Chapter 489: Han Jiang ran away with a bucket to ask for help. The beautiful scenery of Yancheng

Style: Historical Author: SkylarkWords: 2252Update Time: 24/01/11 19:08:09
In the blink of an eye, a month has passed, the season has turned into late autumn, and the weather has been bleak.

As soon as it dawned that day, Han Jiang led a team of carriages and horses to the Yangzhou Canal Pier. Seeing five or six official ships waiting by the river, he felt a little relieved and quickly got off the sedan chair to command:

"Hurry, put everything on the boat quickly, and we must set sail before Si hour!"

The team in the front escorted property and some evidence, while those in the back were the Marquis of Yangzhou and his family members.

In the first half of the month, after Han Jiang became ruthless, he ignored the imperial court's impeachment. Even trials and investigations found a lot of evidence of crimes against the Marquis of Yangzhou and the local salt merchants.

But what made him helpless was that the Marquis of Yangzhou relied on his own support and refused to plead guilty no matter what.

In fact, if it was just to reorganize the salt affairs, the evidence Han Jiang collected was enough for the Marquis of Yangzhou to drink a pot, and he also succeeded in holding the Marquis of Yangzhou back for Cao Bin, so he didn't have to hold on to him all the time.

Because a few days ago, Cao Bin's men had completely eradicated the salt gang, and the head of the Wu family had re-opened retail channels in Yangzhou, eliminating the impact of the salt merchants' strike, and even the reconstruction of the salt farm was gradually on the right track.

But Han Jiang did not want to let the Marquis of Yangzhou go to Beijing to plead his case, at least until he was convicted of rebellion and conspiracy.

If Yangzhou Hou is released, Han Jiang himself will be guilty of a serious crime.

After all, he ignored the iron certificate of the alchemy book, went directly to arrest people, detained the Marquis of Yangzhou and ransacked his home, which had seriously damaged the emperor's credibility. If he could not nail the other party's crime, he himself would be finished.

So he has been delaying time, trying to find out more evidence of Yangzhou Hou's crimes.

It wasn't until his friends in Beijing sent a secret message saying that the imperial court had sent Yushitai and Kaifeng Mansion to Yangzhou to bring him to Beijing that he had to carry the bucket and run away.

Cao Bin forced him to get into trouble, so he naturally sought refuge with Cao Bin. As of now, only Cao Bin can help him.

Seeing that the sun was getting higher and most of the goods were loaded on the ship, Han Jiang finally breathed a sigh of relief. He turned around and saw Yan Qing commanding the soldiers. He was suddenly startled and hurriedly walked over and asked:

"Marquis Yan Yu, why didn't I see General Yang Zhi? Could it be that he has other important matters?"

Just as he asked the question, he saw another group of people walking quickly outside the pier. The leader was Yang Zhi. Yan Qing smiled and said:

"I learned that your Excellency is going to see the Marquis. General Yang has confiscated the homes of all the guilty salt merchants in Yangzhou and plans to take them to Yancheng..."

Hearing this, Han Jiang felt her energy and blood surge up, and she almost spit out a mouthful of old blood.

This is because he is afraid that his death is not thorough enough. One Yangzhou Marquis is not enough, and he even arrested all the big salt merchants in Yangzhou. Such a big move will give Yangzhou Marquis's comrades in the DPRK and China more reason to attack him.

Seeing that Yang Zhi was not polite and directly ordered the soldiers to load the salt merchants and property onto the ship, Han Jiang didn't know what to say. She just felt that she had been unlucky for eight lifetimes when she met Cao Bin.

Even though I am honest and honest, I can't catch myself constantly plucking wool, right?

If this matter reaches the court, it is another question whether he will be charged with it. He will probably be labeled as a cruel official, and his official reputation will be ruined by Cao Bin for most of his life.

Seeing that Han Jiang's face was ashen, Yan Qing comforted her very thoughtfully:

"Sir, this is also for the sake of the court and the people."

"The salt people need money to appease them, and the salt fields also need money to build and maintain. The court cannot break its trust with the people and invalidate the salt banknotes."

