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Chapter 293 The Six Gentlemen's Case (2)

Zhang Yongdao: "How is it impossible? Yang Gong is honest and honest, with only a few acres of thin land in his family. He proposed that this official and god who benefited the people of the world would pay food together, which would benefit the people of the world and the court! Those who offended could only be a group of people who were rich and unkind."

After a while, Zuo Guangdou calmed down and murmured: "It is indeed beneficial to the people of the world to spread the people, but it offended the scholars of the world! I'm afraid that Dahong will be infamous for thousands of years this time!"

Zhang Yongdao: "Zuo Gong, Mr. Yang is an upright person and will not be infamous for thousands of years! I believe that in a few hundred years, Mr. Yang will definitely be famous for his acres of money and has been kept in history! This world cannot always be a gentry and literati. One day, this world belongs to the people!"

"Impossible!" Zuo Guangdou shouted in a hurry, "How can ordinary people who don't know a lot of words control the world? Even if ordinary people become emperors, do they still have to rely on us scholars?"

Zhang Yong smiled and said, "How is it impossible? Zuo Gong, do you know who this world belongs to the Han and Tang Dynasties? It is a warrior! Since the Song Dynasty, the world has become a scholar. Since the world can transform from a warrior to a scholar, why can't it be impossible for one day this world to become a commoner in the world? Zuo Gong, can you know what happens hundreds of years later? Maybe then people can fly into the sky and even climb the moon above our heads. Believe me, all this will be realized in the future."

"Impossible, it's incredible!" Zuo Guangdou shook his head repeatedly.

Zhang Yong said again: "Zuo Gong, have people from hundreds of years ago ever thought of cannons and firearms? If they saw cannons, they thought they were fire-breathing iron pipes and immortal weapons. So, you must not imagine what happened a few hundred years later. Things are developing. Perhaps one day, the strange and lustful skills in the eyes of you scholars will become a powerful weapon to defeat Jiannu and defeat the Tartars. In the end, it happened that the strange and lustful skills you said in your mouth have saved our Chinese orthodox and saved the way of Confucius and Mencius!"

Zuo Guang was stunned and could no longer refute.

Zhang Yong continued, "Zuo Gong, I know you were wronged! But not all, you are the ministers of the late emperor's reign. Why did you violate the imperial edict and expel Queen Li? From this point of view, you are unfaithful and unrighteous! That is why the emperor acquiesced to his uncle to arrest you and imprison you. Scholars are loyal to the emperor and serve the country, and they can't even be loyal to the emperor, so don't say that my uncle is wronged."

"The king and scholars and officials rule the world together. This is the system of the Ming Dynasty! If Your Majesty makes a mistake, we should correct it ourselves!" Zuo Guang said.

Zhang Yong laughed: "The Ming Dynasty ancestor system did not say that literati is exempt from taxes! All the exemptions are only labor! The ancestor system also said that corruption must be peeled off, is there any more now? The ancestor system has long been modified by scholars! All those that are unfavorable to you scholars have been changed, and all those that are beneficial to you are staying! If the emperor really restored the ancestor system, I am afraid that the one who scolded you the most fiercely is you scholars, right?"

Zuo Guangdou has been completely defeated and murmured: "Little Eagle Dog, maybe what you said is right, but I, Dahong and others, may be infamous for thousands of years..."

Zhang Yong did not pay attention to Zuo Guangdou again, but walked out of the cell.

"Take our family to Yang Lian's cell, our family wants to see how he is!" Zhang Yong said to the two men.

"Eunuch Zhang, please come here!" The two men nodded and greeted warmly.

When he walked into the cell where Yang Lian was imprisoned, the situation inside was similar to that where Zuo Guangdou was imprisoned. Yang Lian's white prison uniform had already turned into red cloth strips, and there was no intact skin on his body.

"Mr. Yang, don't be fine." Zhang Yong said with a smile.

"Little Catty dog! Get out!" Yang Lian yelled.

Zhang Yong smiled and said, "Mr. Yang, this is wrong. I have never offended you. This time I came to see you to help you. I will give you a chance to keep your name in history. Do you want me to get out?"

"Little castrated dog! Don't do this! I don't need you to pretend to be a hypocritical person, but it's already a name that has been left in history!" Yang Lian spat out a mouthful of phlegm.

