(Today the number of red tickets should exceed one million, let’s celebrate in advance) On the second day of February, Zhang Ximin came to Jinhai again, this time he came with an edict...
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The edict was issued jointly by Prime Minister Zhang Xie, Salt and Iron Envoy Zhang Yan, Left Minister Huang Jinnian of the Ministry of Household Affairs, Lu Guogong Liang Xi and others. Before the inland waterway could be dredged, the silver collected from the salt tax in the Huaihe River was temporarily used to ensure the supply of goods from the Huaihe River to the Huaihe River.
The grain road from the mouth of the river to Tianjin and Hainan through Shandong is smooth. The grain transportation fee will be calculated by the Jinhai Water Transport Department, the Shandong Governor's Office, the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the Salt and Iron Department.
It is known as "salt and silver protect food".
At this point, Lin Fu's purpose of sneaking into Jinhai under the pretense of keeping filial piety was half accomplished.
The wind was cold and the sea was clear, waves rushed towards Ya Shi one after another, and the breaking waves were like snow. Gao Zongting and Lin Fu walked side by side to the dock. Sun Shangwang accompanied them. They felt that there was enough water vapor here and it was more humid and cold than the island.
"When do you plan to return to Chongzhou?" Gao Zongting stopped on the bank and asked.
"It's either tomorrow or the day after tomorrow," Lin Fu said, looking up at the sky, "We've said goodbye now, and I don't know when I can reunite with Brother Gao again..." "Things are unpredictable, who knows," Gao Zongting sighed slightly,
Then he said, "Salt and silver can guarantee the food supply. If you think about it carefully, it will be of great benefit to the country and we will have the opportunity to meet again in the future."
"..." Lin Fu smiled and asked, "If it's all for selfish reasons, will Brother Gao never see me again in the future?" Gao Zongting did not answer Lin Fu's joking question. He pointed to the waves crashing against the rocks on the shore.
He said: "If the waves knew that they would be shattered into pieces when they hit the rocks, would they shrink back?" "Don't be afraid of being shattered into pieces. You must keep your innocence in the world!" Lin Fu saw Gao Zongting looking sideways and knew that he was almost at odds with his colleagues.
The poetry and the text are harmonious. It is no wonder that Gao Zongting felt awkward when he suddenly recited a poem. He smiled and said, "I like to read miscellaneous books, and I can't remember who wrote this poem. I used lime as a metaphor, and the idea was wonderful, so I kept remembering it."
, after hearing Brother Gao suddenly express such emotion, he felt that this poem was quite a setting for the scene.
Gao Zongting also had no time to understand whether Lin Fu used this poem as a metaphor for himself, or whether he simply expressed emotion in his heart and reconciled it with the poem, bowed to Lin Fu to say goodbye, and left Jinwei Island by boat.
There is salt and silver as a guarantee to dispel the concerns of grain merchants and maritime merchants, ensuring that rice and grain from the southeastern counties can be continuously transported from Huaikou and Jiangkou to Jinhai, so that the capital and the Northern Army will not be disturbed by food shortages. Under the current situation, "
"Salt and silver protect food" can be said to be a good policy and good governance.
If not, Zhang Xie, Huang Jinnian, Liang Xi, Zhang Yan and others could not persuade the emperor to agree to the "salt and silver guarantee of grain" matter, and there was little backlash from the officials. However, in the eyes of Zhang Xie and others, Lin Fu was simply taking advantage of the opportunity.
, blackmailing the imperial court at least gathered around Lin Fu, and the maritime merchant forces led by Jiyunshe got what they wanted this time. They were able to significantly increase shipping fees, and they were able to use the Lianghuai salt tax as collateral.
"Mr. Gao's last few words were a bit unkind!" Sun Shangwang said with emotion as he watched the boat that brought Gao Zongting ashore gradually drifting away, thinking about what he had just said.
