"According to the memorials submitted by the Shanxi Governor's Office, Shaanxi has almost never produced any food in the past two years because of the long-term bandits and droughts of bandits in Shaanxi. [More good-looking ones are available to ^^^^^^^^^^^^] The court allocated at least one million taels of silver to ensure that these victims persisted until next autumn harvest. Otherwise, the Tiger and Leopard Army would not guarantee whether these 300,000 victims would become a new rebel."

"But, Your Majesty and all the adults know that there is no more than one million taels of silver, even ten thousand taels of silver. Therefore, I can only report this matter to Your Majesty and ask Your Majesty to make a decision..."

As long as someone with a little political mind, he knew that Wei Zheng sent such a memorial to the court at this time, with only one purpose: that is, to tell the court that only the Tiger and Leopard Army and Wei Zheng could ensure the stability of the two provinces of Shanxi and Shaanxi.

If the court wants to unload the donkey, then prepare enough money, first soothe the hearts of hundreds of thousands of victims in Shaanxi, and then make plans.

Otherwise, the court will not only not be able to take over the Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces and the Tiger and Leopard Army from Wei Zheng, but will also cause a new round of unrest in the Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces and threaten the safety of the capital.

Chongzhen, who had been emperor for several years, certainly knew the implicit meaning behind this memorial.

Therefore, the moment the Minister of Revenue completed the report, Emperor Chongzhen's face became extremely gloomy.

In addition, Emperor Chongzhen was a very conceited person. As an emperor, he would never allow himself to be tricked and threatened by court officials.

Therefore, the more Wei Zheng did not want to leave the Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, the more Chongzhen wanted to transfer him from the Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces.

Since Wei Zheng calculated that the court had no money to rescue the disaster, he would transfer the money from the inner treasury.

As long as he can win the two provinces of Shanxi and Shaanxi, Wei Zheng will continue to replenish his own treasury.

Thinking of this, Chongzhen, with a firm expression on his face, issued an order directly.

"The Ministry of Revenue has no money. My inner treasury comes out. In short, Lord Wei must be transferred from Shanxi..."

"The court immediately issued an order to promote Wei Zheng, the governor of Shanxi and Shaanxi, to the cabinet minister..."

"Promoted to Sun Chengzong as governor of Shanxi and commander of the Tiger and Leopard Army."

"After Lord Sun takes office as the governor of Shanxi and Shaanxi, Wei Zheng must immediately complete the handover with Lord Sun, and hand over all the powers of the governor of Shanxi and the Tiger and Leopard Army to Lord Sun. Then, he will immediately enter Beijing and take office as a cabinet minister."

"In order to provide relief to 300,000 disaster victims in Shaanxi, we rewarded tens of thousands of soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Army who had made contributions to the country... I decided to take out 1.5 million taels of silver from the inner treasury. Lord Sun personally escorted it to Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces for disaster relief and pacifying the morale of the Tiger and Leopard Army soldiers..."

In Sun Chengzong's eyes, as long as you have money, everything will become easy.

Therefore, facing Chongzhen's trust and expectant gaze towards him, Sun Chengzong knelt directly on the Golden Palace and shouted loudly: "Thank you for your Majesty to trust the old minister so much. The old minister will definitely live up to Your Majesty's expectations, and he will never refuse..."

In the quiet Golden Palace, what no one expected was Luo Yangxing, who was standing among court officials, faced with this unexpected ending, a strange smile flashed directly on his shocked face.

I don’t know whether it was out of trust in Wei Zheng’s ability or not wanting to cut off the salt business that earned millions of taels a year. In his heart, he had already made a secret decision: as long as he went to court, he would take the things that happened in the court, and the word-of-throw highway was far away in Datong, so that Wei Zheng would prepare early.

What Luo Yangxing didn't expect was because of his decision today, his future path became wider.

Zhou Shuyuan, who was far away in Jinan, arrived at the Shanxi Governor's Office almost at the same time.

In the lobby of the Governor's Office, after listening to Zhou Shuyuan's trip to Jinan, his calm face was directly covered by an excited smile from the bottom of his heart.

For Zhou Shuyuan, the biggest function of this mudflat land he rented from the coast of Shandong is to provide cheaper coarse salt workshops, so that the fine salt workshops can have their own coarse salt supply channels and are no longer subject to others.

However, in Wei Zheng's view, the mudflat land rented by Zhou Shuyuan will become a treasure pot that continuously brings wealth to the Tiger and Leopard Army.

Not only that, if this mudflat is used well, it can even change the entire salt market of the Ming Dynasty.

As far as Wei Zheng knows, the land of the mudflat that Zhou Shuyuan rented back was the famous Caiyangzi Salt Field in later generations. It can produce various salts every year and millions of tons of industrial salt.

In this era, there is no distinction between industrial salt and edible salt, so whether it is industrial salt or edible salt, it can be eaten.

At that time, even if your salt drying technology is far inferior to that of later generations, it should not have much problem if it produces one-third of the output of later generations of Caiyangzi Salt Farm in one year, that is, millions of tons of salt.

If millions of tons of sea salt are expressed in this era, it is ten million burses.

According to the calculation of an adult eating five kilograms of salt every year, 10 million dan of sea salt is the consumption of 200 million people in a year...

After continuous wars, how many people were left in the entire Ming Dynasty?

Wei Zheng could be confident that as long as he used all the tidal flats in the Laizhou Bay area to make sea salt... The huge output of this salt field could definitely meet the needs of more than 80% of the people in the Ming Dynasty.

If more than 80% of the sources of salt in the Ming Dynasty were in your own hands, you could use the ultra-low cost of salt drying to reform the entire Ming Dynasty's salt market so that all people could eat very clean salt.

Of course, if this reform can really go smoothly, the entire salt market of the Ming Dynasty will be in its own hands. At that time, sea salt alone can bring huge wealth to the Tiger and Leopard Army...

Thinking of this, Wei Zheng could no longer suppress his excitement. He said with emotion to Zhou Shuyuan in front of him: "Military advisor, you have done a great job in this trip to Jinan, especially this salt farm rented back from the Shandong Governor's Office..."

"I can tell you with certainty that with this salt field that was rented from Laizhou Bay, we can seize the entire salt market of Daming in one year at the latest..."

"At that time, what is waiting for us will be countless wealth..."

At this point, Wei Zheng, who had already had a specific idea, decisively ordered: "Military advisor, I decided to draw manpower and material resources immediately to develop the Yantian..."

"However, such a large salt field, coupled with high interests, in order to prevent the snooping of those who are interested, it is obviously not enough for only 500 soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Army to protect this treasure pot."
Chapter completed!