Wu Mei really didn't care much about Yun Chu's beating of the Wu brothers.
If it weren't for the fact that she didn't have any relatives worth winning over, she would have killed all the Wu clan by herself. In fact, all the male members of the previous generation of Wu clan had been tortured to death by her.
It was because of this that she tried to use the next generation of the Wu clan to see if it could be used. Judging from the current use process, it was successful.
The Wu brothers didn't see it that way. They had seen Yun Chu twice in total and were beaten twice, each time harder than the last. Now after listening to the Queen's words, the brothers were no longer sure whether they could beat Yun Chu next time.
Escape with your life.
However, the beating this time was not in vain. Wu Chengsi became Shangshu Fengyu, responsible for managing the emperor's private library, and Wu Sansi was promoted to General Youwei, both of which were very good positions.
In addition, after returning home, I also learned that the queen had given her a hundred pieces of silk, five hundred taels of gold, a bowl of pearls, and two pieces of white jade...
There is nothing to say about the official positions, they are all good ones, and the rewards are real rewards. But when they think of Yun Chu's dead face, neither Wu Chengsi nor Wu Sansi can be happy.
God knows one day when I happily went to work, I accidentally met Yunchu, and was carried back miserably by the servants.
Wu Chengsi was heartbroken and decided to go around when he saw Yun Chu in the future. Wu Sansi thought that he was still young and as long as he was willing to work hard, he should be able to practice martial arts well enough to fight Yun Chu.
After making arrangements for the Wu brothers, Wu Mei went to the back hall of Shangyang Palace to visit the emperor.
I haven't seen the emperor for two days, and I don't know if his headache is getting better.
Wu Mei felt relieved when she saw the giant bear sitting at the gate of the palace, chewing bamboo. This meant that the emperor was in good health.
When he pushed the door open and entered, the back hall was filled with smoke. Li Zhi was sitting cross-legged on a futon, and a Taoist priest in Xuanyi was running around the emperor holding a peach wood sword. There was also a piece of yellow paper on the peach wood sword.
The flames flickering on and off are hard to understand.
This man is Zhang Zhaoyang, a high priest from the Zhang Daoling line of Longhu Mountain. Just now, he was using the secret skill of Longhu Mountain, the eighth level of mind travel, to remove evil spirits for the emperor!
What is Sha?
Master Zhang Zhaoyang said that these are some extremely yin bad things that linger in the world all year round and refuse to return to extremely yin places. They mess with people's souls, luck, and bodies, and they must be eliminated.
It is also said that the emperor is lingering on the sickbed because he has been invaded by evil spirits. It takes ninety-nine and eighty-one days to clear it. Today is already the twenty-eighth day.
Wu Mei didn't believe in these things, but the emperor refused to refuse, and she had no choice. The reason why she didn't come to see the emperor for two days was because the emperor had to listen to the Master's sermon and had no time to see her.
Zhang Zhaoyang finished the last lap, waited for the yellow paper on the peach wood sword to burn out, bowed his hands to the queen, put the fly whisk in his hand on his left arm, and left.
Wu Mei saw that the air in the hall was dirty, so she ordered the palace servants to open the doors and windows to disperse the smoke.
Li Zhi stood up from the futon and turned his head to look at Wu Mei and said, "What's wrong?"
Wu Mei walked to Li Zhi's right so that he could see her, took out a memorandum from her sleeve and gave it to the emperor, saying: "Your Majesty said that Yun Chu's memorandum should be personally investigated, so I brought it here.
Impeach Yunchu."
Li Zhi looked at the memorial in his hand, threw it aside and said, "Isn't this just a memorial?"
Wu Mei said: "This memorial is a catalog of all the illegal things that impeached Yun Chu. I have seen it, and it is no less than one hundred pounds."
Li Zhi frowned and said, "What did he do as Wanfu pointed out?"
Wu Mei said: "Ha, it's really lively this time. From the time when the officials in the yamen became friends with each other, to the excessive banquets, eating more, taking more, and blackmailing the villagers, it was very lively. It can be said that Yunchu alone took a
All the mistakes that could be made in the yamen were made once and for all.
The Censor's Office in Chang'an is already in an uproar, and they all demand His Majesty to punish Yunchu's sins."
Li Zhi looked through the catalog of memorials and frowned: "Why are they all these trivial things? Isn't there any big thing that can be mentioned?"
Wu Mei said: "These are all the mistakes made by the officials and minor officials in his yamen. Yun Chu took all the blame on himself, so we have the current situation.
If Your Majesty doesn't punish him, this matter will not end well.
After all, only when we have been beaten and punished can we truly end."
Li Zhi sighed and said: "Fine copper? Does his family still have copper to fine?"
Wu Mei shook her head and said: "According to my concubine's knowledge, no, Yu Xiurong now relies entirely on the support of her sister-in-law."
Li Zhi asked again: "Where's the salary?"
Wu Mei spread her hands and said, "If Yun Chu wants a salary, it will be at least eight years later."
Li Zhi said impatiently: "Then reward him with a hundred taels of gold and a hundred bolts of silk, and then fine him copper. This matter will be over."
Wu Mei said: "Should we send someone to warn him not to be arrogant due to favor?"
Li Zhi looked at Wu Mei and said, "Aren't you forcing me to do this?
He was a very measured person in his work. You sent him to Zhou Xing, and in less than a hundred days in Chang'an, he killed more than 300 people, and the charges against many of them were almost unfounded.
What do you want Yunchu to think when Zhou Xing does this? If Zhou Xing investigates the Wannian County Yamen, he can take down the entire Wannian County Yamen for these small crimes.
