The Lianghuai Salt Transportation Department is located in the north of Yangzhou New City. If you stamp your feet here, the whole city will tremble, except of course the Salt Patrol Office.
But many people know that in the recent period, whenever Lin Daguan from Suzhou stamps his foot, the Salt Transportation Department will tremble three times.
The main reason is that the director of the Salt Transportation Department has become less forceful in his speech.
The most obvious example is that the Yangzhou Guard Army began to completely replace the Salt Army, and in addition to the Transport Army, Tun Army and other arms, it began to form a Salt Army.
For the Salt Transport Division, this was tantamount to abolition of martial arts and handing over all law enforcement powers and its own armed forces, but Commissioner Fei Yun simply agreed.
Many Yangzhou salt merchants who couldn't stand Lin Daguan wanted Fei Yun to get rid of this good-for-nothing.
Today, Mr. Lin appeared at the Salt Transportation Department again and sat in the flower hall drinking tea unhurriedly.
When the freight forwarder hurried over, Lin Daguan said calmly: "I'm going back to Suzhou."
Hearing these words, Fei Yunshi suppressed the ecstasy in his heart while expressing regret and reluctance from his eyes, facial expressions and body movements.
Fei Yunzhi feels that now is the time in his life where his acting skills are most tested.
Lin Daguan put down the tea cup and said, "Before leaving Yangzhou, I have some thoughts about the salt administration work and I want to discuss them with you."
As long as Fei Yunji still has a backbone, he should ask, what qualifications do you, Lin Tailai, have to think about the salt administration work?
But the reality made Fei Yunshi can only listen to Lin Daguanren continue to say: "The salt industry has been developing disorderly for many years, resulting in the current situation of chaos. I believe that the top priority must be to strengthen organizational construction to ensure that the salt industry can continue to develop stably.
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Fei Yunzhi knows that the first part is all nonsense, but the second part is the key.
Sure enough, I heard Lin Daguan say again: "There are now one or two hundred salt merchants with strongholds in Yangzhou City, right?
The Salt Transportation Department can register all these salt merchants and fix them, and generally no more new ones will be added in the future.
From now on, only registered salt merchants are allowed to hold Yinwo and participate in the subscription of new salt, and Yinwo transactions can only be conducted between registered salt merchants."
The salt merchant who holds the nest is called a nest merchant. If the nest merchant will not be issued to new people in the future, then the number of nest merchants will be fixed from now on.
In very fashionable terms, this is circle solidification.
In the future, it will be difficult for outsiders to enter the core circle of the salt industry. They can only serve as subsidiaries, leases, affiliates, or subcontracts to the nest merchants who hold the nest capital.
Fei Yunshi didn't quite understand Lin Daguanren's proposal, but he had already thought that there seemed to be many nest merchants in Lin's Salt Industry.
The proprietor Lin Er Ge, the big shopkeeper Lu Junbi, the ambiguous Wu Tian clan, and the non-human Suzhou Jinongcang all hold Yinwo more or less, and are all considered nest merchants by definition.
There was also a dowry of five thousand Yinwo from Wang Salt Merchant, which was placed in the name of Lin Wang.
Based on this calculation, Lin's Salt Industry has at least five nest merchants?
Other people's salt industry is owned by one family, and the salt ownership is concentrated in the name of the proprietor. There is only one merchant, the proprietor.
Only Lin's Salt Industry's internal property rights relationship was so fancy, and no one could understand it before.
No matter what Lin Tailai wants to do in the future, as long as the number of nest merchants is fixed, every one of them will be valuable.
There are one to two hundred merchants in Yangzhou City, and Lin's Salt Industry has five of them.
Fei Yunshi no longer dared to think about it. That was all the responsibility of his successor, and even if there was a huge flood, it had nothing to do with him.
Lin Daguan suddenly asked again: "Do you know why you should be retained?"
Fei Yunshi replied humbly: "That's because I made a contribution to exposing Cai Yushi, and the Lianghuai salt industry needs a stable transition, so the imperial court gave me a chance."
Lin Daguan laughed "haha" a few times and replied very truthfully: "The reason why I let you be retained is because you are the easiest to deal with when you are carrying the crime!
If someone else were to be the salt ambassador, who would be willing to discuss the salt policy with me? Who would be willing to help me implement the new policy despite being stigmatized?
So I would rather let you stay temporarily than bring in a new person."
An official whose spine has been broken has no temper even when faced with such a face-riding PUA.
Finally, Lin Daguanren warned: "I hope you will get things done as soon as possible during your last period in office.
I hope that everything will be settled when I go to Yangzhou City next time.
Also, my proposal today must be kept strictly confidential and must not be passed on to anyone.
Before the registration is completed, if I hear the slightest bit of news outside, I will think that you must have leaked it on purpose!"
