Wenyuan Pavilion.

Jiang Mian got up silently and handed a note to Yang Tinghe.

Yang Tinghe took it and took a look, and suddenly his head was as big as a fight, and it was actually Wang Yuan's "Please Change the Cotton Law".

Mao Ji was so angry that he blew his beard and glared: "The ministers discussed adding a cotton class, and he said that he would reform the salt law; The ministers discussed changing the cotton law, and he said that he would like to add cotton lessons. It's easy to say that he's talking about it, he's a good guy inside and out, and this thief is so treacherous! ”

Wang Qiong couldn't hold back a smile, and she couldn't hold back a little.

Yang Yiqing was also speechless, including him, the whole dynasty was swept away by Wang Yuan.

This incident was originally caused by Ouyang Chong's "Suppressing Cotton and Sparse", which caused the ministers to make an uproar to increase the cotton tax. There are also those with ill intentions, pointing the finger at Wang Yuan, and even planning to take advantage of the situation to attack the physics school, and even intending to gather and oppose all the mind schools.

Many Xinxue disciples who are officials in the court have a sense of depression that the mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings.

Who knows, Wang Yuan suddenly came to a stroke and focused his attention on guiding the reform of the salt law.

The salt method is countless times more important than the cotton method, Yang Tinghe was suddenly generalized, and the whirlpool of public opinion was also transferred, and Wang Yuan and the various factions of Xinxue jumped out of the predicament in an instant.

Jumping out was not the end, and kicked it back again.

Yang Tinghe wanted to continue to delay time until no one paid attention to the reform of the salt administration. But Wang Yuan didn't give him a chance, and even took the initiative to mention the matter of increasing the cotton tax.

Everyone knows that Wang Yuan's factory has the highest output, and once the cotton tax is greatly increased, Wang Yuan will suffer the greatest loss. This is equivalent to slashing himself ruthlessly for the sake of the imperial court.

On the other hand, Yang Tinghe is still hesitating about whether to reform the salt law.

Compare the two, and make a judgment!

Wang Qiong said: "The Manchu Dynasty criticizes, if we don't change it, our ministers are all corpse vegetarians." ”

Yang Yiqing was silent, he was just a second assistant, and the first assistant was afraid of a hair?

Yang Tinghe sat for a long time, and said, "This Wang Ruoxu is going to roast me on the fire." ”

Flipping through the history books, Yang Tinghe is really not a master of political fighting, and when Zhengde just died and Jiajing had not arrived, he suddenly exerted his strength to overthrow the main political enemy, and after Jiajing ascended the throne, he made a lot of tricks.

Yang Tinghe always thinks too much, and he wants power, benefits, and fame, how can there be such a good thing in the world? He has no courage as a powerful minister, he is a traitor and cherishes his feathers, and he must be constrained by factions when he is a minister of society, which leads to his operation in the Jiajing Dynasty is incomprehensible.

At the end of the day, Mr. Yang's political goals are unclear.

When Liu Jin was there, Yang Tinghe's political goal was to defeat Liu Jin; When Jiang Bin was there, Yang Tinghe's political goal was to defeat Jiang Bin. There are two big villains standing there, and the civil officials naturally follow him, and the internal contradictions of the civil officials can also be suppressed.

After Jiang Bin's death, Yang Tinghe's political opponent became Wang Yuan, but Wang Yuan often took the initiative to back down and did not want to engage in any frontal conflict at all.

As a result, Yang Tinghe didn't know what he should do, and the civil officials who united around him automatically divided.

"Do you want to revolutionize the salt law?" Jiang Mian asked.

Yang Tinghe said bitterly: "If you don't change, you have to change." ”

Yang Tinghe is a very faceless person, and he must maintain his perfect clear stream image. But if he doesn't change the salt law, he has been greatly disappointed, and now Wang Yuan took the initiative to ask for a cotton tax increase, and he stepped on Yang Tinghe from the moral level.

How dare Yang Tinghe pretend to be dead?

But he now supports the reform of the salt government, but it is equivalent to eating coptis dumbly, because the prestige that should be lost has been lost. Even if the reform of the salt law is successful, Yang Tinghe will accumulate his political achievements as the first assistant, and the hundred officials will count the credit on Wang Yuan's head in their hearts.

Yang Tinghe feels so tired, he wants face, but Wang Yuan is shameless, how can this political fight continue?

A normal civil official, who is impeached several times, will be so frightened that he will resign every once in a while. And that Wang Erlang, from being an official to the present, I am afraid that there are thousands of impeachment chapters, and this thing is not happy yet.

has been impeached thousands of times, and has not yet been dismissed, and ordinary people are definitely traitors and ministers, Yang Tinghe is not afraid of this kind of enemy at all. However, Wang Yuan has a mixed reputation, there are many people who resent, and there are many people who praise it, and there are countless real achievements.

What's even more odious is that Xinxue has sprung up, the idea of Xinxue has spread rapidly, and the disciples of Xinxue are supporting Wang Yuan, relying on public opinion to "bewitch" many middle and low-level officials and young scholars!

Yang Tinghe wanted to point at Wang Yuan's nose and scold: "Young people don't talk about martial arts and bullied me as an old man in his seventies." Traditional civil officials must abide by the rules, and if you obey the rules, you will lose, if I exert my strength this time, a letter of impeachment will let you go! ”

Don't laugh, that's true.

