According to what Li Changshuo said about the conditions needed to set up salt farms, the cabinet and the emperor quickly finalized several locations as new official salt farms, and spread them out throughout the entire Zhou Dynasty as soon as possible, so that the whole country will implement a unified salt price, even if there are fluctuations. Will float too much.
There is also the issue of salt tax. In the past, other salt merchants had problems. Although Jin Hongwen was arrested, are the other salt merchants really all right?From the bottom to the top, a large bunch of radishes can be pulled out from the pit, not only in the south of the Yangtze River, but also in other places. The same situation is the same.
Jin Hongwen didn't even need to be sent to the capital for interrogation. Although he was rich and covered by someone above him, he was still a businessman after all, so the emperor and the cabinet directly approved the word "cut" and sent him to Jiangnan.
At the same time, the imperial court also sent a new salt transport official. As for that Lord Shi, he was directly ordered to go to Beijing to sue.
When the decree came, Mr. Shi collapsed on the ground at once, saying that he would sue, he knew he was finished this time.
It will take some time for the information to be transmitted back and forth between the capital and the south of the Yangtze River. Before the decree came, he and the people sent by other salt merchants to Yao City had inquired enough about the situation. A huge salt field has been set up in the city. The method of making salt is fundamentally different from that in the south of the Yangtze River. There is no need for a large number of salt workers to cook the salt. Some people can see mountains of white flowers produced in the salt pond from a distance. Salt.
When the news was brought back to the south of the Yangtze River, they knew that something great was going on. With such a method of making salt, would the salt field in their hands be useful?The wholesale price of official salt at ten cents a catty is not even able to recover the cost for them.
It was a big blow to those salt merchants. Which salt merchant did not hold tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of catties of salt, but now unless the price of these salts is sold at a reduced price, what is the difference between the salt in the hand and the gravel on the side of the road? ?
A salt merchant's eyes were red: "Damn Gu Zhao, he must have come up with this method of drying salt. He is trying to break our roots and not give us a way out."
Hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars may have been thrown into the water, how could they not bleed from heartache, cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents, at this moment they really hated Gu Zhao and Gu Mu.
"Damn it, if you don't give us a way to live, then we don't want to give them a way to live. I can't kill those two bastards!"
"Looking at the current situation, Jin Hongwen probably has no hope, what about you? Don't you know how to resist when you let the surname Gu cut off your life? Let's talk about it here today. If you want to work with us, stay. Get out if you are afraid of getting into trouble, but don't let me know that you have revealed half a word, otherwise I will be the first to spare him!"
Salt merchants, large and small, looked at each other, but the person who spoke was not Jin Hongwen, who did not have such a high prestige among salt merchants, and the reality was that following him was obviously a dead end. As for their business, this road No way, there are other ways to go, and their ancestors didn't always make a living selling salt.
Then someone came forward and said: "I am really timid and afraid of getting into trouble. I have seniors and juniors, and a family of dozens of people has to support them. Please forgive me for not accompanying me. Let me leave."
As soon as this person left, other people followed immediately, and if he didn't leave at this moment, most of them left in a blink of an eye, and that person was so angry that he almost had a cerebral hemorrhage.
The group of people who left are also discussing how to minimize their losses. They can't really throw this batch of salt into their own hands, and it will become worthless in the end.
"I have an idea, to transport the batch of salt in my hand to other places as soon as possible and sell it at a low price. The salt field in Yaocheng is clearly the intention of the imperial court. With Yaocheng as the first case, the method of drying salt will spread to other places. Local promotion, the price of salt will drop throughout the Great Zhou Dynasty, and before it is pushed away, we can still sell some of our salt to recover some losses."
"Is there really no other way to go?"
"Are you going to fight against the court like those crazy people? Even if they really have the ability to get rid of Mr. Gu Zhao, so what? It is not Mr. Gu Zhao who really wants to move us, but the emperor in Beijing. The emperor wants If you die at the third watch, can you delay until the fifth watch?"
"It's a pity that I can't follow Master Gu's path, otherwise he can make a lot of money from any business in his hand." Someone lamented, "It's Qiao Xianqing who is the smartest. He took the path of Wan Hongjing earlier and became Wan Hongjing's brother-in-law. My son has flattered Gu Zhao again, and even my son has entered the government office, and even got a hand in the Gu family's business."
