Yanyuan Yamen, Lin Zhongtang.

Lin Ruhai's face was still a little skinny. He looked at Han Bin who was sitting across from him like an old farmer and said with a smile: "Mr. Ban, there are rumors that you only showed up in Jinling yesterday. Why are you here in Yangzhou Mansion now? Are you in a hurry to get my seal?"

Han Bin took a sip of tea, smacked his mouth after eating, and did not answer. Instead, he looked at Fan Lin Ruhai again and said in a deep voice: "Is your body and bones saved? I received the book you presented. Your Majesty is sincerely sincere.

Knife cut, I mentioned this in the note sent to me, Zhu Pi said three painful words! He also told me to take care of my health... Ruhai, you can be regarded as an old minister of the emperor, and there are only a few ministers who live in the palace. In terms of economy

Of all the talents, you, the Tanhua Lang, are the strongest. In recent years, without you, the Salt Patrol Censor, to pay the increasing taxes on the salt industry to the capital every year, many problems would have been difficult for His Majesty to solve."

Chen Rong was sitting with him in the guest seat. When he saw the two people meeting for the first time in the main seat, he couldn't help but feel speechless.

Ban Shan Gong is Ban Shan Gong after all. It stands to reason that Lin Ruhai is the chief official of the Yanyuan Yamen and has a very powerful background. However, against Han Bin, he cannot even control the initiative.

Because Han Bin is stronger!

Lin Ruhai was born as a Tanhualang, but Han Bin was born as a Number One Scholar.

Lin Ruhai's background is naturally powerful. Although Han Bin does not have such a background, with his twenty-eight years of traveling in the bitter cold frontiers, governing the people and the country, and shouldering the hope of the world, how can he be inferior to Yu Yin, the ancestor of the Lin family?

?

What's more, he is older than Lin Ruhai.

Fortunately, Lin Ruhai's state of mind has greatly increased recently, so he did not argue about the length of this moment, and laughed and said: "I never thought that I could come out of the Palace of Hell alive."

After taking a closer look at his energy, Han Bin slowly exhaled and nodded: "It's best if nothing happens! Ruhai, I rushed to Yangzhou Mansion this time at starry night. I was worried that you would be dead, so I came here specifically to move.

Yanyuan Yamen. This is the worst plan, because the Liangjiang Governor's Yamen is also in a mess. But the salt tax is too important, I can't ignore it. Now that I see you are fine, I feel more relaxed."

Lin Ruhai heard this and said hurriedly: "Mr. Banshang, since the decree has been conveyed, the salt affairs should naturally be handed over..."

Before he could finish speaking, Han Bin waved his hand and said: "This is the moment, that moment, Ruhai, brother, although you and I have never met, we have exchanged letters for many years, and sooner or later we will be ministers in the same palace, so don't waste time on this false love.

I've declined. You must take care of the salt affairs first. At least, share it with me for half a year. After I straighten out the governor's office in Jiangning, I can take over it. It's more complicated and more complex than yours.

Trouble. I'll send it to you later... Ruhai, you have been in charge of the Yanyuan Yamen for thirteen years. You have been a clean and honest official, which is rare in ancient times. Who in the government and the public would not admire you? You are familiar with the government affairs here, so even if your body is not strong enough,

Heal, as long as you are here, there will be no chaos in Yangzhou Salt Affairs."

When Lin Ruhai heard this, he was almost ashamed and shook his head and said: "I feel ashamed to say it. I used to think so. I always felt that at least the situation in Yangzhou could be stabilized. But I didn't expect that the news of Ban Shangong being appointed as the governor of Liangjiang came to me from outside the Yamen.

I only heard about it in rumors..."

Hearing this, Han Bin frowned visibly and said in a deep voice: "You're not dead, so why have you reached this point? It seems that your methods are usually too light, so you can't suppress them at critical moments.

Come on. Brother Ruhai, use thunderbolt tactics to show your bodhisattva heart. Don't be pedantic. You must not imitate the stinky habit of those old ministers in the Jingchu Dynasty who were all docile and harmonious!"

