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Many people are thinking about Xia Kuan's words, if it is really as Xia Kuan said, then Shen Xi can indeed get sea salt from the Franc machine, and there is no need to sell tea and salt with Daming according to the system of salt introduction, you can buy as much as you want from the Franc machine.

Lin Tingxuan is a smart person, he was also worried at first, but then smiled and said: "You don't have to worry, even if there is a large amount of sea salt in Nanyang, we don't need to worry." Taking salt to the salt field to extract salt, unlike buying salt with the Franc machine people, the governor of the yamen does not have so much silver. ”

When the officials present heard this, their faces immediately improved, and they nodded yes one after another.

Think about it carefully, isn't it, the Governor Yamen is not now reaching out for salt with the Franc Machine, but to buy salt, which requires a cost, even if the Governor Yamen sells the salt, the silver money obtained must be handed over to the imperial court, what to use to buy salt with the Franc Machine?

Zhang Yuanying smiled happily: "What Lin Zhentai said is, where did Shen Xi'er get the silver to buy salt?" Haha, in the end, he is still empty! ”

Someone next to him helped: "What Lord Fantai and Lord Zhentai said is that the person surnamed Shen was originally worried about raising military salaries. He has no money, what can he buy salt with? ”

At this time, Xia Kuan said inappropriately: "Why haven't you all figured it out?" If the Governor Fu Yamen and the Franc Machine Man exchange tea for salt, they will even save the money they have to buy tea, and in this way, the difference in the price earned by trading with the Franc Robot will probably be several times the profit......

Zhang Yuanying, Lin Tingxuan and the others instantly turned earthy.

They just thought that Shen Xi needed to spend money to buy salt from the Franc Machine, but they didn't think that Shen Xi could sell the tea merchant's tea to the Franc Robot without using the tea introduction, and maybe a pound of crude tea was only about 20 Wen, and he could exchange dozens of catties and hundreds of catties of sea salt from the Franc Machine, and a pound of sea salt could be sold for at least 30 Wen, which was a huge profit from foreign trade.

"Bang!"

Zhang Yuanying was annoyed and ashamed, and slapped the table heavily, making the nerves of everyone present tense.

Zhang Yuanying said with a tense face: "If you want to exchange tea for salt with the Buddha Lang Jiren, you must first ask our clan and the yamen if they agree, and see which tea merchant and salt merchant dare to go to the Yamen to sell tea and buy salt!" ”

Lin Tingxuan was relieved: "Fortunately, the local tea merchants and salt merchants are under the control of the feudal division and the imperial division, as long as people pass on the word, whoever makes a mistake will seize their tea and official salt, and kill a hundred people!" ”

This time, everyone was not in a hurry to be happy, and they all looked sideways at Xia Kuan, wanting to hear what he had to say.

Xia Kuan shook his head helplessly at this time, he found that these shrewd and sophisticated old foxes in front of him were good at intriguing, deceit, and political dumping in the officialdom, but in this contest with Shen Xi, they were almost no different from fools!

Xia Kuan bowed and said, "Dare to ask a few adults, what if the Francophile does not transport the salt to Guangzhou, but to Fuzhou and Quanzhou?" How did the Governor Yamen use the influence of the Guangdong political envoy Si Yamen to prevent the Governor Yamen from trading with the Francophile? ”

Zhang Yuanying and Lin Tingxuan, not to mention squeaking, they didn't even fart.

In the past, Guangdong, Guangxi, and southern Hunan had to extract salt from the salt farms under the jurisdiction of the Guangdong and Haibei Salt Divisions.

But now the situation is different, the governor Yamen decided to directly exchange tea for salt with the Francophiles, so he still used the one acre and three points of land left in Guangdong?

Go directly to Fuzhou or Quanzhou Port in Fujian, which is also a foreign trade port of the Ming Dynasty, and even go to other seaport cities, as long as Shen Xi has the right to trade with the Francophile granted by the imperial court, even if the port is not open, Shen Xi can also let it open.

