When Dengchun wanted to ask again, Xia Wanchun quickly pulled his clothes and left, and walked for a while and couldn't help but say, "Cungu, why don't you let me ask?"

"Jiu Gao, have you already doubted that man? Asking again will not only lead to no results, but may also expose us."

"What are you afraid of? We have the emperor's imperial destiny. The emperor asked us to openly investigate and secretly investigate. The worst thing is that we can change from secretly investigate to openly investigate. Who dares to deal with us?"

At this time, Du Dengchun was full of passion and wanted to find out the truth about the salt administration immediately and report to the emperor, for fear that he would be taken first by others if he was too late.

Xiahou Chun knew that it was not that simple. It was not the first time the court inspected the salt administration. In the past, it ended in vain and was bound to be obstructed by the salt merchants or the two Huaihei officials. The local government may even participate in it. If the sign was lit, the other party would be honest. It would not be their turn to investigate.

"We have the righteousness of the court. Although we dare not deal with us, it is possible to send dozens of people to protect us. How can we investigate then?"

Xia Wanchun's words made Du Dengchun silence, and he said for a while: "What should we do?"

"Don't worry, we have only been to Huai'an for one day. We will find an inn to stay in first, and then check it out slowly."

"Slowly investigate and keep the ancients. Although the emperor has no limit on time, if others are asked to find out and report first, wouldn't we have a waste of time?"

"It won't be a waste of time." Xia Wanchun said confidently: "The corruption of the salt administration is not a year or two, but a decades of accumulated achievements. If someone can find out in a short time, I, Xia Cungu, will only admire you. The more detailed we check, the better."

"Okay, listen to you." Du Dengchun said helplessly.

The two of them quickly found an inn to stay. The inn was not big, and they were clean and exquisite. The price was a bit shocking. The daily occupancy and accommodation cost of a small room was as high as half a silver coin. Du Deng's salary for the silver in the month was eight silver coins. Xia Wanchun had twelve. Based on their current salary, the two of them had just enough to pay the room fee. They were slightly better than that.

After staying there, Du Dengchun was a little angry: "It's just this broken store. You need half a silver coin a day. If you are in Songjiang, you can stay at least three days in a store. It's simply a robbery of money."

Du Dengchun's father Du Linzheng was a Jinshi in the fourth year of Chongzhen. He was one of the six sons of several society members, as Xia Wanchun's father Xia Yunyi. He had hundreds of acres of fertile land in his family and could collect about five or six hundred stones of rent and tax every year. The family can only be said to be wealthy and not wealthy. He was a little worried about half a silver coin land and house money.

"Forget it. This is already good. The first few stores are even more expensive. One room costs two silver coins a day. We really can't afford to live in. I still have four gold coins and seven silver coins on my body. How many have you brought with you?"

Du Dengchun said a little embarrassedly: "I only have one gold coin and three silver coins."

Xia Wanchun looked at Du Dengchun with a little surprise. It was July of the second year of Hongguang. It had been more than two months since they returned to the military camp. There was no cost in the military camp except for two days off every month. When they got the errand, they paid for three months of salary. Each of them had five months of salary. Xia Wanchun spent money all the way through the journey. He only spent thirteen silver coins. Although Du Dengchun’s military salary was less than Xia Wanchun, he also had forty silver coins in five months. Now he was only worth thirteen. I really don’t understand where Du Dengchun spent more than twice his money than himself.

But due to the face of his friends, Xia Wanchun was not easy to ask and said, "Thinking this way, we now have 60 silver coins, which is enough to pay the four-month room fee. Fortunately, the inn also provides free food. In addition to other expenses and travel expenses, there is no problem to pay for three months. We will take a three-month period and get the results in three months. If there is no problem in three months, we will move out of the inn and sleep on the streets and continue to investigate."

Du Dengchun opened his mouth. He originally wanted to go back at most one month. The salary he paid in these three months was originally the compensation for their mission. If he really wanted to live here for three months, the compensation from the court would not count. He would have to pay the travel expenses himself. But after all, Xia Wanchun made a big deal, so Du Dengchun couldn't say: "Okay, three months are three months."

Next, the two left early and returned late every day, often running around the streets and docks, calculating the daily inlet and out of salt goods in Huai'an, and inquiring about the situation of the salt merchants and the two Huai'an governments' transfer of salt corps.

The Yanshu Transportation Commission of the two Huaidu Dudu Shipping Authority was located in Yangzhou. The Shipping Commissioner was a senior official from the third rank. He has always been a rare fertile person in the world. A Tongzhi in Huai'an was responsible for a Tongzhi, who was the fourth rank, and was one level lower than the Dulu Transportation Commissioner. In the past, some officials could not compete for the Shipping Commissioner, and would rather be demoted to the Shipping Commissioner than the Dulu Transportation Commissioner's position as the Tongzhi, which shows the temptation of this Tongzhi.

Now the Tongzhi of the Dudu Salt Transportation Envoy of Huai'an Dudu Salt Transportation Envoy was named Lusheng. He was a Jinshi in the second year of Tianqi. Tian Lusheng was originally just a judge of the Dudu Salt Transportation Envoy. He left the sixth rank.

