First, the birthday banquet of women in this era is always inferior to that of men, coupled with the difference in identity between men and women, the birthday wine of the Yang family is actually a gathering between men in the final analysis. To be longevity is to find a reason.

As a magistrate, Fan Jin is already a big face to be able to attend, so naturally there will be no closer moves. After a few flattering words in the Shoutang, he went to the antechamber and began to talk to the gentlemen. Yang Shida was running around inside and out, and when he saw his mother's guests, he had to help entertain and accompany people out, but he didn't have time to receive Fan Jin anymore, so the other gentry also had a chance.

Everyone surrounds the county order like the stars holding the moon, which can be regarded as the vanity of the pro-people officials. But this kind of vanity is actually not important to Fan Jin at all, what he wants is not decency, but benefits. But this affordability is not so easy to want.

Although these gentry are not officials of the imperial court, many of them are officials, and all the treatment they receive after they become officials is still retained, and they are not necessarily much inferior to him, a magistrate who has been promoted beyond the specifications, at least in social situations, it is enough to treat each other as enemies.

"The county servant has practiced well, and it won't take long to practice like this, and even Ying Tianfu's capture is faster than you. But I heard that the reason why these officials bow down to the county is because of the county government's generous reward? Even the family members of the servants can receive rice grain? This makes the cost too much. The old man also stepped down from this position, and he knows these people best. A group of greedy villains, with hearts like tigers and wolves, never know what the word satiety is. No matter how much you feed them, it's useless, and you will still be greedy when you should be greedy. ”

This is the prefect of Zhishi, who now has several silk and satin villages in Jiangning, and is considered a business competitor of the Song family.

Fan Jin smiled: "He Weng has won the award, catching the government is the foundation of a county, if they don't have no worries, how can they practice hard?" If they don't make a good appearance, the people's stable life will not be guaranteed. As for the matter of embezzlement of ink, the officials will take care of it, and they will send people to guard against it. ”

Another said: "That being said, this is too much to worry about. Shangyuan County still seems to be in deficit, right? ”

"That's the predecessor's shortfall, and it has little to do with the county."

"Having said that, the county envoy's fee is always the people's fat, and if it can be saved, it will be saved."

Fan Jin said: "What a few people said makes sense, but Xia Guan prefers open source to throttle. As long as there is enough input in the yamen, these envoy fees will be enough to pay. ”

The He Governor said, "You should be cautious in this matter. Officials should not compete with the people for profit, otherwise there will be great chaos in the locality. If the official wants one point, the officials must do ten points, plus layers of oil and water, and exploitation, I am afraid that it will not be 100% on the heads of the people? It is because the yamen has always practiced frugality and does not participate in business, because once the government participates, business will not become business, and the city will not become a city. The officials forcibly seized the principal and did not pay the principal, but sold it at ten times the price, and the profits went into their own pockets, the local business withered, and the people's livelihood was difficult, which was not a way to herdify the locality. ”

"Not all officials are like that." Fan Jin was not in a hurry, "People's hearts are like wild horses, what we need is to add reins to this wild horse and prevent it from running and kicking." Therefore, it is necessary to use the official law as the rope and ink, and there must also be sufficient supervision and supervision, and punish a few evil officials who dare to stretch out their hands to the people, and the others will be reined in. The government participates in business, and the disadvantages are naturally there, but the benefits are also great, and the key is to look at the industry. In an already orderly industry, the government should naturally not intervene, but if it is already chaotic and poisons the people, then the government must intervene and re-establish rules for them, and they can't be allowed to harm the people, do you think so? ”

A voice suddenly sounded, "Hai Ru Xian ruled Yingtian that day, and he also acted like Master Fan, what was the result?" The people in Yingtianfu have nowhere to borrow, the gentry are in danger, and the beggars' clothes are more expensive than the silk clothes. Fan County Ling is a fellow townsman with him, so don't you have to act like him? ”

The voice was from outside the crowd, and when everyone looked over, they saw that it was a young man in his twenties. was born with oily hair and powder, and although he was dressed as a scholar, he knew at a glance that he was by no means a person in the literary world.

Beside him was an embarrassed Yang family Qingke, who was trying to pull him away, and when he saw everyone looking over, he hurriedly said: "Young Master Huang has always been straightforward, and he is not malicious......

