On the Yangtze River, two luxurious boats lined up together, like a pair of dogs holding their arms and whispering in whispering.

Xu Daixuan sat in the head of the boat hall, listening to his uncle and Lord Lin from Jiangnan talked to each other: Brother Wen, long time no see, Brother Lin, really long time no see, hahaha..., and other unnutritious conversations, I just wanted to yawn.

According to Wen Ji, here, Xu Daixuan is the real master. When people come to visit him, even if the main purpose is to meet Wen Ji and reminisce about the past, he should show his etiquette.

So Xu Daixuan had to leave his desk, drawings and models, and ran out and sat here to listen to the two old men chatting about family matters.

The most annoying thing in the world is that the old women chat about family matters, and secondly, the men are sitting together with family matters now.

By the way, do you have nothing more important to do?

Not to mention, there is really.

As the two old men were chatting, Wen Ji began to pretend to inadvertently promote his plan.

The cause of the topic lies in Lin Ruhai.

The Yan Yu Censor of the Great Zhou Dynasty first lamented that he had no children and had only one daughter under his knees. He was not taught by his daughter, so he planned to send his daughter to Yue's family and give it to his wife's family to raise and educate him.

His wife is the young lady of the Jia family in Jinling, and the Jia family in Jinling was a great Zhou nobleman. His ancestors had been weaving in Jinling, and they were also a first-class wealthy family.

More importantly, the Jia family is prosperous and the mother-in-law is in good health. Miss Lin can be protected by her grandmother when she goes there, and can grow up with the Jia family’s ladies. She can not only obtain complete family education, but also have a support, so she does not have to follow him to be a official and wander around in the wind and rain.

Lord Lin also mentioned that the Jia family intends to combine the beloved son of the family and the daughter of Lord Lin, and he himself is happy to see this...

Because he was given a vaccination, Xu Daixuan always felt that the essential purpose of Lin Ruhai saying these things in front of him was to remind himself not to attack his daughter - he had a good young man he liked.

Xu Daixuan probably knew the original intention of this, but his uncle seemed to not care about it, and he praised Lord Lin's integrity as the topic. In this era, to be a high-ranking and poor official like the Salt Censor, without a group of three wives, four concubines and children, it is really a praising integrity.

Unexpectedly, these words did not get the response from Lin Ruhai himself. Instead, he felt as if he was touched by something, and he felt that it was difficult for a clean official to do...

It turned out that the financial situation of the Great Zhou court is very bad now.

First of all, more and more places to spend money: Emperor Longdao was determined to cheer up and desperately expanded his military, and the Great Zhou classics had nominally expanded to a huge amount of 1.5 million!

In this way, just military spending is definitely not enough without 40 million trump cards per year.

Xu Shisong once proposed to disarmament, completely eliminate the wing army, select the young and strong to be incorporated into the imperial guards, and then cut off the old and weak among the imperial guards, and make up for the vacant wages.

This can not only improve combat effectiveness, but also reduce military spending, killing two birds with one stone.

However, until the founding of the Great Zhou Kingdom, the relationship between the imperial guards and generals has been complicated, and the problem of redundant soldiers and redundant soldiers has become a stubborn disease. How could Xu Shisong, an outsider, have gained the interests of so many people?

This is something that even the emperor cannot do.

If Xu Shisong hadn't been a member of the Xu family, it would have easily caused Jiangbei's anger. I'm afraid that this Privy Councilor of the Great Zhou would have been exiled to Lingnan and died in a foreign land.

The result was that if the emperor wanted to strengthen the army, he could only expand the imperial guard system, but the expanded system was divided by the generals (of course, civil servants could definitely get a piece of the pie). The empty salary was so big that there were still not many combat-capable troops...

This has become a vicious cycle.

In addition to redundant soldiers, there are also redundant officials.

Emperor Longdao could not move the interests of the generals, and he could not move the interests of the civil servant group.

After all, the Great Zhou Dynasty was "the king and the scholars and officials to rule the world together". In this regard, even the Grand Prince Wen and others would not help Emperor Longdao, and Xu Shisong, a great loyal minister, could not control the civil servants.

Therefore, only two military pay and officials were paid, and all the annual incomes in the Great Zhou Dynasty could still save millions of yuan.

Financial pressure made Emperor Longdao sleepless at night, so he transferred the pressure to the two traditional economic pillars of salt administration and weaving.

The indicator set by Emperor Longdao for the salt inspector Lin Ruhai is to increase the salt course by at least 30% in the past three years!

This really made Lin Ruhai feel a headache.

When Xu Daixuan heard the topic going on, she couldn't help but sigh for Lin Ruhai: You are jumping into the bowl by yourself!

Originally, after Xu Daixuan, as the crown prince, made a clear statement on Wen Ji's plan, Wen Ji should reconsider whether to implement the plan (if this is not the established policy).

But Lin Ruhai's complaint changed everything, just like an old sailboat without guns charging towards the 64-cannon sail battleship with its bow, and it had to give the horizontal head to the sail battleship, which would seem too pedantic if it didn't occupy the horizontal head.

Sure enough, when Wen Ji heard this, he immediately proposed a solution to the troubles of Lord Lin Ruhailin:

Jiangbei is willing to sell salt to Lord Lin privately at half the market price in Jiangnan. Wen Ji guarantees his personality that no matter how much Lin Ruhai wants, he can provide it, and all of them are of high quality and low price.

After Lord Lin got these salts, should he sell them as Huai salt or explicitly say that Qi salt is not in charge of Jiangbei?

Anyway, if you remove the freight and necessary handling points, Lin Ruhai can get about 20% of the profit, and part of it is of course his own "labor fee". For the rest, Lin Ruhai can take it out to meet the planning indicators formulated by Emperor Longdao.

Wen Ji helped Lin Ruhai calculate on the spot that the cost of salt obtained from the Jianghuai salt drying method is about three times that of buying Jiangbei salt directly (including freight). In this way, large-scale purchase of Jiangbei salt can not only directly increase the amount of salt, but also save a lot of costs.

Another big deal is made in this. Officials of the Great Zhou Salt Administration, Lin Ruhai himself, the Longdao official family, and even the Jiangbei cabinet, can all gain great benefits from it.

As long as the Yan Yan Censor agrees, everyone will be satisfied!

Lin Ruhai pondered for a moment, but he did not agree on the spot, but his tone became much looser. He was no longer the way he had to come to visit for etiquette at the beginning.

The face of Xu Daixuan, the crown prince of the Northern Dynasty who agreed to this business, also improved a lot, at least he no longer looked as if he was strictly guarding his mind.

In fact, Xu Daixuan didn't say anything, and was simply not interested in this topic.

Lin Ruhai made this trick himself, and he couldn't blame others for not showing mercy to the subordinates of Dazhou.
Chapter completed!