Nine thousand years old [rebirth]

In the previous life, Yin Chengyu also asked the same question.

Yin Chengyu recalled the scene at that time, it should be the time when the battle for the heir apparent was the most intense.Emperor Longfeng deliberately indulged, all civil and military officials competed to stand in line, and the second and third children fought hard for the last time.As the prince, he was in the center of the vortex, so he was inevitably assassinated.

In fact, ever since he came back from the imperial mausoleum, returned to the court, and gradually gained power, he has been assassinated from time to time.

It's just that that time was more dangerous. He was accidentally poisoned and lost his eyesight. Xue Shu took him to avoid pursuit and rolled down the cliff. The two hid in a narrow cave for half a month before they got in touch. They escaped the searching forbidden army and escaped from danger.

After returning to the palace, he once asked Xue Shu: Why him.

How did Xue Shu answer at that time?

He looked down at him for a long time, pressed his lips frivolously with his fingers, and said: "No one else is as good-looking as Your Highness."

He felt humiliated at the time, and he never asked such a question again.

The relationship between him and Xue Shu began with the exchange of interests, entangled in desire, and perhaps many other things were mixed in, but he didn't want to delve into it further.It's good to keep the status quo, so that even if we meet each other in the future, we won't be merciless.

Withdrawing from the past, Yin Chengyu looked at the person in front of him, and regained his indifferent expression.

He looked at Xue Shu, who was still young and had a clear view of his thoughts, and thought that it was better to be young.

Neither will he say that ugly words are annoying, but he will also eagerly come up to please people.

How nice.

Yin Chengyu finally accepted a box of gold, silver and jade articles from Xue Shu.

He asked Zheng Duobao to take a token of the Eastern Palace, and threw it to Xue Shu: "The token is for you, and you will remember who you are in the future."

Xue Shu took the token, with a little joy on his face that rarely fluctuates.

He recognized the token.Zheng Duobao, Zhao Lin and the others often wore such a token around their waists, which meant that they belonged to the prince.

"Thank you for the reward, Your Highness." He solemnly put the token into his sleeve.

"Since there's nothing else to do, let's step back." Yin Chengyu waved his hand, got up and prepared to go to the main hall, and when he reached the door, he instructed: "You have to do things for the father. When you come back in the future, remember to avoid people."

Xue Shu watched his back leave, and then left with a relaxed expression.

He remembered Yin Chengyu's words, this time he didn't go through the main entrance, like a night owl, he quietly left the East Palace through the corner gate and headed for the west factory.

Yin Chengyu returned to the main hall, remembering that the box hadn't been placed yet, so he ordered Zheng Duobao: "Make a separate room in the storeroom, and put the box in. This will always be the case in the future."

Zheng Duobao responded, and after waiting for him to fall asleep, he directed the little eunuch to put the box into the warehouse.

Zheng Duobao nodded in satisfaction while staring at the register.

I feel that I was thinking about it earlier, but this Xue Shu is a good person, who knows how to repay kindness.

After the Lantern Festival, the New Year came out.

Before the festive atmosphere of Wangjing City’s Middle Year’s Day dissipated, a major event happened—the Yu Mansion in Nanxunfang was attacked by thieves.

The thieves who broke into the house made a lot of noise, not only took away the original works of famous masters in the collection of Yu Shoufu, but also swept away the collection of the study of the eldest master and the second master.Even the letters, private seals, etc. that I have exchanged with relatives and friends in recent years are all empty.

The Yu family reported to the officials immediately.

Yu Shoufu was old, and when he heard the bad news, he was so angry with the arrogant thief that he fell ill, and he failed to go to the court for several days.

Yu Jing, the second elder of the Yu family, has always been a hot-tempered person. Seeing his father falling ill with anger and the thief who caused the trouble missing, he went to the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion every day to ask for an explanation.He only took a hidden errand in the Fifth Army Commander's Mansion, and when he didn't do his business every day, he would sit in the lobby of Shuntian Mansion's Yamen with a knife in his hand, and even pretended to urge the governor of Shuntian Mansion to catch the thief as soon as possible.

Shuntian Mansion Yin was so worried that his hair turned gray, so he had to send more guards to search for the thief.

Due to the large battle, the people in Wangjing City took this matter as a joke.Occasionally, someone who is bold enough to meet Yu Jing who is going to the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion will smile and ask, "Second Master Yu, did you catch that thief today?"

Yu Jing usually just replied with an unhappy face: "No!"

And in such a peaceful atmosphere with a little joy, the patrolling salt censors quietly left Wangjing with the emperor's order, and went to various salt envoys to inspect the salt class.

