The majestic sister-in-law of the Red Chamber

"Okay! He's a man!" Lin Tian praised, and said, "What I gave you just now is my unique secret medicine, and it will happen once a month. If it is not suppressed by my antidote, then it will hurt. For a full twelve hours, I watched myself turn into a puddle of pus, I'll let you feel it now!"

As Lin Tian said, he directly activated the gold-type supernatural power, aroused the metal ions in the pill he had just swallowed, and transformed them into fine needles in his body, gently poking them everywhere. Meridians.

"Ah..." Before the young man's screams could be heard, Lin Tian tapped Ya acupoint again. Seeing him sweating profusely from the pain, his clothes were almost soaked, Lin Tian let those metal ions touch again. Spread out, and continue to flow along the veins in his body.

"How does it feel?" Lin Tian said, unlocking his acupoints again, and stuffed a pill to restore his strength in his mouth. After waiting for a quarter of an hour, he regained his strength. .

Only then did Lin Tian continue to say: "He who understands current affairs is a hero, and we are not murderers. As long as you can turn your back on the dark and turn to the bright, and help the court completely eradicate this cancerous tumor of official salt smuggling, then I will help you completely remove the toxins in your body." .

Not only that, all the illegal things you participated in before can be written off, and the imperial court will give you corresponding commendations and rich rewards, and your hard work will never be in vain! "

"Really?" The young man's eyes lit up when he heard this.

Originally, he only thought about how to save his own life, but he didn't think that there would be such benefits, so he moved in his heart and asked: "My lords, are you from the imperial court? Can you make the decisions here? ?”

Seeing the displeasure on Situ Meng's face, he hastily explained: "It's not that I don't trust the two adults, it's really... the strength of the owner here is too strong, and the background is extremely strong!

In fact, several salt inspectors had discovered the reselling of official salt before, but unfortunately, due to pressure from all sides, no one dared to investigate to the end.Either they are in the same boat, or they turn a blind eye, those people who insist on getting to the bottom of it, the grass on the grave is taller than people at this moment! "

"Oh? And this?" Situ Meng frowned when he heard this. He had indeed heard the emperor talk about this matter. all kinds of problems.

The first one is that after taking office for more than two years, although the salt tax paid to the court has not decreased too much, there are many low-level spies who secretly reported to the emperor. Many private salts of unknown origin were also found in the market secretly sold.

Just when the emperor was about to investigate this person, he suddenly reported that Gao Tang had died of illness and applied for Ding You, so the emperor sent a second Mr. Zhao who was known as the iron-faced censor in the court to replace him. The problem with this.

However, what the emperor never expected was that Mr. Zhao had only been in office for more than a year before he reported to the emperor that he had found it. Salt was resold in various places, and the news came later that Master Zhao was exposed by the Yangzhou prefect for corruption and bribery, and committed suicide in fear of crime.

For this reason, the emperor directly sent imperial envoys to investigate Mr. Li's suicide case carefully, but the personal and physical evidence given by the prefect of Yangzhou was convincing, but it was said to be solid evidence. May be to return without success.

As for the third one, which is Lin Ruhai's predecessor, since he took office, not only has the private sale of Shangguan salt in the lower places become more serious, many places have almost reached the point where there is almost no official salt, and ordinary people can only spend money if they want to eat salt. The high price was purchased from those private salt dealers, and the price of salt was more than doubled on the original basis.

Not only that, the annual salt tax paid to the court has also been reduced a lot for various reasons. In the third year of his tenure, the salt tax paid was almost half of what the previous Lord Zhao was alive.

It's a pity that this person is the younger sister of the Supreme Emperor and the youngest son of Li Guogong Liu Biao, and also the cousin of the current emperor, so even if he knew that he had a lot of problems, the emperor had nothing to do with him. Add warning.

The emperor couldn't bear the problem of the salt tax, which occupied nearly one-fifth of the treasury of the Dayong Dynasty. After discussing with the emperor repeatedly, he sent Lin Ruhai, whom both of them trusted very much, to replace this hot potato. , At the same time, Situ Meng was sent to help fight the battle, preparing to thoroughly rectify the serious problems in this area.

Situ Meng glanced at the young man, and asked curiously: "How long has this warehouse been established here? How big is it? Do you know everything?"

"This..." The young man snapped his fingers, carefully calculated, and said, "This warehouse has been here for at least five or six years! At least, I have been working here for more than three years. I heard a story before. When the old man was drunk, he accidentally mentioned that he hadn't been home for more than five years, and although he sent back a lot of money every year, he was still homesick!"

