In Wanshou Palace, a faint sandalwood rose from the incense burner and permeated every corner of the hall.

Emperor Jiajing, wearing a blue Taoist robe, sat expressionlessly in front of the desk, and under the hall was Zhu Xiaoxi kneeling on the ground.

Chen Hong, Feng Bao and several eunuchs were kneeling beside each other and busy, but they were checking a list and circled a series of names on it with red pens.

"Chen Dayong!"

"Sun Zhonggui!"

"Liu Sansi!"

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Not long after, several names rang in the hall, and they actually came from Jiajing's mouth. Every time a name was recited, there was a hint of anger. After finishing reading the list, he asked in a deep voice: "Is there any more?"

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"Your Majesty, there is another one, Chen Hong!" Chen Hong felt as if he had received a treasure, but at the end of his words, he still responded in a low voice for this similar name.

hehe……

Jiajing suddenly laughed, and a look of cruelty appeared on his face.

Eunuchs such as Chen Hong swallowed secretly, knowing that this was a manifestation of the emperor's anger, which made them no longer dare to look at Jiajing in front of him, and became more cautious in their actions.

Jiajing was already like an angry tiger, but he looked up at Zhu Xiaoxi who was still kneeling on the ground, and asked in a deep voice: "Where does this account book come from?"

"Linhuai Marquis Mansion!" Chen Xiaoxi's eyes flashed with hesitation, and only thought of his friendship with the Duke Ding Mansion, he gritted his teeth and responded.

Jiajing's eyes narrowed slightly, and a fierce light burst out immediately.

During the 11th year of Jiajing, he awarded titles to the descendants of several founding heroes, and Linhuai Hou was one of them.

But he never expected that the Linhuai Marquis Li Yi, who followed his ancestor Li Jinglong, would be a man of two faces and three swords. It would be fine if he didn't think about his kindness, but he even stole the salt benefits of his Zhu family.

Chen Hong was not afraid of the nobles in Nanjing, so he immediately added: "Your Majesty, this Linhuai Marquis is really bold and reckless. He dared to organize the smuggling of tens of thousands of stones of salt, which would damage the salt benefits of our Ming Dynasty. It is really a great crime!

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"It's not just him, but all the names and names on this list can be killed or killed!" Jiajing threw the list of accounts on the ground and said with gritting teeth.

He has always been quite generous to his ministers, not only to the ministers and Taoists who helped him cultivate Xuan, but also to capable ministers like Yang Bo and Hu Zongxian, but he hated these maggots the most.

The reason why the salt tax has been reduced over the years is certainly due to the escape of salt ditches, but the more important reason is that these smugglers damaged the salt administration, causing the richest Southeast salt administration in the Ming Dynasty to sluggish.

Now that this huge list of smuggling networks has fallen into his hands, he did not relieve his hatred by killing a small Linhuai Marquis, but he wanted to kill all the evil thieves who stole his Zhu family's salt tax.

"Your Majesty, I have conducted an investigation and found that most of the people involved in this list are officials, gentry and clan members from the southeast. Please think twice!" A look of shock flashed across Zhu Xiaoxi's face and immediately advised him.

Although he also hoped to use this kind of killing to reorganize his glory in the Jinyiwei. However, he was the Duke of the State, but he was loyal to the Ming Dynasty royal family and did not want to see such acts that shake the foundation of the country.

Jiajing calmed down a little, looked at Zhu Xiaoxi with praise, and responded slightly calmly: "I know that I can't kill them all. These people are famous gentry and scholars from the local area, and your list cannot be regarded as true.

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"Emperor, I..." Zhu Xiaoxi immediately wanted to declare that the list was not fake, but was stopped by Jiajing, pointing to Wan Yukai and submitting the petition list, saying, "This group of people is related to the stability of the Southeast, I don't

How would you really do to all of them? But there is a person here who dared to complain to me, and he turned his mind around right and wrong, black and white, and prevented the court from implementing the salt law. The people on this list investigated and killed them!"

Things seemed magically "collided" together, but instead "save" Lin Weiran.

Jiajing originally wanted to hit Lin Qingran properly, but found that most of the people who smuggled salt and petitioned the petition were from the same group, which made him feel humiliated that he was being played with.

If he really believed that Lin Qingran had "excluded dissidents" in Yangzhou because of these people's petitions today, then he would be the idiotic emperor in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and would destroy the salt administration that had finally been reorganized.

That's why his anger has shifted now, and he has all turned to the Southeastern officials and gentlemen who have obviously committed sins but dared to cry to him.

"Receive the order!" Zhu Xiaoxi knew that he was far from favored by Lu Bing, so he was determined to show his authenticity at this moment.

Although he did not dare to arrest and kill all the officials, gentry and great scholars on the list, it was still very easy to investigate and punish some of them.

Chen Hong and others felt the murderous intent on Jiajing, but they were so arrogant that they dared not breathe heavily. They suddenly discovered that the emperor was a little less killed, not because the emperor was old, but because there was nothing that made this person dare to make the left.

The Emperor of Shunmen’s bloody crime was angry.

Jiajing pressed his hand on the list and said with a calm face again: "Investigate the Marquis of Linhuai strictly!"

If it were Duke of Wei, he might have stopped, but the Marquis of Linhuai was not listed here. He could actually give Li Jinglong's descendants the Marquis, so he could naturally kill or demote them.

Zhu Xiaoxi knew that there would be no more Linhuai Marquis in Nanjing, so he bowed seriously: "I am accused of the order!"

Seeing that the timing was good, Chen Hong stood up and said, "Your Majesty, what Wan Yukai reported is also untrue. The salt induced three times is probably not fat. These people are clearly trying to frame it!

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"Your Majesty, please investigate this matter thoroughly. Is there any overcoming move by Lord Lin?" Zhu Xiaoxi's heart moved slightly and immediately proposed.

Jiajing's face was slightly cold, and he immediately expressed his opinion: "What are you investigating? They deliberately did not want the court to rectify the salt administration, and they wanted to be unable to get along with me. How could I listen to his evil words and investigate the meritorious ministers? This is not

Is it cold to be a minister's heart?"

When Feng Bao heard this, his heart was finally relieved. At the same time, he looked at Zhu Xiaoxi, the commander of the Jinyiwei, and found that it was really a wise move to invite this person.

When the outside world was ready to fight, they probably never expected that a crisis related to Lin Junran would be resolved quietly, and the sniper salt method would also be asking for trouble.
Chapter completed!