After waiting in the backyard for more than half an hour, Ma Chun ran over to report that You Qinxiang had already left.

Lin Dong didn't dare to delay, and immediately asked a few Gu Huan Sect elders who were still in Autumn Wind City to help secretly follow the escort, and only after he was done did he breathe a sigh of relief.

Seeing this, Ma Chun licked his lips and couldn't help but be cautious and tentative: "Shopkeeper, Miss You's face doesn't seem to be very good......

"The branches of Qingfeng City have been arranged?" Lin Dong asked rhetorically.

"It's all arranged." Ma Chun nodded hurriedly.

"The things that will build the factory have been arranged." Lin Dong squinted at Ma Chundao.

"It's all arranged." Ma Chun found that something was wrong, and he already knew in his heart that his curiosity was a little too much.

Lin Dong said lightly: "Before the news of the Chamber of Commerce ends, the closure of several other big restaurants has been arranged?" ”

"Shopkeeper, I know it's wrong......" Ma Chun wanted to cry without tears, he believed, and after the arrangement was made, the shopkeeper would immediately mention the sale of treasures worth more than three million taels of silver, and then promote the pastries of Lin Ji Inn and purchase third- and fourth-order spiritual materials...... Anyway, this posture, without asking about things that he has not arranged, will definitely not stop.

"By the way, what do you think about me that can attract girls?" Lin Dong said abruptly.

Ma Chun smiled for a while, and then said with a smile: "The shopkeeper is handsome, extraordinary, strategic, strong, calm and generous...... Looking at the Han Kingdom, compared with the shopkeeper, Fu Zizhou and his ilk are not even worthy of carrying shoes, if the shopkeeper is not the number one young talent, all the young people in the Han Kingdom are shit. ”

Lin Dong was speechless, it sounded quite fluttering, but in fact, what he said was the same as not saying it. I really want to be so bullish, how can the return rate on the street be so low.

"Shopkeeper, how can we guess the girl's thoughts?" Ma Chun said: "Miss You is beautiful, her surname is also likable, and there is a Xingli Sect behind her, if the shopkeeper can convince her to be the second lady of our Lin Ji Inn, coupled with the strength of the Gu Huan Sect and the relationship between Li Jiancheng, our Lin Ji Inn is in the territory of Qiufeng Mansion, but no one really dares to mess with it." ”

"That's a good idea, I'll mention your idea to Yun Lan later." Lin Dong laughed, Ma Chun's words were similar to nonsense, but it made him figure it out. With Yun Lan's identity and strength, he can like himself, although there are reasons for his long-term love, but in comparison, You Qinxiang likes herself inexplicably, which is not a strange thing in comparison.

Entangled in why You Qinxiang likes herself, she just has nothing to do to find a headache, her temperament is very different, she is not lethal to ordinary girls, and the proud girl of the sky may fall in love at first sight.

Ma Chun was stunned and said, "I'm afraid it's not okay to talk to Miss Yun directly?" No matter how generous Miss Yun is, she hasn't married the shopkeeper yet, and the shopkeeper will definitely not agree to mention this kind of thing. ”

"It's okay, you brought it up anyway." Lin Dong wrote lightly: "Yun Lan wants to split, and he also splits you." ”

Ma Chun's legs were weak, and he almost fell to the ground, and his whole face suddenly turned green like a bitter melon: "Shopkeeper, I really know it's wrong, the shopkeeper is wholeheartedly devoted to Miss Yun, and he can be called the most dedicated man in the history of the Han Kingdom, and he will never be fooled by others and do things that have a negative Yun girl." ”

"It's good to know, Miss You's business, you won't chew the root of your tongue, right?" Lin Dong said with a smile.

Ma Chun shook his head hurriedly.

The warning has already been warned, Lin Dong waved his hand and said, "Okay, go and go about your business!" I'll go back to Qingfeng City first. ”

"Shopkeeper walks slowly." Ma Chun hurriedly sent him off.

Back to Qingfeng City, find Liu Hua and Wu Guang, and the carriage continued to move forward.

7th branch, 8th branch, 9th branch...... Before and after, including the time wasted on going to Qingmei Mountain, it lasted three months, and the branches of Lin Kee Inn finally spread throughout all the counties of Qiufeng Province.

After Liu Hua and Wu Guang returned to Autumn Wind City alone, Lin Dong and Yun Lan took Cheng Leopard, who had been tied up for more than a month, and arrived at the main store of Autumn Wind City through the transportation gate.

