"Master, I went to your mansion to find you, but they said you hadn't come back yet, so I could only come to the ministry to find you. I came to find you, and there was nothing else. But I have a few friends who are anxious to wait for your Ministry of Revenue to send salt to the Ministry of Revenue to transfer the salt to the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Transport and Recruiting salt. Can you give me a face and send the salt to them immediately? Anyway, the opening of China and France has not been officially promulgated yet, so I will definitely have a meal to invite you to drink afterwards!"

As soon as Dingguo Duke Xu Xi came to the Ministry of Revenue, he said that he was brother and brother to speak to Bi Ziyan, the Minister of Revenue, and what he said was directly related to salt yin.

"Duke Dingguo! You are late. Unfortunately, the salt inlet has been sent to the border town. Now the Ministry of Revenue has no salt inlet! Please go back."

Bi Ziyan directly rejected Xu Xi and put the tea on the table to express his intention of seeing the guests off.

Xu Xi was stunned for a second, then stood up disappointedly, shouting in angrily: "You!"

Bi Ziyan ignored him, picked up the teacup, lowered his head and continued to drink tea.

Xu Xi wanted to say a few harsh words, but he was worried that his harsh words would reach the emperor's ears, so he could only resist the unhappiness and shook his sleeves and left here.

Next, not only Ding Guo Duke Xu Xi was turned away, but other salt merchants with background were turned away by Bi Ziyan and did not get salt.

"These three thousand Hedong salt quotas were directly allocated to Qin Liangyu, the five thousand Huaiyang salt quotas were allocated to Yuan Jingluo of Liaodong, so that they could remember the time and confirm the remarks. In addition, all the salt quotas assigned to the border towns were announced, and the court asked the court to make public through the Dibao and Huangming Pao. Then, tell all salt merchants who needed salt quotas and let them go to Dibao or Huangming Pao to see how many salt quotas there are in each border town, whether it is sufficient, and then determine where to go to Shangtun. Don't ask Duke and Hou Guiqing to come to the Ministry of Revenue to ask for salt quotas!"

Bi Ziyan was so instructing his Ministry of Revenue officials at this time.

The salt merchants were completely desperate because of this.

"It seems that the court is really going to take serious action! We salt merchants are going to transport grain to border towns, or force us to go to border towns and towns!"

"Yes! Who can afford the freight fee when transporting grain to the border town? If you transport one stone of grain to the border town, you will have to pay an extra three or five stones of grain. In order to save the loss of grain transport from the court, it is really too much! It is so cruel to our salt merchants!"

"In theory, the Ministry of Revenue can reject such a decree that burdens the people and the businessmen. Even if it is not explicitly rejected, it can also secretly do things that are contrary to the imperial decree, such as sending salt to us quietly. But now the Ministry of Revenue is not injected, especially the current Minister of Revenue Bi Ziyan, who detains the salt in advance and does not send or say it, and also gives it to the officials of the border town in advance!"

"Oh! Our salt merchants have been in the end of their good days since the Hongzhi Dynasty. Let's move their home in Yangzhou back to Shanxi and go to the border town to farm! No, I won't do this salt business anymore? Then what should I eat!"

Therefore, a group of salt merchants complained about the current salt administration reform in private.

Historically, Ye Qi, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue in the Hongzhi Dynasty, reformed and opened up China and France, so that salt merchants did not have to transport grain to border towns to change salt intake. Instead, they only had to take silver to the Ministry of Revenue to change salt intake. After salt merchants no longer had to carry out shopping towns in border towns, so they began to move in large quantities, moving from border towns such as Shanxi, Liaodong, and Shaanxi to Yangzhou and Huai'an, resulting in a large reduction in Han people in border towns, and even the loss of Hetao.

But now, with the support of the Ministry of Revenue, the emperor's system of opening up China and France has begun to be implemented.

Therefore, these salt merchants began to have to move northwards one after another.

In fact, at this time, a large amount of abandoned fields had begun to be reclaimed by some salt merchants who actively accepted the results of the reform.

There were even salt merchants outside the Great Wall and bought some abandoned farmland near the Great Wall from some Mongolian tribes. For example, some fields in Hetao that were originally grain-producing areas were bought by some salt merchants and started to settle them.

After all, these farmlands are not very valuable to Mongolian nomadic peoples, so they are relatively low in price.

