"Ginger?" Wang Bai looked at the thin piece of ginger in Lin Haoran's hand, and blurted out in surprise. I can't imagine that this ordinary ginger is also a spice sought after by Francois people.

Lin Haoran put the ginger slices on the table and said with a faint smile: "Not bad! It's also a spice! Don't you see that Simon doesn't bring ginger with him every time he goes to Japan, but when he returns to their country, he takes a lot of ginger with him from us? ”

"Is this ginger worth anything?" Wang Bai didn't notice this detail, but he believed Lin Haoran's words, looked away from the ginger, and asked in a daze.

Lin Haoran pondered for a moment, and then said seriously: "We can definitely ask for a higher price, which is also the reason why I asked United Foreign Trade Bank to hoard ginger, but compared with Nanyang pepper, it is naturally a big difference." The pepper of the South Seas is highly sought after by them, and the price was once traded with gold at the same weight, which is indeed more expensive than gold! ”

"The nobility of their country is crazy!" Wang Bai was also emotional, but as if he suddenly thought of something, he pursed his lips and shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Lin Haoran glanced up, as if he had a heart-to-heart, he thought of ambergris.

If it is said that it is the craziest spice, or the most crazy "believer", how can it be compared with ambergris and their majesty? It wasn't a tael of ambergris for a tael of gold, but a tael of ambergris for a hundred taels of gold, and it was still being struggling to find it.

"This game is a draw, right?" Wang Bai looked at the chessboard and lost his interest in playing chess.

Lin Haoran was not overly obsessed with winning or losing, playing chess was just a game of communication in this era for him, so he nodded lightly and said, "That's what I mean!" ”

The butler waited aside, and when he heard this, he stepped forward to remove the chessboard and brought pastries to the two of them.

Wang Bai picked up a piece of lotus cake, looked at the texture on the lotus cake and suddenly said: "Ruoyu, if one day, you really sit in the position of the first assistant!" How would you proceed with the reform? How to make Daming rich and strong? ”

As their friendship deepened, the topic became more in-depth, often talking about the current ills of the imperial court.

"This kind of thing is too far away for me, I really never thought about it!" Lin Haoran didn't want to use the hand that had just taken the chess piece to get the pastry, so he shook his head gently with the newly sent tea cup.

Wang Bai didn't stop the topic, and continued to expand the topic: "You can think about it now!" Do you want to carry out drastic reform and rectification of the rule of officials? Or do you want to reorganize the current tax thieves? ”

Lin Haoran pinched the tea lid and gently pulled the hot tea, originally wanted to throw the problem back, but thinking that Wang Bai was not from Hanlin, he finally had to give up, and said with a wry smile: "Whether it is the rectification of the government or the tax reform, although it can alleviate the temporary contradictions, it is impossible to completely cure the contradictions!" ”

"What is the contradiction that the fool is referring to?" Wang Bai stopped eating the lotus cake and asked with interest.

Lin Haoran didn't really dare to speak freely, but said like a dragonfly: "It's the rich who are connected to each other, and the poor have no place to stand." The land and silver continue to fall under the name of the squire, and more and more ordinary people become landless, which is the biggest crux of the Ming Dynasty! ”

"It's really thought-provoking, sometimes I really think that Ruoyu is the reincarnation of Wenkui Xingjun!" Wang Bai ate the lotus cake in his hand, looking authentic.

Lin Haoran touched his nose, although he felt that he was the most handsome in the world, but this vision was really only barely qualified in later generations, so he said modestly: "Wang Gong, it's a false praise!" Born in poverty, he used to have to chop wood for a living, so he knew the pain of the proletarians! ”

"If it's really heaven, the people will be in charge!" Wang Bai stroked his beard and said leisurely, and then changed his words again: "Thinking about it like this, Ruoyu is not alarmist, this silver ban of the imperial court is really inappropriate!" ”

Lin Haoran's heart moved, so he nodded seriously with the teacup and said: "If the firewood on the mountain in the past was not allowed to be cut down, I really didn't know what to do at that time!" Probably there won't be anyone else in my forest, I'm afraid I'm already starving to death! ”

The imperial court forbade the people to dig silver mines privately, which seemed to be a very reasonable thing. But as Lin Haoran said, if the firewood in the mountains in the past was also classified as the imperial court, Lin Haoran and the tiger girl would probably really starve to death.

In the same way, now that the silver mines are not allowed to be excavated, the landless people who have managed to find a way to survive are probably going to starve to death.

Wang Bai didn't think there was anything wrong with this silver ban at first, after all, the silver mines under the ground should belong to the imperial court and the Zhu family. But after listening to Lin Haoran's words, he had to be cautious and found that this ban could indeed cause a catastrophe.

If it was just ordinary people who were stealing, and if they entered the closed mines, they would naturally be able to go home and continue to farm. It's just that the people who take the risk of being beheaded for mining, and a few of them are from well-to-do families, and I am afraid that they are really forced to fall into the grass.

Wang Bai's brows furrowed deeply, and he suddenly made a decision: "I will ask the court to ask the court to withdraw this ban!" ”

"The imperial court will definitely not change its mind!" Lin Haoran took a sip of hot tea and shook his head bitterly.

It's not that Wang Bai's influence is underestimated, but this ban is defending the interests of the imperial court and the imperial family, and neither Yan Song nor Jiajing can compromise on this issue.

Even if they really knew that it would cause turmoil, they would not take it seriously, thinking that sending officers and soldiers to kill these rioters would be enough.

Wang Bai knew that it was difficult to succeed in this matter, but he sighed lightly and said: "This official corpse has been a vegetarian meal for so many years, and it is indeed time to do something for the people!" ”

"Then I'll call some more people and read with you!" Lin Haoran put down the teacup and made a decision.

Wang Bai shook his head solemnly and said, "No! We can't let the imperial court think that the Guangdong officials are complicit, but that will be inferior, so I should protest alone! And the official document has not been issued to the prefectures in the political envoy department, if you follow the book, then it will really fall into the handle! ”

"On behalf of those landless miners, I have thanked Wang Gong a little!" Lin Haoran gave a serious salute and felt the kind of heroic righteousness in Wang Bai's body to ask for the people's life.

Although Wang Bai once tried unscrupulously to curry favor with Jiajing and climb up, he was still a good official. It's just a pity that this officialdom is a big ink pool, and many people will inevitably fall into the vicious circle of chasing fame and fortune when they enter here.

Wang Bai replied: "I'm just doing my best!" If it doesn't work, I'll help you delay for a while, hoping that Ruoyu can think of a solution! ”

Lin Haoran turned his head to look at the southeast and nodded solemnly.