Chapter 267 The huge plan

Speaking of which, Lord Li copied "advanced experience" on a whim, but ignored ideological differences and touched the hidden rules of the Ming Dynasty officialdom.

It's really a matter of seeking trouble and causing trouble. Li You complained about it, and it was another big mistake. When will the tuition fee be completed?

Lord Li can understand the idea of ​​Empress Dowager Cisheng. As the current actual ruler of the dynasty, no matter how she does, she is always willing to be praised by others for prosperity, prosperity, prosperity, peace and stability in the country, and by the way, Yao and Shun in NV, there is no need to say too much good things.

The former diary was useless to the Queen Mother, and she didn't think about the use of it, or there was no place for the diary in her consciousness. But after Li You handled it for a few days, she keenly realized that the diary could be like this.

In fact, the Grand Secretary also agrees with Li You's approach. After Li Zhongshu entered the house, he finally did some good things that were not on the table, which made them less restrictive and noise in their work. Who is uncomfortable? Moreover, the ministers who hold the key points and are not honest in their xinxing also have this view.

However, every era has its own "political correctness", and the country is no exception. A smooth road to speech means "political correctness" that all civil officials in their hearts and actually do, but they must never object to verbally, otherwise you will be a foolish monarch or a slander.

In summary, you can take his life, but you can't shut up.

This three hundred years of tradition is deeply rooted, and no one dares to bear the infatuation of blocking the road from top to bottom. Therefore, no one will publicly stand up to support Li You's approach.

Only Li You, who has a shallow family background, has quick promotion, and is not immersed enough, but some people who are wrongly treated Feng Jing as Ma Liang and use "advanced experience" to adapt the misunderstanding of the news.

You should know that ideology is not science and technology, and it will be completely unsuitable if it changes time and space. In public places, the style of worrying about the country and the people is universal value, and praise is only applicable to special occasions such as festivals and ceremonies that need to set off the atmosphere, or very siblings.

For example, everyone knows that the Minister of Personnel holds the power of election, but in order to curry favor with him, you dare to openly praise him at the court meeting. That day, the old official would not drive you out of the capital to see a ghost. If you say a few rude words during a visit, it might be very effective.

Therefore, even as a wise and powerful time traveler, even if the empress dowager acquiesced, Lord Li could only compromise in the face of this unspoken official rules. If he really wanted to start a war, he would probably not even be able to form a war between him and the censor, and he would definitely be one-sidedly ravaged. He is not a eunuch, but he still has to be in the civil servant circle.

However, how to continue below is not difficult to see a pig running, and at worst, it is just a "internal reference" to create.

The plan was decided in his mind, and Li You wrote quickly, so of course he had to defend himself for a few words first. This is what Lord Li is very good at.

"I think that the officials of the speech should seek pure knowledge, rather than misunderstand the words. If they observe what others cannot observe, they will realize the great meaning in normal times, so they should not point out and listen to them more. Unexpectedly, they will cause surprise and suspicion between China and the outside world, and there is a misunderstanding of blocking the way of speech, which is not the original intention..."

The central idea is that my original intention is good, but doing something wrong with kindness is really an unintentional move, and blocking the way of speaking are all misunderstandings.

After writing the beginning, an internal supervisor came to pass the message, "Guide Qiansui Chuanxiu"

Li You threw down the pen and stood up to follow the insurgent to Zhaofeng Palace.

Guide Qiansui saw Li You coming in, put down the Chinese book, turned his back and said, "Didn't you claim to be low-key? You really don't stop."

Li You said helplessly: "Your Highness, don't say sarcastic words. The noble slaves of the imperial village of the palace occupied 343 acres of land in Hejian Mansion. If I hadn't removed the memorial from the Lieutenant General's Office, would you still be in the mood to gossip here?"

The eldest princess didn't care much about this, "Oh? There is something wrong? I'll ask you if it's true."

There is a question that Li You has been wondering for a long time. If he had 100,000 acres of land or more, and if he had a few thousand salt intakes every year, he would definitely be lying down and counting money to live a peaceful life. He would not have the energy to continue to make money. He couldn't help but ask, "Your Highness, is it still short of money?"

"Will the royal people not be in the world?" Guide asked sharply: "Or won't you spit out that thousand tael?"

