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Chapter 351

Jiajing hated Lu Bing very much at this moment, because Lu Bing had hidden too many things from him before. He didn't know that the salt could get back so much money, and he didn't know that the princes had so much money. Since they had so much money, the court still needed to give those princes a case every year, and the annual rate was more than 2 million taels.

And it will increase every year. The pressure for the court is getting bigger and bigger. The court originally had no money and had to bear such a great pressure, which made Jiajing very angry.

Jiajing blamed Lu Bing all this. In fact, Lu Bing cannot be blamed at all. The salt incident has existed from the beginning, but the population was small and the demand for salt was low. In addition, salt was cheap at the beginning, so no one could have thought that the profits of salt were so high that all of these profits entered the pockets of the vassal kings.

"Yes, the emperor!" When Lu Fang heard that Jiajing was so determined, he couldn't continue to persuade him, so he had to give in.

"When Zhang Hao comes back, you ask Zhang Hao to ask Lu Bing where I can't stop him. He is so deceiving me!" Jiajing continued to explain to Lu Fang.

"Yes, the emperor!" Lu Fang nodded again and said,

On Zhang Hao's side, Zhang Hao was just staring at Yu Dafang's prison car. There was no way, there were too many prison car needed. As for the confessions of the royal family, Zhang Hao no longer wanted to ask. There was nothing to ask. The salt merchants all said that. When Jiajing saw the confessions of those confessions, Jiajing would naturally know what to do.

As for their confession, they will say that in the next two days, Zhang Hao will be watching the completion of the prison car.

Other vassal kings also received Jiajing's imperial edicts, asking them to return to Beijing to worship their ancestors. Some vassal kings had opinions. If they wanted to worship their ancestors, they would also go to Nanjing instead of Beijing. Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was buried in Nanjing, so how could they go to Beijing to worship their ancestors?

The princes are also very confused now. They also knew about the arrest of King Jin and were worried that Jiajing would withdraw the vassal in this time. If they went there this time and Jiajing wanted to withdraw the vassal in the vassal, they would have no choice. When they arrived in Beijing, they could not make any mistakes, but they dared not to go.

If you don't go, what should Jiajing starts to clean up then? Therefore, the vassal kings are sitting at home and worrying at this moment, and they also sent people to Beijing to inquire about more information.

That morning, the prison car on Zhang Hao was ready, so Zhang Hao started to put all the people into the prison car, and then took the imperial guards and the Jinyiwei set out from Taiyuan. Yu Dafang and two other local officials also came to see Zhang Hao away.

"Mr. Yu, when will I come to the capital? Remember to find me!" Zhang Hao said to Yu Dafang.

"Sure, certain!" Yu Dafang immediately bowed and said.

"The spring plowing is about to begin. The farmland that was searched may be distributed to the people at that time. What should I do? The emperor has not given me any news. I have written a memorial. I guess it will be solved after I return to the capital!" Zhang Hao continued to explain to Yu Dafang.

"Xiaoguan knows that Xiaguan is waiting for news from the court and handle it according to the court's requirements." Yu Dafang said to Zhang Hao.

"Okay, then I'll say goodbye first, there will be a date later!" Zhang Hao bowed to the three of them and said,

The three of them immediately bowed their gifts.

Zhang Hao turned over and started rushing to the capital city, but Zhang Hao would not wait for those prison vans. The prison van was pressed by the imperial guards, and no one dared to approach. However, the imperial guards were slow to move. It would probably take more than two days to get to the capital city. Zhang Hao could not follow them slowly, but needed to go back in advance.

In the evening, Zhang Hao arrived at the capital and rushed for a day. He was so tired, but he still needed to go to the palace. Zhang Hao had just arrived outside Yuxi Palace. After the Jinyiwei saw Zhang Hao, he immediately saluted.

"Sir, you are back, the emperor has been thinking about you several times!"

"Sir, please hurry up, I'll take you the horse!"

The Jinyiwei was quite enthusiastic about Zhang Hao. A few days ago, Lu Bing was moved outside. The emperor had made up his mind to exile Lu Bing, but he was still following the process. In the future, the Jinyiwei would be Zhang Hao in charge, and no one could replace him. However, Zhang Hao didn't know all this.

"Okay, you lead the horse, Chen Lian, you can go back first. Then I will ask the brothers of the inner guard to take me back. You will be tired for a long time!" Zhang Hao said to Chen Lian and the others.

"Yes, sir!" Chen Lian and the others immediately bowed their hands when they heard Zhang Hao's words. Zhang Hao brought a few bags and asked the Jinyiwei brothers of the inner guard to carry them straight to the Danfang.

Before he could reach the Danfang, the eunuch on duty at the Danfang door saw Zhang Hao coming from afar and ran in immediately.

"Emperor, Master Lu An is back!" the eunuch went in and shouted.

