Chapter 720 Lying on the Roof
"What else do you need me for?" Mu Yan snorted.
He didn't have to do anything, just standing there represented the emperor's will.
As long as everyone has a big family and a big business, can they not be sensitive to political affairs?
Nowadays, the central government is moving the capital. At the end of this year, the emperor will not appoint court officials, but send Jin Yiwei to clean up the salt affairs. Who can guess the emperor's intentions.
"The endowment of the world, half of the salt and profit, the imperial service, military salary, and salary of hundreds of officials are all given to Yan." Not to mention the past dynasties, but only this dynasty, "the salt in the Lianghuai River and the Huaihe River is the most profitable, and it has always been used to help the border, and half of it is borrowed from this."
Whenever dredging the canal, the frontier army has insufficient food and pay, the court has disasters and the people are in trouble, bridges are built to build government offices and pave roads, and as long as the treasury has no money, it will raise funds from salt merchants.
As long as there are criticisms or refusal to give, it will be fine, just let out the wind, and the court will order someone to investigate.
Who dares to let people check? Which one is clean?
Who does not profit from smuggling, and who accepts lessons honestly? Which family does not form a party for private interests, and does not take advantage of it everywhere? Which account book is the actual production and sales?
will not be checked.
It is said that now is not the early days of the dynasty. It has been 50 years since David founded the country.
Last year, there was a big storm in Hangzhou Prefecture, and the backflow of sea water did affect the salt output of the Lianghuai Salt Field, but it is not so low this year's salt class.
And not only this year, it is decreasing year after year.
Now that the national treasury is spending money, can Emperor Yongkang not send someone to investigate?
Only then did the civil and military officials announce the news of moving the capital, and the government and the opposition reacted violently. The aristocratic families in the south of the Yangtze River made a lot of money by taking advantage of the capital, and saved a huge amount of money. This move of the capital will have a great impact on them, the aristocratic families in the south of the Yangtze River.
Emperor Yongkang wanted to rectify the salt administration, but he didn't want to do it overnight.
Just order Mu Yan to take some people to Huai'an and Yangzhou for a walk, just to shake the mountain and shake the tiger. After all, if you provoke a tiger, it will also fight back and eat people.
Emperor Yongkang didn't want to go to war.
Mu Yan understands all these.
So he went to Huai'an, Yangzhou and other places, but only deterred, and did not really use thunderous means. For the court, the emperor, and the Lianghuai salt merchants, this level is just right.
The result is also very satisfying to him.
"Brother Ziyi helped me a lot this time. If he hadn't been helping the salt merchants, I'm afraid I wouldn't have returned to Beijing so soon." The Golden Piao Gong family in the box contributed a large part.
Huo Xi was stunned for a moment, "You asked him to help you match up?"
Mu Yan nodded: "Although the imperial court has announced that it will clean up the Lianghuai salt administration, but..."
"But the emperor just wants to shock the tiger? He only wants some benefits, and he doesn't want to cause shocks to the salt merchants? Afraid that this critical period will cause a rebound?"
Mu Yan glared at her. Is it possible to say anything?
But he applauded in his heart, and the corners of his mouth raised.
This is the pillow he had set for himself when he was young. He was not only in love with her appearance, but also pleased that she could communicate with him.
They don't need to play lyrics, sing songs, recite poems and draw pictures to make peace, but she can understand what he says, and he can give what she wants.
That's enough.
Enough.
Scratched Huo Xi's face, she was extremely gentle, and nodded, "The emperor also has concerns, so both sides are fine."
"Yes, the purpose of the emperor is just to increase the revenue of the treasury, and also to spend some money to build the palace. After all, there are enough people who have been killed in these years, and enough homes have been copied."
Mu Yan clicked his tongue.
Huo Xi looked at him with dissatisfaction: "This is the inner room of our husband and wife, the inner room! I can't say a few words of my own to my husband? Is this a taboo? I can't even speak properly?"
angry.
You can’t say this, you have to silence your voice, what’s the point of being alive!
"Walls have ears."
"Where are the ears?" He looked down at his son who was concentrating on playing the game, "Are you talking about Xiao Yuer?"
Looking like a shameless person.
