Chapter 948 Jia Rong: Don't give the slightest opportunity to take advantage of today
Chapter 948 Jia Rong: Don’t give today the slightest opportunity to take advantage of
Jia Rong pretended not to hear the old lady's unwilling remarks.
He smiled and said: "The impeachment of Uncle Lin that suddenly appeared in the court this time should be because Uncle Lin's initiative to make sea salt was exposed, and then he was attacked by the forces behind the Huaiyang salt merchants!"
"After all, their losses this time are really heavy. Maybe when the Huaiyang salt merchants go bankrupt, they will lose a lot of income!"
"As the saying goes, cutting off someone's wealth is like killing one's parents!"
"They don't have the courage to find fault at the moment. They just failed in the battle with the official bosses behind the Cao Gang. Can't they just vent their dissatisfaction to Uncle Lin's bad guy?"
When he said this, his face was full of disdain.
At this time, everyone in the Rongqing Hall breathed a sigh of relief, and the tense and dignified atmosphere was completely gone.
The worry on Jia Min's face also disappeared.
The biggest fear is not knowing anything clearly and not knowing how to respond and fight back.
Now that I know the specific reason and Lin Ruhai's current situation, I naturally relax my tension and know that the problem is not very serious.
"Then why don't they find trouble with Shi Ding?"
At this time, Master Pardon suddenly said: "After all, he is specifically responsible for the drying of sea salt!"
The old lady rolled her eyes and sneered: "Idiot, if you are targeting Shi Ding, aren't you deliberately targeting today?"
"I really want to piss off today, and I'll eat their good fruits!"
Now that Shi Ding was quietly allowed to secretly experiment with the method of drying sea salt, and then used the Caobang method to destroy the private salt sales network of Huaiyang salt merchants, the purpose of cleaning up the salt policy is obvious.
Nowadays, strength is no joke, not even the emperor has much ability to contain it.
Nowadays, with partial military power in hand, even the cabinet does not have many restrictions on its capabilities.
The old lady and the others did not know that the people in charge of the overall situation at the Jinmen Salt Field at this time had been replaced by people from the Founding Group.
Yes, Jia Rong, on behalf of the four major families in Jinling, has reached a tacit understanding with the Founding Group and formed an alliance of interests related to sun-dried sea salt.
As for Shi Ding, he was promoted to the commander of the newly established Salt Army City due to his meritorious service, and he was comparable to a powerful figure in the army at the level of a third-grade general.
If you target Shi Ding at this time, you will not only slap Jin Jin in the face, but also start a war with the Founding Group.
As long as your brain is not broken, you won't mess around at this time.
"Okay, don't worry, you guys!"
Jia Rong chuckled and said: "The threat to us is not big, but we have to be careful and don't let the current situation have a chance!"
"Brother Rong, what do you mean by this?"
The old lady asked curiously: "Is it possible? Is there any other ideas that are not available today?"
"Didn't I tell you that before, Uncle Lin saved himself and came up with such a killer method as the method of drying sea salt!"
Jia Rong smiled and said: "The matter is so big that Uncle Lin has to be transferred away and promoted!"
"In my heart today, I have never regarded Uncle Lin as one of my own. If there is a chance, I will naturally not mind suppressing him!"
"Uncle Lin was suddenly impeached by many court officials this time. I'm worried that it's not a good thing to go along with the situation and target Uncle Lin!"
"Don't think I'm being alarmist. With Uncle Lin's performance in Jin Province, coupled with the implicit support of our four major Jinling families, and even the founding group, if we go one step further, it is very likely that he will directly enter the cabinet!"
Jia Rong didn't realize it at first, but when the momentum for impeaching Lin Ruhai suddenly became louder in the court, she quickly realized it.
Not only must we beware of today's push for the current situation, but we must also be wary of the old foxes in the cabinet taking advantage of the situation to fish in troubled waters.
Based on Lin Ruhai's position, the cabinet bosses would not welcome him in.
Not to mention, if Lin Ruhai enters the cabinet, one of them must become an official and go home to retire.
It seems that Lin Ruhai's luck is not bad. Ever since he escaped from the vortex of Yangzhou Xun, Lin Ruhai's subsequent experience can be said to be smooth sailing.
Originally, he was transferred to Jin Province with the intention of causing him to hit a wall, but in the end, because of his connections with the Ning Mansion and his own abilities, he became prosperous in Jin Province and achieved outstanding political results.
