After receiving the order, Wu Zhen drove the new warship sent by Zhu Bai, reorganized the army, and prepared to go to Liaodong after receiving military rations.
The Guanya Bureau is only responsible for preparing military rations for temporary wars such as counterinsurgency. The other guards' military rations depended on stationing troops to grow crops.
However, places like Shaanxi, Dingliao, and Peiping are dry and cold, so food must be supplied by the imperial military warehouses.
When Lao Zhu established the Ming Dynasty, he ordered the establishment of twenty military warehouses across the country and appointed officials to manage each.
According to usual practice, Dingliao's military rations were supplied by sea from the military warehouse in Taicang, Suzhou Prefecture.
The Taicang Army Warehouse was the largest military ration store in the Ming Dynasty, with a reserve of 300,000 shi of military rations.
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Lao Zhu was still thinking about the reason for leaving the salt transportation matter directly to Zhu Bai.
As a result, Liu Bowen mentioned this matter in the court today: "Your Majesty, the Yangzhou Salt Transfer Department has been left unattended for more than a month. It's time to appoint someone else."
Lao Zhu looked at him with a half-smile but not a smile: "Yes, the Salt Transport Department has been left unattended for half a month. Tell me, why hasn't everything happened yet?"
Liu Bowen and the others all knew that the Bureau of Civil and Dental Affairs was in charge this month, but they wanted to say that there was no one to manage it. It was obvious that they did not want to admit that the Bureau of Civil and Dental Affairs was managing it very well.
This also shows that the salaries of dozens of people in the previous salt transfer department were fed to dogs.
On the contrary, it strengthened Lao Zhu's determination to hand over the matter of Yangzhou's salt envoy transfer to Zhu Bai.
Liu Bowen's face was not red, and his heart was not beating, and he replied: "Because the King of Xiang controls the Salt Transport Department."
Lao Zhu laughed angrily: Liu Shengun, you are so shameless.
Doesn’t your conscience hurt when you framed Lao Twelve like this?
This month, we have asked people to keep an eye on him.
He really did not "control" the salt transportation. He just asked people to allocate official salt to various places according to the quotas issued by the Ministry of Household Affairs, and then paid the salt quota and boiled water schedules.
Compared with the previous operation of the Salt Transfer Department, he also collected a lot less bribes, kickbacks and handling fees.
And he fulfilled his promise and allowed water merchants to follow the Guan Ya Bureau's convoy and stay at the "Juren Inn".
The water merchants were all happy and running around telling each other.
It can be seen that this policy is very popular among the people.
Lao Zhu snorted: "Tsk, you said so, then let him continue to control it."
Lao Zhu has always been a rebellious person, but now he is being nagged by officials every day, making him even more rebellious.
Anyway, he would do whatever the official told him not to do.
If this bastard hadn't insisted on nagging him, Lao Zhu might have appointed someone else to take over when the salt fortunes were on track again.
As a result, Liu Bowen insisted on stabbing him.
Hu Weiyong and the others were also very angry.
Liu Shengun is really a disservice.
He winked at Ru Taisu.
Ru Taisu came out and said: "Salt transportation is the job of the Ministry of Household Affairs. King Xiang has already done it for a month. I don't dare to bother him anymore."
Lao Zhu raised his chin at Zhu Bai: "Old Twelve, the Household Department thinks it's troublesome for you. What do you say?"
Zhu Bai came out of the queue and blinked: "Lord Ru is really considerate of me. If the Ministry of Revenue is afraid of bothering me, please take over the matter of raising food and salary for the army first."
The military attaches almost laughed out loud and hurriedly lowered their heads.
Damn it, King Xiang is so happy to be in a fight.
The bureaucrats in the Ministry of Finance are faster than anyone else when they have something to gain, and they give up their jobs as soon as they want to contribute money and effort.
Ru Taisu suppressed her blush and was speechless.
When Hu Weiyong saw that the situation was not right, he hurriedly stepped out and said: "These are two things and cannot be confused."