The young man said here, sighed, and said: "Although the salary here is quite a lot, the management is very strict! There is no special situation, and you will not be allowed to leave your post at all!"

Speaking of this, he suddenly lowered his voice, and said with some horror: "As for going home, that is even more extravagant hope! In fact, those so-called resigned people who left before were killed by the chief executive! When I was on guard in the middle of the night, because I was in a hurry to go out, so I saw a guy who drank farewell wine with everyone the day before, and said that he used the money he earned in the past few years to go back to his hometown to buy land and marry a wife. It's in the burial mound!"

When Lin Tian and Situ Meng heard this, they looked at each other, and Lin Tian asked softly: "According to what you said, you people are actually imprisoned by them to work? Then why don't you want to escape?" Woolen cloth?"

"Hey! How dare I talk about these things after I see them! Every once in a while, some people leave and new ones come in. Actually, they don't know this secret at all, and they think that those who leave are family lovers. I would like to come back again! After all, although the work here pays a lot of money, it is also very hard work!" The young man said, and then introduced their specific work in detail.

"I can be sent to do this easy job of sentry, but I spent a lot of money to bribe the little steward who is in charge of the assignment, because he turned out to be the nephew of the owner of the grain store where I worked, and we are old acquaintances." .

The other people had to stay in the cold and damp cave every day, unloading the official salt brought by the Cao gang into the cave, and then unpacking all of them and packing them into small packages with different company names. , Finally, these goods that have been turned into illegal salt have to be loaded on small boats, and then transported out by special people.

During the packaging process, the requirements are very strict, as long as the weight loss exceeds [-]%, then a whole month's wages will be deducted!Moreover, each link is in charge of different people, and the people who are subpackaging here cannot have any contact with those who drive the boats. This is a rule!

If the two adults want to find evidence and black accounts of their smuggling of private salt, it is best to go to the room of the chief steward to look for it!He is the only one who knows all the secrets here. Even if the account books are not on him, he definitely knows where they are placed! "

"Then do you know who is the master behind this place?" Situ Meng asked again.

"This little one really doesn't know!" The young man shook his head and said, "The chief manager never mentions the specific surname of the owner behind him, and always refers to him as the master! The little one only knows that the owner behind this is definitely not Ordinary people, because the small packages we packaged those private salts are printed with the Shen family name, the Xue family name and other imperial merchants! Who can let them help sell the stolen goods, can it be ordinary people!"

"They're all imperial merchants?" The pupils in Situ Meng's eyes shrank involuntarily, as if thinking of something.

"That's right! These companies are well-known in Jiangnan, and there are no ordinary people who don't know about them! Moreover, they basically have grain stores under their names, and this private salt is sold together with grain! These are all I saw it with my own eyes, it turned out that I was working in a branch of the Shenjia grain store, and our store was selling the private salt that was packaged here!"

The young man said solemnly: "If you two adults don't believe it, you can go to the Shenjia Grain Store in Xuzhou City to have a look, but you can't just say that you are buying salt, you must say that you are buying brown rice. Wait until you buy it." After the brown rice, they will only sell it after mentioning to the guys to buy some salt together!"

"So that's it!" Lin Tian and Situ Meng looked at each other, looking at the darkened sky, without delay, glanced at the other person who fell on the ground, and asked: "By the way, this person is already dead , how are you going to explain to the higher-ups later?"

"My lords, please rest assured that this person was not originally in charge of guarding here. He has already applied to the higher-ups, and he will leave tomorrow. Today is just a temporary call to take over the duty! I will throw him into the On the other side of the cliff, someone will naturally dispose of the corpse!" The young man said decisively.

"That's good! Quickly draw us a detailed map of the cave, and make sure to clearly mark the location of the Chief Steward's room!" Situ Meng ordered coldly.

"No problem, my lords, please wait a moment!" After the young man finished speaking, he tore off a piece of fabric from his white underwear, and painted on it in detail with another person's blood.

In just three to five minutes, the general situation inside the cave has been clearly drawn. While drawing, the young man explained to Lin Tian and Situ Meng what each place does. After drawing, the pattern was already imprinted in their minds by the two of them.

"My lords, the younger one can only help here! As for how to get into the cave, I can only rely on the two of you to figure out a way! Because the younger one is in charge of guarding the sentry now, and his food and lodging are all in this pavilion. According to the order from above, you can’t take a step away! If the adults want to find me in the future, just come here!” The young man said apologetically.

"En! Don't worry, as long as you do your job well, someone will send you the antidote in a month!" After Lin Tian finished speaking, he pulled Situ Meng away quickly.