Li Wenzhong's words were plain and he didn't seem to be angry, but the businessmen still heard some coldness. Except for the second master Wen, the rest of them plopped and sat on the chair.

After looking at him, Li Wenzhong then stared at the person who stood up and pointed at Master Wen Er and said, "Sit down for me too, otherwise I won't recognize anyone."

Zhu Biao understood clearly. The old Shanxi merchant who moved to the previous dynasty was the thorny head here. When he heard Li Wenzhong threatening them with his domineering aura, Zhu Biao sat behind the screen and drank tea slowly.

"If the Duke of the Kingdom, if the Wen family does business, they don't steal or rob, and the court makes things difficult for them, then this is too unreasonable." said Mr. Wen.

Li Wenzhong is usually honest and honest, so he is definitely not a match for this businessman. It’s like he can’t find anyone when he goes to every family.

But Zhu Biao had no intention of going out, so continue listening.

...

In the end, Li Wenzhong let the group of businessmen leave. Looking at the proud Master Wen Er downstairs, Zhu Biao didn't care.

As expected, the Jinyiwei's speed was particularly fast.

After seeing Li Wenzhong off, Chen Zhifu walked to the screen and lowered his head and said aggrievedly: "Your Highness, do you know if you have not done this well? Please punish me."

Zhu Biao reached out and pulled her over, tapped her forehead twice and said, "Don't blame yourself, you are doing a good job."

Before leaving, Zhu Biao took out the musket and handed it to her, taught her how to use it, and told her to take her self-defense and use it when she encountered an emergency.

Ordinary muskets are not as good as those revolvers, but they are now considered the best.

...

Nanjing City. Wenjia.

After Mr. Wen returned, he immediately told the Wen family's big room.

"You are stupid. If you don't cooperate with the court to handle salt affairs, they will get angry and find out what to do if they find the food."

"Brother, don't worry, I've pulled the Shen family into the water. I lied that I collected grain and bought it at a high price, and deceived Chen Qiancheng to the north. Their Shen family is an imperial merchant, then..."

"Second brother, don't be careless. I'll go to the study room now."

Later, the master of the Wen family found in the study that the account books and secret letters he locked in the secret room were gone, and he felt that the situation was not good.

I want to ask the butler immediately.

The butler has followed him since he was a child, and he did not hide anything from him, but the butler can't find it at this moment.

The uncle of the Wen family immediately asked the second master of the Wen family to discuss with Wenshu Jiang.

"Second brother, immediately call me all the people who know to transport grain to Yunnan." The old man of the Wen family looked fierce: "Butler Wen is gone."

"Brother? Butler Wen doesn't know." Mr. Wen knew what his elder brother meant.

"I can't care about that much, gather them together, invite them to drink tonight, and cause drunkenness to leave and burn them to death. Now go immediately, the secret letter of the account book is lost, and this matter concerns the survival of my Wen family."

"Yes, brother."

"Wait." The old man from the Wen family looked at his middle-aged brother and said, "If you find Mr. Wen, you will kill him and you will die unexpectedly."

These words were clearly heard by the Jinyiwei on the roof.

...

Then Zhu Biao took Sanbao back to the palace and wanted to see Lao Zhu after dinner.

In the evening, Zhu Biao was having a meal in the Eastern Palace, but Lao Zhu came over and asked him to go to the Ganqing Palace.

At this time, in the Ganqing Palace, Lao Zhu turned over the memorials as high as a hill in front of him, with no expression on his face.

I heard Yu Yi on Zhu Biao Road, which was about those retail salt merchants.

Salt is a profit-making industry and one of the sources of finance. Zhu Biao will never miss this opportunity.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Guan Zhong, the famous prime minister of Qi, proposed a salt industry specialty.

Although the management of the salt industry has been different in previous dynasties, overall, the management rights of the salt industry are in the hands of the court most of the time.

From the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the salt and iron envoy of Yangzhou changed the model of the unified acquisition, transportation and sales of salt by the court to resell it to those merchants after the acquisition by the court, and they transported and sold it. The group of salt merchants officially appeared.

In the third year of Hongwu in history, the Ming Dynasty implemented the "Kaizhong system", and merchants transported grain and grass to the north. After the grain and grass arrived, the court distributed salt to merchants in a certain proportion. Those merchants used salt to attract salt to salt farms in various places to collect salt.

The salt farm is traced back to the Shanxi area 6,000 BC. As a strategic resource, many people are competing for salt, including Shanxi's pond salt.

It is September of the second year of Hongwu, and Zhu Biao wants to establish the Daming Salt Affairs Bureau before.

I originally thought that those businessmen could cooperate, but I didn’t expect that the Wen family would still be a picky person.

Soon, Zhu Biao entered the Ganqing Palace, but Yu Yi was so clever that he did not follow in.

