Nine thousand years old [rebirth]

Xue Shu ate all four dishes of dim sum.

Obviously wanting him to learn a lesson, but Yin Chengyu saw that he didn't frown the whole time, and found it very boring.Especially when he thought of the jujube cake that he had bitten into and eaten by Xue Shu, he was even more unhappy.

In the previous life, Xue Shu liked to feed him what he had eaten. If he refused to eat it because he thought it was dirty, Xue Shu would use other means to feed him.

I don't know what the fetishes are.

Although he has lost his height now, seeing Xue Shu licking his lips in satisfaction, Yin Chengyu always feels as if he has overlapped with his previous life.

The uncomfortable person becomes him instead.

Yin Chengyu was annoyed in his heart, and immediately lost the interest to continue, so he excused himself to be tired and went back to the hotel.

Xue Shu followed him step by step, with an extremely strong sense of presence.Even if Yin Chengyu didn't look back, he could guess that Xue Shu must be staring at him again.

This man is like a wild wolf, his eyes are fixed on people without any avoidance.It always gives people the illusion that he will pounce on you and bite your throat the next moment.

Yin Chengyu paused at the door of the inner room, turned to look at him, and said in a cold tone, "You don't have to come in, just send Zhao Lin over."

Xue Shu could only stop, turned around and called Zhao Lin.

Zhao Lin was reading the letters sent back by the spy in his own room. Hearing the summons from His Highness the Crown Prince, he hurriedly sorted out the letters, thanked Xue Shu, and went to the main house to report back.

"You're welcome." Xue Shu looked at him seriously, his voice was imperceptibly cold.

Zhao Lin didn't notice his hostility, but felt that Xue Shu looked at him for a longer time today.But he rushed to see the prince, so he left in a hurry without thinking too much.

Xue Shu, who was lagging behind, fixed his eyes on him, and clenched the hands hanging by his side.

Isn't he better than Zhao Lin?

Yin Chengyu went back to the house and changed into some light clothes before going to see Zhao Lin in the study.

"How is Fang Zhengke?"

Although he did not inquire about Fang Zhengke's affairs on the surface, he did not go to see him either.But in fact, as early as when Fang Zhengke set off to Tianjin Wei, he arranged for people to accompany him.One is to grasp the news in time, and the other is to prevent the good from the wrong.

"It's still recuperating, with our people protecting it, so it's not in danger for the time being."

When Fang Zhengke was checking the records of the Salt Envoy Division over the years, the warehouse where the files were stored happened to leak water, and he accidentally suffered some minor injuries.Of course, the leakage of the archives is not a coincidence, but Wan Youliang deliberately did it in order to destroy the evidence.At that time, he wanted to prevent Fang Zhengke from getting out of the fire, but it was Yin Chengyu who arranged for him to rescue him.

Afterwards, Fang Zhengke handed over another note to the court for help.So he kept the excuse of recuperating and stayed behind closed doors.That's why Wan Youliang didn't find another chance to make a move.

The two years of working in the Salt Envoy Division have obviously raised Wan Youliang's courage, and his actions are very rampant.

Yin Chengyu pondered for a long time, and said: "Give over the files snatched from the fire scene to Fang Zhengke, and ask him to clarify as soon as possible. As for the others, don't act rashly for now."

Taking action now, of course, can kill Wan Youliang, but Yanzheng officials are deeply intertwined with local forces. If Yanzheng is not eliminated, there will still be another Wanyouliang.

What he has to do is to break this deformed collusion between government and businessmen from the gap of universal goodness, and clear up the chaos of corruption and corruption in Dayan Salt Administration for many years.

After the arrangement, in the next few days, Yin Chengyu continued to play around in Tianjin Wei, still accompanied by Wan Youliang.

During the period, in order to show that he was not doing nothing serious, he proposed with Wan Youliang to inspect the Changlu saltworks.

When Yin Chengyu first mentioned this matter, Wan Youliang's heart skipped a beat.

But after he made arrangements and led people over, he relaxed after seeing that he was just wandering around and his interest faded after a short while.

Just going through the motions.

A dignified person who grew up in the palace may not even be able to tell the difference between salt and sugar, so how could he know the secrets of the salt field?

Wan Youliang put his heart back into his stomach, and complained a few words in a plausible manner: "The next official has served as a transfer envoy for more than two years. Although I dare not say that I have dedicated myself, I am also conscientious and do not dare to be negligent. .Since he was appointed as an official, the salt class has increased by [-]% compared to previous years. I don’t think that Fang Yushi listened to the villain’s words..." He sighed, and the creases on his face followed : "His Royal Highness, the crown prince, has learned that when he returns to the court in the future, he will have to make a distinction in front of His Majesty for the official. The official is really wronged!"

Yin Chengyu's smile didn't reach his eyes: "That's natural, Gu will never make any pillar wronged."

Wan Youliang laughed twice when he heard this, and quickly walked forward with his stomach in his hands to lead the way.

Yin Chengyu walked around the saltworks and then left. When Wan Youliang sent him to the carriage, he saw that the attendant was Zheng Duobao again, but when he didn't see Xue Shu, his eyes rolled, and then he thought about the past few days. , when that supervisor Xue didn't appear beside the prince again, he became more and more sure of his guess.

There may have been a lot of quarrels between these two people, and they didn't even make superficial efforts.

Watching the carriage slowly go away, Wan Youliang returned to his mansion, and personally wrote a letter of greeting to the steward: "Go, send it to Supervisor Xue." He urged: "Avoid those who belong to the prince. .”