Lin Ruhai accepted it with shame, nodded and said: "Yes, the only thing I have gained from sitting in Yangzhou for more than ten years is that merchants must not be discouraged, but they must not let it go. Otherwise, there will be chaos!"

Han Bin was overjoyed when he heard this. He clapped his hands and smiled and said: "Ruhai has this opinion, I don't have to worry anymore. Naturally, I don't care about the well-behaved businessmen. But I can be arrogant about the unscrupulous businessmen who think they have a few taels of stinky silver.

Lawless businessmen should be ruthless. The country has long had laws and regulations: the illegal sale of salt is the same crime as the illegal minting of silver, and they are both imperial crimes! According to the emperor Zhu's pen, killing will not harm the peace of the world. Therefore, women must not be allowed to

Benevolence."

Lin Ruhai sighed in his heart, he had known for a long time that this gentleman was extremely generous and kind to the common people and farmers, but he did not expect that this old official seemed to hate the merchants.

However, thinking about the current situation of the country, it seems that it is too loose, and it does need an iron-fisted military aircraft to rectify it.

Thinking of this, he nodded and said: "Mr. Banshan's words are reasonable. If you are ruthless, you should be ruthless. The ruthlessness towards evildoers is the kindness towards good people."

Han Bin laughed loudly and said: "I said that Ruhai will not be as good as those pedantic officials and rotten scholars, but they are the pillars of the country!"

While talking, Lin Ruhai suddenly saw the butler appearing outside the door. He stood outside the door and did not dare to go in, but he did not retreat.

He frowned slightly and asked, "What's the matter?"

After hearing the inquiry, the housekeeper hurriedly entered and told everything about what happened in the Mei family.

The entourage only followed them to the second gate of Meiyuan, so Butler Wang finally said: "Now, my aunt has entered the inner house, and Second Master Qiang has been arranged in the side hall."

When Lin Ruhai heard this, he laughed angrily, shook his head, and smiled at Han Bin: "The Mei family is the descendant of Mr. Fu Weng. I didn't expect that his family would be so obedient."

Han Bin said with a sullen face: "Each one of them is better informed than the last. Brother Ruhai, have you seen that? These people rely on their money and their magical powers. Knowing that you are leaving, even if it is very likely that you will return to Beijing and get promoted,

But as long as you leave Yangzhou Mansion, they dare not take you seriously. Once such a person indulges, big trouble will happen! Brother Ru Hai, you must not be merciful!"

Hearing this, Lin Ruhai nodded slowly and said, "I just thought they were watching me take a break, but I didn't think deeply about it. Only after hearing the words of Monkey King, did I realize that... this is really the case." After a pause, Lin Ruhai looked towards

Chen Rong, who was sitting with him as a guest, said: "Mian Ren, immediately lead a team of salt men to surround the Feng family in Beicheng, lock up all the men of the Feng family, and thoroughly investigate the Qinghe Gang's case of selling illegal salt."

Chen Rong's expression changed suddenly when he heard this, but he had no intention of interceding for the Feng family at all.

If a person is bent on death, even God will be hard-pressed to save him.

Han Bin suddenly asked: "Is the Mei family clean?"

Lin Ruhai frowned slightly when he heard this. After pondering for a while, he said to Han Bin: "If someone who does salt work says they are completely clean, they cannot be trusted. The Mei family also has some tricks, but generally speaking, they are pretty well-behaved."

Han Bin snorted, raised his face like an old farmer, but his tone was extremely domineering, and said: "Only one Feng family can be used to intimidate people's hearts. Brother Ruhai, the new salt policy of the imperial court is coming, and it will be unprecedented.

Great changes will definitely affect the fundamental interests of the eight major salt merchants. Today, it is just a good time for the two families of Mei and Feng to use their heads to scare the monkeys and deter the rebellious thieves! You don’t need to do this evil thing. I, the governor of Liangjiang, are also in charge of salt affairs. This first

According to the government order, let’s start with the Feng family and the Mei family first!”

