Jiangdu County's county examination for this year was originally scheduled to be held on 10 August, but five days later, the county government issued a new notice about the county examination. As expected by Jin Million, the new notice emphasized that only this year, the parasitic person is prohibited from participating in the imperial examination, and the following year is to be determined, and the county government will rule once a year.

And as Jin Million expected, his peers really had a disagreement. One side cannot bear this shackle and must resist; The other party is worried that after angering Li You again, he will be banned from the exam next year. There is support on both sides, and there is a stalemate.

Under the high-pressure situation that Master Li has been maintaining, it will be too late for this year's county test anyway, so it will be a dispute for next year's county test. It was still early, and the salt merchants had plenty of time to quarrel within.

At the same time, the content of the notice of the county government also includes that all the people who do not pay the birth and maintenance silver and real estate silver sent by the county government must not be allowed to participate in the county examination, and those who do not pay it for three years will be cancelled and sent back to their hometown. However, the county lord also has extrajudicial favors, and the new resident population in Jiangdu County often has an undecided livelihood, so they are exempted from two additional assignments in the first year.

In fact, Lord Li levies tens of thousands of taels of silver a year, to a large extent, to get rid of the constraints of salt merchants' donations on the county government. The county treasury does not have much silver, but Jiangdu County has a large local population and large expenses, so the slightest move will have to pull down the skin and ask the salt merchant to donate silver.

Li Youke can't do this kind of work, he came when the county lord came, not when he asked for food. When I saw Jin Million for the first time, what was Jin Million's face - "Then Li You came to Yangzhou, but he was just a magistrate."

Anyway, he is very fearless about the additional silver taels for the host population, and he doesn't worry about not receiving money, so why not.

Yangzhou City is located in the world's key point, the place where the four boats and cars gather, and it is the top wealthy city in the world. Countless outsiders, especially Hui people, want to come here to make a fortune, and indeed many of them have made a fortune.

Therefore, on the issue of household registration, the county government has the initiative, and the resident population can't live in it, and you don't come from someone else. Especially those who are engaged in the salt industry, in order to deal with the salt transportation department conveniently, they must live in Jiangdu County. Since you have to pay for a long stay.

This method is not available in every place, if it is replaced by other places to send more money to the host population, it is to dry up and fish, but I am afraid that the outsiders will run out, and then there will be a depression in all industries, and the situation of business travel is full.

Even if the wealthy Suzhou Mansion does this, it will inevitably cause a stir, because in addition to businessmen, there are still tens of thousands of outsiders who are just craftsmen in Suzhou Prefecture, and their salaries are barely enough to make ends meet. If you give more silver taels to the craftsmen, there will be a mess similar to that of the rice shortage at the beginning of last year.

That is, the city of Yangzhou, whose economy depends only on the highly profitable industries of salt and commerce, and the fish are both fat and abundant.

Looking at the latest account books of the county treasury, Li You was overjoyed, with the silver, he was afraid that he would have no political achievements? From this month onwards, the county school bank will be doubled.

The so-called endowment means that according to the regulations of the imperial court, the county should pay living expenses to the students every month, so as to encourage the students to concentrate on their studies and not worry about basic living expenses. This money and food will not be too much and not too little, which is almost the appearance of making the students barely feed a family of three or four.

Now Lord Li is going to increase the living expenses of the talents in Jiangdu County, of course, this money is not spent for nothing.

Those students are not only the main force of local scholars, but they also love to form groups to discuss right and wrong. Their mouths often represent the local people's wishes, and they are the biggest public opinion tool in a local mainstream society, and they are also one of the civil forces that restrain the county. When the boss inspected, he also discussed this item, and often had to visit the county school.

In the case of the loose county treasury, Li You felt that it was worth spending public money in exchange for the praise of the talented ministers, and throwing money at the county school could also win a reputation for attaching importance to education. As for the ridicule of inviting the buyers, it is all about turning a deaf ear.

Later, the goal was indeed achieved, and the inscription of Lord Li's "Chenshi Zhiyue" has been preserved in Jiangdu County for hundreds of years, and the "revitalization of education" praised by local notes and history books is how it came... At this time, he couldn't help but sigh again, the former magistrates really have no vision and no courage, don't you know that the scarce resource of hukou can make a lot of money? Give him these deeds of virtue and all the people in vain.

Just as Li Da was counting the money in the county treasury, a beautiful lady appeared outside the door of the county yayi, and said to the guard: "The folk woman came from Gaoyou and knew Li County Zunnai before. A few days ago, there was an agreement, and today I came to ask to see Li Xianzun. ”

If ordinary people were reckless and wanted to see the eldest lord, the gatekeeper would definitely scold him to get out, but this woman was both beautiful and claimed to be an old acquaintance of the eldest lord, so the gatekeeper would not dare to make a mistake. Maybe the eldest man's outside lover came to the door, and hurriedly reported it to Uncle Zhang San of the back office.

Zhang San had already been instructed by Li You, and as soon as he heard it, he knew that this was the woman he had seduced in Gaoyou. While instructing the people to be led to the back yahua hall, he went to the old man to report.