"Oh, I'm back, hurry up, let him in. In addition, Lu Fang, go and prepare some food. This kid must have not eaten!" Jiajing said happily when he heard this.

"Hey, I'll prepare immediately!" Lu Fang was also happy.

With Zhang Hao here, Jiajing has the spirit and courage to do things. Moreover, those who are slaves are not worried that they will lose their heads if they anger Jiajing, because Jiajing would not notice those slaves at all, but instead wanted to quarrel with Zhang Hao.

"Emperor, Master!" Zhang Hao shouted loudly after coming in.

"What are you shouting? I'm here? You bastard, do you know how to come back?" Jiajing sat there, cursing at Zhang Hao with an unhappy look on his face. The eunuchs were very happy, knowing that Jiajing was very happy now.

"What does it mean? Why didn't I know how to come back? Your Majesty, it's very hurtful to say that. It's more than 600 miles. I rode my horse for almost 6 hours before I arrived in the capital. My butt was almost cracking!" Zhang Hao shouted to Jiajing complaining.

"Oh, okay, those who don't know what you are doing?" Jiajing waved his hand at Zhang Hao with contempt.

"Your Majesty, if you say this, I will come back slowly next time. Those prisoners have not brought them yet, and the items they have been searched have not been brought here! I am still on the way. If I had known I would have come back with the army, so as not to rush to the road and not eat much!" Zhang Hao continued to complain.

"Okay, come and sit down, Jinshui, make tea!" Jiajing said as he greeted Yang Jinshui.

"Yes, the emperor!" Yang Jinshui immediately said with a smile, and then began to prepare for making tea.

"Your Majesty, I'm so angry this time. Haha, Master, come and see me!" Zhang Hao said, and ordered the Jinyiwei to come in with the money.

"What a big deal? Will you speak? I asked you to do the job, not to ask you to plunder money!" Jiajing immediately glared at Zhang Hao and said when he heard Zhang Hao say this.

"Your Majesty, you're really making a fortune!" Zhang Hao said as he untied the bags and poured them onto the ground. They were all silver notes, with eight bags in total, which contained more than 22 million taels of silver notes. These were the money obtained by people from the salt merchants and King Jin.

"So, so many?" Jiajing was a little surprised to see that the ground was full of silver notes.

"That's right, there are still many things that have not been sold. I'll get them back if I don't have time to sell. Then I'll leave them to the emperor to deal with!" Zhang Hao said proudly to Jiajing.

"How much more?" Jiajing asked at Zhang Hao.

"I don't know, I guess if I sell them all, I can still sell one of them at 20 million taels. They are all good things, here is 22 million taels!" Zhang Hao pointed to the ground and said to Jiajing.

"How many!" Jiajing looked at Zhang Hao in shock and asked.

"It's more than 22 million taels, by the way, the account book is here. Your Majesty, please take out the account book and say to Jiajing.

"More than 22 million taels?" Jiajing quickly walked to Zhang Hao's side, took the account book, and looked carefully. There were silver notes collected when the house was raided, and there were also silver that were loaded in a carriage. There were about 3 million taels of silver on the carriage, all of which were white silver.

"Okay, you bastard, you went to Shanxi this time, but you have been in the tax revenue for the Ming Dynasty for six or seven years!" Jiajing looked up at Zhang Hao and said.

"Hehe, Master, you can continue to be exempted from taxes and let the people recuperate!" Zhang Hao said happily at Jiajing.

"Okay, okay, more than 22 million taels are all here?" Jiajing pointed to the money on the ground and asked Zhang Hao.

"Yes, you dot, it's probably going to dot one day!" Zhang Hao nodded and said.

"If you don't order, what else can I order? Let Lu Fang clean up later, I will dare to do a lot of things now!" Jiajing said happily.

"Your Majesty. You have money now. You owe our Shuntian Mansion money. It's time to pay it back. Our Shuntian Mansion still has to do something!" Zhang Hao looked at Jiajing and said,

Jiajing glared at him when he heard this.

"No, Your Majesty, don't you want to default on the debt, right?" Zhang Hao said suspiciously as he looked at Jiajing.

"Can I still betray the debt? Can you have some insight? Ah, I just received the money and you come and ask for the debt?" Jiajing cursed at Zhang Hao.

"I'm not stupid. Your Majesty, you have so much money and you will definitely agree if I ask for money!" Zhang Hao still looked at Jiajing proudly and said.

"No money!" Jiajing said with a dark face. He had no intention of paying it back at all. That is, Zhang Hao is still the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture. If he changes to another prefect, he would see if the prefect would dare to ask him if he wanted money?

"What?" Zhang Hao looked at Jiajing in a daze. No money? But there was all money on the ground. Thinking of this, Zhang Hao immediately squatted down and started counting the money.

"Hey, what do you want to do?" Jiajing immediately pointed at Zhang Hao and shouted.
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