Lin Ruhai is very familiar with Cui Jingrong, has dealt with countless times, and even had many disputes.

Every year, the two Huai Du transfer salt envoys have to connect with the household department for the salt class silver, and it is indispensable to negotiate.

The household department has always been extremely dissatisfied with the original standard, thinking that this practice is the rule set by the Yuan Xi Emperor in the early years, and now although the population in the Great Zhou Dynasty is increasing, the amount of salt used by the common people has increased greatly, and this part of the salt tax silver belonging to the household department should definitely also increase, and the original standard should not be continued.

For this reason, Cui Jingrong also wrote to the cabinet many times, asking for the adjustment of the amount of silver handed over to the salt section of the household department by the two Huai Du salt envoys, but they were all like stones sinking into the sea, whether it was the cabinet or the emperor, they were silent, but Cui Jingrong was never discouraged, and he still had to write every year and refused to give up.

This "old friend" of the household department, Lin Ruhai, understands it, is a person who does real things, and it is impossible to engage in some vain things in Yangzhou City.

"I don't know, you said that they assessed and verified the scale and quantity of silk workshops and port wharves and shipping lines, which is reasonable, after all, after the opening of the sea, there will definitely be a large number of goods to go out through here in Yangzhou Prefecture, such as transporting them to Ningbo, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and other places and then going to sea, like our silk and medicinal materials in Yangzhou Mansion can be like this, but Dong Weng you said that such as money shops and silver villages, rice shops, cloth villages, timber shops, and southern goods stores, they must be statistically verified, which is too weird."

Wang Wenyan is also considered to have been familiar with the situation in the county for many years, and is very familiar with the situation in the county, although She County is not as good as Yangzhou Mansion, but it is also a quite prosperous county in Nanzhili, like She County's paper, ink, and tea are bulk export materials, many of which also have to be transported to Yangzhou for transshipment, but like Mipu Cloth Zhuang and Qian Zhuang Timber Bank, how to look at these are not related to the opening of the sea.

"Wenyan, maybe their trip is not necessarily just for the opening of the sea." Lin Ruhai realized, "In other words, the opening of the sea in the eyes of the imperial court is probably not just as simple as opening up the sea trade after opening the sea, maybe I will feel that the opening of the sea should bring greater changes to our Jiangnan, and Jiangnan should also give the imperial court more returns." ”

Wang Wenyan was stunned, he was from Huizhou Mansion, Lin Ruhai was from Suzhou Prefecture, they were all from Nanzhi, and the land south of the Yangtze River has always been a place of great wealth, and the imperial court has always grasped it very tightly.

This time, the policy of opening the sea was introduced so quickly and smoothly, which surprised many Jiangnan gentry.

They all feel that according to the urine nature of the Great Zhou court, it will take a year and a half to have a statement come out, and then they will come up with a statement for a year and a half, and finally they may have to take some time to finalize the board before they can be implemented, which is impossible to implement without two or three years.

I didn't think that this time, it was only a month or two before the imperial court took out the strip Chen, but it was necessary to further verify and investigate, according to this posture, it would be impossible to make it possible to officially open the sea next year.

"In this way, the court's plan this time is big." Wang Wenyan also began to think about it, "This kind of almost all-round coverage investigation is no longer like a simple opening of the sea, the emperor has been on the throne for six years now, maybe he has some ideas." ”

These words made Lin Ruhai's face change slightly.

In any case, Emperor Yuanxi has abdicated, and he has prestige when he reigns, but after all, he is also a seventy-year-old man, even if he can still speak now, how long can this situation last?

Sooner or later, he's going to have to quit the stage.

Regardless of the condition, you should consider the way back, and now that the condition is like this, you need to consider this matter even more.

But in the same way, the Emperor Taishang will not be unaware of his illness, and may just wait for his own twists and turns.

There is still a considerable amount of power in the hands of the Emperor Taishang, that is, in the Yamen of the two Huaidu Salt Envoys, there are also many people from the Dragon Forbidden Captain, and the people of the Dragon Forbidden Captain are only afraid that they will belong to both sides, and in the same way, their deputies and subordinates also have the same Emperor Taishang and the emperor's people.

It's just that when they haven't lost control, everyone tacitly returns to their places and does their own thing.

Wang Wenyan's words reminded Lin Ruhai that it was time to consider some other things, although Lin Ruhai had long been mentally prepared for this, but he didn't expect it to come so quickly, not only the Emperor Taishang might be considering, but Emperor Yonglong was also not idle, and he was seriously ill I am afraid that he would speed up the pace and rhythm of their hands.

"Wen Yan, it seems that I should introduce you to Feng Keng." Lin Ruhai finally made up his mind, but this determination only meant that he wanted to seriously investigate whether Feng Ziying was reliable, and it was not to the point where he had to put his heart into his heart when he left home, he believed that with Wang Wenyan's ability, he should soon be able to find out the details of Feng Ziying.

"I don't dare to ask for it." Wang Wenyan smiled slightly.

