"You're not a grass citizen anymore, Liu Daguan!"

Although Zhu Cihong is not familiar with Liu Yan, this set of people's hearts has been very familiar, and he is opposite to others, and he no longer has the previous youth and discomfort.

A teacher in later generations, in this life, he is above ten thousand people and one person below, and the transformation and adaptation of this was also quite difficult for him at the beginning.

At the moment, he stretched out his hand and pulled the other party up, Liu Yan is not short, but Zhu Cihong has been practicing physical fitness and martial arts every day for more than a year, and he has not pulled down the riding and archery, he is originally well nourished, and the blood of the emperor's family is also the best of the best heredity, so at this time, he has grown quite tall, with broad shoulders and thick shoulders, tall and mighty, just looking at the figure, it is no different from Chengren.

pulled Liu Yan up and said with a smile: "In the future, you must remember your official ranks, and you must not act the same as before, in this way, the intention of losing the famous weapon given by the imperial court is also a joke." ”

These words are admonitions, but in fact, they are also encouragements, how can Liu Yan not understand in his heart?

I was very impressed at the moment, but in front of the prince, this salt merchant was very restrained, and he could only make promises, not knowing what to say.

After meeting, Zhu Cihong was still sitting on the railing, the moon was white and the wind was light, the breeze was gentle, and in this midsummer, on the water pavilion, he was envious of these salt merchants.

Coming in from the outer house, there are flooded brick yards everywhere along the way, every brick and stone is placed in a proper position, and it is very carefully cleaned up, from the outer hall to the inner house, together with the garden stables, the yard is a set of one, and a rough look at the past, there are three or four hundred houses in this mansion alone, and the prince's mansion is nothing more than that.

And the inside is magnificent, except for the gate because it is not the home of the official, only the black iron ring door with three bays, the rest of the regulations, in fact, are no different from the prince's mansion.

At least, in terms of comfort, this salt merchant's mansion has surpassed the Imperial Palace.

This time he sat on the railing, no matter what he thought in his heart, he still had a smile on his face, only looked at Liu Yan, and said with a smile: "Shabu Xinyan class, does Lord Liu have anything to discuss?" ”

Liu Yan's heart sank, of course he had a lot to say, but in front of this crown prince, where did he dare to tell him? At that moment, he had to reply: "Your Highness, this is the national government, the grass people...... Oh, how dare the minister argue! ”

"What nonsense?" Zhu Cihong smiled, looked at Liu Yan with his eyes, and asked: "Er Ming has prejudices in his heart, and he doesn't say it in front of him, is it possible that there is still a mustard in his heart last time when the people of Yangzhou revolted?" ”

"How dare you?" Liu Yan was really startled at this time, and hurriedly knelt down and replied: "The ministers have violated the ban, His Royal Highness has not been severely punished, he has only been imprisoned for more than ten days, and he has not been beaten and abused...... The minister would never dare to die! ”

"These words are also sincere." Zhu Cihong smiled slightly, pointed to the stool opposite, and said with a smile: "Sit down and talk." ”

"Yes, thank Your Highness for the seat."

In the water pavilion he repaired, Liu Yan sat so trembling for the first time.

Although the prince is young, he is not a lord who can be bullied.

I didn't want to get into the troubled waters, and the first sentence was to prevaricate, but this young master was not angry, and with a gentle word, he made himself sweat and heavy clothes.

The power of the king, he can be regarded as a little understanding at this time, and he no longer dares to have any strange thoughts in his heart.

"Jun is a salt merchant for many generations." Looking at Liu Yan, Zhu Cihong's eyes were burning, and his expression was also very sincere, and he said slowly: "I have inquired, among the salt merchants, there are many people who are floating and untraveling, and there are many people who are profligate, and there are really not many people who are loyal and honest, and who are from a family and are familiar with salt affairs. Now that you have donated to the official, you can help me in the salt administration again, even if these two major events have been settled, they are no longer rootless duckweed. ”

There are some things that need not be said to this salt merchant. In fact, the donation of officials is supported by Chongzhen, and the harvest is very obvious, and the opponents are also against the power of the prisoners, and they are not very opposed to the donation.

In fact, in the families of the gentry in Jiangnan, there are also quite a few wealthy people who want to donate officials, and they are not too resistant to the implementation of the whole country.

The salt class is new, in fact, it has little to do with the Jiangnan Huguang area, and after the ticket is changed to the salt system, the salt in Jiangnan Huguang is much cheaper and more convenient.

But this matter is very important, and it is handed over to the court, which also gives many people the opportunity to make trouble between him, the crown prince and the generalissimo's mansion built on Huai, who has to give him.

These people, especially villains, don't care about national politics at all, and it is true that the party is fighting against differences.

Starting from Liu Zeqingjun, in fact, from the fact that the crown prince was too good on the surface, invisibly, Zhu Cihong has already offended too many people. The similarities and differences between the Ming and Qing dynasties were almost identical in terms of system, but in terms of the concentration of imperial power and the checks and balances on civil officials, the Ming was far behind the Qing.

