Jia Hui felt relieved at this time, but he suffered a lot from the salt merchants in Yangzhou City.
Although the remaining people were not implicated in the illegal salt incident, the incident where they gathered to resist the tax some time ago has not yet passed.
Although Jia Hui hasn't mentioned it yet, everyone knows that they can't escape.
Because of Jia Hui's random killings some time ago, the people who had promised to protect them were a little frightened and began to choose to ignore them.
Without a backstage, they are just businessmen, not just at the mercy of Jia Hui.
In order to survive, they knelt on Yanyun Street for a whole day and night, but they never saw Jia Hui come out.
In the end, Jia Hui was not waiting, but groups of armored and armed soldiers were waiting.
"It's over!"
All the salt merchants looked at me and I looked at you, their eyes full of regret.
They have used this trick of gathering people to resist taxes many times. As long as the court sends people to discuss with them and reduce some tax rates, they will happily hand over the salt tax.
But he didn't expect that Jia Hui came this time. He was so unreasonable and just sent troops to suppress it.
They are not heinous thieves, do they need to be like this?
Judging from Jia Hui's behavior during this period, I'm afraid soldiers might have knocked on the door of their home.
They were right. At this time, there were indeed soldiers raiding the Jiangnan salt merchant's house.
Jia Hui doesn't just take people indiscriminately.
He has been hiding and not showing up these days, just waiting for Xiu Yiwei to collect charges against these salt merchants.
As long as they are not full of evildoers and bear the burden of human life, Jia Hui will not really drive them away and kill them all.
But if they usually run rampant, bully men, dominate women, and kill people, then it's no wonder Jia Hui is ruthless.
In just three days, half of the salt merchants in Jiangnan Province were confiscated.
With the bloody evidence of the crime, no one can say that Jia Hui arrested people for no reason.
But Jia Hui's ruthless acting style also made him known as the "Living King of Hell" by the famous officials and celebrities in the south of the Yangtze River.
"Brother Hui, after arresting so many people, it should be enough. If we continue to arrest them, I'm afraid the salt industry in the south of the Yangtze River will begin to turmoil!"
In the back house of the Lin family, Lin Ruhai also felt that Jia Hui was too cruel this time, so he came over to ask Jia Hui what he meant.
See if you still have the intention to continue arresting people.
Looking at Lin Ruhai with a sad face, Jia Hui couldn't help but smile and said:
"It was those salt merchants who asked my uncle to come! Don't worry, uncle, the chicken has been killed, the monkey is scared, and my nephew has no intention of taking action again."
Hearing Jia Hui say this, Lin Ruhai also breathed a sigh of relief.
Now half of the officials of the Yangzhou Salt Transportation Department have been arrested, and there are half fewer salt merchants than before. If Jia Hui continues, I am afraid that Jiangnan Yanke will also be severely damaged.
Seemingly sensing Lin Ruhai's concerns, Jia Hui continued:
"Is uncle worried that Jiangnan Salt Industry will not be able to operate?"
"The salt tax in the south of the Yangtze River is the top priority of Chu. Since my nephew dares to do this, he naturally has the means to deal with the aftermath. The court should have received the news at this time, and the new Salt Science officials will take office soon. As for those salt merchants , I have my own arrangements."
"Young Master, the head of the Bai family in Taixing wants to see you!"
At this time, a maid came in and said to Jia Hui.
"Uncle, look, help is here!"
After saying goodbye to Lin Ruhai, he came to the front yard and living room to meet his guests.
"Bai Keqi of the Bai family meets my uncle, and may he be a prince forever!"
As soon as Bai Keqi came in, he gave Jia Hui a big gift without daring to be disrespectful at all.
"Get up and sit up!"
"Uncle Xie!"
Looking at the cautious Bai Keqi, Jia Hui said softly:
"You don't have to be so reserved. Our two families have known each other for many years. You have sent a lot of filial piety to Rongguo Mansion over the years, so I will let you go this time. If you continue to indulge your descendants in the future, you will not die. It’s so easy for one or two people!”
As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Keqi was so frightened that he fell to his knees again and said tremblingly:
"Yes, yes, I know, little one!"
"Get up!"
"Now the eight major salt merchants are only the Qi family, the Lu family, and the Feng family, and half of the other salt merchants are missing. Do you, the Bai family, have any plans to go further?"
"this......"
Bai Keqi was immediately ecstatic. He understood the meaning of Jia Hui's words. He immediately knelt down on the ground again and said excitedly to Jia Hui:
"We, the Bai family, are deeply grateful for your uncle's cultivation. We will definitely follow my uncle's lead in the future and never have any second thoughts!"
"Hahaha!"
Seeing Bai Keqi like this, Jia Hui was immediately amused.
"I am a martial artist, what do you want from your loyalty?"
"But if you Bai family are obedient, you only need to pay the salt tax properly."
Then Jia Hui picked up a ledger, handed it to Bai Keqi, and continued:
"This is the account book of each family that I checked this time. It contains some properties, shops, antiques, calligraphy and paintings. I will return to Beijing soon. It is really difficult to take care of these things. If someone can help me, Just get rid of them, that’ll be fine!”
After hearing this, Bai Keqi looked at the thick account book and felt a little embarrassed for a moment.
"This is the accumulation of hundreds of wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River. I naturally know that your family alone cannot afford it. But now that salt merchants from the south of the Yangtze River have gathered in Yangzhou, which one of these people does not have a millionaire's wealth, and what is left? It depends on how you conduct yourself.”
"I will redistribute the salt in a while. As for the proportion of each family, it depends on how much property each family subscribes to in the ledger."
Jia Hui said this, but Bai Keqi still didn't understand what he meant, so he quickly assured Jia Hui:
"Uncle, don't worry. These salt merchants don't have much else, they just have a lot of money at home. When I get back, I will contact the heads of each family to share my worries for my uncle!"
Hearing this, Jia Hui said with some displeasure:
"Master Bai's words are wrong. I work for His Majesty, and you should share your Majesty's worries!"
"Yes, yes, I said the wrong thing. I want to share your worries for Your Majesty!"
Finally, Bai Keqi left Lin Mansion with satisfaction.
After Bai Keqi left, Jia Hui continued to pick up an account book and began to read it.
This records all the property obtained from each government during this inspection.
In cash alone, there are one million taels of gold and more than 20 million taels of silver.
Coupled with those farm buildings, antique calligraphy and paintings, he could imagine the expressions of Emperor Taichang and other officials after the memorial was sent back to the capital.
These are not all the proceeds from the inspection. Some property was also privately withheld by Jia Huiyu Xiuyiwei.
These are also some of the unwritten rules of the court. Although Jia Hui doesn't care about money, he won't break them.
And there are indeed many rare things that even Jia Hui, a later generation, couldn't put down.
Therefore, Jia Hui followed the local customs and took less than 500,000 taels of property, which he ordered to be stored in the warehouse of Rongguo Mansion in Jinling.
Now that the matter in Yangzhou has been successfully completed, there are still many properties that were inspected in Jinling and are sealed at the Xiuyiwei Yamen. Jia Hui still has to escort them to Yangzhou and then transport them to the capital together.
Because there was too much money and the stakes were high, Jia Hui had already petitioned Emperor Taichang to seek help from the garrison garrisons from various places.
Otherwise, Jia Hui would have tens of millions of taels of money in custody and only have his own patrol battalion to guard it, which would be really unreliable.