While Lin Ruhai and Wang Wenyan were discussing Feng Ziying, Feng Ziying was also having a heated discussion with Cui Jingrong, Wu Liangsi and Wei Guangwei in Yangzhou Hubu Banknote.

"Why do you want to conduct such a detailed investigation to understand, the previous officials have also made a detailed introduction to Cui Gong, Lord Wu, and Lord Wei, although Yangzhou is not a city that opens the sea, and even there is still a considerable distance from our goal of opening the sea, but I also told Cui Gong before that the opening of the sea seems to be just a strategy to open up sea trade, it seems that we just need to see, well, for example, whether the construction of the wharf in Ningbo can meet the demand, and whether the organization and personnel of Quanzhou are sufficient, Whether it can meet the trade needs of overseas merchant ships and merchants after the arrival, or whether there are enough sailors and boatmen in Zhangzhou, once the sea is opened, can a large number of ships be built to meet the needs, and ,......so on?"

Feng Ziying has instilled a lot in several people in the past few days, so that Wu Liangsi and Wei Guangwei are both a little deafening.

Unlike Cui Jingrong, in the past, these two people were just hearsay about Feng Ziying's remarks and opinions, but they didn't have too deep and intuitive feelings, even in Linqing and Dongchang Mansion and even Huai'an Mansion, they were relatively low-key, or normal, but after arriving in Yangzhou, their style suddenly changed.

Previously, Feng Ziying asked Fan Jingwen and He Fengsheng to take a group of officials to do an all-round investigation of all walks of life in Yangzhou Mansion, which made Wu Liangsi and Wei Guangwei inexplicable.

You say that you go to Ningbo or Quanzhou to conduct a thorough investigation, which is barely reasonable, and it involves such a wide range of industries, covering almost the entire entire business industry, it is too exaggerated, even if it is placed in Ningbo or Quanzhou, it feels a bit excessive, not to mention Yangzhou, which is hundreds or even thousands of miles away.

However, Cui Jingrong has not expressed his position, and even agreed to Feng Ziying's proposal to conduct a comprehensive survey of Yangzhou's industrial livelihood, and Wu Liangsi and Wei Guangwei naturally did not object.

"But the lower officials thought it wasn't enough." Feng Ziying's words made Wu Liangsi and Wei Guangwei prick up their ears.

If it's not enough, then what's more?

"As we all know, we Jiangnan is more people and less land, narrow and densely populated, sometimes it is so one acre and three points of land to feed a family, well, to put it mildly, if you want to feed maybe barely possible, but if you want to live a better life, it will be difficult, you plant rice per acre of land, plant lotus root, plant mulberry and silkworms, there is always only so much production, and only need so many people, what if there are more people? One of the purposes of opening the sea is to allow more people to get on ships and go to sea to feed their families, but this is far from enough,......"

Speaking of the key point, Cui Jingrong has already heard Feng Ziying's indoctrination once, but he still wants to listen carefully again.

"How many people can fit on board? A ship plus boatmen and sailors, a large ship is only a hundred and ten people, and a small and medium-sized ship is only a few dozen people, even if the sea can suddenly have hundreds or thousands of more ships, it is just tens of thousands ,......more people can get on the ship, but for the narrow and densely populated Jiangnan, Fujian and Zhejiang, it is just a drop in the bucket."

"......, also in the north, in the past twenty years, everyone knows that the weather is not good, floods, droughts and locusts are constant, a little careless, the common people can only be reduced to homeless people to go out to eat, from the situation in the Yuanxi period, as long as there is a famine, then the homeless people who go out to eat are often tens of thousands or even 100,000, which is extremely stressful for the relief of the imperial court, and sometimes you can't give relief at all in the locality, so it is easy to be attracted by the White Lotus Sect, the Wenxiang Sect, these bandits have become chaotic people,......"

"Younger brother, do you want to say that there is really no food to eat in these places? I'm afraid it's not exactly, we all know that there is not a lot of grain in the hands of the gentry and grain merchants in various places, but for these people, they think that it is okay to give relief for a while or some, and if you want them to take out all the food for relief, they will definitely not do it, but if these eaters have money and money in their hands and are willing to buy food, then maybe this contradiction will not be so prominent,......"

"......, of course, there will be people who say that the price of food will be controlled by everyone at that time, and those people will not be able to afford it, but this is at least much less risky than becoming a desperate person or even a mob, right? There are other ways for the government to move grain to alleviate the pressure, which is another topic,......"

"What the younger brother wants to say, in fact, there are two problems, one is that there is indeed a shortage of food, and the other is the lack of purchasing power of ordinary people,......

"Purchasing power?!" This word made Cui Jingrong, Wei Guangwei and Wu Liangsi stunned, the new term, if you can't get it right, it was created by the person in front of you.

"Well, let me explain this word, it can be understood as the ability of ordinary people to buy things, such as buying grain, such as buying cotton cloth, such as buying hoes, such as buying cattle and horses,......, they must have the ability to buy, or to put it more bluntly, they must have the opportunity and ability to earn money,......"