As early as ten days ago, the news of the Chamber of Commerce had already settled, and the ending was beyond everyone's expectations.

The county, prefecture, and county towns should not set up their own chambers of commerce, and there are nearly 100 kinds of regulations related to chambers of commerce, which have not changed much, but where there are changes, all of them are earth-shattering.

For the merchants of the Han Kingdom, among the several major regulations that have been changed, the biggest impact on them is undoubtedly that the decision-making of the Chamber of Commerce is left to all merchants in all places. No matter what industry the tycoons are, their control over prices is no different from that of ordinary businessmen.

This news is no less than earth-shattering news for big and super big households. For small businessmen, this is great news.

Furthermore, the second biggest impact is the silver taels operated by the Chamber of Commerce, all of which are uniformly allocated by the imperial court. Moreover, the money does not go through the yamen of each county, each prefecture and county, but is allocated to the Beijing Chamber of Commerce, and then the Beijing Chamber of Commerce is allocated to the county-level chamber of commerce in batches, and then the county-level chamber of commerce is allocated to the prefecture-level chamber of commerce, and then the prefecture-level chamber of commerce is allocated to the county-level chamber of commerce. Because there are too many levels, it takes up to one year to reach the most remote county seat of the Han Kingdom, so the amount allocated by the surname at one time has also reached a huge amount of three years.

In addition, the escort of this silver was handed over to the military department to appoint the army, which is equivalent to completely eliminating the relationship between this silver and the local yamen.

It has nothing to do with the local yamen, which undoubtedly means that the chamber of commerce can completely ignore the local yamen, which belongs to the existence of reading power.

Like the previous one, this news is also bad news for big and super big households, and good news for small businessmen.

Together, these two items are no less than a giant axe that opens the sky, and the dream that the big families have been dreaming of for half a year has been cut to pieces. If you really don't give any sweetness, even Emperor Qianwei wouldn't dare to do such a thing. After all, if you really want to talk about it, with the combined efforts of these big families, the destructive power is no less powerful than the civilian riots, and even better. Although there is Tianwei Pavilion, the Tianda riot can be suppressed, but if this is the case, the national strength of the Great Han Kingdom will definitely be greatly hit.

The sweetness given by Emperor Qianwei is a privilege, and it is not inferior to the privilege of famous warriors.

In the Han Kingdom, the status of merchants was extremely low, although the big families relied on silver, and their real status was second only to that of officials, but in the hearts of literati and warriors, they were always inferior, even worse than civilians.

And a regulation introduced along with the regulations of the Chamber of Commerce is that businessmen can buy fictitious titles, county merchants, government merchants, county merchants, and famous merchants. These fictitious titles, unlike the previous spending of one hundred and eighty taels of silver to buy a member, only have a better title, and have no substantial benefits.

The county merchants, 1,000 taels of silver per year, it can be seen that the county order and officials below the county order do not kneel, cancel the law that children are not allowed to be officials, and all crimes except for rebellion and other great rebellious crimes are halved...... 10,000 taels per year for government merchants and 100,000 taels per year for county merchants, and various privileges have also increased. As long as you are willing to spend millions of taels of silver every year for the imperial court, the privilege of the fictitious title of famous merchant is not inferior to that of famous men and warriors.

The amount of silver is a little high, but for many large families, it is an irresistible temptation. Just like Lin Dong, although he has the identity of a warrior, after studying the privileges of the false title, he decided to buy a county merchant who needs to donate 100,000 taels of silver every year.

In comparison, the privileges of the warriors are much higher than those of the county merchants, but the privileges of the county merchants in terms of business are not comparable to those of the warriors. For 100,000 taels of silver a year, the area and height of buying a mansion manor are only slightly lower than that of the county government, which is completely cost-effective for Lin Dong. It only takes a little money to let the government and the county government build a bamboo pole on the roof, and the Lin Kee Inn can take advantage of the loopholes to build four or five floors. What's more, the identity of the county merchant also has a certain amount of tax reduction and other privileges, if it weren't for the shortage of money, Lin Dongtie would definitely make a false title of a famous businessman.

Martial artists and famous merchants, the two privileged identities are not allowed to overlap, which means that Lin Dong can even blatantly beat officials, and the consequence is only a large amount of silver. This privilege does not seem to be a big deal, but for the officials, it has a great deterrent effect, and there is no need to worry that the business of the Lin Kee Inn will be suppressed by the authorities in the future.