After chatting, these people acted immediately, using channels such as water transportation that could be contacted, to transport the salt in their hands as soon as possible. Of course, the salt transported to other places could not be sold at the original price. Some people were cruel. , reduced a catty of salt to twenty yuan, and ordinary people did not receive news from the capital and the south of the Yangtze River so quickly. Seeing that salt was so cheap, they rushed to buy it.
"Oh? Some salt merchants have shipped salt to other places? This is a clever mind. As expected of a merchant, he knows how to minimize his losses." Gu Zhao smiled when he received the news.
Qiao Huan also felt that this was the best way to deal with it. It is impossible for an individual to do better than the court. The more delays, the greater the losses.
He carefully looked around, and when he saw no one, he leaned closer and whispered: "My lord, be careful that some salt merchants will jump over the wall in a hurry, and someone passed a message to my father."
Gu Zhao nodded: "I know, I'm not surprised."
Still the same sentence, cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents. The bigger the salt merchants, the more they hate him and Gu Mu, because the more salt they have in their hands, the greater the loss. On the contrary, those small salt merchants It is easy for merchants to turn around and take other paths.
After the emperor's decree was delivered, Jin Hongwen was directly sentenced to death without further delay. Sun Jinhu was also sentenced to death. After the news was delivered to the prison, Sun Jinhu burst into tears. He had previously counted on his brother-in-law With the relationship, he can be fished out together, but now the brother-in-law can't protect himself, and he will be beheaded.
"Brother-in-law, I don't want to die. Brother-in-law, you should quickly think of a way to rescue us, otherwise it will be too late."
Jin Hongwen couldn't believe his ears, how could he be executed so quickly, according to his inference, there should be a mess about the salt outside now, how could Gu Zhao and Gu Mu still have the intention to deal with him, what happened outside? What's the matter?
Jin Hongwen turned a deaf ear to Sun Jinhu's words, and suddenly shouted to the jailer outside: "I want to see Gu Mu, I want to see Gu Zhao, I want to see them, no matter who I want to see, otherwise I will not accept it, and I, Jin Hongwen, will not accept it to the death!"
"What are you shouting about? There's no use for you not to accept it." The jailer came in and yelled at him. The crime of Jin Hongwen had been announced in Jiangnan, and now the people outside were yelling and beating Jin Hongwen.
Jin Hongwen glared at him angrily and said, "If you send the message to them, they will definitely come to see me."
The jailer looked at him suspiciously, but passed the words after all.
When Gu Mu received the news from the prison, he sneered and said to Gu Zhao, "You want to see us, you really value yourself so much, brother, what do you think this Jin is trying to tell us?"
Gu Zhao tilted his head and said, "He doesn't know what's going on outside right now, he thinks Jiangnan is inseparable from the salt in the hands of their salt merchants, so he thinks he can bargain with us, and thinks what he has in his hands is so important. Mu Mu, do you think we should go see him?"
Gu Mu raised his eyebrows and said: "Then let him wait until the day when he will be cut everywhere."
"Okay, I didn't mean to see him, but I didn't agree with him." Gu Zhao shrugged.
Jin Hongwen in the prison didn't wait for anyone to come for one day, and there was still no movement for two days. He couldn't sit still, so he called the jailer again and asked him repeatedly if he had delivered the message.
The jailer was impatient with his questioning: "I really thought I was some kind of great person, and I came to see you when I said I wanted to see my lord? If your lord didn't come, it means that you are not as important as you think in the eyes of adults. I said I will hand it over, if you don’t believe me, you can ask after you get to the underworld.”
Your Excellency didn't come, which means that your Excellency doesn't want to see this guy in prison at all, otherwise what else could be the reason?
Can't see through such a simple question.
After the jailer finished speaking, he was about to turn around and leave, but Jin Hongwen quickly stopped him again: "Wait a little longer, let me ask you, what is the price of salt in Jiangnan City now?"
