"Lord Lin, since you have seen it, it is not okay not to say hello."

Jia Shifei reminded in a whisper beside Lin Ruhai:

"It's a big deal to let Miss's boat go first, just don't let them see it."

"Well, that's right."

Everyone is a literati, and it is enough to have a courtesy greeting when they meet, and there is little need for family members to come forward.

Just like in the past now, the person who came forward to see him must be Wen Ji, at most the imperial grandson, not the crown princess.

In this day and age, a woman is a woman after all.

"Shi Fei, you go and report it first."

"Yes."

……

"The wealth of the Great Zhou is one stone, and salt and silk each account for three buckets."

Wen Ji explained to Xu Daixuan in the cabin:

"Therefore, the salt patrol and Jiangnan weaving are the fattest fat shortage in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the General Staff estimates that these two kinds can bring more than 15 million yuan of income to the Great Zhou Dynasty in a year."

"The General Staff once hoped to crack down on these two industries in Da Zhou, especially the salt business, our output is much higher than that of Da Zhou, and the cost is much lower, if we can dump salt and destroy Jianghuai Salt Service, then Da Zhou will lose at least 10 million yuan of income every year, and within three years, the economy of Da Zhou will inevitably collapse."

Wen Ji consciously should teach his nephew these things in government affairs, as the eldest grandson of the emperor, one day he will be able to use it, and the more stable the nephew's position in the future, the longer their Wen family's wealth will be.

Xu Daixuan was not interested in this topic, he wanted to work on the map of a naval battle simulation in his cabin, or build a model of a new sail warship.

But Wen Ji got Wen Yue's permission, with his mother pressing on his head and his father not around, Xu Daixuan had no choice but to put his hobbies aside and listen to his uncle talk about these boring topics.

"Lin Ruhai is a noble official, but no matter how noble he is, there are tens of millions a year, just look at his fleet, you can understand that he is not a noble official who does not love money at all."

"We may be able to find a way to get him to agree to import cheap northern salt on a large scale to replace Huai salt and destroy the salt industry ...... in the Great Zhou."

This is a very simple economic warfare method, dumping a huge amount of cheap salt into the Great Zhou, so that the salt officials of the Great Zhou feel that buying northern salt and selling it as official salt is faster and easier to complete the task than boiling salt themselves.

As a result, the salt industry in Jiangnan was unemployed on a large scale, the tools were abandoned, and the salt industry was completely abandoned.

In the end, the supply to Jiangnan was suddenly cut off, or the export price of salt was simply raised.

When Jiangnan couldn't stand the high salt prices in Jiangbei and began to restore its own salt industry, Jiangbei lowered the price and dumped it.

In this way, it will not take a few times, and Jiangnan's economy will completely collapse - and even the entire collapse of the imperial court is not impossible.

"I don't think so, uncle." Xu Daixuan shook his head: "You just said that our strength is beyond imagination, so there is no need to engage in such small actions." ”

"Just like our navy, two equally powerful 64-gun sail battleships face off, everyone has to try their best to gain the upper hand and grab each other's crossheads, but if a 64-gun sail battleship is against an old sailing ship without guns, it is very unnecessary to focus on the complex maneuver of grabbing the wind outlet, and it is easy for the prey to escape."

"Jiangnan lives by the Han people, and Huaxia regards itself as the common empire of the Han people, and we destroy the Jiangnan salt industry, and it is certainly not those who are officials, but the poor people of the Han people, which can seriously weaken the strength of the Jiangnan court, but once exposed, it will also weaken the legitimacy of our governance."

"Instead of playing this kind of conspiracy, it's better to go straight and attack it head-on."

"If what you have just said is the established policy of the Empire, then I have nothing to say. If the General Staff or other department wants to ask for my opinion, then I say I'm against it. ”

Wen Ji just wanted to speak, and the long voice of the Wen family came from outside the cabin:

"Report ~~~. The third young master (Wen Ji is the third elder of the Wen family), Lord Shilin, who patrols the salt and the imperial history, sent someone to hand over the worship post. ”

"Yes, they took the initiative to come." Xu Daixuan was satisfied that he had finally found a chance to get rid of his uncle's nagging: "Uncle, go and meet someone, I won't come forward, so that people will misunderstand that I have thoughts about his daughter." ”

……

Tun Dun Dun ......

Lu Zhishen raised his head and poured a full jar of wine into his mouth.

After finishing it, he smashed it and smashed his mouth, muttering dissatisfiedly: "This wine is far worse than the burning knife, and it has no strength at all." ”

"Wine has a lot of stamina, drink less, Master Zhishen."

Xu Daizhuo persuaded on the side:

"Drinking is not good for the body. Do you know? There was a major traffic accident in Quancheng a few days ago, the driver of a railroad carriage drank high, he accelerated desperately, and as a result, the carriage derailed and crashed into the crowd, killing more than thirty people on the spot! ”

"Killing so many imperial people at once, hundreds of Tartar cavalry can't do it, and a drunk man will do it!"

The empire's steel production gradually increased, and Xu Shiyang naturally thought about building a railway, but he did not have a steam engine, so he could only rely on the horse-drawn railway, which had a very low level of technology.

However, the train marshalling and scheduling of the horse-drawn railway is simply not at all possible with the current level of technology, and there is also the problem of anti-theft of the tracks.

Therefore, although railways exist, they are only used as urban public transportation in a few large cities (such as Quancheng, Yanjing and other capitals and provincial capitals), or undertake short-distance transportation tasks in ports and mines.

Even so, there are constant security problems.

Drunk driving, fatigue driving, speeding, derailment of vehicles due to theft of railroad tracks, collisions between railway vehicles and ordinary oxen and horse-drawn carts, and even ...... of free-range cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs running on the railroad and colliding with galloping horses.

There are traffic accident causes in modern society, and there are traffic accident causes that are not in modern society, and there are also traffic accident causes in this era!

Moreover, every time a traffic accident occurs, the scale of casualties is much higher than in modern society!

This annoyed Xu Shiyang, who regarded population as the country's greatest asset, and he forcibly ordered the Ministry of Criminal Affairs to enact the strictest traffic laws, despite his status as a crown prince and not as an emperor.

In a few months, this law will be promulgated, and all drivers who are drunk driving, speeding, and fatigue driving will be criminalized, and traffic accidents will be directly assigned to the frontier, and some casualties will be paid for their lives!

As for stealing railroad tracks, once the evidence is conclusive, they will be put to death.

In order to make everyone aware of the importance of traffic safety, Xu Shiyang ordered that traffic safety education be increased in all schools, and that all drivers of new horse-drawn carriages, whether public or private, must be trained in safety.

Those who pass the training can get a driver's license, and they are not allowed to drive without a license!