Lord of the House

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On the second day of the second lunar month, Zhang Ximin came to Jinhai again, but this time he came with the edict.

Zhang Xie, the second minister, Zhang Yan, the envoy of salt and iron, Huang Jinnian, the left servant of the Ministry of Household, Liang Xi, the Duke of Lu, and others jointly signed the decree. The grain road from the mouth and Jiangkou to Jinhai via Shandong is smooth, and the transportation fee for grain transportation shall be calculated by the Jinhai Metropolitan Water Transport Department, the Shandong Governor's Office, the Ministry of Household, and the Yamen of the Salt and Iron Department. - It was called "Salt and Silver Guarantee".

At this point, Lin Fu's purpose of sneaking to Jinhai under the pretense of filial piety is half completed.

The wind was cold and the sea was clear, and the waves rushed towards Yashi, breaking the waves like snow. Gao Zongting and Lin Bie walked side by side to the pier. Sun Shangwang accompanied him. He felt that there was more water vapor here, and it was colder than the island.

"When are you going to return to Chongzhou?" Gao Zongting stopped on the bank and asked.

"It's not tomorrow or the day after tomorrow," Lin Fu said, looking up at the sky, "since we part, I don't know when we can meet Brother Gao again..."

"The world is impermanent, who knows," Gao Zongting sighed slightly, and then said, "Salt, silver, and grain will be successful. If you think about it carefully, it will be of great benefit to the society - there will be opportunities to meet in the future."

"..." Lin Fu smiled and asked, "If it's all private thoughts, will Brother Gao not see me in the future?"

Gao Zongting did not answer Lin Fu's joking question. He pointed to the waves that hit the rocks on the shore and said, "If the waves are aware that they will shatter their bones if they hit the rocks, will they back down?"

"Don't be afraid of being smashed to pieces, you have to keep your innocence in the world!" Lin Fu saw Gao Zongting looking sideways, knowing that he would hardly get along with his colleagues in poetry, so it's no wonder that Gao Zongting felt abrupt when he suddenly recited a poem, and said with a smile, "I like to browse Miscellaneous books, I can't remember who wrote this poem. It uses lime as an analogy and has a very good intention, so I have always remembered it. When Brother Gao suddenly gave birth to such a feeling, I felt that this poem was a background.

Gao Zongting also had no time to understand whether Lin Fu took this poem as a metaphor, or whether he simply felt that he could reconcile with the poem, made a bow and separated from Lin Fu, and left Jinwei Island by boat.

With salt and silver as a guarantee, to dispel the concerns of grain merchants and maritime merchants, to ensure that rice grains in the southeastern counties are continuously transported from Huaikou and Jiangkou to Jinhai, so that Gyeonggi and the Northern Army will not be disturbed by grain shortages - under the current situation , "Salt and Silver Guarantee" can be said to be a good policy.

If it weren't for this, Zhang Xie, Huang Jinnian, Liang Xi, Zhang Yan and others would not be able to convince the emperor to agree to the matter of "salt and silver guaranteeing food", and the officials rarely rebound, but in Zhang Xie and others' view, Lin Fu is simply taking the opportunity to attack , Blackmail the court - at least the maritime forces gathered around Lin Fu and headed by Jiyun Society have achieved their wish to greatly increase the shipping fee, and they can also take the Lianghuai salt tax as collateral.

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"Mr. Gao's last few words are a little bad!" Sun Shangwang said with emotion as he watched the boat that sent Gao Zongting ashore drifting away, pondering what he said just now.

Lin Bie smiled lightly and said, "Li Bingbu finally supported me in this matter, probably just because he thought I was more reliable than Liang Xi and his son, and Jinhai's food route must not be lost... I sailed back. After leaving Chongzhou, the remaining pressure is to be picked by Li Bingbu, so it is no wonder that Gao Zongting couldn’t help but speak out.”

Sun Shangwang thought about the intense undercurrents that had been calm in the past few days, and it really caused a cold sweat on his back.

