Back to the Ming Dynasty to be a tyrant

Freedom of movement - freedom of movement on the high deck without staying in the cabin all the time.

It was precisely because of this that Xu Xianchun saw many scenes that he had never seen before.

The Cao Gang is awesome, and there are some even more awesome existences.The only thing that is hard is the ordinary ship.

Regardless of whether it is the boats of the Cao Gang or the boats attached to a certain mansion, just sail on the canal. As for the boats of the common people, just give way obediently.

As for the places where the boats are not easy to go, and where people need to pull the fibers, ordinary ships need to pay to hire people to pull the fibers.

However, none of the Cao Gang and those ships from the XX government paid the money at all.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to rest on the shore, Xu Xianchun sent out the Jin Yiwei under his command.

All the way to the south, all the way to the school, when they arrived in Yangzhou, Xu Xianchun was accompanied by three or four Jinyiwei thousands of households and so on.

After waiting seven or eight days in Yangzhou, the people sent out along the way slowly gathered together.

After several people finished their reports, Xu Xianchun's face became more and more gloomy.

After a long while, Xu Xianchun finally said, "Yangzhou's Salt Gang, let's find a way to get their bottom line. We'll go to Shandong in two days."

Miao Shoumo, who has been quite bullish lately, has been thrown into the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen in Shaanxi, and Zhu Gang is always by Emperor Chongzhen's side. These people who are following him now are loyal and capable enough, but they always It makes people feel like something is missing.

Xu Xianchun, who was unwilling to take risks at such a time, chose the safest method. After collecting almost all the information along the way, he first went to get the successor of the Mohist family into the capital.

As for the Cao Gang and the Yanxiao along the way, all we need to do is figure out the situation, and the rest will be decided by His Majesty the Emperor.

It's just that Xu Xianchun can't imagine how rampant private salt in Yangzhou has become.

The Ming Dynasty, like the former Tang Dynasty, was a salt and iron official camp.

However, if there is a salt monopoly, there must be private salt.

The stricter the monopoly of the salt industry, the easier it is to sell private salt and the higher the profit.This is an objective law.

Daming did not take advantage of this rule.

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there were still Yuan troops stationed outside the northwest, threatening the security of the Central Plains, so the Ming Dynasty stationed troops in that area.

If there is a garrison, it is necessary to supply food and grass for a long time, which has become a big burden on the Ming Dynasty's finances.

Therefore, Lao Zhu, the founding ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, Hongwu Emperor, came up with a good method——opening the middle system, and later changed the opening of the middle system to the color folding system——as long as a certain amount of silver is paid, merchants in any area can receive salt lead to trade.

But there is a key problem in this-you have to pay first!

Originally, it was a good thing for the salt dealers to be able to get salt from anyone, but after such a calculation, this matter did not make people so happy.

But just like the saying that there are policies and there are countermeasures, since it costs money to get salt, wouldn't it be better to find a way to spend less money, or get salt at no cost at all?

There is a saying that if you want to act, you must act, and the opportunity will never come again-Huizhou and Shanxi merchants immediately acted.

If you want to make money, you have to spend it first.Otherwise, how do you get in?

But spending money is also important.

Otherwise, if you just go up by yourself and give money directly, would the officials dare to accept it-who are you, you just give money, do I know you very well?Don't you know that I always treat money like dung?

Since it’s not enough to send money directly, no problem, let’s change the routine and get it.

Send calligraphy and paintings, send antiques, and those famous seals and so on.

How big would it be to carry a thousand taels of silver to the door?What a system.

But a famous calligraphy and painting may be worth a thousand taels, and it doesn’t take up much space when rolled up, so you can bring it to your door.

As an official, you can't refuse a gift from a guest, can you?It's not something valuable, is it?

The adults said that this painting is worth 1000 taels of silver?

Ouch, my lord Qingtian, I bought this for five taels of silver from Wang Ermazi on the street.

Didn't it just happen that I heard that you are a master at appreciating calligraphy and painting, so I took the liberty of bringing this thing to the door for advice?

If adults also think this painting is good, the villain will resell it to you for only five taels of silver.

What?My lord has a breeze in his sleeves and doesn't have five taels of silver, but he likes this painting very much?

Ouch, look, this is what happened.It has long been heard that my lord, you love the people like a son, but now that a big family spends so much, there is really no way to save that little salary.

That's it, this painting, I'll enlarge it to you, you can appreciate it for the villain, let's go to the red building to get together some other day.

Just like this, don't we all become friends?

Now that we've become friends, shouldn't friends help each other?

When things are settled, will there be friendship between friends?The adults and the villains are friends, and now the court is stingy, the adults are tight, and the villains can't stand it!

How about this, here are dozens of taels of silver bills, my lord will use them first.

It's just that how these tens of taels turned into tens of thousands of taels may be a mistake made by the bank.

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Facts have proved that the officials and gentlemen of Ming Dynasty don't care about principles at all, and no one takes Daming Law seriously - there are very few idiots like Hai Rui after all.

It's like the Ming Dynasty, in order to put an end to the problem of private salt, specially set the Lianghuai salt transportation history and the Lianghuai salt transportation censor in Yangzhou.

However, Lin Weifeng, the biggest salt smuggler, is also fucking in Yangzhou.

Moreover, Lin Weifeng, who is a merchant from Huizhou, is different from those veterans from Shanxi merchants.

In other words, the group of Huizhou merchants look down on those veterans of Shanxi merchants.

What do you do when you have money?

If you are rich, you have to enjoy life, right?

Look at what those old guys from the Northwest do?

The built house is imposing and solid, but it's not pretty, it's gray and depressing to look at.

As for those old people themselves, they still like to wear old sheepskin robes, eat steamed buns, put green onions and garlic, and leave a big box of ingots in the cellar after they die, but they are only willing to spend two taels of silver to buy a coffin for themselves.

Our Huizhou merchants are not as low-level as they are, so vulgar!

Take a look at the houses of our Huizhou merchants. It is relaxed, open, and pleasant. It uses aesthetic taste to dispel the strictness of power and hierarchy in the courtyards of those old people. How wonderful.

As for ordinary life, eating well, living well, and using well, this is life, isn’t it?