The news that Huzhou archers paralyzed all the checkpoint system in the territory overnight was like wings, and within a few days it spread all over the country.

Officials and gentry, ordinary people, are not very clear. The gang of peddlers who traveled around the world and the merchants who opened huge workshops were in extreme excitement.

For traders and merchants, levels are like demons who knock on bones and marrows. No one knows, and no one knows how many levels there are along the way, and no one even knows how much money they should pay every time they pass by the same level.

The checkpoints greatly increase the cost of goods transfer, making it limited to local areas and difficult to open up sales channels in other places, thereby limiting the expansion of workshop scale and hindering the development and growth of advantageous capital.

The level is the shackles of the Han people's transformation to commercialized large-scale production.

Now, Lin Chunhong has knocked the Huzhou level system to a perfect end, and the merchants have seen hope. For example, Jia Siyi, who ran around excitedly and boldly predicted that the entire Jiangnan level would disappear in a short period of time.

For example, Wang Dajun, although he could not see any strangeness on the outside, he was extremely excited inside, thinking about what goods to transport to maximize profit after the level was cancelled.

Even a person like Li Duoyi who is full of disgust towards Jingzhou has to admit that Lin Chunhong did a good thing and lamented: "If the Jiangnan checkpoint was cancelled as soon as possible, how could the Jiangnan cotton merchant be no match for Jingzhou?"

Li Duoyi had a lot of thoughts and began to plan a comeback in the cotton textile industry, competing with Jingzhou merchants.

...

Merchants like this, such as Qu Shisi, Zhang Pu, Shi Kefa, etc., have a long-term vision, which is tantamount to experiencing a major political earthquake.

Shi Kefa was the governor of Anlu, holding power, and has always been very upright. He has not had much economic entanglement with the Jiangnan gentry. Qu Shisi has been with him for many years and is definitely not honest. After leaving office, he even asked his family to open workshops to traffic in goods, and accepted political donations from Jiangnan gentry many times. As for Zhang Pu, he lived a hard life and had no family to engage in business. However, Fushe is growing stronger and without the political donations from Jiangnan gentry, Fushe will not have the current momentum.

For the three, even if they do not consider their own interests, they have to think about what attitude the gentry who has always supported them has to cancel the level.

Shi Kefa sighed and said, "We all thought Lin Chunhong would take the land first to start the operation, but he didn't expect that he would go astray and start from the level! To put it bluntly, it is a nest of thieves that hide dirt and dirt. The court did not get much benefit, but gave some borers the opportunity to deprive people of the people of wealth and ointment. It was already arousing public grievances. Lin Chunhong chose this entry point, forcing us not to object."

Qu Shisi was silent, Shi Kefa's attitude was already very clear, which directly showed that he did not want to interfere in Lin Chunhong's destruction of the level.

Qu Shixi was absolutely unwilling to give up, but couldn't find the entry point. Finally, he asked uncertainly: "Can you start with Lin Chunhong's erosion of the imperial taxes?"

Shi Kefa shook his head and said, "The Ming Bank is very obvious. The court can no longer stop Lin Chunhong from doing things arbitrarily. Even if Lin Chunhong erodes the imperial taxes in front of the world, the court is powerless. Instead of putting the weakness of the imperial court in front of the world and causing the imperial court to fall a lot, it is better not to mention this matter."

"Mr. Shi is right." Zhang Pu frowned and pondered, but did not express his opinion. Now, after listening to Shi Kefa's analysis, he suddenly said.

After saying that, Zhang Pu gritted his teeth and continued: "I have a suggestion below. Instead of ignoring the destruction of the level, it is better to participate in it and try my best to avoid being marginalized by Lin Chunhong!"

"Associate?" Qu Shixi and Shi Kefa asked in surprise.

Zhang Pu nodded and said, "It is. Lin Chunhong destroyed the Huzhou checkpoint. Since we cannot object, we will only ignore it or participate in it. If we ignore it, Lin Chunhong will definitely control all the workshops in Huzhou and even Jiangnan by destroying the checkpoint, collecting huge taxes, and then achieving the goal of overthrowing Jiangnan local officials. In this way, we will be really marginalized and Jiangnan will be completely controlled by Lin Chunhong."

Zhang Pu coughed and continued: "From Lin Chunhong's behavior, he generally won't refuse negotiations. From the perspective of the following, it would be better to negotiate with Lin Chunhong with the cooperation of destroying the checkpoints as a condition to leave some power to the local officials in Jiangnan."

Shi Kefa nodded heavily for a while and said, "It has come to this point, Mr. Ximing's proposal can also restore some of the decline, so I can only do this."

After saying that, Shi Kefa turned his gaze to Qu Shizi and asked, "What do you think about Qi Tian Gong?"

Qu Shixi shook her head, nodded again and said, "I won't participate in the matter of destroying the level. Alas... I'm always helpless after fighting... Is it a life?"

...

Let’s talk about it carefully for several hours, Zhang Pu and Shi Kefa immediately rushed to Shanghai and handed a message to Guo Mingyan.

Zhang Pu and Shi Kefa are not nerds who turn a blind eye to things outside the window. They have been paying attention to Jingzhou's governance model for many years.

On the surface, Jingzhou's governance model has increased several times the number of people ate imperial grain, but compared with the governance in other parts of the Ming Dynasty, all these people who ate imperial grain were included in supervision and had an effective governance plan, which is obviously more honest and efficient than the old governance model.

