Shangjing, port.

Early in the morning, a large number of well-dressed servants, stewards, and maids came to the port, quickly arranging carpets, flowers, banners and other items.

But as the capital of Middle-earth, even if the Sanpin senior officials return to Beijing to report on their work, I am afraid that it is not so magnificent, and the people who come are curious.

Could it be a relative of the emperor?

Soon, the five building boats slowly docked, Jia Yu took the lead, Jia Lan followed, and hurriedly greeted them.

For a long time, waiting for boxes of things to be moved down, Manager Chen slowly got off the boat, and Lin Daiyu followed suit, looking around blankly, and when he saw Jia Yu, his eyes lit up, waved his hand, and shouted loudly: "Uncle!" ”

Jia Yu smiled at her and nodded, and then hurriedly stepped forward and bowed deeply to Manager Chen: "Manager Chen." ”

Mr. Chen bowed his head, smiled, and casually greeted the descendants of these two princes.

The prime minister's door is a seven-rank official, not to mention him, a close minister of the Son of Heaven.

Now that the emperor's health is deteriorating, when Wang Ziteng was promoted to the control of the nine mansions, he was in a high position, and the four major families were happy not long after, and they found out that something was wrong.

Now all the divisions and captains in Beijing seem to have nothing to do with the four major families. It is even more difficult to do anything, such as the smuggling of goods at the gate of the city.

Of course, King Beijing and Yizhong were very active among the civil officials and became famous, and even invited Jia Zheng to the banquet today, saying that they wanted to promote him.

Jia Yu doesn't care, he wants to have some relationships and do his own thing now.

These days, he suddenly fell in love with the ancient fan, there is a stone nerd, there are more than 20 ancient fans in his hands, all of them are Xiangfei, palm bamboo, elk, jade bamboo, on which are the real paintings of the ancients.

After Jia Yu found out, he first instructed Jia Lian to find the stone nerd and pay a lot of money to buy it.

The fan is an heirloom of stone nerds, and he insists on not selling it. He became angry and framed the stone nerd for "arrears of official money", but the local officials did not accept it.

Today, I heard that the celebrity in front of the Son of Heaven personally sent his niece back, so I thought about climbing the relationship and getting the ancient fan, otherwise I wouldn't sleep well.

Of course, he was a little embarrassed to come over, so he pulled Jia Lan, who was studying at home, over.

In his eyes, a prince like them doesn't have to read anything at all, as long as they know a few words, stuff some money, and find relationships, where are they afraid that there will be no official to do.

After chatting for a while, Manager Chen looked up at the sky and said with a smile: "Our family still has important matters to report to the saint, and this little girl from Daiyu has entrusted the two generals to send them to the Lin Mansion." ”

Shangjing Lin Mansion, since it is the mansion given to Lin Ruhai by the Holy Lord himself, the maids, furniture, guards and other items and servants have been prepared, and they are all from the palace, which shows that they value the Lin family.

Jia Yu hurriedly echoed: "Don't worry, Manager Chen, Daiyu is my niece, I will definitely be optimistic." Speaking of which, I still have one more thing to report to Mr. Chen. ”

Mr. Chen was surprised: "What's the matter?" ”

"So that Manager Chen knows that there is a businessman in Yingtian who is quite related, and he is openly in arrears with the imperial court's tax and silver, and a friend of mine found out and reported it to the prefect of Yingtian, but no one responded to the lawsuit.

This tax is related to the fortune of our dynasty, if one person is like this, if others follow suit, one day will not be the treasury of our dynasty empty and the national strength weakened? Please also ask Mr. Chen to call the shots! Jia Yu said sternly.

Manager Chen: ......

I am the first celebrity in front of the Son of Heaven, the chief eunuch, and the first person in the chamberlain, you let me help deal with such a trivial matter?

The point, you don't want to spend money yet? Are you okay?

After a moment of silence, Chief Manager Chen said solemnly: "General Jia is worthy of being a loyal minister of the imperial court, even if he is idle at home, he is still worried about the world and the imperial court, you can rest assured, when I go back, I will report this matter to the Holy Lord!" ”

"Hahaha, Mr. Chen has a good reputation, Mr. Chen walks slowly!" Jia Yu said happily.

I didn't expect him Jia Yu to have this ability.

Will the Holy Lord reward him with gold, silver and silk in a few days, or even give himself a knighthood? Oh, will you take another concubine when the time comes.

Waiting for Manager Chen to walk away, Jia Yu's little face was closed, then he looked at Lin Daiyu, thought for a while, and said, "Jia Lan, you take someone to send your niece home, and I have other important things to do when I go back." ”

This reception decree must be well arranged!

Jia Lan bent down and said in a proper manner: "Yes! ”

Jia Yu shook his head and left directly.

This Jia Lan is really reading to death, the Jia family is a family of Jiangmen, what's the use of dying and studying?

Lin Daiyu in the back suddenly felt aggrieved, why did her uncle ignore her?

"Sister-in-law, go, I'll take you to the mansion given to you by the Holy Lord, it's too big!" Jia Lan stepped forward and said seriously.

