After the grain tax case, the emperor re-issued a decree, and every year the officials of the local county government had to go to the countryside to publicize the tax policy of the year.

If there is a change, it must also post a notice for at least a month, and every household knows the policy on paying taxes for that year, and the grain can only be handed over to the collector when the grain tax is paid.

At the same time, the collection officer is edited in the official register, and if you want to become a collection officer, you must pass the assessment of the yamen.

This also greatly inhibits the situation that some collectors and grain officials are relatives, and thus collude to increase grain taxes without permission.

After the grain tax case, the He family is now very low-key, Yuan Xuan said that at least five years the He family will be in obscurity.

This made Xu Yunjin very happy, the He family was low-key for a day, their family would be safe for a day, and five years was enough for their family to grow to a certain point.

Especially what her father is doing now, it will be enough for students all over the world to support him when the time comes, not to mention that everything Xu Yunjin is doing now is accumulating prestige for the Xu family.

As soon as the time turned, it entered June, and the most important thing for the Xu family recently was that Xu Yunnan's ceramic workshop was going to participate in the five-year official kiln competition this year.

The status of Shinong industry and commerce, and businessmen is at the bottom, but this situation has been alleviated a lot after Qi Ren took the position.

Qi Ren knows how to make good use of people, and he also knows that businessmen occupy an important position in the development of the country.

Therefore, since he came to power, the control of merchants has been relaxed, and the families of the ministers of the DPRK and China have also benefited, so Qi Ren's policy has been implemented very smoothly.

And one of the policies that is even more highly respected by the merchants is that the imperial merchants are no longer fixed as before, but will rotate every five years.

To be a royal merchant is to be hooked with the royal family, simply put, as long as the imperial merchant does not change within five years, he is the supplier of the royal family.

Just like the Han family was the supplier of royal leather goods and grain last time, and this year, the five-year period has expired, and the big families in various industries are riveting to compete for the position of the imperial merchants.

Even Xu Yunjin also encouraged Xu Yunnan to participate in this year's official kiln competition, if it succeeds, the porcelain of the ceramic workshop will become a tribute within five years, and the royal family will only buy porcelain in the Xu family workshop.

Of course, there will not be only one royal merchant in each major industry, most of the time there will be two, after all, what they are good at is different.

For example, silk is the most, there are at least three or four every year, and the royal family also has to choose, and only monotonously using one silk will produce aesthetic fatigue.

The Xu family is very concerned about this competition, and they don't know how to do it, but they are not too nervous when they see that Xu Yunnan and Xu Yunjin are full of confidence.

Since February, Xu Yunnan has begun to prepare, handed in the ceramics for the primary selection early, and got the post that he can participate in the selection of official kilns in April.

In order to prepare for this year's official kiln selection, the ceramic workshop also turned off several big businesses.

The old man at home felt sorry for Xu Yunnan's works day and night to catch up with the competition, for fear that he would burn his body, and Li often went to the ceramic workshop to make food for Xu Yunnan.

The location of this year's official kiln election happened to be set in the Fucheng adjacent to Jiujiang Fucheng, which was the Jinping Fucheng where Kang Lian was before.

The time was set for June 20, because the road was not too far, but the porcelain was fragile and had to go slowly, and after arriving at the place, it was necessary to inquire about the rules of the competition for the official kiln and which officials were to inquire in advance.

Although Xu Yunjin was very confident in their porcelain, the preparations that should be made still had to be made, so on the eighth day of the sixth month, Xu Yunnan set off for Jinping Mansion with two masters and twenty workers.

Xu Yunjin also took Kang Lian with him, Xu Yunjin wanted to see and see, Kang Lian had been in Jinping Mansion for nearly 20 years, and it saved a lot of trouble with him to accompany them, and there was another Han Shaozhi who had to follow him to join in the fun.