Thanks to his relationship with the Ning Mansion and Jia Rong's matchmaking, Lin Ruhai was accepted by the core bosses of the Founding Group and regarded him as one of their own.
Whenever the opportunity is right, the Founding Group does not mind at all and will forcefully push Lin Ruhai into the cabinet as a representative and become one of the cabinet bosses.
Such an encounter was naturally a great blessing for Lin Ruhai.
"So, what does Brother Rong plan to do, and how does Rong Mansion need to cooperate?"
The old lady looked serious and asked directly: "Is everything going to be okay?"
"Don't worry, old lady, nothing will happen!"
Jia Rong smiled softly and said confidently: "I will handle this matter personally, and it won't be long before everyone hears about it!"
At this point, the Rongqing Hall meeting was completely over.
Jia Rong said goodbye and left, quickly arranging things properly.
Soon, another rumor spread in the capital city, and the protagonist of the rumor was Lin Ruhai, who was currently being impeached in the court.
The news has been circulating in the capital city for a long time, and many people in the city are very curious about what the court will do next.
The content of the rumor is very simple. It is that Lin Ruhai is the initiator of the method of drying sea salt. In order to protect him, he was transferred to Jin Province to take up a post.
The reason why we suddenly received so many impeachments this time was because of the venting of those whose interests were harmed.
The people in the capital were suddenly enlightened and started to talk about this matter very actively.
Lin Ruhai's reputation spread rapidly among the people and received quite good praise and evaluation.
After all, the common people in the capital city can enjoy the benefits of sun-made sea salt, which is enough for them to say good things to Lin Ruhai.
Rumors in the market soon reached the ears of many officials in the capital, which suddenly made the middle- and lower-level officials who had been a little confused suddenly realize.
Today's people have many eyes and ears, so they naturally know the public opinion in the capital city at the first time.
Suddenly he couldn't help but chuckle and said leisurely: "I don't think so, that boy Jia Rong from the Ning Mansion reacted very quickly. He established a good reputation for Lin Ruhai so easily!"
"If that's the case, then let's miss this opportunity to suppress Lin Ruhai!"
Dai Quan, who stood aside, remained silent, but was quite surprised in his heart. He didn't expect that there would actually be people pushing against the current situation and targeting Lin Ruhai, the chief envoy of Shanxi Province?
All I can say is that Jia Rong's caution is justified.
As the Prime Minister of the Ming Dynasty, although Daqian did not have spy agencies such as Jinyiwei and Dongchang and Xichang, they had everything they should have.
It's just that the reputation of Daqian's secret service agency is not as prominent as that of Jinyiwei.
Dai Quan was quite well informed, and Jia Rong did not deliberately conceal it. It was easy to find out the inside story of the rumors about Lin Ruhai that appeared in the city of Beijing this time.
Presumably, it also told Jin Jin what he was thinking, otherwise how could Jin Jin give up targeting Lin Ruhai so easily?
Just say it casually in court, and you can suppress Lin Ruhai for at least one term.
It's just that the current public opinion in the market is very enthusiastic. If you target Lin Ruhai now, you will inevitably be labeled as mean and unkind.
This kind of thing makes Dai Quan secretly vigilant!
I had known earlier that "accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger", but I never expected that I would be so vindictive now.
Naturally, he knew what was going on with Lin Ruhai. Wasn't the reason why people were tossing around the method of drying sea salt to save themselves?
Back then, the emperor and today didn't care about Lin Ruhai, they just asked him to collect enough salt tax every year. As for Lin Ruhai's situation, they didn't care at all.
Which of the cabinet ministers is unclear about this matter?
As a result, Lin Ruhai forced Jin Jin to transfer him, but he successfully landed ashore, and then this guy was also resented by Jin Jin.
Co-author, capable ministers and officials like Lin Ruhai are nothing in today's minds.
Dai Quan couldn't help but feel chills in his heart, and his posture became more respectful and cautious.
It can only be said that fortunately Lin Ruhai is not a pure minister or a lonely minister. Otherwise, if he is treated like this today, he will either resign and go home directly, or he will be tortured to death in office.
Seeing that the rumors released were quite effective and he did not take any action against Lin Ruhai, Jia Rong did not pay too much attention to it.
If you have a son at home, teasing your son is much more fun than getting involved in outside troubles.
Besides, there are some things that don't require him to personally come forward. Ethnology has trained so many outstanding students and it's not just a decoration.
For example, Shi Ding is no longer managing the salt farm over at Jinmen, so Wang Ziteng will not easily get involved.
