"According to the report from the Shanxi Governor's Office, Shaanxi has hardly produced any grain in the past two years because of the perennial bandits and drought in Shaanxi. The imperial court allocated at least one million taels of silver to ensure that these victims would last until next autumn's harvest. Otherwise, the Haw Par Army would not dare to guarantee whether these 300,000 victims would become a new rebel army. ”

"However, the situation of the household department is clear to all the adults, not to mention one million taels of silver, even ten thousand taels of silver, and they can't take it out. Therefore, Weichen can only report this matter to His Majesty and ask His Majesty to make a decision......"

As long as people with a little political mind know that Wei Zheng sent such a letter to the imperial court at this time, and there was only one purpose: that is, to sue the imperial court, only the tiger and leopard army, and only Wei Zheng, could ensure the stability of Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces.

If the imperial court wants to unload the mill and kill the donkey, then prepare enough silver, and first appease the hearts of hundreds of thousands of victims in Shaanxi before making plans.

Otherwise, the imperial court will not only not be able to take over the two provinces of Shanxi and the Tiger and Leopard Army from Wei Zheng, but will also cause a new round of turmoil in the two provinces and threaten the security of the capital.

Chongzhen, who has been the emperor for several years, certainly knows the implicit meaning behind this letter.

Therefore, the moment the Hubu Shangshu finished speaking, Emperor Chongzhen's face directly became extremely gloomy.

In addition, Emperor Chongzhen is a very conceited person, as an emperor, he will never allow himself to be manipulated and coerced by the courtiers.

Therefore, the more Wei Zheng didn't want to leave the two provinces of Shanxi and Shaanxi, the more Chongzhen had to transfer him out of the two provinces.

Since Wei Zheng calculated that the imperial court did not have silver to relieve the disaster, he transferred silver from the inner treasury.

As long as he can take the two provinces of Shanxi and Shaanxi, then Wei Zheng will establish a glass workshop in Datong. He will still replenish his inner treasury with a steady stream of silver.

Come to think of it. Chongzhen, who had a firm expression on his face, directly ordered.

"There is no silver in the household. I'm out of the inner library. In a word, we must transfer Master Wei out of Shanxi......"

"The imperial court immediately issued an order: Wei Zheng, who was promoted to the governor of Shanxi, was promoted to the cabinet minister......"

"Promoted Sun Chengzong to be the governor of Shanxi and the commander of the Tiger and Leopard Army."

"After Lord Sun arrives as the governor of Shanxi, Wei Zheng must immediately complete the handover with Lord Sun, and hand over all the power of the governor of Shanxi and the tiger and leopard army to Lord Sun. After that, he immediately went to Beijing and became a cabinet minister. ”

"In order to provide relief to the 300,000 victims of the disaster in Shaanxi, we will reward tens of thousands of soldiers of the Haw Par Army who have contributed to the country...... I decided to take out 1,500,000 taels of silver from the Inner Treasury. Lord Sun personally escorted them to Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces for disaster relief and appeased the morale of the soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Army......"

In Sun Chengzong's eyes, as long as there is silver, everything will become easy.

Therefore, in the face of Chongzhen's trust and expectant gaze towards him. Sun Chengzong knelt directly on the Jinluan Hall and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty Xie trusts the old minister so much, the old minister must live up to His Majesty's expectations, and he will not give up his ......."

On the tranquil Jinluan Palace, what everyone didn't expect was. Luo Yang, who stood among the courtiers. Faced with this unexpected ending, the shocked face. A smile full of weirdness flashed directly.

I don't know if it's because of trust in the ability of Wei Zheng, or if I don't want to cut off the refined salt business that earns millions of taels every year. In his heart, he had secretly made a decision: as long as he went to the court, he would make sure that what happened in the court was far away from Wei Zheng in Datong at a high speed, word for word, so that Wei Zheng could prepare as soon as possible.

What Luo Yangxing didn't expect, because of his decision today, made his future road broader.

Zhou Shuyuan, who was far away in Jinan, sent an urgent secret letter from Luo Yangxing, which arrived at the Governor's Mansion of Shanxi almost at the same time.

In the lobby of the Governor's Palace, after listening to the harvest of Zhou Shuyuan's trip to Jinan, his calm face was directly covered with an excited smile from the heart.

For Zhou Shuyuan, the biggest role of the tidal flat he rented from the coastal area of Shandong is to provide cheaper coarse salt for the refined salt workshop, so that the refined salt workshop can have its own coarse salt supply channels and is no longer controlled by others

However, in Wei Zheng's view, the tidal flat leased by Zhou Shuyuan will become a cornucopia of wealth that will continue to bring wealth to the Haw Par Army.

Not only that, this tidal flat land is used well, and it can even change the entire salt market in Daming.

As far as Wei Zheng knows, the tidal flat leased back by Zhou Shuyuan is the famous Caiyangzi Salt Farm in later generations. It can produce all kinds of salt annually, and millions of tons of industrial salt.

In this era, there is no distinction between industrial salt and edible salt, so whether it is industrial salt or edible salt, it can be eaten.

At that time, even if his salt drying technology is far inferior to that of later generations, there should be no big problem in producing one-third of the output of the Caiyangzi Salt Field in later generations, that is, millions of tons of salt.

Millions of tons of sea salt, if expressed by the measurement of this era, is 10 million quintals.

According to the calculation that an adult eats five catties of salt every year, 10 million quintals of sea salt is the consumption of 200 million people in a year......

And after continuous wars, how many people are left in the entire Ming Dynasty?

Wei Zheng can confidently say that as long as he makes use of all the tidal flats in Laizhou Bay, he can dry sea salt...... The huge output of this salt field can definitely meet the needs of more than eighty percent of the people in the Ming Dynasty.

If more than eighty percent of the salt sources in Daming are in their own hands, then they can use the ultra-low cost of dried salt to reform the entire salt industry market in Daming, so that all people can eat very clean salt.

Of course, if this reform can really be carried out smoothly, then the entire salt industry market in Daming will be in their own hands. When the time comes, Haiyan alone can bring huge wealth to the Haw Par Army......

Thinking of this, Wei Zheng could no longer suppress the excitement in his heart. Facing Zhou Shuyuan in front of him, he affirmed with emotion: "Military Division, you did a great job on this trip to Jinan, especially the salt field rented back from the Yamen of the Governor of Shandong......

"Ben Shuai can tell you for sure that with this piece of salt pan leased from Laizhou Bay, we can seize the entire salt ......market in Daming within one year at the latest."

"When the time comes, what awaits us is untold wealth......

Speaking of this, Wei Zheng, who already had specific ideas in his heart, decisively opened his mouth and ordered: "Military advisor, this commander has decided to immediately allocate manpower and material resources to develop Yantian......"

"However, such a large salt farm, coupled with high interests, in order to prevent the prying eyes of those who have a heart, it is obviously not enough for only five hundred soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Army to protect this cornucopia."

"So, as soon as we took over the entire Yantian district, we recruited 1,000 new recruits from among the local military households in the form of workers. Based on the 500 Tiger and Leopard Army that went to Yantian, secretly expand the army by one regiment to ensure the safety and ...... of Yantian" (to be continued......