Yang Tingjian's appointment document is surprisingly smooth, most of them think about those officials in the borderland, and they wish that Yang Tingjian would get out of the country immediately, so Chongzhen talked about it in the early dynasty, and all the ministers agreed.

For Yang Tingjian's appointment, it can't be said that it is a promotion, nor can it be said that it is a depreciation, after all, the prefect of Yangzhou is a real official from the fourth grade, but Yang Tingjian is also far away from the court, and the chance of becoming the prime minister is even more slim, it depends on what the pursuit of the party is.

Anyway, Yang Tingjian was very satisfied with his position, and the other two leaders of the Restoration Society, Zhang Pu and Wu Weiye, felt very sorry for Yang Tingjian, and the two also went to the Longmen Inn to persuade Yang Tingjian to let him continue to stay in Jingshi and stay in the Hanlin Academy to improve his qualifications.

Yang Tingjian declined the kindness of the two brothers with kind words, and set off after packing up. During this period, there was another person who came to Yang Tingjian, that is, Huang Sulang, who was in the same department as Yang Tingjian, Huang Sulang was very upright and dared to speak up, in fact, this is also a kind of talent, Yang Tingjian arranged Huang Sulang to the Military Justice Department.

Yang Tingjian did not go to the post alone, but with the tiger army and a large amount of materials, the four-wheeled carriage is definitely not enough, fortunately, Tongzhou is on the edge of the Grand Canal, and it can be transported directly by boat.

The Tiger Ben Army needs to be relocated by the general manager Liangcai, the weapon four-wheeled carriage workshop must be relocated, Huairou Iron Mine will definitely not be able to relocate, and the production of Huairou Iron Mine in the future will be mainly used for sales, if it is transported to Yangzhou, the distance is too far.

The Tiger Ben Army began a large-scale relocation, and Yang Tingjian took a few guards in disguise and took the lead in setting off to Yangzhou.

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"Childe, there is Yangzhou City in front."

"Yes, this Yangzhou is a prosperous place in the world, and there are too many merchants in this endless stream."

Yang Tingjian was dressed as a scholar, and came to the flowery Yangzhou City with four five big and three thick men. The north is full of mourning. However, Yangzhou City was not affected in the slightest, and was still drunk.

"My lord, shall we go to see the old lady first? Or do you want to find an inn to stay in for a while? ”

Yang Tingjian's parents are in Yangzhou, and this time Yang Tingjian became the prefect of Yangzhou, so he had to fulfill his promise to Emperor Chongzhen and send his parents to Beijing to be raised. Fortunately, Jin Jiyu is still in Beijing, and he can serve the second elder sooner or later, and Yang Tingjian also has a younger sister Yang Tingmei who is waiting for the word boudoir, who is just fourteen years old this year, and the two old people are not lacking in family fun.

"Wishing you prosperity, let's go to Dadongmen Guan Old Street first, go there to find an inn to live in!"

Wishing you prosperity is the four guards brought by Yang Tingjian, they are called Gongshun, Xilai, Fafa, and Caiyun, and they are just called Wishing you prosperity.

"Childe. Why should we go to Dadongmen to find an inn! It's better to find a nearby one. ”

"You know a fart, the Great East Gate is close to the canal, and most of the salt merchants gather in the area of the Great East Gate, have you forgotten the purpose of this private visit?"

"Humble ...... Oh...... The little ones get it. ”

Yang Tingjian immediately took the New Year to congratulate the New Year and found an inn to live in the area of Yangzhou Dadongmen, which was full of salt merchants' shops, and they were all very large, including salt merchants from Shanxi and Shaanxi, as well as Hui merchants.

This inn is called "Kelaiju". It is located on the Grand Canal, and it is also a prosperous area. Therefore, all the people who rest here are businessmen. After Yang Tingjian settled down, he came to the lobby of the "Kelaiju" to eat.

