Xin Qiji and Wang Kangshi walked side by side for a while, talking about some things.
At the end, Xin Qiji asked Wang Kangshi another question.
"What will be the treatment for Chen Ying this time?"
"I can't decide anything specific, and it depends on everyone's discussion results, but I will insist on removing him from the position of deputy director. In his current state, without deep introspection, he will not get a deep understanding." The lesson is that you cannot continue to hold this responsibility.”
Wang Kangshi gave his own answer.
"I'm still a little curious."
Xin Qiji asked: "If he is punished, will it have any impact on his current official position?"
"Official positions are official positions and have nothing to do with the Renaissance Society. The two have nothing to do with each other."
Wang Kangshi smiled.
"Book?"
Xin Qiji grasped the key point keenly: "In my opinion, the relationship between the status in the Renaissance Society and the official position in the imperial court is not that simple, right?"
"Hahahaha, it's true. You've been in the center for a long time and don't know much about it."
Wang Kangshi smiled and said: "However, it will only take a few months for Haizhou to fully implement His Majesty's order. We ourselves don't have much feeling. I just feel that if a person does something wrong and is punished, even if the official position remains unchanged, it will still be more or less the same." It will have some impact on him.”
"This is understandable. We are all members of the Renaissance and should work together as one. However, one of them did something wrong and was punished. It is a big blow to his personal image."
Xin Qiji paused and then asked: "In this case, wouldn't Chen Ying, the county magistrate, be unsafe?"
"No, judging from the mistakes he made, although he violated the imperial decree, it did not require removal or demotion. The Justice Bureau's handling is safe, and he is still the county magistrate."
Wang Kangshi shook his head and said: "But in the future, his situation should not be as good as before, and he will not have the complete trust of his subordinates as before. How can someone who ignores the people be fully recognized by his colleagues?"
"That's pretty much what I thought. It seems like the influence of the Renaissance is still very great."
Xin Qiji smiled and said, "Director Wang, your burden is not light."
"Just do your best, you can't let His Majesty down."
Wang Kangshi nodded and said: "Haizhou is the first place in the country to implement His Majesty's policies. Everything is seen by our colleagues in the Renaissance. We cannot do anything wrong. If we do something wrong, it will affect the overall situation."
"It's difficult, it's difficult for everyone."
Xin Qiji shook his head and said: "But if we want the Ming Dynasty to no longer have to worry about famine and no one to be exploited and oppressed, the only way to go is to persevere to the end."
Wang Kangshi was convinced.
After the meeting with Wang Kangshi, Xin Qiji still lived in Qushan County and waited for news from the Southern Song Dynasty.
Before officially joining the Song Dynasty, he further learned something interesting through a conversation with Zheng Chenghong.
Haizhou's private salt sales have been a bit troubled recently.
There are three official smuggled salt teams led by Lin Jingchun in Haizhou. They are secretly organized by the Salt Department, a department under the Ministry of Finance, and are not open to the public.
As early as the Liberation Army period, Zhao Kaishan had taken advantage of the price gap between gold salt and Song salt to make a fortune. Later, Su Yonglin took over this money-making method after taking control of Haizhou and continued to sell private salt to the Southern Song Dynasty.
After Su Yonglin took control of the Central Plains, he carried out salt policy reforms, which greatly reduced the price of salt and improved the quality of salt, making salt an affordable daily necessities for every household. Through comprehensive reorganization, the number of illegal salt sales was reduced. The cost of the Southern Song Dynasty.
In the Jin Kingdom, selling illegal salt to the Southern Song Dynasty also required some twists and turns. During this period, some people also took a commission from it, which indirectly increased the costs of the Jin Kingdom and reduced profits.
Su Yonglin got rid of all the middlemen as soon as he took action, and acted as the supplier and channel dealer himself, providing one-stop service without any middlemen.
As a result, selling private salt to the Southern Song Dynasty became one of the important financial sources under official control, providing very important help to the Liberation Army and the current Ming government. This income could fill many important expenditure needs.
And it should not be said that even if the Liberation Army made a lot of money and made high profits from it, plus the private salt dealers in the Southern Song Dynasty made a fortune from it, and finally sold it to the people of the Southern Song Dynasty, compared with the official income of the people of the Southern Song Dynasty, Salt, the price of this private salt is still much cheaper.