"Now that the imperial court is financially strapped, where does the money come from... Furthermore, these salt merchants are all people with evil intentions..."

Hearing this, Han Jiang finally understood Cao Bin's intention.

It has to be said that Mr. Cao's abacus was rattling. Everyone knew that the Yangzhou salt merchants were as rich as the country, and most of the over-issued salt banknotes were in their hands.

If these people are caught, the salt banknotes in their hands will no longer need to be cashed, and a lot of money can be copied out, which can be used to cash in the salt banknotes in the hands of other salt merchants and ordinary people. This will preserve the credibility of the court and his head of the third department, and still make a surplus. A lot of money.

It can be said that it is the best of both worlds, each has its own place, and it is extremely comprehensive and beautiful.

But that was for Cao Bin.

I didn't get any credit for anything, I only got a blame for the cruel official.

At this moment, he wanted to "be with each other's mother" very much.

It's just that the matter has reached this point, and he has no ability to resist if he wants to, so he can only comfort himself by saying "bear the infamy for the court and the people". The only reason is that he is younger than Cao Bin, and he desperately wants to get him to Huainan to pick him up. pot.

Thinking of this, he accepted his fate and quickly urged his soldiers to board the ship, hoping that Cao Bin would not burn the bridge across the river and let himself suffer misfortune.

Yangzhou is not too far from the East China Sea, and it goes down the river, so it only took two or three days for the fleet to leave the river and enter the sea, and then go north along the coast and head straight to Yancheng.

Along the way, Han Jiang could not help but be secretly surprised when he saw that in many salt fields on the seaside, people were working in an orderly manner, and the accumulation of sea salt had reached a large scale.

He knew that the saltworks reconstruction was on track, but he did not expect it to progress so quickly.

At this moment, although he was still full of resentment towards Cao Bin, he had to admit the other party's ability.

No matter what method was used, the fact that the other party solved the problem that he had struggled to solve for half a year in just over a month and quickly opened up the situation has to be convincing.

Seeing that Han Jiang was silent, Yan Qing seriously tried to persuade him:

"Master Han, don't worry. The princes of these prefectures and counties have not come in person, so the progress is slower."

"Only in Yancheng can we see the real progress of the Marquis."

Han Jiang was a little depressed. He always felt that Yan Qing was in Versailles. If the progress was not fast, then why wasn't he just messing around for the past six months?

However, Yan Qing was indeed right. When their fleet docked at the salt farm, everyone was shocked by the scene outside the city.

Yancheng in this era was right by the sea.

I saw mountains of snow-white sea salt standing side by side in the fields, with the edges almost invisible, and countless people constantly fishing for salt in the fields.

"Salt, salt, the salt field is finally completed, and this is actually drying salt!"

As soon as Han Jiang got off the boat, he couldn't help but exclaimed and ran over. He had longed for the salt field for too long. This was the scene he wanted to see most after spending half a year.

He ran to the salt mountain, picked up a handful of sea salt and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Sir, this salt is inedible. The process has not been completed and there is too much odor. If you want to try the salt, you can go to the workshop over there."

When the people in the salt field saw him coming off the official ship, they knew that he was a high official and were afraid of eating him badly. They quickly pointed to the workshop not far away and reminded him.

Han Jiang spit out the sea salt and nodded repeatedly:

"I know, I know, I'm too excited, okay, okay..."

As he said this, he saw that the Yan Min who was speaking had sweat on his face, but he was not bitter at all. Instead, he was smiling. He couldn't help but asked in a daze:

"Is it hard to dry the salt?"

When the Yan people heard this, they couldn't help but secretly rolled their eyes, shook their heads and said:

"It's not hard, it's not hard... Lord Cao has given us such good treatment, so we should work harder."

As he spoke, he said with some pride:

"Besides, what's the point of being tired? Many people want Cao Hou's salt quota, but they can't get it."

Hearing this, Han Jiang was speechless. When he was supervising salt in Yancheng, the salt people did not have this attitude...