Cheng Naixuan said that his father was old-fashioned, but looking at his smiling appearance, he knew that he was obviously ordered by his mother to check the post, and found that his father lived in a big house here but actually lived a simple life, not to mention his happiness and ease. Wang Fulin can see this simple emotion, how can Master Cheng not see it after a long time? He snorted coldly, but he took out his usual posture again.

"Everything is frivolous, when can you learn the steadiness of the scholar Fulin? You were yelling at me here just now, and I haven't punished you yet, so go to my study and copy the Analects!" ”

Cheng Naixuan's eyes widened directly, copying the Analects? Didn't they all copy house rules in the past! There are only 1,000 words in the family rules, and there are more than 10,000 words in the Analects. He looked at Wang Fulin with a sad face, hoping that this bad friend could pull him along. Finally, his eyes for help were not thrown away, and sure enough, he saw Wang Fulin salute and said: "Uncle Cheng loves his son and teaches his son, I shouldn't say much about reasoning, but Brother Cheng's responsibility is also because of me, if Uncle Cheng insists on punishing, I'm afraid I can only help him bear half of it." ”

It's pretty much the same, it's not in vain, I hurried to Yangzhou to help you!

Master Cheng saw that Cheng Naixuan was overjoyed, Wang Fu Lin couldn't afford it, so he had to glared at Cheng Naixuan angrily: "Go to the study and read the Analects to me, if you read one sentence less, copy it for me when you go back!" No bargaining, go! ”

Although reading a book is bound to be dry, it is much better than copying it once. Therefore, even if he was obviously reluctant to turn back three times when he left, Cheng Naixuan still dragged his feet and left. When he left, only Wang Fulin and himself were left in the house. Master Cheng sat down at this time. He raised his hand again and motioned for Wang Fulin to sit as well. Only then did he ask bluntly: "After the virtuous nephew got out of trouble in Danyang, he didn't go back to Huizhou, but came to Yangzhou directly, is there anything else?" ”

"Uncle Cheng's eyes are like torches, in fact, after I returned to Huizhou from Hankou Town last year, I had plans to come to Yangzhou, and I told Brother Cheng at that time that I would go with me. Who knew that this time I got to Danyang by mistake, and if I wanted to go by the way, I simply crossed the river to Yangzhou. Wang Fulin paused when he said this, and when Master Cheng accepted such a statement, he continued, "If you want to talk about the intention, it is actually my uncle Mr. Nanming who told me that the Wang family has been operating the salt industry in Yangzhou for many years, but now it is getting worse, so I was asked to take a look." ”

Wang Fulin did not disclose the ticket number in front of Mrs. Xu before. just consulted about the situation related to the salt industry, and of course he would not rashly show his mouth in front of Master Cheng at this moment. But. He knew very well that with the momentum of Wang Daokun as soon as he recovered, Master Cheng would give him advice nine times out of ten. However, he waited for a while, but what he was waiting for was another word from Master Cheng.

"Uncle Ling, Mr. Nanming, shouldn't stay in Huguang for too long." Seeing Wang Fulin's stunned face, Master Cheng said carefully, "It is said that the imperial court intends to use people who are deeply versed in military affairs to join the military department, Mr. Nanming once served as the governor of Fujian, and he has been with the Japanese for many years, and has made many military exploits, and he also has a lot of insight into border affairs. ”

The other name of the military department is Da Sima, and the other name of the military department squire is Shao Sima. If such a message is true, it is undoubtedly a very important step for Wang Daokun! After all, the governors of the Ming Dynasty were always added together, there were one or twenty, but all the servants together were only twelve, including unpopular places such as the Ministry of Industry, complicated places such as the Criminal Department, and the Ministry of Rites, which has always belonged to the Qinggui functions of the Hanlin transition, and the rest were the real power of the three ministries, soldiers, and households.

But Wang Fulin's surprise was only for a moment. At this time, it may be a good opportunity to immediately rely on Zhang Juzheng, but the problem is that Zhang Juzheng's scenery is only ten years, and even if he is a teammate, Zhang Juzheng will win it without mercy, it is better to be a governor abroad. But he knew that even if he took advantage of Wang Dao Kunxiao, it would be useless, not to mention that the court would send you wherever you went, how could you be allowed to bargain? So, he simply expressed his amazement at such a news, and prudently did not express any other opinion.

Master Cheng just tried to test this, and seeing Wang Fulin so slippery, he couldn't help but think of the time when this kid fought the battle to defend his reputation and the battle of the grain chief. Knowing that it was not the same as his stupid son, he didn't care about him anymore, but just considered the statement.

"This time, all the salt merchants of the three major merchant gangs want to discuss the issue of the share of the positive salt introduction and the surplus salt, have you heard?"

"Yes, I just heard about it this morning. As far as I know, the so-called surplus salt is actually the salt produced by the stove households and handed over to the imperial court according to their shares, but it is often sold to private salt dealers at a high price, but when the positive salt is often not cashed, there are also merchants who take the salt to the stove households to buy the surplus salt, and then pay taxes at the salt transportation department, and then ship it out for sale as regular salt, right? ”

"You know very carefully, but this is the old system before Hongji. At that time, because the salt was drawn but could not support the salt, they could only keep the support day by day, and they could not move for more than ten years, so the salt merchants would rather spend more money, and also thought of getting the salt as soon as possible, and then transported it to Huguang and other places with high salt prices to sell, at that time they had to be sneaky, but now it is different, Huaiyang salt merchants have been trying to find a way to increase from 200 catties per lead to 400 catties per lead, but the court refused to let go, and finally retreated to the second, in addition to 200 catties of salt per lead, you can also bring another 100 catties of surplus salt, that is, a lead has actually become a lead and a half, as long as you go to the salt transportation department to pay more taxes. ”