Fang Zhengke, who was going to Changlu Salt Envoy, had just left Wangjing when Yin Chengyu received the news.

"Is the manpower arranged properly?"

Zhao Lin nodded: "All arrangements have been made. The orphan of the Zhao family has also been persuaded by our people."

Yin Chengyu nodded, thinking about the whole plan, but there are still omissions.

A few days ago, he made an unannounced visit to the Yu Mansion and told his grandfather and two uncles about the matter of Yan Yin.But he didn't expect to learn from his uncle that Wan Youliang had secretly mentioned to him the great benefits of Yanyin as early as the year before last.

At that time, Yu Chen didn't care about it. Instead, he reminded the other party that whether it was reselling salt or selling private salt, it was a serious crime of beheading, and told him not to be blinded by interests.Naturally, Wan Youliang had no choice but to presume that it was just a private chat between friends.Later, when Yu Chen exchanged letters with him, the court didn't hear anything wrong with Changlu Salt Envoy, so he forgot about it.

But thinking about it today, I'm afraid Wan Youliang was already moved by interests at that time.

According to the information obtained by Yin Chengyu, the Zhao family whose family was exterminated in Wangjing City made their fortune in water transport in Tianjin Wei. On the surface, Zhao Jiaming transported wine, noodles, glutinous rice, etc., but in fact they transported illegal salt.And the person who serves the Zhao family is the current transfer envoy Wan Youliang.

Tianjin Wei is located at the lower tip of the Jiuhe River, with prosperous water transportation and convenient transportation; there is also Changlu Salt Field, which produces a huge amount of salt.With the word "profit" at the top, there are always people who can't stand the temptation and try to get Yanyin, and then secretly transport the official salt that has been converted to the south for sale.

In this way, from the officials of the Salt Envoy in charge of the issuance and issuance of salt, to the water transport merchants, they all have to get through the customs in order to be unimpeded, and collusion between officials and businessmen is not uncommon.

The Zhao family was indeed engaged in a serious water transport business at the beginning, but later it was mixed into private salt because the daughter of the Zhao family married a wealthy gentry from Hejian Mansion as a concubine.The noble gentry made his fortune by relying on private salt, and the Zhao family was moved by the interests, so they began to transport the private salt to the south for their in-laws.

But they didn't know that the reason why the noble gentry had a steady stream of private salt was because the other party had a personal relationship with Wan Youliang.

Wan Youliang, for the benefit of private salt, forged the seal of the household department's documents and issued excessive salt quotations.

Ordinary salt quotations pay one or two taels of tax and silver for each quotation, but Wan Youliang forged documents and pretended to withhold nearly 30 yuan of salt quotations from the Ministry of Households for the next year. Such withholding salt quotations not only have to pay salt taxes, but also There is also interest-bearing silver, and salt merchants need to pay three taels of silver for each quotation.

The salt tax paid by salt merchants must be handed over to the Ministry of Accounts, and Yu Huai'an is the Minister of the Ministry of Accounts.After checking the files over the years, he found that not only the tax and money handed in by the Changlu Salt Envoy were not correct, but even the pre-withholding salt citation document signed and approved by the Ministry of Household Affairs was not found at all.

Wan Youliang cheated the top and the bottom, embezzling the difference.

The Zhao family is just a small tenon and tenon joint among them.The leader of the Zhao family was cautious by nature, he knew that selling illegal salt was a felony, and after earning enough silver, he washed his hands and moved his family to Wangjing.

But the Zhao family didn't know that Wan Youliang had secretly connected with the third prince, Yin Chengjing.He was afraid that the Zhao family's details in Wangjing would be leaked and they would be in trouble day and night, so he begged Yin Chengjing.

It just so happened that Taoist Wangchen who forged documents and sealed letters for Wan Youliang had some skills, so Yin Chengjing set up such a situation.

First, he destroyed Zhao's family and spread rumors about the demon fox; then he created momentum for Daoist Wangchen in the capital, and after that, he created the image of the fox hurting people in the palace, and successfully pushed Taoist Wangchen to Emperor Longfeng.

And Yin Chengjing has probably been dissatisfied with the greedy Wan Youliang for a long time, and he knows that Fang Zhengke, who is inspecting the salt class this year, is upright and hard to fool.He simply pushed Wan Youliang out and let him bite Yu Chen.It not only eliminates the hidden danger of Wan Youliang, but also takes the opportunity to drag the Yu family and him into the water.

According to the trajectory of the previous life, Yin Chengjing's plan is interlocking, killing three birds with one stone, which can be regarded as an exhaustive strategy.

It's a pity that the sky has eyes and gave Yin Chengyu a chance to do it again.

