Yang Cheng's ancestor didn't dare to weigh it a few times, and then asked: "Yuan Weng, Xia Guan really doesn't understand, what do you mean." What I do Yang Ji is not small, but after all, the foundation is shallow, in the shopping mall, I can only be regarded as a small character, if I want to beg, I also want others to give me the way, how can I have the qualifications to give others the road, the identity is too far away, you are going to kill me. ”

"Dadu Governor, understand that people don't say foolish words, what you do, the old man has heard the news, not long ago, the military department gave Wang Qinian in the matter, saying that since the abolition of Kaizhong, the nine-sided border reserves are scarce, and the military is insufficient, please reopen the Chinese law to ensure that the nine-sided soldiers use the degree. There are also a lot of seconding officials, and there are a few of them who are not of low grade, most of these people are the characters in your pocket, right? ”

He came to summon Yang Chengzu today, the core purpose is this, before Yang Chengzu moved the food, he had not been able to attract enough attention, but salt is the sensitive nerve of Daming, just touch it, there is a reaction here, and immediately expressed a high degree of concern about this matter.

The price of salt in the Ming Dynasty was higher than that in the Song Dynasty, but the country's income was far less than that in the Song Dynasty. Even in the Shoufu family, the salt merchant has his own relationship, and he may not be able to influence anything, but he can always say something and ask for mercy.

For Yang Tinghe, he may not like salt merchants much, but he doesn't like Yang Ji even more, especially the thickness of salt profits, as the first assistant, he has a number in his heart. If this kind of fat meat falls into the hands of Yang Ji, it is equivalent to the Son of Heaven mining a gold mine. The income is enough for him to do whatever he wants.

What he wanted was to control the salt profits in the household department and ensure that Taicang could take the initiative, rather than the Son of Heaven's internal funds. Under the big goal of limiting the power of the monarchy, even some careful tricks of the salt merchants could be accepted by Shousuke. It is not so much a salt merchant as to ensure that the Son of Heaven does not compete with the people for profit This sentence is implemented and does not become an empty talk.

Another point is that the behavior of the factory guard invading Yanlu has exceeded Yang Tinghe's bottom line, and he always believes that Yanlu should be autonomous. It is normal for the court bigwigs to arrange a few of their own people in the Kedao system, but no force can completely master the Kedao, so as to ensure the smooth flow of speech. The factory guards themselves have the right to visit and arrest, if they control Kedao again, who else can restrain them? This time, the factory guard threatened the official, and he definitely stretched out his hand across the river, and he had the obligation to come out and knock and knock.

"Dadudu, you are still young, and there is still a long way to go, so you should be more stable in doing things, and if you are in a hurry, you will often take care of one thing and lose the other, even if it is a good thing, it will do a bad thing. Now that you are in the grain business, the stall has been spread out large enough, and if you get the salt in your hands again, even if you have three heads and six arms, you can't do it. The people below, once someone is negligent, when the time comes, the people will not be able to eat salt, and they will make trouble. Isn't that the opposite of what you wanted to do in the first place? ”

"Yuan Weng, you misunderstood, the subordinate is in front of you, don't tell lies. The official of the previous book can be regarded as having my instructions, and we have reached some tacit understanding. However, the lower officials only hope to restore the opening of the Chinese law, and do not really want to monopolize the salt industry. ”

Tan Fanghe smiled slightly, and suddenly said: "Dadu Governor, that's not what I said, the reason for the abolition of the Chinese Law back then was because as soon as the Chinese Law was implemented, the salt merchants couldn't survive." This law has been abolished for more than 30 years, and now you are telling everyone that it is going to be restored, how can people bear it? At that time, either the salt merchants will strike or the price of salt will skyrocket. No matter where he goes, Yang Ji will come out to receive it, and he will still swallow it in the end. The students didn't say that there was anything wrong with the Governor doing this, but they just wanted to say a word for the merchants, they ...... Not easy. Be a person and do things, always leave a way to go, what do you think? ”

He can be a staff member by Yang Tinghe's side, and his strategy is very good, and the next moves that Yang Chengzu thinks of are basically calculated by him. It's one thing to just calculate it, it's another thing to be able to resolve it, the power of the integration of government and business lies in the fact that identities can be swapped at any time, he and Yang Tinghe deduced it a few times at home, and finally had to admit it. If Yang Ji is determined to end up, the salt merchants may be difficult to play a role in blocking it with formal means.