The jailer's expression suddenly became strange, and he looked back at Jin Hongwen: "You salt merchants know how to squeeze our people desperately. Do you still want to manipulate the price of salt so that our people can't eat salt when you die? Do you think the price of salt is soaring all over the sky outside now? Haha, I forgot that no one will send you news without the permission of adults, so I don’t know the situation outside, let me tell you, the price of official salt outside is now [-] cents per catty, and the price increase has happened. But it was gone in just two days."
"Haha, the imperial court introduced a new salt-making method, which is much easier than the original one, and the cost is lower, so the price of salt has dropped, and those salt merchants outside have lost their money, and they are almost crying their fathers and mothers, and tell me to see it." It was such a joy."
"Haha, I will remember to bring you a meal with a severed head, so that you will be full and go on the road, haha."
No matter what Jin Hongwen called, the jailers didn't pay attention to him anymore. The fight between Gu Zhao and these salt merchants, as well as the current price of official salt, made these jailers very happy to see them. They are also people at the bottom. The cheaper the better, let's see how crazy these salt merchants are.
Jin Hongwen didn't see Gu Zhao and Gu Mu until the day he went to the execution ground, but it was useless to see him at that time, because he was detained off the stage, while Gu Zhao and Gu Mu were on the stage as the supervisor, Until this moment, Jin Hongwen couldn't believe that he was going to die. He had managed such a large family business, and his methods were as good as the sky. How could he be defeated like this?How can salt be so cheap.
However, until the day of the execution, no one came to rescue him. As long as many people came to watch how this bully died, and many people who were rescued from the private salt field came, they wanted to see the head of this bully with their own eyes. landing.
When the head fell to the ground, Lin He reached out to cover his younger sister's eyes, but Lin Hui took away his brother's eyes. The reason why she was adopted by the Lin family was because her relatives were dead. She knew who her enemies were. Not afraid.
Finally Lin Hui said: "Brother, let's go back and see Mother, I want to tell Mother the good news."
"Okay." Lin He took his sister's hand and left. Lin's mother was not really seriously ill, but there was a lack of medical care and medicine in that place, and she couldn't rest if she couldn't eat well. In addition, Lin Nanshan's death made her feel sick. It was a big blow, but fortunately, because of the timely treatment and proper medication, Lin's mother only needs to rest well, and her body will be fine.
There is also the issue of salt tax. In the past, other salt merchants had problems. Although Jin Hongwen was arrested, are the other salt merchants really all right?From the bottom to the top, a large bunch of radishes can be pulled out from the pit, not only in the south of the Yangtze River, but also in other places. The same situation is the same.
Jin Hongwen didn't even need to be sent to the capital for interrogation. Although he was rich and covered by someone above him, he was still a businessman after all, so the emperor and the cabinet directly approved the word "cut" and sent him to Jiangnan.
At the same time, the imperial court also sent a new salt transport official. As for that Lord Shi, he was directly ordered to go to Beijing to sue.
When the decree came, Mr. Shi collapsed on the ground at once, saying that he would sue, he knew he was finished this time.
It will take some time for the information to be transmitted back and forth between the capital and the south of the Yangtze River. Before the decree came, he and the people sent by other salt merchants to Yao City had inquired enough about the situation. A huge salt field has been set up in the city. The method of making salt is fundamentally different from that in the south of the Yangtze River. There is no need for a large number of salt workers to cook the salt. Some people can see mountains of white flowers produced in the salt pond from a distance. Salt.
When the news was brought back to the south of the Yangtze River, they knew that something great was going on. With such a method of making salt, would the salt field in their hands be useful?The wholesale price of official salt at ten cents a catty is not even able to recover the cost for them.
It was a big blow to those salt merchants. Which salt merchant did not hold tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of catties of salt, but now unless the price of these salts is sold at a reduced price, what is the difference between the salt in the hand and the gravel on the side of the road? ?
A salt merchant's eyes were red: "Damn Gu Zhao, he must have come up with this method of drying salt. He is trying to break our roots and not give us a way out."
Hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars may have been thrown into the water, how could they not bleed from heartache, cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents, at this moment they really hated Gu Zhao and Gu Mu.
"Damn it, if you don't give us a way to live, then we don't want to give them a way to live. I can't kill those two bastards!"
