137th Salt Road

"The prince will be tempted to get money?" Zhen'er was surprised.

"I am a young man. I don't understand what the prince's gourd is selling, so I dare not act rashly. Aunt, look..." Liang Fang said.

"You, don't offend the prince... I have never seen the beads as big as eggs, so big, I have never seen them, where?"

Liang Fang opened the handkerchief in his hand, and there was indeed a huge bead, which was the Nanzhu, priceless.

"These two people are so strange. They are killing people and holding treasures?" Zhen'er touched the beads.

"Does your aunt suspect that they are telling the truth?" Liang Fang said, "The prince thought so too. So he just wanted to be a favor and find an opportunity to send them out without being discovered. I heard that the Jinyiwei was looking for them. They were also smart people. No one would have thought that they would hide in the palace. It was not easy to send them out. You should know the Jinyiwei..."

"The prince's egg beads were considered to be free. Menda's people will withdraw tomorrow, so it should not be difficult for them to go out." Zhen'er said, "It's just that you should remind the prince not to trust these two people too much... After all, there is only one life..."

"Aunt, have you received the news?" Liang Fang smiled all over his face, but... his face became serious again. "I'm worried that the two stupid thieves will find out the identity of the prince, and if they have another idea of ​​killing..."

"You don't have to worry about the emperor. The emperor has more than one or two sons... If he has the will of the emperor, he will be fine. If not, it will be useless for us to do our best."

"Aunt, why are you talking like this?" Liang Fang said. The prince is the master of the people in the East Palace. Who dares to treat the master like this?

The martial law in the capital of this palace quickly dispersed. The plague god was sent away and the East Palace returned to peace.

"Zheng'er, Liang Fang said you... said you... were not loyal to Ben... Prince..."

"Your Highness, shouldn't you beware of others? You keep those two people? Many kids in the East Palace see them. If these kids talk to others, I'm afraid the prince's life will not be guaranteed..."

"Look... all the people who saw it have already swore." said the prince.

"Do you believe their vows? Zhen'er will not be able to coax people like they do..." Zhen'er said. "Your Highness the Crown Prince is so big... he naturally has his own idea..." Seeing Zhen'er angry, he didn't dare to say anything. Zhen'er was the person he trusted the most.

Zhen'er can't control him anymore, but in fact she can't even control herself.

"Let the tiger return to the mountain..." There was no airtight wall in the world. The emperor knew about this, but he did not ask Menda to stop the two people from leaving the capital. The prince saw Shen and was summoned to the Qianqing Palace and knelt in front of his father.

"Why did the Yao people kill me? Do you know why those people wanted to rebel?" Zhu Qizhen said, "Where did their Nanzhu come from?"

"I don't know..." Zhu Jianshen knelt on the ground. He was not afraid of death, but he seemed to know that he had caused trouble, but this was not something he wanted to do. "But, I know that I should be more generous to the people..."

"Aren't I good enough to them?" Zhu Qizhen said, "I worked diligently but did not treat them badly, but what did they do? They captured six states, occupied land as kings, and continued to devour the land of the Ming Dynasty. They cut off the Hepu commercial road, and even Nanzhu could not get to me... These people are bandits who disturbed the people..."

"Look... Look... The records of the past... Tongren Yao and Miao people are located in the southwest, with high mountains and dense forests, sparse fields, and breeding populations. They are brave and warlike by nature, and will intercept merchants. For hundreds of years, the barbarians there have always been disobeying the management of the court, but they are not uncivilized. They live with the Han people and have learned a lot of Confucius and Mencius..." Jianshen said.

"All nonsense... many of them don't know big words, so how can they have the opportunity to learn the way of Confucius and Mencius? This time you are just playing the piano against a cow. I'm afraid that these people will not understand my painstaking efforts..." Zhu Qizhen said, thinking that his son's opinion... no, his own thoughts are too naive.

"Emperor, let the slaves go to the southwest... Only by finding the cause can we prescribe the right medicine. There are reasons for the uncertainty in the southwest, and they can no longer endanger the safety of the emperor." Niu Yu knelt down.

"Let the prince go and see it by himself... Stay in the deep palace and only know how to study..." the emperor said, "The prince is not young anymore. If there are bullies and corrupt officials, you can also experience it..."

Experience again? The father still doesn't forgive himself. Niu Yu tried a look: "Your Highness, you haven't stepped down yet? The emperor is tired..."

After seeing Shen retreat, he walked out of the hall and breathed a sigh of relief. Zhen'er, who was standing in the corridor, came up quickly. She looked serious and seemed very nervous: "Your Highness..."

"It's good if you haven't died..." Jian Shen said with a smile, "I'm still alive, and I can still go out of the palace. It's really suffocating here..." Zhen'er felt that this child had grown up, and the father-son relationship between the emperor and the prince was not as good as that between King De, but it should be a good thing that he could see this matter like that.

"I believe the emperor is for the sake of the Crown Prince..." Zhen'er said.

"You say good things about him like my mother. It's hard to say this person... I really don't know what it means..." Jianshen said, "Oh, nagging."

If you want to leave, you have to read a book first. Jianshen feels that he knows too little about that area and has been to Datong, but Datong is different from Guangxi. He asks some officials familiar with that area to ask.

"The closest to that is Jingjiang King Zhu Zuojing. However, the prince of the Ming Dynasty has no real power." Zhen'er said, "The Guilin area in Guangxi is relatively wealthy, but the life in the mountains is much harder. The Yao people and children there are often extremely poor, with few land in the mountains and many people, and backward farming. After the Han people moved there, they often couldn't compare and conflicts often arise. In addition, the chieftains asked them to pay more taxes... Especially the salt tax, the salt tax in Guangxi is particularly expensive, and a pound of salt costs several stones of grain. The salt price is all told by the government. You should know that the salt price in the capital is much cheaper."

"You know so much, why no one told my father?" Jianshen said, "Isn't there the South China Sea over there? Guangdong salt..."

"Don't even think about it. Guangdong is different from Guangxi. The salt officials in Guangxi are not allowed to sell Guangdong salt, and even Jiangsu salt is not good. No one wants to avoid causing trouble. Besides, the high price of salt is their excuse." Zhen'er said.

"Excuse?" Jianshen said, "Zheng'er, I thought you were right in everything, but I didn't expect you were also a fence-skinned man..."

Seeing the prince waving his arms, Zhen'er didn't say anything anymore.

(End of this chapter)
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