"The remnants of Mubang, I urge you to uphold justice!"

This sentence does not need to be translated. Badending was said in Chinese, but he said this sentence, either waiting for someone to answer the word, or just saying something to see if it works, and did not speak again.

Hu Guang didn't know where Mubang was. From the literal meaning, it seemed that the vassal state wanted to ask for help. He was so stupid that he couldn't finish his own affairs, so he ignored him and switched to the East Factory Working Group and asked Cao Huachun about the situation in Suzhou.

"Your Ma Ma, the Ma family is very powerful in Suzhou. The former Dongchang military service was accidentally exposed and was killed. The corpse has been found. The Yongchang Piaohao sub-code of Shanxi merchants has its own shares, including Suzhou prefect and county magistrates. I found that the Ma Fan family cooperated with each other in Piaohao and the salt industry. I led troops from Yingtian Prefecture, and all the relevant people have obtained it. I have obtained 11 million taels of silver. The remaining assets such as land are still under statistics..."

The big salt merchant is also a big fat sheep! After reading Cao Huachun's report, Hu Guang couldn't help but sigh. If the Shanxi merchant had been searched before, he would have made a fortune!

However, this can only be considered like this. If the emperor says he will confiscate whoever he wants, the world will be in chaos, or the world will not be in chaos, and the emperor has already replaced people!

The Shanxi merchants were able to search before, but it was because the Shanxi merchants caused too much public outrage. If the Shanxi merchants were searched before Jianlu invaded the capital, things would not go so smoothly. There would be many people from all walks of life, and they would come out to oppose it in another way!

Even if the Shanxi merchants harmed the interests of so many people, they still involved civil and military officials, royal relatives and nobles in the capital, and the search could only be stopped. Min Hongxue's analysis is the best evidence.

Those big salt merchants are different from Shanxi merchants and Tonglu. They may have shameful means in doing business, but they are far less obvious than the obvious harm caused by Tonglu. It can even be said that the methods of big salt merchants are basically not only salt merchants, but also merchants from all walks of life. If you search for salt merchants on a large scale for this purpose, it will cause a rebound in all walks of life, which will be much more powerful than Min Hongxue's previous analysis!

As for the Ma family in Suzhou, they still borrowed the east wind of collusion with Shanxi merchants, and the illegal things Ma Fugui revealed in the group. Hu Guang believed that many people were staring at Suzhou. If they wanted to expand, even if Cao Huachun, the admiral of the East Factory, was in person, they might not be able to suppress it.

Hu Guang was thinking, and suddenly heard a report that Yang He, the governor of the Three Borders of Shaanxi, came urgently.

The situation in Shaanxi was one of the things he was most concerned about. Therefore, he had issued an order before, and the memorial at the level of the governor of Shaanxi was directly submitted to the imperial court.

When he heard this, Hu Guang quickly asked someone to submit a memorial and read it.

Yang He mainly talked about five things. First, from the current speculation, the severe drought in northern Shaanxi will probably expand to the entire Shaanxi area, and the disaster situation is not optimistic.

Second, as the drought spreads, there have been many major civil unrest, and the momentum is very strong, such as the capture of Fugu County, King Jiayin of Fugu, etc. These civil unrests that were originally to be pacified were rekindled because the elite border troops were drawn to serve the king.

Third, Yang He clearly stated that these civil unrest were forced, and most of the people were disaster victims, and no one survived, so he could only follow the thief.

Fourth, Yang He advocated the principle of recruiting and pacifying, and begged the court to allocate money and grain to appease it, so as to show the virtue of God's favoritism and to demonstrate the emperor's kindness and virtue.

Fifth, the governor of Yansui was ill, and Yang He recommended the troops to prepare for the political affairs of the government, Hong Chengchou took office. He praised Hong Chengchou very much in his words, and gave examples that although Hong Chengchou was a civil servant, he could lead more than 300 troops to repel the invading bandits, etc.

After Hu Guang finished reading it, he frowned, thought for a while, and immediately summoned the ministers to discuss matters in Wenhua Palace.

He first read Yang He's memorial to the assistant ministers of the cabinet and the six ministers of the ministers of the six ministries, and then asked: "What do you think of all the ministers?"

"I think that Governor Yang's words are justified, and most of the thieves are victims of disaster, so it is appropriate to recruit them!" Sun Yuanhua, the left minister of the Ministry of Rites and temporarily held the power of the Shangshu, was the first to bow and talk.

The reason why he was so active was to be grateful to the emperor. After all, he was recommended by his teacher Xu Guangqi. After the interview, the emperor was promoted to the level without any achievements.

When the others heard this, they agreed, even if it was Bi Ziyan, the Minister of Revenue who was holding his money bag.

This is also impossible. Just like military generals must have military merits, civil officials must have reputation. Only in this way can they stand in the officialdom without falling. If the words in front of the imperial court can be spread, it will only take some saliva, but they can gain the gratitude of the people in Qin. Why not do such a good thing?

Seeing that all the ministers below were of the same attitude, Hu Guang couldn't help but wonder, did he not explain that in the later generations, there was a minister who wrote a poem to condemn the people why they did not stay at home and starve to death, but wanted to come out to cause chaos in the court?

If you think about it carefully, it might be a rumor, or one of the allusions of the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty in the later generations. If it weren't for any minister, it would have been so stupid!

This idea flashed through, and Hu Guang also agreed with the views of these ministers below. After searching the Shanxi merchants, he also had the confidence and asked again: "How to recruit people?"

At the specific level, the ministers below were silent at first, and then their opinions were different.

Some people say that they will allocate money and food directly and send the censor to let the victims receive money and food and return to their hometown.

Some people immediately objected to this idea, saying that the food must be transported over, which was too unrealistic and could not be consumed on the road.

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Hu Guang also frowned as he heard this. This matter is really difficult to deal with!

The food will definitely not be transported, but if you just send money, even if it is exchanged for paper money, the prices of the victims will definitely soar after receiving the money. They were already affected by the disaster and were in short supply. If there was more money, then there would be no food. What's the use?

He was worried. On the Pi Island far east, a large group of Ming army generals were also worried, noisy and even disharmonious.

When Yuan Chonghuan, the former governor of Ji Liao, killed Mao Wenlong, he divided the 28,000 soldiers from Dongjiang into the four assistants. He used Wenlong's son Mao Chengzuo to manage one assistant, and used the flag and drum Xu Fu to manage one assistant. He guerrilla Liu Xingzuo, and the two deputy generals Chen Jisheng were in charge of the remaining two enemies. Later, Liu Xingzuo went to Guanning, and his brother Liu Xingzhi was led by his brother Liu Xingzhi.

The purpose of Yuan Chong's doing this was to let them restrain each other, have a balanced strength, and have no one to dominate so that he could control or other purposes.

In this way, no one of the four generals in Dongjiang Town obeyed each other, and they argued with each other in times of trouble, rush to do good things, and no one wanted to do difficult things. Dongjiang Town, which was a mess, was actually ruined.
Chapter completed!