Lin Qingran just glanced at the busy scholars. After tasting a sip of fragrant pine and roe tea, he said seriously to the four disciples: "I am the teacher and said the same sentence just now. You can read more now, Listen more, but do less, and don’t get involved in this vortex.”

With Wu Shan's proposal to rectify the salt administration at the financial management meeting, this battle with Xu Jie and the salt merchants in the Huai River was destined to be inevitable, and the two sides will engage in a long-term struggle.

The reason why he chose to come to the south of the city suddenly and summon the four disciples to the teahouse for secret talk was because he was worried that the four newborn calves were not afraid of tigers and did some reckless things.

At present, Lin Qingran only hopes that these four disciples will be at peace. First, their official positions are very low, and second, they can't actually help at this time.

"Disciple obeys the order!"

Wang Honghai, Wang Jun, Chen Tao and Liu Fushan knew that this time was a big deal, so he nodded solemnly.

Wang Jun is a military family and does not have so much restraint in front of Lin Junran, but he suddenly asked a question: "Teacher, what they said just now does not seem to be completely unreasonable. Too high salt prices are indeed unfavorable to the people!"

Chen Tao immediately responded: "Brother Ziyong, you are really confused by these remarks! After the teacher cleared salt malpractice in Guangzhou and stopped extending his hand in all aspects, the salt price suddenly dropped by half. Now Guangdong salt is not sold in Huai salt. The price is 30%, but the profit is still very generous!”

Liu Fushan also echoed: "In fact, many prefectures and counties have been monopolized by Lianghuai Salt Traders, especially the several prefectures in the northeast of Huguang, who are allowed to bid at will. The so-called salt price has risen this year, but this is not the case. It is an excuse for them to knock on the bones and suck marrow to the people! If we choose to retreat today, although the salt price will fall, the salt profit of our court is still stolen by these maggots!"

Chen Tao and Liu Fushan were both wealthy families, so their horizons were stronger than Wang Jun. Although they served as the chief clerk of the Six Ministry, they had exposed a lot of facts, so they had already made a clear judgment.

The most important thing is that when they were in Guangzhou, they had long seen the changes in Guangdong salt, so they knew that the so-called rise in salt prices was not really because of the court.

Wang Jun slowly woke up and immediately bowed to Lin Qingran and said, "Teacher, it's a student who is foolish!"

"No, you should maintain this skeptical attitude, this is one of your advantages!" Lin Qingran raised his hand to stop him, and said earnestly to the disciples: "You have not yet entered the officialdom and have not yet had any situation in the Ming Dynasty. How deeper you understand, I hope you will watch more, listen more, and do less at the moment." After a pause, he reminded him seriously: "If you are forced to dismissal from office in the future, you will also agree with your master and your master's office. What we do, I hope you can walk the path we have not finished!"

Although pausing the salt administration is a little more important than opening the sea, Lin Qingran understood that solving the salt administration problem is not only to increase the court's fiscal revenue, but also to smash this force that harms the country and the people.

"Students remember!"

Wang Jun and others had different eyes and gave a deep gift to Lin Junran.

Wang Jun felt the righteousness of Lin Junran, and even made a serious promise: "If this is true, even if the students are crushed to pieces, they will not let these villains succeed! Not only will the quasi-salt restore the old rules, but they will also All the maggots in Huaiyan were cleaned up."

"Who of you is talking nonsense here? Isn't it because you have a relationship with Yan Maoqing?"

It was at this moment that the scholars who were planning to submit a letter to the joint letter came here. A strong man seemed to hear some bad words, and immediately pulled up his sleeves and shouted.

Wang Jun was tall and learned some martial arts. He immediately stood up and pointed at the other party and said, "Who got married with Yan Maoqing? I said you are someone else's lackey!"

"I really don't know how to live or die, and today I will let you have a memory!" The strong man immediately changed his color and rushed over as if he had forgotten that he was a gentleman.

"stop!"

Lin Qingran saw that both sides were about to stop, and immediately took out his official power and stopped.

When Wang Jun heard the teacher's words, he also retracted his idea of ​​fighting in a bad mood.

The strong scholar gave Wang Jun a disdainful look, but his eyes fell on Lin Xuran, his eyes immediately stopped, and he opened his mouth in surprise and said, "Mr....Master Gong!"

Lin Xuran originally wanted to stop the conflict. Faced with the reaction of the scholar, he immediately stared at him and asked, "Do you know me?"

"No...I don't know!"

The strong scholar suddenly reacted, but shook his head and said.

When Wang Wu, who was holding a petition, saw Lin Weiran, he didn't dare to breathe. He turned around silently and was about to leave.

"Wang Monkey King, Ma San, big dog! I just saw you guys just now, I don't think it's you three!" Zhang Hu acted as a guard, and at this time he blocked the way of Wang Wu and others, and laughed loudly.

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this……

Wang Wan and others looked at Zhang Hu who suddenly appeared, and were immediately scared to death, standing there with a look of earth.

Lin Weiran had seen something wrong with these people for a long time, so he asked in a deep voice: "Captain Zhang, do you know them?"

"Why don't you know me? Hu and I... The eldest lady has caught them three times. The three of them often cheat in the Gulou area. They never thought that they would be like a monkey and pretend to be a scholar today!" Zhang Hu slapped his big hand at Wang

On the back of the tung, he said loudly, jokingly.

The movement here naturally attracted everyone's attention. When they learned that these three scholars were actually sluts, many of them felt embarrassed and angry when they were deceived.

Lin Xuran didn't expect that this was the case, and his face immediately sank, "Is that true? You don't enter the official school and have no fame and reputation, and they are actually wearing frocks?"

"Mr. Prefecture!"

When Wang Houzi and the other three saw that the matter had been exposed, they immediately begged for mercy to Lin Qingran.

Lin Weiran did not answer, but said to the onlooker: "What do you think should you deal with the three of them?"

"Please punish the prefect according to law!"

Every group has their natural interests. For scholars, they naturally do not want the fame and fortune they gained from studying hard can be easily used.

If the joint petition just now is to plead for the people, then it is to defend its own interests and hate Wang Houzi and his group even more.

Wang Houzi looked at the scholar who had just called him brother and brother suddenly, and suddenly felt ashamed.

"Take it back to the government office!"

Lin Weiran's eyes fell back to Wang Houzi and others, and he ordered lightly.

"Walk!"
Chapter completed!