Gao Jinzhong, a little discouraged, quickly wrote a letter and sent someone to Nanjing overnight.

The next day, Emperor Yongchang received Gao Jinzhong's letter and immediately lost all hope. He seemed to be stupid.

"The Supreme Emperor!"

He called out in a low voice, then walked to Emperor Yongchang and said caringly: "You should take care of yourself!"

"Comrade, what do you think I should do!"

Gao Jinzhong could not advance eastward, and Emperor Yongchang, who had no soldiers and power, had no capital to bargain.

"It's better to agree to the request of Chu Zhongping and others, and supervise the government in the name of responsible government, and wait for the opportunity!"

The current situation is obviously that He Yuansheng and the Zhejiang Party have reached a compromise. If Emperor Yongchang no longer knows the situation, he may not get anything and will be in danger.

After all, there are not only one or two emperors who died suddenly, let alone the Supreme Emperor.

"I'm not willing to give up!"

"Why!"

Xiao Jing sighed and said to herself, "Who can't let go of your hatred and refuses to cooperate with He Yuansheng."

In Xiao Jing's view, cooperating with He Yuansheng obviously outweighs the disadvantages.

Even if you lose the salt tax, you can slowly follow the throne. No one can tell how it will develop at that time.

"Is it still time to agree to He Yuansheng's conditions now?"

At this time, Emperor Yongchang thought of He Yuansheng again, and felt a hint of regret.

However, Xiao Jing did not answer because the situation was different. There were not many places in the Zhejiang Party and He Yuansheng who reached an agreement that needed Emperor Yongchang.

Xiao Jing's silence made Emperor Yongchang understand and said helplessly: "Is everything left to my companion? You can do it!"

After saying that? Emperor Yongchang stood up and went to the backyard.

This made Xiao Jing extremely helpless? He whispered: "It's the same again!"

But there is nothing he can do? He still has to clean up the mess, so he went to see Chen Shijun.

But this time? Chen Shijun's attitude has changed a little? Only talk about the new king? He never mentions the Supreme Emperor's assistance.

Xiao Jing understood at a glance that the situation was different and the Zhejiang Party did not intend to give benefits.

"Mr. Chen, what will happen if you say when the new king ascends the throne? The Supreme Emperor will not appear? Or write an imperial edict to denounce Jia and the prince unfilial, what will happen?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Chen Shijun's face changed suddenly.

Because Emperor Yongchang is the father of Jiahe County Prince? If you really want to do this, even if it cannot affect the new king's ascension to the throne, it will cause some trouble.

Seeing Chen Shijun's face change, Xiao Jing continued to speak: "What's more, Your Highness Jing? He is loyal to the Supreme Emperor!"

These slightly threatening words forced Chen Shijun to compromise? He responded lightly: "What are Eunuch Xiao's plans!"

"It's very simple? According to the previous agreement, the Prince of Jiahe ascended the throne and the Supreme Emperor assisted the government!"

"good!"

For the sake of the overall situation, Chen Shijun had to agree, and the two sides reached an agreement.

The matter agreed that the officials in Nanjing City began to get busy and prepare for the new emperor's ascension to the throne.

When the new emperor ascended the throne, there must be an imperial palace, but the Daqian Dynasty had just moved its capital and its finances were empty, so it was able to build a new imperial palace.

In the end, there was no way to repair a royal villa in Nanjing as a new imperial palace.

On the sixth day of the March, Prince Jiahe ascended the throne with the support of the Zhejiang Party, and his reign was Kanghe.

However, this Emperor Kang He is only ten years old this year. Anyone knows that this is an emperor in name only.

After the new king ascended the throne, Emperor Yongchang, who was in the name of regent, immediately issued an order to ask He Yuansheng to make way for Gao Jinzhong to enter Beijing.

This matter was fiercely opposed by the Zhejiang Party, but the situation was settled. He Yuansheng immediately sent a letter to Li Zongting to let him open up his path.

After all, Emperor Yongchang has no support, how can he fight against the Zhejiang Party?

However, in order to stabilize the situation, the peasant army did not let the peasant army plunder everywhere, and went south to the army, followed it directly and advanced eastward.

In this move, Chu Zhongping and other Zhejiang Party officials were caught off guard and had to order Qin Liangzuo to advance east quickly.

In this way, the three groups, including 400,000 people, arrived in Nanjing one after another.

Due to mutual coercion, the three parties have obtained tacit understanding and have camped outside the city and are not allowed to enter the city.

"The Marquis has a very good method. With the restraint of the Supreme Emperor, Chu Zhongping and others will be sad!"

In the inn, Zhao Wenyu spoke with a smile, with a look of relaxation.

