After dinner, Xue Pan got up to say goodbye, Lin Ruhai stayed, seeing that Xue Pan insisted on leaving, so it was just that, personally sent to the second door, Xue Pan hurriedly pushed back, so Lin Ruhai asked the housekeeper to send it off, Xue Pan walked out of the Lin Mansion, happily shook his hand, the outside stewards Qi Dazhuang and Li Rubang have been waiting for a long time, and Xue Pan was greeted in the carriage, of course, according to Xue Pan's grade, enough to be qualified to sit in a sedan chair, but here Yangzhou should not be too ostentatious. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info So he still sat in the carriage, Xue Pan got into the carriage, looking very happy, Qi Dazhuang couldn't help asking: "Uncle, Lord Lin, the matter has been done." ”

"It's not difficult," Xue Pan was very happy, and very confident, "You don't need a hammer to ring the drum, Lord Lin knows my intention, I'm in the Lin Mansion, but I haven't talked about Yanzheng at all, he is naturally not a problem, it's just this," Xue Pan touched his chin on the rickety carriage, "Listen, there are still a few bad hard bones to gnaw on, if I gnaw down these hard bones, then naturally he won't have any obstacles." ”

Speaking of this, Xue Pan couldn't help but be a little puzzled, "But when this big man speaks, he can't help but be a little slurred, and he hasn't said anything hard, is it possible that I have to find it myself?" Where is this hard bone? Salt transport envoys, or these four King Kongs, or those people, this is a little difficult. ”

Li Rubang has been on an errand in Yangzhou for ten years, and he is very clear about the things on the ground in Yangzhou, there is one thing, he hesitates again and again to say, "The system of the salt administration of Yangzhou in our Dayue Dynasty is different from other places, and the salt administration has issued a total of 309,609 salt citations, but these salt quotations are not forever unchanged. ”

"The meaning of this," Xue Pan was a little surprised, he naturally knew that Yanzheng was a cornucopia, but he didn't know that the reason for this was the case, naturally, when he came here, what he wanted was nothing more than Yanyin. "Of these more than 300,000 salt citations, is it possible that they all have to be changed once in ten years?"

"It's not all changed," Li Rubang explained, "It's about a third, that is, about 100,000 sheets, and the knowledge here is too big." ”

Since not all of them are changed, naturally some people do not need to hand over the exclusive right to operate the salt introduction, and some people may reduce the number of salt introductions in their hands, and some people may lose the right to hold the salt introduction for some reasons, from a generation of wealthy families to ordinary wealthy businessmen, don't underestimate this, in the salt and iron monopoly, the most profitable is still this salt.

Since there is an increase and a decrease, and there is a danger of losing the cornucopia, the key trick here is really big, and it is no wonder that the next head of the Sang family of the four King Kongs, Sang Gongzi, actually descended to the noble (this word seems to be used inappropriately) and was reluctant to leave while sitting in the gatehouse of the Lin Mansion.

When it comes to money, how can anyone be cheeky? Xue Pan said, "I'm very low-key when I came to Yangzhou, I don't want to rob them of anything, these 300,000 pieces of salt, I don't have any ambition to be the Four Great King Kongs, just a few hundred." ”

Of course, it's not that simple. "Let's take food from the tiger's mouth, it's not so simple," Qi Dazhuang is very clear about the things in the salt administration, after all, the ancestor of the Xue family is in charge of the imperial history of the salt patrol, and the old man Qi Dazhuang knows the doorway here in great detail, "Every time I want to change this one-third of the salt quote, Yangzhou City is full of bloody rain, and this secret fight is just that, but this battle is really ...... Many salt merchants' families were ruined because there were more powerful people who took a fancy to the salt in their hands and wanted to snatch the salt in their hands. ”

"Not only do we have to salt the lead, but we also have to guard against the resurgence of these people who have lost power, so it is common to cut the grass and eradicate the roots."

Li Rubang said it so carefully to Xue Pan, and it happened that there was a sudden gust of night wind outside, blowing the curtain of the carriage, and the night wind was so cold that it blew on Xue Pan, he couldn't help but shudder, and hurriedly stopped Li Rubang, "It's a big night, don't talk about this." ”

Speaking of this, Xue Pan couldn't help but be a little puzzled, "If the salt introduction of 300,000 yuan is once every ten years, our family has been in charge of it before, how do you feel," It seems that the Xue family is not very rich...... If you want to collect money here, it will be more than a million, but the Xue family obviously took the silver earned from the errand of managing the two Huai salt administrations, and invested it elsewhere, and after making a fortune, they returned the deficit of the driver, "What, my grandfather is in charge of the salt inspection imperial history, could it be that someone is stopping us?" "Stopping us from collecting cash?

Xue Pan's speculation was true, "When the old lady was in charge of the salt administration, the salt envoy at that time was Hu Zhongtang...... He is a first-class God of Wealth, the two Huai salt affairs, done prosperously, before the two Huai salt is not transported to the northwest, the most important and most scarce in the northwest grassland is this salt, originally there was no such salt, because the business is good, naturally there is more salt, the big guys are very admired Hu Zhongtang, the old lady is in charge, and the people are in Jinling, a lot of words, cough cough...... The salt merchants may not have listened. ”

Although these words have the meaning of being a venerable person, Xue Pan also understood that his grandfather only relied on the friendship of following Emperor Taizu to fight the world in the past, and only then did he get the position of Jinling Weaving Mansion, but there is a saying in the officialdom called people walking tea and cooling, which is very vivid, this past from the dragon's work, even if it is deep, it has long been weak after so many years, and his grandfather still had a little bit of affection at that time, and he did not stand in a disorderly position when Emperor Taizong seized the heir, but he was honest and errand- Of course, this is also a bit of a gold element on his face, and a small weaving mansion admiral far away in Jinling is not a decisive force to win the heir.

Loyal and honest errands, always have to be rewarded, not to mention that this deficit is also the reason for the driver, the so-called father's debt repayment, is also a matter of course, so Emperor Taizong rewarded Xue Pan's grandfather for five years of salt patrol imperial history, so that he can earn a little from it, use a little, and then pay back a little bit of the deficit over the years by the way. Fortunately, Xue Pan's father was extremely smart, and when he earned the silver, he stopped in time, and advised his father: "We are just guests, the saint has given us this great blessing, why do we have to compete with others?" Just take the money honestly. "Therefore, I don't have any signs of salt transportation, I honestly stay in Jinling, just go to Yangzhou regularly several times a year to inspect, the so-called inspection is also perfunctory, first, it is not good to meddle with the silver, and secondly, the Xue family itself has done a little salt introduction, and it is enough to earn a little.