Isn’t this just treating everyone perfunctorily and shielding and conniving sinners?
Donglin, Fushe, Jishe and other gangs, as well as many merchants, were extremely dissatisfied with this and demanded severe punishment for the relevant generals and soldiers.
Huang Degong also thought so in his heart, but he was more willing to see the other party's resentment and helplessness!
What can you do to me?
This general is standing right here!
Are you angry or not? ? ?
If he were a businessman who paid taxes according to regulations and was reasonable with the evidence, Huang Degong would not treat him like this.
But the other side is full of shit?
There was collusion between officials and businessmen, not only evading taxes, but also trying to confront the imperial court and coerce the emperor!
What he did was so sinister, how could he be leniently spared?
Originally, the situation had already eased, and it would be completely calmed down after a while.
However, one wave after another broke out, and the Lianghuai salt merchants started making trouble again, claiming that the defenders in Nandu City could not get a pound of salt!
Now that things were done, Huang Degong sent his warrior general Song Ji and the supervisor Kong Zhenhui to go to Yangzhou with more than a thousand soldiers and horses to collect salt on their own!
Obtaining salt is not the purpose, the purpose is to detain all the salt merchants in Yangzhou City who are playing tricks!
The Yangzhou garrison was Ma Jinggong, who came from the Yongwei Battalion, and was now promoted to the chief military officer. His deputy was the military supervisor Wang Zhijun. Even though the two of them had received tens of thousands of taels of silver from the salt merchants, the city gates could still be opened.
Of course, Chongzhen had to let his direct generals guard such an important place in order to deal with certain incidents, such as this one!
Ma Jinggong did not forget who was his master. Although he had already obtained the money, he did not delay in selling the salt merchant in the city again.
As long as your mind is slightly clearer, you will understand that once you take refuge in the salt merchants, you will offend the emperor and the prince at the same time. This is a typical putting the cart before the horse.
Haiyan will be on the market in large quantities by the beginning of next year at the latest, and it is only a matter of time before the once-famous Lianghuai salt merchants are dealt with.
Even if Ma Jinggong wants to use two boats, he is still the emperor and the prince, and he will never have the role of a salt merchant!
If he really took refuge with the Lianghuai salt merchants, once these people came to light, wouldn't he be tantamount to rebelling?
Is it stupid or crazy to leave loyal ministers and good generals to rebel and follow the salt merchants? ? ?
The salt merchant likes to play with the thin horse. You can finish playing with the salt merchant and then play with the thin horse again. This is called the best of both worlds!
As for Song Ji leading troops into the city to arrest the salt merchants, Ma Jinggong said that he had no knowledge of it and had nothing to do with him!
All Ma Jinggong had to do was wait for Song Ji's soldiers and horses to enter the city, then close the city gates in all four directions and catch turtles in an urn!
Of course, it was not Song Ji who was captured, but the salt merchant. Anyway, there was no need for his own troops to take action.
Song Ji's reason for arresting the salt dealer was very simple, that is, for trafficking in illegal salt!
Which salt merchant is not trafficking in illegal salt these days?
Do you think everything will be fine if you bribe the Caohe patrol?
That was before!
Nowadays, you have to buy it again, and you have to pay a lot of money!
Under the hunt of wolf-like officers and soldiers, hundreds of salt merchants, large and small, were all caught in Yangzhou City.
Those who harbor salt merchants will be considered treason and will be immediately jailed and severely punished!
The reporter will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver and a salt merchant's thin horse!
The focus of the search is on restaurants, teahouses, inns, and romantic places in the city.
It was useless to hide in his own courtyard. The salt merchant's courtyard in the city had long been controlled by Ma Jinggong.
After catching most of the people, Song Ji announced in public that everyone should be severely punished for their actions.
However, this time can give everyone a chance to change their minds. They can either pay private salt or money and be released without charge.
It is up to Huang Degong to decide whether the salt handed over is private salt.
Salt is money, that's a no-brainer.
According to the information provided by the salt merchants in the capital, each salt merchant in the Lianghuai River is divided into three levels. The first-level salt merchants must pay one million catties, the second-level salt merchants must pay one hundred thousand catties, and the third-level salt merchants must pay ten thousand catties.