In the past few days, for Zhang Xie and others, the biggest crisis brought by Lin Fuqian's coming to Jinhai is nothing else, but the possibility of coercing Li Zhuo with food supplies to send troops to play on the side of Qing Jun.

However, Gao Zongting represented Li Zhuo twice in Jinhai. On the surface, he was coordinating, but in fact, he obviously favored this side, which aggravated the suspicion of Zhang Xie and others, so that the matter of food security with salt and silver came to an end so quickly.

The matter of protecting food with salt and silver has been completed, and it is true that they have gained great benefits, but Zhang Xie's resentment and suspicion of Li Zhuo will be stronger, which will make Li Zhuo's situation even more difficult, and it is no wonder that Gao Zongting asked when he left. Say this.

Looking at the figure of Gao Zongting walking away, Lin Fu sighed slightly, thinking that Li Zhuo and Gao Zongting would not hesitate to sacrifice for the imperial court and die, but he did not know whether Zhang Xie and his class would give him this opportunity, nor would he. I know whether the person in the Golden Palace will impose the means used against Tang Haoxin on Li Zhuo.

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At this moment, Lin Xuwen came over by boat, crossed the boat that Gao Zongting was sitting on, and stopped at sea for a while to say goodbye to Gao Zongting.

Lin Bie was on the pier, waiting for Lin Xuwen to come.

"This matter is temporary, I'll go back to Chongzhou tomorrow," Lin Fu said, "Although the salt and silver guarantee is fine, but the increased shipping and foot fees have to be fulfilled in batches, which will take time. I am in Chongzhou. Short of silver, Shangwang has accumulated 70,000 stone grains here, and I want to ask my eldest brother to sell it in Hejianfu..."

After the harvest of autumn grain, the price of grain in Gyeonggi has dropped, but at the high level of 300 yuan a bucket, the price of grain in Yannan is only slightly lower, and the next is the season of green and yellow, and the price of grain will only continue to rise.

Just as Zhang Xie and the Ministry of Household officials secretly manipulated the Gyeonggi grain market for profit, Lin Xuhong brought a large number of people to the Linji warehouse at the end of last spring. With the support of Lin Xuwen, it was a breeze to become the largest grain merchant in Hejian Prefecture.

"Okay, I'll ask Xu Hong to come over and give you 200,000 taels of silver to take away..." Lin Xuwen was also unambiguous, and directly ate the 70,000 stone grain that Lin bound under Jinhai Tunnel at the market price.

"Thank you eldest brother." Lin Fu saluted sincerely.

What Lin Fu brought to Jinhai on this trip was all japonica rice from Taihu Lake, with a total of more than 20,000 stones; the rice was harvested on both sides of the Guoshui River, and the necessary rations were left, and the rest were taken out together, making up a total of seven Thousands of stones come. Lin Fu originally planned to be satisfied with returning to Chongzhou with 150,000 taels of silver, but Lin Xuwen promised to give 200,000 taels of silver.

"Brothers, Ming settles accounts, the Lin clan is divided into two branches, you have a firm foothold in Chongzhou is the foundation," Lin Xuwen said, "I don't want the world to be in chaos, but the world is really in chaos, Jinhai can't stand, I also I can only go back to Dongyang..."

Lin Xu nodded, and seemed to understand, but also didn't seem to understand.

Sun Shangwang heard the meaning of Lin Xuwen's words from the side.

Now that the Lin family in Dongyang is headed by Lin Tingli, Lin Xuwen is untenable in Jinhai, and they return to Dongyang. Whether the Lin family is headed by Lin Xuwen or Lin Tingli is a headache.

But thinking about the fact that Lin Fu, Lin Xuwen, and Lin Tingli were among the three of the Lin clan, it was really amazing. The matter of protecting grain with salt and silver can force powers like Zhang Xie and many other officials to bow their heads.

After Tang Haoxin's death, Tang Gu and Lin's clan could be called the Dongyang Party. Although the Dongyang Party still uses Gu Wuchen as the phoenix head, this phoenix head is relatively thin.

