Zuo Maodi told Emperor Chongzhen seriously: "Your Majesty, the cost of the Ming Dynasty's grain transportation, including freight, military grain transportation and ship repair costs, is borne by the grain households, and is all subject to regular grain and consumption. In addition, the canal has long been involved in many provinces and counties, including many corrupt officials and officials, occupying the canal, and plucking the feathers by geese. Various extra taxes are distributed, and the grain households are under heavy burden."

When he said this, he suddenly raised his voice, as if he was accusing: "The peasant was employed by the gold spot. Although he was exempted from taxes and silver, his business was abandoned during the wasteland and was in a difficult situation. If he was drifted by the wind and waves, he would inevitably be in debt compensation, and even his family was destroyed. This example is not an individual situation that the wed ministers saw along the way. Even if the wed military was responsible for the transportation of grain in the north, most of the wed military soldiers were as hard and tiring as the farmers. The world was difficult, and it was not an exaggeration. If Your Majesty did not believe it, he could send someone to check the actual number of wed military troops. The Wed ministers dared to guarantee it, which was only a lot more than the proportion of escaping from the military households."

Emperor Chongzhen looked serious when he heard this. Based on his impression of officials in the late Ming Dynasty, it should not be too normal for plucking feathers by geese.

"And now, there are many sections of silt blockage in the canal, or when it encounters dry water, it is impossible to sail. If you recruit local people to pull fibers, or to transfer cars and horses. During this period, there are many disadvantages, such as money, food and labor. "Zuo Maodi said this very seriously: "If you change to sea transportation, it will not only solve the suffering of the people along the way, but also have no disadvantages of the canal transportation. Although there are high winds and high waves, as long as you have experience fishermen, you will be able to get less drifted in peace and calm seasons when you go up the coast."

"Oh, so, will the canal transportation be abolished?" Emperor Chongzhen said calmly and asked calmly.

After hearing this, Zuo Maodi answered immediately. It was obvious that he had considered this for a long time before he could react so quickly: "No! Although there are many defects in the grain transportation, as the Chief Auxiliary said, the number of soldiers and civilians related to grains is so large that they have to be treated with caution. I think that the grain transportation can be reduced by half and the sea transportation can be changed. After the sea transportation is familiar, all the grain transportation will be reduced, which is also true!"

Hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but nodded slightly in his heart. This was a slow method of over-exercise, and it was also a steady move.

Just as he was about to speak, he heard Zuo Maodi say: "However, the canal cannot be abolished. In addition to the canal transportation, freight from south to north is still acceptable. I was inspired by Your Majesty's previous strategies. It is better to gather extra manpower to clear the canal after changing the sea transportation, use it for private freight and collect tariffs to make up for the treasury..."

Speaking of this, he looked at the emperor's face and added: "Or the tariffs that were initially collected are used to clear the current canal. In this way, the canal can be free of waste and the sea transport of grain can be promoted, and the treasury does not need to spend a penny of money. The court's blessing and the people's blessing!"

Emperor Chongzhen understood what Zuo Maodi meant. In summary, it actually means that sea transportation can save a lot of expenses. This cost can be used to clear the canal and solve the livelihood problems of the population along the canal. After clearing the canal, tariffs can be imposed, thereby increasing the treasury income. By the time the canal is cleared, the court will be able to enjoy the benefits saved by sea transportation.

What he said was inspired by his previous strategies, which should mean that Zhang Pu was currently asking for the income from owed taxes and other income in Jiangnan to use it for local disaster relief. As long as he did this, the policies implemented by the court would be much less resistance.

Emperor Chongzhen thought this way and asked other ministers: "What do you think of Zuo Qing?"

Zuo Maodi's statement is in line with the framework discussed in the pre-designated framework of the emperor. Moreover, the ministers could perceive from the emperor's words and expressions that the emperor was satisfied with Zuo Maodi's proposal. It was just one thing. This practice could solve the current drawbacks of the grain transportation without spending money on food. They felt that the emperor should agree. If he wanted to reject Zuo Maodi's approach, the emperor had already said that he had to propose a corresponding solution.

Therefore, after Emperor Chongzhen asked, the ministers were silent and no one opposed it.