Things have just started to improve for Liushui Brand. Yunchu wants to make Chang'an's business prosperous through the Nancheng Renovation Plan, and also wants to build the Tang Dynasty and All Nations Songde Tianshu to create a new fund pool for Liushui Brand. I also heard that
, Chang'an will also use a new method to cast copper coins this year. There are a lot of things going on, and naturally, his subordinates cannot be dealt with at this time.
Look, there are so many secret and scandalous things here, and now they are all blamed on him. How shameless is he?
Such an official who only cares about Chang'an, you actually say that he is arrogant and arrogant?
Just because he likes to have nothing to do, beat up the Wu brothers?"
Seeing that the emperor was getting more and more excited as he spoke, Wu Mei quickly admitted her mistake and said: "I made all my mistakes, and they are all my fault. I just ask Your Majesty not to be angry. Mr. Sun said that the most important thing about your body is the cultivation of a pure heart and few desires."
, you must not get involved in the seven emotions.”
Li Zhi glanced at Wu Mei and said, "Go, it's time for me to rest."
Wu Mei sighed, stood up and left.
Li Zhi slowly came to the window of the main hall, looked at the green bamboos outside the window, and murmured to himself: "My country is the best in thousands of years, but I am burdened by this broken body.
God, you really don’t protect me.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Zhi felt as if a red-hot steel needle had been inserted into his head, which was still stirring his brain.
"Ah -" Li Zhi screamed wildly, fell to the ground, writhed hard, and kept hitting his head on the ground, wishing he could faint immediately...
After the Wannian County Yamen was cleared of blame by the county magistrate alone, the county Yamen became much more motivated to handle errands.
The Yun family's pot of winter jasmine is already in full bloom, and the willow trees at the county government office have just begun to sprout.
People were constantly coming in and out of Yunchu's mansion.
There were two small piles of salt piled on Yunchu's desk.
After comparing the quality of the salt, Yunchu quickly made a decision.
This year's salt tax, while the total amount remains unchanged, has changed from salt-producing areas to merchants selling salt. Merchants no longer need to take salt from the previously designated salt farms, but will pay based on whose price the salt is.
If it's low and the quality is good, just buy it from someone else.
Otherwise, it can't be changed. The bastards in the salt field are all bullies now. It's just a small amount of sand in the salt block. Now there is a situation where the salt is wrapped around the stone. The salt is no longer the yellowish white it used to be. It is changing rapidly.
It has turned black. When people buy such salt, they usually take it back, melt it, and filter it again before eating it. However, after such a simple filtering, the purchased salt will lose 20%. This is really unacceptable.
tolerate.
You must know that Datang's salt administration was a parallel channel between private and government operations. The government-operated salt ponds in Puzhou, Hedong did not pay taxes and could be sold directly. The private salt fields were six times the agricultural tax. In other words, operating one acre of salt fields
, you have to pay tax on six acres of farmland, and you also have to pay commercial tax when buying and selling.
In this case, the price of private salt is much higher than that of official salt. If private salt wants to be sold, it usually can only go to remote places where the supply of official salt is not available. The quantity is small and the price is high, which has no impact on official salt.
It’s different now. Since Yunchu and the others started operating Dahang City, they opened up a commercial road from Dahang City to Chang’an. The salt from Dahang City can be reached directly from the sea to Dengzhou, and then from Dengzhou all the way west, and finally along the
The Grand Canal reaches Chang'an all the way.
The road from Dahangcheng to Chang'an is more than ten times longer than that from Puzhou in Hedong Province. However, when the high-quality sea salt there arrives in Chang'an, the price is 30% lower than that of the Salt Lake in Hedong Province.
This resulted in the salt from Hedong Yanchi being ignored in Chang'an.
The people who came in and out of Yunchu's official house were people from the Hedong Salt Supervisor. At first, he was just a junior official from the seventh rank. He came to ask Yunchu why the amount of salt in Chang'an was so small.
After Zhang Jia was thrown out of the yamen, the positions of the officials who came back became higher than the last.
However, even though he was only a fifth-rank official at the highest level, he was still dragged away from Yunchu's mansion by Zhang Jia and thrown out.
Until now, all the officials in Manwannian County have not figured out why these people are so outrageous. Their salt can no longer be sold, and they dare to come directly to Lantian County Duke to question them.
Wen Rou, who now specializes in the salted fish trade, knows these officials from the Salt Supervision Bureau very well.
"When Emperor Gaozu entered Chang'an, because there were many private salt dealers who took refuge under his command, in order to win people's hearts, he abolished the "Salt Law" of the former Sui Dynasty, allowed official salt and private salt to be developed simultaneously, and also handed over the newly established Salt Supervision
It was managed by many close people at the time.
At this point, many salt ponds that were originally official salt became private salt ponds, and the official salt became a decoration. During the reign of Emperor Taizong, many people tried to implement the "Salt Law" several times, but because of the strong opposition, Fang Xuanling resigned.
I came up with a management method to incorporate private salt fields into the land tax, and in one fell swoop, private salt fields were almost wiped out, and official salt fields became mainstream again.
As a result, the Salt Supervisor has become a job that cannot be fatter. Over the years, everyone has been vying for the position of a small Salt Supervisor. Each official is more noble than the last. Now, even for a small Salt Supervisor,
The Yanchi Zhanggu can be brothers with officials at the county magistrate level.
Speaking of which, it is really a great honor for someone to send a junior official from the seventh rank to Chang'an to question you, the fifth-rank county magistrate."
Yun Chu said: "Tell me directly, who is the current boss of the salt supervisor?"