Yang Tinghe coughed, "Governor, many scholars in the court feel that we are reading the books of sages and sages, talking about reason, and it is enough to tell people the way of sages, and businessmen should not be involved." But the old man didn't think so, in this world, after all, only businessmen can prosper, and only when business is prosperous can the people prosper. Nowadays, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the court hides the wealth of the people, which is the way to prosper. The intention of the Metropolitan Governor seems to be to hide the wealth in the country, and the people are poor and the country is rich. ”

Gentlemen intersect with each other, and the two are ministers in the same hall, and it is an ordinary thing for them to have different positions, and people in the officialdom will not regard each other as enemies because of differences in positions. Yang Tinghe took out the posture of the elders and explained carefully

"The officials sent by the imperial court to the governor of Henan refused to use the materials provided by Yang Ji when building the embankment, and were later taken into Beijing by the Jinyi guard, and now the whereabouts of the people are still unknown. The three law divisions asked you for someone several times, but they were all pushed back. There are Yang Ji's stewards in Huaibei to support salt, obviously in front of them, there are some merchants who have been waiting for three years to take the salt and still can't pay it, but as soon as Yang Ji's people arrived, they immediately got the salt, and later collected the salt outside the yamen of the two Huai Salt Road, and each lead was only willing to give half of the silver to buy at a low price. and he who refuses to sell will not be able to pay for the salt. I don't mean that these methods are instructed by the Metropolitan Governor, but when a business is integrated, even if you want to be kind to others, the people below will feel that they are great, and then take the initiative to bully others. Although the old man is not a businessman, he knows one thing anyway, business, not such a practice. ”

"Yuan Weng, you have said a few things, someone in Shanxi gave the field to Yang Ji, but when Yang Ji really went to collect the field, he ordered the tenants to besiege Yang Ji's people. Subsequently, Yang Ji asked the military guards to come forward, and at the same time the new army was dispatched. Yang Ji went to the place to act, was attacked by a group of homeless people, several women were humiliated, and later, they were touched by the Jinyi Guards to their lair, that time, we cut off hundreds of heads, no less than the killing of the Japanese invaders. ”

Yang Chengzu had no intention of shirking responsibility, on the contrary, he was righteous and strict, "It's not a problem not to use Yang Ji's materials, but the materials they use are more expensive than the materials provided by Yang Ji, and the quality of the materials is not as good as Yang Ji's." My people checked it, because the official in charge took the benefits of the businessman, and took the errand of Banzai as a business, so Jinyiwei had no choice but to take him into Beijing, so he could reason with him. In the matter of salt, what prevented those merchants from supporting salt was the Gangshang who took more than 10 million silver as the nest, not Yang Ji, and the biggest role of Yang Ji in Yangzhou was to break the monopoly of the Gangshang on the salt road. On the one hand, the salt eaten by the people is expensive, and on the other hand, the imperial court cannot collect salt taxes, which is unfair. Yang Ji is going to pay them back a fair time this time. It also gave those salt merchants a long memory, so that they understood that if they made money, they had to pay taxes, and those who refused to pay taxes should not want to get rich. ”

Yang Tinghe smiled slightly, "Metropolitan Governor, the old man thinks that according to Yang Ji's style, it's not just salt merchants who don't want to get rich, but businessmen all over the world are difficult to get rich." ”

"Yuan Weng, what you said is only half right, the idea of the official is that the Ming Dynasty does not care about mountains, rivers and lakes, land and minerals, and all industries that can make money, there must be a hand in the imperial court. If it is inconvenient for the court to come out, Yang Ji will come out, and what is inconvenient for the court to do, Yang Ji will do. You just said that the wealth should be hidden from the people, but I think that the wealth should be hidden from the country, and if anyone is more comfortable than the long live life, I will disgust him and take his money. This is the purpose of Yang Kee's existence, and the salt industry is just one of them. ”