In this way, the original team of only about 20 people instantly became more than 30 people, there were Yuan San and Uncle Sun, two people who knew martial arts, and there were people who secretly protected Xu Yunjin, Xu Yunnan even dispelled the idea of asking for guards.

"Han Shaozhi, didn't you say that your father came to you

Believe it, why haven't you gone back?"

Xu Yunjin also wanted to come and have fun when she went out this time, after all, she was too busy, and she wouldn't let go if she had the opportunity to come out and walk around, and at the moment she was sitting on horseback and chatting with Han Shaozhi on the side.

"I'm not afraid of my father, my grandfather loves me, and he knows that I'm here with Uncle Han, but he just told me not to get into trouble, not to slack off my studies and martial arts, and let me learn more from your children."

Although Han Shaozhi said that he didn't like to learn a little, his martial arts were not bad, all because he was always ridiculed like a girl when he was a child, so he fought with others.

But most of the time he can't beat it, so he pestered his family to find him a master with strong martial arts, and he has been learning martial arts for more than six years, which is much better than Xu Yunjin's three-legged cat's kung fu.

"Your grandfather was a great man." Xu Yunjin heard Han Shaozhi mention Old Man Han and said.

"That is, my grandfather is the Dinghai Divine Needle in Jiangnan, and even the governor of Jiangnan has to be respectful when he sees my grandfather."

Han Shaozhi's words were full of disdain when he mentioned the governor of Jiangnan, and Xu Yunjin knew the reason.

Because the governor of Jiangnan is a member of the He family, and he has an in-law with the He family, if it weren't for the Han family, I'm afraid that most of Jiangnan's financial income would have to be eaten by the He family.

It is because of the Han family that the emperor will not be financially stretched, but it is not much better, after all, the He family is not vegetarian.

Most of the Han family's business is in the south, and the reason why they rarely seize the northern market is also because they can't let the He family occupy such a rich territory in Jiangnan.

This is also where Xu Yunjin admires the Han family very much, he has been loyal to the royal family for hundreds of years, but he is not a brainless loyalty.

The current emperor was supported by the strong financial support of the Han family, otherwise the current emperor would be the new puppet of the He family.

And it was no one else who made this choice, it was Han Fu, the current old lady of the Han family, the Han family's huge family business, and not everyone listened to discipline, and there were people who were blinded by interests and turned to the He family, but they were all solved by Han Fu one by one.

The current Han family can be said to be as hard as a copper wall, and the He family has no way to fight hard, and the industry can't penetrate into the south of the Yangtze River, so they will look for all kinds of mines everywhere, and they have to rely on deducting food from the mouths of the people to raise private soldiers, if it weren't for the Han family, Qi Ren and He Chong's account would not have won so beautifully.

Next, along the way, Han Shaozhi was talking to Xu Yunjin about his grandfather's heroic deeds, Yuan San had to keep an eye on him, this son of the Han family is so good-looking, what if he hooked their girl's heart, although the girl is still young.

Starting from Jiujiang Fucheng, the convoy walked for eight days before entering Jinping Fucheng, as soon as Xu Yunjin entered the city, Xu Yunjin was called back to the carriage by Xu Yunnan, here is not as free as in the mountains, Xu Yunjin also sat back obediently.

Kang Lian took a few people to a quieter inn and rented a small courtyard, the price was not expensive, and the shopkeeper was also very polite, not far from the place where the official kiln was selected, Xu Yunjin and others were very satisfied.

There were only two nights in the inn from Jiujiang, so even a few big men didn't rest too well, not to mention Xu Yunjin, who had a good night's sleep in the inn that night.

The next day, Kang Lian took Xu Yunjin's brothers and sisters and Han Shaozhi out to inquire about the news, and visited Jinping Mansion by the way.

A group of four people, plus the guards Yuan San and Gao Xiaoyue, still attracted the attention of many people when they walked on the street, and Xu Yunjin did not bring the two of them with Guan Dongyue when he went out this time, but brought Gao Xiaoyue, who had some martial arts.