Cheng Naixuan said that his father was old-fashioned, but he could tell from his smile that he was obviously ordered by his mother to check the post. He found that his father lived in a big house here but actually had a simple life. He couldn't mention his happiness and ease. Wang Fulin could see this simple emotion. Mr. Cheng had been through the vast ocean for a long time, so how could he not see it? He snorted coldly, but he showed his usual attitude of coaching his son again.

"When can you learn from the steadfastness of Fulin in everything? You just yelled at me here, but I haven't punished you yet. Go to the study to copy the Analects of Confucius!"

Cheng Naixuan widened his eyes and copied the Analects of Confucius? Didn’t it be that the rules of family searched in the past! The rules of family searched in total, and the Analects of Confucius had more than 10,000 words in total. How long should it be written? He shrugged Wang Fulin with a sad face, hoping that this bad friend would get him. Finally, he didn’t throw his eyes around asking for help, and he bowed and said, “Uncle Cheng loves his son and teaches his son. I shouldn’t say much about the reason, but Brother Cheng was also blamed because of me. If Uncle Cheng insisted on punishing him, I’m afraid I can only take half of it.”

This is almost the same, it’s not in vain. I rushed to Yangzhou to help you!

Seeing that Cheng Naixuan was happy, Wang Fulin couldn't bow, so he had to glar at Cheng Naixuan angrily: "Go to the study room to recite the Analects of Confucius for me. If you recite less, copy it for me! Don't bargain, go quickly!"

Although reading a book will definitely make you dry mouth, it is much better than copying it once. Therefore, even though he was obviously reluctant to look back one step or three times when he left, Cheng Naixuan still dragged on his way. When he left, only Wang Fulin and himself were left in the room. Only then did Mr. Cheng sit down and raise his hand to signal Wang Fulin to sit down. Then he asked straightforwardly: "After getting out of trouble in Danyang, he did not return to Huizhou, but came to Yangzhou directly. Is there anything else?"

"Uncle Cheng's eyes were like a raging. In fact, after I returned to Huizhou from Hankou Town last year, I had plans to come to Yangzhou. At that time, I agreed to go with Brother Cheng. Who knew that this time I was in Danyang by chance. Thinking about it, I just crossed the river to Yangzhou." Wang Fulin paused at this point. When Mr. Cheng accepted this statement, he continued, "If you want to tell me the purpose, it was actually Mr. Nanming, my uncle, told me that the Wang family had been operating the salt industry in Yangzhou for many years, but now it is getting worse and worse, so I asked me to come and have a look."

Wang Fulin had not disclosed the ticket number in front of Mr. Xu before. He had only consulted about the situation related to the salt industry. At this moment, he would not show any rash words in front of Mr. Cheng. However, he knew very well that with the current situation of Wang Daokun rising up immediately after he recovered, Mr. Cheng would probably give advice. However, after waiting for a long time, what he had said was another thing from Mr. Cheng.

"Mr. Nanming, my uncle, shouldn't be in Huguang for too long." Seeing Wang Fulin's face, Mr. Cheng said carefully, "It is said that the court intends to use a person who is deeply involved in military affairs to join the Ministry of War. Mr. Nanming served as the governor of Fujian that year, and had many military achievements with Japanese pirates for many years. He also had many insights into border affairs. Mr. Zhang, the cabinet, has recommended him to the chief minister, Gao Ge, many times, and wanted to be the young Sima."

The other name of the Minister of War is the Grand Sima, while the other name of the Minister of War is the Young Sima. If such a message is true, it will undoubtedly take a very important step for Wang Daokun! After all, there were 10 to 20 governors of the Ming Dynasty, but all the ministers were only 12, including unpopular places like the Ministry of Works, complicated places like the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of Rites, which had always been the Hanlin transition, the rest were the real power yamen of the three ministries of officials, soldiers and households.

But Wang Fulin was only a moment of surprise. At this time, he might have been a good opportunity to immediately reap Zhang Juzheng's popularity, but the problem is that Zhang Juzheng's popularity has only been ten years, and even if he is a teammate, Zhang Juzheng took it off with disagreement, without any mercy. It would be better to be a governor outside. But he knew that even if he had the advantage of Wang Daokun, it would be useless, let alone the court to go wherever you go, how can you bargain? So, he was just amazed at such a news and cautiously did not express any other opinions.

Mr. Cheng just used this to test it out. Seeing Wang Fulin so sloppy, he couldn't help but remember when this kid fought the battle to defend fame and the Battle of the Grain Chief. He knew that he was not on the same scale as his stupid son, so he no longer cared about his side and just considered his explanation.

"This time, all the salt merchants of the three major merchants have to discuss the issue of the positive salt indices and the share of residual salt. Have you heard of it?"

"Yes, I just heard this morning. As far as I know, the so-called residual salt is actually the salt produced by the stove owners and handed over to the court according to their share. In addition, they are often sold to private salt dealers at high prices. However, when the regular salt inlets are often unable to be cashed out, some merchants also took the salt to the stove owners to purchase the residual salt, and then went to the Salt Transportation Department to pay taxes, and then transported it out as regular salt for sale. Is that true?"

"You know very carefully, but this is the old system in Hongzhi before. At that time, because I could not support salt with salt, I could only keep it day by day, and it took more than ten years to move. So the salt merchants would rather spend more money, and they thought of getting the salt early and then transporting it to places with high salt prices such as Huguang to sell it. At that time, I had to sneak in it. But now it is different. Huaiyang salt merchants have been trying to find a way to increase it from 200 kilograms per kilogram to 400 kilograms per kilogram, but the court refused to let it go, and finally settled for the second best. In addition to 200 kilograms of salt per kilogram, they could also bring another 100 kilograms of salt, which means that one kilogram is actually half. As long as you go to the Salt Transportation Department to pay more taxes."

