There are many people involved in selling illegal salt and preventing the sale of new salt.
Most of them are from established aristocratic families.
Originally, they had a large amount of grain and salt in their hands. Not only did they have a large amount of cultivated land, they even had small salt wells.
These things can ensure that they will be rich and prosperous for generations and be passed down for thousands of years.
The emergence of new salt directly broke their interests and even broke their inheritance.
Under such circumstances, they will naturally take action at all costs.
Of course, it wasn't just them who took action, there were also some new forces.
There is another one among them, the Marquis of Huai'an named Huayunlong by Zhu Yuanzhang.
He was originally a bandit leader who committed evil in the mountains.
After being recruited by Zhu Yuanzhang, he indeed made great military exploits.
However, the situation is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change.
His greed hasn't changed, and neither has his viciousness.
In private, he not only sells private salt, but also keeps bandits in captivity and lets the bandits do many bloody things for him.
Most of the bandits mobilized this time were mobilized by him.
Because of this, he found out quickly after the accident.
He was sitting in the main hall with a gloomy face, and his butler was also standing with a worried look on his face.
"Master Marquis, will His Majesty know about the things we have done?"
"Since His Majesty has already prepared, His Majesty will definitely know what we have done!!"
"Ah! Your Majesty really knows this? What can we do? Your Majesty will not let us go if he knows it!!"
"Yes! Your Majesty will not let us go if he finds out!!"
As a person who was recruited by Zhu Yuanzhang, Hua Yunlong was very aware of Zhu Yuanzhang's methods.
Once Zhu Yuanzhang knows what he has done, he will definitely take action against him.
Although he, the Marquis, was conferred by Zhu Yuanzhang, this did not mean that Zhu Yuanzhang would let him go.
Therefore, he was extremely worried in his heart.
He even looked at the gate from time to time, worried that someone from Zhu Yuanzhang would come directly in.
And his state naturally made his housekeeper even more worried.
"Then what should we do? How about... let's mobilize our army??"
"Mobilize the army? What do you want to mobilize the army for??"
"This... let's start a fight?"
Hua Yunlong's housekeeper felt that he knew his Marquis better, and his Marquis was always ruthless in his behavior.
In such a desperate situation, he should be desperate and fight to the end.
However, Hua Yunlong's reaction at this time was completely different from what he expected.
Although his face was very gloomy and he was very worried, he didn't look like giving up at all.
Therefore, when the butler said this, he obviously lacked confidence.
At the same time, he also felt that Hua Yunlong's eyes were looking at him, and they were very cold.
This made him swallow a mouthful of saliva subconsciously.
"Do you think you can rebel against the old Zhu family?"
"This, this... princes, generals and ministers, I would rather have...!!"
bass! !
Before he could finish his words, he felt a white light flash before his eyes.
Immediately afterwards, his head fell to the ground, his expression frozen.
At the same time, his eyes were full of disbelief.
Obviously, he did not expect that Hua Yunlong would do anything to him, an old butler.
After Hua Yunlong killed him, he put down the knife and said to himself:
"What do you know? Is the world of Lao Zhu's family so rebellious? Do you know how powerful Xu Da, Tang He and others are? Have you ever seen His Majesty take action personally??"
"If I wait for Your Majesty to come and arrest me now, I can still save my family while using my death-free gold medal!!"
"If I rebel, my entire family will be wiped out!!"
"I can die, but I can't be the sinner of my family!!"
Hua Yunlong had a strong fear of Zhu Yuanzhang.
He knew that it was impossible for him to successfully rebel, nor to avoid Zhu Yuanzhang's arrest.
Instead of annihilating the clan, it would be better for him to answer the question alone.
Therefore, Hua Yunlong waited directly at his mansion for the arrival of Zhu Yuanzhang's people.
After Zhu Yuanzhang's people arrived, he didn't hesitate and left directly with Zhu Yuanzhang's people.
Because of his immunity from death medal, his family really saved his life.
Although there may be some punishment, at least his family saved their lives.
Therefore, Hua Yunlong, who planned to accept everything, breathed a sigh of relief.
On the way to Jinling City, he committed suicide without hesitation.
Hua Yunlong's suicide can be considered a good result.
As for the others, they were all executed and the nine clans were exterminated.
As for those who were directly involved, they were skinned and stuffed with grass, and stood on the city wall to warn the world.
Each city has dozens of these skinned people.
The deaths of these people also let the people know who is preventing them from buying new salt and who has been making their dirty money.
At the same time, it also made the people love Zhu Yuanzhang even more. They knew that it was Zhu Yuanzhang who gave them new salt that was cheaper and of better quality. Zhu Yuanzhang was a person who really cared about the people.
Zhu Yuanzhang's killing spree caused an uproar in Ming Dynasty official circles.
Especially after many of the officials were killed, many people were afraid that they would be implicated. This made the Ming officials feel that everyone was in danger.
So much so that they acted cautiously in the following days, not daring to go overboard in any way.
Zhu Zhen didn't know any of this.
He didn't pay too much attention to such killings.
What he was more concerned about was the distribution of money from Zhu Yuanzhang after the new salt was sold for ten days.
Although it was only sold for ten days, with the time for salt production and transportation arrangements, one month has actually passed.
Zhu Zhen asked Zhu Yuanzhang to give him money every month. Zhu Yuanzhang naturally had no other way and gave Zhu Zhen money every month.
However, when Zhu Yuanzhang saw the money that Xinyan brought him, he was completely confused.
"One million taels? Our new salt has only been sold for ten days and there are one million taels? How is this possible? How can there be so much??"
"You know, last year, our salt tax in Ming Dynasty was less than one million taels!!"
"We have been selling for ten days now, which is equal to the income of last year??"
Such income obviously surprised Zhu Yuanzhang to the extreme.
He originally thought that since his new salt was sold so cheaply, he wouldn't have much income.
Therefore, even if Zhu Zhen is given 10% of his income, he can accept it.
But now, he found that things were a little different from what he imagined.
This made him unable to understand the key for a moment.
But Zhu Zhen said lightly:
"Father, what you collected before was only salt tax. The salt is not yours yet. There are many people buying private salt, so the money collected will naturally be less!!"
"Now the salt is yours, and no one buys private salt. When new salt comes on the market, many people buy it in large quantities, and their incomes are higher. This is very normal!!"
“Wait until next month, and the income will level off and won’t be so high again!!”
"Okay, no more nonsense, let's divide the money!!"
After Zhu Zhen finished speaking, he stretched out his hand and asked for money.
Now he is waiting for money to strengthen the weapons and equipment of his soldiers.
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