It doesn’t matter if you can’t get so much salt at the same time. One catty is worth one silver, ten thousand catties is one thousand taels of silver, and one million catties is one hundred thousand taels!
No money?
It doesn’t matter!
Then go to jail!
We can guarantee that you will make money just by squatting!
If you don’t have any money while squatting, we can help you make money to atone for your sins!
You can go to Shandong to mine and work for ten or eight years. Then you will be rich!
Mining?
It almost scared the fat salt merchant to death!
Is that what these pampered businessmen should do?
If you go there, you will be exhausted to death?
So, after three days of desperate struggle, everyone wrote letters one after another asking the family to pay money to redeem the person!
Money can be earned again, but mining is definitely not possible, and there is no room for negotiation!
Now the Lianghuai salt merchants finally understood. Daqing Chongzhen and his Yongwei camp moved to Nandu. They were here to scrape the land!
But it was much more ruthless than Wanli's time. He was totally unreasonable and just kidnapped someone!
The Yongwei camp does things much more efficiently than those bandits and bandits!
They are just a group of bandits and bullies dressed in official and military uniforms!
People are not unreasonable. They say you are trafficking in illegal salt. Can you provide proof?
If you really take it out and go to the yamen for a pair of tax dollars, doesn't that completely expose the secret?
The Yamen side will definitely refuse to recognize the certificates issued by them, which means there is collusion between the government and businessmen, plus a partnership to evade taxes.
If the salt merchants can be held responsible to the end, the people in the government office would be most happy to see this happen.
For salt merchants, they will have to add another piece of evidence, counterfeiting Yamen certificates!
If dying once is not enough, do you need to die twice?
After thinking about it, all the salt merchants confessed.
You've offended the Yongwei camp here, and offended the Yamen over there. Can you still hang out in the future?
At the worst, you have to keep the good relationship, right?
Bad luck!
A bad year!
I didn’t look at the almanac when I went out!
I came to Yangzhou to play with the thin horse, but ended up playing myself!
Playing the game once is equivalent to a boat or even a fleet of private salt sinking to the bottom of the river...
Who can bear this?
You have to be careful in the future, don't let the Yongwei camp catch you again.
This must have been ordered by the Dog Emperor Chongzhen!
First, Prince Gou opened sea salt!
Later, the emperor arrested the salt merchants!
Are the father and son of the old Zhu family going to fight the salt merchant to the end?
I heard from officials that Chongzhen was a fool before and couldn't handle money at all.
How could he be so smart now?
Was he struck by lightning and enlightened?
Why not kill this dog emperor with a thunderbolt?
By the way, the tyrannical dog prince was also hacked to death!
Without a large sum of money in his pocket, the salt merchant had some very evil thoughts in his mind.
If the curse worked, both Chongzhen and Prince Gou would have died tens of thousands of times!
After moving to the southern capital, he first cleaned up the local nobles and then greeted many merchants.
Adding the two items together, the price of gold and silver is equivalent to about five million taels, and other items and assets are calculated separately.
Now Chongzhen was satisfied and was not anxious about the rest of the matter.
Come to think of it, this trick is really effective. No wonder the emperor asked Wei Zhongxian to do it, and it really worked!
Chongzhen's strategy was to go first for Huang Degong, and then let Wang Chengen go if he couldn't withstand it, and finally just pass the responsibility on to the traitor!
I have received a lot of money but still have no responsibilities. Isn’t it perfect?
That traitor just got half of the country from his own hands, so he should bear such sin!
The Jiangnan merchants are so stubborn that they should try the sharp tongue of the traitor!
Not long after, something happened that made the merchants so depressed that they vomited blood. The dog prince in their hearts replied!
In the letter, Prince Gou admitted that Yongweiying acted like this because of his own incompetent management.
Huang Degong and the generals who made major mistakes have been criticized and educated, and they have been ordered to correct their mistakes.
In order to correct their attitude, each person has been fined one month's salary as a warning.