When Master Cheng saw that Wang Fulin obviously knew this, he said with a smile: "Mr. Nanming is not a businessman after all, and Wang Daomin will not tell him if he wants to, so of course he doesn't know about this kind of thing." Last year, I took the lead in opening up the joints of the two Huai salt transportation envoys and bought a total of 200,000 yuan of surplus salt from the stove households. And because the Jin merchants were one step behind, they couldn't collect the surplus salt at all in the stove household, and they could only lead two hundred catties each, but we could lead three hundred catties each, and they lost a lot, so they used this house to draw 10,000 from me. ”

200,000 surplus salt. A total of 20 million catties. You may have a profit of one million taels in your hands. Although a large group of sub-Hui merchants poured surplus salt last year, it is likely to make the price of salt fall in various places, but after all, there is still a profit from the positive amount of salt, which is already very amazing. Of course, there are larger quantities, perhaps as high as hundreds of millions of catties of surplus salt, which are sold by stove households to smuggled salt dealers who bid higher prices than salt merchants, but even if the smugglers can be armed and escorted, it is difficult to cross the difficulties and transport them to Huguang and other places with high salt prices. It can only be sold nearby, so it is the salt merchants who really make a profit.

No wonder Master Cheng will be publicly recommended as the salt of Xin'an salt merchants? Sacrificial wine!

"But Wang Daomin didn't participate in this matter last year, so he had to take the salt last year, and the rest of the salt was confiscated."

Although Wang Fulin knew that because he couldn't get used to his father's temperament, among the people who cheated him, Wang Daomin had a share, and he didn't have a good impression of this uncle, but when he heard Master Cheng say this, he couldn't help but feel a little sour. Wang Daomin, who thought that he had suffered a big loss, should not only have a sore toothache, but a painful heartache! After all. Nowadays, the grain is in name only, and they all go directly to the salt transportation department to pay silver for salt. Compared with the large amount of money, the tax cost of surplus salt is a drop in the middle. How to snatch the salt source from the smuggler who bids higher, how to say that the stove farmer sells salt, and then makes a huge profit.

Wang Fulin immediately asked, "So Wang Daomin should hate Uncle Cheng very much?" ”

Calling himself Uncle Cheng, but calling him by his name to the real clan uncle, such a clear statement is undoubtedly enough. Master Cheng couldn't help laughing, but his tone was extremely contemptuous: "So, this time about Yu Yan's negotiation, he went all over to contact the Jin Merchants and the Jiangyou Merchants Gang, wanting to put pressure on me. It is said that before the negotiation can not reach a result, no one is allowed to buy the surplus salt of the stove households belonging to the Lianghuai Salt Transportation Division. He thinks he can overpower me by pulling someone else? But I don't want to think that his reputation among Hui merchants is rotten! ”

"I see." Wang Fulin smacked his lips, and then humbly asked, "Old Lady Xu has now returned to the Xu family on Doosan Street to care for the elderly, and now Master Xu is in charge of the Xu family's salt business, I don't know what is going on now?" ”

"Although Xu Da is a conformist person, not as far as his father, he knows how to advance and retreat with others in everything." Master Cheng's evaluation is still very sharp, but it is still relatively positive after all. From Wang Fulin's questions, he already understood what he wanted to know, and said simply and bluntly, "Since Mr. Nanming's grandfather returned to his hometown to retire and died, he is not as good as before. Although he is not as unwise as Wang Daomin, he is indecisive in everything, sails against the current, and retreats if he does not advance. ”

If Wang Daomin is a self-righteous mistake, then Xixinan Wu is a lustful mistake?

Everything that should be understood is understood, Wang Fulin already has some immature ideas in his heart, but no matter what, this kind of family matter cannot be discussed with Master Cheng, a leader in the salt industry. So, he thanked him very respectfully for his advice, and then excused himself to find Cheng Naixuan to thank him, and retired and left. As soon as he walked with his front foot, Master Cheng closed the folding fan in his hand and said, "How do you look at this excitement?" ”

It was no one else who came out from behind the big jade screen behind Master Cheng, it was Lu Guangwu, who got up early and went out before Wang Fulin had time to meet, and the two had already known each other! But I saw this Xinchang Lu Gongzi sitting happily in the place where Wang Fulin was sitting just now, and then said with a smile: "Ling Lang and Fu Lin really have a good relationship, but Fu Lin's little slippery head said that he came to Yangzhou to go shopping, and by the way, help Ling Lang visit you, I thought it was true, it turned out that he was still burdened with heavy responsibilities, Wang Nanming was not afraid that this burden would crush him?" ”

"Who made Wang Nanming's son less than ten years old now?" Master Cheng shrugged his shoulders, his face was solemn again, "The first assistant and the second assistant of the DPRK and the central government are obviously at odds with each other, but Fu Lin still dares to be so tough on Shao Fang, could it be that he got some news?" ”

"Wang Nanming can't eat something himself, how can he say anything to his nephew?" Lu Guangwu thought that Wang Fulin had spent a lot of money for Niu Si before, but then he paid Shen Yingkui's debts on the one hand, and Shao Fang's accounts on the other, he suddenly laughed, "Even if Gao Gong is in power, Shao Fang is so unscrupulous, it is also the source of trouble, maybe this kid is purely intuitive." ”

PS: Continue to ask for a small monthly pass, thank you all ^_^ (to be continued......