Lin Daiyu was in a better mood at this time, and looked at Jia Lan: "Oh, General Jia, Daiyu is polite!" ”

Jia Lan scratched his head, his face turned red, and he was very embarrassed.

"Meow!" The little yellow cat stood on the head of the shovel and shouted.

Dinner! It's been an hour, why haven't you eaten yet!

Lin Daiyu: ......

Lele, who can eat so much, is still a little bit away from bankruptcy.

The Royal Palace, the Imperial Study.

Emperor Qing was reviewing the recital, and after a while, there were green tendons on his forehead, and it was obvious that what officials from all over the country were doing was really annoying.

After Chief Manager Chen came in to give a salute, he began to report: "Your Majesty, the two Huai Salt Quotations are sponsored by Lord Lin Ruhai, and the silver of the family atonement is added together, totaling 21,233,432 taels of silver.

Half of them have been escorted to the treasury, the other quarter has gone to the treasury of the emperor, and a quarter is in the treasury of His Majesty. ”

Emperor Qing soothed his brows, obviously this large amount of money was a relief for him and for the imperial court.

As for giving a quarter to the Emperor Taishang is a matter of course, the Emperor Taishang is old, but he is not dead, if he is unhappy, he still has the ability to flip the table at any time.

Although he has a great advantage now, even if he flips the table, the odds and advantages are here for him. But if Taishang is really forced to the point of flipping the table, then the history is like iron, how will he be remembered in the future?

Unfilial? Or is it unkind?

After pondering for a while, Emperor Qing looked at the folds and said strangely: "It is said that the officialdom of Jiangsu and Zhejiang is united, so why is it so smooth for Lin Ruhai to do things this time and let those misers take the initiative to hand over the atonement money?"

Could it be that the four major families made a move? ”

It stands to reason that Lin Ruhai is the son-in-law of the Jia family, if there are capable people in the four major families, recognize the reality, survive with a broken arm, and repent in time, it is really possible.

Manager Chen seemed to think of something, a trace of fear flashed in his eyes, and he said slowly: "Report to Your Majesty, of course the beginning was not smooth, after Lord Lin came up with evidence, there were two families who were dissatisfied, and even wanted to gather family members to attack the official office."

Then Mrs. Lin took action, with five hundred gold guards, in the name of counterinsurgency, directly suppressed, a spear in and out of the crowd, no one was invincible,

In the end, the blood-stained street, Mrs. Nalin calmly asked the others if they were convinced, and those people knelt in a pool of blood, and all swore to the heavens to express their convincing. ”

Emperor Qing: ???

Is this the daughter of the Jia family? Sure enough, convince people with virtue.

After being silent for a while, Emperor Qing continued to ask: "I look at the folds handed over by Lin Ruhai, in the past six months, he has dismissed half of the officials of the two Huai Salt Transport, how did he do it?" ”

Governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, and no matter what you do, you must be cautious, especially when there are many people involved, it is easy to cause mutiny.

Especially like Lin Ruhai, most of those officials and officials are locals, there are many people, and half of them are fired, so he is not afraid that the local officials will unite to send him away?

Manager Chen said with a smile: "Lord Lin took advantage of Mrs. Lin's situation at that time and directly announced that he would dismiss half of the officials.

But the specific half is left to those people to decide, and the remaining half of the officials, according to merit, doubles to triple, and the specific ones are also decided by themselves. ”

Emperor Qing was stunned for a moment, then bowed his head with satisfaction, and said with a smile: "Knowing how to be flexible, knowing how to advance and retreat, he is worthy of being my virtuous minister." ”

"Maxima is often available, Bole is not commonly used, or Your Majesty's discernment and gratitude, so that Lord Lin sacrificed his life to repay and did such a feat!" Manager Chen hurriedly agreed.

Emperor Qing's smile was even better: "You old thing, how good would it be if you put your sycophant kung fu on other things?" What about the back? Then Lin Ruhai directly dismissed half of the people who were pushed out? ”

Manager Chen was a little aggrieved: "What the slave said is the truth!"

As for the later, it was the half of the people who were dismissed by Lord Lin who were dismissed, leaving the first half of the list, the list of salary increases, leaving the back half, and all the others were dismissed and investigated.

If anyone is not convinced, Jin Wuwei will be stationed in his house the next day to check the accounts!

As a result, no one made trouble with Lord Lin, and many people directly reported their former colleagues, and some even fought directly. ”

Hearing this result, Emperor Qing frowned, speculated for a while, and suddenly felt that this treatment was really wonderful.

Those who are going to be dismissed, not to mention the others, must be small and powerful, even if such people want to be greedy, they can't be greedy, and there is a high probability that they are still those who are not gregarious or even greedy.

And those who come out with a salary increase, the more they rise, the more powerful they must be, and there are many greedy people, and what this kind of person is most afraid of is being investigated.

In this way, it is very likely that the people who can do practical things, are less greedy, and do not have much association. Not to mention the convenience of management, the person who was supposed to be dismissed, but was promoted and increased, must be loyal to Lin Ruhai.

