When I woke up, I was dressed as a woman

After investigating Yunguo for a while, Yin Xian found a feasible and promising path—salt and iron franchise.

The salt and iron in Yunguo are all mined freely by the people, and then bought by merchants, because the cost is low, the price is high, and the profit is extremely considerable. people smuggling?

Money can turn ghosts, some people will not bend their waists for five buckets of rice, but some people will take risks for huge profits.

He has been in this world for so long, and he knows a lot about some things in life. Naturally, prices are a must. It can be said that without salt, he can't cook at all, because he doesn't want to treat himself badly in terms of food. , so even though the price of salt was so painful, he still gritted his teeth and bought a lot.

At that time, he hadn't earned much money, he only bought some paper at the beginning, and later he had more money, so he didn't feel bad anymore.

Food is the most important thing for the people. In this agriculture-heavy society, food is many times more precious in the eyes of the public than in the eyes of modern people. The price of food is a good reflection.

Rice can be divided into brown rice and polished rice. Brown rice sells for about seven or eight yuan a catty here, but polished rice can be sold for seventeen or eight yuan a catty, which is more than doubled.

But salt can be sold for one or two hundred yuan a catty!

One can imagine the profits.

Therefore, it is not uncommon for the rich to get richer and the poor poorer.

As for iron, it is also found and mined by the people themselves. Sometimes, if the government wants to use it to make weapons or other things, they have to buy it from merchants, but the price will be cheaper than the market.

Of course, the government itself is also doing these two things, but the scale is very small. After all, in order to emphasize agriculture and restrain business, it values ​​agriculture. Although it will not suppress business, it is not an attitude to advocate it. If the government itself is vigorously developing business, Isn't that a disguised advocacy for the public?

How could the government do such a self-defeating thing.

Therefore, the commercial tax of Yunguo is not small, quite considerable, but this tax is only paid once a year, and compared with the silver taels needed by the country, it is nothing at all, and it cannot be worth much.

What's more, there are still many tax evaders. This kind of thing is not only unique to modern times. Even because the world's information is not developed at all, these things are done more than in modern times.

The ancients were not stupid, they were even very smart, at least, in this era that belonged to them, Yin Xian thought that he could not compare with the people here in many ways.

He wrote down the plan all night, and wrote down all the details of the salt and iron franchise system, regardless of size. On the second day, instead of going directly to the palace, he went to Prince Yuan's Mansion, found Meng Lingxin, and handed over the plan. Show it to Meng Lingxin.

After Meng Lingxin read it, she couldn't help sighing in her heart, if only this Yin Xian was really a woman!

His talent and knowledge were stronger than many women Meng Lingxin had met.

Even Su Yu, who is well-known in the capital, Meng Lingxin believes that maybe Yin Xian can't compare to her in being an official, but Su Yu is far inferior to him in business.

However, although the project proposal is good, she still has a few questions to ask.

The biggest problem is, "Taking salt and iron as a state-run business will affect the interests of many people, right? You must know that those merchants have backers behind them, otherwise they would not have operated for so long without incident."

Yin Xian put down the teacup she had just taken a sip of, "I can't tell. I have tried my best to control the reduction of profits, but who made them set the price too high and get too much profit? Besides, princess, what do you say?" wrong."

"What?" Meng Ling asked heartily.

Yin Xian looked up at her, "The monopoly of salt and iron I'm talking about is not a state-run system, but private production and government monopoly, that is to say, they are still produced and mined by the private sector, but purchased by the government, and then adjusted the price and sold on the market. .”

Meng Lingxin looked at the plan in her hand again, and realized that she had misunderstood it. After listening to Yin Xian's words, she immediately understood the benefits of Yin Xian's method.

First of all, they can not completely offend those merchants, they still make some money, but not as much as before, and it can also reduce the burden on the common people. You know, the price of salt has always been a big problem in Yunguo, but it has never been No one has thought about how to solve it, or how to solve it, because the upper class is not short of money, and naturally there is no shortage of money to buy salt, so they don't really care about the price of salt , and only occasionally the voices of the people come up, and someone will mention a few words.

