"Boss, check out." Li Xin saw that the red lady had eaten almost enough, so he beckoned the owner of the restaurant to settle the bill.

"Alright, guest officer. Your two plates of fried bait and a pot of chicken stewed mushrooms have a total of three coins of silver, this is your two coins of silver, you can take it, please go slowly. Xiao Er still greeted him politely.

"Don't look for it, it's a tip for you. I said I know, is the Sichuan salt sold by your boss a little expensive just now, I just came from Sichuan, and the Sichuan salt there is only a pound of silver. Li Xin casually asked Xiao Er.

"Not expensive, not expensive. Our local Anning salt costs five dollars a pound of silver, the boss is very shrewd, and the salt he bought is expensive, and the entire Yunnan Mansion will not believe it. Heh, heh. The shopkeeper got a tip, and he became excited when he spoke.

"Genzi, you don't have to eat at noon, do you? Seeing that you're panicking right now, come here and move this bag of salt in. The restaurant owner, who was still smiling just now, suddenly became fierce.

Li Xin no longer dared to ask why the salt was so expensive, lest the little two be kicked out by the boss, otherwise he would have caused his own sin, so he took the red lady and the two of them home full of depression.

After returning home, Li Xin thought about it wrong, it must be that Mu Wangfu controlled the production and sales of the entire Yun salt, making the price of salt much more expensive than that of other provinces, but Mu Wangfu would definitely not admit that he was still monopolizing the production and sales of salt, and the only way was to let the Daming Royal Trading Company enter, and Mu Wangfu should not dare to compete with Zhu Youxiao. Thinking of this, Li Xin suddenly became enlightened, maybe Zhu Youxiao meant this, in fact, Zhu Youxiao didn't think about it so much at all, he just thought that Li Xin was full of energy, and he wanted him to take Burma over, so he sent him here.

The next day, Li Xin asked people to send a letter to the shopkeeper of the Daming Royal Trading House in Sichuan, asking him to come to Yunnan Mansion as soon as possible and discuss important matters with him. In fact, the Daming Royal Trading House has long had the idea of entering Yunnan, but because it is not as convenient as in other places because of the Muwang Mansion in Yunnan, it is not as convenient as in other places, and whether it is Guizhou or Sichuan, the road to Yunnan is very difficult to walk, and the freight cost is too high, which causes the Daming Royal Trading House to delay in entering Yunnan to operate.

Now that Li Xin is going to govern Yunnan, as Zhu Youxiao's junior brother, all the commercial houses will sell some face. Therefore, after receiving Li Xin's invitation, Liu Laocai, the person in charge of the Sichuan of the Daming Royal Trading Bank, immediately rushed over and discussed with Li Xin how to operate.

Liu Laocai said to Li Xin: "If there is anything you need help with, you can ask the boss for small things, and you can tell you anything about small things." ”

Li Xin said: "Actually, it's not a big deal, yesterday I went out for a walk and found that the local products here are very cheap, but why do you rarely come here?" Is it because of the road, but I just don't have much money to build the road, can you think of a solution to this problem? You don't need to answer yet, you can go out for a spin first. ”

Liu Laocai said: "Actually, you don't need to go out, I also know about this, I have been here before, mainly because I can't afford to provoke Mu Wangfu, but now that the adults are in charge, we dare to come in." As for the road problem, according to the meaning of the shopkeeper of Niu, everything is for the emperor, and the cost of road repair can be paid by the Daming Royal Trading Company, but the labor needs to be solved by adults. ”

As soon as Li Xin heard this, his heart became happy, this is not easy to find, and there are living people with two legs all over the street. "Okay, that's it, I'll find someone, you pay for it, let's build an official road that can be walked a little easier, so that the things here can be sold."

The next day, Li Xin asked the officials of the yamen to post the notice, indicating the standard of employment, the amount of labor cost, and the number of people needed. In fact, in addition to eating and drinking, I will also pay some wages, although it is not too much, but it is much better than being idle at home and not working.

Except for Li Xin, there are very few people who come to apply, which is a good thing, why didn't anyone do it? Li Xin was puzzled, or Liu Laocai helped him figure out this problem, it turned out that Yunnan still implemented the Tusi system, most of the people are slaves, their personal freedom is not free, and they need to be approved by the Tusi to work, otherwise they will defect, and they can be killed if they are caught, Tusi has the right to kill them, in fact, the largest Tusi in Yunnan is Mu Wangfu, they occupy almost one-third of the land in Yunnan, and most of the people who do business and set up stalls on the street are Han people with personal freedom, and there are very few local people.