"That's right, I'm such a straight person, I can say whatever I want, and I won't say compliments. Since Master Fan wants to learn the sea pen holder, there should always be this measure, right? You are doing wind and rain in Shangyuan County, but it has nothing to do with me. But you can't prevent me from getting rich, I'm the most fair person, people respect me a foot, I also pay a foot back, if anyone stands in my way, that's my mortal enemy! ”

Fan Jin also knew at this time that this young man was Huang Enhou's righteous son Huang Jien. In the entire Jiangning, if you want to talk about the No. 1 villain, it is Xu Weizhi, and if you want to talk about the No. 1 villain, it is basically Huang Jien. He was originally a splashy tiger on the ground in Jiangning, but after having Huang Enhou as a backer, he was even more unscrupulous, as if Jiangning was harmed. Considering that Feng Bangning is an outsider, even if he behaves even worse, he is not qualified to run, so Huang Jien's position cannot be shaken.

Compared with officials, eunuchs have a congenital weakness, that is, there are fewer people available. But if the family has a deep background, he will not let others be eunuchs. Most of the people who entered the palace were poor families who couldn't get by, even if they had some relatives to find their way to rely on them in the future, they were basically children of poor families, and their work ability was like that. When it comes to working in the field, these people can't count on it, and it is difficult to open up the situation.

It is because eunuchs generally collude with local forces, and among them, those scoundrels and even bandits and bullies are the easiest to lose their sincerity to eunuchs, and it is also easiest for the two to cooperate. Accepting Yizi is the easiest way for these two forces to collude, the villain thinks that the eunuch is the godfather to obtain shelter, the eunuch himself has no heirs, and he also treats the Yizi as a nephew, and in the future, when he is old and out of the palace, there must always be someone to serve.

This kind of thing gradually evolved into a business in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and it was natural for the righteous son to be filial to his godfather, and the eunuch to accept the righteous son changed from a pension need to a wealth collection. The filial piety of those righteous sons relied on plundering local wealth, and even directly grabbed it, relying on the support of eunuchs, and acting more and more perversely and carelessly. The people often call them by nicknames such as a few tigers or a number of biao, and they know what kind of characters they are.

Huang Enhou is different from his peers, he did not open the mountain door to accept his son, and he only had one son in Jiangning, Huang Jien. It is said that most of Huang Enhou's private wealth was taken care of by Huang Jien, and he also donated the title of prisoner to this son, which shows the importance he attaches to him.

When these gentlemen saw this person appear, the atmosphere froze a little for a moment, and they didn't know what he meant by killing him, did he represent himself, or Huang Enhou? If there is a conflict between the eunuch Ying Tian and Fan Jin, this is a big deal, and there is no need for him to participate, just watch the excitement from the side.

Fan Jin arched his hand and said, "Huang Gongzi, your question is very good. This official also happens to take this opportunity to say today, although Haigong and I are fellow villagers, we are not ordinary people. Haigong used the old Hongwu system as rope and ink, and even the merchants were not allowed to wear silk shirts, but the official thought that it was not necessary! Time has changed, and now this Jiangning City is full of silk, which is a good thing. It proves that I am rich, not as poor as I was back then, people have money in their hands, and they talk about food and clothing, which is a great thing. If you don't eat or wear, how can so much silver circulate? It's all stored at home, aren't you afraid of mold? ”

He snorted, and the faces of the gentry softened.

Fan Jin said: "As an official of the imperial court, on behalf of the Son of Heaven to shepherd one side, it is necessary to make the place peaceful and the people free from hunger and cold, so that His Majesty is right." What Fan hopes is that everyone under his rule is rich and rich, how can he block people's financial path? But to make a fortune to talk about a way and way, if in order to get rich, you will be separated from other people's flesh and blood, and let others go bankrupt and their wives will be separated, then it will be contrary to the original intention of the official, and the official will have to be a roadblock. ”

What everyone is most afraid of is actually that Fan Jin is Hai Rui style, and he demands everyone with the Hongwu system, which is nominally not invalid, but is actually seriously out of touch with social reality. Even if the destructive power of the county order is not as good as that of the governor, it is still a headache to do so at the local level.

From Hongwu to Wanli, the Ming Dynasty has not known how many times it has changed its rules, otherwise the empire cannot be maintained. Fan Jin knew very well in his heart that he couldn't use Hong Wuchao's eyes to look at the current problem, otherwise it would be perverse. Hai Rui's behavior that day was not simply to restore the old Hongwu system, he also knew that it could not be restored, it could only be regarded as a statement, releasing a signal to the entire Yingtian that his position would not support the gentry and wealthy businessmen. Even encouraging the poor to become rich is also the same meaning.