While benefiting small businessmen, it can appease large households, and by the way, it can also curb the collusion between officials and businessmen, plus although the autonomy of the chamber of commerce is high, the cost of operation is in the hands of the imperial court, and the means of Emperor Qianwei, Lin Dong can be regarded as having seen it. Although he couldn't judge whether the appearance of the Chamber of Commerce would have more advantages than disadvantages or more disadvantages than advantages for the Great Han Kingdom, he could be sure that in the short term, it would definitely be a good thing.

Of course, the so-called good things are only for ordinary people and small businesses. The Chamber of Commerce is in the hands of small merchants, and the pricing of various goods will undoubtedly be fixed at a moderate level of neither high nor low, rather than the same as before, when large merchants want to increase their sales and suddenly reduce prices significantly. Wait until they use various advantages to crush some small businesses, and continue to raise prices to increase their income regardless of public grievances.

In addition, the circulation of goods such as those of small merchants in various counties can not only increase the income of small businesses, but also promote the benefits of local specialties, which is beneficial to both small businesses that directly benefit and ordinary people who receive indirect benefits.

The benefits for small businesses and ordinary people are also not a bad thing for those who are serious about doing business. In any case, as the standard of living improves, purchasing power will be strengthened, and large merchants may be able to benefit from it in the long run, perhaps making less money in the short term. But in the eyes of some big households who rely on the collusion of officials and businessmen, it is a different matter, and the money they earn is accumulated by exploiting and squeezing the common people and small merchants, rather than by relying on normal profits and business methods.

Although the development of Lin Kee Inn is not accumulated by exploiting and squeezing the people, it does not depend entirely on normal profits. Otherwise, Lin Kee Inn would not have been able to develop from a small inn to a giant in such a short period of time.

High profits are the key to the rapid development of Lin Kee Inn.

Lin Dong's headache is that once the chamber of commerce is established, the owners of small restaurants and taverns will ask for their profits to be reduced. This may be surname, not low. The target of diners in big restaurants is big households, and once the profits are reduced, they can't have much impact on these small restaurants that mainly sell ordinary diners. On the contrary, the advantage of the restaurant lies in the decoration, chef and other features, these things are piled up with silver. Once profits fall, hard power may be preserved, but soft power such as luxury decorations has to be reduced, so that some of the big households monopolized by big restaurants will flow to small restaurants.

With the strength of Lin Kee Inn, I am not afraid that it will not be able to attract large diners, but the profit will decline, and it will be troublesome to raise a large amount of silver to expand at a high speed.

Again, it's accommodation. Lin Kee Inn's business line in terms of accommodation is to solicit customers at low prices, as long as it can remain profitable, it doesn't hurt to make only a penny per room. Once the price of accommodation is fixed, the attractiveness of Lam Kee Inn will be greatly reduced.

It can be said that like those businessmen who are accustomed to the collusion of officials and businessmen, Lin Dong is extremely unhappy with the Chamber of Commerce.

The problem is, no matter how unhappy it is, there is no way. The civil and military officials all suffered heavy losses this time, and they didn't have any backhand power at all. Not to mention Lin Dong, even if the big families join forces with the super big families, if Emperor Qianwei is really determined to fight for the historical status of the Ming monarch, he may even send out the bloody suppression of Tianwei Pavilion to completely overthrow and rebuild. Although this may cause violent shocks in the entire Great Han Kingdom, it may also cause the Great Han Kingdom to enter a new era.

The only thing Lin Dong could do was to rack his brains to find a way to minimize the influence of the Chamber of Commerce on the inn as much as possible.

In the backyard, Lin Dong was thinking about it, and Ma Chun ran back again.

"Shopkeeper, big news, Lord Li sent someone over to summon the news, Fu Tongshan was promoted to the head of the Ministry of Officials, and the new prefect was not designated by the Ministry of Officials, but temporarily handled government affairs by Lord Li."

Lin Dong's already frowning brows deepened a little, and he looked at Yun Lan on the side, feeling distressed.

Although after the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce, the important surnames of the yamen to merchants will be greatly reduced, but some details such as taxation and public security still have a great impact. Originally, according to Lin Dong's estimate, Fu Tongshan followed Emperor Qianwei to win a complete victory, and he would definitely rise rapidly within a year or two to regain his position at the top of the court. And the new prefect is likely to be topped by Li Jiancheng, a fellow intellectual.

