In this way, Yangzhou City was in turmoil for four or five days before it finally calmed down completely. The Jin Yiwei no longer wandered around the streets, but retreated back to Qiu Garden! But according to the estimation of some people, there are countless gold, silver, jewelry and antiques in Qiuyuan! If there are gangsters working here, they will have food and drink for the rest of their lives, but no one dares!
At the same time, similar things happened in more than a dozen other cities in Jiangnan! A large number of Jin Yiwei swaggered past, arrested a large number of salt merchants and their related personnel, and took away a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry, antiques and treasures! It really opened the eyes of ordinary people!
At the same time, the governments in various places also received the cabinet documents and dispatched archers, strong squads and other armed forces to start strangulating the salt owl of all sizes! In fact, the salt lords are basically semi-public when selling private salt. Everyone in the government knows their strongholds, so they can catch them accurately!
And most of the salt owl's main force had been wiped out during the fight with Liu Haojia, and the remaining forces were unable to withstand the attacks from all over the place! All of a sudden, salt lords everywhere were dying, being caught, and escaping! There is no place for Salt Owl in the entire Jiangnan!
At the same time, the inland navy sailed upstream along the Yangtze River and even along its tributaries, transporting low-priced salt to various parts of the Ming Dynasty! For a time, the price of salt in the entire Ming Dynasty dropped to the bottom in an instant, which made all the people rejoice, and completely set off a craze of selling iron and buying salt!
Even those wealthy businessmen are wondering whether they can get a share of the salt industry that they had been unable to get involved in before. Anyway, as mentioned above, anyone can buy this kind of low-price salt and traffic it as long as they go to the salt farm! If you can manage a fixed sales area, it will be equivalent to having an inexhaustible source of wealth!
No matter what the people below were thinking, saying, or discussing, as the news of Jin Yiwei's arrest of salt merchants spread, the entire officialdom of the Ming Dynasty was shaken! Jin Yiwei is back again! And when this tiger comes out again, it will be a huge case! According to rough estimates from various sources, no fewer than two thousand people and their relatives were arrested this time. It can be said to be the heaviest case in the past century!
When the civil servants heard the news, they all beat their chests and felt that there was a big problem in the cabinet, so they actually released Jin Yiwei! From now on, there may be another curse on my family! So they wrote frantically to contact all parties, and advised their superiors that they must find some faults in this incident and suppress the Jinyiwei's revival!
Although the nouveau riche and military attachés felt that Jin Yiwei was closer to them, they were not too happy either! Because Jin Yiwei is also responsible for monitoring them! However, the nobles felt that their relationship with Liu Haojia was not bad and they should receive some preferential treatment.
But other military attachés had to seriously consider how to curry favor with Liu Haojia! Lest a chain be put around your neck one day! In short, because of this heinous case, the entire Ming Dynasty was shaken! .
When the news reached the capital, Zhang Juzheng was joking with several concubines in his flower hall! What is surprising is that among these concubines there is a blond white man!
What Zhang Juzheng did in his life can be described as extraordinary, but his private life is also talked about! That means this person is extremely passionate about men and women! Everyone in the court knew this, and they called it euphemistically: Those who are powerful must have great desires!
And not only people in the court knew about this matter, but people outside the court also knew about it! Therefore, many people who want to curry favor with him will give him some valuable and unique drugs to enhance his enjoyment! If you're near the sea, you'll get sea goods, such as sea dog whips! Those inland will be given herbal medicine, such as silver and goat weed! Some even directly search for beautiful women from all over the place, train them carefully and then send them to Zhang Ju's prison! And Zhang Juzheng naturally accepted them all with a smile!
Under normal circumstances, no one would disturb Zhang Juzheng when he was having a sensual act, but at this time, a blushing maid delivered a letter to him!
Zhang Juzheng didn't even have to think about it. There was only one person who dared to disturb him at this time, and that was You Qi! And You Qi is a person who has won his trust, so he naturally knows the importance, so this letter must be extremely important!
However, he still couldn't bear to spend time teasing with these concubines, so he still treated them tenderly for a while before sending them away! Then he sat quietly for a moment, waiting for his eyes to recover
I didn’t open that letter until after Qingming Festival!
Zhang Juzheng has always boasted that he could be able to see mountains collapse before his eyes without changing his expression, but after reading the letter, he was so angry that his proud beard was trembling, and veins were popping up on his forehead! After he forced himself to restrain himself and read the letter, he slapped the letter on the table and cursed in a low voice: "These nobles are really helpless, Adou! What a good Wu Ninghou, he really finds every opportunity to exploit every opportunity!"
Zhang Juzheng's original plan was very good, that is, to use Liu Haojia to clean up the main force of the salt lords, and then use the founding lords to clean up the salt merchants, and then local governments intervened! This arrangement was to create opportunities for Liu Haojia to achieve military success in exchange for Jin Yiwei not to interfere in ransacking homes and participating in low-priced salt!
The advantage of this is that Jin Yiwei will continue to lie dormant. At the same time, when low-priced salt begins to be marketed throughout the Ming Dynasty, all the credit will fall on the civil servants, especially him, the chief minister of the cabinet!
But what he never expected was that Liu Haojia would not fulfill the agreement even though he had reached an agreement! At the same time, the nobles headed by Xu Guogong kept their heads down and pretended not to be offended. It was in vain that Liu Haojia and the Jin Yiwei took the limelight!
The result is that now everyone in the Ming Dynasty knows that it is Jin Yiwei who is cleaning up the salt merchants, it is Jin Yiwei who has caught corrupt officials, and it is Jin Yiwei who has brought in a large amount of low-priced salt! And in the end, he, the chief assistant, only failed to make one strategic move! He was still forced to rely on him, which made him, the first assistant, so embarrassed!
The most disgusting thing is that Liu Haojia also arranged for people to secretly publicize that these people who were copied have done many evil things! How to monopolize the market and dominate the market! How the family oppresses the people, how they collude with officials from various places, and how they corrupt and bend the law!
Now it's better. When ordinary people hear the news, they say that Jin Yiwei can enforce the law impartially and protect people's livelihood! His reputation was so good all of a sudden! The gentry and officials were fearful and resentful!
The fear is that they are afraid that the Jin Yiwei will come back again and completely monitor them, which will make life difficult in the future! The resentment is that the cabinet actually gave Jin Yiwei such an opportunity to shine, which disappointed officials all over the world!
