super concubine

Chapter 491
Zeng Quanhuan, Ji Ping and Shi Zhongyuan were Jinshi in the same year!
Xiao Mo clicked his tongue secretly, thinking, no wonder when Xu Zhiqian talked about Zeng Quan, he always acted as if he had nothing to do, Zeng Quan's backer for feelings is tough, he was in the same year as Ji Ping and Shi Zhongyuan.

Even Xiao Mo, a time traveler, knows that in the ancient courts, those officials who entered the court in the same scientific examination had a very good relationship, commonly known as 'the same year'.

With Ji Ping and Shi Zhongyuan having friendship, and Ji Ping and Shi Zhongyuan holding the power of the court at the same time, it is not surprising that Xu Zhiqian was crushed to death by Zeng Quan!

Now that the relationship between Ji Ping and Shi Zhongyuan was involved, Xiao Mo changed his mind.

Xiao Mo is clear about Ji Ping and Shi Zhongyuan's personalities. These two old men are stubborn, but they are both honest and upright people. Now that they are in power in the court, the government is rarely bright. Ji Ping and Shi Zhongyuan probably didn't know about Zeng Quan's affairs, or Zeng Quan's affairs, or...they should have nothing to do with Zeng Quan. Friendship, but Zeng Quan is domineering in Hangzhou and even Jiangsu and Zhejiang because of this!
As a friend of Ji Ping and Shi Zhongyuan, Xiao Mo felt that he should take care of this matter for them, so Xiao Mo sneered and said to Xu Zhiqian: "Master Xu, now we can talk about the shortcomings of Zeng Quan and Hangzhou! "

Hearing Xiao Mo's words, Xu Zhiqian's expression brightened, and he said to Xiao Mo: "Lord Xiao, Master Zeng is an official of two dynasties, and he is a governor of one side. However, after the subordinate officials came to Hangzhou, all the government orders and government officials of the Hangzhou government were under the control of Mr. Zeng. Especially the officials in Hangzhou, from the general judge to the yamen servants, were all under the control of Mr. Zeng So, from this situation until the next official took office three years later, when the court was transferred from the government to follow the officials, it changed a little."

Suiguan is a collective term, which refers to the subordinate officials in various prefectures and counties who follow the chief executive, such as Sihu and Yatou Yafu...

Hearing this, Xiao Mo said: "I'm afraid Master Xu will accomplish nothing in Hangzhou in the past three years?"

Xu Zhiqian nodded, and then said: "Master Xiao is right! In the past three years, no matter whether it is an open investigation or an unannounced visit, the officials have done nothing..."

"What... are you looking for?" Xiao Mo asked.

Xiu Zhiming took over the conversation and said, "Private salt!"

Those two words made Xiao Mo's expression startled.

"Private salt?"

Finally got to the point, Xiao Mo suddenly seemed to be a different person, he asked Xu Zhiqian: "Private salt is banned by the imperial court, but the salt gangs in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have repeatedly banned it. Although Zeng Quan is One of the three ministers of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces, but as far as I know, the major salt farms and official salt in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are all in the hands of the transfer envoy!"

At this time the carriage stopped, Xiao Mo frowned, thinking that he had arrived at the West Lake, he poked his head out and found that the carriage was actually on a secluded path.

Obviously, neither Xiu Zhiming nor Xu Zhiqian have plans to go to West Lake right now!That's why the servants who drove the car and the accompanying guards parked the car on this secluded path.

Xiao Mo retracted his head into the carriage, and Xu Zhiqian said in a low voice: "Lord Xiao, this transfer envoy Lu Qiu and Master Zeng are the same breed, both of them are ministers of Taiwan, and together with Zhang Shengtai, they govern Zhejiang, Zhang Shengtai Taiwan was pushed to the south of Zhejiang by the two of them..."

"So it is!" Xiao Mo felt emotional when he heard the words.

Anchao has always adopted a three-person governance method for local administration, so that it can avoid the local officials from being too powerful in the local area, and can also avoid the situation of arbitrariness.

For example, in Zhejiang Province, there are three Taichens. Taichens refer to the highest chief executive of the locality.The three Taiwanese ministers in Zhejiang are Daotai Zhang Xu, Futai Zeng Quan, and transit envoy Lu Qiu.

Among the three, it is reasonable to say that Zhang Xu is already the person in charge, but Zeng Quan is old and senior, and Zeng Quan is the same year as Ji Ping and Shi Zhongyuan, so Zeng Quan said to Zhang Xu: "Daotai, you go to southern Zhejiang. Go, there is not as good development as Hangzhou, nor is it as prosperous as Hangzhou, and young and energetic people like you are needed to take charge."

Zhang Xu thought about it, and agreed, because Zeng Quan was older, and Lu Qiu was a transshipment envoy, transshipment. He left the Yangtze River and Hangzhou, and he was transshipment when he arrived in southern Zhejiang!

Xu Zhiqian continued to say to Xiao Mo: "This transfer envoy Lu Qiu is an out-and-out Zhejiang native, but because when he participated in the imperial examination, he set his native place in Hongzhou, Jiangxi, where his mother's natal family was, so he got into the imperial court's trap. Kong Zi. After working abroad for many years, he was actually transferred back to Zhejiang by the court!"

"So it's a local snake..." Xiao Mo sneered, and asked, "So, these salt gangs and water bandits in Zhejiang are all raised by Lu Qiu and Zeng Quan?"

In the An Dynasty, the caravans in Shandong in the past and the water bandits in the Salt Gang in Zhejiang can be said to be local chronic diseases that cannot be cured.

Because whether it is the horse gang or the salt gang, their strength and collusion are very complicated.Take the former caravans in Shandong as an example. People like Cao Xiang and Ma Yidao made waves in Liangshan. Every time the imperial court sent troops to suppress the bandits, it was in vain.

Why is this?

Because they are bandits, bandits, and desperadoes!
People like this are the ones who can't be killed in this world. When they gather together, they would rather form a force. If they disperse, they will be ordinary people or local ruffians. How do you catch them?
Unlike the horse gang, the Salt Gang in Zhejiang is more organized, and they are more elusive.

The activities of the Salt Gang are often in the middle of the night. They can easily avoid the patrol boats on the river and sail in the river channel full of water plants and reeds.

When selling salt, they are sanctimonious businessmen, and when they are not selling salt, they are the envoys of the water, often causing trouble on the water.They dressed up as Fusang people, and sometimes they simply covered their faces with black cloths, and then robbed and killed the boats passing by on the river.

It can be said that the salt gang and the caravan are both very vicious, but the horse gang in Shandong is a group of men with flesh and blood, but the salt gang is a group of living scum, they are sinister, mysterious, and vicious.

They come out day and night, and they also sell illegal salt for huge profits.

An Chao's control over the official salt is very strict, but under such strict measures, the salt dealers of the Salt Gang still let the salt dealers play loopholes. If there is no ghost in this, even Xiao Mo would not believe it!
(End of this chapter)