Unexpectedly, I guessed the beginning, but I didn't guess the ending. Although Fu Tongshan was only promoted to a servant of the ministry, it was only limited to the five-grade prefect, and it was not good to mention it too quickly, and there was almost no suspense about being promoted to the next level in three or five months. No matter what you say, it is impossible for Emperor Qianwei to chill the hearts of heroes.

But the ending is not the successor of Li Jiancheng.

It stands to reason that whether it is the qualifications or the foreign leisure party to which Li Jiancheng belongs, he is the first group of forces to fall to Emperor Qianwei, and he is the new prefect.

Could it be ...... Lin Dong suddenly raised his head and asked, "How much time is there for the performance appraisal?" ”

"About a month and a half!" Ma Chun said: "Generally, it is within half a month to a month after the end of the palace examination. ”

Lin Dong scratched his head and somewhat understood.

Li Jiancheng did not take advantage of the situation to be promoted to the prefect of Qiufeng Mansion, and the reason may be related to the participation of the princes in the big shock.

Even if Emperor Qianwei felt that he didn't have a few years to live, in order to maintain the stability of the Great Han Kingdom after his death, the heirs could only be selected from these princes. But if you dare to go against Emperor Qianwei, whether it is the emperor's power and conspiracy, or as Lao Tzu's anger and dissatisfaction, Emperor Qianwei Yanjing must not beat these princes.

If you want to beat these princes, the best way is undoubtedly to find some pressure on them.

For the princes, the biggest pressure is that there are too many brothers.

According to the rules of the Great Han Kingdom, the prince reached the age of sixteen, and after passing the examination, he served as a general in the army during wartime, and appointed the government as a magistrate in peacetime.

Lin Dong is almost certain that the prefects of the Great Han Kingdom that have been vacated recently due to serious illness, accidents and other emergencies will probably be left vacant for the time being. In order to leave a good place for the newly adult princes.

"Ma Chun, can you find out how many princes are adults this year?" Lin Dong asked.

"Does the shopkeeper think that Lord Li did not take over as the prefect, and that the imperial court intends to appoint the prince over?" Ma Chun was surprised.

"It depends on how many new adult princes there are." Lin Dong said lightly.

Ma Chun smiled bitterly: "In this place of Autumn Wind City, I'm afraid it's difficult to inquire about this kind of thing." Sending people to the capital can be inquired, but it takes several months to come and go, and the assessment of the princes is the same as the palace examination. ”

Lin Dong had no choice but to wait. If you really want to send a prince over, the fun will be great.

Not to mention anything else, just the development speed of the inn and various advantages, the probability of being targeted by the royal family has to be greatly increased. In addition, the princes sent by him, in addition to pursuing political achievements, most of them will try their best to cultivate personal power, and if they want to cultivate personal power, silver is absolutely indispensable.

If you want silver, you naturally have to find a big family. With the status of Lin Ji Inn in Autumn Wind City, it is almost not much suspense to be remembered by this prince, and there is almost no suspense about coercing and tempting a few percent of the shares.

If you change to someone else, you can get involved with the prince, and take out a few percent of the shares to fight the other party to sit in the Dragon Court, which is a worthwhile deal. Even if you can't sit in the Dragon Court, if you can be crowned a prince, it will be a lot of benefits in the future. It can be said that this business that cannot be refused may be lost, but the future benefits may also be not small.

For Lin Dong, it was another matter, and if he was killed, he would not give the shares of Lin Ji Inn to others. Not to mention several percent, even if it is one percent, Lin Dong believes that in the future, it will be a gold and silver mountain that cannot be compared with its value.

In this way, it is bound to fall out with this prince. No matter how you calculate it, there is also a loss and no profit.

Fortunately, although there must be a lot of princes sent this year, because the imperial court has lost power, there should be many prefects who have been deposed this year, and the chances of a prince on the wheel of Autumn Wind City are not great.

There is no way, I can only wait for the result.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Dong ordered: "Find a way to talk to Li Jiancheng, ask him if he can help contact a familiar friend in the capital through the post station, if you can provide us with the implementation time and the news of the new prefect of Autumn Wind City, I will give him a spirit sword above the fourth order." ”

"Well, I'm going to find him?" Ma Chun asked.

"Go ahead! Bring the spirit sword first, and bring a few more! Lin Dong advised: "If Li Jiancheng is too little, give it all to him." ”

"Okay!" Although Ma Chun didn't believe that Li Jiancheng would refuse a fourth-order spirit sword, he didn't say much, nodded and went straight to his room.

"Say, it's going to be difficult."

Lin Dong smiled bitterly and stretched.

(To be continued)