"It's the ancestral rule of the domain, how can the younger brother not want to be a vassal!" Zhu Yihua said with a smile: "The courtier also wants to go to the local area to do something and become a virtuous king who is praised!" ”

Zhu Yijun glanced at Zhu Yihua, and he could obviously feel the dishonesty in Zhu Yihua's words.

However, Zhu Yijun also understood, nodded with a smile and said, "Let's prepare first!" Saying that, Zhu Yijun glanced at Zhu Yijun: "Your eldest mother has put a lot of effort into it, don't let the queen mother worry." ”

"Brother Chen, understand!" Zhu Yihua agreed and said respectfully.

Zhu Yijun didn't say anything to Zhu Yijun again, but stood up and prepared to go back.

In fact, there is a problem in Daming that you can't get around, that is, the vassal king of Daming, which is a problem that must be solved. There are many Ming royal families in the whole world, like a group of moths lying on Daming's body to suck blood.

It's impossible to exile them all, and finding a way out for them is the key point.

Zhu Yijun has always felt that Daming's precautions against the clan are a little too much, but this is understandable, after all, Daming has difficulties in appeasement. If it weren't for Jing Nan, it wouldn't be certain whether there was one.

In fact, the strategy of the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty was also useful, and after the rebellion of King Ning, the Ming Dynasty had not rebelled against other vassal kings.

Can you start the reform of the Ming clan through Zhu Yihua? That's a problem!

Back in the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Yijun sighed, Zhang Siwei left, and his own thing about salt could begin. After looking through the folds, Zhu Yijun found that there was nothing serious, and he glanced back at Zhang Whale and said, "Go and find Cao Yikui for me!" ”

In fact, Zhu Yijun has been pondering what kind of method he should take to do the salt thing.

After thinking about it for a long time, Zhu Yijun felt that a public-private partnership might be a good idea. But the salt works were subcontracted out and the merchants were allowed to spend money to buy the salt works. It's just that every salt field needs to be invested in by the imperial court.

The same is seventy percent, seventy percent of the annual profits go to the imperial court, and thirty percent of the profits go to the merchants.

There are many salt areas in Daming, such as Lianghuai Salt District, Liangzhejiang Salt District, Shandong Salt District, etc., and the output of each salt area is different. Selling salt works to merchants will not cause concealment and smuggling of salt.

Anyway, you can sell as much as you produce, and it's all your legal income.

From this point of view, it will definitely greatly increase the production of salt, unlike now, where officials are transferred after a period of time. Obviously, there is more salt and it is faster, but it is very laborious to advance.

Those stove households along the coast are being squeezed, and they live a life that is worse than death every day, and these are all problems that must be solved.

If the military household is the slave of the officer, then the stove household is not much better. Perhaps public-private partnerships can be used to solve this problem. Transportation and sales, merchants will naturally worry about it, and they don't have to worry about it in the imperial court.

The salt needed by the imperial court could be purchased from the salt merchants, who were responsible for transporting it when the time came.

As for the salt merchants to raise the price of salt and confront the imperial court, Zhu Yijun didn't believe that any salt merchant would have the courage to do so. Now the affairs of the salt merchant are very chaotic, and it is not easy to investigate at all, and there are too many twists and turns involved.

If the salt works are sold to salt merchants, it will become easier to check, and whoever has something wrong will be found.

By selling salt farms, you can also get a large amount of money in a short period of time, and this large amount of money is the support of your initial reform. But before you do that, you still have to bang it!

When Cao Yikui came, there was still no expression on his face, could this be the legendary coffin face?

Glancing at Cao Yikui, Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "Aiqing looks very good, it seems that the rest these days should be good." So now it's time to do things, I wonder if Aiqing is ready? ”

Cao Yikui said with a straight face: "Please ask the emperor to command!" ”

"The so-called waist wraps 100,000 yuan, riding a crane to Yangzhou!" Zhu Yijun looked at Cao Yikui and said with a smile: "This time you go down to Yangzhou!" Go check the transfer envoy in Yangzhou, and someone will cooperate with you when you arrive in Yangzhou. ”

Yangzhou is an important place for salt merchants, and the salt policy of the Ming Dynasty is the foundation, and basically all salt merchants are concentrated in Yangzhou.

"I will let the little grandfather of the Wei Mansion go back with you!"

Who is the biggest snake in Jiangnan? Of course, it is the Wei Mansion, and his holy decree has not been able to have a word from the Wei Mansion when he arrives in Jiangnan. A Governor's Office of the Five Armies, which has been entrenched in Nanjing for dozens or hundreds of years and commands Nanjing, can be said to have tentacles all over the south of the Yangtze River.

Xu Weizhi, the little grandfather of the Wei State Mansion, is now in the martial arts hall and sent him over, which can be of great help.

At the same time, this represents his own attitude, and the Duke of Wei is not stupid, so he will naturally not stand on the opposite side of himself.

If it was said that the Duke of Wei and the salt merchants were not involved, Zhu Yijun didn't believe it, but he showed his intentions, and the Duke of Wei also knew what to do. With their support, Cao Yikui's affairs will go much smoother.

Once things can't be helped, or if something goes wrong, you can also directly punish the Wei State Mansion.

"Command!" Cao Yikui bowed and said, he would not be stupid enough to refuse the help of the Wei State Mansion, that would be a big help!

