abdicate and force it to bet on the reputation I have accumulated after finally accumulating. A full gambler... I want to do this, I have to be a gambler and bet on the fate of the country. If my ancestors know it, I will definitely scold me... Alas, it is impossible for me to do this. The state is so difficult, and there is no income to resist foreign thieves and appease the people. The country is destroyed and the seeds are so close... Alas... Fortunately, with the assistance of Master Xu and Master Sun, I have not lost my fate..."

"... Thinking of the salt merchant's work, I am all the impulses and reckless. I still feel ashamed now. If Master Sun had not persuaded me, I would have made unforgivable mistakes. It was far from the end of such kindness today. Now it seems that I am still too young and energetic. The harm brought by the turmoil of the salt industry is far from enough. Just imagine that if I really reached the point where I was defeated and never died, the people of the world have no salt to eat, and I really don't know how to face it... Now, I think about it, and then I feel scared. Then I feel that Master Sun's persuasion is right... Fortunately, I did not mobilize troops at that time, and did not use force, so I left room for room. Otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable. Although I have forgiven some salt merchants, and reached a compromise with some salt merchants, and made some concessions. It seems to be a loss and a little cowardly, but it is indeed worth it. Alas, this is far away..."

"... I have to work hard on commercial taxes and tariffs. However, tariffs and commercial taxes are not easy to collect. The power behind this is far from comparable to salt merchants. If I want to forcefully collect commercial taxes, I am afraid that I will be opposed by countless opponents. Now I have finally divided the court into several forces through the affairs of salt merchants. If I collect commercial taxes and tariffs, I am afraid that these forces will be united and targeted me everywhere. If that happens, state affairs will be even more difficult..."

"... Therefore, I will do as I planned before, and do not directly charge taxes, no longer repeat the old things, and force the abdication to force the country to bet on the country's destiny. Now I think about it, I am really ashamed... I should train merchants who voluntarily pay taxes instead... I have tried some in Jiangnan before, and the effect seems to be OK. Erxizi came to tell me that those merchants who reached an agreement with him to voluntarily pay taxes in exchange for my support are indeed more interested in this model and are developing very rapidly. If the group of merchants who voluntarily pay taxes can dominate the business of our dynasty in the future, then I will collect the world's commercial taxes and tariffs, even if I have achieved my goal. In this way, even if those people want to object, they have no way to talk about it. Otherwise, without the support of commercial taxes and tariffs, I really don't know how many years it will last. The Emperor of Salary, who laughed at Master Xu, is afraid that it will really be added to my head..."

"... Now these salt merchants have cut off the possibility of their re-entering salt industry and have stepped on them in the mud. Now, it is time to pull them up. Among the salt merchants, there are many knowledgeable people and business geniuses, all of which are abolished. It is a pity. Now, it is time to support them and become one of the merchants who voluntarily pay taxes..."
Chapter completed!