Zhang Jia shook his head and said, "This slave doesn't know! But those salt merchants have been rich for hundreds of years, and they are about the same!"

Emperor Wanli nodded again and again and said, "That's right! So I wondered if I should let him copy a few more salt merchants?"

Zhang Jia's face turned white with fright when he heard this, and he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Long live Lord, this can't be done! Wu Ninghou has made it clear in the notebook, this time he has reached the limit, and if he continues to do it, people's hearts will fluctuate, but it is not beautiful! And ......"

Speaking of this, Zhang Jia shut his mouth, and Emperor Wanli saw this and said, "And what? Go on!"

Zhang Jia glanced at Emperor Wanli, then bowed his head and plucked up the courage to say, "And if there is an agreement between Lord Wansui and Mr. Zhang, all this silver will go to the treasury!"

Hearing this, Emperor Wanli suddenly remembered the gentleman's agreement between him and Zhang Juzheng, and in an instant, his face turned pale, and the person also shook in the chair! For a while, it was heartache beyond measure! Then he was silent for a long time before he muttered, "How did I agree to this condition in the first place? I didn't expect these salt merchants to be so rich!"

As soon as Zhang Jia saw the appearance of Emperor Wanli, he knew that the old Zhu family's greed for money had been committed again! He couldn't help but feel angry and funny! However, in order to comfort Emperor Wanli, he still said, "Don't worry, Lord Banzai, with Wu Ninghou's ability to do things, he will definitely leave a share for Neiku!"

When Emperor Wanli heard this, he immediately came to his senses, nodded his head like a chicken pecking rice, and said, "Yes, yes, yes! Wu Ninghou can best understand my thoughts, and he will definitely leave me a copy! Even those rare treasures will definitely have a share of me!"

Speaking of this, Emperor Wanli clasped his hands in front of his chest and said with a fierce face: "There are many officials in the court who are not with me! If you copy them, I wonder how much silver you will be able to copy."

Zhang Jia had been serving Emperor Wanli for too long, and as soon as he saw Emperor Wanli's expression, he knew that he was really tempted this time! So he hurriedly said, "Long live Lord, you really can't be in a hurry about this matter! You really can't do that! Wu Ninghou made it clear in the recital that the turmoil caused this time was too great and would take a few years to calm down! And don't let those officials think that you are making a fortune by raiding your family, that will cause a big mess!"

Emperor Wanli thought about it for a while, and slumped into the chair unhappily and said, "Okay, I know! I'm not going to come here! But sooner or later, I'll clean up those unfaithful bastards!"

Speaking of this, he sat up straight and said, "Zhang Jia, you hurry up and send a letter back to Wu Ninghou, and ask him how much silver he can bring to me, and how many pieces of those treasures can he take?"

Zhang Jia saw that Emperor Wanli had finally changed his mind, so he was relieved and agreed! To be honest, he was also looking forward to seeing these people's bad luck, but there was less time!

Just when rumors were flying all over the Beijing Division, Liu Haojia was inspecting the salt works all over the coast! It took a lot of effort for him to take over the salt works this time, because the composition of the salt works was extremely complicated at this time!

The first part is the salt factory opened by the inner library, which is responsible for the eunuchs of the inner court! These salt farms are generally not large, and can only be regarded as medium-sized! The income is also very average, and the reason is very simple, that is, the steward sells part of the salt in the production part as official salt and records it, and sells the rest to the salt merchant privately!

There is also a part of the salt factory opened by the imperial court! The problem is almost the same as the salt pan opened by the inner court! And the strangest thing is that with the support of the government, these salt farms have never been profitable! The reason for this is probably just personnel corruption! Anyway, it's all a public business, and it's true that you take the opportunity to take out money and fat yourself, how can you have the heart to do business!

That's why the real salt farms by the sea are all privately opened! In addition to producing their own salt, these salt factories also have special personnel to collect the scattered salt produced by each family in the fishing villages by the sea. This method of gathering armpits into a fur greatly complements the production of salt. Therefore, these private salt farms are the main force of Daming salt production!

Now Liu Haojia is standing at the top of a salt field! In his opinion, this salt field is poorly planned! It's just that in the area near the coast there is a long pool of water to dry the seawater. The seawater in these drying ponds is exposed to the wind and sun, and the water evaporates to form a certain concentration of brine. Then the stove households will use large shallow iron plates to fill the brine with firewood and grass

Boil! For this reason, the salt works also planted a large number of reeds around it.

The dilapidated houses behind those drying pools are where the stove owners boil salt! After years of smoke and fire, the house has long been dilapidated! A little further away is where the stove households live! Although Liu Haojia didn't go deeper, he could see clearly, the houses were dilapidated, and the roads were uneven! Looking at the families of those stove households, not to mention that they are almost poor!

But the funny thing is that in these private salt farms, the stove households live much better than in the government salt works! At least the food supply can barely keep up! And the stove households in the government's salt field not only have to boil salt, but also have to go out to do odd jobs to barely meet the food and clothing of the family!

This time, Liu Haojia found that the problems of these salt farms are very unified! The salt production efficiency is low, too much firewood and grass are consumed, the labor cost is high, the quality of salt is too poor, and there are too many impurities! However, after unified planning, these problems can probably be solved!

At this time, there were two rows of people kneeling in front of Liu Haojia, these people were the stewards of the salt farm, the account office and the thugs! They just reported to Liu Haojia the situation of the entire salt farm!

Now there are more than 800 households in the entire salt farm, and there is also a salt collection team led by thugs! Every once in a while, they went to the surrounding villages to collect salt. The salt was all accumulated by the villagers by boiling seawater in addition to farming and fishing! But these thugs bid very low, and they repeatedly deducted, and those villagers dared to be angry!

After listening to the reports of these people, Liu Haojia waved his hand and asked the Jinyi guard behind him to step forward to speak. This brocade guard is just a lieutenant, and he will interrogate them in the future about how much salt they have sold, how much silver they have withheld, and so on! And Liu Haojia doesn't care about these little minions, he just wants them to spit out some dirty silver to subsidize the stove households!

Seeing Liu Haojia beckoning, a Jinyi guard captain stepped forward and said loudly to these people, "The previous things will be settled with you slowly!" But you can rest assured, I won't take your life, at most you will lose some silver, and you will be considered a bargain! But from today onwards, this official will be in the salt field! You can do whatever you have to do, the official just watches and listens! As long as you work hard, you can keep you safe, but if someone makes trouble, you will not be spared! Do you understand?"