Inspecting the salt inspection courtyard, the flower hall seemed to be quiet.

Lin Haoran ignored everyone's surprised expressions, and continued to talk eloquently: "After discussing with Mazhi County, Benqin has decided to raise funds to remove the silt of Baobao Lake and build roads and bridges around it, so I would like to ask you to help generously this time!" ”

The development of the region is inseparable from the drive of industry, Yangzhou has such a rich tourism resources and cultural landscape, if it is not added to the development and utilization is really regrettable.

Yesterday, when he visited Slender West Lake, he saw the silt accumulation in the center of the lake and the fact that the surrounding area had not been fully developed, which made him germinate the idea of developing Slender West Lake.

Once the tourism resources of Slender West Lake are developed, and the proximity of Slender West Lake to Daming Temple, it will definitely attract more literati and tourists to visit Slender West Lake, so as to solve the livelihood problem of the villages around Slender West Lake.

It is precisely because of this that he wants to emulate the business model of creating a city tourism business card in later generations, and wants to develop Slender West Lake by raising funds, so as to pull the economy of Yangzhou area.

"Raise funds to remove the silt from the Baobao Lake and build road arch bridges?"

Chen Boren and the others naturally couldn't understand Lin Haoran's economic intentions, but they all showed disappointment and communicated with each other with their eyes.

They had guessed wrong before, this banquet had nothing to do with the rectification of the salt administration, and Lin Haoran wanted to reach out to them to ask for money. However, they don't understand that Lin Haoran obviously has such an important thing as rectifying the salt administration, but he wants to engage in these fancy things, which is purely a waste of everyone's energy.

Not to mention whether this thing can be done or not, even if the silt of Slender West Lake is really cleaned up, it will not be of much benefit to him, the Qincha. His future is not in Slender West Lake, but has always been tied to salt politics.

Cao Meng heard Lin Haoran's intentions, but he asked Lin Haoran directly with a face: "Dare to ask Lord Qincha, is the money raised in the hands of the government?" ”

Hey?

Chen Boren and the others were still speculating about Lin Haoran's intentions, but when they heard Cao Meng's tone, they knew that there was another drama to watch, so they turned their heads to look at Lin Haoran and Cao Meng.

This old man is not dead!

Ma Zhixian's brows furrowed slightly, and he already felt a deep disgust for Cao Meng.

Lin Haoran's face did not change, and he pointed to Ma Zhixian who was sitting next to him and said with a smile: "This official and Ma Zhixian have already discussed and agreed, and these silver taels will be handed over to the Jiangdu County Government for coordination!" ”

Cao Meng immediately snorted heavily, and said in a strange manner: "If the silver taels raised are in the hands of the government, I'm afraid they will never be able to withdraw it again!" ”

"Mr. Cao, don't you believe in this county?" Ma Zhixian couldn't hold back the anger in his heart anymore, and even asked.

Cao Meng didn't even dare to take Lin Haoran to heart, how could he take Ma Zhixian seriously, and even replied: "Not bad! The old man doesn't believe you, and he doesn't believe that you people in the government have not had enough things to fill their pockets over the years? Now that Yin Liangzhen has entered the county government, I am afraid that most of them will be sent to Lingnan! ”

Although Chen Boren and the others had known Cao Meng's temper for a long time, they were still secretly dumbfounded, what did they really dare to say, but they couldn't help but turn their heads to look at Lin Haoran who would respond like this.

"Mr. Cao, I don't know who is the right person to hand over the silver taels?" Lin Haoran was secretly annoyed in his heart, but he still asked patiently.

Everyone looked at Cao Meng one after another, wondering if this old man was going to take the initiative to ask for help.

Cao Meng faced Lin Haoran's inquiry, but said with a drooping face: "According to me, I don't know whose pocket the money raised has gone into in the end, so it's better not to get it!" ”

This......

Chen Boren and others turned their heads to look at Cao Meng, Lin Haoran had just publicly asked to raise funds, but the old man said not to do it, it was clear that he was openly arguing with Lin Haoran.

Yang Dashi looked at the wonderful scene in front of him, his eyes immediately filled with schadenfreude, and he couldn't wait to applaud Cao Meng at this moment.

It was impossible for Lin Haoran to cancel this fundraising, but he could no longer tolerate this old man who didn't know what to do, so he responded unceremoniously: "This official and Ma Zhixian are bent on doing something practical for Yangzhou, how can they give up food because of choking." This fundraising is naturally to prevent embezzlement and private use, so after raising enough silver taels, Mazhi County will publish the first income and expenditure on the shadow wall of the county government every day! ”

"Not to mention whether the accounts will be manipulated, this project is not allowed to use forced labor, and it is actually a move to hurt the people!" Cao Meng openly questioned again.

Lin Haoran replied with a straight face: "This official visited Baobao Lake a few days ago, and saw that most of the people living in the desert lived by the lake. I discussed with Mazhi County, and they were sent out to clean the mud and build roads, and the Jiangdu County Ya settled for them and gave them a certain amount of labor silver! ”

Seeing that Cao Meng was going to continue to find fault, Ma Zhixian immediately said unceremoniously: "This is for the benefit of the people of Yangzhou, and it is the blessing of Yangzhou to be able to take the lead of Lord Qincha today!" Now the county is willing to be a clerk, and I hope that everyone present can help! ”

As he spoke, he stood up and took the pen and paper from the scribe behind him, and glanced at the people at the first table, already to personally record the amount of money they wanted to contribute.

Cao Meng's brows immediately furrowed deeply, looking very dissatisfied.

The salt merchants and squires suddenly faced with the need to make donations, and they couldn't help but stare at each other, and they didn't know how much money to claim. At this thought, they set their eyes on the chief, but they wanted to follow them.

"My flower family donated 10,000 taels!"

It was at this moment that a voice broke the slightly awkward atmosphere.

Everyone immediately turned their voices around, but it was Hua Zisu, the head of the Hua family who was sitting in the second banquet, but saw that he looked graceful and raised the paper fan in his hand to pledge the donation.

Ten thousand taels!

The surrounding salt merchants and gentry were also secretly dumbfounded when they heard this amount, which was undoubtedly supporting Lin Haoran.

Yang Dashi rolled his eyes disappreciatively, the relationship between Lin Haoran and the Hua family was no secret to their group of caring people.

This merry Lord Qincha was obviously able to arrive in Yangzhou City one step earlier, but he led the Qincha fleet to Hangzhou to pick up the eldest lady of the Hua family, and then came to Yangzhou.

The Hua family is a well-known cloth merchant in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and they have such a close relationship with Lin Haoran, and now it is a logical thing to take out 10,000 taels to support Lin Haoran.

This......

When the merchants and squires of the other three tables heard that the Hua family was so generous, they knew that even if they didn't dare to compare with the Hua family, they couldn't be too far behind, and at least they had to pledge more than 1,000 taels.

"I'll donate a hundred taels!"

The corners of Yang Dashi's mouth curled slightly, but a brilliant idea was born, that is, he raised his hand high to make a pledge.

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