The feudal lord is on Taobao every day

Hearing these words from a man who was so bold as to dare to play tricks on the court's important ministers, all the officials of the royal family present were in a delicate mood, and they were even a little dumbfounded. Just seeing Xie Jingan's expression, no one dared to laugh out loud. Even Wei Changshi tried his best to hold his face, and said seriously: "Your Highness is right, but since ancient times, people have died for wealth, and birds have died for food. I'm afraid those merchants from aristocratic families will easily refuse to agree."

"How about agreeing? So what if you don't agree?" Xie Jingan sneered, "I want to make a profit, but I don't want to pay the cost. How can there be such a good thing in the world? □?"

Seeing that Xie Jingan had made up his mind, all the subordinate officials knew that any further persuasion would be useless, so they tacitly changed the topic and talked about how to carry this matter forward.

Xie Jingan already had a plan in mind about this. He lightly tapped his fingers on the table and considered for a moment, and said with no refusal: "My lord has a regulation on this matter, you just do what I say."

Xie Jingan started planning three years ago, so naturally there was no plan, and then he made it clear to all the officials what he was going to do one by one.

Xie Jing'an said: "Although it is necessary to collect business taxes, it cannot be done overnight. Otherwise, merchants from all aristocratic families join hands to rebel, and this king's plan can only be shelved. Produce much finer and cheaper salt than it is now, and after the salt business of those family merchants is almost squeezed out, then a salt transportation department will be set up to allow them to sell salt with money or grain, what do you think?"

What do you think?All the subjects were speechless, what else could they think? They thought that King Shun said that there is a regulation and follow the general method, but who knows that it is so simple and rude, you have ruined their business. The road is gone, can't I only buy salt from you?

However, although the method is not very pleasant, it is indeed very useful. Anyway, King Shun always has his own method, and once it is decided, there is nothing that cannot be achieved. All the subordinates did not bother to say anything, and they clasped their hands together and said: "Your Highness is wise."

Sure enough, these years of secret service are useful, look at these subordinates, they are really obedient and capable, Xie Jingan is very satisfied, nodded and said: "As long as the Salt Transport Department is established, those merchants from aristocratic families will be the fish on the king's chopping board , when the time comes, it will be a matter of course to set up a Shibo department again, even if the merchants of the aristocratic family are not reconciled, it will not help the matter, and they can only let the king do whatever he wants."

Thinking about that scene, Xie Jing'an became excited. That was really a steady stream of huge wealth. With this money, what else could he want to do?At that time, he will have to spread cement roads all over the entire fief, build more than a dozen large ships, and sell those goods to foreign countries. What is the ability to make money from his own people? It is really awesome to exchange soap for gold from foreigners Woolen cloth.

With this kind of dream of getting rich, Xie Jing'an was particularly motivated. On the second day, he picked out the young men who were going to Cangzhou to build the sun salt field. Lin Yan's confidants picked him up and set off with him. He also started to work hard. To prepare a series of matters for selling salt, a shop needs to be opened, a caravan is needed, and it’s not a small number. After all, if you want to monopolize the salt in his fief, and even sell it all over the country, it’s not something that can be done with one or two caravans. The fiefdom is now developing in full swing, and people migrate here with their families every day, so I don't have to worry about people who want to do this job. Besides, there are still many prisoners in the fiefdom who broke up everyone. The caravan releases a few coolies, and they are not afraid of them acting as demons.

After being so busy for half a month, although all the preparations are not ready, they can still start to plan. Xie Jingan has been waiting for this day for a long time, and immediately began to implement it bluntly. Xie Jingan's entire fief was almost overnight. There are quite a few shops selling groceries, including condiments made by Xie Jingan's workshop, soaps, perfumes, small mirrors, etc., but the most popular ones are salt, which is pure white, without any impurities, and the price is lower than other merchants. It took more than a third, and the common people didn't believe it at the beginning. After they tasted the salt and knew that it was the shop opened by King Shun, they joined the rush-buying team like crazy.

Xie Jingan's business was booming, but some people's business was sluggish. It didn't take much time and effort, and other salt shops were in a slump. Merchants from aristocratic families swarmed into Xie Jingan's palace like sharks smelling blood. The scene was no less than the day when Xie Jingan established the chamber of commerce.

It's just that merchants from aristocratic families didn't take Xie Jingan seriously at the time of the Chamber of Commerce, but now it's completely reversed. During the entire negotiation process, merchants from aristocratic families were extremely aggrieved, and finally signed the contract with great reluctance. Xie Jing'an is very happy, he has been planning for many years, and he has finally achieved half of it. After that, he will set up the Maritime Shipping Department, formally intervene in merchant shipping, and manage and collect taxes in a unified manner.

After watching all the merchants from the aristocratic families leaving the palace with pig liver expressions, Xie Jingan was so excited that he couldn't sit still in his chair. After a lot of things, this excitement didn't last long, Xie Jingan quickly calmed down, and he realized one thing at the same time, I'm afraid the current calm situation won't last long.

Others in the palace were obviously aware of this problem, especially Lin Yan, who had already recruited a group of good martial arts fighters from the new guards to act as Xie Jingan's old guards and his second line of defense.