Fan Jin believes that Hai Rui, like himself, is a person who wants to act, but everyone's thinking is different. Since we can't create more wealth, we can only restrict the lives of the rich, narrow the gap between the rich and the poor, and let the wealth of the rich flow to the poor. Even if it can't be done, on the surface, the life of the rich is not much better than that of the poor, and if everyone eats and wears poorly, the dissatisfaction of the people will be reduced, and the society will be stable.

This kind of thinking can't be wrong, but it doesn't match Fan Jin's original intention. If this is done, the county magistrate must lead by example, and he is the first lord to enjoy it, so that he can't eat meat twice a month like Hai Rui, and everyone knows that buying meat is a troublemaker, so it is better to kill him. So he thought of a different way, trying to increase his wealth.

The gap between the rich and the poor may widen further, but the poor will have more money and more food, and the rich will be richer than in the past. This is more in line with the current economic development reality of the southeast region, and can also maintain social stability, which is the same as Hai Jui's method.

This kind of thing is usually not easy to say, but when it is said in the yamen, whether the gentry believes it or not is also between the two. It would be more appropriate to take the opportunity of the birthday banquet to say it.

Hearing his idea of getting rich together, many gentlemen were happy, after all, everyone likes to get rich. Zhang Juzheng's quasi-son-in-law is indeed qualified to say this kind of common prosperity. Huang Jien sneered: "Master Fan's idea is good, but I don't know something, how are you going to do it?" There is only so much silver in the world, if you don't rob it, someone else will take it. Doing business is just one word: fight! If you don't fight or take it, what will you get rich? Someone will go bankrupt, and they deserve it. Master Fan used the yamen to lend, isn't he just fighting with us businessmen? ”

"Huang Gongzi, your knowledge is insufficient, if you have time to read more, it will be good for you, this official will reopen Shangyuan County School in the future, you can come and listen if you have time, I specially asked Mr. Tong Meng to teach you to read the Three Character Sutra. There is no end to the silver in the world, not just a little. Daming is a big place, don't always look at the one-third of an acre in front of you. Some people need silver, some people can't spend all the money, and it is right to borrow to help others, but the system must be followed in collecting interest. The official does not oppose private lending, but only opposes private lending at high interest rates, and collects debts in violation of regulations, and the difference is not difficult to understand. Therefore, the yamen did not fight with the merchants, but only with those who were traitors and criminals, here...... There shouldn't be anything wrong with Huang Gongzi, right? ”

Huang Jien said: "Fan Zhixian shouldn't know that many of the kilometers present also took out the silver to lend, right?" ”

"Is there such a thing? How did the official not know? The official only knows that you are just depositing the silver in Master Yang's pawnshop and silk village to eat interest, how can there be any such thing as lending. As for the Yang family's lending, there are people who misbehave, and the official has already punished the crime according to the law. In the future, the Shangyuan County Yahui will cooperate with Master Yang, and the two-point lending is the charter of the Yamen, and the specific operation will be taken care of by the Yang family. ”

Huang Jien's eyes were cold, "So, the Yang family is a good friend of Master Fan?" ”

"Master Yang is a good people, and he is also a well-known good person in Jiangning, isn't it unusual to cooperate with such a good family? If you want to talk about good friends, not to mention Master Yang, all the gentlemen and legally operating businessmen in Shangyuan County are all friends of this county. Including Huang Gongzi, as long as you and your people abide by the law, they are also friends of the official, if you have any difficulties, just ask, I will help you. ”

Fan Jin's words changed and said: "Next, Shangyuan County will reorganize the business road, do more business, and of course find more good friends to cooperate." As long as everyone abides by the rules and acts according to the law, Fan is everyone's best friend, and our cooperation is so much, and the money is endless. But if anyone is a traitor and a criminal and does evil, Fan, as a magistrate, can only judge according to the law and does not tolerate personal feelings. ”

Huang Jien snorted, "Fan Zhixian is worthy of being a scholar, and it is effortless to say a thousand words in his mouth, but I don't know if there is any material." Saying that, everyone can be invincible in the world, and it's hard to say whether it's powerless to do it. There are countless large and small yamen in Jiangning City, and I don't know how many pairs of eyes are looking at Fan Zhixian, waiting to see how Master Fan's wonderful hands can save the country and save the people. I wish Master Fan a bright future and a bright future! Fathers and elders must remember to help Master Fan, who helps Master Fan is my good friend of someone Huang, I will definitely remember this person's name, thank you from morning to night, and thank his whole family by the way! ”

At this time, Yang Shida suddenly ran over, first gave Huang Jien a salute, and then said to Fan Jin: "Old parents, please come to the back hall, my mother wants to invite you to go, there are a few words to say." ”