This time, Yin Chengjing's plan might not be implemented smoothly.

Fang Zhengke had already gone to the Changlu Salt Envoy, and he ordered people to find the orphan of the Zhao family who had escaped the catastrophe, and persuaded the other party to bring evidence and stop Fang Zhengke on the way to file a lawsuit.

The matter was revealed nearly two months in advance, and Taoist Wangchen was executed again. It is not known whether Wan Youliang's "evidence" is fully prepared.

Yin Chengyu knocked on the table with his fingers, and said: "Send more people to watch along the way."

At the end of the first lunar month, the Secretary of General Administration received the memorial that Fang Zhengke sent back urgently at eight hundred miles.

The speed was faster than Yin Chengyu expected,

Fang Zhengke denounced the chaos of the Changlu salt administration in the memorial, pointing out that the Changlu Salt Envoy colluded with salt merchants, issued excessive salt quotations, and embezzled salt taxes.The orphan of the Zhao family did not miss the matter of blocking the road to sue. Fang Zhengke brought it up at the end with a fierce tone and heartbroken.Please ask Emperor Longfeng to investigate thoroughly.

Emperor Longfeng was furious, and immediately ordered someone to invite the sick Yu Huai'an back to calculate the salt tax and salt tax issued by Changlu over the years.

It took three full days and nights for the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs to clear up the tax money.

I don’t know if I don’t check, I checked all the way, and found that in the past ten years, Changlu’s salt tax deficit has reached a huge 500 million taels!

Salt tax has always been a major source of income for the treasury, and the annual tax revenue of the entire Dayan is only more than [-] million taels!

The treasury was empty, Emperor Longfeng would be nagged by his courtiers for even building a garden, but these officials of the salt government were rich from the salt warehouses, how could Emperor Longfeng bear it?

Emperor Longfeng, who was furious, immediately ordered that people should go to Changlu Salt Commissioner for a thorough investigation.

Not only Changlu, but also the four salt envoys in Lianghuai, Liangzhe, Shandong, and Hedong must thoroughly investigate from top to bottom.It is bound to wipe out all the corrupt moths.

But when it came time to send someone there, they encountered difficulties again.

The single Chang Lu Salt Envoy is already a rare major case. If the other four Salt Envoys are added, the huge interests involved will be unimaginable.Ordinary officials let alone investigate the case, I am afraid that they will not reach the boundary at all.

When Emperor Longfeng asked "Who can go there", the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty watched their noses, noses and hearts, and no one dared to take this hot potato.

After two days of stalemate like this, no candidate has been decided yet.

On the other hand, Fang Zhengke's apology sheet has arrived again.He said that when he was looking through the documents kept by the Changlu Salt Commissioner over the years, the official office suddenly disappeared.He was injured to put out the fire, but he failed to keep the documents and files over the years.

It's called pleading guilty, but it's actually asking for help.

Changlu Salt Commissioner Si Checha is imminent, but he can't find a suitable candidate.

When Emperor Longfeng was in a state of desperation, Yin Chengyu seized the opportunity to go to the court to ask for an order: "The salt administration is chaotic and hurts the foundation of the country. My son is willing to go to Changlu to thoroughly investigate the salt tax and relieve the father's worries."

As soon as he opened his mouth, Emperor Longfeng and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty breathed a sigh of relief.

There is no more suitable candidate than the prince.

Although Emperor Longfeng didn't want to see the crown prince sitting on the throne anymore, but now there was no one available, so he could only nod his head in agreement.

But after thinking about it, he felt uneasy. The Changlu Salt Envoy was short of millions of taels of silver, and even if he only recovered part of it, the amount was not small.If the investigators manipulated the numbers...he probably wouldn't know.

He subconsciously glanced at Yu Huai'an, with him in charge of the household department, by then, it would be as much as the boss said?

When Emperor Longfeng was considering how to arrange several people to accompany and supervise the prince, Yin Chengyu took the initiative to pass him the steps: "It's a long way to go to Changlu. The guards of the East Palace are not helpful, so I ask my father, Emperor Yun'er, to lead a team of forbidden troops to accompany him." .”

"Naturally." Just as he dozed off, the pillow came, and it was the first time that Emperor Longfeng felt that his eldest son was so knowledgeable and interesting.

He pretended to think for a while, and then said: "Admiral Xue Shu of the Imperial Horse Supervisor is in charge of the Four Guards Battalion, and he is also very good at boxing and kicking. So he was ordered to lead five hundred and four guards warriors to accompany him as guards."

Yin Chengyu laughed immediately, and bowed his head deeply: "Thank you, Father, for your compassion."

The father and son looked at each other and smiled, both satisfied.

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