I also hope that in the future, we will strictly enforce laws and prohibitions, be strict with ourselves, carry out the spirit of loyalty to the emperor and serve the country, and carry it forward.
Prince Gou expressed regret for the negative impact it had on merchants. Fortunately, similar things did not happen often...
In general, the meaning between the lines is to protect one's shortcomings and perfunctory ridicule, plus a hint of threat!
Is this considered an apology? ? ?
It is completely provoking everyone's psychological bottom line!
The dog prince deceives people too much!
The general was fined one month's salary...
There is not even dismissal or investigation. Can this be called severe punishment?
Is there a ball for you?
Everyone in the Yongwei camp has benefited from this catastrophe. Isn't this punishment a drop in the bucket?
Where is Emperor Chongzhen?
How to express your opinion?
Isn't it already stated?
All responsibilities will be borne by the prince!
this……
All the merchants are confused!
He can't defeat the "living king of hell" in front of him, and he is beyond the reach of the dog prince.
I lost a lot of money for no reason, I really want to cry!
After much deliberation, I still need to find Donglin for an explanation.
In this regard, Qian Qianyi's explanation is that Donglin Shizi also suffered huge losses in this petition.
Anyone who participates will not be allowed to take part in the general examination within three years, let alone the palace examination!
Who decided this?
The dog prince!
But what does your Majesty think?
His Majesty said that all responsibilities will be borne by the prince!
How could the Northern Court intervene in the affairs of the Southern Court?
It's against the rules!
Emperor Chongzhen said that he had been having a headache recently, so he assigned the responsibilities and powers to the chief minister and Huang Degong. The prince could once again supervise the country and take charge of all major and minor affairs.
Since the prince is willing to take all responsibilities, what else can Chongzhen say?
Is it better to look at Dong Lin or to look at lotus flowers?
It’s obvious!
Hateful!
The emperor did not come forward, and the prince began to control Nanting again.
Huang Degong was in control of the army, but Qu Shichu had no say.
In this case, wouldn't it mean that everyone on our side has been plotted by this dog father and son?
It’s simply darker than Emperor Wanli!
I can't see my fingers!
At least Wanli was still alone!
Now, the dog father and son are singing together and having a great time!
Fool the officials!
Fool the merchants!
Fool the people!
Sin cannot be forgiven!
So what?
Are you planning to revolt?
When they thought that they had no soldiers and that their only hope was that Xincheng Bo Zhao Zhilong was killed, everyone was dumbfounded and could only sigh.
I just hate that the Qing soldiers and horses cannot fly to the south of the Yangtze River and vent their evil anger for everyone!
As long as the dog father and son can be killed, everyone can shout long live the Qing Emperor!
I would rather surrender, have my hair shaved and braided, and kneel down to recognize a new master than pay taxes to this pair of dogs and their son!
When they heard that Beidu was surrounded by the Emperor Taiji's army, everyone who hated the Dog Prince jumped into joy and set off firecrackers that day to celebrate!
If the dog prince could be captured alive and executed, every household in the south of the Yangtze River would be able to serve as the emperor of the Qing Dynasty!
For this reason, there are still people in the city who place bets at the opening!
The Qing army broke through the city and captured the northern capital. They bet one tael and paid two taels of silver.
The dog prince defeated the emperor chicken and saved Beidu. He bet one tael of silver and lost ten taels of silver!
Except for some people from the Beiguan and Yongwei Camps, most of the merchants, wealthy gentry and common people in the city were optimistic about the brave and capable soldiers of the Qing Dynasty!
"Zongrong! Zongrong!"
"Why are you panicking?"
"Won!"
"ah?"
"The Crown Prince has won the battle. The Crown Prince has lost no less than 40,000 men and has withdrawn his troops!"
"really?"
"It's absolutely true! The flying knight who came to report has just entered the palace!"
"Well! Get your troops together quickly, don't let the banker run away with his money!"
Huang Degong bet 3,000 taels of silver. He originally thought he would lose it, but he didn't expect an unexpected surprise.
Three thousand taels has turned into thirty thousand taels. There is no guarantee that the banker will not run away in advance, so he must take care of it first.
