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."
To be continued...