Lin Fu smiled faintly and said: "Li Bingbu finally supported me in this matter. He probably just thought that I was more reliable than Liang Xi and his son, and there was no room for failure in the Jinhai grain road... I sailed back
After leaving Chongzhou, the remaining pressure lies with Li Bingbu, so it's no wonder Gao Zongting couldn't help but test him with words."
When Sun Shangwang thought about the fierce undercurrents under the calm conditions in the past few days, he really broke out in a cold sweat.
In the past few days, for Zhang Xie and others, the biggest crisis brought about by Lin Fu's lurking in Jinhai was nothing else, but the possibility that Li Zhuo would be forced to send troops with him to act as a sideshow to the Qing Dynasty with grain roads.
However, Gao Zongting traveled to and from Jinhai twice on behalf of Li Zhuo. On the surface, he was coordinating, but in fact, he was obviously partial to this side. This aggravated the suspicion of Zhang Xie and others, and that was why the salt and silver grain protection matter came to fruition so quickly.
The matter of protecting the grain with salt and silver was considered a success, and it was indeed a great benefit for them. However, Zhang Xie's resentment and suspicion towards Li Zhuo would become even stronger, which would make Li Zhuo's situation even more difficult. No wonder Gao Zongting wanted to leave when he left.
Say this.
Looking at Gao Zongting's fading figure, Lin Fu sighed slightly, thinking about Li Zhuo, Gao Zongting did not hesitate to bow to the court and die, but he didn't know whether Zhang Xie and others would give him this opportunity, nor did he.
I wonder if the person in the Jinluan Palace will use the methods used on Tang Haoxin on Li Zhuo.
At this moment, Lin Xuwen came over by boat, passed by Gao Zongting's boat, and stopped for a moment on the sea to say goodbye to Gao Zongting.
Lin Fu was on the dock, waiting for Lin Xuwen to come over.
"This matter is over for the time being. I will go back to Chongzhou tomorrow," Lin Fu said. "Although the salt and silver guarantee of food is feasible, the increased shipping charges will need to be paid in batches, which will take time.
I am really short of money in Chongzhou. Shang Wang has accumulated 70,000 kilograms of grain here, and wants to ask his elder brother to sell it in Hejian Mansion..." After the autumn grain harvest, the price of grain in the capital fell, but it was still 300 yuan a day.
At the high level of the epidemic, grain prices in Yannan were only slightly lower. Then there will be a lean season, and grain prices will only continue to rise.
Just as Zhang Xie and officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs secretly manipulated the Gyeonggi grain market for profit, Lin Xuhong brought a large number of people from Linji Warehouse at the end of spring last year. With Lin Xuwen's support, it was really easy 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 didn't hesitate and ate the 70,000 shi of grain that Lin Bie had left at Jinhai Tun at the market price.
"Thank you very much, brother."
Lin Fu saluted sincerely.
What Lin Fu brought to Jinhai on this trip was nothing but Taihu japonica rice, with a total of more than 20,000 shi. He had a good harvest of rice planted on both sides of the Wushui River, leaving the necessary rations, and took out the rest together, making up a total of seven
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Lin Fu originally planned to be satisfied if he could take 150,000 taels of silver and return to Chongzhou, but he didn't expect that Lin Xuwen agreed to give him 200,000 taels of silver.
"Brothers, the Lin clan is divided into two branches. It is fundamental for you to gain a foothold in Chongzhou," Lin Xuwen said. "I don't want the world to be in chaos, but the world is really in chaos. Jinhai cannot stand, so I don't want to."
We can only go back to Dongyang..." Lin Xu nodded, seeming to understand, but also not seeming to understand.
Sun Shangwang, who was standing by, could hear the meaning of Lin Xuwen's words.
Now that the Lin family in Dongyang is headed by Lin Ting, Lin Xuwen cannot stand in Jinhai and has retreated to Dongyang. Whether the Lin family is headed by Lin Xuwen or Lin Ting is a headache.
But when you think about the fact that Lin Fu, Lin Xuwen, and Lin Tingli came out of the Lin clan, it is really remarkable.
