The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

"Ye Daji, Zhang Fuqiang and the others were even instigated by the treacherous official Yan Song to search the emperor's home for questioning."

"Yan Song, I and I, a salt merchant in Yangzhou, have an incompatible hatred!"

That night, Yan Song, who touched the salt tax cheese, became the public enemy of the big salt merchants in Yangzhou.

One tax per ten would be hated by the salt merchants, not to mention that Yan Song went one step further and raised it to one tax per five?

This is simply a waste of money.

Yan Song investigated the cost and profit of salt merchants very clearly.Although the five taxes and one tax can still make some profits, compared with the windfall profits in the past, it has been greatly inferior, and it is close to the fair profit level of the market.

How can the greedy and big salt merchants who have tasted the sweetness bear it?

Immediately, like wasps that had been stabbed in a hornet's nest, they began to buzz all over the sky, mobilizing huge energy all over Yangzhou, even Jiangnan, and the imperial court, and began to fight back.

Since the order of five salt taxes and one tax was ordered by Emperor Jiajing himself, these people could not and did not dare to attack Jiajing directly, so they began to slander Yan Song frantically.

The so-called "all mouths make gold, accumulate destruction and destroy bones", the mouths of the people are quiet, and the mouths of the people are better than those of Fangchuan. Yan Song, your reputation has been completely stigmatized, and the stigma will last forever. I ask you if you are afraid?

Under the manipulation of many caring people and black hands behind the scenes, rumors unfavorable to Yan Song began to spread in the workshops, restaurants, and tea houses in Yangzhou.

"Hey, have you heard? That treacherous minister, Yan Song, is hurting someone again!"

"How do you hurt people?"

"Ye Daji, the magistrate of Yangzhou, for the sake of the people of Yangzhou, not to be abused by the emperor, he stood up to the pressure and said that Yangzhou is ruined, please leave quickly."

"Master Ye, petition for the people, you are an upright official."

"Yes. A good official comparable to Jackie Chan and Hai Qingtian."

"But in order to make money, Yan Song secretly hated Master Ye, even killed Master Ye, and let the emperor put him in prison for deceiving the emperor..."

"what?"

"What Yan Song is even more hateful is that he instigated Emperor Jiajing to greatly increase my salt tax in Yangzhou, which is six times higher than the thirty-one tax set by the great grandfather!"

"In the future, when I eat salt, I have to pay six times the tax."

The increase in the salt tax was passed on to the salt buyers by the salt merchants with ulterior motives. Rumors that the price of table salt would increase sharply spread across the southeast in an instant.

The people didn't know the truth. After hearing the words of Yan Song, the legendary treacherous official, Emperor Jiajing ordered to raise the salt tax and crack down on Ye Daji, who was petitioning for the people. The crowd became excited.

In Yangzhou City, a disturbing storm began to brew.

But all of this was already in Yan Song's calculations.

Yan Song stood at the window of his office cabin on the giant ship, staring at the iron-blue sky outside the window, and sighed slightly: "The mountain is about to rain and the wind is full of the building."

Gai Nie was behind him, puzzled and said: "My lord, I have seen all your arrangements. You are attacking profiteering and heartless salt merchants for the sake of the world and the people of Ming Dynasty. This is for the country and the people."

Yan Song smiled slightly and said: "The Master said: The people can follow it, but they can't know it. The people are simple-minded, how do they know so many conspiracies and tricks? The big salt merchants are local snakes. Just a little bit of rumors is enough to make the people lose their minds by 1.4. Big things are coming."

At this time, excited Lu Quan walked in and handed Yan Song an account: "My lord, the house raid is complete. How much money do you think these dozen or so big salt merchants have in their homes? It's unbelievable." .”

Yan Song smiled slightly: "Ten thousand taels!"

Lu Quan didn't expect Yan Song to be so clear. He guessed it right, nodded and praised: "My lord, you are really a prophet. You know so clearly. Among these big salt merchants, there are a full 1500 million in property."

Yan Song knew that Lu Bing would definitely restrain his subordinates, he was not greedy for a single penny, and without thinking, he said, "Divide it into three parts, 50% will be handed over to His Majesty, you will get [-] yuan for the work, and the rest..."

He smiled.

Lu Bing was in a good mood: "I am Jin Yiwei, thank you for your reward."

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Chapter 213 Lingering and forgetting to return [1]

Yan Song smiled, put the 750 million taels of silver notes in his arms, and walked towards the emperor's dragon boat.As he walked, he was thinking about how to use the majesty of the emperor to severely kill the prestige of the salt merchants.

The public opinion counterattack of the salt merchants has long been in Yan Song's calculations, but he has already prepared a big gift for these enemies.

Entered the emperor's dragon boat, but did not find the emperor's man.

"Is the emperor meditating?" Yan Song asked Huang Jin.With Jiajing's diligence in cultivating Taoism, he should be practicing at this time.

It is said that Jiajing really worked hard for longevity.Decades have been like a day, extremely boring, either dipping in offerings, meditating, or alchemy, not daring to eat meat, and not daring to pamper the harem too much.All the silver in the inner treasury was used to buy alchemy materials and reward Taoist priests. Jiajing himself was often poor and even had no money to eat, so the eunuchs had to take turns to invite him to eat for three months.

(Huang Jin: 555, my pension money 09 was eaten up by Jiajing. He thought he was a vegetarian, but in fact it was 10 times more expensive than eating meat.)

Ironically, according to Yan Song's speculation, Jiajing probably died of lead and mercury poisoning caused by taking elixir.This is really seeking longevity but killing yourself.

A meaningful smile flashed across Huang Jin's fat face: "Old Yan Ge, you guessed wrong this time, the emperor is not practicing now."

The fat eunuch pouted.

Yan Song looked into the depths of the dragon boat 'palace'.

Yan Song immediately understood.

Needless to say, Emperor Jiajing was actually "communicating deeply and understanding the people's sentiments" with the two new Yangzhou skinny horses.Being able to make Emperor Jiajing, who was obsessed with cultivation, temporarily forget to practice longevity, it can be seen that these two Yangzhou skinny horses are very popular with Jiajing.

From the depths of the palace, Jiajing's laughter kept coming out.

Jiajing is very hi.

He waited for half an hour before Emperor Jiajing realized that Yan Song was coming. The old man blushed and walked out with a cough.