"Wonderful!" Emperor Qing slapped the table and boasted.

sighed for a while, and after Emperor Qing's folding, Lin Ruhai's discussion of improving the treatment of salt workers did not pay much attention.

In the end, it is the few smart people who stand above ordinary people who govern the world. As long as those smart people are subdued, the people of the world will be stable.

As for those ordinary people, as long as they can get by, with their vision and knowledge, they may not care about who the person standing on their head is for the rest of their lives.

The study was quiet for a while, and Manager Chen said slowly: "The slave has to congratulate Your Majesty."

According to Lord Lin's estimates, the salt-making technology and the treatment of salt workers have been improved, and when Mrs. Lin leads the troops to merge the private salt pools in various parts of the two Huai, and then standardize the salt release, it is estimated that next year the salt tax will be a single one, and the actual income of the imperial court will be more than 3 million taels.

If we further standardize the transportation and tariffs in various places, the salt tax of our dynasty is likely to return to the level of 20 million taels at the peak of the previous dynasty within 10 years. ”

"20 million taels a year?" When Emperor Qing heard this number, he suddenly felt excited.

With so much money, disaster relief, border defense, and even sea transportation can be easily solved, which is the coming prosperity!

You must know that the 20 million taels obtained by the raid this time are the total deficit of two taels of silver in the past 20 years.

"Good, good! Lin Qing's family is really an important minister of our country! Deserve the prize, deserve the big prize! "Emperor Qing is overjoyed.

Manager Chen's eyes lit up, and he hinted: "Your Majesty, this time I brought Miss Daiyu back, she is well-behaved and delicate, simple and elegant, and she is really a good match!" ”

Emperor Qing: ???

This Manager Chen doesn't know, doesn't he know yet? According to Jin Wuwei's report, Lin Daiyu is simple and simple, but it is simple.

What kind of strength is it to break someone with one punch?

If this Lin Daiyu is allowed to marry a prince, then he can almost imagine the scene after a hundred years. The Jia family controls the army and city defense, and the Lin family controls the civil officials, and then this Lin Daiyu sits on the top of the Fengtian Hall and asks the civil and military officials.

"I am the Supreme, who agrees and who opposes?"

Isn't this the second person in Wu Zhou?

"Okay, you go down!" Emperor Qing waved his hand.

He really had to think about how this would be rewarded.

If the reward is too much, with the ability of Lin Ruhai and Jia Min, there may be no reward in the future, if it is less, it will chill the hearts of those who really want to do things.

If you want to do a good job, it is difficult to distinguish rewards and punishments.

"Yes." Mr. Chen stepped down aggrieved.

Miss Lin is delicate and cute, soft and weak, she is really a good match!

……

Lin House.

Located at the south gate of the Imperial Palace: the noon gate is only about a thousand zhang of the Royal Road Street, not only the only way for hundreds of officials to go to the court, but also the office of most of the household department is also close to the left.

It can be said that this is the safest street in the whole world, and it is also the street where you can see the most officials and nobles.

In the house, Lin Daiyu was feeding her younger brother Lin Enran, who had just moved in, with the sisters of Yingchun and Tanchun.

In the morning, Mrs. Jia gave an order to the daughters in the mansion to come to the Lin Mansion to take care of this granddaughter in their spare time every day.

After feeding a few mouthfuls and seeing that her brother was eating sweetly, Lin Daiyu swallowed a mouthful of water and stuffed the spoon directly into her mouth.

"Let's chirp~"

Then, my eyes lit up, and the things made by the imperial chef in this palace tasted unexpectedly good.

Yingchun said curiously: "Sister Lin, is it delicious?" ”

"It tastes good, come on, you can taste it too!"

After a few moments, the four little girls finished eating a bowl of unknown lotion.

Brother:???

This woman and that cat are simply his enemies for life!

"Meow~" The little yellow cat jumped over, and then became furious.

You don't even call him when you eat!

Suck up!

Even the bottom of the bowl was licked clean by him.

Brother:......

After playing around for a while, asking the cook to cook dinner for her younger brother again, Lin Daiyu suddenly thought of an important question.

"Lele, you say, if Your Majesty rewards me with 10,000 taels of silver, and I suddenly fall ill and need 9,999 taels of silver for treatment, what will you do?"

The little yellow cat was stunned and hesitated for a moment.

"Meow~"

What to do? Of course, it's done in a beautiful way! Anyway, I was a former shovel officer, I bought a wreath of ten taels with a gift of fifty taels, and then took one hundred taels to invite a troupe to sing for three days and three nights, and spent the rest by myself!

Besides, if you loved me, you wouldn't have such an expensive disease!

Lin Daiyu, who was full of anticipation, was dumbfounded, then clenched her fists, and fought with the little yellow cat in anger.

"Stinky Lele, I'll fight with you!"

Obviously, the battle of Yangzhou made her deeply understand one thing: practicing martial arts is to let people talk to her calmly!

"Meow~"

Oh, little shovel officer, don't measure yourself! Look at my Tai Chi mastery: twin peaks piercing the ears!

Yingchun and the others next to him looked at one person and one cat, and after a while, the courtyard was in a mess and dumbfounded.

Sister Lin, so good!

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