Dingguo Gong Xu Yande's words are very informative, this so-called they are estimated to be the forces of Yang Tinghe, Yang Yiqing, and even Zhang Xuan in the past, and now Xia Yan and Yan Song have indeed cleaned up these people.

It seems that Xia Yan and Yan Song want to reshuffle the cards and kick out their Wei Guogong family and their previous vested interests.

This kind of thing is not surprising, the court officials are desperately in power for something, for the country and the people, but most of them are still for profit.

Xia Yan may be pretentious and disdainful of accepting these "ill-gotten gains", but there are a few people below him who don't want to, especially Yan Song, a huge greed who has left a name in history, such a huge benefit, I don't want to be greedy, it's strange!

Yang Cong originally didn't want to get involved in this kind of thing, because his ability was limited, even if he was involved, he wouldn't get much benefit, and he was not short of money, and the income of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of taels a year was not worth his risk.

However, when he thought that his father and mother had worked hard for so many years to sell salt, he was a little hesitant, if Wei Guogong and his family did not have a share of salt, then his father and mother would have worked in vain in the past few years.

He thought about it and looked at Lu Bing again.

Good guy, there is a golden light in Lu Bing's eyes at this moment, this guy probably wants to get a piece of the pie for a long time.

Alas, it's just that, it seems that he has to fight hard, whether it is for his parents or for the interests of the people around him, he has to fight.

If you don't fight, it's Yan Song's huge greed that is cheap, and no one can be cheap this guy, this guy is the next one with himself.

Thinking of this, Yang Cong said cautiously: "I can ask over there in Yangming, what about you, who have you contacted, and who have the other party contacted, do you know?" ”

When Xu Yande, the Duke of Dingguo, heard this, he couldn't help but say embarrassedly: "We also contacted Cui Yuan, Marquis of Jingshan, and Guo Xun, Marquis of Wuding, as for them, it seems that they have already won over Tu Qiao, the left capital of the Imperial Palace, and Qiu Luan, the Marquis of Xianning." ”

Faint to death, these are all big shots!

The crown prince and the prince are the princesses of Jingshan, and Cui Yuannai is the husband of the eldest princess of Yongkang, this Cui Yuan is terrible, because the eldest princess of Yongkang is the aunt of Emperor Jiajing, and when Jiajing entered the throne, Cui Yuan welcomed Luan in Xingxian Palace, and was the first of the nobles to stand up and support Emperor Jiajing, so Emperor Jiajing was quite favored by him.

Wuding Marquis Guo Xun is also terrible, because he firmly stood on Jiajing's side during the Great Ceremony, so Jiajing is quite important to him, at this time he is the governor of the left army of the Beijing camp, in charge of the Beijing camp regimental training, or the commander of the 3,000 battalions.

Tu Qiao, the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, is even more terrible, this guy is in charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, not to mention, he is still the boss of the four giants of the maritime industry, the helmsman of the Ningbo Tu family, it can be said that the entire maritime giants have to listen to him.

Needless to say, Xianning Hou Qiuluan is ambitious, and it is rumored that Jiajing intends to make him a general, commanding the Northwest Frontier Army, and dealing with the remnants of the Northern Yuan.

With so many big names fighting, what qualifications does he have to participate in it?

Yang Congmingbai, Wei Guogong and Dingguo Gong did not value him as a new champion, but the power of the Yangming lineage, they wanted to invite the Yangming lineage to fight against Xia Yan and Yan Song.

Looks like he's an errand runner.

However, this errand can't be run in vain, the opponents are all big shots, and it's hard to offend one, let alone offend a group, and thankless things will only be done by fools.

He thought for a moment, and then asked, "How will it be divided after the matter is completed?" ”

Xu Yande, the Duke of Dingguo, said without hesitation: "Our Dingguo Mansion and the Wei Mansion remain unchanged, or each has one percent, and the Marquis of Jingshan and the Marquis of Wuding also want to take one percent each, and you can do the rest." ”

Well, there are still sixty percent, maybe he can get one percent in the end, and Lu Bing should also be able to get one percent, and the income of four or five hundred thousand taels a year is not in vain.

Yang Cong gritted his teeth and nodded, "Okay, I'll ask tomorrow." ”

Early the next morning, he threw out a letter of worship and informed Nie Bao, the left attendant of the military department, that he would go to visit him in the afternoon.

When he first arrived in the capital, Nie Bao said that if he was free, he could go over and talk, but he had not been free during this time, and he didn't have anything to ask Nie Bao for help, so he left this matter behind.

However, at this time, he can't go to Nie Bao, because he doesn't know who is the boss of the current Yangming lineage, so he can only go to Nie Bao to find out the wind first.

In the afternoon of the same day, not long after Youshi, he set off for Nie's Mansion with his gifts.

Nie Bao was very polite to him, not only welcomed him into the mansion in person, but also insisted on keeping him for dinner together, Yang Cong happened to have something to do with him, of course he would not refuse.

The two drank a few glasses of water and wine, and chatted about Xu Jie's affairs for a while, Yang Cong finally couldn't help but tentatively say: "Shibo, do you know that Master Xu Wen, the head of the Nanjing Household Department, is already old and will soon step down." ”

When Nie Bao heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned.

Xu asked?

He's not familiar with it!

This is talking about Xu Jie's business, why did he pull Xu Wen again, although Xu Jie and Xu Wen are both surnamed Xu, but the two are not related to each other, which he knows quite well.

He couldn't help but be curious: "Oh, Qingfeng, are you familiar with Lord Xu?" ”

Fainted, I know Xu Wen well, I don't know if he is tall or short, fat or thin.

Yang Cong looked at a few simple side dishes on the table, and then looked at the turbid and inferior wine in front of him, and finally realized that this Nie Leopard's incorruptibility was not pretended, but real.

It's really ...... to talk about a deal of millions of taels a year with such a person with clean sleeves

He raised his glass and saluted, and then took a sip of the wine in the cup, and then plucked up the courage to say: "Shibo, you should know that the Nanjing household department is in charge of the distribution of salt introductions. ”

Of course, Nie Bao knew that the Nanjing household department was in charge of the distribution of salt introductions, but he just didn't think about it.

Yang Cong reminded him, he understood, this kid has ideas about salt.

He couldn't help frowning and said: "Qingfeng, those who are officials should have the people in mind, and they can't always think about contaminating those ill-gotten gains." ”

, this guy is really a big Qing official with two sleeves and a clean air, what should I do?

Yang Cong thought for a while, and then said sincerely: "What Shibo said is right, those who are officials should care for the people, but there is no good or bad money in this money, it mainly depends on who is in the hands and what it is used for." You should also know that although the little nephew's family is not very rich, there is still no shortage of money, and the little nephew only heard that Yan Song peeked into this position, so he had some ideas. The little nephew felt that if the position of the Nanjing household secretary was in our hands, the price of salt might be able to slowly fall, and if it was taken away by Yan Song, the little nephew estimated that the price of salt would only rise higher and higher. What do you think? ”

When Nie Bao heard this, he was stunned again.

Yan Song, of course he has heard of it, according to Zhan Ruoshui, Zou Shouyi and Zhang Bangqi, Yan Song is extremely greedy, if he is allowed to control the household department in Nanjing, the price of salt may really rise higher and higher, and at that time, the people will be even more miserable.

What to do?

Is this Nanjing Hubu Shangshu in contention or not?

Nie Bao couldn't help but fall into deep thought.