Although the people who took over were still members of the Founding Group, there were some things that it was not easy to continue to participate in.
There should be no shortage of cooperation, but it is impossible to get Wang Ziteng to devote himself wholeheartedly.
The port construction here has also reached a critical moment.
In other words, despite the commotion about sea salt drying, it just covers up the booming development scene at Jinmen Port.
The leading role of the four major families in Jinling is no joke.
Seeing the offshore cargo ships belonging to the four major families in Jinling, transporting goods from north to south one after another, making a lot of money, the local forces and merchants in Jinling could not sit still.
Isn’t it just offshore ships, isn’t it just the transportation of goods from north to south?
They could get it at any time, and followed the cargo ships of the four major Jinling families to Jinmen.
At the beginning, only the forces who had relatives and friends with the four major families in Jinling participated.
Later, relatives connected with relatives, friends led friends, and the number gradually expanded, and the number of offshore cargo ships traveling between Jinling and Tianjin gradually increased.
On the Tianjin side, there is also a fleet headed by the Founding Group, which has also started mutual trade between the north and the south.
Originally, the Founding Group had a large number of properties and shops in Tongzhou, so it was very convenient to join in.
The merchants in the North are not fools. They may not be able to get offshore ships for a while, but they can exist as material suppliers.
As a result, the few berths in Jinmen Port are busy every day, with ships entering and leaving the port never stopping.
Sometimes it happens that ships preparing to enter the port can be sent several miles away.
Seeing such a spectacular scene, Wang Ziteng could not calm down for a long time.
What Jia Rong said before is indeed true. Jinmen’s development potential is quite impressive.
It has only been a short time, but the weather here at the port is no worse than those river ports that have been developed for many years.
Monthly cargo throughput is increasing.
More and more labor and various tools are required, and port construction must keep up as soon as possible, otherwise the development momentum will be greatly constrained.
Some local specialties from the north and south really can't stand the long wait.
At this time, Jia Rong wrote to him to tell him that the outstanding students from the Ning Mansion Girls' School planned to rush to Jinmen in person to see what was going on, and Wang Ziteng must be sure to receive them well.
Wang Ziteng's heart was shocked, and then he was overjoyed.
He was looking forward to the group of female students at Ningfu Girls' School.
The Song Quanzhou port planning map given to him before helped him a lot.
After all, the construction of a port in Jinmen was a private act of the four major Jinling families and could not get the support of the imperial court for the time being.
Wang Ziteng didn't know much about the situation in the port. He had played in a port in the south when he was young, but it had been so long that he could still remember clearly?
Even if you send people there to study, they may not be welcome there, and some unique functions and areas will not be open to outsiders at all.
Besides, even if someone is willing to let go, the conditions may not be what Wang Ziteng is willing to agree to.
The greed of the big clans in the southeast is definitely beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
Since it costs a lot to seek help from outside, we can only tap our potential internally.
How could he possibly have thought that the students of Ning Mansion Girls' School could be so capable?
Not only did he produce the planning and architectural drawings of Songquanzhou Port in a short period of time, but the series of opinions he put forward later, as well as the optimized planning drawings, really opened his eyes and surprised him.
A group of young girls, the eldest Xue Baochai was not even in her hair years, actually had such talent and ability, it felt like they had found a treasure.
Not to mention, the port planning drawings produced by the female students contained many facilities proposed by Jia Rong.
For example, horse-drawn tracks, pulley block ceilings, etc. are all facilities that are not available in southeastern coastal ports.
These gadgets were all tested in real-life sandboxes through deductions, and the effects are quite obvious.
Wang Ziteng has seen the latest planning and design, and to be honest, he is very happy.
It's just that there are some things that he can't understand, and none of the staff around him can fully understand them, which is very embarrassing.
He didn't have the shame to go to the capital to inquire. There were some things he really couldn't say.
Unexpectedly, when I fell asleep, someone brought me pillows, and the female student actually organized a group of outstanding people who participated in the port drawing planning to come to Tianjin as a group.
He naturally understood that the tour was just a superficial rhetoric, and the real purpose was to actually inspect the specific environment of Jinmen Port and help solve their doubts at the same time.
Thinking about it makes me feel ashamed, as if I have spent most of my life living on a dog.
Fortunately, the students who came from the Ning Mansion Women's School were basically relatives and juniors, so it made sense to ask them to help. At least there wouldn't be too much psychological burden or the like, and there would be no need to owe any favors...