Chapter 1048 Deep Thoughts
"Go, go right away-"
Li Jia frowned and said softly: "Hezhong Mansion can't stay!"
"Here--" Zhang Huzi was stunned for a moment, then nodded resolutely, and then ordered.
On this side, the two pools of salt guru were a little confused, and then reacted again, his face turned pale, and he couldn't help but tremble: "Your Majesty, don't you--"
"Be careful!"
Li Jia glanced at Jie Chi and said in a deep voice: "I only have thousands of iron cavalry around me. If I am not careful, I will fall into it. It is better to be cautious. You can go with me too-"
"Go? Where to go?"
"Go to Pujin Ferry--"
The emperor said decisively.
So, after less than half a day of patrol, thousands of iron cavalry accompanied the imperial carriage and rode their horses eastward and headed straight to Pujin Ferry.
On this side, the Zhang family, the largest salt household, was crowded with salt households, and the people were full of enthusiasm.
The head of the Zhang family, Zhang Wenhu, with a tiger-backed and bear-back, dark skin, wearing a short shirt, and a black figure like Zhang Fei, sat on the chair with a drastic move, looking at everyone, as if a beast waiting for an opportunity to eat, with murderous intent in his eyes:
"Everyone, the emperor has come to our Jie County now. What is he here to do?"
"He is here to explore our livelihood-" someone shouted immediately below.
"Yes, he is here to discover our livelihood."
Zhang Wenhu slapped the chair and shouted: "Since ancient times, our salt households have made a living by relying on salt. The court's salt classes cannot rebel, we can only hand in it. This way, there is still some food."
"What about now? The court requires us to only produce salt and sell it directly. In this way, will we still have a way out?"
"If it's just a shovel of salt in the wind and sun, what's the difference between it and the tenants in the field? It's not that everyone knows that the tenants can't help but sell their wives and daughters, and the whole family will starve to death in the famine."
"Only our salt households can ensure income from drought and flood. No matter how chaotic the world is, they still have to eat salt. Now that the emperor wants to cut off our livelihood, can we agree?"
"Can't agree--" There are salt households inside and outside the door, and no matter how bad they are, they are middle-aged households, and they are rich and powerful people. How could they be willing to be a tenant?
The shouts contained anger, reluctance, and dissatisfaction with the court.
"You must not agree!" Zhang Wenhu gritted his teeth and stood up and said, "We salt households have been eating and drinking with their heads for hundreds of years. Even if the warlords who kill people without blinking, they have to follow our rules. How can they be tortured at will?"
If you can’t sell private salt, why do you do a salt merchant? Such a huge profit is intercepted, and the money is like killing a parent. If you are a salt merchant, you will never agree.
As for the inferior salt households, it is better to dry the salt well. They are born to be enslaved and driven and cannot make a decision.
The middle and upper-level salt households participated in the production, transportation of salt, and even participated in the sale of private salt, making a lot of profits. With the help of troubled times, they were rich and powerful, but were low-key and not showing off.
Now, once someone moves their jobs, especially when the emperor is close to him, everyone can't help but be ready to move.
Thousands of cavalry infiltrated the sand-like Hezhong Mansion has long been no secret. The drive of interests, the forcing of life, and the subversion of desires have made them particularly excited.
It is no longer surprising to the emperor in troubled times. Wouldn't it be wonderful if he could hold the emperor hostage and let him stop his thoughts?
Everyone thinks this way, but Zhang Wenhu misses differently: the salt households and various servants in the list, together with more than 10,000 people, are all strong people who fight with spirits and fight. If they gather together, they will be a big force.
If the emperor is captured and the world is in chaos, wouldn’t it be a chance?
With the idea of threatening the emperor to give up the salt reform, the salt households participated in it indignantly. In a short while, the troops gathered more than 13,000 to 10,000.
At this time, another large salt family, the Wen family, opposed it clearly, and Wen Xuanwu said bluntly: "Since ancient times, I have never heard of a threatened emperor who pretended to surrender, which would bring us greater danger in the future. You must never participate in such a treason."
When Zhang Wenhu heard this, he sneered: "Wen Laoqi, you are afraid, the famous Wen family is just like this."
"Hmph, Wen traveled around the world and Dangxiang people encountered it. I don't know what fear is, but I am afraid of implicating my family and pursuing the crime of rebellion, but I have implicated the three tribes."
However, his pouring cold water like this did not work. The salt households were obscured by interests, and the luxurious life was difficult to cut off. They would rather die than follow.
So the salt households gathered up, without pulling the flag, but tied a white cloth to their arms to symbolize salt, and then headed towards the Xiechi in a mighty manner.
However, when people left the pond, there was no trace of the cavalry except for the salt households who shoveled salt.
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"A group of salt households who don't know how to live or die—" He rubbed the paper hard and rolled it into a ball. Li Jia said hatefully: "People die for money, birds die for food. The ancients really did not deceive me."
"Where is no bloodless in the world in reform?"
Riding on a horse and looking at the vast and rushing down the Yellow River in the distance, Li Jia said in a deep voice: "It just happened to kill them in one go."
I feel so embarrassed with myself. I have never experienced it for many years. Thanks to the cavalry, I run fast, but the consequences will be unimaginable.
"Come here, let Hezhong Prefecture, Jiangzhou, Jinzhou, Cizhou, and Xizhou send troops to clear out the rebellion of this group of salt households--"
Immediately, the group passed the fixed curved levitation bridge of iron cables and boats, and saw the iron cow and iron man in the Kaiyuan period, which was a huge body, which was an important object to fix Pujin Ferry.
Each of these large-scale iron bulls weighs tens of thousands of pounds. They are the masterpiece of the Kaiyuan Prosperity, which is a great eye-opener.
Without a certain production capacity, it is absolutely impossible to smel.
After sighing, Li Jia sent someone to guard Pujin Ferry, then went straight west and came to Guanzhong.
Pujin Duke is the fifth pass in Guanzhong and the biggest flaw in the four passes in Guanzhong. Li Yuan entered Guanzhong, Tongguan and others from here, as if nothing had happened.
When Li Jia came to Guanzhong in a mess, she was still in a state of peace. While enjoying the scenery, she notified the prefectures and counties along the way, especially Jingzhao Prefecture and Shaanxi Prefecture to come to pick them up.
Li Jia didn't care about the matter of Jiechi Yanhu, but she thought deeply and thought about it.
Although this incident was shocking, it was of great significance. He deeply interpreted the resistance behind the reform.
A mere salt reform can force the salt merchants to rebel. He is not expected to have enough resistance to reform, but it further shows the necessity of salt reform.
Chapter completed!