If Xie Jing'an was not happy in the past, but he is no longer the same as before, so after he knew it, he didn't express any objection, but instead praised Lin Yan a few words, which made Lin Yan and others feel relieved .

Xie Jingan had become really self-willed these years, and had done countless times of private visits on microservices, they were really afraid that Xie Jingan would not cooperate, and they would continue to do such dangerous things as they wished.

The next few days were indeed not peaceful, but unlike what Xie Jingan expected, there was no disturbance in his fief, but a storm in Chang'an. According to the news from the dark guards in Chang'an, many The aristocratic family joined forces with the ministers to impeach Xie Jing'an crazily, and completely described Xie Jing'an as a tyrannical vassal king who extorted money, was greedy and disregarded the life and death of the people.

Xie Jing'an had expected this, so he didn't panic at all, but took out the booklet that he had prepared long ago, and sent it to Chang'an quickly.

He understands Emperor Kang Ping's temperament, reprimand is probably inevitable, and it is possible to refute him, but it is impossible to let him completely cancel this plan, after all, he used a long paragraph in the booklet to describe the reason why he did so , a large part of it was those merchants who enjoyed everything brought by the Great Zhou Dynasty, but did not pay anything. In the end, they promised to allocate half of the taxes he collected and hand them over to the Ministry of Households every six months. This is not a small number. Furthermore, Emperor Kang Ping could get such a large amount of money for nothing without doing anything, and it still kept flowing. I believe that he can withstand the pressure and will not disappoint Xie Jingan.

Sure enough, although the whole of Chang'an was a bit bloody in the next few days, Xie Jing'an's plan was not affected at all, except that Emperor Kang Ping issued several non-painful imperial edicts to warn him one after another, there was nothing else.

Now that even Emperor Kangping indulged in a disguised form, Xie Jingan became even more impolite, and began to rectify the matters of Cangzhou and other coastal towns and seaports. At the same time, the benefits of Grand Master Yang coming to join him began to appear.

In just half a month, the number of scholars who came to serve him from all over the Great Zhou Dynasty was close to three digits, most of them were students of Taishi Yang, and Xie Jingan was so happy that he didn't know what to do. I want Grand Master Yang to follow the example of the Three Kingdoms and form a friendship with Jinlan.

On this day, Xie Jing'an received a few more scholars who came to serve him, and the corporal Li Xian communicated with him amiably. He had just sent them away, and was going to call Wei Changshi, Liu Zhubo, Grand Master Yang and others to discuss how to arrange it. When these people waited, they saw Cui Tong stepping in the door and presented him with a gold-plated post.

He is busy with his affairs now, and Cui Tong seldom bothers him with this kind of thing unless it is a big one, so with a little curiosity, he took it and opened it while looking through it, and asked casually: "Who sent in the post?"

Cui Tongdao: "The Chen family handed it over. On the tenth of the next month, Mrs. Chen is celebrating his birthday. He wants to invite His Highness to the house. I think that Mrs. Chen has done a lot of practical things for His Highness over the years. His Highness should do it in a reasonable way." Go, the little one will accept the post."

For Mr. Chen's entire life, thinking of the old man with cloudy eyes but a clear heart, Xie Jingan felt that he would go. After all, Mr. Chen has been supporting his various government orders in recent years, which is also due to his contribution, nothing else is fine. Such a whole life should be done, not to mention that Mrs. Chen is seventy years old. According to the life expectancy of this age, I am afraid that he may not be able to participate in the next whole life.

Thinking of this, Xie Jingan flipped through the post, closed it and handed it back to Cui Tong, agreeing, "Then send someone to the Chen residence to inform, and the king will definitely be there."

Cui Tong responded and took over the post, and asked again: "What about the birthday ceremony? Your Highness, do you want to ask in person? Or leave it to Director Qin to handle it?"

Xie Jing'an pondered for a while, and didn't know what to give, so he said: "Let Director Qin prepare it, Mrs. Chen is getting old, so he must prepare more medicinal materials, let Director Qin prepare more rare and good medicinal materials , and some playthings, it’s about the same.”

Cui Tong thought about it, and felt that there was nothing to be picky about, so he also agreed, but when he was about to leave, he remembered something again, and couldn't help saying: "Then His Highness Zhouquan... Old Mrs. Chen is going to celebrate his birthday, so he will definitely have a banquet on that day. Few people, there are so many people with miscellaneous eyes, will someone take the opportunity to fish in troubled waters? It's not good for His Highness?"

Xie Jing'an didn't expect this, so he couldn't help being startled for a moment, and after thinking for a while, he shook his head and said: "Old Master Chen and this king are old acquaintances, and besides, my wealth and life are in my hands, so I definitely won't do anything that is not good for me. As for the others, let Jiang Zheng and Shen Wei pay more attention, I believe that in this king's fiefdom, even if those people have three heads and six arms, they will never get close to my body and hurt me."

This is true, today's Mozhou is almost like an iron bucket run by Xie Jingan. Even if someone really assassinates, with the number of guards around him now, plus Lin Yan's skill, he is afraid that he will be hacked to death before he even reaches him. up.

After Xie Jing'an finished speaking, Cui Tong also felt the same, so he didn't say any more, and went down to do his errands after saying yes.