Zhang Yanling looked at Zhang Mao's expression.

Zhang Mao's words "It's hard to fat if he eats alone" come from the bottom of his heart.

But I eat alone with my ability. Even if you don’t accept it, you can eat alone with your ability. Seeing me making a fortune in silence, I come to the door to make trouble. What does this mean?

"Duke of England, in fact, I have never been a person who eats alone. You know that with my ability, I can't eat alone. I have a top secret news here that even if I can't make hundreds or thousands of taels of silver, I can still make your family members spend thousands or hundreds of taels of silver less. I wonder if it can be used as a condition for the Duke of England to watch?"

Zhang Yanling looked cautious, as if he had any big deal to talk to Zhang Mao.

Old Zhang Mao had a horizontal wrinkle on his face and coughed lightly, "But it's okay."

Zhang Yanling pretended to be mysterious and said: "That's right, I am assisting Your Majesty and the Ministry of Revenue to reform the salt administration. I am not planning to change the decoction of salt in each salt farm to dry salt, which can greatly increase the output. Therefore, the production of summer salt in each salt farm this year will definitely be much more than usual, and then more salt will be produced, and the price of salt will be lower now..."

"Duke of England, do you see if this is important information?"

After hearing this, Zhang Mao almost became anxious with Zhang Yanling.

This is what you call "big information"? Can you still have some technical content?

"Jianchang Bo, you will assist the Ministry of Revenue to reform, and you will also change the method of boiling salt? Have you ever thought about the consequences of doing this ineffectively?" Zhang Mao obviously did not agree with the reform.

There is no way, this is the world. People don’t want to change, they always think about rampant in the world with the laws of the past, and never thought about what the world would be like after the change.

Zhang Yanling had long expected Zhang Mao’s reaction.

How difficult is it to carry out reforms in this world?

The reason why his reforms were promoted was that the emperor trusted him, and that Zhu Youzhang sent someone to do experiments and saw the results with his own eyes. In addition, Zhu Youzhang had no good plans for salt administration reform, so he "takes risks".

But for people of this era, it is too difficult to seek truth from facts and let them gain true knowledge through practice!

Zhang Yanling laughed and said, "I have told the British Duke about such a confidential news. If the British Duke doesn't believe it, there is no way to help me!"

Zhang Mao said angrily: "You can no longer bully the market for medicinal materials business!"

"No problem." Zhang Yanling agreed without thinking about it when he saw Zhang Mao's condition.

The Su family used to monopolize the medicinal materials business entirely because the merchants around the capital were afraid of being implicated in the case of the connection, so they did not dare to do medicinal materials business for the time being, which made the Su family make a lot of money.

Now that the limelight of the Tongfan case has passed, Zhang Yanling could not monopolize it even if he wanted to.

Besides, the money earned from the medicinal materials business is a bit useless.

Zhang Yanling is a man with great ambitions, and he also has great ambitions in making money. Now the overall profit of the Beijing medicinal materials business of 10,000 or 20,000 yuan a year is no longer in his eyes.

Seeing that Zhang Yanling agreed so readily, Zhang Mao was a little confused.

This kid surrenders so easily?

"There is something else to do with the Duke of England? If not, there is still an important emperor to handle it. Your Majesty also asked me to submit the memorial of Mancang'er's case, so I don't have much time to receive the Duke of England."

Zhang Yanling actually issued an order to expel guests.

Zhang Mao hesitated and said, "What if you regret it?"

Zhang Yanling smiled and said, "In the future, I will rely on the Duke of England. How can I not speak without trust? If I am a person who speak without trust, I will not be able to hang out in the business field based on integrity in the future, the Duke of England can return with confidence."

"By the way, Duke of England, don't forget that I have reminded you about the salt administration. Don't lose all your money in the end! Haha!"

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Zhang Mao left anyway.

He was very satisfied with the results of the negotiations with Zhang Yanling about the medicinal materials business.

It's just a process...

Especially the words Zhang Yanling reminded him before leaving, and the smug smile at the end made him feel scared when he recalled.

When he got home, he immediately called the person in charge of the Li family.

"I have gone to Jianchang Bo. He has agreed to release the medicinal materials business in the capital. If you have any obstacles in the future, just come to medicinal materials business, and I will find someone to deal with him!"

Zhang Mao is definitely not a person who is waiting to die.

This time I went to Zhang Yanling's mansion, called negotiation, which was actually an ultimatum to Zhang Yanling.

If you continue to monopolize, then I will be very rude. Although I don’t have the same glory as you, I have the power of military power. I don’t have to send someone to make trouble for you at that time. In the end, I can’t even find someone on my head.

Those who had power in the Ming Dynasty would try their best to gain benefits for themselves.

no way.

The money is so delicious.

Since I have power, why not use power for personal gain?

Constrain with moral norms or threaten by law?

Morality and law work for ordinary people, but for people like Zhang Mao who are powerful, any constraints are nonsense.

"By the way, how much do you know about salt administration?" Zhang Mao was still worried about the salt inquiry.

Zhang Mao also knew that he had bought a lot of white gloves under his command this time.

In the eyes of all merchants, this is a good deal that is profitable.

The manager of the Li family said: "I heard from the Ministry of Revenue that the summer salt production this year is less than 50% of the bumper year."

Zhang Mao said: "Why did I hear that the Ministry of Revenue is reforming the salt administration and saying that it is necessary to change the decoction of salt to dry salt?"

The manager of the Li family said with a mocking look on his face: "This news has been known to salt traders everywhere, especially the Hui merchants, who learned the news early in the morning. They also knew that the uncle Jianchangbo assisted the Ministry of Revenue to change the method of salt drying."

"Then you dare to buy and hoard salt at a high price?"

Even Zhang Mao couldn't understand the mentality of these merchants.

The manager of the Li family explained: "Mr. You just have to be content with your compassion. It is because the salt merchants who changed to dry salt this time are not afraid of it. This person is not very capable. Even if he has become a little bit of a limelight recently, it is entirely because of His Majesty's favor. If you give him some color, you dare to open a dye room!"

"The harvest of each salt farm was not good, so he was still worried that he would change to salt, which would definitely cost manpower and material resources. In this way, the summer salt production this year would have been a bumper year, but now it is probably less than 30%.

"As the smartness of Hui merchants is fearless, why should we worry?"

Just as Zhang Yanling expected.

The Ming Dynasty was opposed to reform, and it was a crazy rejection.

In their opinion, reform is the source of all turmoil, which is related to the idea that the gentry and merchants of the Ming Dynasty were small peasants. They never wanted to change, but just wanted to follow the rules.

So much so that after hearing that the court had reformed salt drying, they unanimously believed that the Ming Dynasty would be tossed by Zhang Yanling, and the final result was that the salt production was further reduced, and then they could make a fortune in silence...

After hearing this, Zhang Mao thought about it with his own knowledge and nodded to express his reassurance.

Zhang Mao sighed: "Although Zhang Yanling has been a little bit of the limelight recently, it is just a flash in the pan. You just need to do your business well. I am just waiting for the peace of mind in my old age!"
Chapter completed!