The people of Shenxi are no longer in Guangdong, how can you use your power to threaten local businessmen?

Shen Xi handed over the business to merchants from other places, and the salt merchants and tea merchants in Guangdong followed the political envoy Si Yamen to drink the northwest wind, unless you can threaten all the merchants of the Ming Dynasty and prevent them from trading with Shen Xi!

What's even worse is that Shen Xi did not extract salt from the salt field, and the salt field did not have salt to declare the supply of the salt field to the imperial court for the coming year.

After all, salt production requires labor costs.

Shen Xi did all this by using the legal means at his disposal, through the authority to trade with the Franc machine, and on the premise of not needing tea introduction, he sold tea to obtain sea salt and earn a huge price difference, so that the military expenses for suppressing bandits would be available.

The officials and staff members present, including Zhang Yuanying, the political envoy of Youbu, and Lin Tingxuan, the envoy of the Imperial Procuratorate, were all silent.

The consequences of this failure will not only be a large loss to the local finances, but also unable to account for the local gentry and merchants who support the salt works and the political envoy Si Yamen, and what is even worse is that the imperial court will definitely be held accountable, and most of them will likely be dismissed from office.

Xia Kuan knew that when he said these words, he was already intolerable to the people present, so in order to avoid becoming the object of anger, it was best to leave early.

Xia Kuan stood up and saluted: "Ladies and gentlemen, what should be said has been said next, I think the reason why Shen Dufu stayed in Guangzhou Mansion for many days is to secretly negotiate with the Franc machine to exchange tea for salt, and now that the matter has been decided, he will leave for Fuzhou in the near future." To retain, it seems...... It's still too late. Retire first! ”

After saying these words, Xia Kuan shook his head helplessly, stood up and exited the hall through the side door.

Xia Kuan left, but the officials present looked at each other and were at a loss.

There are only two choices in front of Zhang Yuanying and Lin Tingxuan, either sit and wait for death, or keep Shen Xi. Or there is another way, that is, to fight with Shen Xi, but Shen Xi now has the unconditional support of Li Che, the commander of the capital, and using the Ya on hand to fight with Shen Xi's personal soldiers is tantamount to an egg hitting a stone.

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At this time, in the post house, Shen Xi was in a good mood, and waved his hand at Tang Yin, who had just received thirty taels of Yulu and was dizzy with joy, and said, "What are you doing in a daze, Brother Bohu?" Go back to the inn to pack our luggage, today we go out of the city to the north and go to Fuzhou! ”

Tang Yin came back to his senses at this time and asked in surprise: "Shen Zhongcheng, which play are you performing?" This matter of salt introduction has not been resolved, how can we go to Fuzhou? Isn't it that the salt is all left to the yamen of the domain? ”

Shen Xi said: "Who said it, didn't you just discuss with the Francois people, let them transport the salt to Fuzhou, and then we will sell tea and porcelain to them from there." The people who carried salt outside the city only had to let them go back to the city and extract the salt in the salt warehouse, and if there was a shortage, they would wait for the salt to be transported from Fuzhou City, so that the people could extract it again. ”

Tang Yin opened his mouth, and finally realized that the matter in Guangzhou Mansion had completely ended, and the political envoy of Guangdong who was in charge of his mother, go to his mother's salt farm, Lao Tzu will not play with you anymore, and there will be no time in the future.

Tang Yin smiled: "It's still an adult, I understand what's going on...... Okay, I'll go back and pack my bags. ”

A great talent is a great talent, much faster than those old stubborn people who think about things in the political envoys, as soon as Shen Xi roughly said it, he understood the key, as long as he followed Shen Xi to Fuzhou City, he could easily accept the next few months, and the governor of the yamen will soon become the richest yamen in Fujian, Guangdong and Guizhou provinces, and Shen Xi does not have many people on hand, so he Tang Yin will be rich and prosperous in the future.

Shen Xi shook his head helplessly, smiled and went to the inner courtyard, asking Xie Yun'er and the other daughters to pack their luggage and prepare to leave for Fuzhou.

