Some people may be surprised that a five-grade magistrate took two books and said a few bad words about salt affairs, which provoked the imperial court to quickly appoint two officials to rectify the salt law, which is a bit unusual.

This shop in the imperial court was not opened by Li You, how could he be so confused that he would make a big deal about important financial resources for Li You's few gossips?

After the simple appearance, there is naturally a profound truth.

Last year, when Mr. Li was still serving in the cabinet, he encountered a disturbance from the salt merchants in the north and closed down. In order to show his talents, and later because of the eldest princess's ambition for the salt industry, he took advantage of his position to carefully examine a lot of salt industry information in the center, and after his own conspiracy without a lower limit of speculation and analysis, so he has a deeper understanding of the situation than ordinary people.

More than 30 years ago, in order to save expenses, the imperial court had a move to cut provincial officials, remove redundant posts, and streamline government offices.

At that time, there were two sensational changes in the Jiangzuo area, one was that the governor of Jiangnan was dismissed, and his powers were transferred to Nanjing: the second was that the imperial history of the governor who specialized in supervision and was stationed in Yangzhou was dismissed, and the functions and powers were merged into the two official posts of the Jiangbei patrol and the Huaidong branch of the patrol road in Yangzhou.

The abolition of the Imperial Salt Inspectorate, which was in charge of the supervision of the salt industry, saved the burden, but also led to the gradual expansion of the salt transportation department and the increasing control of the salt industry.

After all, whether it is patrolling the imperial history or Huaidong Branch, you can't keep an eye on the salt matter. After a long time, the supervision of the salt industry gradually became nominal. It's like from the perspective of the system, the Henan Province of the Metropolitan Procuratorate was responsible for supervising the Department of Ceremonies, but in fact, who can supervise?

According to the price of rice per stone one tael, the total annual income of the Jinghe Dynasty is about 50 million yuan of money and grain, but excluding the support for the forbidden army and garrison battalions, local officials, and vassal kings, the imperial court is about 20 million.

There are four sources of 20 million, salt tax, grain, tax customs, and city shipping department. Among them, the salt class family accounts for one-third. That is to say, the two Huai Salt Transportation Divisions, which occupy half of the world's salt industry, have a yamen, and they enshrine one-sixth of the imperial court's consumption.

How can such a yamen not worry the people of insight in the court, who have a tendency to control the salt industry in a large place, and who are able to control the wealth of the three hundred salt merchants who are collectively comparable to the wealth of the country? Or rather, it doesn't go well,

Therefore, the idea that the eldest princess of Guide dared to fight the salt industry was not because the royal figures were arrogant and reckless, but because they also saw that there was an opportunity to take advantage of.

But for so many years, he has not moved for four reasons. First, the local officials in Yangzhou are unwilling to oppose the Salt Transportation Division for various reasons, and they often can't fight the Salt Transportation Division.

Second, the DPRK and Chinese officials are far away from the localities, and when they talk about salt affairs, they can only scratch their boots.

The third is that there are a lot of people who have received the benefits of the salt transportation department, and it is not in vain to spread countless filial piety, so they don't want to do much.

Fourth, the head of the Salt Transportation Division is often also a close associate of the most powerful figure in the DPRK, which increases this kind of human factor and makes it more difficult to rectify the Salt Transportation Division.

Although there are difficulties, what needs to be done must always be done, justice must triumph over evil, and what is owed is only an opportunity.

In another time and space, this opportunity is the "Two Huai Advance Salt Citation." In this time and space, the opportunity became Li You's "One Hundred and Eight Articles".

Although these one hundred and eight are very trivial details, in order not to startle the snake, there is no earth-shattering industry shady, but under the promotion of people with a heart, it is an opportunity if he is needed.

In fact, the current Lianghuai Salt Transport Envoy Master Ding has a good reputation and has an excellent reputation in the officialdom.

Although he was of noble birth and in a powerful position, he was not arrogant and arrogant, and he was polite to others. Entertaining officials of all sizes who come and go from the south to the north has never spared no effort to be perfect, and has never been uneven because of the other party's gain or loss of power and status. …,

However, Ding Yun's mentor Zhang Lao Shoufu has already passed away, and he has been sitting in this world's No. 1 fat position for eight years, and it is time to move the place".

Not to mention the gossip, when he learned that he was appointed as the chief manager of the salt rectification law, Yang Futai was shocked and lost his temper, and after drinking and asking Li You, he had no intention of staying in the palace for a long time. He took the edict and got on the eight-lift sedan chair and hurried back to the office.

At the beginning of the month, when Yang Futai learned of Li You's one hundred and eight articles, he concluded that Li You intended to stir up trouble in the salt affairs in order to relieve his pressure and take the opportunity to drag him into the water. It's just that he doesn't want to push the boat down the river and make wedding clothes for Li You.

When Xu Shuqin, a staff member, reminded him to look up at Li You, Lord Yang had a brilliant idea. You can recommend to the imperial court that Li You follow the errand of the imperial history of the salt patrol in the past, and let Li You rectify the salt law!

Once the righteousness is in hand, presumably Li You, with his own skills and backstage, is powerful in Yangzhou City, enough to compete with the Salt Transportation Division.

And the Salt Transportation Division, the Salt Merchants and Li You are the great enemies, if Li You gains power, although the Salt Transportation Division cannot be overthrown, the Salt Transportation Division will inevitably be poor to deal with.

In the past, the Salt Transportation Division could influence the locality, but Li You could not infiltrate the Salt Transportation Division, so he seemed helpless. However, if Li You has the name of rectifying the salt law, and the influence of the Salt Transportation Division on the local area is not as good as before, it will inevitably lead to the passivity of the Salt Transportation Division.

At that time, the Yanwu Yamen could only ask for help from the innocent governor Yamen, because at the local level, only the governor had the power to suppress Li You. There is no other way.

In this way, the Salt Transportation Division will be easy to get his hands on, so why should he go to great lengths to suppress and subdue the Salt Transportation Division? It's enough to use Li You well!

At the same time, Li You and the Salt Transportation Division are entangled, and the driving affairs must be put aside slightly, and it is not impossible to intervene.

In fact, Yang Futai's thinking is similar to Li You's, they both want the other party to be a praying mantis for catching cicadas, and he himself is a yellow finch.

Yang Futai recommended Master Li to the imperial court, and he was also worried that some people would recommend him with ulterior motives, so he had to give up his thoughts first.

In this matter, as the governor of Zhengerpin stationed in Yangzhou, he is of course the most influential, and other people's recitals can't be compared, so if you want to agree, you can only agree to his recital, and let Li You rectify the salt law.

The rectification of the salt method is just an errand, it has nothing to do with the grade, as long as Li You is allowed to do it, there is no responsibility for him for the time being, and he can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.

However, Yang Futai did not expect that the imperial court approved his request, and at the same time approved Li You's request, and as a result, under mutual push, they both added the errand of the rectification salt method. It's just that one has the name of general manager, and the other is concurrent.

In other words, the imperial court treats him and Li You equally!

Yang Futai was stunned and speechless about this, he didn't experience it himself, and only listened to oral rumors, who could really recognize Li You's latent power? Xu Shuqin is right, Li You really has to be treated as an equal person.

In fact, Yang Futai's guess was a bit exaggerated under excessive surprise. Li You did not rely entirely on power, but as the first person with more 300 years of historical knowledge, he had a keen sense of the general trend and opportunities, and seized the opportunity to dig a pit.

However, although Master Li dug the pit, he couldn't grasp the consequences of digging the pit, and turned himself into a "salt rectification law"...... In the transition chapter, the background is almost explained. [This text is provided by Qihang]

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