Zhang Yong still smiled: "Mr. Yang, you also know that after entering this imperial prison, you can no longer go out alive."

"Hahaha!" Yang Lian laughed, "Since ancient times, no one has died, so I will leave my loyalty to shine in history! Since the day I stepped into this imperial prison, I have not wanted to go out alive! Even if I die, it can be remembered for the ages and become famous for the ages. What's the point of death? I would like to advise you to put away your little thoughts!"

Zhang Yong smiled and took out a memorial from his sleeve and opened it in front of Yang Lian: "Mr. Yang, please read it yourself."

The first memorial was the new salt tax policy, which replaced the salt induction by purchasing salt tickets. From then on, salt merchants in Lianghuai no longer monopolized the salt industry. Instead, they could buy salt tickets from the court as long as they had money, and used salt tickets to go to the salt farm to buy salt, and then shipped them to various places for sale. This memorial was written by Zhang Yong imitated Zuo Guangdou's handwriting.

"Hahaha!" Yang Lian laughed, "This is a good idea for Mr. Zuo! Our Donglin Party has long disliked those salt rats! I support this idea! Humph! Using this new salt method can be said to benefit the people of the world!"

After saying that, Yang Lian reached out and pressed the ink paste, and then pressed the fingerprint on the memorial.

"Duke Yang, wait, there is another memorial, you can take a look!" Zhang Yong took out another memorial from his sleeve, imitating Yang Lian's handwriting.

When Yang Lian saw it, his face changed drastically: "What a vicious little castrated dog! He actually used such a vicious poisonous trick to destroy our reputation!"

Zhang Yong laughed: "Mr. Yang, you can spend acres of money and pay food together. You can work together. This is a good thing that benefits the country and the people and brings good news for generations. What does it mean to destroy your reputation? Mr. Yang is honest and honest, and he does not have much land. He makes such suggestions for the sake of the country and the people. Perhaps he will bear the infamy for a period of time, but in the future, the court and the people will still remember your goodness!"

"A vicious castrated dog! He actually used such despicable means to harm us!" Yang Lian cursed.

Zhang Yongdao: "Come on, press his hand!"

"Get orders!" Two Dongchang Actors walked up and grabbed Yang Lian's hand, but Yang Lian's hand was squeezed into a fist and could not be broken. So Dongchang Actors picked up the hammer and knocked Yang Lian's fingers.

"Ah!" Yang Lian screamed, his fingers losing strength. Dongchang Fanzi took the opportunity to pry his fingers apart, pressed his fingers on the red ink paste, then pressed his fingers on the memorial, and pressed his fingers down.

Zhang Yong put away the memorial and walked out of the cell with a smile. When he walked out of the cell, he turned around and said, "Serve Mr. Yang well. Without the order from his uncle, please leave him to live for a few more days."

"No!" The two men knelt on the ground and bowed.

"Little Cattle Dog! You must die a bad death!" Yang Lian spit out a mouthful of blood and sweared.

One of the actors was furious: "How dare you scold us Mr. Zhang!" As he said that, he smashed Yang Lian's mouth with a hammer, knocking him down all his teeth.

Zhang Yong returned to the palace with the forged memorials of Zuo Guangdou and Yang Lian and handed them over to Wei Zhongxian.

"Hahaha!" Wei Zhongxian laughed, "It's a great way to spread the stakes into the acres, and the officials and gods will pay food together and work together! We have to see, there are still a few scholars in the world who support them! It's just another new salt method, which gives Yang Lian and Zuo Guang a good reputation, but it doesn't matter. The salt merchants in Lianghuai hate them to death!"

"Uncle, let the Donglin Party and the salt merchants bite each other in the salt reform! If the Donglin Party wants to make profits from the new salt law, it must go against the salt merchants! In this way, we can leave it aside. Anyway, the salt tickets are issued by our Silijian. Whether the Donglin Party wins or the salt merchants win, in the end, we still come to our Silijian to buy salt tickets? As for the Ministry of Revenue, they charge additional taxes based on the quantity of the salt trafficked. The silver is given to the Ministry of Revenue, and we will collect the silver for the salt tickets." Zhang Yong said insidiously.
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