On the Yangtze River, two luxurious boats sit side by side, like a pair of dogs and men holding their arms and whispering to each other.

Xu Daixuan sat solemnly at the head of the boat hall, listening to what his uncle and Master Lin in Jiangnan were talking to each other: Brother Wen has not seen you for a long time, Brother Lin has really not seen you for a long time, hahaha...... and other unnutritious conversations, I want to yawn.

According to Wen Ji, here, Xu Daixuan is the real master, and even if the main purpose is to meet Wen Ji to catch up on the old days, he should show his face as a courtesy.

So Xu Daixuan could only leave his desk, drawings and models, and run out to sit here and listen to the chatter of the two old men.

The most annoying thing in this world is that the old ladies are chattering, and the second is that the old men are also sitting together in the family.

Anyway, don't you have anything else more important to do?

Don't say it, there really is.

The two old men chatted, and Wen Ji began to pretend to sell his plan inadvertently.

The origin of the topic is Lin Ruhai.

The salt patrol of the Great Zhou Dynasty first lamented that he had no children, only one daughter under his knees, and there were no female relatives around him to teach his daughter, so he planned to send his daughter to Yue's house this time and hand it over to his wife's family to raise and educate.

His wife is the young lady of the Jinling Jia family, and the Jinling Jia family is the Great Zhou Xungui, whose ancestors have been weaving in Jinling, and they are also a first-class rich and noble family.

More importantly, the Jia family is thriving, her mother-in-law is in good health, and Miss Lin can be protected by her grandmother when she goes, and she can grow up with the young ladies of the Jia family, so she can not only get a complete family education, but also have a dependence, and she does not have to follow him to wander through thick and thin.

Lord Lin also mentioned that the Jia family intends to pinch the family's favored son and Lord Lin's daughter, and he himself is happy to see it come to .......

Because he has been vaccinated, Xu Daixuan always feels that the essential purpose of Lin Ruhai saying these things in front of him is to remind himself not to beat his daughter's idea - people have a good young man who likes.

Xu Daixuan estimated that his uncle also heard the original meaning of this, but his uncle didn't seem to care about it, and praised Lord Lin's incorruptibility along the topic - in this era, to be such a high-ranking and fat official as the salt patrol imperial history, without a group of three wives and four concubines, can really praise the incorruptibility.

Unexpectedly, these words were not echoed by Lin Ruhai himself, but he felt as if he had been touched by something, and sighed that it was difficult for a Qing official to be .......

It turned out that the financial situation of the Great Zhou court was very bad now.

The first is that there are more and more places to spend money: Emperor Longdao is bent on cheering up and desperately expanding his armaments, and the division of the Great Zhou Economic System has nominally expanded to 1.5 million!

In this way, military spending alone is certainly not enough without 40 million yuan a year.

Xu Shisong once proposed disarmament, completely cut out the Xiang army, select its young and strong to be incorporated into the forbidden army, and then cut the old and weak in the forbidden army, and make up for the shortage of salaries.

In this way, we can not only improve combat effectiveness, but also reduce military spending, killing two birds with one stone.

But from the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty to the present, the relationship between the forbidden army and the generals is complicated, and the problem of redundant soldiers has become a stubborn disease.

This is something that even the emperor cannot do.

If it weren't for Xu Shisong's Xu family, it would be easy to cause Jiangbei's anger if he moved, and I am afraid that this privy envoy of the Great Zhou would have been sent to Lingnan and died in a foreign land.

As a result, if the emperor wants to strengthen the army, he can only expand the establishment of the forbidden army, but the expanded system is divided among the generals (of course, the civilian officials will definitely be able to get a piece ......of the pie), the empty salary is terrifying, and there are still not many troops with combat effectiveness.

It's a vicious circle.

In addition to redundant soldiers, there are also redundant officers.

Emperor Longdao couldn't move the interests of Jiangmen, and he couldn't move the interests of the civilian clique.

After all, the Great Zhou Dynasty is "the king and the scholar rule the world together", at this point, even the minister of Wen will not help the son of Longdao, and Xu Shisong, a loyal minister, can't control the head of the civil official.

As a result, only two items of military salaries and official salaries, and all the annual income of the first year of the year will be out, and a deficit of several million yuan can be spared.

The financial pressure kept Longdao awake at night, so he shifted the pressure to the two traditional economic pillars of Yanzheng and weaving.

The target set by the Emperor of Longdao for the salt patrol Yu Shi Lin Ruhai is to increase the salt class by at least 30% in the past three years!

This really made Lin Ruhai feel a lot of headaches.

When Xu Daixuan heard the topic go on here, he couldn't help but sigh for Lin Ruhai: You jumped into the bowl by yourself!

Originally, after Xu Daixuan, as the imperial grandson, made his statement on Wen Ji's plan clear, Wen Ji should have reconsidered whether to implement the plan (if this is not an established policy).

But Lin Ruhai's complaint, things have all changed, just like an old sailboat without guns holding the bow of the 64-gun sail battleship to charge the side of the ship, and having to give up the horizontal head to the sail battleship, it would be too pedantic not to occupy the horizontal head.

Sure enough, when Wen Ji heard this, he immediately took the opportunity to propose a solution to Lord Lin Ruhailin's troubles:

Jiangbei is willing to sell salt to Lord Lin privately at half the market price in Jiangnan, and Wen Ji guarantees his personality, no matter how much Lin Ruhai wants, he can provide it, and all of them are of high quality and low price.

After Lord Lin got these salts, whether he sold them as Huai salt, or whether he said Qi salt, Jiangbei would not care.

Anyway, after removing the freight and necessary dots, Lin Ruhai can get about 20% of the profits, part of which is of course his own "labor fees", and the rest, Lin Ruhai can take it out to meet the plan indicators set by the Emperor of Longdao.

Wen Ji helped Lin Ruhai calculate on the spot that the cost of the salt obtained by the Jianghuai salt drying method is about three times that of the direct purchase of Jiangbei salt (including freight), so that the large-scale purchase of Jiangbei salt can not only directly increase the amount of salt, but even save a lot of costs.

This is another big deal, the officials of the Great Zhou Yanzheng, Lin Ruhai himself, the Longdao officials, and even the Jiangbei cabinet can get a lot of benefits from it.

As long as Lord Salt Patrol agrees, everyone will be satisfied!

Lin Ruhai groaned, he didn't agree on the spot, but his tone loosened a lot, and he was no longer the one who didn't want to come but had to come to the meeting for the sake of etiquette.

Even Xu Daixuan, the grandson of the Northern Dynasty Emperor, who acquiesced in this business, his face also improved a lot, at least he no longer looked like he was strictly guarded.

In fact, Xu Daixuan didn't speak, purely not interested in this topic.

Lin Ruhai opened this opening by himself, which made him complain that others did not show mercy to Da Zhou's subordinates.

"Brother Lin doesn't have to be too anxious to make a decision about this, anyway, the salt is there, and he can't run away." Wen Ji finally said: "Brother Lin knows where to find the junior brother, and once he has a decision, he can send someone to discuss with the junior brother." ”