Now he was suddenly slapped. This was truly a shame and humiliation that had not happened in many years.

Subconsciously, I wanted to shout the Buddha's name, but suddenly I remembered Li Yunze's words and swallowed it back.

"His Majesty."

Seeing Hongdu being beaten, Huang Wenhuan's face was filled with hatred. "Ever since the Lianghuai salt merchants were arrested, he has been spreading the word everywhere that His Majesty will attack the mountain and sea masters from all over the Yangtze River. The salt merchants are a lesson to the past."

"There must be a reason why he did this."

There is no love or hate without reason in the world, everything has a reason.

"Your Majesty, salt dealers need to have capital to sell private salt. The big salt dealers are fine, but the small and medium-sized salt dealers import salt from the salt field. In addition, they have to manage up and down, hire people to do the work, and open up routes. If something goes wrong, it will cost a lot of money.

It’s all about taels of silver to get people and goods.”

Huang Wenhuan was obviously willing to risk everything. "Their expenses were basically borrowed from the temple."

"Your Majesty has turned the salt industry into a monopoly. It has cut off the livelihood of the private salt dealers and also cut off the temple's financial path. The purpose of these high-and-low connections is to destroy the monopoly strategy so that the income can be replenished.

"

At the same time, Wang Chengen on the side took the initiative to pick up a thick stack of account books and handed them over, "Your Majesty, these are the account books that were seized from the temple. What they contain is shocking."

Opening the account book, Li Yunze couldn't help but frown slightly as soon as he took a look.

"Nine departures and thirteen returns are really cruel."

"Then he encouraged us to collect money to buy salt in order to spoil His Majesty's important affairs. When we were short of money, he lent us money."

"In the end, we really ran out of money, so he encouraged me to contact Jiangnan to plot rebellion. He said that as long as His Majesty is gone, the salt we bought can be sold at a high price, and all the accounts can be

Write it off with one stroke.”

"The common people's boats have been mortgaged to him. If he doesn't comply, he will lose everything in an instant."

Huang Wenhuan choked up in his words, "The common people are forced to do so."

When he cried, the rich and wealthy gentlemen who felt the same also lamented, "We are all forced to do this."

There was immediately a cry of crying in Fengtian Hall, which even drowned out the wind and rain outside the hall.

"Your Majesty. Ah!"

‘Pa bang bang~~~’

Master Hongdu's words of defense were blocked by Jin Yiwei's slap.

Not only the wealthy gentry, but also the abbots of various temples were crying and begging, saying that they knew nothing and had been deceived by this guy.

Li Yunze looked through the account books and said something lightly.

"Shut up."

The sound of crying in Fengtian Hall stopped abruptly.
Chapter completed!