Zhang Pu suggested to Guo Mingyan that the governance of Jiangnan can follow the Jingzhou model, but the transformation of the governance model must be completed under the leadership of the county magistrate.

Zhang Pu directly raised the problem to the level of Jiangnan governance, which surprised Guo Mingyan. Guo Mingyan could not make up and immediately reported Zhang Pu's proposal to Lin Chunhong.

Lin Chunhong was overjoyed.

Zhang Pu was willing to cooperate with Jingzhou and tried to share the power of Jiangnan, and Lin Chunhong naturally welcomed him. After all, Jiangnan people have always been proud. If Zhang Pu and others blindly opposed Jingzhou's control of Jiangnan, Jiangnan and Jingzhou would inevitably fall into endless consumption.

Lin Chunhong did not mind that Jiangnan people shared power, nor would he introduce a confused policy similar to that of "Su Songji is not allowed to serve as the Ministry of Revenue". Therefore, when he heard that Zhang Pu took the initiative to seek cooperation, Lin Chunhong ordered Guo Mingyan to bring Zhang Pu to his front.

After learning that Lin Chunhong was in Shanghai, Zhang Pu was shocked. After a long time, he sighed: "I should have thought that Jiangling Hou was in Jiangnan. His sword was in a different direction. Isn't it the style of Jiangling Hou? Alas... the sword was in a different direction? It should be the right way. Times have changed and the situation has changed... It's a pity that we still don't know..."

When he saw Lin Chunhong, Zhang Pu was startled by Lin Chunhong's youth and elegance.

In his perception, Lin Chunhong started his career with force, which should be the image of a martial artist, which is obviously far from reality. Although Lin Chunhong is tall and heroic, he does not seem to be a vulgar martial artist.

After seeing the ceremony, Lin Chunhong said with a sigh: "Since Columbus discovered America, the Portuguese boating around the Cape of Good Hope, the situation in the whole world has completely changed. Although it was nearly two hundred years late in the Ming Dynasty, it was not too late. Fortunately, Mr. Ximing and I were in this great era! The Ming Dynasty has left endless space for exploration. If we do not rise up and develop, we can carry forward the Chinese civilization, I am sorry for this great era..."

Zhang Pu had a certain understanding of the world trend, but he never expected that Lin Chunhong would use the world trend as a way to open the door. He was stunned for a moment and had to follow Lin Chunhong's words: "The Marquis expelled Spain, drove the Netherlands, moved islanders to the Ming Dynasty, and summoned Han people to the Nanyang Islands, which indeed expanded the scope of Chinese civilization."

Lin Chunhong laughed and said, "Mr. Ximing is overly praised. My Ming Dynasty has nearly 200 million people. I have seen all over the world, and no country can match it. If we can work together and look at the world, who is the opponent of the Ming Dynasty? Mr. Ximing knows the general and looks at the general principles, and I feel comforted."

"The Marquis is such a bad word!" Zhang Pu was originally arrogant and felt extremely unhappy when he heard Lin Chunhong's condescending tone. He couldn't help but retort: ​​"For the expansion of Chinese civilization, we should cultivate the kingly way, so that the barbarians will be willing to accept our Chinese civilization. If we simply expand with force, we may be sacrificing the roots and chasing the ends. Even if we do not respect etiquette, we will overcome the superiors and use force to overcome the civilization and lead to chaos!"

"Haha..." Zhang Pu's words were not without accusations. After hearing this, Lin Chunhong laughed instead of angry and said, "China, China, the beauty of clothing and seals is called Hua, and the etiquette is so called Xia. Mr. Ximing asks to know that I, Chinese, wear the most gorgeous clothes in the world and eat the most exquisite food in the world. Is it more attractive to the barbarians? Also, if the granaries are full, you know etiquette. With the foundation of gorgeous clothes and exquisite food, and with great talents like Mr. Ximing to strengthen their character and educate the people, why worry that my Chinese civilization will not be carried forward? This is the right path."

Zhang Pu never expected that Lin Chunhong had such ambitions! Compared with the prosperous atmosphere of all nations that he had pursued in the past, I wonder how many times more ambitious he was!

Zhang Pu was so surprised that he couldn't speak. Then Lin Chunhong continued: "If Jiangnan can have Mr. Ximing's help, I feel that the people in Jiangnan can be fully utilized. If Jiangnan can use the people's strength, the chaos in the northwest and the dangers in Liaodong are not worth worrying. The reform of the governance model proposed by Jiangnan's parents and officials was recommended by Mr. Jiangnan, and I agreed with him. There is only one thing: how to change it needs to follow the plan formulated by my husband."

Lin Chunhong's words were tantamount to agreeing with his proposal. The purpose of the trip to Shanghai had been achieved. Zhang Pu was overjoyed and asked, "Can you also ask if the Marquis's plan has been drafted?"

Lin Chunhong clapped his hands and asked Zhang Jief to take out a thick official document and hand it to Zhang Pu.

Zhang Pu has excellent memory and reading ability, and can see it at a glance.

There is no accident. In addition to establishing grassroots rural institutions, the reform of the governance model is mainly concentrated on the reform of the county government, which is similar to the model of Jingzhou.
Chapter completed!