But will the backers behind those merchants sit idly by?Most of them rely on the profits from the salt price to be very rich and have no shortage of money. This is directly related to their own interests, and naturally it is impossible to sit idly by. Therefore, even if this matter is raised every time, It's all big things and small things that can be turned into the past.

Although Meng Lingxin has not been in the central court for many years, she is also a commoner living in Yunguo. There are problems in the interior, but there are no problems in the border?Of course there are, even though she is at the border, the problem of salt price has not changed because of the different geographical location.

However, Meng Lingchuan is like those pampered and well-off officials' children, she seldom thinks about things before they happen to her, not to mention the borders are far away, even if she wants to do something, she has nowhere to start.

But now that Yin Xian has done it, if this thing is done, the benefits of the people will be obvious, and the high price of salt will not be a problem.

only……

"If you do this, you will undoubtedly offend many people. Although they have not completely lost their interests, this benefit is not as good as the benefits of operating salt now. Presumably, there will be many people who will hate you in the future. , are you really not afraid?" Meng Ling asked heartily.

How could Yin Xian not know this, but even if he doesn't do this, someone will definitely do it in the future, and for getting money fast, this way can't be better. Maybe you don't tell the queen, when the queen knows this way, won't she be jealous?

The high profit of salt makes countless people crazy about it. This is for those merchants, but for others, wouldn't they have such an idea?

He believed that when the time came, even if he had to sacrifice him in exchange for this benefit, the empress would not hesitate,

Regardless of the Queen's approachable appearance, she treats him like an ordinary junior, but in fact Yin Xian has never let go of the Queen. It can be said that as long as it is in that position, no matter who is sitting on it, he will not be afraid of it. May rest assured.

It is precisely because of the sobriety he keeps at all times that he will not get lost in this very strong favor in the eyes of outsiders.

The emperor was angry, bleeding and drifting away.

Yin Xian doesn't want to test others with his own body.

"I thought about it. In the eyes of outsiders, I am the queen's man. Even if I make any decision, the queen will implement it outside. Even if they want to do something to me, they can't ignore the queen behind me, so , please leave Yin Xian's wealth and life to His Majesty and Princess!"

Naturally, he couldn't do this purely for the sake of the queen. In fact, half of the reason was for the future affairs with Meng Lingchuan. He is doing well now, and he has come up with so many good ideas. The more dangers and disadvantages he encounters, The Queen and the others owed him more, and even if things broke out in the future, they might punish him less for the sake of these things.

Yin Xian thought well, but he just hoped that he would not capsize in the gutter, if something happened to someone who took revenge, he would lose his wife and lose his army!

Ah bah, at that moment his life was gone, even if he didn't lose his wife or soldiers, he couldn't enjoy it anymore.

Yin Xian thought secretly.

If I told Meng Lingchuan about this and said that I did it for Meng Ling's heart, would I get more distressed?

However, this kind of thing can only be thought about. Meng Lingchuan still has no explanation for the fact that he still disguises himself as a woman. If there is another trick at this moment, and the new and old accounts will be settled together in the future, he will really have no way out. up!

After thinking wildly for a while, he bid farewell to Prince Yuan's mansion, instead of entering the palace, he let Meng Lingxin tell the Queen about it by himself, while he went to the store to deal with daily problems.

After a few days of looking for people and training, there are already several employees in the store, and these employees are all people who have been ordered by the emperor to go out of the palace to work for the queen. Yin Xian's surprise.

However, Yin Xian knew that the surprise was also because in his eyes, these people were all women, and he still had some obstacles in his mind to the change of identity, position and ability of men and women. After all, he lived happily in the previous world. 30 years, and here, only for a few months.

In fact, if he had the chance to go back, he would probably go back, and the reason why he might not go back was naturally Meng Lingchuan.

