(Today's red ticket should be able to break one million, celebrate in advance)

On the second day of the second month of February, Zhang Ximiao came to Jinhai again, but this time he came with an edict.

Zhang Xie, the deputy minister of the Upper Decree, Zhang Yan, the salt and iron envoy, Huang Jinnian, the left servant of the household department, and Liang Xi, the prince of Lu Guo, jointly signed a concert, and before the inland river and the river were dredged, the silver obtained from the salt tax of the two Huai provinces was temporarily used to ensure the smooth flow of the grain road from Huaikou and Jiangkou to Jinhai through Shandong, and the cost of transporting grain was calculated by the confluence of the Jinhai Governor's Office, the Shandong Governor's Mansion, the Household Department, and the Salt and Iron Division.

At this point, Lin Bin's purpose of sneaking to Jinhai under the pretense of filial piety is half completed.

The wind is cold and the sea is clear, the waves are rushing to the rocks one after another, the broken waves are like snow, Gao Zongting and Lin Jian walked side by side to the dock, Sun Shangwang accompanied him, and felt that the water here was full of moisture, which was more wet and cold than on the island.

"When are you going to return to Chongzhou?" Gao Zongting stopped on the shore and asked.

"It's either tomorrow or the day after tomorrow," Lin Jian said, looking up at the sky, "Since then, I don't know when I will be able to get together with my senior brother again......"

"The world is impermanent, who knows," Gao Zongting sighed slightly, and said, "Salt and silver to protect grain is a success, think about it, it is really beneficial to the society - there will be a chance to meet in the future." ”

"......" Lin Jian smiled and asked, "If it's all selfishness, Brother Gao won't see me in the future?" ”

Gao Zongting did not answer Lin Lian's joking question, he pointed to the waves that hit the shore rocks, and said: "If the waves know in their hearts, they know that they will be crushed when they hit the shore rocks, will they retreat?" ”

"Don't be afraid of broken bones, you have to leave your innocence in the world!" Lin Jian saw Gao Zongting looking sideways, knowing that he was almost not in harmony with his colleagues' poems, and it was no wonder that Gao Zongting felt abrupt when he suddenly chanted a poem, and said with a smile, "I like to browse miscellaneous books, and I can't remember who wrote this poem.

Gao Zongting also had no time to understand whether Lin Tie was using this poem as a metaphor, or whether he simply sighed and reconciled with the poem, said goodbye to Lin Tie, and left Jinwei Island by boat.

With salt and silver as a guarantee, it was necessary to dispel the concerns of grain merchants and maritime merchants, and to ensure that rice and grain from the southeastern counties were continuously transported from Huaikou and Jiangkou to Jinhai, so that Gyeonggi and the northern army would not be disturbed by the shortage of grain.

If it weren't for this, Zhang Xie, Huang Jinnian, Liang Xi, Zhang Yan and others would not be able to persuade the emperor to agree to the matter of "salt and silver to protect grain", and the officials rarely rebounded, but in the eyes of Zhang Xie and others, Lin Lian was purely taking the opportunity to make trouble and blackmail the imperial court - at least the maritime forces gathered around Lin Jian and led by Jiyun Society all got their wish this time to greatly increase the cost of shipping and foot, and they could also use the two Huai salt taxes as collateral.

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"Mr. Gao's last few words are a little unkind!" Sun Shangwang watched the boat that sent Gao Zongting ashore drifting away, pondering what he had just said, and said with emotion.

Lin Jian smiled faintly and said: "Li Bingbu finally supported me in this matter, probably just thinking that I am more reliable than Liang Xi's father and son, and the Jinhai Grain Road must not be lost...... I sailed back to Chongzhou, but the rest of the pressure was to be picked by Li Bingbu, no wonder Gao Zongting couldn't help but say something tentative. ”

Sun Shangwang thought about the fierce undercurrent under the calm and calm in the past few days, which really made people break out in a cold sweat.

In the past few days, for Zhang Xie and others, the biggest crisis brought to them by Lin Lian's sneaking into Jinhai is not anything else, but the possibility of coercing Li Zhuo to send troops together to play a Qingjun side with the grain road.

However, Gao Zongting twice represented Li Zhuo to and from Jinhai, ostensibly coordinated, but in fact it was obviously biased in favor of this side, which intensified the suspicion of Zhang Xie and others, so that the matter of salt and silver to protect grain came to an end so quickly.

The matter of salt and silver to protect grain is considered to be completed, and it is indeed their side that has gained a lot of benefits, but Zhang Xie's resentment and suspicion towards Li Zhuo will be stronger, which will make Li Zhuo's situation more difficult, and it is no wonder that Gao Zongting said this when he left.

Looking at Gao Zongting's figure gradually moving away, Lin Jian sighed slightly, thinking that Li Zhuo and Gao Zongting did not hesitate to do their best for the imperial court and die for themselves, but they didn't know if Zhang Xie and his ilk would give him this opportunity, and he didn't know if the one in the Jinluan Hall would apply the means used to Tang Haoxin to Li Zhuo.

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At this moment, Lin Xuwen came by boat, staggered with the boat that Gao Zongting was sitting on, and stopped at sea for a while to say goodbye to Gao Zongting.

Lin Jian was on the dock, waiting for Lin Xuwen to come over.

"This matter is temporary, I will go back to Chongzhou tomorrow," Lin Jian said, "Although it is okay to keep salt and silver for grain, it will take time for the increased shipping fee to be cashed in batches." I am really short of silver in Chongzhou, and Shang Wang has accumulated 70,000 stone of rice grain here, and wants to ask my eldest brother to sell it in Hejian Mansion......"

After the autumn grain harvest, the grain price in Gyeonggi has fallen, but it is also at the high level of 300 yuan per bucket, and the grain price in Yannan is only slightly lower.

Just as Zhang Xie and the officials of the household department secretly manipulated the fishing profits of the Gyeonggi grain market, Lin Xuhong brought a large number of people from the Lin Ji warehouse in late spring last year, and with Lin Xuwen's support, it was really easy to become the largest grain merchant in Hejian Province.

"Okay, I'll ask Xuhong to come over and order 200,000 taels of silver for you to take away......" Lin Xuwen was not ambiguous, and directly ate the 70,000 stone grains that Lin was bound to under Jinhaitun at the market price.

"Thank you, big brother." Lin Jian saluted sincerely.

Lin Tie's trip was loaded and brought to Jinhai, and there was nothing else, all of them were Taihu japonica rice, with a total of more than 20,000 stones; A bumper harvest of rice was planted on both sides of the Whirlpool River, leaving behind the necessary rations, and the rest were taken out together to make up a total of 70,000 stone rice. Lin Jian originally planned to be satisfied if he could take 150,000 taels of silver back to Chongzhou, but he didn't expect Lin Xuwen to promise to give 200,000 taels of silver.

"Brothers, settle accounts, the Lin clan is divided into two branches, and it is fundamental for you to gain a firm foothold in Chongzhou," Lin Xuwen said, "I don't want the world to be in chaos, but the world is really in chaos, Jinhai can't stand, and I can only go back to Dongyang to ......."

Lin Xu nodded, as if he understood, but he didn't seem to understand.

Sun Shangwang heard the meaning of Lin Xuwen's words beside him.

Now that the Lin family in Dongyang is headed by Lin Tingli, Lin Xuwen is untenable in Jinhai and retreats to Dongyang, whether the Lin family is headed by Lin Xuwen or Lin Tingli is a headache.

But thinking about the Lin family's emergence of Lin Bin, Lin Xuwen, and Lin Tingli, it is really amazing. The matter of salt and silver to protect grain can force Zhang Xie's and many powerful eunuchs to bow their heads, and it is also the embodiment of the power of the Lin family as a big family in the world.

After Tang Haoxin's death, Tang Gu and the Lin family can be called the Dongyang Party in a veritable name, although the Dongyang Party still has Gu Wuchen as the phoenix head, but this phoenix head is relatively thin.

Lin Xuwen smiled and didn't say anything else, the current mainstream of the Lin family still has to be consistent with the outside world, and this foundation cannot be lost.

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When Lin Jian came to Jinhai, he came with a fleet of five Jinhai-class ships and five Jiyun-class ships with a total capacity of 25,000 stones, carrying 20,000 stones of Taihu japonica rice.

Returning to Chongzhou, the fleet was even larger, in addition to the ten large ships that came to Jinhai with Lin Tie, nearly 20 maritime merchants such as Sun and Zhou incorporated more than 500 stone brigs into the fleet and sailed south together, with a total capacity of 80,000 stones.

Before the opening of the Jinhai Grain Road, there were few large sea vessels in the Bohai Bay, along the northeastern coast of Shandong and the eastern coast of Hejian Province.

Due to the limited volume of trade, which is mostly limited by short distances, and also limited by the dangerous shipping routes, maritime merchants are more willing to buy more small boats to spread the risk, rather than bet all their wealth on a large ship.

After the opening of the Jinhai Grain Route, the demand for long-distance shipping in the Bohai Bay surged, and Lin Jian gathered the maritime merchants in Denglai and Cangjin areas to form a risk-sharing mechanism, and each ship withdrew money at a rate of 6 out of 100 to compensate those maritime merchants who suffered losses in the shipwreck and to pay bereavement benefits to the shipwrecked crew - the total capacity of strong sea ships with more than 500 stone in Bohai Bay surged rapidly from more than 10,000 stone to nearly 60,000 stone in more than half a year.

In order to continue to influence and even firmly control the Jinhai Grain Passage after the Liang father and son took control of Shandong, Lin Jian must immediately open the Heishui Ocean Channel and organize an offshore fleet with sufficient capacity.

The real important and more practical significance of the matter of salt and silver grain preservation is to unite the maritime forces formed by the entire grain route of the Jinhai Sea more closely, and become a solid foundation for the Jiangdong Left Army to unite with it across the East China Sea.

Lin Jian looked at the railing, and the blue waves were boundless.

Zhou Guangnan and Sun Fengyi stood behind Lin Lian, looking at the homeland that was gradually drifting away, and they were also full of emotion for a while.

Except for some people who stayed to dispose of the farm house and assist Sun Shangwang in taking care of the affairs of the northern land, the Zhou and Sun families can be regarded as moving to Chongzhou this time.

This time, along with the Zhou and Sun families, they decided to move south to Chongzhou, as well as seventeen other maritime merchants, who would form the Heishui Foreign Ship Society together with the Jiyun Society and the Lin Ji Cargo Store.

Sun, Zhou and others not only incorporated the best two-masted ships in their hands into the Heishui Shipping Company, but also raised a total of 300,000 taels of silver.

In the Xisha Island Shipyard, Lin Jian invested 100,000 taels of silver before and after, which was almost his limit, and he didn't have the strength to expand in a short period of time. Sun and Zhou, these maritime merchant clans, have earned a lot of silver from the Jinhai grain road for most of the past six months, and they have long seen that the benefits of shipping are far greater than farming, and they are also willing to put the silver into the shipyard to expand the shipbuilding scale of Chongzhou.

Chongzhou has its own shipyard, and the creation of more sturdy and more suitable for offshore navigation is the foundation for the development of offshore trade. Besides, investing in a boat yard is also profitable, so why not?

In addition to 100,000 taels of cash as the operating principal of Heishui Ocean Shipping Company, the other 200,000 taels of cash will be directly injected into the shipyard as shares.

In addition, Lin Jian also received 200,000 taels of silver from Lin Xuwen to sell rice, and this northward trip can be regarded as temporarily alleviating the shortage of silver in Chongzhou.

When the Sun, Zhou and other clans officially began to dispose of the land and house properties in the north, there will be a larger amount of silver money flowing into Chongzhou.

In addition to the shipyards, the factories and workshops in Chongzhou and Xisha Island will be able to obtain a large amount of development capital, and they can even have the capital to organize agricultural cooperatives to reclaim the grasslands of Hecheng on a large scale.

Of course, in addition to the silver, Lin Jian also remembered those craftsmen.