Don't think that he, the crown prince, can make all the courtiers obey and loyal, during this time, Donglin, including the former Qi Party, Zhejiang Party, and the remnants of the Eunuch Party, are there a few people who are fighting for power and profit behind their backs and stirring up the wind and rain?

At this time, there is no absolute monarchy, unless he wields a butcher's knife against his subjects, he can only forbear, and many things can only be slowly figured out.

In fact, the purpose of opening up the donation of prisoners is to inject blood into the ruling class, so that many people who are depressed at the lower level can take this opportunity to join the political axe and serve, or have the opportunity to participate in the examination.

In the Ming Dynasty, especially in the late Ming Dynasty, ninety percent of the Jinshi were born in Nanzhili and Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces, and this situation must be changed.

Even if the quality of the prisoners is complicated, it is only a necessary accessory under the big government, and it is completely bearable.

How can this big article on economic and state affairs be explained to a salt merchant?

At the moment, Liu Yan was still silent, Zhu Cihong knew that the other party had doubts in his heart, and smiled at the moment, and the surname Suo told the other party in advance about the salt quotation to change the ticket.

"The minister thinks that this law is very good!"

Liu Yan is the best among the salt merchants, and when he heard it, he knew that this reform method was very clever, and it almost completely reformed the sales method of the original salt compendium.

As a salt merchant, you don't have to worry about everything being collected by the government, and the prince's method is to ask the salt merchants to continue to keep the salt farm, but after the salt is released, the government will set a price and sell it.

Buy with a ticket, check with a ticket in various places, as long as there is a ticket, regardless of the size, you can sell 100 catties, 100,000 catties or 100,000 catties, just look at the size of each person's share capital.

In the past, some smugglers had to sell salt with their heads, but since then, as long as they sell some coolies, they can also support their families.

"Good governance, good governance!"

Liu Yan was also happy to surrender to the crown prince at this time, and he didn't have anything to say, and when he was excited, he just praised him repeatedly.

"Don't say nice things!" Zhu Cihong frowned and said, "I have transferred dozens of salt farms nearby. The treatment of the salt people is different, like you, the people have a livelihood, the family has food, and some salt farms detain the salt people like beggars. Also, there is a waste of man-hours, materials, and everyone can smuggle them. The Imperial Court of the Salt Division does not intend to take back the salt farm, after all, although the salt merchants are good and bad, you still know best about operating the salt farm, and some of the joints are still the best. I watched it for a few days, and I have already made up my mind that in the future, I will set up a supervision department to take charge of all large and small salt farms. First, to record and control the amount of salt produced, the second to set the price by province, the third is to supervise the quality, Huai salt was much better than the salt of Erdong, now a inquiry, Qingzhou salt has far exceeded Huai salt, I looked at a few days, in the salt field, the particles are too large, too many impurities in the salt field everywhere, how to get it like this, it must be rectified. Fourth, it is necessary to set wages for the salt people, and you should not think that the court and government are troublesome...... The court nurtures all the people, and can manage everything. The salt people did not have enough to eat and drink, and were beaten and scolded, how could they do their best to do things for the proprietor? Besides, the court can't watch its people suffer, it has to be corrected. You understand here, how many salt merchants, their hearts are like black iron, if they don't understand, they have to hit the board, and the board will be honest. ”

Zhu Cihong said that he had already stood up, and as he spoke, he wandered back and forth in this water pavilion.

When he was the prince at the beginning, he thought that he was just rich and food, raising soldiers to fight, but now that he is in the bureau, he understands a lot of things.

There is no simple government affairs big or small.

Just a salt administration, and a donation of money, these few things have been involved in a wide range of things in the past few months, and almost all his energy other than military training has been used!

And Liu Yan on the side also had both eyes shining.

The master in front of him, who is not very old, how can he have such a talent?

He didn't know that most of the people in the world were unwilling to explore the truth, vague, and shirk their responsibilities, who wanted to be troublesome? Like Zhu Cihong, he was able to calm down, and in the salt works, he had a long conversation with a group of salt farmers who were not as good as farmers, and had a heart-to-heart conversation with the salt merchants...... Such a thing, even a county magistrate refuses to do it!

With such an identity, coupled with the ability to let go of one's body, and then have the knowledge and ways to do things in the future, what else is not to do?

"How?"

How Liu Yan admired, Zhu Cihong didn't care, and after following his own train of thought, his eyes were blazing, he looked at Liu Yan and asked, "What do you think of these ideas and methods of mine?" ”

"Perfectly." Liu Yan said with a smile: "I just don't know, how does His Highness want to call the ministers?" ”

He was able to make his family business bigger, and to the point where he is now, of course, people are not stupid. Zhu Cihong trained tens of thousands of troops under his command, Huaiyang civil and military affairs were all under the Generalissimo's Mansion, how many things happened in the two prefectures, five prefectures and fourteen counties, plus the north and south centers, how many boats passed on the canal every day, how many things were waiting for the prince to come and deal with, and he had to communicate with Nanjing every day and participate in all [***] political affairs...... How can this highness have the kung fu to really go fishing in a salt merchant!

(To be continued)