After Li You left the governor's yamen, Yang Futai suddenly woke up when he "saved my body three times in one day", and this Li You had the intention to rectify the transportation department and salt merchants from the beginning! It's just that he pretended to excuse himself, and in the end, he seemed to have made a compromise, giving him a lot of face, so he reluctantly took over.

Back in the yazhong, in the face of the puzzled staff, Lord Li generously made a minister, "At first, this official didn't want to serve as a messenger for the rectification of salt, but since he was appointed by the imperial court, he was duty-bound!" People have left their names, geese have left their voices, leopards have left skins, this official has never been a person who eats a vegetarian meal, no matter what kind of official position, what kind of errand, they have done it vigorously! Later, I met my fellow villagers and classmates in the same year, and spread this official to me. ”

Under the admiration of Master Cui, who has known him for the longest time, he added a prefix in his brain - no matter what kind of boss.

It is said that after the summit of the governor's yamen, Ding Yunenvoy and Gao Yuntong returned to the office of the transportation department, and immediately deployed and mobilized all officials, actively carried out self-inspection and cleanup, and comprehensively started the prevention work, setting off a wave of fire prevention, theft prevention, and Li You's high "set sail without watermark".

If Yang Futai is in charge of rectification, you can also talk about the rules of the rivers and lakes, don't be too nervous. But if Li You directly intervenes, the situation is a bit complicated, Ding Yunenvoy and Gao Yuntong never pin their hopes on Li You being a person who talks about rules.

In particular, Master Li obviously has bad intentions, and it is very likely that he was instructed by the backers of the DPRK and China to come and deliberately cause trouble.

However, the long-tested Yunsi Yamen is still very confident, and there is a rectification of the salt method every few years, and they are veterans in meeting the inventory. No matter how shrewd Li You is, he can't find much of a loophole for a while and a half, and at most he sells him a few flaws for him to deal with.

As for the matter of Jin Million's trafficking of a huge amount of surplus salt, Ding Yunenvoy was not too nervous. thinks that Jin Million will not be stupid enough to find his own way, and completely reveal this inside story to Li You. Secondly, this matter is mainly the responsibility of Nanjing, and the final deal must be discussed privately by the bigwigs of all parties, and will not be dealt with publicly.

All parties related to the salt matter looked at Lord Li's court with visible and invisible eyes, until their eyes were sour, but Lord Li never made any movement against Yun Si.

On the fourth day of the first month of March, the Tongzhi Branch Office of Yangzhou Government issued a notice, according to the imperial edict and the governor's decree, in order to rectify the salt law, all salt merchants will be summoned to the Tongzhi Office on the sixth day of March, and those who fail to do so will bear the consequences.

Ding Yun, who got the news for the first time, was puzzled, Li You's key target should be the Salt Transportation Division, but what did he do to gather salt merchants with great fanfare? Could it be that any salt merchant would dare to expose the lawlessness of the salt transportation department?

After the notice, Master Li went to the palace construction site to inspect. After intense construction, the construction of the palace is now gradually completed, and it will be completed almost one more. Fortunately, the design is an idyllic scenery, and the real "set sail without watermark" are all rice fields, wheat fields, cotton and rape....It is much easier than rockery and flowing water, flowers and birds, and gardens.

Standing on the edge of the ridge of the field, Lord Li looked at a field of spring flowers that were about to ripen, and thought about whether he had harvested winter wheat or not before the Son of Heaven arrived.

"Virtuous son-in-law!" Someone shouted, you don't have to look back to know that it's a million gold.

Li You threw down the ears of wheat in his hand and asked Mr. Jin, "What are you doing here?" ”

"Two things." Jin Million knew that although this son-in-law liked to go around in circles when talking to others, he was impatient for others to go around in circles with him, so he got straight to the point: "The first thing is that the old man has a happy event, take a concubine, and invite the virtuous son-in-law to cheer him." ”

Li You felt amused, "I heard that in the past ten years, in order to have a son, you have to marry a new one every spring, is it true?" You are not confused, don't lose your body. ”

"This year, several old gentlemen have seen it, and they definitely have a good man and many children. In addition, five senior monks and four immortals were invited, and they also went to Nanjing to invite Western monks to make exercises, what is the blessing of the spell. ”…,

Li You laughed and asked, "Do you believe these people who pretend to be gods and cheat money?" Over the years, there are only two more concubines. ”

Jin Million said embarrassedly: "There is not much silver, you have to try it, maybe it will work." ”

Speaking of the second thing, "You issued a notice, and there was a lot of discussion among the peers, and the guild entrusted the old man to come and ask the virtuous son-in-law for convenience." How about telling everyone not to go to your yamen to gather and change places? ”

"This official was ordered to rectify the salt law and convene salt merchants for questioning, do you dare to bargain! It's not a tiger's den in Longtan! Li You snorted coldly.

Jin Million smiled bitterly, "This... It's really a tiger's den in Longtan. It is rumored that you are going to set up the White Tiger Hall, and the peers regard it as a daunting path, except for the old man, I am afraid that no one dares to go. But they were worried that it would anger you, so the colleagues asked to change the location to the Xin'an Guild Hall, which was a little more reassuring. ”

"Then the Xin'an Hall, where is it different." Li You is indispensable.

Jin Million thought about it for a while, and couldn't help but say: "The guild is newly established, the enthusiasm of the peers is high, the morale is booming, and there is a bit of a posture of hatred and hatred at present, you..."

Jin Million instigated the salt merchants to form a guild to unite with the outside world, which was instigated by Li You, but Jin Million didn't understand what Li You wanted to do, and asked him not to fight for the position of guild leader, as if he had made a strong enemy for no reason.