Zhu Bai narrowed his eyes: "How can they be two different things? When the Guanya Bureau transports grain and pays for it, you don't say anything. But when transporting salt to make money, you have to complain. You will take advantage of all the benefits in this world. It's true. When you are a prostitute, you have to build a memorial arch, and you only eat the sweet end of the sugar cane."
Hu Weiyong and the others were so angry that their faces turned red and white.
Zhu Bai was mocking them for using the Red Tower to collude with Japanese pirates and profiteers.
Li Cunyi frowned and said, "The King of Xiang is young, so you can't be so rude and mean in your words."
Zhu Bai sneered: "Li Cunyi, who do you think you are? What qualifications do you have to teach me a lesson? In terms of rank, I am three levels higher than you, and you have to bow to me when you see me. According to my status, I am the emperor's son. If the king asks you to kneel down and speak, you have to kneel down. My own father is standing here without making a sound, why are you talking when you come out?!"
Li Cunyi was ashamed and angry, trembling all over and speechless.
Zhu Bai said: "I am rude and mean in my words? When you meet people in private and call me a bastard, you are much meaner than this."
Li Cunyi was so frightened that his legs weakened and he knelt down directly and said to Lao Zhu, "I am wronged."
Lao Zhu stared at Li Cunyi and said, "Hey, who did Mr. Li say this to?"
Then there was a dead silence in the court, and the Huaixi party lowered their heads for fear of being seen by Lao Zhu.
Li Cunyi kowtowed desperately: "I didn't do it, I am wronged. King Xiang is talking nonsense."
Zhu Bai had long wanted to teach these officials and the Huaixi faction a lesson.
When working, everyone would stand back and fight over the advantages they had, for fear that others would take advantage of them.
The key people worked hard to get the job done, but they were also very angry and didn't have a good word to say. They wanted to knock the person over.
When Li Shanchang was here before, although the Huaixi faction was greedy, they were still able to handle government affairs properly.
It's really a mess now, with all the demons dancing around.
Zhu Bai was scolding the Huaixi sect, and Yan Guan was silent.
They were eager for Zhu Bai to help fight against the Huaixi faction.
In the past, the chief and deputy salt envoys of the Yangzhou Du Salt Envoy Department were all officials.
How is the result?
Lao Zhu made it clear that he would not let Yan Guan interfere again.
If Zhu Biao couldn't accept it, they would still prefer Zhu Bai to take over the stall than the Huaixi faction.
After all, Zhu Bai is still Zhu Biao's person.
Song Lian suddenly smiled and twirled his beard and said: "Hahaha, King Xiang's verbal battle with the ministers is really exciting. King Xiang is good at eloquence, but his writing and writing are not very good."
Zhu Bai couldn't laugh or cry: Master Song, are you really confused or are you pretending to be confused? Every time it comes to a critical moment, come and stir things up.
Lao Zhu was also helpless and withdrew his murderous gaze and said: "This matter is settled. From now on, the General Administration of Guanya will manage the Salt Transfer Department. Salt tax will be paid to the court on a quarterly basis. The amount of salt tax and the salt quota, It will be reported once a year by the Ministry of Household Affairs and will be sent to the Official Dental Bureau after our approval."
When Ru Taisu and the others heard this, they secretly gritted their teeth: Hey, we still need to determine the amount of salt tax and salt quota. That's great.
We won’t give it to you. Let’s see how your official teeth department handles it.
The quotas for the spring have been issued, and the quotas for the summer will be issued soon, we will see.
Lao Zhu added: "It's time for the examination questions. Masters, please think about the questions first. Wait for our news."
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Now that the Guanya Bureau has received the imperial edict, it can legitimately control the transportation of salt. It posted a notice outside the Yangzhou Salt Transport Department early in the morning.
The water merchants were so happy that they bought firecrackers and set them off at the gate of the salt transport department.
The behavior of those bureaucrats before was really irritating.
Later, I found out that an official had provided information to the Japanese pirates, and I became even more angry.
No wonder these Japanese pirates are sure to grab one at a time.
