The Legend of Prince Yong

"Well, this picture of the secluded path of Cangshan Mountain, with its chic ink and refined artistic conception, is a rare masterpiece!".

"The fourth master who can praise it is not in vain, but this painting is still missing an inscription poem, since the fourth master has seen it, it is better to make up for it!".

Yin Zhen lifted the sheep's hair on the table, dipped it in thick ink, pondered slightly, and wrote with a hand and two kings' body of grass: "The morning is like smoke, and the sunrise is reflected in the east mountain." The lonely deserted village is near the water, and the birds are flying to the clouds. The morning dew invades the clothes, and the flowers are beautiful. Writing this, Yin Zhen hesitated slightly, paused slightly, thought about it, and then continued: "Smile lightly from the incense, and quickly raise the whip with the leopard's tail." When he was done, he put the sheep on the table. Dai Duo stood aside, picked up the painting with both hands, blew it lightly a few times, read it twice in a low voice, and said with a smile: "'The lonely deserted village is near the water, and the birds are flying to the clouds', good words and good poems really complement each other!" Yin Zhen said: "I came here today, the poetry is like a spring, when the emperor was forced to compose poems, it was not so fast!" Dai Duo smiled: "That's really an honor here, even so, please ask the fourth master to also give this verdant hall a name!" Yin Zhen clapped his hands and smiled: "This place is full of greenery, and the verdant is suitable for the scene, but it is too real." I think if I can change this green character to a condensing word, although there is only a difference of one word, it is dynamic and static, virtual and real, and the fun is even better. It's just that now that I already have the previous poem, these words will be written when I go back and be sent by someone!" Dai Duo said: "Inherit the master's love!" Yinzhen sat on the chair in front of the desk, picked up the tea that had just come up, took two sips and said: "This word is also inscribed, let's talk about the right thing!" Dai Duo said with a whole face: "The fourth master saw Li Sheng today!" Yinzhen said softly: "Yes, but I'm not as optimistic as Mr." Dai Duo laughed and said: "The fourth master looks at people, and what he sees is the strategy of governing the country, as for talking about conspiracy and tricks, The villains in the market are not as good as us! Li Sheng, who has been in this position for half his life in speculation and monopoly, can clearly distinguish what is beneficial to himself. This kind of person can do anything for the sake of fame and fortune. Yin Zhen thought about it and said, "I hope so!" "I don't know if he revealed any news?" Dai Duo asked after a moment of silence. Yin Zhen said: "He doesn't know much about Yu Quan's daily affairs, but when it comes to Yu Quan's tenure as the prefect of Yangzhou for several years, at the end of each month, Yu Quan will go to Jiangdu County." As for what to do, he didn't know. Dai Duo pondered: "Yin of Jiangdu County is an honest official, and the refusal of the minister knows that he has no personal dealings with Yu Quan and others. If Yu Quan went to Jiangdu, where else would he stay?" Yinzhen Li Wei didn't know much about Jiangnan, so he sat quietly and waited for Dai Duo to think. Dai Duo sometimes frowned deeply, sometimes with a serious face, and after a while, his frowning brows gradually relaxed, and he stood up and said, "Fourth Master, where did you say that most of the taxes in Jiangnan come from!" Yin Zhen and Li Wei looked at him for a long time, and suddenly asked this question, and they were secretly puzzled in their hearts. Yin Zhen suppressed the doubts in his heart and said: "The taxes of the Qing Dynasty are mainly from commercial taxes and land taxes. There are also a lot of taxes in the south of the Yangtze River, but the transportation is convenient, commerce and trade are prosperous, and seven or eight out of ten taxes come from commercial taxes. Dai Duo laughed softly: "What the fourth master said is good, but where does this commercial tax come from?" Yin Zhen and Li Wei looked at each other, and at the same time there was a sudden feeling of enlightenment in their hearts, and said in unison: "Salt merchant!" Dai Duo stroked his palm and said: "Yes, it is the salt merchant." Yangzhou has been a place where official salt has gathered and dispersed since ancient times, and Jiangdu is a place where private salt is turned. Salt merchants from all over the south of the Yangtze River smuggled salt here, and then reached several provinces along the canal, earning more than tens of millions of taels of profits a year. Since private salt has such huge benefits, who can not be greedy, so the annual filial piety to officials in various places may not be less than tens of millions of taels. Li Wei whispered uncertainly: "Master Dai is saying that Yu Quan went to Jiangnan to collect huge bribes from salt merchants?" Dai Duo said categorically: "Yes, I'm afraid that Che Ming came to Yangzhou at this time for this matter! Yin Zhen was terrified in his heart, and said secretly: "Yes, I am afraid that only half of this dirty silver will go into the hands of the prince and the eighth master." No wonder they spend a lot of money on weekdays, and the silver they reward the little eunuchs in the palace is often hundreds of taels, it turns out that they are all holding the golden mountain of Jiangnan salt merchants. Dai Duo said: "As long as we can find a place for their private meeting, then everyone will get all the stolen goods, and we are not afraid of their quibbles!" Li Wei heard that the profit of private salt every year was more than 10 million taels, and he secretly clumsy, and grinned: "Lord Dai, you are a salt envoy, how can this tens of millions of silver have to pass through your hands, how can the Yangzhou prefect collect it?" Dai Duo heard this, "haha" smiled, and said: "The salt envoys are all official salt, even if there are huge profits, most of them are handed over to the imperial court, and my salt envoy is just an empty shelf!" Li Wei seemed to be careless, and he seemed to be stubbornly giggling, singing a promise: "Then this empty shelf is not small, it is planted with trees, and it is led by the river, and it is not small to look at the garden?" Dai Duo was secretly angry, and his expression remained unchanged and said: "After a few years of official positions, do you still have some savings, ahaha..." Taking advantage of this, he said: "Now that we know the purpose of their trip to Jiangdu, it will be easy to do." In the past two days, we should have to be ready, and when the time comes, it is time to close the net! Mr. Dai is in charge of Yangzhou, and Master Wenjue, Ouyang Feixue, and you will be in charge of the yamen of the Yangzhou prefect; the Huaiyang Dao yamen will be handed over to Nian Xiyao; as for Jiangdu, I will definitely be in charge myself.