Difficult for a son-in-law

Ming Zhan has lived in the palace for five years. He and Feng Mingrui are neighbors, but they don't have much contact with Feng Mingrui.Feng Mingrui is not good at words, he once saved half of Ming Zhan's life.

Back then, when Ming Zhan first entered the palace and fainted from hunger in the small school grounds, it was Feng Mingrui who carried him back. According to gossip, because Ming Zhan was overweight at that time, Feng Mingrui was so tired that he hunched over for several days waist to walk.

Feng Mingrui was born with a cold face, but he didn't know that he was such an impatient person.

Shen Dongshu was overjoyed, the relationship between the Huaihe River and the Huaihe River was complicated, and it was not easy to poke this basket. It happened that the fourth prince took up the conversation, so he was very lucky.

It's just that although the fourth prince is young and impulsive, the fourth prince's father is an old fox who is used to being a hunter. Feng Jingqian stopped him in a gentle voice, "Mingrui, let's listen to Dong Shu first, things are not that simple."

Shen Dongshu continued to break out in a cold sweat, but luckily he had prepared in advance, the branches and tendrils in the salt class were complicated, and he really didn't dare to pick this leader after a while. Shen Dongshu stood in the past, and it was not easy to stand in this position.However, he had to test the depth of the water first, then threw a small fish, and said in a deep voice, "There is Su Xing, a Jianghuai salt lord, who is extremely cunning. Sexual greed and vulgarity, all kinds of evil deeds are too numerous to describe."

Feng Jing said dryly, "A smuggler who sells salt can still get through the sky. Cui Ludao, governor of Jiangsu, arrest Su Xing immediately and behead him for public display."

The play was paused at halftime, the minister resigned, and the rest was Feng Jinggan's time to teach his son. Of course, to show their closeness, Feng Jingnan and Ming Zhan were still there.

"Minglan, what do you think?" Feng Jingqian asked Feng Minglan first.

Feng Minglan was just in her early twenties, she lost a bit of the beauty inherited from her mother, and more heroic, but she still had a beautiful face. Feng Minglan thought for a while, "There are so many people in the world, they eat salt every day, The number of people who sell salt has not decreased, but the amount of salt sold in the salt class has decreased, so that a large amount of salt has been suppressed. It can be seen that illegal salt trafficking is indeed a common practice, and the matter of illegal salt trafficking should indeed be vigorously inspected to warn the hearts of the people."

"Mingxiang, Mingrui, what do you think?"

Feng Mingxiang said, "I think that Su Xing is just a special case. If you want to clear up all the smuggling, you have to use a heavy code." Dad is about to chop off people's heads, and it is indeed necessary to use a heavy code.Slightly raising his head to see his father's expression, Feng Jingqian was still unfathomable and unpredictable, he just glanced into Feng Mingxiang's probing eyes, Feng Mingxiang's heart trembled slightly, and he hurriedly lowered his head.

Feng Mingrui said coldly, "If official salt is easy to buy, why should people buy private salt at the risk of being punished. Now that the salt class is depressed, although there is a reason for the flood of private salt. The root cause is that everyone wants salt. Food. Buying and selling, the difference is nothing more than silver. It can be seen that private salt is indeed much cheaper than official salt."

Feng Jingqian did not speak, but looked at Ming Zhan.

Ming Zhan scratched his chin, "Uncle Huang, I don't know much about these things about salt. However, I don't think there is any need to execute Su Xing and escort him to Beijing. Just ask him and he will know."

Aftermath!

Just after I let out the words about beheading people, you boy is going to escort him to Beijing again, why didn't you say something earlier!You mean to make trouble for me, don't you?

Feng Jing snorted dryly, "Such a scum who has harmed Lianghuai Salt Class, why not die." When the emperor speaks, he has to say a lot, and he has a golden mouth!If the order is changed from day to day, what will happen?So even if it is wrong, it has to be wrong to the end.

What's more, Su Xing died without guilt, and Feng Jingqian didn't realize that he was at fault.

Ming Zhan had no choice but to shut up.

Ming Zhan followed Feng Jingnan home.

Feng Jingnan asked Ming Zhan, "What do you think of Shen Dongshu?"

"Careful, slippery, I just don't know where he is. I heard that the salt merchant is very rich." Ming Zhan asked for water, he didn't come to Feng Jingnan's study often, Feng Jingnan pointed Pointing to the teahouse on the table by the window, Ming Zhan went over and poured two cups of tea, drank one cup, and handed the other cup to Feng Jingnan, "You are so young."

"He is a son of the Shen family, a great salt merchant in Lianghuai."