You must know that Yangzhou is not Hejian Mansion, and when you get there, you don't know if you are a strong dragon or not, and those salt merchants must be local snakes. In addition, with the help of the government and the collusion between officials and businessmen, Yangzhou's network is not so easy to break through.

"Jinyiwei won't send someone there, but here in Dongchang, I will let Zhang Whale follow you."

In fact, Zhang Whale went out of Beijing as a last resort for Zhu Yijun, and there were also many eunuchs in Yangzhou and Nanjing. These town guards and eunuchs have long been accustomed to being the emperor of the soil, and they sent Wang Zhong over, but they couldn't suppress them at all.

Only Zhang Whale, an old eunuch, has a high status, heavy power, and a great reputation.

In addition, the work is excellent enough, and the means are clever enough, with him going, then many things are easy to do.

This time, he wanted to break the net of Yangzhou salt merchants in one fell swoop and completely set the curtain of his salt political reform. Zhu Yijun knew very well in his heart that if he didn't subdue these salt merchants, he would be afraid, and there would be no way to do things at all.

If you want to use it, you have to fight a wave first, and only after the fight is over, they will be obedient.

Hearing that Zhang Whale was going with him, Cao Yikui raised his eyebrows, and this time in Hejian Mansion, Cao Yikui saw Zhang Whale's methods. That method is definitely not comparable to Wang Zhong, not only is the method old and spicy, but also very ruthless!

is simply a person who basically does not talk about means in order to achieve an end.

Although Cao Yikui had some resistance in his heart, Cao Yikui also knew that even if he objected, it was useless, and the emperor would definitely let Zhang Whale go. In addition, he also knew that Zhang Whale would have a lot of benefits for him.

At least I don't have to pretend to be white-faced, just sing red-faced, it is estimated that the news of Zhang Whale's trip to Yangzhou will definitely scare many people stupidly.

Zhu Yijun didn't say anything when he saw Cao Yikui, nodded and said, "Then you can set off as soon as possible!" ”

"Obey the order!" Cao Yikui once again said that he would obey the order, and then bowed and retired.

Cao Yikui and Zhang Whale went to investigate the case in Yangzhou, which would definitely set off a bloody storm, but Zhu Yijun was not thinking about this, but about the reconstruction after this. The salt administration cannot be chaotic, and everything must be carried out under the condition of maintaining stability.

In fact, there were too few wealthy merchants in the Ming Dynasty, which highlighted the salt merchants, and when their own reforms were launched, many people would find that the salt merchants were actually making hard-earned money.

"It seems that the goal of the Internal Affairs Office is going to be changed!"

Li Zhongxing was studying the loom, but the time was too short and the progress was slow, and Zhu Yijun felt that he should be allowed to go to Yangzhou. To clean up this mess in Yangzhou, Li Zhongxing is the most suitable.

Li Zhongxing himself was a Jin merchant, and he was a salt merchant, and he was able to make many salt merchants believe him.

In this industry, Li Zhongxing also has a large number of contacts, so as not to make people feel that this time it is the imperial court cutting leeks. If people think that the imperial court is cutting leeks, then it is estimated that no one will dare to buy their own salt farms.

Kill a batch, pull a batch, this is the royal road, Cao Yikui and Zhang Whale will kill a batch, and Li Zhongxing will pull a batch.

As for the batch that was brought over, it would definitely not work to hand it over to Li Zhongxing, and when the time came, it would be enough to arrange a new official to take charge of the Salt Division. The most suitable candidate in Zhu Yijun's heart is Cao Yikui, but Cao Yikui is not suitable in the early stage.

After figuring out this matter, Zhu Yijun felt that he wanted to call Li Zhongxing to the palace and give him a good explanation.

As for whether Li Zhongxing can do a good job in this matter, Zhu Yijun is not worried at all, with Li Zhongxing's ability, this matter will definitely not be difficult for him. It is estimated that this guy can also get a lot of benefits from it, such as promoting some businessmen who have a good relationship with him.

Zhu Yijun is not worried about this kind of thing, because this kind of thing is inevitable at any time, as long as there is no chaos and things are done well, there is nothing unacceptable.

When Zhu Yijun was preparing to carry out the salt administration, a group of people were ushered in at the gate of the capital.

This is a wave of soldiers with evil spirits, looking at the equipment and appearance, you can know that it is the border army, especially the horses they are riding, this kind of good horse is a war horse at a glance, this kind of good horse is rare in the capital.

In the crowd, a general in his fifties sat on a horse, and the red tassels shook with the ups and downs of the war horse.

On the face of the red flutter, a pair of eyes were blazing, this person was none other than Qi Jiguang, the chief soldier of Jiliao.

Looking at the gate of the capital, Qi Jiguang breathed a sigh of relief, after the holy decree arrived in Jizhou, he arranged the things over there, and it can be said that he rushed to the capital at the same time. This time he was transferred from Jiliao to Jingying, but Qi Jiguang had no resistance.

In fact, Qi Jiguang is still very curious about the new emperor, since he came to power last year, the new emperor has shown an unprecedented good impression of the army. When Zhang Juzheng died, Qi Jiguang was worried for a while, but now he is not worried at all.

From the general soldier of Jiliao to the commander of the Beijing camp, Qi Jiguang can be regarded as promoted, but he wants to talk to the new emperor more.