He doesn't have much nostalgia in this world, and he even wants to avoid it. After all, he is "heavy in debt". If it was poured out, he might only have one idea of ​​running away.

Alas, thinking of this, he began to worry about himself and Meng Lingchuan again. If he is a man disguised as a woman, he will always be a bomb if he keeps silent. What's more terrifying is that he doesn't know when it will explode.

He wanted to cut one of the threads by himself, but he was afraid that the one he cut would be the one that accelerated the explosion of the gun instead of stopping it from exploding, so he hesitated.

On the other hand, Meng Lingxin took Yin Xian's writing into the palace and showed it to the queen. The queen's reaction was naturally predictable. She wished Yin Xian could move into the palace and write various plans for her every day. But she also knew that this was impossible, so she felt emotional.

"Xin'er, tell me, it would be great if Yin Xian was a man, and I would take him into the palace to be my nominal concubine, but actually my adviser, how great would that be?"

Meng Lingxin had been sitting upright and listening to the queen's speech, or had some advice or advice, but after waiting for a long time, such a thunderous empowerment word came!

She was so shocked that she almost lost her wits!

Cautiously raised his head to see the project proposals in front of him who were looking at them with great interest, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

Just now, what the queen said really shocked her. For a moment, she even thought it was the queen's temptation. In fact, she had already doubted Yin Xian's identity, but she didn't make it clear because of the relationship. Just trying it out without a trace.

However, looking at the current appearance of the queen, Meng Lingxin suddenly felt that he was worrying too much. Even if the queen had a bright eye, it was impossible for her to know this secret, right?

That sentence just now should be emotion, not some kind of temptation. After all, she has never shown any clues, and Yin Xian's cautious appearance will certainly not reveal anything.

What's more... With Yin Xian's appearance, would anyone think he is a man disguised as a woman?

Meng Ling couldn't help laughing in her heart, thinking, if Yin Wen hadn't told her before that Yin Xian looked exactly like her, she wouldn't have recognized Yin Xian as a man disguised as a woman, it's clear...a woman!

Thinking of this, Meng Ling felt more at ease, and thought again, Yin Xian has made a lot of contributions to this matter, if the empress made some discounts, how sorry would he be?

So in front of the queen, he told the queen what Yin Xian said again, and in front of the queen, he praised Yin Xian again and again, until his mouth was almost dry, and the queen waved his hand in disgust , "Okay, okay, I know what you mean, don't worry, I can still treat him badly?"

Meng Ling thought it was the same, so he didn't say any more about Yin Xian, and it was not good to talk too much.

Meng Lingxin went back to the mansion. When she returned to the room, she was obviously in a good mood. When Lan Zhusheng saw her coming back, she quickly put down the embroidery in her hand, and walked forward to wait for her to undress.

"What good thing happened to the wife master today? Why are you so happy?"

Meng Ling waved her hand, "It's nothing, it's something you men don't understand."

Lan Zhusheng glanced at her, but didn't say much to refute. She just stopped, turned her head and said to her personal waiter, "My wife is very angry tonight, let the kitchen cook some lighter dishes, by the way, Add two bitter gourd dishes."

The male waiter raised his eyes slightly, gave Meng Lingxin a sympathetic look, and said, "Yes, little one, let's go."

After he left, Meng Lingxin smiled sarcastically, "Don't be so cruel, Fulang..." You must know that she hates eating that terrible thing the most!And it's winter now, what kind of fire is falling!

Lan Zhusheng was serious, and looked at Meng Lingxin with slightly reproachful eyes on her face, "Why is the wife so inattentive to her body? What should I do if I get burned? Zhusheng has little knowledge in government affairs, and I can't hear you." I don't understand, so I have to care about my wife in life, this is Zhusheng's responsibility as a husband, and I hope the wife doesn't make things difficult for Zhusheng."

Meng Lingxin: "..."

Well, she finally heard it.

Today is the second day of refreshing Meng Ling's understanding. Everything is good, except... the bitter gourd at night.