The issue of salt and silver to protect grain can force powerful ministers like Zhang Xie and many powerful officials to bow their heads, which is also a manifestation of the power of the Lin family as a powerful family in the world.
After Tang Haoxin's death, Tang Gu and Lin's family can truly be called the Dongyang Party. Although the Dongyang Party still has Gu Wuchen as its phoenix, this phoenix is relatively weak.
Lin Xuwen smiled and said nothing else. The current mainstream of the Lin family still needs to be consistent with the outside world, and this fundamental cannot be lost.
When Lin Fu came to Jinhai, he composed a fleet of five Jinhai-class ships and five Jiyun-class ships with a total transport capacity of 25,000 shi, carrying 20,000 shi of Taihu japonica rice.
Returning to Chongzhou, the fleet was even larger. In addition to the ten large ships that came to Tianjin with Lin Fu, Sun, Zhou and other nearly 20 merchants organized all the two-masted ships with more than 500 stones into the fleet.
Heading south, the total transport capacity reaches 80,000 stone.
Before the Tianjin-Sea Grain Road was opened, there were few large-scale sea-going ships traveling within the Bohai Bay, along the northern coast of Shandong and the eastern coast of Hejian Prefecture.
Due to the limited trade volume, mostly short-distance trade, and the dangerous shipping routes, maritime merchants are more willing to buy more small ships to spread risks, rather than bet all their wealth on one big ship.
After the opening of the Tianjin-Sea Grain Route, the demand for long-distance shipping in the Bohai Bay surged. Lin Fu gathered maritime merchants from Denglai and Cangjin areas to form a risk-sharing mechanism, with each ship withdrawing money at a rate of 6 out of 100.
The total transport capacity of the sturdy seagoing ships of more than 500 dan in the Bohai Bay has rapidly increased from more than 10,000 dan in more than half a year to nearly 60,000 in more than half a year.
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In order to continue to influence or even firmly control the Tianjin-Sea Food Route after the Liangs and his sons took control of Shandong, Lin Fu must immediately open the Blackwater Ocean Channel and organize a high-sea fleet with sufficient transportation capacity.
The really important and more practical significance of salt and silver to protect grain is to more closely unite the maritime merchant forces formed by the Tianjin-Sea Grain Road and become a solid foundation for the Jiangdong Left Army to unite with them to traverse the East China Sea.
Lin Fu leaned on the railing and looked at the boundless blue waves.
Zhou Guangnan and Sun Fengyi stood behind Lin Fu, looking at their homeland drifting away, feeling filled with emotion for a moment.
Except for some people who stayed to deal with the land and houses and assist Sun Shangwang in managing affairs in the North, the Zhou and Sun families could be regarded as moving their families to Chongzhou this time.
This time, along with the Zhou and Sun families, seventeen other maritime merchants decided to move their families south to Chongzhou. Together with Jiyun Society and Linji Warehouse, they would form the Blackwater Shipping Company.
Sun, Zhou and others not only incorporated all the two-masted large-scale ships with the best performance into the Blackwater Shipyard, but also raised a total of 300,000 taels of cash.
In the Xisha Island Shipyard, Lin Fu invested one hundred thousand taels of silver one after another, which was almost his limit, and he had no energy to expand in a short time.
Maritime merchant 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. Building ships that are stronger and more suitable for long-sea voyages is the foundation for developing long-sea trade.
Besides, investing in the shipyard is also profitable, so why not? In addition to 100,000 taels of cash as the operating principal of Blackwater Shipping Company, the other 200,000 taels of cash will be directly injected into the shipyard as shares.
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In addition, Lin Fu also received 200,000 taels of silver from Lin Xuwen for selling rice. This trip to the north temporarily alleviated the money shortage crisis in Chongzhou.
After the Sun, Zhou and other clans officially began to dispose of their land and property in the north, a larger amount of money would 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 resources, and they can even have the capital to organize agricultural cooperatives to cultivate Hecheng grassland on a large scale.
Of course, besides the money, what Lin Fu couldn't forget were the craftsmen.