The whole hall was full of guests coming and going from the south to the north dining, and after Yang Tingjian took Wishing you prosperity to find a table, he casually ordered a few dishes, and several businessmen sitting next to Yang Tingjian sounded like Shanxi.

The businessmen were talking while eating:

"You know what? The Jin merchants and Hui merchants on the mountain started up again. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"Brother. You're a little unheard! The Jin merchants wanted to settle in Yangzhou, but the Hui merchants tried their best to oppose it, and the previous prefect was helpless about it. ”

"It's strange, this Jin merchant has been operating in Yangzhou City since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. In the past few hundred years, they can be regarded as authentic Yangzhou people! It is reasonable for Jin merchants to settle their household registration in Yangzhou! ”

"Brother, you don't know this! Jin merchants want to settle in Yangzhou, is to let their children can study in the official school, at the same time the imperial examination will also be in Yangzhou, you think about Yangzhou was originally a place where humanities gather, the quota of the imperial examination has always been very tight, this Jin merchants want to seize the imperial examination quota of Hui merchants, how can Hui merchants let Jin merchants get their wish. ”

"It turns out that this is the case, but now that the prefect of Yangzhou is vacant, I don't know what moths these two will come up with."

"It's more than two houses! Or to see which one has a deeper background. ”

Yang Tingjian listened to their conversation while eating, and the dispute between the household registration of the Jin merchants and the Hui merchants was a long story.

After Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, led the righteous army to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty, the remnants of the Mongols who had defeated Mobei were still eyeing the Central Plains, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack, and the centrifugal tendency of the ethnic minorities in the northwest region was also growing. The emerging Ming Empire had to spend two-thirds of its fiscal revenue on the construction of the northwest frontier, and set up nine border towns along the Great Wall to defend Guanzhong and protect the Beijing Division, of which the four towns of Guyuan, Ningxia, Yansui and Gansu were in Shaanxi.

Later, the "trilateral governor" was stationed in Jieguyuan (now belonging to the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, located in the center of the triangle of Xi'an, Lanzhou and Yinchuan), commanding more than 200,000 troops and more than 100,000 war horses, responsible for the border defense area stretching for thousands of miles from Yansui Huangfuchuan (north of Yulin, Shaanxi) in the east, Jiayuguan in the west, and Taomin (now southern Gansu) in the southwest.

However, the border areas are bitterly cold, sparsely populated, and the huge number of border guards consume thousands of stones of grain every year, and they need to cloth hundreds of thousands of horses. In the third year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1370), Zhu Yuanzhang adopted the strategy of building a new policy of "salt opening", and opened the government salt monopoly system that had been implemented for thousands of years, allowing private merchants to send grain to the border in exchange for a salt distribution license "salt introduction", about 30 catties of grain can be exchanged for a "salt introduction", and it was the best quality and most profitable Huai salt introduction at that time.

The imperial court "retreated from the country and advanced the people", so that the people benefited, "the price of Huai salt is expensive, and many merchants tend to it", the problem of border defense and military needs was solved in one fell swoop, and the merchants of Shaanxi who enjoyed the geographical advantage benefited the most, and they rose from this. Originally, Shaanxi is 800 miles away from Qinchuan, fertile fields for thousands of miles, and has been the main grain producing area in China since ancient times.

For example, during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty (1403 ~ 1424), the official warehouse of Shaanxi Province stored nearly 11 million stone (a stone in the Ming Dynasty was about 90 kilograms), which was enough to pay for the garrison officers and soldiers for three years, and in the Wanli period (1573 ~ 1620), among the 260 prefectures in the country, according to the number of taxes and grains, Xi'an Mansion was second only to Songjiang Mansion (now in Shanghai), which was known as the granary, ranking fourth. From this point of view, the "opening up of salt to China" in exchange for grain transportation is tantamount to a preferential policy tailored for Shaanxi businessmen, and for a time, the peasants in the grain-producing areas in Guanzhong set off an upsurge of going to the city to do business, selling grain and salt.

…… (To be continued......)