The eunuch Lu Jiude of the Central Committee was established. Shortly after the establishment of the Hongguang Dynasty, Lu Jiude supported King Fu as the emperor. His moxibustion hand was hot for a while. Tian Lusheng gritted his teeth and took out all the belongings he had saved for many years. He gave Lu Jiude 100,000 taels of snowflake silver. He was upgraded several times and exchanged for the position of Shipment of Salt Envoy Si Tongzhi.

Now Tian Lusheng is sitting in his own garden, leisurely listening to the opera of two female actors Yin Yinya on the stage. Since becoming Si Tongzhi, the salt transfer envoy of Huai'an, he has become lucky in less than two years. His originally thin body is like a balloon, and his weight is at least half the heavier than two years ago. If he had not met him in two years, even his most familiar friend would definitely not dare to recognize each other at once.

A man who looked like a housekeeper tiptoed to Tian Lusheng's ear and whispered in front of Tian Lusheng: "Master, two strangers came to the prefect's office today, the informant said, as if they were sent by the court to clean up the salt affairs."

"The court sent someone here, it's really not idle." Tian Lusheng frowned slightly, and there was no look of panic on his face. Some were just impatient. Although he became the salt envoy Si Tongzhi, he did not forget his roots. In the past two years, he has sent 50,000 taels of silver to Lu Jiude every year. With the eunuch of the current dynasty as his backer, he did not believe that he would be taken down.

"Master, in the past, the magistrate sent people here, but this time there was no news. If we hadn't arranged people in the prefect's office, we would have to keep it in the dark now, Master, it would be better to be careful."

"Hmph, Xu Hongyuan, a stinky and hard stone, can't even enjoy it if you have silver. All the money I gave him was used to build the city wall. I insisted on going against me, which is really a hindrance." Tian Lu said angrily.

"My master calms down. Although Xu Hongyuan is the same as the master, he has the support of Eunuch Lu and the care of Huaian Nei. If he wants to crush Xu Hongyuan to death, it would be like crushing an ant to death. If Huaian Nei was not concerned about defending Xu Hongyuan with Xu Hongyuan, Xu Hongyuan would have been driven away even if he had not died."

Huai'an Bo refers to the general Liu Zhaoji. When Duofeng advanced south, Liu Zhaoji defended Huaian for more than ten days, which defeated the spirit of the Qing army and made contributions to the Yulin Guard's entire annihilation of Duoduo's army in Matouzhuang. After the war, Liu Zhaoji was awarded the title of Huaian for his merits, and Liu Zhaoji was still guarding Huaian.

Liu Zhaoji was born in Liaodong. Since entering the pass, the world has collapsed. He and his subordinates have fought many places and have hardly stayed in one place for more than a year. Now he has finally settled down in Huai'an, but unexpectedly, he was pulled down by Tian Lusheng.

"Well, I'll inform Huaianbo about this matter, and at the same time I'll send people to pay close attention to the prefect's office. As long as these two people come out, I'll invite them to the Salt Transportation Office immediately. Please be careful not to move roughly."

"Master, the villain understands." The housekeeper stepped down gently, and Tian Lusheng was still sitting on the chair and sounded the song again.

Huai'an was a military tyrant. In the early Ming Dynasty, the Ming Taizu set up four guards in Huai'an in one go. The commander of the guard guarding Hua'an was named the Marquis of Huai'an for his merits. He was attracted by the original Huai'an Prefecture. The prefect of Huai'an could not compete with the Marquis of Huai'an, so he had to start a new stove and rebuild the Marquis of Huai'an.

Now, after more than 200 years of destruction and construction, the Huaian Government Office has been destroyed and built. It has an area of ​​more than 30 acres and hundreds of houses. The gate faces the street to the south. Standing outside the Huaian Government Office, you can see the grand momentum of the government office at a glance. There is a seven-meter-long screen wall in front of it, and there are archways on both sides of the east and west. The pillars are all made of thick golden nanmu.

Behind the government office is a garden building, with all pavilions, but in the downtown area, it is deep and quiet. Standing in the garden, it makes people lose all the dust and is named the Paradise. During the Jiajing period, Zhang Dunren, the prefect of Huai'an, also wrote an article "The Paradise of the Paradise" to spread to the world. By the second year of Tianqi, the prefect of Huai'an at that time, Song Zushun, believed that the words "Stealing" were inappropriate, and changed the name to Yu Leyuan.

Now, the Huai'an magistrate Xu Hongyuan met two guests who claimed to be the emperor's envoy in Yuleyuan. It was not Xu Hongyuan's wish to live in such a luxurious magistrate's yamen and gardens. It was just that this was the yamen that had been left several times before his post. He could not build another yamen to show integrity, in order to show his integrity, there was a ready-made yamen that could not stay there.

Looking at the two imperial envoys in front of him who wanted to dispatch troops to capture Tian Lusheng, the salt envoy, in which Xu Hongyuan had a headache. Why did the court send two young men to come here? If it weren't for their tokens and official documents, Xu Hongyuan would almost suspect that someone was provoking an imperial envoy.

Send troops to capture the salt envoy Tongzhi? Not to mention that there are thousands of soldiers and horses in the city, the salt envoy's inspection of the salt envoy's office alone is far from being able to deal with the Huai'an government's yamen runners. If you really want to send the yamen runners to capture the salt envoy's office, you may be the yamen runners who will scatter as soon as you leave the yamen.
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