Chapter 731

"Be good, this salt lake is really not small..." Wang Yang held his horse's head on the high slope, looked at the earth rounded by pure white and deep blue, smelled the salty smell blowing with the strong wind, and couldn't help but smash his tongue.

And when you observe carefully, you will feel that it is not appropriate to describe it as white, and it seems a bit black and green. Here is the salt pond known as the black pond. This pond has a salty and fresh salt flavor, and its color is blue. It is regarded as the best salt and is praised by the world as green salt.

"We have 21 large and small salt ponds in Yanzhou. Among them, the Wuchi, which produces green salt, and the white salt, which produces the largest and best quality. The annual output of the two tanks is about 50,000 shi (bank) accounting for one-quarter of the total."

"Now, due to the war, many salt ponds in Yanzhou have been shut down for nearly two months..." Wang Yang was surrounded by Gao Qiu, the Yanzhou magistrate.

Seeing these few people, beside a large Wuchi pond, there were still many courtyards and residences, and many salt making tools, they had already left empty and seemed very withered, which made Gao Qiu feel very distressed. "It took two months to stop work, how much money would it cost..."

"It's a lot, the important thing is salt. Wang has guaranteed his Majesty. Except for one-tenth of the green salt in Yanzhou, the rest of the green salt will be escorted to the capital. In addition, Yanzhou also needs to ensure that all salt is used in Shaanxi Road and Jingzhao Prefecture in the Song Dynasty..." Wang Yang was helpless, but what he focused on was not money, but salt.

The salt production in Yanzhou is not like Shuzhong, which relies on digging wells and boiling salt. The natural salt ponds here consume amazing labor and cost. The important thing is that their salt output and quality are very excellent.

In the past, seven or eight out of ten salt produced in Yanzhou would become smuggled goods and flow into the Song Dynasty, making huge profits from the wealthy Song Dynasty’s wealthy class.

But now, with Yanzhou being controlled by the Song Dynasty, these salt ponds naturally became the Song Dynasty. According to past practice, the production of the salt industry was generally not controlled by the local government, but directly managed by the court.

However, Chaoting has been looking for an official who is suitable to go to Yanzhou to take charge of Yanzhou salt farm. But the question is, does anyone dare to come? Wang Yang's famous reputation is so fucking that he never cares about the other party's identity when he gets into trouble.

This gave the ministers in the court an impression, that is, this guy can only get along with those military generals, or be able to have a similar stinky taste with officials with strange tempers. As for ordinary officials, haha...

He would not abide by the rules of the officialdom, nor would he agree with the unspoken rules of the officialdom. None of the businessmen who were trapped in Yanzhou because of the surprise attack of the Song Dynasty were able to escape.

But the problem is that in this era of officialism, which businessman without power dared to do large-scale smuggling business that could sell Qingyan from Yanzhou to Jingzhao Prefecture or even Tokyo Bianliang.

Therefore, because Wang Yang was so righteous, he not only exposed this matter to Su Dongpo, the Shaanxi Road Administration's Legislative Guardian, and also directly exposed the matter to Zhao Xu, the young emperor who was full of energy.

This made Zhao Xu, the young emperor, unable to hold back in an instant. After reading Wang Yang's letter, he strictly ordered a direct order to go straight to Shaanxi Road, requiring a thorough investigation, and to find out the background of all smuggling merchants and punish them strictly.

Before that, the young emperor Zhao Xu decided to continue to endure, just to see how many officials were involved in it.

Grand Secretary Su has always been a loyal and upright gentleman who hates evil, but when it comes to interrogation, he is very self-aware and decided to hand over this important task to Wang Yang, a young talented man who is full of evil.

Under the interrogation of the torture method of Wang Daguanren's elegant and noble originating from the 21st century and not causing harm to the human body.

No smuggling businessman can support the interrogation of the torture masters taught by Master Wang for more than three and a half days.

Soon, as these merchants poured their informants or backstages out one by one, they also smuggled their careers, their smuggling channels, as well as their official identities, official ranks, positions, etc. that they bought.

As the merchants confessed one after another, more and more officials on the list were, even to the point where Wang Daguanren felt a toothache and had to ask the veteran driver Su Dongpo.

After Su Dongpo met, he continued to order Wang Yang to continue to investigate strictly, and began to conceive memorials. After the final interrogation, the total number of officials of all sizes involved was 137, including 64 officials from Shaanxi Road and 38 people from Jingzhao Prefecture. Although there were only 19 officials in Beijing, there were as many as 14 senior officials of the fifth rank or above.

Su Dongpo was indeed a very outstanding map artillery master who had never taken any attention. He directly handed the memorials and the crimes to Tokyo Bianliang. As for these merchants, they were all escorted to Huanzhou prison, waiting for disposal.

With one hundred and thirty-seven officials involved in this major case of smugglers in Yanzhou, coupled with the emperor's deliberate lack of concealment and intentional indulgence.

It was definitely a shocking and sensationalist world. It can be said that it was the founding of the Song Dynasty and the most influential smuggling case in history.

Moreover, this includes a large number of capable officials who are well-known in the circle of people and officials on weekdays, or they may seem loyal and upright, as if they were loyal ministers reincarnated by Wei Zheng in the pre-Tang Dynasty...

In short, they all became infamous, and even the residences of many officials in the capital were thrown into feces by some troublemakers.

Although the proportion of officials involved in the court is less than one-tenth, the problem is that just such a case involves so many, it is enough to prove that you guys are probably not much better.

It can be said that the important officials in the court felt the extremely heavy pressure brought by the eyes and discussions of the people.

Such pressure has prompted Dali Temple, the Ministry of Justice and the Censorate to dare not slack off at all, nor to dare to be a little favoritism, because in that case, it is very likely that they will be treated as a member of the party.

No one dares to do anything inappropriate in this extraordinary period. Even those officials who have been taken to the Bianliang prison in Tokyo one after another, many of them have indirect relationships with those salt smugglers who are thinking about how to cut off their tails and survive.

Those officials who are directly related to salt smugglers, and even their families or slaves are involved in the salt smuggling industry are directly ashamed and heartbroken.
Chapter completed!