Pampered Poisonous Royal Wife

"Okay!" Wei Qi and Cao Bing nodded in agreement. If they can make it this far and become winners in the deep pool of Yanzheng in the south of the Yangtze River, they will naturally have their own strategy and courage. If the eldest prince really kills , then they have to throw a huge boulder over there, even if they can't break the backs of the First Prince and the Li family, they still have to break a few bones!

Wu Minzhi nodded emphatically: "This is the only way out. The eldest prince has tried to woo us many times before, and his attitude is also very jealous of us. I think he will not force us to the last step. Now we should raise money as soon as possible." Buy the salt, and put the blame on the officials who bought the salt."

"Well, we'll do it right away."

For other smaller salt merchants, it would take some effort to collect the silver taels, but for them, it was just a headache for a while, and there were many ways to solve it.

Soon, Qi Ming received a letter from Mu Yunyao: "Miss asked me to collect some properties sold by the salt merchants?" Even deeper, the young lady is so good at predicting things!

Now that the salt merchants are selling their properties in a hurry, the price must be much lower than normal, and the properties in the hands of these salt merchants are all unusual. Take gardens as an example, some of the gardens under the hands of the salt merchants are It can be compared to the royal garden, but there are some differences in specifications and formats.

Qi Ming had the banknotes that Mu Yunyao asked Liu Liang to bring over, and he directly picked the best gardens, land, and storefronts to buy them. Calculated in total, he saved at least hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

The salt merchants managed to get together the 15 million taels of silver. King Yue reckoned that the time was almost up, so he sent someone to inform him of the location where the salt was hidden.

In just a few days, fifteen million taels of silver were obtained, and King Yue couldn't help being excited.

Mu Yunyao counted the house deeds and land deeds in her hands, and she couldn't stop smiling. It took her a long time to tidy up her things, put them in the cabinet and lock them up.

Jin Lan walked in slowly: "Miss, someone came to the door to give gifts, and they said that they were under the Governor of Liangjiang, Mr. Li."

Mu Yunyao's smile faded: "Let's just say that I've been unwell for the past two days, and it's inconvenient to see outsiders. Let that person go back wherever he came from."

"Yes, miss."

Two days ago, the inspection of the salt tax in Jingling City was over, so Li Yuanyi had no choice but to leave for Yangzhou City. Originally, he wanted to come to Jinxiu Garden to see Mu Yunyao again, but he didn't expect that the dizziness had just recovered, so he had Rumors spread that the sand was secretly exchanging salt, which shocked half of his mind.

If the rumors are true, this matter is enough to shock the government and the public. Once it reaches the emperor's ears, it will surely arouse Tianyan's anger. At that time, even the Li family will not be able to keep him. So as soon as he heard the news, he hurriedly set off for Yangzhou City.

And on his way to Yangzhou City, he suddenly received a letter: the letter clearly stated how the officials who bought the salt planned to use sediment instead of salt to make huge profits from it, and it also clearly stated that they were stolen. Where the downed salt is stashed.

This letter is like a piece of burning coal. It made him restless all the time when he got off the ship in Yangzhou City. He dispatched officers and soldiers to the hiding place mentioned in the letter. He thought it would be all for naught, but unexpectedly A large amount of table salt was indeed found in a warehouse.

The officials of Yangzhou city had already become frightened birds. After hearing that Li Yuan got off the boat, they all went forward to greet him. Unexpectedly, before they even had time to say a word, they saw him go straight to the abandoned warehouse in the south of the city. , A large amount of table salt was seized inside, and many officials were so weak that they couldn't stand still.

As soon as Li Yuan looked at the mountain of salt, the emotions in his eyes quickly flowed, and finally turned into a complete indifference. He turned his head and yelled at Sun Tong, the Yangzhou salt transportation envoy: "Sun Yanyun history, you know crime?"

Yangzhou Salt Transport Envoy Sun Tong knelt down fiercely: "Master Li, I don't know what the crime is?"

"You took advantage of the opportunity of the imperial court to check the salt tax to buy a large amount of official salt, and you lied that the salt ship sank on the Xijiang River during the transportation, and you also loaded a large amount of sand on the ship to pretend to be salt, secretly hiding the real salt. Here, if you want to take advantage of the turmoil to make huge profits from it, fortunately this officer got the news in advance, which prevented your scheme from succeeding!"

"Lord Li, the lower officials absolutely dare not have such thoughts, please be careful, Lord Li!"

"Hmph, I will immediately write a letter to the court to report what you have done to the emperor, and the emperor will naturally send someone from the Ministry of Punishment to escort you to Beijing for investigation."

The salt transportation made Sun Tong suddenly understand that Li Yuanyi simply wanted him to be a scapegoat, so that he could not only calm down the troubles of the Jiangnan salt administration, but also let him get credit for it. The salt merchant in the south of the Yangtze River offered a life-saving grace and won the hearts of the eldest prince: "Master Li, you can't frame me with empty words like this, you have to show evidence!"

"I will naturally investigate this matter clearly, and the evidence will be sent to the emperor, so there is no need to talk to you! Someone, take Sun Tong into custody!"

Soon, the news of Li Yuanyi's actions in Yangzhou City reached the ears of all the salt merchants, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing that the First Prince has no plans to catch them all, this is luck among misfortunes.

Li Yuanyi first put Sun Tong, the envoy of salt transportation, into prison, and then put Si Yuntong, the envoy of salt transportation, together with his officials under custody. While writing a memorial to report the matter to the emperor, he sent people to interrogate overnight to obtain testimony.

During this period, Wu Minzhi went to the Yamen to ask to see Li Yuanyi, but it was a pity that Li Yuanyi did not see him.

After the memorial entered Beijing, it was soon reported to the emperor. After reading the memorial, the emperor was furious. Fortunately, the salt was recovered in time, which did not cause too much loss. Afterwards, he ordered Li Yuan to To thoroughly investigate the case of salt administration in Yangzhou City, we must try the case clearly.

After Li Yuan received the imperial decree from the emperor, he breathed a sigh of relief, no matter who sent him the letter secretly, in general, it can be regarded as doing him a big favor, this is a credit for nothing!

He calmed down for a while, thinking about how to force the salt transport to make Sun Tong take responsibility for the crime, when he heard that his subordinates came to report that Wu Minzhi, the leader of the salt merchant, asked to see him.

The last time he was worrying about how to write a memorial to the emperor, he heard that Wu Min asked for an audience, so he was not in the mood to see him. Now that the matter has come to an end for the time being, I just need to free up my hands and think carefully about how to squeeze some oil and water from these salt merchants. After all, the salt merchants in Jiangnan are well-known. A lot of hard work?