"Hey, mother's good son, mother smells one..." Holding her son's pink face, she smelled one.
Xiao Yuer smiled and turned the other side of his face, "There is still this side."
"Okay, I want it here." Another one was offered. The loud voice caused Mu Yan to be very dissatisfied.
"This is to raise a son." It's not to raise a daughter, but to raise a son so delicately.
"What's wrong with raising a son?" Huo Xi was dissatisfied.
"Should we be like most people nowadays, handing over the child to the nanny, so that the child is usually polite to his parents, and he has to hold his fists and salute three or five times when he says a word? Be in awe of the father and maintain his dignity. To consolidate the authority of patriarchy, if you don’t have a son, you have to have a grandson, the more you raise, the more alienated you become?”
What does it mean to have grandchildren but not children. Huo Xi didn't pay attention to this at all.
She ignored it, and also asked Mu Yan to ignore it, subtly affecting Mu Yan.
Fortunately, Mu Yan is not a pedantic person. They have a deep affection for Huo Xi, they have raised their son since he was born, and the nanny only helped her and never fed him.
As well as mother and son, father and son are getting closer.
But Mu Yan occasionally still can't understand Huo Xi and his son's clingy appearance, "My son is going to be a general."
"Xiao Yuer wants to be a great general!" Xiao Yuer stopped playing and stopped to listen to his parents.
"All right, you can be a general. I didn't say that you won't be allowed to be a general." Huo Xi smiled and encouraged, and touched his son's small face, which was soft and slippery, like an egg with its shell peeled off.
It's so nice to touch.
The couple played with their son for a while, and Mu Yan was worried that Huo Xi would not hold back, and she trusted him too much to say anything. Reminding: "Don't say what you said just now."
"Jin Yiwei has eyes and ears all the time?"
Mu Yan glared at her.
"You are a four-rank thing, how dare they lie on the roof of our house? You have become a relative, and your ears and martial arts have degenerated? Is there anyone outside who can't detect it?"
This woman! Dare to question him.
"Whether I have degenerated, I will let you see clearly in a while."
Huo Xi glanced at him somewhere, Mu Yan's thigh moved, and she bared her teeth.
"Okay, let's not talk about it. But, isn't the yamen sealed? The hot one is still in our house?" He mumbled at the box.
"Whether the yamen is sealed or not has nothing to do with me. I will not go to the yamen. This job is not assigned by the Jinyiwei yamen. I obey the emperor's order, so I just go to the palace and report the matter to the emperor."
As for whether the emperor puts these golden tickets into his private treasury or hand them over to the national treasury, he doesn't care.
He can't control it either.
"This box is very hot, you should keep it yourself." Huo Xi threw the box in front of him.
Both father and son glanced at the box, and then turned to look at her. One big and one small, similar faces, like expressions carved out of a mold.
Huo Xi was amused.
"You two are really father and son, father and son."
Mu Yan was dissatisfied with what he said: "Could it be that Yu'er was picked by us?"
"I didn't pick it up! It was born by my parents!"
Xiao Yuer understood what he said, with a serious expression on his face, he raised his face to refute his own father. He didn't pick it up!
"I didn't pick it up, it was born by my parents. Your father often talks nonsense. It seems that he has been outside for a long time, and his brain has been frozen." Huo Xi hurriedly comforted his son and smoothed his hair.
Mu Yan glared at Huo Xi, while Huo Xi raised an eyebrow at him.
This woman is increasingly ignorant of what it means to take her husband as the key link. And after a while, she will be severely punished, and the Fa will be executed on the spot.
"Yu'er, it's getting late, it's time to sleep."
"No, let's play again."
"I can't play anymore. It's too late, I won't be able to get up tomorrow morning. Mu Qi, did your father tell you that you need to save yourself three times a day, don't be greedy for fun, and have a degree in everything?"
Daddy suddenly called him by his name, which made Xiao Yuer suddenly a little scared. Looking at his mother, she didn't speak for him.
"Okay, let's play tomorrow." Very practical, I picked up the toys by myself.
"Good boy." Huo Xi praised his son, glared at Mu Yan, and helped his son clean up together.
(end of this chapter)