If the set amount is cashed, everything will be fine.
Otherwise, let him know how powerful the Yongwei Camp is!
The prince is really good at it. He can defeat the emperor Taiji. It seems that the airship and other immortal weapons are very sharp!
Huang Degong was optimistic about a certain prince, so naturally the generals under his command were not just for free.
From top to bottom, tens of thousands of taels of silver were pledged to the prince.
This is good, net profit is nine times!
Until the end of the year, I don’t have to worry about food and drink!
As Huang Degong mobilized the soldiers and horses of the Yongwei Camp, the merchants in the city became frightened again.
However, they discovered that the "Living King of Hell" did not attack the merchants this time, but went straight to the gambling house!
This bet is of great importance, and we must not make any mistakes. The most important thing is that we must not let the other party play with us and get away with it.
Since the Yongwei camp is stationed in Nandu, I am the king of heaven. I will not buy anyone's account except Long Live Lord!
If you want to make money from the soldiers of the Yongwei camp, you have to wait and see if you have the life!
Now not only can't you make any money, but you also have to pay a large amount of compensation to settle the account!
As the saying goes - heads can be cut off, blood can be shed, but gambling debts cannot be thrown away!
The news spread wider and wider, and soon everyone in the city knew about it.
"Beat the emperor's chicken?"
Qian Qianyi muttered something in a low voice and fell into deep thought.
How can the prince win?
Could it be fake news?
Isn't this too amazing?
One hundred thousand defenders defeated three hundred thousand Donglu cavalry?
It is said that he suffered very few casualties and killed no less than 50,000 enemies!
It’s incredible!
Not only Qian Qianyi, but also Hou Xun, Zhang Wei, and Qian Shisheng were all sluggish.
Qu Shishu hurriedly dressed up and prepared to go to see the emperor and find out what was going on.
Everyone wanted to follow the chief assistant, but Qian Qianyi stopped them. At this time, it was better to let Qu Shichu go to find out the news.
If it is true, everyone will discuss it first, and then congratulate this victory at the court meeting tomorrow.
On the contrary, we need to take a long-term approach. What is the situation in Beidu needs further verification.
Everyone also felt that what Master Qian said was reasonable, so they stayed here and waited for the good news.
When Qu Shichun came back from his residence, what he told everyone was indeed "good news"!
Now everyone here is even more unbelievable!
Huang Taiji was blown away by the wind?
Use an army of 300,000 to deal with a ten-year-old yellow-mouthed child, and still be defeated completely?
Didn't it mean that Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, two tribes that were good at fighting, did not have King Qin?
Qin Liangyu's troops are still in Sichuan for repairs, but the prince can win the battle with just the few troops at hand?
Qian Qianyi felt that something was fishy, but he couldn't provide any evidence and even the reasons were far-fetched, so he didn't say much.
The specific details will have to be judged after meeting the emperor tomorrow and understanding the actual situation.
If the prince really led his troops to defeat the Emperor Taiji, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty would be able to issue a congratulatory note in the name of the cabinet.
Not long after being humiliated by the prince, you have to congratulate him again. How reluctant do you have to be?
The problem is that the Beiguan group in the imperial court does not think so as we do, and these people are extremely happy.
Qian Qianyi could guess that this was the case without even looking.
That night, due to different starting points, some people were excited about the victory, while others were extremely anxious because of it.
Anyway, Chongzhen, who was very happy with his face, slept more comfortably than ever in the company of Concubine Tian.
Huang Degong and all his subordinates were holding the money in their arms, and they even dreamed of laughing like pigs!
Ni Yuanlu, the Minister of Rites, had previously looked down upon the prince's actions, but since Meishan was renamed Hongshan, he was the one who proposed the pen and received one hundred taels of silver from the prince for this purpose.
Ni Yuanlu had previously bet one hundred taels of silver, not expecting to make any money at all. She thought it was just to return a favor, but as a result, one hundred taels turned into one thousand taels!
The next day, before going to the palace, colleagues who heard that Ni Yuanlu was making money asked him to treat him. Naturally, Ni Yuanlu, who had made a fortune, couldn't shirk it...