The main reason is that Lin Daguan is worried that if the news gets out, others will follow his example.
After training the salt transport envoy, Lin Daguan returned home and said to Mrs. Wang: "I will go to Suzhou tomorrow."
The honeymoon has not even passed yet, and Miss Wang is reluctant to leave, "I'm not pregnant yet."
Lin Daguan sighed: "How can a man be born between heaven and earth? No, he should regard merit as the foundation of his life.
The affairs in Suzhou City cannot be separated from me, so I can only endure the pain and temporarily separate from you."
Mrs. Wang was still a little moody and complained: "Then we are leaving in a hurry, why don't we wait a few days?"
Lin Tailai coaxed and said: "Su Yang is not far apart. I can come back at any time."
Miss Wang sighed and said: "This is probably the fate of our Hui women."
There are so many people in Huizhou going out to do business that many women can only stay at home and wait for their husbands to come back for months and months.
Early the next morning, Lin Daguan hurried out of Lijin Gate, boarded the boat at the canal pier, and headed south back to Suzhou.
Commander Wan, Lu Junbi and others wanted to see Mr. Lin off, but they didn't catch up.
Then another day later, the deputy envoy of Zhejiang Province came to act as the agent for Wang Zhiyou of Suzhou Prefecture and his family members to transit Yangzhou City.
Only then did the insiders suddenly realize that it was no wonder that Lin Daguan and his people suddenly retreated from Yangzhou City in a hurry.
Brother Lin explained to the public: "Don't get me wrong, my fourth brother rushed back to Suzhou just to prepare in advance for the ceremony for the new governor to take office."
After Lin Daguan returned to Suzhou, he immediately called Gao Changjiang from the construction site.
"Put aside other things these days and immediately prepare for the grandest welcome ceremony!" Lin Daguan ordered.
Gao Changjiang sincerely suggested: "It is better to entrust outsiders to prepare."
Official Lin lectured: "Sure enough, you are starting to slack off! Sure enough, you are starting to be unable to endure hardship! Sure enough, you are starting to lose your enthusiasm!"
Gao Changjiang argued: "If we are asked to organize, we are afraid that it will cause bad influence! Others may misunderstand and think that we want to stage a popular uprising again!"
So in order to avoid confusion, it’s better to hire an outsider!”
Official Lin thought twice and asked: "Isn't it okay to use the name of the government office?"
Gao Changjiang asked objectively: "What is the difference in the eyes of others between using the name of the government to organize people, and sitting in the office and organizing people yourself?
Some people must have misunderstood, and they might want to give the new governor a show of strength."
So, everything you do has consequences.
When Lin Daguan was discussing with Gao Changjiang how to welcome him, a servant suddenly came to the door and posted a message, saying that Eunuch Sun of Suhang Zhizhi was invited.
Gao Changjiang said in astonishment: "Isn't it possible that the rumor you spread while sitting in the hall will come true?"
The Weaving Bureau was the yamen assigned by the palace. At this time, Suzhou and Hangzhou did not yet have separate Weaving Bureaus. Instead, they were collectively called the Suhang Weaving Bureau, which was usually based in Suzhou.
The current weaving eunuch Sun Longnai came from the ceremonial department and was sent to Jiangnan for retirement when he grew old.
This is the default rule of the eunuch industry. When many eunuchs who have a good relationship with the emperor get old, they are sent to Nandu or a good place in Jiangnan to take care of themselves. This is a kind of care for the old eunuchs.
Before Sun Long became a weaving eunuch, he was a eunuch in the ceremonial department. If he was compared to the officialdom, he should have enjoyed minister-level treatment.
So after receiving the invitation, Official Lin followed the etiquette and went to the Weaving Office near Xuanmiao Temple to meet with Eunuch Sun.
The eunuch Sun Long is fifty-eight years old this year. He is handsome and gentle in appearance and has a good reputation in the local area.
Sun Long was a highly educated and cultural eunuch. He was very involved in poetry, calligraphy and painting, and his level was not low.
When Lin Daguan saw Sun Long with his own eyes, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Sometimes history can really make people laugh.
Historically, Eunuch Sun lived in Jiangnan for more than 20 years. He was not considered corrupt, and he also did a lot of charity work and book repair. He also had good relationships with many scholar-bureaucrats in private, otherwise Shen Shixing would not have been able to protect him.
However, the most vivid historical legacy that Eunuch Sun left for future generations was that he was expelled from Suzhou by tax resisters more than ten years later.
As a result, he became a symbol of "excessive taxation and expropriation", and he was still famous for this in textbooks hundreds of years later.
Thinking of this, Lin Daguan suddenly felt a little offended. He would not be like Sun Long and appear in books as a villain hundreds of years later, right?
Then wouldn’t it be in vain that I have done so many good things to promote historical progress?
