Emperor Wanli couldn't help but smile after recalling it carefully! It’s true, Liu Haojia hasn’t stopped since he became an official! But every time something goes wrong, one or two civil servants will be unlucky! This time it was even more outrageous, and more than thirty officials were directly sent back to the countryside to rest on their laurels! So even if Zhang Juzheng could tolerate him, I'm afraid those officials' relatives and friends wouldn't be able to tolerate him!
Thinking of this, Emperor Wanli pretended to be impatient and said: "I know, I know! Get up!"
After Liu Haojia got up, Emperor Wanli said: "Actually, I'm not worried about you taking refuge with Mr. Zhang. If you want to take refuge with him, you can go. Anyway, you are my ministers! But what about the money you promised me? Don't forget that you left the salt field Leave it to Mr. Zhang. According to Mr. Zhang’s temperament, he won’t leave me a penny!”
At this point, Emperor Wanli whispered viciously: "On weekdays, he only teaches me simplicity and thrift! But he himself spends his days living and drinking, and he never stops having women!"
Liu Haojia pretended not to hear what Emperor Wanli said next and said: "Long live Lord, there is nothing to worry about. In fact, the affairs here have been arranged long ago!"
Hearing what Liu Haojia said, Emperor Wanli's eyes lit up! He hurriedly said: "Then how did you arrange it? Why don't you tell me quickly!"
Liu Haojia said: "This is the simplest! Zhang Zhi is in charge of the salt factory. How much salt is produced, how much it costs, and how much labor is, no one else knows! As long as he can firmly control the accounting room, I promise you a penny. There won’t be any money left!”
Emperor Wanli said with a look of displeasure: "What a good idea I thought it was, it turned out to be a fake account! Don't you think those civil servants would check the accounts?"
Liu Haojia said: "They will definitely check the accounts, so this idea is only for the early stage and will not be used later! I actually have another way!"
Emperor Wanli became interested when he heard this and said, "What can we do?"
Liu Haojia said seriously: "Long live my Lord, the Tianjin Saltworks is so close to the capital. It can be said that it is under the noses of those civil servants! They see the large sums of money going around. Do you think they will be jealous?"
Emperor Wanli didn't need to speak, Zhang Jia had already said first: "Don't say they are jealous, our family is extremely jealous when they see it!"
Liu Haojia immediately said: "That's it! Instead of making those civil servants jealous and looking for faults with us, let's start over! In fact, the real salt field minister is going to be placed in Shandong! As for the salt field in Tianjin, it is just for initial training and to raise silver coins. , and the one who will be responsible for the preparation of the "Kaizhong Law" in the future! As for the salt farm that sells salt to the world, it will be located in Shandong, that is the real big salt farm in the plan! "
Emperor Wanli asked: "Then why should it be placed in Shandong?"
Liu Haojia said: "Because there is the Yellow River in Shandong! If we want to bring down the price of salt, the biggest problem is transportation! Water transportation is the most suitable. It only costs a little money to transport salt to long distances. Go somewhere!"
Liu Haojia then pointed to the map in the imperial study and explained it to Emperor Wanli. Emperor Wanli's eyes followed Liu Haojia's fingers as they moved back and forth on various waterways, and then he saw clearly that Shandong was indeed a good place to open a salt farm! Liu Haojia even planned to open a new salt factory!
After listening to Liu Haojia and Liu Haojia's explanation, Emperor Wanli immediately became excited again at the thought of the rolling amounts of money flowing into the inner treasury in the future! At this time Liu Haojia said: "One more thing, which one do you think is more greedy, the civil servants or the eunuchs?"
Zhang Jia's eyes jumped when he heard this, but he didn't dare to say anything! Emperor Wanli pondered for a moment and said, "They should all be about the same, right?"
Zhang Jia hurriedly said to the side: "Long live the Lord Ming Ming Wan Li! But if we are more loyal, the servants in the inner court are much stronger than those civil servants!"
Liu Haojia nodded and said, "Zhang Banban is right, so when the salt factory in Tianjin is handed over to the civil servants, do you think they will try their best to make money from it?"
Emperor Wanli and Zhang Jia almost said in unison: "That's for sure!"
Liu Haojia said: "So, other places are too far away for you to see, but Tianjin is right under your nose. Those officials will probably change their ways as soon as they take office."
Make money! As long as you gather enough charges, you will kill and arrest those who deserve to be killed. Who will have the final say in the salt farm at that time? After all, this salt field is related to the salt consumption of Jiubian soldiers. No one dares to say anything even if you focus on it! "
After hearing this, Emperor Wanli was so happy that he clapped his thighs repeatedly and praised Liu Haojia for his understanding! But after he finished boasting, he asked: "Who will be sent to preside over this new salt farm? And this salt farm seems to be bigger than the Tianjin Salt Farm, so it needs more people!"
Liu Haojia smiled slightly and said: "Four out of Zhang Zhi's seven people can be selected to go to Shandong. And when the Shandong salt field is being built, the dozens of scholars who are arranged to enter the Tianjin salt field can also be used!"
Emperor Wanli shook his head repeatedly and said, "That won't work! Those people are all civil servants and won't listen to me!"
Liu Haojia said: "Long live Lord, you can't say that! I can be sure that they will listen to Long live Lord!"
Emperor Wanli immediately became energetic after hearing this, and his expression became much more serious! He said, "Why are you so sure?"
Liu Haojia said: "Although these dozens of scholars have poor literary fortune, they are also people who read the books of sages. Logically speaking, they should belong to the line of civil servants! But they and the minister, a female sycophant in the eyes of civil servants, have been messing with each other all night. , do you think those civil servants will still believe them?"
Emperor Wanli said in surprise: "How can you not believe them? And this night you are just competing in a competition, doing earthwork, and you haven't done anything else!"
But at this time Zhang Jia understood and said hurriedly: "Long live my Lord, I think those civil servants will not believe them!"
Looking at the surprised face of Emperor Wanli, Zhang Jia explained: "Long live Lord, please give me an analogy. For example, tonight, I will serve Lord Wan live to bed, and then go to Feng Daban's room to stay until dawn. I told you that I was just an alcoholic and went to have a drink with Feng Daban. Do you believe me?"
Emperor Wanli was speechless when he heard this, and there was actually a look of enlightenment on his face! So Liu Haojia said: "What Zhang Banban said is right, that's the truth! Since they got involved with the minister, they will naturally be labeled as not being trusted! And because they went to the minister's house to cause trouble, in the end As a result, more than thirty officials were forced to retire. Their relatives and friends could not deal with the ministers, and they might spread evil fire on them!"