"Isn't it true that businessmen are not allowed to take the imperial examination?"

Feng Jingnan glanced down at the jade lamp in his hand, and said, "He was very talented in reading when he was young, his father Shen Wanwan adopted him to a scholar family in a side branch, and he became famous in the imperial examination."

"Is this all right?" Ming Zhan smiled, Shen Wanwan's head was really bright, and nodded, "This old man Shen is quite open-minded, so does Shen Dongshu represent the Lianghuai salt merchants?"

"There is also news that Shen Dongshu and his biological father have never gotten along." Feng Jingnan smiled, "There is no absolute right or wrong, Shen Dongshu's position itself is not wrong, the salt merchants are official merchants, so naturally they are on the court's side Yes. The interests of the salt merchants are the interests of the imperial court."

"As for Yunnan, I know that Yunnan also has salt wells. Are there many private salt wells that have been banned repeatedly?"

Feng Jingnan pulled Ming Zhan to sit beside him, and said with a smile, "Illegal salt can never be banned. Throughout the dynasties, if you read history, can you really see which dynasty banned all illegal salt? In the final analysis, it is still the interests The reason why private salt is called private is that there is no need to pay taxes to the court. Therefore, its cost is low, and it can be sold cheaply. Who doesn’t like cheap things. Naturally, Yunnan also has private salt, but there is no JAC is so powerful."

"Take the salt merchant as an example. In addition to the salt tax that needs to be paid, every time you do a salt introduction, you have to go through more than a dozen procedures, peeling layers of skins. All these money must be earned from the salt, and the salt merchants also have to eat. , how can the price of salt go down?" Feng Jingnan said.

"Don't Uncle Huang know about these things?"

"How can there be something that the emperor doesn't know?" Feng Jingnan glanced at his son with a smile, "What the imperial court wants is salt lessons, and what the salt merchants want is silver. If both are good, the matter of private salt will not go up. God listens. Now the official salt accumulation is serious, there is no money in the salt class, the court will lose money, and the household department will be in deficit, and this will happen naturally."

"When the tumor grows up, it can't be fatal. Why didn't you take pictures of it earlier?"

"The emperor's brother has been on the throne for 15 years. When the first emperor passed away, there was only 500 million in the treasury, and it was too tight to hold a funeral. At first, we wanted to reward the meritorious officials and appease the nobles. Why don't you want money?" Feng Jingnan said, "Northwest The barbarians are ready to move, with hundreds of thousands of garrisons, how much is the daily cost. Besides, every year, it is either a drought here or a flood there, disaster relief, which one does not need money? At that time, it was all the money donated by the salt merchants. The emperor learned that Their affection. In addition, the tribute that the salt merchants pay to the honored families of the princes every year is not small. There are countless people in the court who speak for the salt merchants."

"The matter of salt price involves not only salt merchants, salt dealers, but also salt administration." Feng Jingnan sipped his tea ceremony with a smile, "Salt administration has always been the most fat official in the imperial court. Remove the word "fat". First, the cost of salt merchants will be lowered, and the price of salt will be lowered. Second, the price of salt will be lowered, and another heavy code will be used to punish illegal salt. Only in this way, can the salt be sold, and the court The salt class can only be collected."

Ming Zhan understood clearly, and said in a low voice, "Then Uncle Huang is going to make a big move?"

"I guess it is." Feng Jingnan said, "Now that the imperial court is stable, clearing up the Yan government is a top priority."

"How many salt classes are there in Yunnan?" Ming Zhan passed his ear, Feng Jingnan told him softly, and said, "You know that. I think Brother Huang has made up his mind."

"Will Uncle Huang borrow money from you?"

"There is no war between soldiers and horses. Those salt owls are just reckless, how could they fail to catch people? It's tricky here, you can figure it out after thinking about it." Feng Jingnan smiled confidently, "Just wait and see, this is just A beginning. You need to learn more."

"Learn what? Why don't you just say something, and tell me to learn it, who do I learn from?" Ming Zhan hates people half-talking, and can worry him half to death.He bumped his elbow into Feng Jingnan, urging him.

Feng Jingnan clicked his tongue twice, frowned and knocked him on the head, cursing, "What an idiot, do I need to say that?"

"Don't you say I can understand?" Ming Zhan asked honestly.

"I eat more than anyone else, and Bai Chang has such a big head," Feng Jingnan scolded, "What do you learn? Follow the brother of the emperor to learn how to be the king, and follow the courtiers to learn how to be the minister and be loyal. Look at the princes, you You have to know how to be a son, idiot!"