Not to mention it is much cheaper, the quality is also very good, white and fine, not at all like official salt which is yellow and damp.
Therefore, even though they knew that eating illegal salt was dangerous and the consequences would be serious if caught, people in the Southern Song Dynasty were still willing to buy smuggled salt from the Ming Dynasty instead of official salt.
It can be seen that the high price of official salt in the Southern Song Dynasty has forced many people to have no choice but to risk their lives to eat private salt rather than eat "safe" official salt.
Originally, it was sold from Haizhou to Chuzhou, and then sold to various places by the private salt dealers of the Southern Song Dynasty in Chuzhou. It has become a chain of private salt sales. Everyone gets what they need and makes a fortune together. Hello, hello, hello everyone. .
But some time ago, the Southern Song Dynasty dealers who were originally in contact with Haizhou's salt sales team disappeared one after another.
After Lin Jingchun learned the news, he immediately ordered people to investigate. The investigation revealed that Song Ting had carried out a major rectification of the private salt market in Chuzhou, and even removed all the original governors of Chuzhou and replaced them with new ones.
Then, the private salt system in Chuzhou under the protection of the old people was completely destroyed. The private salt dealers ran away to death. I heard that many of them were killed and died miserably.
As a result, the old private salt sales channel is no longer available, and it is not known when the new one will be opened, so the income from selling private salt in Haizhou is temporarily gone.
According to Lin Jingchun's analysis, the Southern Song Dynasty was probably completely intolerable to the Ming Dynasty's private salt making a large amount of profits that should belong to them, but they did not dare to blatantly cause friction with the Ming Dynasty, so they could only secretly poke and hurt their own people. Get rid of it and replace it with a group of people to cut off the market for private salt in the Ming Dynasty.
He didn't dare to cause friction with Ming Guo, but he could kill the thieves in his own family.
Unless Ming Guo blatantly helps these thieves take charge of the family.
The Ming Dynasty probably wouldn't do this blatantly, because it would be too ugly.
So the current situation is a bit of a stalemate. Although this matter is not under Zheng Chenghong's control, it is related to the country's income and he has to worry about it.
If this income was really cut off by the Southern Song Dynasty, it would have a considerable impact on the finances of the Ming Dynasty.
But Xin Qiji was not worried about this.
"Everyone in the world is bustling for profit, and the world is bustling for profit. Who wouldn't be tempted by such huge profits?"
"you mean?"
"Just wait, without our salt, the most anxious person is not us, but the Song people themselves."
Xin Qiji saw this very clearly, and he was willing to bet that the Song people would soon come back to him to continue the business.
Even if it is against the emperor's order.
A few days later, on December 8, Xin Qiji received a note from the Southern Song Dynasty permitting entry.
Moreover, the Southern Song Dynasty also sent commissioners to greet Xin Qiji and escort Xin Qiji smoothly southward to Lin'an.
Knowing Xin Qiji's status as chief of staff of the Ming Dynasty's General Staff Council, the Southern Song Dynasty also decided to send officials of equal status to greet him.
Because Su Yonglin made some changes to the official system of the Jin Kingdom, some of the newly established official positions were unclear to the Southern Song Dynasty. For example, what the General Staff Council did was not known to the Southern Song Dynasty from the beginning.
Of course, this was not a secret, so Su Yonglin later sent someone to inform the Southern Song Dynasty about what some of the newly established Ming official positions were responsible for.
For example, the General Staff Council is the department responsible for discussing military aircraft with the emperor, formulating tactics and strategies, and then issuing orders to the army.
To put it bluntly, it was the Privy Council in the early Northern Song Dynasty, but with a different identity.
In this way, the Southern Song Dynasty knew what kind of identity Xin Qiji, the chief of staff, was.
Good guy, the big boss with military command authority is here!
This is serious and needs to be dealt with carefully.
So Wang Lun, the Privy Councilor of Huzhi, was appointed to welcome the envoy and went to the border in person to greet Xin Qiji - and tried every means to understand Xin Qiji's purpose of going south.