After Xue Shu received Wan Youliang's invitation, he immediately went to find Yin Chengyu.

——He has not been summoned by His Highness for several days.

Yin Chengyu didn't take him anywhere these days, and he didn't summon him to serve him when he was in the hotel. He could only take a look at the other party from a distance when he went out or returned to the hotel.

It would be fine if he couldn't get close as before, but obviously he had been so close before, so close that he could touch the other party as soon as he stretched out his hand.

So the sudden estrangement became unbearable.

Every time he saw Zheng Duobao and Zhao Lin who were following His Highness, countless dark thoughts could not be restrained in his heart.

Why can't the person next to His Highness be him?

Why can't His Highness just look at him?

Violent emotions hovered in the bottom of my heart, and the dark thoughts bound by reason let out unwilling roars again and again.

Xue Shu stepped into the inner room, lowered his eyes, covered the haze in his eyes, and respectfully presented Wan Youliang's invitation.

A slender hand like jade stretched out, pulled out the invitation card from his hand, and unfolded it.

Xue Shu raised his eyes, his dark eyes were glued to those delicate and beautiful hands.

Yin Chengyu didn't notice it. After reading it, he sneered and threw the invitation to Xue Shu again: "Go to the banquet, no matter what he says, first agree to it, and keep the person steady."

"Yes." Xue Shu put away the invitation, his voice was a little hoarse because of the tension.

Seeing that he had accepted the invitation, but the person was still standing still in the hall, Yin Chengyu frowned, and said, "You can go out now."

Xue Shu raised his eyes and looked straight at him. His eyes were dim and hard to distinguish, like a hunting beast, with a strong aggressiveness.But in the end, he still didn't say anything, squeezed out the word "um" from his throat, and walked out slowly.

Yin Chengyu stared at his back, frowning.

I don't know if it's his illusion, but I always feel that Xue Shu in this life seems to be more and more similar to the previous life.

But how is it possible?

Xue Shu at this time was raw and immature, not even eighteen.

There are still five years between the treacherous and unpredictable Nine Thousand Years in the previous life.

For the next several days, Xue Shu was invited by Wan Youliang to drink and have fun.

In order to win him over, Wan Youliang spent a lot of money. Xue Shu brought four or five boxes of gold and silver back to the hotel.

But Yin Chengyu didn't notice the relationship between the two of them, and led his servants and guards to play and enjoy the scenery in Tianjin Wei every day.

Wan Youliang arranged for officials to accompany him for the first two days. Later, because Yin Chengyu said that he did not need to accompany him every day, and he saw that Yin Chengyu was not acting abnormally, he no longer sent anyone to accompany him.

Yin Chengyu finally got rid of his tail and stopped wandering in the market, but went to the streets and alleys where ordinary people lived.

The streets and alleys of these alleys twisted and twisted, the roads were narrow, dirt could be seen everywhere on the roads, and there was an indescribable salty smell.

Yin Chengyu didn't dislike either, and walked through one by one, and when he saw someone's door was open, he stopped and looked at it for a long time.

After spending half a day looking at five or six streets and alleys, Yin Chengyu returned to the hotel.

The scented clothes that went out in the morning were already stained, Zheng Duobao waited for him to take a bath and change, and asked puzzledly: "Your Highness is distinguished, what are you doing in such a dirty place?"

"Of course I'm looking for evidence of illegal salt sales." Yin Chengyu soaked in hot water and let out a breath of foul air slowly.

The rampant situation of private salt in Tianjin Wei was even worse than when he thoroughly investigated it in his previous life.

The Yu family was implicated in the previous life, and the chief assistant of the first dynasty also ended up ruined and punished by all the families. In the end, it still severely shocked the officials of the salt administration everywhere.Five years later, when he went to Changlu to thoroughly investigate the salt administration, the situation was much better than it is now.

At least not as it is now, every household has bamboo pots and iron pots for boiling salt.

Private salt is rampant, and it is divided into several types such as market private, commercial private, official private, neighbor private and lord private.

The private sector refers to the self-stealing of the "stove households" in the salt field, who collude with salt merchants to sell official salt privately; the commercial private sector refers to the smuggling of salt merchants; Violating the policy of "leading the shore for exclusive sales" and selling in unexpected neighbors of the exclusive sales place; the smugglers are some relatively large local banditry forces, absorbing civilians and refugees to sell private salt, and the powerful salt lords even dare to confront the local government . [1]

The current situation of the Weiyan government in Tianjin can be described as full of five poisons.

Salt government officials participated in it and opened the door to convenience; salt merchants colluded with the Cao Gang to transport official salt to the south for sale; there were also rampant salt lords.

And these common people who cook salt are nothing more than the details of the entire chain of smuggling salt.

The government, salt merchants, Cao Gang, salt lords and other forces colluded together to divide the profits. These salt-cooking people not only did not earn much money, but were also oppressed.

If there is a lot of private salt, the official salt will stagnate, and if the salt tax is not abundant, the national treasury will be empty.If the treasury is empty, tax items must be added.

In the end, it is the common people who suffer the fattening of the rats.

Yin Chengyu closed his eyes and pondered for a long time, then changed into clean clothes, loosened his long hair behind him casually, walked to the side room, and said, "Go pass on Xue Shu."

In order to break the iron plate of Tianjin Wei, it needs to be dismantled from within.

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Note [1] Refer to "Rampant Illegal Salt Trafficking in the Ming and Qing Dynasties"