This... Li You's hero was short of anger. If he hadn't given the 1,000 taels from the eldest princess, he would have been better than the 500 silver he brought from Suzhou alone. Some time ago, he even bought dozens of taels of silver to buy luxurious fur clothes and decorate them. It's hard to go from extravagant to fruity.

Qiansui didn't linger on this problem of shamelessness on both sides, "The matter of the mansion, the mother seeks fame, and the censor seeks profit, I can give you a clear path..."

"No, I have my own concerns. In the future, I can divide the mansion into two. One is like the current style and spread it to the world to inspire people. I ordered the prefectures, counties, and all schools to post it every day; the other is like the past style, only to the capital and local prefectures and above officials. In this way, each of them will be able to obtain the needs and not to contradict the situation, and not to confuse the teachings."

"You are indeed a smart person with ideas." Princess Guide praised, "Can you give me an idea? The Cheng Yan Merchant you recommended is indeed an available person, but his admiration is a bit difficult to use. What do you think?"

Li You remembered that Mr. Cheng was nerdy and angry, and he was indeed only suitable for use as a signboard. With his current reputation, it was okay to fool a salt industry guild in charge, but it might not be useful if he really didn't do anything. "It's easy to find a close relative of him to seek wealth and prosperity for the sake of profit, and then act in his name. As for Mr. Cheng himself, let's just give it up."

Princess Guide continued to praise: "Who should this candidate be good?"

"It is natural to inherit his father's business. If he has a child, he can make use of it..." Li You continued to give advice.

"It's a pity that his son is far away from the three sides and will not be able to return to Beijing for a while. There is only one little girl you want to get involved in Beijing."

Regarding Cheng Xiaoniang, Li You has asked the eldest princess at least three times, but none of them have succeeded.

It is definitely not that Lord Li can't find anyone else to be a concubine except this one. He has heard an experience before, saying that NV in the capital has a big vision, a very arrogant and greedy life, and is unwilling to leave the capital. If a foreigner marrys a young man in the capital, he is often troubled by the back house. If he wants to return home, it is the NV family who is going to make trouble. Therefore, Lord Li can be said to be "always restrained and always cautious."

At present, only this lady in the Cheng family has a good appearance and is quite reassuring to be innocent and a good candidate for warming up beds, so Li You has always been working hard.

However, when the eldest princess took the initiative to mention Cheng Xiaoniang, Li You was very alert, "What does your Highness mean?"

"According to your idea, if the Cheng family has a co-op NV son-in-law, it should be a good candidate for service."

If it was someone else, I would probably have to subconsciously ask, where did the Cheng family get their nv son-in-law? But Li You pointed to the core of the question: "Who will the Cheng family's nv son-in-law you mentioned?"

Guide Qiansui Shen Yin said a name for a moment: "Wang Qinian."

Li You was furious immediately, "You want to use this person? This person is an enemy who covets my position."

This reaction was expected by the eldest princess, "But he is not my enemy."

Li You swallowed his anger and asked, "What reason do you have to use him?"

Guide Qiansui said calmly: "Cheng Yan Shang was secretly taken care of by Wang Qinian when his family was in trouble, and his oral agreement that year, he had already recruited him as his son-in-law. Why didn't I do this kind of favor? If they become one, they will be one.

Everyone knows that Wang Qinian was the first to serve me. If I abandoned it, wouldn’t it be a shame for others? Now he has no way out and loyalty is not a problem. This is two.

Wang Qinian has all the plans and can be used, but his luck is not good. A few days ago, he expressed his willingness to abandon his official position and serve me, and he is also a sensible person. Why don’t I use it? This is three.”

Li You shouted: "Your salt karma is created by me. You exclude me from the other hand and ask Old Man Cheng from me. This is OK, I can give in. But you have brought my enemy into this matter and then sent me to the enemy. Do you think this is not too much?"

In the past few months since I met, Princess Guide was scolded by Li You for the first time, and it was the first time that she had been scolded in more than ten years. She couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

Without waiting for her to react, Li You continued to scold: "With your wealth, is this silver in the capital salt industry worth watching you? He even broke up with me?"

His Highness Qiansui slapped the table and said, "In the salt industry, gold and silver are as good as the sea, why not own it for me?"