On the contrary, the chief assistant Xue Guoguan left the list and reported to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, I am in charge of the matter and half of it is a steady move. However, the transformation of grain transportation into sea transportation is different from all the previous ones. How can we effectively coordinate the management of money and distribution?"

The money and grains that Zhang Pu urged to pay will be deposited into the Nanzhili Branch of the Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty. Then, the local chief officials applied for disaster prevention and relief in the various prefectures under Nanzhili. Less officials of Nanjing were approved by Yang Tinglin, Nanjing left-level censor Lu Jiude, and Nanjing garrison eunuch, and Minister of Personnel, Sun Chuanting, the corresponding silver notes can be withdrawn from the Nanzhili Branch of the Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty. More than 50,000 taels must be reported to the capital, and Emperor Chongzhen will be approved.

There is nothing wrong with the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue in Nanjing. Some officials were dissatisfied and wrote to the court. Emperor Chongzhen's reply was that the money and grain were used for disaster prevention and relief. The application of the local chief officials to be reviewed by the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, who is currently evaluating local officials, is not unreasonable.

From this, all the officials in Jiangnan can see that in the Jiangnan officialdom, the emperor trusted these officials. Unless other ministers do something special and win the emperor's trust, they will be suppressed by these three officials and one Zhang Pu.

More than a year have passed, the branches of the provincial capitals of each province have been carried out except for a few areas such as the northwest and southwest. However, the difference between the canal transport this time is different, and it is related to several branches. So how to allocate the money is a problem! Who else can review it is also a problem.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he frowned and thought for a moment. He made arbitrary decision and issued an imperial edict, proposing Zuo Maodi as the right assistant censor, governor of the grain transportation and military governor Fengyang and other departments were also in charge of the river, that is, the grain transportation governor. The approval of less than 50,000 taels of silver was also arbitrary decision by the grain transportation governor.

This decree was instantly realized that Zuo Maodi should have won the holy heart and gave him great power.

Originally, the position of governor of the grain transport was a very important one among all local officials in the Ming Dynasty. Not only did they supervise the grain transport, but they also governed the four prefectures of Feng, Yang, Lu, Huai, Xu, He and Chu.

Zuo Maodi felt the heavy responsibility for this, so he immediately asked the emperor to send a central official to cooperate. In other words, he took the initiative to ask the emperor to send a look and hear his eyes and ears to wait for him.

However, Emperor Chongzhen smiled and said, "It's true that you are young, and I'm the only one who is good at it. After six years in charge of Hancheng, how many people can do what you do. If you have the ability, I can do it without asking about your qualifications and employed people with your talents and virtues."

The words were spoken beautifully, showing a strong sense of trust in Zuo Maodi. However, no one knew that it was inevitable that he would reward a seed of eavesdropping.

Zuo Maodi was immediately excited when he heard this. This trust still came from the emperor's trust, which made him immediately feel like he was dying for his confidant.

So he stopped being pretentious and said firmly and strongly: "I will receive the order to thank you!"

There was no generous speech, but his tone was extremely firm, so Emperor Chongzhen could feel his determination after hearing this.

Emperor Chongzhen was very satisfied with this, and nodded with a smile, and then said: "In addition to the most important matters of transport, you must also supervise the land measurement of the land in your jurisdiction. According to your Hancheng experience, re-create the fish scale book. If there are any difficulties, you can report it to me at any time!"

After hearing this, Zuo Maodi immediately understood that the emperor gave him such great trust and wanted to show others that he could have less resistance in making up the fish scale book.

After understanding this, he agreed without hesitation.

Although Emperor Chongzhen wanted to promote Zuo Maodi's approach nationwide to remeasure the land across the country. However, he knew very well that this national policy was related to the country's subsequent taxation and other dynasty policies, and was a very basic task. In other words, the matter of re-creating the fish scale book is very important.

If there is no capable local officials to do this, it will easily occupy the interests of ordinary people and occupy their land, leaving them with no place to reason. At the same time, it may also make the land seized by local tyrants become their legal land. This will make the implementation of this national policy a harming strategy.

As of now, Emperor Chongzhen really could not trust the local officials of the Ming Dynasty, including those rank-level officials.

The first is the issue of official rank, whether they will collude with local tyrants; the second is the issue of ability, whether they will be fooled by local tyrants;

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen finally decided to start with a small scale. Zuo Maodi could do this, and Zhang Pu could do it. For now, it would be better to do it in the territory under the jurisdiction of the two of them.