"Looking at the current situation, Jin Hongwen probably has no hope, what about you? Don't you know how to resist when you let the surname Gu cut off your life? Let's talk about it here today. If you want to work with us, stay. Get out if you are afraid of getting into trouble, but don't let me know that you have revealed half a word, otherwise I will be the first to spare him!"
Salt merchants, large and small, looked at each other, but the person who spoke was not Jin Hongwen, who did not have such a high prestige among salt merchants, and the reality was that following him was obviously a dead end. As for their business, this road No way, there are other ways to go, and their ancestors didn't always make a living selling salt.
Then someone came forward and said: "I am really timid and afraid of getting into trouble. I have seniors and juniors, and a family of dozens of people has to support them. Please forgive me for not accompanying me. Let me leave."
As soon as this person left, other people followed immediately, and if he didn't leave at this moment, most of them left in a blink of an eye, and that person was so angry that he almost had a cerebral hemorrhage.
The group of people who left are also discussing how to minimize their losses. They can't really throw this batch of salt into their own hands, and it will become worthless in the end.
"I have an idea, to transport the batch of salt in my hand to other places as soon as possible and sell it at a low price. The salt field in Yaocheng is clearly the intention of the imperial court. With Yaocheng as the first case, the method of drying salt will spread to other places. Local promotion, the price of salt will drop throughout the Great Zhou Dynasty, and before it is pushed away, we can still sell some of our salt to recover some losses."
"Is there really no other way to go?"
"Are you going to fight against the court like those crazy people? Even if they really have the ability to get rid of Mr. Gu Zhao, so what? It is not Mr. Gu Zhao who really wants to move us, but the emperor in Beijing. The emperor wants If you die at the third watch, can you delay until the fifth watch?"
"It's a pity that I can't follow Master Gu's path, otherwise he can make a lot of money from any business in his hand." Someone lamented, "It's Qiao Xianqing who is the smartest. He took the path of Wan Hongjing earlier and became Wan Hongjing's brother-in-law. My son has flattered Gu Zhao again, and even my son has entered the government office, and even got a hand in the Gu family's business."
After chatting, these people acted immediately, using channels such as water transportation that could be contacted, to transport the salt in their hands as soon as possible. Of course, the salt transported to other places could not be sold at the original price. Some people were cruel. , reduced a catty of salt to twenty yuan, and ordinary people did not receive news from the capital and the south of the Yangtze River so quickly. Seeing that salt was so cheap, they rushed to buy it.
"Oh? Some salt merchants have shipped salt to other places? This is a clever mind. As expected of a merchant, he knows how to minimize his losses." Gu Zhao smiled when he received the news.
Qiao Huan also felt that this was the best way to deal with it. It is impossible for an individual to do better than the court. The more delays, the greater the losses.
He carefully looked around, and when he saw no one, he leaned closer and whispered: "My lord, be careful that some salt merchants will jump over the wall in a hurry, and someone passed a message to my father."
Gu Zhao nodded: "I know, I'm not surprised."
Still the same sentence, cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents. The bigger the salt merchants, the more they hate him and Gu Mu, because the more salt they have in their hands, the greater the loss. On the contrary, those small salt merchants It is easy for merchants to turn around and take other paths.
After the emperor's decree was delivered, Jin Hongwen was directly sentenced to death without further delay. Sun Jinhu was also sentenced to death. After the news was delivered to the prison, Sun Jinhu burst into tears. He had previously counted on his brother-in-law With the relationship, he can be fished out together, but now the brother-in-law can't protect himself, and he will be beheaded.
"Brother-in-law, I don't want to die. Brother-in-law, you should quickly think of a way to rescue us, otherwise it will be too late."
Jin Hongwen couldn't believe his ears, how could he be executed so quickly, according to his inference, there should be a mess about the salt outside now, how could Gu Zhao and Gu Mu still have the intention to deal with him, what happened outside? What's the matter?
Jin Hongwen turned a deaf ear to Sun Jinhu's words, and suddenly shouted to the jailer outside: "I want to see Gu Mu, I want to see Gu Zhao, I want to see them, no matter who I want to see, otherwise I will not accept it, and I, Jin Hongwen, will not accept it to the death!"