Princess Guide's plan is certainly not as simple as Li You's idea of ​​buying and selling salt indices and long-term bonds. Li You's idea of ​​establishing the Beijing Salt Industry Guild was just to use her superficial knowledge to create an emergency platform, but it opened a window for Guide's Qiansui's thinking. She had far-reaching considerations on how to use this platform.

Her power plus the platform of the Beijing Salt Industry Association should be transformed into an upstream general merchant that controls the Beizhi salt induction. The major general merchants are followed by different angles such as transportation merchants and stragglers, so that they can form a salt consortium with simple management, strict system and clear professional division of labor. Don’t forget that you can also control the si salt from this system.

During the Jinghe period, the annual net profit of the salt industry, which relies on Hejian Changlu, should be more than one million taels. Although it is absolutely impossible for one person to take it alone, it is also an amazing force to control the flow of more than one million taels of silver.

Of course, if you think that the eldest princess's eyes are only around the capital, it would be too despised. If you do well, you can naturally penetrate into the two salt transportation departments of Shanxi and Shandong. When it grows to a certain level, you can penetrate into the world's number one Lianghuai Salt Industry when it needs to be further.

Li You estimated that the total profit of the world's salt industry is at the magnitude of tens of millions this year. Even if Guide can only be controlled to one-third after a thousand years, the capital flow can be at least tens of millions of silver, which can be called a super huge scale.

Hearing the princess' wild ambitions, Lord Li forgot his indignation and was only staying there for a while. What is a great spirit? His Highness Qiansui's plans and concerns are indeed very different from his minor official background, and it is not unfair to be denounced as short-sighted...

Princess Guide's purpose is to establish a Ming Salt Trust, Syndicate or Cartel in this era? Thinking of this, Li You was shocked by this majestic plan, "What are you... what are you looking for? It's impossible for so much silver to fall into your hands."

The eldest princess said domineeringly: "As long as it can be used by my royal family, why bother to hold it tightly in her own hands? What's wrong with storing the silver there?"

Royal? Li You understood a little, and this was the meaning of seeking wealth and power for the heaven. If you have money in your hands, the inner treasury will not worry about being sold. You really have the confidence to fight against the outside dynasty.

He slightly corrected in his heart that Guide Qiansui's purpose was to establish a royal-controlled salt trust, syndicate or cartel.

Gradually recovering from the shock, Li You asked again: "Why don't those salt merchants obey?"

Qiansui saw this thoroughly, "The businessman was not happy with the national tax, but he was most likely willing to ask him to buy power with silver. He said a lot, but he couldn't let you know what I was planning in vain. He should give more advice, and I will naturally not treat you badly."

Lord Li suddenly remembered that during the pseudo-Qing period of the previous generation, when the emperor went to Jiangnan, the salt merchants enthusiastically took out a lot of silver to take over. The emperor wanted to fight, and the salt merchants enthusiastically took out millions of silver to donate their wages... Is history really a powerful habit? In this Ming Dynasty, it was necessary to stage another model?

Has he finally brought about a butterfly effect, Li You sighed in his heart. An urgent idea to change his image was attempted to use it to such an extent, as if he had opened a Pandora's box.

"I admit that your idea is very generous, but this is not the reason you must use Wang Qinian, nor is it the reason for giving him my favorite. You have been making money for the emperor for many years, and you should have a lot of candidates under your command."

"Everything is difficult at the beginning. You also know that it is best to use the Cheng Yanshang card to play the énhong. Wang Qinian is his nv son-in-law and be in charge of the business. Moreover, such a thing is better for an experienced official to grasp. Most people do not have this kind of situation. If you are willing to resign, then I will also wait for it, so you can naturally get rid of Wang Qinian."

Li You shook his head, "It's still wrong. I need you to give me an excuse. Just like after you robbed my salt service last time, I told me that this is for my own good. A Suzhou person cannot get involved in the Ministry of Revenue, otherwise he will be impeached. This excuse is very good. Although I know that only Suzhou people in this dynasty are not allowed to be officials in the Ministry of Revenue, and there is no rule that Suzhou people cannot handle the Ministry of Revenue affairs, but I would rather believe that there is really this regulation."

Princess Guide was silent for a long time, "Because you are not obedient enough."...
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