Seeing that Wang Fulin obviously knew this trick, Mr. Cheng said with a smile: "Mr. Nanming is not a businessman after all, and Wang Daomin would not tell him, so of course he didn't know about this. Last year, I took the lead and seven or eight Xin'an salt merchants opened the joints of Lianghuai Salt Transportation Commission and bought a total of 200,000 yuan of surplus salt from the stove owners. However, because the Shanxi merchants were one step behind, they could not receive surplus salt from the stove owners. They could only surplus salt for every 200 pounds, but we could surplus 300 pounds. When they lost a lot, they used this house to lure 10,000 yuan from my money."

200,000 yuan of surplus salt, a total of 20 million jin. If you get it, you may have a profit of one million jin. Although a large group of Hui merchants who bought surplus salt last year may have caused the price of salt in various places to fall, after all, the positive salt still has profits, which is already amazing. Of course, there are even larger amounts of surplus salt, which may be as high as hundreds of millions of surplus salt, were sold by stove owners to private salt dealers with higher bids than salt merchants. However, even if the private salt dealers can still be escorted in arm, it is difficult to overcome many difficulties and transport them to places with high salt prices such as Huguang. They can only be sold nearby, so the real profit is naturally the salt dealers.

No wonder Mr. Cheng was publicly recommended as the salt of Xin'an salt merchant? Sacrifice wine!

"But Wang Daomin did not participate in this matter last year, so he had to take the salt from the top last year and did not collect any remaining salt."

Although Wang Fulin knew that Wang Daomin had cheated on his father because he couldn't stand his father's temperament, he didn't even have any good feelings for this clan uncle, but he couldn't help feeling a little sore when he heard Mr. Cheng say this. I think Wang Daomin, who suffered a great loss, should not only have tooth pain, but also had an extremely painful flesh! After all, now that he is in a name only, he is directly at the Salt Transportation Department to pay the bank for salt. Compared to the bulk expenses, the taxes required for surplus salt are actually a drop in the bucket. How to grab the salt source from the private salt dealer who bid higher, how to persuade the stove to sell salt and then make huge profits is the real thing.

Wang Fulin immediately asked, "So Wang Daomin should hate Uncle Cheng very much?"

He called Uncle Cheng, but called his real clan uncle directly. Such a clear statement was undoubtedly enough. Master Cheng couldn't help but laugh, but his tone was extremely contemptuous: "So, this negotiation about Yu Yan was that he ran around to contact the Shanxi merchants and the Jiangyou merchants, wanting to put pressure on me. He said that before the negotiations could not come to a conclusion, no one was allowed to acquire Yu Yan, a stove owner of Lianghuai Salt Transportation Bureau. He thought that he could suppress me by pulling someone else? But he didn't think that his reputation among Hui merchants was already a big deal!"

"So that's it." Wang Fulin smacked his lips, then humbly asked for advice, "Old Master Xu has now returned to the Xu family to retire from Doushan Street. Now Master Xu is in charge of the Xu family's salt business. I wonder what is going on now?"

"Although Xu Da is a man who sticks to the rules and is not as far away as his father, he knows that everything goes forward and retreat with others." Mr. Cheng's evaluation is still sharp, but it is still relatively positive after all. He already understood what he wanted to know from Wang Fulin's questions, and simply said bluntly, "Since Mr. Nanming's grandfather returned to his hometown to recuperate and die of illness, the Wu family in Xixinan has not been as good as before. Although he is not as unwise as Wang Daomin, he is indecisive in everything and sails against the current. If he doesn't advance, he will retreat. Now Wu Tianming, who is in charge of the general manager, is not in the top five among the Xin'an salt merchants. He has raised ten or eight thin horses and has a strong family background."

If Wang Daomin is stubborn and self-righteous, then the Wu family in Xixinan is lustful and misleading?

Everyone who should know was understood, Wang Fulin had some immature thoughts in his mind, but no matter what, he could not discuss such family affairs with Mr. Cheng, the leader of the salt industry. So he respectfully thanked him, and then he used the excuse to ask Cheng Naixuan to thank him and leave. As soon as he left, Mr. Cheng closed the folding fan in his hand and said, "How are you watching the excitement?"

The one who came out from the large jade screen behind Mr. Cheng was not someone else. He got up early and went out before Wang Fulin had time to meet Lu Guangwu. The two had known each other for a long time! But the young master Lu from Xinchang happily sat down at the place where Wang Fulin had just sat, and then smiled and said, "The couple has a good relationship, but Fulin, a little slut, said that he was coming to Yangzhou for a walk and helped the son visit you. I thought it was true. It turned out that he was still carrying a heavy responsibility. Isn't Wang Nanming afraid that the burden would crush him to death?"

"Who made Wang Nanming's son less than ten years old now?" Mr. Cheng shrugged, his face becoming more serious. "The chief assistant and second assistant in the court are obviously disagreeing with each other, but Fulin still dares to be so tough on Shao Fang. Could it be that he has received some news?"

"Wang Nanming himself couldn't handle anything, so how could he say to his nephew?" Lu Guangwu thought that Wang Fulin had spent a lot of money to Niu Si before, but on the other hand, he still had debts from Yingkui, and on the other hand, he relied on Shao Fang's account. He immediately laughed, "Even if Gao Gong is in power and Shao Fang is so unscrupulous, it is the source of the disaster. Perhaps this kid is pure intuition."
Chapter completed!