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and so.
His Royal Highness King Chu gave full play to his strengths of adapting to changing circumstances!
While holding the two axes of salt and iron, he greeted and greeted the countries of the Western Regions.
the other side.
And in the Tang Empire, he chopped a few axes at those behind-the-scenes smugglers who smuggled and sold salt and iron!
In this way, it is most suitable to use one trick for two purposes...!
"Hehe, as expected of me..."
Ning Chen muttered with a smile.
I thought to myself, this is me, Ning Chen, to deceive people is a one-off ticket, and the family and foreign thieves cheat together!
at this time.
All the files that Ning Chen wanted have been delivered.
There are as many as three or four volumes of dossiers recording matters related to the smuggling of salt and iron within the Tang Dynasty!
And beyond that.
The rest of the pile of files are all black materials of some officials and aristocratic families...!
There are black materials about smuggling and selling salt and iron!
Ning Chen picked up a scroll from the tray, unfolded it, and immediately frowned.
Subsequently.
Ning Chen unfolded many files one by one, and the color became more and more unattractive.
Until after reading the dossier.
His Royal Highness King Chu's complexion has become as black as the bottom of a pot!
He stretched out his hand and slammed it heavily on the table, a murderous intent flashed in his eyes!
These scandals about officials and aristocratic families made Ning Chen feel a little terrified!
For example, the government sells salt for one thousand guan and half a bucket.
Those salt smugglers.
Under the protection of the power of the big man behind him, he will buy all the salt sold by the government at a low price!
Then they changed hands and sold it to ordinary people at three to five times the price!
And apart from that.
Under the instigation of the mastermind behind them, these people actually tried to tamper with the armament!
The relevant officials who collaborated with the mine excavation.
Take away some high-quality iron ore, and the rest are all rubbish with a lot of impurities!
And the high-quality iron ore in their hands.
They will be resold to barbarians from all over the world, or they will be "sold" to the government again with ingenious means!
Such a wave of operation down.
The smugglers made a lot of money, and the forces behind them made a lot of money!
Even the officials who cooperated with the cover are all rich...!
The only unlucky one is the imperial court!
Because the ore is smuggled, the mining efficiency is reduced, so we can only spend money and mobilize more civilians!
These smugglers will take the opportunity to return the iron ore.
And together with the officials in charge, they embezzled the money allocated by the imperial court to recruit civilian husbands to mine iron ore!
As such.
The cost of mining the same amount of iron ore by the government will increase by an unknown amount!
and.
In addition to increased costs, efficiency will be greatly reduced!
"Good good!"
"It's really beautiful, it's really good...!"
"I originally thought that selling salt would be shocking enough, but I didn't expect the smuggling of iron to be even more outrageous!"
"You really took the iron ore mined by the imperial court and returned it to the imperial court from other angles!"
"Let me, the Tang Empire, lose a lot of money in the meantime, so that you can make a lot of money...!"
Ning Chen was actually laughed out of anger.
I really feel that these things are too dreamy, too outrageous!
"Outrageous..."
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Chapter 503 Cheng Chen: So arrogant?Ben Wang laughed...! .
"boom!"
Chu Palace, Tianji Pavilion.
Ning Chen's face sank like water, and he threw the scroll in his hand on the ground with a bang!
At this moment, His Royal Highness King Chu was extremely angry.
Although previously.
Yunchen already had a rough prediction about the domestic smuggling and selling of salt and iron.
But when the Mystery Pavilion was up and running, and the information files were delivered to him, Ning Chen.
Only then did Ning Chen realize how rampant and arrogant some people really are...!
Because there are people behind it.
These smugglers simply regard the laws of the country as nothing!
It was extremely arrogant!
"The Xiao family in Jiangnan, the Murong family in Daibei, the Yang family in Qingzhou..."
"It seems that I, Ning Chen, killed the five surnames Qiwang a year ago, you forgot!"
"To the extent that I don't care about the lessons I learned before!"
"Ha ha……"
Ning Chen's tone was so cold that it made one's heart chill.
The aura of the whole person is like a sharp sword out of its sheath, sharp and sharp!
Salt and iron two items.
Since ancient times, it has been a very important thing for the imperial courts of all dynasties!
And the benefits brought by these two things, that is, tax money, have always accounted for a very high proportion of the dynasty's fiscal revenue!
But now.
There is such a group of people, relying on the powerful backer behind them, to plunder the financial revenue of the empire...!
This is simply crazy to death!
"Although I, Ning Chen, opened up overseas business routes, the empire's finances no longer depend on ordinary taxes."
"but!"
"In any case, this is the property of the Tang Dynasty. Whoever touches this king will have his head cut off...!"
Since the first year of Zhenguan, the Tang Empire has had overseas merchants as a financial source.
Actually.
There is no longer much reliance on taxation within the empire.
even.
Emperor Li Er is even planning to reduce the taxes of ordinary people by [-]% at the beginning of the third year of Zhenguan!
but.
No matter how rich the imperial court is, even if there are mountains of silver in the treasury.
The two taxes on salt and iron still belong to the Tang court...!
Besides, the harm caused by the smuggling of salt and iron is more than that simple...?
After all, the salt smugglers who rebelled at the end of the Sui Dynasty accounted for a lot...
"Speaking of which, Brother Cheng, it seems that he has actually smuggled salt..."
"Tsk tsk, what a fucking coincidence!"
Ning Chen suddenly clicked his tongue twice, feeling that the things in this world are really amazing.
But this also proves from the side that these smugglers are definitely a great harm to the country!
If it is not punished with the force of thunder.
In a few more years, when they and the people in power behind them have completely monopolized the salt and iron.
A lifeline of the empire, but they have grasped it...!
"First monopolize, then raise prices, and then officials and businessmen conspire to steal money from the treasury together!"
"These people are really bold, arrogant and rampant!"
"But it's true, after all, those standing behind them are not small people..."
Ning Chen put his hand on the pile of files again.
Just unfold a copy, and there will be a name in it who is either a great official of the frontier or an important minister of the court!
even.
Ning Chen is quite familiar with certain names...
"My lord, my lord!"
"As the head of the second largest family in the world, you are still doing such dirty things...!"
"Joke, true and ridiculous...!"
Looking at the striking four large characters on the file in his hand.
Ning Chen couldn't help chuckling, a mocking look flashed across his face!
He naturally knew that such a thing could not be done by Changsun Wuji himself.
After all, he is also an important court official.
If you do this kind of thing yourself, you will always lose your value, so it must be someone from the family!
But no matter what.