《Salt》Episodes

Every day in the Qing dynasty started from the early dynasty of the imperial palace. The best time to smuggle private salt was also when the sky was clear. When the Qing emperor dwelled on the hill, When a group of people who smuggled private smuggling water into the riverside of Yuezhou in Hunan province were trying to pick up salt packets made of bamboo chips and stamped into the night and smuggled their boats toward the shore. Suddenly, a salt worker fell down and was found by Jiang Jianqing and a doom was about to come. Private salt traders Wang Ching-kai desperate to move the boat off the coast, the Qing soldiers fired at him. In the shots, the dignified voice of the voice sounded - Qing Xian Feng the first year, the year 1851, the Taiping movement broke out in Guangxi, and quickly showed a flourishing trend. Just over a year, the Taiping out of Guangxi, Hunan and other places by Hunan, fought in several provinces. Gradually escalation of fighting, Hunan, Hubei and other traditional salt supply Huai salt waste, salt road block, salt shortage in several provinces at the same time. The official road is packed with displaced people, four hundred miles Uighur mare rash, flew through the crowd toward the capital direction. On the street, before the salt number was crowded, a chaos, almost life-threatening, when another six hundred li emergency wushu also rush, crossed the chaos before the salt crowd, whistling away. In the Qing court, Emperor Xian Feng was still listening to the ministers daily for fighting the Taipings, while Luo Bing Zhang, who was at the forefront of the war, was in charge of the salt scarcity. He ordered the Salt Tea Road, Administer officer positions deposit salt detail report. This time, you can stubbornly have been secretly colluded with the salt, clever take the Salt Salt Road Daotu. Four hundred miles along the official road to the post station Martyrs station, is preparing to change the horse to continue on the road, did not expect to have been in front of the salt whistle passing six hundred station also rushed to come quickly, I saw him twice Do not say, riding the last horse fast riding on the road all the way bolted away, due to the constant fighting in recent days, all over the exponential increase in the number of station relay station in Beijing, even the station's horse died. The riverside pier at the junction of the two lakes and. At this time is triumphant. As a result of the Taiping military incident, he took the opportunity to cut off the salt road and increase the trading volume. In order to earn more commercial profits, Wang ZhengYun sold the official government money by public money and sold the salt in public in broad daylight. The cautious inventoryer reminded him to be careful and said that the governor of Hunan had just arrested a group of salt merchants to prepare Fa-rectification on the spot. Wang ZhengYun disagree: Do not worry, the government that gang of wangs let Wang feed with silver. Six hundred li in an expeditious manner finally arrived in the capital city, which is an urgent rescue for Xiangrong in Hubei Province. Wuchang has been attacked by the Taiping army. Governors Chang Tai-chun and Fan Tai of Hubei governors all died in the war. Xian Feng did not wait too fast from the panic, four hundred miles also rushed to the emergency. I do not know this late rented actually unexpectedly died in Hubei Governor Chang Tai-sheng's memorial: the salt lakes on both sides of the lake, the people no salt edible, please try to open another salt court. Xian Feng Yu Chaotang furious: I do not understand, is important or salt is important, although Xian Feng so angry, Gong QinWang or boldly Hunan governor Luo BingZhang implore the Emperor to open the salt road to pay up , Xian Feng look furious after the renounced tearing throw on the ground:The catastrophic catastrophe, the Qing dynasty, the great border officials, one by one regardless of the war, why the sudden shortage of salt so much interest.