In this way, Lin Daguan subconsciously sighed: "It is only the Spring and Autumn Period that you know that I have sinned against you."
Eunuch Sun who was chatting: "???"
Is Lin Tailai seriously ill? What does this sentence mean when he suddenly comes out of nowhere?
Lin Daguan took the initiative and asked: "I don't know if Sun Gong is summoning me, why do you do it?"
Sun Long then said: "I recently heard rumors in the city that the Weaving Bureau will send an additional 10,000 horses to the machine households, and Lin Shou will be responsible for collecting them."
Lin Daguan replied: "This is just a rumor, only for the wise. Why should Sun Gong care about it?"
Sun Long said with a smile: "I have also heard a saying from others that rumors are far ahead predictions. It seems to make sense."
Eunuch Sun's intention is to suggest that rumors can be turned into facts.
The main task of eunuchs like them who are dispatched on economic missions is to collect money for the palace.
If you can send more property to the palace and make the emperor appreciate you more, why not do it?
Moreover, the position of the Suhang weaving eunuch was rich in money but not very busy, and the position was in a prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River, far away from the swords and swords in the palace. It could be called a fat position among the eunuchs.
Since it is a fat position, someone will always be keeping an eye on it. If you don't perform well, you may be replaced by another eunuch.
Therefore, although Eunuch Sun feels that the current times are peaceful and peaceful, he still has a sense of crisis.
At this time, Officer Lin seemed confused and surprised, as if he had not expected Eunuch Sun to have such an idea.
He was so frightened that he could only repeat: "Mr. Sun! That's a rumor!"
Sun Long, who prides himself on being a cultured person, doesn't like to directly force others to do things.
Then he went around in circles and said, "You have also made a pilgrimage to the Long Live Lord. What do you think?"
Official Lin bowed respectfully to the north and replied: "Your Majesty is wise and mighty, which is rare throughout the ages. It is indeed the great fortune of the Ming Dynasty to have such a holy king!"
Sun Long knew that he would not hear the truth, so he continued to hint: "Although Long Live Lord is the emperor, after all, he grew up in the human world and has seven emotions and six desires."
The emperor also has material needs, you know?
Lin Daguan immediately responded seriously: "The Emperor has a pure nature, benevolence and uprightness. Under the authority of the gods, he cares for billions of people. He only cares about the legacy of his ancestors, and he should have the appearance of ruling over all directions.
As for the seven emotions and six desires, they are karma obstacles that only ordinary people have, and they are not worthy of the Tao!"
Eunuch Sun: "."
Who rides the horse more like a eunuch? I want to tell you the truth, but you flatter me from thousands of miles away?
I have said that the emperor is also a human being, but you insist on saying that the emperor is a god!
This didn't make sense, so Eunuch Sun changed his direction and asked: "Then you won the top prize in martial arts, which is considered a great favor from the emperor. How can you repay the emperor's favor?"
Lin Daguan said impassionedly: "You should do your best to serve the country with all your loyalty! Only by dedicating yourself to death will you be able to live up to the emperor's kindness!"
Eunuch Sun rubbed his forehead. It was really a headache to encounter such a stubborn elm head.
So Eunuch Sun became irritable and pointed it out directly: "Our family thinks that you have a unique skeleton, and you are a one-of-a-kind recruiting prodigy!
You are not one of those pedantic civil servants who want to open up the situation! If you can pay tribute to the palace, you are repaying the emperor's favor!"
Lin Daguan said plausibly: "In the whole world, is it the land of the king? On the shore of the land, is it the ministers of the king! The whole world belongs to the emperor, so why do we need to deliberately conscript it?"
Eunuch Sun didn't listen to these nonsense and just asked: "Can we send an additional 10,000 horses?"
Official Lin began to complain: "It's not like you don't know the situation in Suzhou City, Mr. Sun. Ten thousand horses doesn't sound like much, but it will definitely cause commotion in the city."
Eunuch Sun really wanted to force Lin Tailai to do something, but he also knew very well that he didn't have the strength.
There is a popular saying in Suzhou City recently: We are not afraid of civil unrest, but we are afraid of Lin Tailai mediating the civil unrest.
So after Sun Long thought for a while, he said in a consultative tone: "Then how many horses do you think should be appropriate?"
Lin Daguan suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed a few times, "Haha", "Master Sun obviously has a way to make a lot of money, but why does he only want to kill the chicken to get the eggs and dry up the lake to fish?"
Sun Long quickly asked: "What? Is there any way to make money?"
Official Lin was not in a hurry, and asked with a smile: "It seems that Mr. Sun really wants to repay the emperor's kindness?"
Looking at Lin Daguan's expression now, and recalling the embarrassing performance of Lin Daguan just now when he was being chased and intercepted and forced to dodge left and right, Eunuch Sun suddenly remembered a sentence.