The content of this court discussion involves the province along the largest canal of the Ming Dynasty and is related to the interests of everyone. Therefore, before the new governor of the grain transportation was set off from the capital, the news about the court discussion was spread rapidly from north to south.

At this time, Wu Zhong, with the secret assistance of Li Ruolian, commander of the Jinyiwei, pretended to be the agent of a wealthy Korean businessman on the surface, secretly represented the Qing Dynasty, and had already begun contact with the big salt merchants.

In fact, there is no need for the Jinyiwei to conduct special investigations. You only need to know which big salt merchants rise the fastest and the smallest family power, then you must not be a good bird. You are definitely a cruel person. Only by colluding with the government forces can you become bigger at once.

You should know that even salt merchants do this monopoly business, it is not that easy to do. It doesn’t matter. Even if there is salt, don’t think about changing from the salt farm to salt soon. And if you just buy and sell official salt in a regular manner, how much profit can you get? It is definitely to fill the official salt with private salt and to settle all forces of all parties.

The big salt merchant whom Wu Zhong came into contact with was such a person. He first used authentic North Korean specialties as bait and negotiated. Then, he slowly talked about doing business with the Qing Dynasty.

For people of this era, there is really no distinction between countries in their eyes. Who can make money with whom they do business? How many people will care about who they are? The smuggling of Shanxi merchants is the representative of the north, and the smuggling of sea in the south is also popular. The legendary Japanese pirates are not sure how many powerful people from Jiangnan are involved behind them.

Moreover, at the beginning, Wu Zhong did not reveal his identity as Huang Taiji's son-in-law, but instead used the agency of a North Korean businessman as the background and said that the profit of trading with Jianlu was extremely high. It was a pity that North Korea was too poor and did not have the materials, food, grass and other items needed by Jianlu, otherwise, there would be no need to come to Ming Kingdom.

At the beginning, he might have accidentally leaked his mouth. As the relationship increased, Wu Zhong accidentally revealed that he wanted to buy supplies and supplies from Ming Dynasty, resell them to Liaodong, and make several times the profit. After finding out that Le Qingsheng was jealous, he accidentally revealed that his identity was actually the representative of Jianlu. Next, he naturally talked about business directly.

At the beginning, the profit was so great that Le Qingsheng was jealous, which made him a little worried, worried that Jianlu was a scam, so how could he have such a high profit!

In the end, Wu Zhong seemed to have given up his promise and showed evidence to prove that he was the son-in-law of the slave chief Emperor Taiji. Later, he also asked Le Qingsheng to choose.

The first road, Le Qingsheng can hand him over to the government, so as to make meritorious service and get rewards;

The second way, Le Qingsheng can become the imperial merchant of the Qing Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty, collecting the materials and supplies needed by the Qing Dynasty in the Jiangnan region to transport them to Liaodong, thereby making unimaginable profits. This profit will never be fake. If you don’t believe it, you can get the decree of the Huang Taiji seal as a certificate.

There is a saying that comes from what it means that when profits several times, it can make people crazy. The price offered by Huang Taiji made it difficult for folk heroes like Le Qingsheng to refuse. He did not consider handing over Wu Zhong to the government at all, but he was just a little doubtful.

First, such a high profit made him a little suspicious. Wealth came faster than his private salt business. As long as he successfully traveled back and forth to Liaodong, he would make more money.

Second, when transporting grain and supplies from Jiangnan to Liaodong, he was worried that going north would attract attention. After all, at this time, someone went out privately, but they were all going south to do business. If he went north, he did have such doubts.

Wu Zhong made the first solution to this. He told Le Qingsheng that he could swear with him, stamp his son-in-law's seal, and then go to Liaodong to do two ships to explore the way. Wu Zhong promised that he would definitely make enough profits and would also be able to stamp the jade seal of the Qing emperor on the oath to guarantee him.

As for the second worry, Wu Zhong had no choice but to tell him that the courageous ones starved to death, you can do it yourself.

Just when Le Qingsheng was a little confused, the news that the canal transport was gradually changed to sea transport came. This means that the sea ship will not be conspicuous in the future when it goes north.

God helps me! When Le Qingsheng heard this news, he couldn't help but shout to the sky, and was so happy.
Chapter completed!