Lin Xuwen smiled and didn't say anything else. The current mainstream of the Lin family still has to be consistent with the outside world, and this fundamental cannot be lost.

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When Lin Fu came to Jinhai, he came with five Jinhai-class ships and five Jiyun-class ships to form a fleet with a total capacity of 25,000 shi, loaded with 20,000 shi of Taihu japonica rice.

Returning to Chongzhou, the fleet is even larger. In addition to the ten large ships that came to Jinhai with Lin Bing, nearly 20 sea merchants including Sun, Zhou and other merchants have incorporated two-masted ships of more than 500 stone into the fleet. Southbound, the total capacity reaches 80,000 stone.

Before the opening of the Jinhai Grain Route, there were few large ships in the Bohai Bay along the northeastern coast of Shandong and the eastern coast of Hejianfu.

Restricted by the limited amount of trade and the short-distance travel, as well as the limitation of dangerous shipping routes, maritime merchants are more willing to buy more small boats to diversify risks, rather than betting all their wealth on one big ship.

After the opening of the Jinhai grain route, the demand for long-distance shipping in the Bohai Bay surged. Lin Fu gathered the maritime merchants in Denglai and Cangjin areas to form a risk-sharing mechanism. to compensate those seafarers who suffered losses in the shipwreck and to provide pensions to the crew members who died - the total capacity of the sturdy seagoing ships of more than 500 stone in Bohai Bay has rapidly surged from the previous more than 10,000 stone to nearly half a year. Sixty thousand stones.

In order to continue to influence and even firmly control the Jinhai food route after Liang's father and son took control of Shandong, Lin Fu must immediately open the Heishuiyang waterway and organize a far-sea fleet with sufficient capacity.

The real important and more practical significance of the food preservation with salt and silver is to unite the entire maritime forces formed by the Jinhai grain route more closely, and become a solid foundation for the Jiangdong Zuo Army to unite with it in the East China Sea.

Lin Bie leaned on the railing and looked, the blue waves were boundless.

Zhou Guangnan and Sun Fengyi stood behind Lin Bie~www.wuxiaspot.com~ watching their homeland drifting away, they were filled with emotion for a while.

Except for some people who stayed to dispose of the farmland and assist Sun Shangwang with the affairs of the Northland, the Zhou and Sun families could be considered to have moved their clan to Chongzhou this time.

This time, along with the Zhou and Sun families, who decided to move their families south to Chongzhou, there are also 17 other maritime merchants. They will form the Heishui Ocean Shipping Society together with Jiyun Society and Linji Shipyard.

Sun, Zhou and others not only incorporated the best-performing brigs into the Heishuiyang Shipbuilding Society, but also raised a total of 300,000 taels of silver.

In the shipyard of Xisha Island, Lin Fu invested 100,000 taels of silver back and forth, which was almost his limit, and he didn't have the strength to expand in a short time. The maritime clans such as Sun and Zhou have made a lot of money from the Jinhai grain route in the past six months. They have long seen that the benefits of shipping are far greater than farming, and they are willing to invest their money in the shipyard to expand the scale of shipbuilding in Chongzhou.

Chongzhou has its own shipyard, and it is the foundation for the development of long-sea trade to create more sturdy and more suitable sea-going ships. Besides, investing in shipyards is also profitable, so why not do it?

In addition to 100,000 taels of cash as the operating principal of the Blackwater Ocean Shipping Society, the other 200,000 taels of cash will be directly injected into the shipyard as shares.

In addition, Lin Fu also received 200,000 taels of silver from Lin Xuwen for selling rice. This trip to the north has temporarily alleviated the crisis of Chongzhou's shortage of silver.

When the Sun, Zhou and other clans officially begin to dispose of their fields and properties in the north, a larger amount of silver will flow into Chongzhou.

In addition to the shipyard, the factories and workshops in Chongzhou and Xisha Island will be able to obtain a large amount of development capital from it, and even have the capital to organize agricultural cooperatives to reclaim Hecheng grassland on a large scale.

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