Li You said pretendically: "Don't do anything, let you business giants taste the taste of authority." ”

On the sixth day of the first month of March, the Xin'an Hall was crowded with people, one after another, more than 300 salt merchants came, and together with the subordinates and the sedan chair man, the hall was almost bursting.

The Shenxing Hall has been changed to the Gongdao Hall, which serves as the public meeting place of the Yangzhou Salt Industry Association, but it cannot accommodate more than 300 people anyway.

Therefore, the public seat reserved for Master Li was set up on the platform outside the house, and all the salt merchants, regardless of size, stood outside. The more powerful the big salt merchants, the closer they are to the public seat, and the smaller the salt merchants are on the periphery.

Jin Million stood in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh secretly, his son-in-law turned his hands into clouds and turned his hands into rain several times, and he didn't win much popularity among salt merchants, but he awe-inspiring his prestige was established.

With just a metaphor, the salt industry peers who are accustomed to being masters in Yangzhou, no matter how big or small, will come here to wait. In the past, only Ding Yunenvoy had this power.

Halfway through the Shen hour, Lord Li led dozens of people including his entourage, officials, and guards to arrive at the mansion and sit down on the platform in front of the Gongdao Hall to accept the crowd's worship.

First, there was a clerk holding the roster and shouting the names of each family, and those who clicked responded to it. After ordering more than 300 people, the official presented the roster to Lord Li and said, "Lord Yu, there are four families that have not arrived!" ”

Li You took the roster, lifted the pen in front of everyone, groaned slightly, and casually erased the names of these four families.

Putting down the pen, Li You glanced at the audience, brewed a little atmosphere, and said: "This official was ordered by the imperial court to rectify the salt law in Yangzhou, and today the general will be summoned for this matter!" ”

There was no one else in the audience to speak, and Li You continued: "This official wanted to ask you one by one today, ask you to report the salt matter, and report the illegal things of the officials and peers, but after seeing you, I changed my mind. There are a large number of businessmen, and there are more than 300 in Yangzhou alone, where can the government take care of them. ”

"I learned that you established the Salt Industry Association a few days ago, and there is a general manager of the six major stewards, and you dare to be the first in the salt industry, so I think this is a good idea."

"So this official has an idea, to select some big merchants from among you as leaders of the salt industry, to be responsible for dealing with the government, and call them general merchants! As for other small and medium-sized businessmen, the government will not waste time to accompany them one by one. However, it is not to give up, but to put all small businesses under the name of the general merchant, and all matters such as fees and conditions are managed by the general merchant. If there is something, the government only asks. ”…,

"In this way, the government only deals with a few general merchants, and it is no longer detailed, complicated, and laborious, and a lot of spirit is freed up! In the official's opinion, the salt industry guild is just right, and the general manager and steward can all act as the general merchant, and rely on the guild to act on behalf of other small merchants. ”

Everyone originally thought that Master Li was nitpicking and picking bones in the eggs, and several times in the past few times to rectify the salt method, it was nothing more than such a scene, but they didn't expect that Master Li talked about the guild and what "general business." After listening to it, they were all shocked.

It can be said that Master Li's words set off a storm in the hearts of more than 300 people in the audience. Even if you have a slow brain and can't think through the consequences for a while, you can know that this is definitely a subversive event in the salt industry.

It turned out that there were more than 300 salt merchants, although some were large and some were small, but they did not belong to each other, and they were only related by the clan relationship of Huizhou villagers. Even if each salt merchant is as small as only 1,000 yuan, it is independent of dealing with the government and transportation department, and is not attached to other outline merchants. Although this kind of small salt merchant may have a harder time dealing with the government.

And the guild proposed by Master Li and the "General Merchant." "It is equivalent to the government appointing a number of large merchants to unite into guilds to act as agents for some salt industry affairs, and closing the channels for small and medium-sized salt merchants to communicate directly with the government. In the future, small and medium-sized salt merchants can only rely on the big salt merchants and accept the management and agency of the big salt merchants.

To put it simply, the government grants certain agency powers to the guilds and the general merchants, and allows the general merchants to manage the industry, which reduces the trivial affairs faced by the government with a large number of small and medium-sized salt merchants.

For example, to claim the salt quotation and collect the quotation class, the Yunsi Yamen can directly give the number of salt quotations to the guild. The major general merchants of the guild apportioned the small merchants under their names on their own, and collected the relevant salt taxes on their behalf, and finally the salt transportation division gathered the general merchants to complete the annual task. Of course, if something goes wrong, the government will still hold the general merchant accountable.

According to the imagination of Master Li, the current pattern of Yangzhou's salt industry has changed from a two-fold pattern of transportation and salt merchants to a three-layer of transportation division, association, general merchant and small business.

Everyone was shocked and their hearts were turbulent, and at this time, only a very small number of elites could calmly think about the pros and cons.

Others all quickly calculated whether this matter was good or bad for them, whether they could become a general businessman, and only Jin Million noticed Li You's true intentions.

He immediately realized that although the general businessman who had the semi-official business body "set sail without the watermark" could be publicly promoted by the salt merchant, who would endorse it in the end, or who would approve it was the key, and Li You Bacheng wanted to give this power to the mysterious person behind him.

can find this, maybe it is because Jin Million has been messing with a cheap son-in-law for a long time, and his ideological realm has gradually improved, and his horizons have also been broadened; Maybe Jin Million knows that there is a son-in-law, he will definitely not be able to suffer a loss, and a general businessman can't run away, so he can be noble, cold, sober and calm, and have the leisure to think nonsense. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )