This method of fortune comes completely from Lin Yanchao's sleeve.

But now Li Ruhua must turn it into his own meaning: "Yes, this method has been since the famous prime minister Liu Yan of the Tang Dynasty."

Mo Yang said on the side: "Is it the one who is seven years old in the Three Character Classic, who is a child prodigy and has a regular character. He is young and has already served as an official."

Li Ruhua nodded and smiled, "Mr. Mo must have known the allusion at that time."

"I want to say that in the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, the national treasury was empty, and the Lianghuai Salt Method was urgently needed to be enriched, but the salt method was corrupted."

"At that time, the court bought salt from the salt people and sold salt, and adopted the method of purchasing and selling official sales. Then Liu Yan borrowed merchants to sell salt and distributed the profits to merchants, and then his salt administration has been used to this day."

From the perspective of modern people, Lin Yanchao said that Liu Yan's method of reforming the salt law was that the court had monopolized the purchase and sale of all parts of the salt industry.

Then Liu Yan subcontracted the sales, that is, the part of the sales of salt to merchants, which means that today's court, as a wholesaler supplier, specially purchased from the salt people and then provided salt, and then the merchants were responsible for transportation and sales.

In other words, the court controlled the upstream and the merchants controlled the downstream. If the salt law is changed, the world will be regarded as convenient.

Old Master Mei put the piece of paper aside. Young Master Mei took it and looked at it, but saw a suppressed joy on his face and calmed down casually. Mei Kan looked at it very calmly.

Mr. Mei immediately smiled and said, "I am old and my eyes are blurred. I can't understand it for a while. What do you think?"

Master Mei said: "Dad, this matter is good. In the past, the salt method did have its drawbacks. Any small businessman could take salt out of the salt field, which could easily cause the flood of private salt. If all the merchants who carry salt are listed on the outline and their descendants will continue forever, and it is stipulated that whoever takes salt and who is not allowed to take it, then the salt courses will be in order."

Mr. Mei shook his head and said, "It's inappropriate. This move is like kicking out all the small salt merchants. How can they stop? At the same time, those who sell private salt will be willing to give the salt industry to us salt merchants."

Lin Yanchao nodded. This is a clever businessman. Others see opportunities and risks.

Young Master Mei had a little anxious look, but he knew that in front of outsiders, he must be consistent with his father and that people should not see the differences.

Lin Yanchao would not say anything, so Li Ruhua would say this.

But seeing Li Ruhua and Mo Yangzhi look at each other, Mo Yangzhi said: "I have discussed with the Court. The court will send additional officers and soldiers everywhere to investigate private salt."

Mr. Mei and others didn't say anything. The implication was obvious. The court had been investigating private salt for more than 100 years, but it had no effect now. The smuggling private salt in Lianghuai has reached a blatant place.

Li Ruhua said: "The court has repeatedly banned the matter of private salt. Since this is the case, I will give you a word. If this law is feasible, the court will delegate the power of anti-smuggling to the salt merchants."

When Li Ruhua said this, he felt a little unconfident in his words.

Mr. Mei and his friends couldn't hear it when they had been through the mall for a long time, so they didn't answer. Li Ruhua had no choice but to look at Lin Yanchao.

Lin Yanchao knew that when he came forward, he said: "Although I am a retired official, I can speak in the court about the salt industry."

"In a word, salt will no longer be in the official warehouse and the merchants will buy and make up for it themselves. As long as the salt merchants in each syllabus can pay the salt class in full and treat the salt people well, the court will never interfere."

After hearing Lin Yanchao's words, Mr. Mei, Mr. Mei, and Mei Kan all nodded slightly.

Mr. Mei smiled and said, "I will feel relieved if I have the words of Master Wutang. I will go back to the Salt Merchants Association to discuss this matter with President Ma, President Wu and others."

Li Ruhua nodded and said, "If the Mei family can make this happen, then the court will not forget the Mei family's contribution."

After saying that, the three of the Mei family said goodbye.

Li Ruhua was still worried on his face and said to Lin Yanchao: "Mr. Master, this is equivalent to giving the salt sales to the salt merchants completely. In the future, only salt merchants are the parents of food and clothing. There is no place in the court in his eyes, and there is also salt merchants who can fight against smuggling on their own. If this public instrument is given to the salt merchants, the consequences in the future will be unimaginable. This power is easy to release, but it is difficult to collect it."

Lin Yanchao said: "Maofu's concerns are not without reason, but Liu Yan once had a famous saying that those who make big plans cannot count for tips. At present, our top priority is to hand over the 680,000 taels of salt course in Lianghuai to the court, and at the same time give salt to the middle border merchants to exchange it. This is the most important, and the rest is the light."

Mo Yangzhi also said: "I agree with Master Dutang's words. No matter how bad these salt merchants are, the court's salt classes every year are all based on them. As for those private salt dealers, they are the enemy of us. Master Dutang sets this principle of fortune, which is to join hands with these salt dealers to drive those private salt dealers out of Lianghuai."

Li Ruhua nodded after hearing Mo Yangzhi's words, and then asked: "Since the master of the ministry has this strategy, he is still willing to go through fire and water. But I am afraid that we will agree with the salt, and the emperor will not allow it."

Mo Yangzhi smiled and said, "I have been thinking too much about the court. The master of the ministry has been his close minister for many years. If you say you are trying to figure out the holy intentions, there are not many people in the court above him."

Li Ruhua felt much more at ease when he heard this. As the salt inspector, he was afraid of his own decision and could not get the support of the court.

Lin Yanchao also looked at Mo Yangzhi and thought to himself that this person was very good at it.

Mo Yangzhi said again: "The legal authority of the Master of the Ministry can solve the accumulated problems of the Lianghuai salt law once and for all. However, I don't understand one thing. Why should I go first in Huainan instead of both Huainan? This is not a meal. I will eat in two bites. I am stupid and ask the Master of the Ministry of the Ministry to answer the doubts."

Lin Yanchao smiled. His little thoughts were not worthy of being told by outsiders.

This method of fortune was submitted to the court in the name of Li Ruhua. If he had the full effect, it would be difficult to guarantee that he would forget his parents after eating and forgetting his food and clothing, so he had to leave a hand behind.

The same is true for the Mei family. I will take out half of the cake first to divide the cake. If I can’t get what I want, I will not release the remaining half.

But when Lin Yanchao saw Lin Yanchao, "Brother Mo said it is reasonable, but why don't I want to achieve full results? But it is really a big deal to propose reforming the salt administration of the two Huaihe Rivers. I am not sure that the emperor will nod. So this method is tried first in Huainan. If it is effective within two or three years, then it will be natural."

After hearing Lin Yanchao's words, Li Ruhua and Mo Yangzhi City showed an admiration and said, "The master of the Ministry has made careful predictions and thoughtful thoughts. I admire him very much."

Lin Yanchao nodded and said, "In fact, it is a last resort for the imperial court to decentralize power. If one day the politics is clear and the grievances of ordinary people can be reached at any time, or what happened yesterday will happen, and the emperor who is thousands of miles away on the second day will also know that these corrupt officials and tyrants will hide."

Li Ruhua and Mo Yangzhi all smiled, thinking to himself how could Lin Yanchao say it?

Lin Yanchao continued: "The big salt merchants hoarded salt and redeemed as much as they could, which made the border merchants unable to redeem salt. However, the salt farm officials did not understand the private salt dealers. Therefore, the current salt law is corrupt because of collusion between officials and merchants."

"So if you want to govern officials, you cannot be cured by the current means. Since it cannot be cured, then let go of what should be released and give up what should be abandoned."

In today's words, if Liu Yan was the one who managed the salt administration, I was the one who produced and sold it, then the method of raising the luck method was to completely change the direct sales and franchise.

At this time, the yamen reported that it was Zhang Taizheng, the salt transport envoy of Lianghuai and the prefect of Yangzhou, who had arrived. Lin Yanchao nodded and met them immediately.

Before, Lin Yanchao had heard the news of his salt method and Zhang Taizheng. Now he and the Lianghuai Salt Transportation Commissioner and the Yangzhou Prefect came to discuss the final details, which was the details of how much share their Shanxi salt merchants could occupy in these ten principles.

In Yangzhou City, in the Mei family’s mansion.

Mr. Mei and his two sons are also discussing.

Mr. Mei asked Mei Tan, "Do you think there is any possibility that the salt law can be agreed to in the court?"

Mei Tang said: "If Li Xunwang mentioned it, then there will be no 10%, but if Linbutang mentioned it, then there will be 70% or 80%."

"Is that high? What's your reason?"

Mei Tang said: "Dad, don't forget that Lin Butang is a close minister of the emperor and a disciple of Shen Wu County. He must have a sense of what he can and cannot pass. As for the Ministry of Revenue, his disciple Guo Zhengyu is a doctor in the Ministry of Revenue. There are many fellow villagers in the court, who served in the same year."

"So how much Li Ruhua's speech is as important as Lin Butang."

Mr. Mei nodded and said, "That's the case, but I'm still a little worried. Look at this claim, our salt merchants in Huaihe have, and it's time to put them in front of the court. Since ancient times, the court has been a pig who is fattened and killed. We just need to hide it and make a fortune in a quiet voice. This is the first time the court will think of us in the future when we are short of money."

Mei Tang and Mei Kan looked at each other, and Mei Kan said, "Dad, you are too worried. Haven't you heard that this time and that time? Didn't the Wu family donate 200,000 taels to the court before, and was rewarded by the emperor, and even awarded several members of the Wu family's Secretariat? Don't your father want to stand directly in front of the stage like the Wu family and be admired by the world?"

Mr. Mei said, "You are right, but we should not seek fame and live in trouble."

Mei Kan said anxiously: "Dad is certainly cautious, but once this law of fortune is passed by the court, it is difficult to ensure that no other salt chambers of commerce claim the money. As long as they claim the money, Lianghuai Salt Industry will be the final say in the future. Where can we have the place of our Mei family? Could it be that my sons will smuggle salt?"

"Why did the second brother talk to my father like this?" Mei Tang scolded, and then said, "After that, if our Mei family really wants to intervene in the guise and fortune method, it depends on Linbutang's future."

"Hasn't you been doing this all the time?"

Mei Tang said: "Dad, what do you think of Linbutang?"

Mr. Mei nodded and said, "You come and ask me, he is different from other officials. I asked him if there were any problems with the salt method. He refused to say it, but today he suddenly threw out this method of luck. It can be seen that he has thought about it carefully. This person is amazing!"

Mei Tang said: "Yes, my son is not as wise as my father, but my son knows how to look at the background of this person. In the officialdom, the promotion of an official depends on the backer. The background of the official is the Secretary of the State, so it will be over for the minister in the future. If the background is the minister, then it will be just a minister at most."

""The Linbutang was supported by Shenwu County. Shenwu County is the chief minister. What will happen to the future if he supports him? Not to mention Linbutang entering the cabinet, but it will be a matter of time before he can advance one more step. If he is in charge of ten years, our salt merchants in Huaihuai will rely on him for ten years. If he reigned for thirty years, he can rely on him for the rest of his life."

At this time, Mei Kan smiled and said, "Brother, you didn't really mention the point. Dad, brother, what do you think Linbutang's Lin Butang is the former school of merit in Zhejiang."

"The School of Merits talks about business and benefiting workers. Lin Butang discussed the affairs of the court, saying that he would change the pattern of focusing on agriculture and suppressing commerce, and to promote both industry and commerce. However, this was scolded by many court officials. But why did Lin Butang retreat when he was in trouble? So his son thought that he would change the salt administration of Lianghuai this time. The reason why he made great efforts was not only to build our Mei family and the salt merchants of Lianghuai, but more importantly, he subtly implemented the strategy in his heart."

Mr. Mei said: "You said this, but I remembered that when he was in Guide, he could have paid money to the public like Wang Anshi, but he did not do so. Instead, the government paid money to deposit it in the bank, agreed with the merchant, and then the bank lent it to the people."

"From here I see something similar to the method of the scheming and movement."

Mei Tang said: "Yes, if an official like Linbutang is in power, our Mei family and the salt merchants in Lianghuai can rest assured."

Mr. Mei nodded slowly immediately.

In the following days, the salt merchants in the two Huaihuai held several meetings and immediately agreed to the outline and fortune proposed by Li Ruhua.

The so-called method of scheming is that Li Ruhua first went to the red book of Huainan Salt Court to draw up the accumulated indices over the years.

You should know that fake inducement was rampant at that time, and fake inducement was the same as the real one. Many big salt merchants and private salt dealers all took fake inducement to the salt farm to buy salt.

Even if you can see, the salt farm officials have long been bribed by the salt merchants who bought salt, so they always turn a blind eye when they see fake instincts.

Therefore, if Li Ruhua wants to see the real salt quotation, he must compare the certificate of deposit in the red letter of Huainan Salt Court with the real salt quotation in the hands of the salt merchant.

At that time, the salt quota that the imperial court had accumulated was already astronomical. After seeing it, Li Ruhua found that even if the Lianghuai Salt Field did not exchange for the new quota, it would take four or five years to complete the old quota. If this is true, with the current financial system of the Ming Dynasty, the border troops would immediately lose food. If they did not do anything, the salt quota would be a blank check, and the old quota would not be sold out, so there would be no fools to buy the new quota.

Li Ruhua immediately compiled all the salt merchants who held the old quotations into ten principles, divided them into the land, nine principles and new principles and new principles, one principles and old principles, one principles and one principles and one principles and one principles and one principles and one principles and one principles and one principles and one principles and one principles and one principles and one principles and one principles and one principles and one principles and one principles and one principles and ones can be divided into ten or even dozens of people.

The salt law was transformed from the civil system, official collection, official sales, commercial transportation, commercial sales, and commercial sales to the civil system, commercial collection, commercial transportation, and commercial sales.

Then Li Ruhua compiled this compilation into a book, reported it to the court, and released the Yaxing merchants.

After seeing this, the court agreed that Li Ruhua implemented the new salt law in Huainan that year, and officials and the people said it was convenient, and Huainan salt courses were handed over to the state treasury in full.

The emperor was overjoyed and immediately issued an order to commend Li Ruhua and specially ordered him to remain the Yan Jingshi. A few years later, Li Ruhua returned to Beijing to serve as the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple.

However, all this is a later story. After the salt merchants in the two Huai Rivers made a general discussion, Lin Yanchao compiled a book to Shen Shixing, Guo Zhengyu and his official friends, and then left Yangzhou with his family and disciples. Wang Shixing and Xu Zhenming were also together.

It was October of the 17th year of Wanli.

Lin Yanchao first traveled from Yangzhou to Jinling, and on the way, he first visited Qiyun Mountain. At that time, there was no saying that the Five Mountains did not look at the mountains. As a guide to the journey, Wang Shixing recognized that there were ten mountains in ancient times. Qiyun Mountain was called Baiyue, and Baiyue was the best among the ten mountains.

After staying in Jinling for several days, everyone went to Taihu Lake again.

Before the Ming Dynasty, the Wusong River was the estuary of Taihu Lake and Huangpu was its tributary. Later, both rivers were severely silted. Then, they were treated successively by Xia Yuanji, the Minister of Revenue during the Yongle period, and Hai Rui, the Censor of Nanjing during the Longqing period, and completely dealt with the siltation problem. Now the two rivers have turned into harm to benefit, and the water of Taihu Lake no longer easily causes floods.

After arriving at Taihu Lake, Lin Yanchao revisited the old place of Su and Hangzhou.

When the boat leaves Hangzhou, it is walking between the bright mountains, rivers and beautiful waters.
To be continued...