Therefore, before the court recovered Hetao, Han merchants and civilians began to enter the Hetao area lost in the Hongzhi Dynasty.

...

"The question book of the Ministry of Revenue requesting the establishment of the official salt industry bureau is immediately approved. The salt industry does require the intervention of official salt merchants, otherwise it will easily lead to the increase in salt prices. In addition, the imperial edict was sent to the provincial inspectors and the salt censors. It is necessary to strictly investigate the quality of salt. Once the Dongchang found that they were neglected by the Eastern Factory, they will definitely not be spared! The Ministry of Revenue requested the distribution of salt to border towns to publicize the situation, and the public announcement will also be approved in the Dibao and Huangming Pao. This is a good way. It is convenient to dispatch military rations in each border town and curb the corruption of the Ministry of Revenue. Bi Ziyan is an instructor. He has issued an order to grant him the title of Prince's Young Guardian!"

Political Affairs Hall.

Zhu Youxiao made up his mind to restore the system of Sino-French on the way to Beijing and issued an order, but he did not expect that the Ministry of Revenue would start to implement it so quickly and put forward good suggestions for implementation.

This made him, the emperor, feel much more relieved, and therefore found that his civil servants are now willing to implement his reforms, especially after he expressed his never-retreatment, so that the system of Chinese and French could be implemented so quickly this time.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao was in a good mood, so he directly added an honorary title to Bi Ziyan.

"Abide by the order!"

Fang Congzhe replied, and took the initiative to say, "Report to Your Majesty! Now that China and France have been restored to the system before Xiao Temple, the court will save a lot of military supplies in the future, but the treasury is already very full. So, how should these saved military supplies be arranged?"

"After the restoration of the previous opening of China and France, the number of commercial and civilians in border towns will increase, and there will be more merchants and citizens in border towns. Some people need to have roads to make the military and border trade activities in border towns more convenient. Therefore, the saved military supplies are still used in border towns and used to build official roads. First, the official roads from the capital to Shanhaiguan and Xuanfu, Datong and other places must be newly built into four carriages side by side!"

Zhu Youxiao said afterwards: "Issuing an order to the Ministry of Revenue, and the Ministry of Revenue will discuss how much military money can be saved to be used to build an official road! Also, let people immediately promote corn and sweet potatoes and potatoes to salt merchants who are stockpiled in border towns, which are newly cultivated crops from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences that are conducive to the cultivation of the north."

"Abide by the order!"

Fang Congzhe replied.

Zhu Youxiao nodded, and he asked the Ministry of Revenue to use the surplus military supplies and grain to build official roads to border towns. In fact, there is another reason, that is, he still plans to wait until the conditions are ripe in the future and let all government or private transactions of the Ming Empire settle in currency, which will make it easier to regulate the empire's economy. In this way, the court will still need to transport grain to border towns in the future. If there is already convenient transportation at that time, it will naturally save a lot of food transportation losses.

...

While Zhu Youxiao and his ministers continued to reform the Ming Dynasty, the factory guards were also scrutinizing Degele and other murderers who assassinated the emperor.

"ah!"

After a whip dipped in salt water fell on Degele and Yuetuo, who had been beaten to death, they screamed in pain again.

Xu Xianchun, who was in charge of interrogating them, ordered a Jinyiwei who knew Manchu, and said, "Continue to ask, which Han people colluded with them and helped them come to the capital!"

"yes!"

The Jinyiwei replied, and hurriedly asked about Degele and Yuetuolai.

Yue Tuo spat first and said, "Dream!"

Xu Xianchun said with a cold face: "Go torture again! Play the pipa and serve!"

So the factory guards used the knife to thrust the ribs of Yuetuo and Deges with their knives.

The two of them were sweating profusely because of this, and their voices started to scream even more tragically.

"It hurts!"

"it hurts!"

Degele had to wave his hand.

Xu Xianchun then made people stop and asked the Jinyiwei to continue asking.

And this Dege said in Manchu: "I have a condition! If you want to know who colludes with us, you must first tell me, yes, who is it, and who will tell you that we will come to assassinate your emperor!"

Xu Xianchun looked back at Wei Zhongxian and Tian Ergeng.

Tian Ergeng was about to stand up, but Wei Zhongxian smiled and said, "It's your four belles!"

As he said that, Wei Zhongxian looked at Tian Ergeng and asked, "It seems that his name is Huang Taiji?"
Chapter completed!