"What are you shouting about? There's no use for you not to accept it." The jailer came in and yelled at him. The crime of Jin Hongwen had been announced in Jiangnan, and now the people outside were yelling and beating Jin Hongwen.
Jin Hongwen glared at him angrily and said, "If you send the message to them, they will definitely come to see me."
The jailer looked at him suspiciously, but passed the words after all.
When Gu Mu received the news from the prison, he sneered and said to Gu Zhao, "You want to see us, you really value yourself so much, brother, what do you think this Jin is trying to tell us?"
Gu Zhao tilted his head and said, "He doesn't know what's going on outside right now, he thinks Jiangnan is inseparable from the salt in the hands of their salt merchants, so he thinks he can bargain with us, and thinks what he has in his hands is so important. Mu Mu, do you think we should go see him?"
Gu Mu raised his eyebrows and said: "Then let him wait until the day when he will be cut everywhere."
"Okay, I didn't mean to see him, but I didn't agree with him." Gu Zhao shrugged.
Jin Hongwen in the prison didn't wait for anyone to come for one day, and there was still no movement for two days. He couldn't sit still, so he called the jailer again and asked him repeatedly if he had delivered the message.
The jailer was impatient with his questioning: "I really thought I was some kind of great person, and I came to see you when I said I wanted to see my lord? If your lord didn't come, it means that you are not as important as you think in the eyes of adults. I said I will hand it over, if you don’t believe me, you can ask after you get to the underworld.”
Your Excellency didn't come, which means that your Excellency doesn't want to see this guy in prison at all, otherwise what else could be the reason?
Can't see through such a simple question.
After the jailer finished speaking, he was about to turn around and leave, but Jin Hongwen quickly stopped him again: "Wait a little longer, let me ask you, what is the price of salt in Jiangnan City now?"
The jailer's expression suddenly became strange, and he looked back at Jin Hongwen: "You salt merchants know how to squeeze our people desperately. Do you still want to manipulate the price of salt so that our people can't eat salt when you die? Do you think the price of salt is soaring all over the sky outside now? Haha, I forgot that no one will send you news without the permission of adults, so I don’t know the situation outside, let me tell you, the price of official salt outside is now [-] cents per catty, and the price increase has happened. But it was gone in just two days."
"Haha, the imperial court introduced a new salt-making method, which is much easier than the original one, and the cost is lower, so the price of salt has dropped, and those salt merchants outside have lost their money, and they are almost crying their fathers and mothers, and tell me to see it." It was such a joy."
"Haha, I will remember to bring you a meal with a severed head, so that you will be full and go on the road, haha."
No matter what Jin Hongwen called, the jailers didn't pay attention to him anymore. The fight between Gu Zhao and these salt merchants, as well as the current price of official salt, made these jailers very happy to see them. They are also people at the bottom. The cheaper the better, let's see how crazy these salt merchants are.
Jin Hongwen didn't see Gu Zhao and Gu Mu until the day he went to the execution ground, but it was useless to see him at that time, because he was detained off the stage, while Gu Zhao and Gu Mu were on the stage as the supervisor, Until this moment, Jin Hongwen couldn't believe that he was going to die. He had managed such a large family business, and his methods were as good as the sky. How could he be defeated like this?How can salt be so cheap.
However, until the day of the execution, no one came to rescue him. As long as many people came to watch how this bully died, and many people who were rescued from the private salt field came, they wanted to see the head of this bully with their own eyes. landing.
When the head fell to the ground, Lin He reached out to cover his younger sister's eyes, but Lin Hui took away his brother's eyes. The reason why she was adopted by the Lin family was because her relatives were dead. She knew who her enemies were. Not afraid.
Finally Lin Hui said: "Brother, let's go back and see Mother, I want to tell Mother the good news."
"Okay." Lin He took his sister's hand and left. Lin's mother was not really seriously ill, but there was a lack of medical care and medicine in that place, and she couldn't rest if she couldn't eat well. In addition, Lin Nanshan's death made her feel sick. It was a big blow, but fortunately, because of the timely treatment and proper medication, Lin's mother only needs to rest well, and her body will be fine.
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