Li Xin suddenly realized, no wonder this place in Yunnan looks like a pool of stagnant water, there is no vitality, it turns out that there is a problem in the management system here, and the ruling method here is that the big and small Tusi are the masters of the house, and the policy of family management of the place is more conservative than that of other places in the Ming Dynasty.

If you want to make the stagnant water here come alive, you must break the Tusi system here, but the biggest Tusi is Mu Wangfu, which is almost impossible, Li Xin does not have this right, how can this problem be solved, then you have to negotiate with Mu Wangfu, the idea is to let Mu Wangfu compromise, you must let Mu Wangfu compromise, only in this way can we govern the unfavorable environment of Yunnan and better develop Yunnan.

So Li Xin decided to visit Mu Wangfu again, and negotiate with Mu Qiyuan again, if Mu Qiyuan didn't know what to do, maybe he would have to do it again to knock down the Tusi and divide the fields, and fundamentally solve the Tusi system here, of course, this must be agreed by Zhu Youxiao, otherwise it will be his own rebellion.

In the living room of King Mu's mansion, Li Xin, Liu Laocai and Mu Qiyuan had a tentative conversation, Li Xin said: "Grandpa Guo, long live the lord sent his subordinates to Yunnan to govern the place, and during this period of time, some problems were discovered. Yunnan's native products are abundant, but it is not easy to transport them outward, and the salt here is too expensive, and the people's lives are very hard, in order to live up to the expectations of the long-lived lord, the lower officials want to do some measures to improve the people's livelihood, hoping to get the support of the grandfather. ”

Mu Qiyuan said with a smile: "Li Dudu, we are all courtiers of the Long Live Lord, it is naturally our responsibility to govern Yunnan well, rest assured Li Dudu, as long as it is your order, Xiao Wang will naturally support it, and will never drag you back, you can change it as much as you want." ”

As soon as Li Xin heard this, he felt that this Mu Qiyuan was still quite enlightened, so he said: "First of all, I want to take back the salt mine here, of course, not for free, this is Liu Laocai of the Daming Royal Trading Company, and the specific method will be told by him and you." The second is to give the serfs a free identity, Tusimen may not restrict their personal freedom, just like in other places in the Ming Dynasty, they have the right to rent and not rent Tusimen land, they are all the people of the Ming Dynasty, Tusi does not have the right to live and kill, only the Ming government has this right. Grandpa Guo, what do you think of the two measures I want to implement? ”

As soon as Mu Qiyuan heard that Li Xin was going to take back the salt mine, he was like a kitten whose tail had been stepped on, and he almost jumped up, and just about to refuse, he heard a cough behind the tent, so he had to continue Li Xin's topic and say, "Okay, okay." But how to recover this salt mine, this is the property given by the grandfather to the Mu Palace, and it needs to be decreed by the current Long Live Lord, Li Dudu, do you have the holy decree of the Long Live Lord? ”

As soon as Li Xin heard it, he knew that Mu Wangfu was unwilling to give up, so he said: "Didn't Grandpa Guo hear about the Long Live Lord?" In addition to leaving the land for cultivating seeds, Long Live Lord donated all the imperial villages and gave them to the common people who cultivated these lands, which set an example for all the vassal kings in the world. Of course, this is his old man's will, but do you see that the Lord Banzai treated him badly? Is this good, this salt mine is redeemed by the Daming Royal Trading Company, the specific price is negotiated by you and Liu Laocai, and you can also occupy a certain stake in the Daming Royal Trading Company, so that it will not work, so that Long Live Lord is also happy that you have also joined the royal team. ”

Being blocked by Li Xin like this, Mu Qiyuan was a little undecided, according to Li Xin's words, if he didn't join the Daming Royal Trading Company, he would be like a courtier who was not a long live lord, "Okay, Li Dudu, Xiao Wang listens to your opinion, let my housekeeper talk to Liu Laocai, let's go to tea, let's just get a result." ”

As for giving the serfs a free identity, it is their freedom to plant or not to farm, this is all in Mu Qiyuan's opinion, as far as those slaves are concerned, if they don't give them farm, let them drink the northwest wind, he didn't think about what would happen in the future.