Reborn on the day of marriage! After the marriage exchange, the elder sister went crazy

After Lu Bozhou returned home, he told him what happened today.

Li Jinglan turned pale with fear. "There is a sacrificial text you wrote in the scripture you sent to His Majesty? You put it in there on purpose for His Majesty to see! Lord Zhao is plotting to harm you."

Lu Bozhou didn't expect that Li Jinglan could understand the situation he was facing at the time all at once, saving him the trouble of explaining, and he was filled with admiration.

"It was only when I saw the sacrificial text I had just written in the sutra that I realized I had been tricked. I didn't expect you to understand it so quickly."

No wonder Li Jinglan was so frightened.

Even during the heyday of poetry as in the Tang and Song dynasties, poetry was merely a channel for cultivating sentiments and expanding ambitions.

Rather than the right way to govern the country.

Li Bai's poems are well written!

Why didn't Emperor Xuanzong of Tang use Li Bai?

Isn't it just that you think Li Bai has no talent for governing a country?

After being stimulated, Li Bai wrote the famous line "How can I bow my head and serve the powerful and wealthy, so that I cannot be happy?"

Wang Anshi's poems are indeed not as good as Su Shi's, but he was able to criticize Su Shi again and again.

By the Ming and Qing dynasties, everyone considered poetry to be a minor art.

If you want to govern a country, you can only look for answers in the books of Confucius and Mencius.

Li Chunfang of the Ming Dynasty was a famous prime minister of Qingci.

The eulogy for the corpse was written in such a gorgeous way, but it did not stop everyone from laughing at him.

Some even said that he gained the emperor's favor by writing poetry and flattering others.

He is almost being compared to Long Yangjun.

This shows the destructive power of flattery in writing sacrificial documents.

Lu Bozhou hasn't officially started working yet, but Lord Zhao has already done this.

No more running!

Lord Zhao and Yin Zhihai were not on good terms and were political enemies.

Li Jinglan found the first enemy.

Seeing that Li Jinglan was very worried, Lu Bozhou comforted her: "Your Majesty has appointed me to be the transcriber for the next lecture."

Transcribing sermons was originally one of Lu Bozhou's main jobs.

It seems that the emperor has ruined the situation.

Li Jinglan clasped her hands together and prayed to the sky, "Wulian Tianzun, Your Majesty's heart is as clear as a mirror."

Lu Bozhou laughed and said, "If you use the Buddhist Dharma to worship the Heavenly Lord, will the Heavenly Lord bless you?"

Li Jinglan stuck out her tongue and said, "I made a mistake."

Then she clenched her fist and prayed: "Please don't blame me, Heavenly Lord. I just bowed to the wrong person."

Li Jinglan's movements are delicate and cute.

Lu Bozhou was so absorbed in watching that for a moment.

Li Jinglan was thinking about Lord Zhao.

Lord Zhao did bad things to Lu Bozhou, so she can also do bad things to Lord Zhao!

You are unkind!

Don't blame me for releasing Prince Jin.

Two days later, King Jin discovered that Li Jinglan was buying salt in large quantities.

Li Jinglan's canned fruit shop required a lot of salt to pickle vegetables, but King Jin didn't care at first.

But after Li Jinglan bought 5,000 kilograms of salt, King Jin felt something was wrong.

King Jin called Zhao Zhengyi over and asked, "Why did your lady buy so much salt?"

Zhao Zhengyi cupped his hands and replied, "This is only the first batch. Our lady has ordered a total of 50,000 kilograms of salt, and the delivery time is three months."

"Fifty thousand jin?" Not only King Jin was surprised, but Xu Jinghuan was also surprised.

"Are you planning to pickle the entire Xishui Village with salt?" Xu Jinghuan clicked his tongue.

"My wife said that the price of salt might go up." Zhao Zhengyi bowed and went to work.

"The price of salt has increased?" Prince Jin frowned.

I haven't heard of this saying.

The current price of salt is about eight hundred coins to one ounce for one hundred catties, which is about eight hundred to one thousand two hundred coins.

The price is just barely affordable for ordinary people.

If the price goes up, ordinary people will not be able to afford it.

People can eat less rice and noodles, but they cannot do without salt.

The imperial court has always exercised extremely strict control over salt prices.

Moreover, salt tax was also the largest part of the court's tax revenue.

More than six million taels a year.

Sima Guang said in Zizhi Tongjian that "half of the country's taxes come from salt, and the palace, clothing, military pay, and salaries of all officials are all supported by it."

If the price of salt goes up, it will affect the national economy and people's livelihood.

Prince Jin did not dare to neglect it, and was a little skeptical that the price of salt would go up, so he went to the main courtyard to find Li Jinglan.

At this time.

Lu Zhongyu and Lu Guanyu just arrived.

Seeing the King of Jin, Lu Guanyu stood up happily and said, "Uncle Taoist, you are here. I couldn't believe it when my sister-in-law sent a letter home saying you were here. I am so happy to see you here."