Lin Ruhai frowned deeply when he heard this, and then sighed helplessly...

Mr. Fu Weng, I'm sorry.

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Meiyuan, Meiqingtang.

Side hall.

Mei Gu could only suffer from Jia Qiang's sarcastic words that almost broke her face.

After all, the Mei family had never thought about really breaking up with the Yanyuan Yamen. They just wanted to use today's birthday banquet to show their innocence in front of the major families in Yangzhou Prefecture.

As for the Lin family... the Mei family still hopes to maintain the in-law relationship secretly, and also wants Lin Ruhai's help at critical moments.

Of course, I can only say that hope is beautiful...

But the reality is obviously very cruel.

At least judging from Jia Qiang's attitude, this time, the Mei family has deeply offended the Lin family and the Jia family in Beijing.

Mei Gu was filled with hatred in her heart, but with a smile on her face, she repeatedly invited Jia Qiang to sit down.

If Jia Qiang still refused to sit down, she would turn around and leave.

If it were him, he would be able to tolerate it a little bit.

But he came here today on behalf of Lin Ruhai, how could he suffer such a great humiliation?

Lin Ruhai has been a powerful figure in Yangzhou for more than ten years. If Jia Qiang takes a seat in the side hall today, Lin Ruhai will make everyone in Yangzhou laugh and lose his reputation.

It's just that Mei Gu didn't dare to stop Jia Qiang. Unexpectedly, Jia Qiang was blocked by a pair of twins.

"The young man from the capital is indeed very impressive. He sits with us young people from Yangzhou Prefecture and humiliates you?"

"That's right, we are all of the same generation. Although you are from a powerful family in the capital, we Yangzhou people are not as good as you, but are we all humiliating you when we sit together?"

These two twins are insidious and know how to stir up hatred.

Jia Qiang sneered and asked, "Who are you from the Mei family?"

The twins laughed together and said: "We are not from the Mei family. My name is Feng Zuo (Feng You), and his name is Feng You (Feng Zuo)."

Jia Qiang glanced at the two of them and said: "It turns out to be the Feng family. I have just experienced the Feng family's Qinghe Gang's ability to set up the Longmen Bureau to harm people. I thought it was just a servant of the Feng family who did evil things out of mind. I see you two today."

Only people know what it means to have a crooked upper beam and a crooked lower beam. If you only see the Qinghe Gang, you can't tell who your Feng family is. But seeing you two like this today, you can tell that everyone in your Feng family is despicable and shameless.

"

"Hahaha!"

No one is a fool. At first, some people in the side hall might be angry after hearing what the Feng twins said.

But if you think about it again, today Jia Qiang came to represent Lin Ruhai, and the words of the Feng family twins seemed a bit vicious and vicious.

But they didn't expect that Jia Qiang would scold the Feng family so directly.

We are all decent people on weekdays. No matter how cruel we are in private fights, at least on the surface we are still behaving like gentlemen.

Even if you break up, the main thing is to "convince people with reason." Have you ever seen such a vigorous behavior?

A group of juniors in the side hall looked at the excitement and laughed heartily.

There were even more hecklers, which made the Feng family twins furious, and then they made the most regretful move in their lives...

The two became so angry that they lost their minds and actually wanted to fight Jia Qiang.

Jia Qiang sneered, at the age of second grade, she could really do the things that second grader did.

It's just that these melons probably don't know that his apparent identity is after Wu Xun!

Following the arms that the two men grabbed, Jia Qiang's hand was like lightning, hitting the numb tendons at the joints hard. The two middle-aged boys let out an "ouch" in unison, and tried to step back with their arms hanging.

But Jia Qiang's words were like a sword, just to anger the two idiot teenagers and make them take action to make the matter bigger.

Now that the great work is about to be accomplished, how could he stop halfway?

Therefore, taking advantage of the defeat of the two idiot brothers, he took action again. This time, he saw blood...
To be continued...