"The more fierce they fight, the more beneficial it is to me!"

He Yuansheng responded with a smile, then took two booklets and handed them to Zhao Wenyu: "The chief minister takes a look at this!"

Zhao Wenyu immediately took it over. After seeing it, his face became serious and asked faintly: "The Marquis wants to rectify the salt affairs!"

During the Daqian Dynasty, the main salt-producing land was Lianghuai Salt Field.

And one of these two booklets, one of which was presented by a salt service official, records the output of Lianghuai Salt Field and the number of salt taxes.

The other book was investigated by a secret spy, which contained the actual output of Lianghuai Salt Field and the approximate number of salt taxes estimated by He Yuansheng.

However, the amount difference between the two booklets is huge, and the figures calculated by He Yuansheng are twice as high as those reported by officials.

In other words, the salt tax of the Daqian Dynasty,

It costs more than ten million taels, but 70% of them were eaten by officials.

"Salt business is so chaotic, so we must make some rectifications!"

He Yuansheng's tone was filled with murderous intent.

Now he is extremely short of money. After all, the battle to go north to serve the king consumed hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Moreover, the army of more than 100,000 people under his command consumes more than 300,000 taels of silver every month, which makes He Yuansheng almost unable to hold on.

This is also the reason why He Yuansheng did not wipe out pirates and developed maritime trade after returning to the south.

After all, distant water cannot quench near thirst, so He Yuansheng focused on salt affairs and wanted to make some money.

"The salt affairs are too much involved. If the Marquis takes action to rectify it, there is a very likely chaos!"

Zhao Wenyu spoke up and his tone was a bit complicated.

"As long as the army is sent to control the Lianghuai Salt Field, and then arrest the officials involved at the same time, what chaos can happen!"

Now the cash in He Yuansheng's hands is less than one million, so he urgently needs a sum of money to replenish it, so he is ready to make a big fight.

"Why!"

Zhao Wenyu sighed first, and then said slowly: "Marty, the salt affairs are intricate, and it seems that the officials dominate everything.

But behind these officials, there are big salt merchants as their backers, and they are the real leaders. If you only move one or two, it would be fine, but if you rectify the salt affairs, these salt merchants will rebound!"

"Some illegal businessmen, even if they rebound, what can they do!"

He Yuansheng was a little puzzled because the rebound of the businessman was nothing more than a strike or using public opinion to put pressure on the government.

In He Yuansheng's eyes, this behavior is just a pediatric department and can be cured by iron-blooded means.

Seeing He Yuansheng's puzzled gaze, Zhao Wenyu explained: "Once the Marquis rectifies the salt affairs, the salt merchants will definitely unite. They will close the shops so that there is no grain of salt on the market.

In this way, if the people cannot buy salt, chaos will inevitably occur."

"As long as you use iron-blooded means to suppress it, are you afraid that the situation will not be stabilized?"

These words made Zhao Wenyu shake his head and speak lightly: "It's just a salt merchant, so it's natural to deal with, but what about the stove owners."

Then the topic changed: "The salt merchants in Yangzhou are very smart and gave some small profits to the stove owners who make a living by cooking salt. If they attack the salt merchants, the stove owners will definitely advance and retreat with the salt merchants. At that time, production will be stopped on strike and the chaos will be huge.

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Zhao Wenyu's words made He Yuansheng's expression solemn. He really didn't expect that the Salt Merchants Group would be so smart that it would unite the stove.

In this way, this matter is really troublesome. After all, there are more than 100,000 stove households in Lianghuai Salt Field that make a living by cooking salt. They all benefit from this matter and will definitely resist collectively.

"Thank you for the reminder of the Prime Minister, I will be more cautious!"

He Yuansheng overturned his original idea. After all, if the stove owners stand with the salt merchants, they cannot use iron-blooded means.

However, this matter needs to be investigated for a while before a decision can be made.

He Yuansheng's words surprised Zhao Wenyu a little. He thought the other party would give up his previous thoughts.

Because the current situation is very complicated, it would be a bit unwise to spend a lot of energy to rectify the salt business.

After all, Emperor Yongchang and Zhejiang Party officials were all eyeing each other. If He Yuansheng caused a big mess, he would be passive.

However, Zhao Wenyu didn't say much. Now he will not give up and work hard for He Yuansheng.

After that, the two of them said a few more words, Zhao Wenyu said goodbye and left, and He Yuansheng also began to send people to carefully investigate the salt affairs.

This investigation quickly found the true situation.

If the stove owners produce a pound of salt, they will get more than 30 cents of money, and they can sell it directly to the salt merchant, which can get one-third more.
To be continued...