As soon as he looked up, he saw Lao Zhu sitting there looking at him with a serious expression. Zhu Biao felt a little panicked because Lao Zhu's expression...

"Father...Emperor."

Lao Zhu also asked the Jinyiwei to quickly understand the incident these days. Seeing that his son was a little panicked, Lao Zhu looked a little gentle.

"We were busy regaining the northern land before, but now we should catch the salt and iron. Biaoer, just based on what Wen Er said, we can kill him."

"Father!"

Zhu Biao didn't say much, Lao Zhu must have known everything.

"The emperor needs no reason to kill people, let alone their Wen family sold them to the rebels in Yunnan at a high price. This is the crime of colluding with the enemy!" Lao Zhu handed Zhu Biao a thick account book and a secret letter: "This is all provided by the butler of the Wen family of the Shanxi merchant."

Zhu Biao was sweating. The old Zhu's Jinyiwei was so quick that he instructed the housekeeper to reverse it. It was so amazing.

Then he recalled Lao Zhu's words.

"Sell food to the rebels?"

Zhu Biao was stunned. He thought that the worst thing about the Wen family was to stock up on the grain, but he didn't expect it to sell it to the Yunnan rebels.

To this day, Fu Youde and Mu Ying are still fighting hard against the Yuan army in Yunnan. Unexpectedly, this Wen family is...

"What Mao Xiang collected was that the Wen family purchased grain and then collected 200 cigarettes of profits in the middle of each stone, and the links were made in Sichuan. Here is a list of all participants, as well as their transportation methods and roadmap, all of them." Old Zhu had a blue face.

Sichuan was the Ming Dynasty and Xia regime, and it has not been recovered yet.

Zhu Biao was a little afraid to go over it. He was afraid that if there were people from the Shen family, after all, Chen Zhifu would not ignore his affection for him.

When Lao Zhu saw his son like this, he understood in his heart and said, "You still need to be tempered, so you must not be ruthless. There are also secret letters from the Wen family to make profits with the rebels."

"Yes, my son remember that the crime of colluding with the enemy and making profits will be killed!"

Zhu Biao opened the first page...the second page, the third page, without the name of the Shen family, his shoulders suddenly loosened.

"Biao'er, Chen Qiancheng helped Wen's family to collect food in Shandong. We have to ask them to check this matter carefully. If we don't know, we will knock on him. If we intend to help the enemy, kill him!"

"Yes, I've recorded it."

"This literary family was a famous wealthy businessman in the previous dynasty. Later, the war in the north was in the north, and their family moved to Jiangnan. In just a few years, they annexed a lot.

It’s just that the Shanxi merchant Wen family is very simple in doing things and does not value pleasure.

They are intertwined with some officials, but I won’t say this in advance. They are guilty of not cooperating with you to establish the Yangzhou Salt Bureau.

The Wen family is engaged in the enemy and sells grain and makes huge profits. There is no lower limit. We must kill them. We will hand them over to the Ministry of Justice for disposal after investigation. We will make sure that we will not stop."

Lao Zhu has a bright yellow book, which is very thick. It records all the things about corrupt officials. He did not continue to be corrupt. He used a black pen to circle it on it.

Oppressing the people, colluding with officials, being greedy, and having a circle of red pens.

Zhu Biao nodded: "For salt affairs, my son will ask the monitoring officers of the Institute of Science and Technology to go to various places to find salt mines, salt lakes, salt ponds..."

"In terms of salt affairs, my sons believe that we should choose fair and honest people, including the Salt Affairs Bureau, the Weaving Bureau, and tea and mines. The silver does not have to go through the hands of the Ministry of Revenue and enter the treasury."

"Do you have a good candidate?" Old Zhu looked at him with a smile.

"Yes, my son wants the son-in-law of the Taichang Temple who has just taken office, Daotong."

"Daotong? The Yuan Ren Daotong who is filial to his parents?" Lao Zhu smiled and said, "Let him try it, and then we must continue to improve the salt mine system. You can do it first. Let's wait for the snow-white salt you mentioned. It is not as white as snow. You are deceiving the king and father."

"Yes, Father." Zhu Biao smiled.

How to arrange and organize the organization of salt merchants and the Salt Affairs Bureau requires reasonable planning.

Old Zhu walked up to Zhu Biao, put his hand on Zhu Biao's shoulder, and said, "We are going to copy the Wen family, and those things have been found out. In addition to selling grain, this Wen family has done a lot of other bad things. We will not wrongly accuse him of the bitch, the profiteering businessman."

Lao Zhu suddenly said something swearing.

"By the way. Your mother and the others are going to leave the palace tomorrow. Have you repaired the No. 1 of Mingqi?"

"I'm going back to my father, I'm changing the wheels, and there are some problems with the materials before." Zhu Biao answered truthfully.

The father and son talked for a while. Then Lao Zhu asked Yu Yi to issue an order to the Jinyiwei.
Chapter completed!