"Uncle Taoist, I brought a children's picture. I'll invite you to play with it later."

He called him "Taoist uncle" and the King of Jin smiled happily.

King Jin said cheerfully: "Xiao Yu'er, have you just arrived home?"

"Yes, my second brother and I had just got off the carriage and entered the main courtyard when you came." Lu Guanyu smiled, "Did you hear the news and come to see me? I'm so happy."

Then he bowed to the King of Jin obediently, "Uncle Taoist, I just learned how to bow my knees. Do you think it is correct?"

The little chatterbox gave the bewitched King Jin a thumbs up.

"Banzheng!"

Also coming with them were sisters Wang Ruoshui and Wang Ruolan. When they saw Prince Jin entering the courtyard, the two sisters had already hidden themselves.

The King of Jin spoke to Lu Zhongyu for a few more words and tested him on his homework.

Feeling emotional.

Haven't seen you for a few months.

Lu Zhongyu became more stable and mature.

The Lu family is really supportive.

Not only is Lu Bozhou excellent, his younger brother is equally excellent.

If Lu Zhongyu can maintain his current learning attitude, he can also become a Jinshi.

When Li Jinglan saw Prince Jin coming, she knew that he was looking for her about the salt matter.

Let Lu Zhongyu and Lu Guanyu go to see the yard with the Wang sisters.

Seeing the children go out, the King of Jin asked, "Madam Li, I heard that you bought a lot of salt?"

Li Jinglan nodded: "Yes, our workshop consumes 5,000 kilograms of salt a year. Thinking that we might expand production this year, we ordered 50,000 kilograms."

Five thousand kilograms of salt, which is two and a half tons.

Before Li Jinglan traveled through time, this was the amount of salt used by a small pickle factory to make one batch of pickled vegetables.

Of course, King Jin didn't know this.

He was just shocked why Li Jinglan bought 50,000 kilograms of salt at one time.

"How do you know that the price of salt will increase?" asked the King of Jin.

Li Jinglan flatly denied: "Who told you that the price of salt would increase? That's not true. You must have heard it wrong."

"It was your housekeeper Zhao Zhengyi who told me." Prince Jin threw Zhao Zhengyi out without any loyalty.

Li Jinglan looked annoyed: "I told him not to talk nonsense outside, but I forgot to tell him not to discuss it at home."

When Li Jinglan said this, she looked around with an expression as if she was very afraid of revealing the secret.

"Mr. Wu You is not an outsider, so I will tell you the truth. I have a piece of inside information that the price of salt will indeed increase."

"If you want to make some money, you might as well start hoarding salt now. Of course, I am not hoarding salt to sell it, but to save money."

"I hate the rise in salt prices the most because my family owns a pickled vegetable workshop. Behind me, the entire Xishui Village is following me for food."

Li Jinglan sighed in a pretentious manner.

Li Jinglan's deliberate mystery really made King Jin anxious.

"Where did you get your news from?"

Li Jinglan shook her head and refused to answer.

The information she said was worthless, and it would only be valuable if Prince Jin investigated it himself.

A riot broke out at a salt mine in Songjiang Prefecture.

The riot eventually spread to the entire Songjiang Prefecture.

This resulted in a drastic drop in salt output from Songjiang Prefecture.

The annual salt production of Songjiang Prefecture is 40 million jin, so when this news was passed to the capital by the salt merchants of Songjiang Prefecture, the salt price in the capital rose slightly.

Soon, Songjiang Prefecture secretly transferred salt from Shaanxi to fill this hole.

As the hole was plugged in time, the price of salt fell.

Therefore, it did not attract the attention of the court.

It was not until a few years later, with the fall of Lord Zhao, that this matter was exposed.

Songjiang Prefecture is the management area of ​​Zhao Ge Lao’s clan.

King Jin didn't ask anything.

Turned around and left.

After returning to the courtyard, Prince Jin felt uneasy and gave orders to his subordinates.

"Check who Li has been in contact with during this period. Then check who Zhao Zhengyi has been in contact with."

Li Jinglan had been waiting for Prince Jin to investigate her, and she easily revealed her whereabouts to Prince Jin.

Two days later.

The subordinate reported: "Madam Li never leaves her house. She has only been to the residence of Grand Secretary Yin, the residence of Imperial Censor Lu, and the courtyard of the Wang family."

"She just gave gifts to express her apology to the invitations sent to her by the officials' families during this period, but she did not attend the invitations."

"Zhao Zhengyi often traveled between Lu's canned fruit store and the Ministry of Industry's market."

A market is a bazaar established by the state to engage in import and export trade.

"When we were investigating Zhao Zhengyi, we did hear that the price of salt would increase."

King Jin narrowed his eyes and said, "Tell me about it."

The subordinate reported: "Someone said something happened in Songjiang Prefecture."

"But when we asked them in detail, they refused to say anything."

"Send someone to Songjiang Prefecture and report to His Majesty if they find any problems. If they can't find any, just pretend nothing happened."

King Jin reacted very quickly.