"This is really a chance of wealth and wealth. If they had done this business, I'm afraid they wouldn't have to wait until today. They would have been targeted long ago. They would have been arrested and exterminated long ago. The charges would be much more serious than what they are doing now. .”
"Don't care if they do it or not. If they have this idea, they should die, right?"
Everyone is very angry about the content of this letter, especially the Shen Jiajun people. They are not just angry. If they were not very rational, if they could not control themselves well, they would probably be Boss Luan will be torn into pieces.
"If they really do this business, they will not be able to escape the charge of treason and collaborating with the enemy. This is not a matter of implicating one clan, it is a matter of implicating nine clans."
Shen Cha sneered. The people behind the scenes chose really good helpers. They all hated Daxia deeply and wanted to destroy Daxia. In order to achieve this goal, they even did not hesitate to hand over the knife. Foreigners are really good.
Shen Cha looked at Shen Haolin and then at Xue Ruitian, and the three of them sighed at the same time.
The reason why Daxia was invaded by the Liao and Jin that year was because merchants from Daxia colluded with the Liao and Jin, and used various channels and methods to sell materials such as salt and iron that the court firmly controlled and refused to sell to the Liao and Jin. Sold to the Wanyan family and Yelu family, thus strengthening the power of Liao and Jin, allowing them to use the weapons obtained from Daxia to attack Daxia.
"If I remember correctly, more than ten years ago we arrested a group of female businessmen selling smuggled salt, smuggled iron, and even smuggled firearms to Liao and Jin. We also uncovered a large number of Jiangnan officials behind their backs. But after all, I have killed a lot of people, but I didn’t expect that after so many years, there are still people who want to risk the world’s disapproval and continue to engage in this kind of unscrupulous business. They are really not afraid of death at all.”
"Yes, a lot of people died!" Mrs. Ning nodded towards Xue Ruitian, "To be precise, it should have been seventeen or eighteen years ago, when I happened to be in Songjiang Mansion and witnessed that major incident with my own eyes. "
"Matsujiang Mansion?"
"Hmm!" Madam Ning sighed, "More than half of the salt merchants in Jiangnan are actually in Songjiang Prefecture. The Salt Department in Jiangnan is the biggest employer in the entire imperial court. There is no one with any foundation or connections in Jiangnan. , did not have any chance to enter the Salt Course Department. Therefore, the case that year also involved many officials and petty officials of the Salt Course Department, large and small, almost seventy or eighty."
"I also remember that I saw this in the files of the Ministry of Justice. Almost no one in the Salt Department is clean. Because if a salt merchant wants to sell smuggled salt, he needs to bribe the person in the Salt Department to give him permission. And the road guide.”
"That's right!" Mrs. Ning sighed, "With so many people in the Salt Department, plus the salt merchants in Songjiang Prefecture, and many people who dealt with it, almost three to four thousand people died that year, almost the entire Jiangnan area. The saltworks are all involved."
"At that time, the number of people exiled in the southwest alone had reached 30,000 to 40,000. Think about it, it was such a big case that could shock the court."
"So many people?" Ning Cheng was stunned. "What kind of people dare to do such a thing? Are they stupid if they hand the enemy a knife and stab one of their own?"
"No, they are not stupid, they just put their interests first. In their view, I just sold some salt and some iron to Liaojin. This little salt and iron is not enough to make Liaojin aggressive. Since There's nothing offensive about it, so there's nothing bad or wrong if they make a little more money, and such a big charge can't be pinned on them."
"But I can't help but think that everyone is doing this." Jin Jing spread her hands, "So many salt merchants think this way, and they all sell a small amount of salt and iron to Liao and Jin, which they think is not much. Liao and Jin accumulate little. If there are many, the number will naturally be very large.”
"That's right." Shen Cha nodded, "According to the records in the file, when the total number of private salt and iron was announced, those people were shocked. They never expected that there would be so much salt and iron in the past few years. They lived in Liao and Jin." She sighed softly, "When I interrogated them at that time, I also asked them whether one day the Dong Chuang Incident would implicate the entire family and make nine tribes buried with them for their actions. Will they regret this? Choice. They said that the late emperor was kind and that there were so many salt merchants and salt divisions in Jiangnan.
All the officials and petty officials were involved, and it was impossible to kill all of them. Otherwise, it would leave a bloodthirsty impression on the people, which was inconsistent with the image of the late emperor in the past. "
"But the late emperor was not as merciful as they thought. No, the late emperor was merciful, but he had to divide things and people. As long as he didn't touch his reverse scale, it would be easy to say anything. If you can let him go, you can let him go. Yes, but once he touches his reverse scale, no matter how kind a person is, he will become ruthless and will not tolerate it. Coincidentally, Liao and Jin's successive violations are the late emperor's reverse scale."
"Yes, so this is where they are stupid. They don't care about anything for money. They deserve to die. After all, it is their own fault." Mrs. Ning nodded, "After all, in the eyes of these people, There is only profit, only money. As for whether the border troops will pay a greater price to block the Liao and Jin attacks, and whether the people at the border will lose their lives and have their families destroyed because of their actions, they have no idea of this."
"That's for sure. People who have never lived in the border gate will never think of this." Jin Jing snorted coldly, "There are always some people in the court who are not clear-minded and say that the border gate has so many idle people and it is a waste of the national treasury. Money and the like, I hope these people can be sent here one day to experience life on the battlefield."
"Hey, Brother Xiao Jing, there's no need to grit your teeth like that. The good days of those beasts are about to come to an end!" Ying Thirteen raised an eyebrow at Jin Jing, "Who will come to the border? Your Majesty has appointed a few royal censors. "Come with us, we call it supervision, but in fact we know very well what His Majesty's purpose is."
"Hey, those goods are coming?" Before Jin Jing could say anything, Jin Miaomiao spoke first. She raised her eyebrows at Ying Shisan, "Your Majesty is still thinking of us, coming all the way. When people are delivered to us, they just want us to treat them well. In the end, we have the final say whether they live or die, right?"
"Yes!" Ying Thirteen nodded, "That's indeed what I mean. Since they think the border is not that dangerous, let them experience for themselves what it means to truly hang by a thread."