Here, Shen Xi and Tang Yin had just left the lobby, and Ding Xuan, the official post poster, hurried to the side courtyard from behind the curtain, and hurriedly called someone to tell him a few words, and asked him to quickly go to the political envoy to report the news.

Shen Xi had already packed up his luggage and everything, and even the silver money from selling salt and the salt before had been packed, and he was about to load the car on the road, when he saw Zhu Qi hurriedly come over and say:

"Master, as you expected, the official sedan chairs of the Political Envoy Department and the Inspectorate Department are here, and at this moment, Zhang Fantai and Lin Zhentai are waiting in the front hall."

Shen Xi whispered in Zhu Qi's ear: "Send a few people to take Mr. Tsing Yi and his family to a safe place." ”

Zhu nodded: "Yes, master." ”

After everything was explained, Shen Xi came to the main hall with an arrogant face, Zhang Yuanying, Lin Tingxuan and the other officials lost their previous arrogance, and they all got up to greet each other: "Shen Zhongcheng, please say hello to you." ”

A sneer appeared at the corner of Shen Xi's mouth: "Yo, what kind of wind is this, which actually blew you to my little yamen?" ”

Zhang Yuanying laughed: "Lord Governor smiled, you are the governor of the three provinces, and naturally you are also our parent official in Guangdong, your yamen is the largest yamen on the ground in Guangdong, and I should come to visit." ”

Shen Xi seemed to hear the funniest joke, and laughed: "You guys are really flattering to this official!" This official has thanked you for your kindness, and has been in Guangzhou Mansion for a while, and I hope to forgive me for the troubles, and when we meet again in the future, it should be this official who led the troops to quell the local robbers...... Today, this official will leave for the north, so I won't bother you, and I will say goodbye! ”

"Don't, Lord Shen...... Look, what are you talking about? ”

Zhang Yuanying almost wanted to treat Shen Xi as a grandfather at this time, so he quickly grabbed Shen Xi's arm and said with a sincere face, "If you leave, the imperial court must think that the place is neglected, not to mention your salt introduction...... Isn't it still unsettled? ”

"Xia Guan told the local gentry and salt merchants that they were very willing to share the worries of Lord Shen, which is not ...... Everyone was waiting outside, and they were all waiting for a ...... Oh no, it's twenty wen. After all, he still has to leave some for Lord Shen as a military salary. ”

Shen Xi's face changed: "Listening to Zhang Fantai's meaning, is this official going to sell the salt at a higher price?" Wouldn't that make the official know the law and break the law? Lin Zhentai, in "Da Ming Law", how is the sin of selling salt at a higher price defined? ”

Lin Tingxuan was very depressed, I can be used again at this time, you are more familiar with me, you are more familiar with "Da Ming Law" than me, why don't you say it yourself?

Lin Tingxuan said: "Back to Shen Zhongcheng, as stated in the "Da Ming Law and Hu Law", all merchants buy salt to lead to surveying, and increase the price halfway to resell, and the buyer and seller each have eighty rods. Whoever is in charge of the officials shall be dismissed from his post and shall be punished with a hundred rods and three years' imprisonment!" ”

Shen Xi nodded and said, "Zhang Fantai heard it, you want this official to know the law and break the law!" ”

Zhang Yuanying said with a bitter face: "Then my lord, how about directly quoting the salt from the fourteenth text?" The gentry and merchants outside are all waiting. ”

Shen Xi smiled like a spring breeze on his face, and said: "This official has this intention, but before you arrive, this official has already sold all the salt, please be early next time." Oh no, the next time you invite you to the Guangdong Salt Section to discuss the matter of buying and selling salt, this official is only responsible for this season's salt. Forgive me for not sending it far, this official is leaving, farewell and farewell! ”

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ps: The Son of Heaven is also a military author, and he still remembers the military soul of "Iron Bone", on this special day, he yelled: 918, don't forget the national shame! (To be continued.) )