Wang Yuan's factory is so big, which directly exacerbates the grain shortage in Shandong and Jiangnan, and this one thing alone can make Wang Yuan lose his position. Because officials are not allowed to do business, even if they are allowed to run by domestic servants, they will become an Achilles' heel when they become bigger.

It's a pity that Wang Yuan doesn't talk about martial arts, turns a blind eye to the impeachment recital, and doesn't even bother to resign, and the emperor always connives.

This time, Wang Yuan even took the initiative to attack himself with his political weakness. It is reasonable that Wang Yuan should have done this a long time ago, but if he really did it, he was praised and morally suppressed Yang Tinghe.

It's as if the villain has reformed himself, but has been appreciated by society, but has compared ordinary people who dare not do good deeds.

How can there be such a bastard reason?

After sitting in Wenyuan Pavilion for a morning, Yang Tinghe suddenly said to Yang Yiqing, the second assistant: "The salt administration has accumulated deep evils, and the new law must be reformed. Before the reform, it was necessary to send ministry officials to inspect the salt administration, so as not to take advantage of the opportunity for profiteers to cause trouble. ”

Yang Yiqing nodded and said, "That's exactly how it should be." ”

Yang Tinghe asked: "Ling Zuo Deputy Commander Yu Shi Yang Dan, how about the Admiral Lianghuai Salt?" ”

"But ......" Yang Yiqing paused suddenly, glanced at Yang Tinghe with a strange look, and then smiled, "Yes." The two Huai salt governors have great responsibilities, don't they go through court discussions? ”

Yang Tinghe said: "No, I think Uncle Yang Jin (Yang Dan) can do it." ”

Yang Yiqing asked Wang Qiong again: "What is Dehua's opinion?" ”

Wang Qiong sneered: "The two of you have already agreed, why should I talk more?" ”

The first assistant and the second assistant reached a deal in this way, and the political opponent Wang Qiong chose to watch the fire from the other side.

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The royal house.

Yan Song shook his head and sighed: "This Yang Ge Lao, he wants fame and profit, does he really treat the people of the world as fools?" ”

"What else can he do?" Wang Yuan said with a smile.

Yang Dan, the left deputy capital Yushi, was the one who took Wang Yuan to ride a horse and hairpin on the street when he was the champion of Wang Yuan's high school, and Yang Dan was only Yin of Shuntian Mansion at that time.

Yang Tinghe and Yang Yiqing, the behind-the-scenes deal just reached, the executor was Yang Dan, who was appointed as the governor of the two Huai salt affairs.

Corruption is rife in salt administration in various places, and the imperial court must send people to inspect from time to time. The official is too small to check, and only the imperial envoy and the squire can receive the effect during the inspection. Therefore, the "Admiral Salt Affairs" is also commonly known as the "Salt Patrol Department", the Ministry specifically refers to the six servants, and the Yuan specifically refers to the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Inspection Academy.

Yang Dan was ostensibly sent to inspect the Lianghuai salt business, but in fact, it was for the hoarders.

That is, before the formal reform of the salt law, let those hoarders who speculate on "salt futures" hurry up and collude with officials and businessmen to make a profit, so as not to be suddenly trapped by the new salt law.

Moreover, he only helps the hoarders covered by the Yang Party, regardless of the life or death of other hoarders.

Just like Wang Yuan is not afraid of leaking the news of the new salt law, Yang Tinghe is not afraid of leaking the news. If other hoarders want to untie the trap, they must have the cooperation of the officials of the Salt Transportation Division, and Yang Dan, who was sent out, can just suppress the Salt Transportation Division. Except for the hoarders covered by the Yang Party, other hoarders don't want to transport salt from the salt division at all, and if they can't support the salt, they can't solve it!

The second assistant Yang Yiqing agreed to help because he also had interests involved.

Yang Yiqing grew up in Guangdong, and took the imperial examination in Guangdong, and some of his clansmen participated in maritime trade; At the same time, he is also from Yunnan, and his son returned to his hometown to occupy a lot of fertile land. But his main family business is in Zhenjiang, and he has made a lot of money by supporting hoarders.

When Yang Dan inspected the salt business, he would naturally take care of the hoarders supported by Yang Yiqing.

Yang Dang and the hoarders covered by Yang Yiqing, as well as the hoarders covered by Yang Yiqing, because of this official and business operation, they can make a lot of money.

And the hoarders who are attached to other powerful people can only look at it stupidly, hating Yang Tinghe to the core.

In fact, they should hate Wang Yuan even more, but internal traitors are always more hateful than external enemies.

Before the new salt law was implemented, the hoarders were divided themselves, and it was impossible to resist the new salt law together.

Although Yang Tinghe's operation is favoritism, it is actually conducive to the implementation of the new salt law and can alleviate a lot of resistance to reform.

In fact, even if the new salt law is implemented, hoarders still have to earn, and they earn more than retail investors. But they can no longer control the market, can no longer sit on the profits, can no longer buy and sell short, and must participate in physical transactions.

This is tantamount to forcing a bunch of people who play finance to engage in trade!

Yang Tinghe will offend many powerful people with this kind of play, but he can unite his own faction officials. He finally contracted his strategy, no longer forcing more people to support him, and only cared about maintaining his basic base.