Li You came to the flower hall and said to Yu Niangzi: "You don't have to worry, I have agreed with the gold clerk." In the future, you can go directly to the Jin family's mansion to consult with the chief steward of his family, and I will have someone take my name and lead you there. ”

Although Yu Wan'er was not afraid, she had a slight doubt, "That golden million is a hero, even the four foreign stewards of his family are all characters with their eyes in the corners, you and I have moved their subordinates to the Du family, how can we be obedient?" The status of the slave family is humble, and if you go alone, you are afraid that you will not be able to end up, and it is a sin to make a mistake. ”

Yu Wan'er meant to take Li You with her, but Master Li didn't want to be directly involved in it, so she confided the truth: "Don't hide it, the daughter of the Jin family is my second room." ”

Depend on! Yu Niangzi burst into foul language in her heart, otherwise she would not be able to express her emotions at the moment. No wonder that night Lord Li only heard that the Du family was a branch of Jin Million's hands and boldly let her go and asked her to report the news, no wonder Du Zhengjian would follow Master Li to meet the army and capture him with his hands tied up that night, Du Zhengjian had ten sons-in-law who dared not touch the Golden Million.

Immediately, Yu Wan'er felt psychologically balanced again, and even the daughter of Jin Million could only be a concubine for Lord Li, and she was unwilling to be a reckless woman who was useless except for her appearance. "Then the slave family will go to see Sister Jin first, can you?"

"Of course you can, but you're a few years older than her, do you really call your sister with a lower face?"

"Why can't you pull your face, the slave family will rely on her father to eat in the future, what's so rare to call her sister a few times." Yu Wan'er said disapprerovingly.

At night, Li You returned to the inner office, but saw that Jin Bao'er was not at home, and after asking, he learned that she and Yu Niangzi went to Jin Million together.

Li You shook his head and thought, it turns out that Yu Wan'er saw Jin Bao'er with this little calculation. She refused to go to Jin Million's house with her, so she tried her best to pull the Jin family and daughter to accompany her.

He went to the third room again, and when Aunt Guan saw the master, she asked: "The concubine wants to open a salt shop, and the master will say a few words to the county government and send a few tooth stickers." ”

Li You was surprised: "Didn't you say a while ago that you wanted to sell silk from Suzhou, and asked a few of your family members to open a silk shop?" Jiangdu County official salt is not easy to sell, it is purely a discounted business. ”

"Official salt can't be sold, but private salt can be sold. Besides, the concubine doesn't plan to open a salt shop, but wants to open a salt shop. ”

In this era, the shop is different from the dental store in that the store is directly facing the consumer, and the dental store is similar to the officially recognized wholesale intermediary. Tooth holders must obtain a dental certificate (practice license) from the government every year before they can practice, and pay business tax on behalf of the government during the transaction process.

Taking official salt as an example, after a large amount of official salt was transported to a certain county by salt merchants, the salt industry people in the county would decompose the salt to the salt shops in the county for sale, and supervise the sales situation, collect the salt according to the amount and hand it over to the county government.

Aunt Guan was the idea of opening the salt shop, the official salt could not be sold, and she could engage in private salt under the banner, so she begged the master to send a few tooth posts.

"How did you come up with this idea? Where do you get your salt? Li You frowned.

As mentioned above, Yangzhou Mansion is too close to the salt-producing area, and it is too convenient to smuggle illegal salt, so all parts of the prefecture are completely overwhelmed by the situation of private salt overpowering official salt, and the government is helpless, so buying and selling illegal salt is not a shocking thing. But if you want to open a salt industry, the source of the channel is a problem, and it can't be opened without a stable large amount of private salt.

In order to avoid angering the powerful official salt merchants, and at the same time, they are not able to compete with the power of the people, so they generally do not buy and sell illegal salt in the vicinity. Therefore, most of the illegal salt in Yangzhou is sold by a large number of local residents who bring baskets or drive small boats to the coastal areas to transport smuggled salt.

That is to say, the characteristics of the private salt trade in Yangzhou Mansion are small and scattered, and it is difficult to have a stable source.

"Before noon today, a lady Yu came to her home and accidentally talked to her concubine about private salt..."

I see, Li You suddenly realized. This Yu Wan'er came to the house once, not for nothing, it was simply to come together, not only did he turn Jin Baoer away, but even Guan Xiu'er, a traditional businessman who hates unhealthy trends the most, will be pulled into the water, and the fourth room will fall.

But if there is something to do, he doesn't care: "Whatever you want!" But don't do it yourself, find some reliable agents from your hometown. ”

In the evening, Mrs. Yu came back from the Jin family, and it seemed that she had a bumper harvest, Li You did not ask in detail, but that night he cooked the raw rice in the county yabin house, and stamped his own mark on Mrs. Yu's body and heart.

However, Aunt Jin didn't go home, and I heard that she was staying overnight by her mother, Mrs. Xie, but Master Li didn't care.

But after a few days, until Master Li was busy with the county test and ordered dozens of children, Aunt Jin still did not go home, and there was no message back, which made Li You feel abnormal, there must be something wrong with it.

(To be continued)