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A dozen or so figures were seated in the hall, talking to each other and laughing at each other, no matter how you look at it, the atmosphere is extremely harmonious and relaxed.

Xu Wenchang and Zhao Anmin sat opposite each other, and couldn't hide the smiles on their faces.

At this time, the man suddenly got up and raised his glass to Xu Wenchang, saying, "Brother Xu, I would like to toast you. This time, our Sitong Guild Hall can catch up with the mighty general, the celebrity in front of the emperor. Brother Xu can be said to have contributed the most what."

Everyone reacted when they heard the words, their faces were full of approval, and at the same time they all toasted to Xu Wenchang.

Xu Wenchang laughed loudly, stood up and raised his glasses to the crowd and said, "You are so polite, this is what Xu should do, so what is the credit for it?"

Just then the man smiled and said: "Brother Xu is too modest. If Brother Xu had proposed and went to the door to meet the general in person, I wouldn't have been able to catch up with the general so smoothly, so Said that our Sitong Guild Hall was able to catch up with this great general this time, brother Xu must have contributed a lot.

Xu Wenchang drank the fine wine in his glass with a smile and said: "Everyone, from now on we will be taken care of by the celebrity in front of the emperor, the Taifu, so we can rest easy! Not to mention the blessing of the position, our Lianghuai salt can still enter Sichuan and Shu In the land of Sichuan and Shu, compete with those people in the land of Sichuan and Shu."

Although the Lianghuai salt merchants monopolized almost half of the salt market in Ming Dynasty, they also had competitors, especially the Sichuan and Sichuan salt merchants who were entrenched in Sichuan and Sichuan.

The land of Shu has the advantage of well salt. It has been developed and matured for thousands of years, and it has its own set of rules. It is naturally not that simple for foreign forces to compete with it in the land of Sichuan and Shu.

And the merchants in Sichuan and Sichuan are naturally the biggest competitors of the Lianghuai salt merchants. Although the Lianghuai salt merchants are the most powerful, they can't help the salt lords in Sichuan and Sichuan.

Now that the Lianghuai salt merchants felt that they had hooked up with Li Huan, the first thing they thought of was naturally how to use Li Huan's power to expand their own power.

At this moment, someone in the crowd coughed lightly and said, "Everyone, I thought that the meeting in our Sitong Guild Hall should be changed."

After the man's words fell, a needle could be heard in the entire hall, and everyone stopped what they were doing, looking at the man who spoke.

Han Zheng had a solemn expression on his face, and he seemed extremely calm under the gaze of everyone)
It seemed that everyone was looking at him, and he said slowly: "Everyone, the Chen family has been involved in a major treason case. It can be said that it is difficult to protect itself. Naturally, it is not qualified to be the head of our chamber of commerce and lead everyone, so Said that we must find another one to look back to lead our Stone Chamber of Commerce.

The Stone Chamber of Commerce is actually a chamber of commerce established by the Lianghuai Salt Merchants, which internally distributes the huge profits of the Lianghuai Salt Industry. Previously, the Chen family had the right to speak in the Four Chambers of Commerce because of the existence of Chen Liang. In the end, the Chen family was also the member of the Stone Association. meeting head.

But just like what Han Zheng said, the Chen family has been labeled as treason, and naturally they were rejected by the Lianghuai salt merchants. But without the Chen family, they need to choose a family to be the entire Lianghuai salt merchants. the man at the helm.

One after another subconsciously looked at Xu Wenchang and Zhao Min who were sitting there.

Inside the original Lianghuai salt merchants, the clan was the most powerful. The strength of the Xu clan and the Zhao clan was second only to the Chen clan. …

Now that the Chen family is doomed to die, the people at the helm of the two Huai salt merchants will naturally come from the Xu and Zhao families.

So when Han Zheng finished speaking, everyone present turned their attention to Xu Wenchang and Zhao Anmin.

The two are the people who are talking about Shi and Zhao, and their attitudes represent the opinions of the two major salt merchants.

Xu Wenchang glanced at Han Zheng, then his eyes fell on Zhao Anmin, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth and said, "Brother Anmin, what do you think of what Han Zheng said?"

Zhao Anmin chuckled lightly and said, "What Han said is also what my Zhao family said.

Xu Wenchang nodded slightly and said, "I don't know what brother Anmin thinks, which one of you and I will be the leader of this meeting?"

For a moment, the hall was silent, and everyone's attention was on the two of them.

Zhao Anmin laughed, looked at Xu Wenchang, got up slowly, and then (this chapter is not over!)
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He bowed his hands to Xu Wenchang and said: "My Zhao family is willing to regard Xu as the meeting hall of Sitong Guild Hall."

As soon as Zhao Anmin's words came out, everyone in the room showed signs of understanding.

At first, I thought that the Xu family and the Zhao family would definitely break out a dispute for the position of leader. After all, everyone knew which of the two managements would be able to take charge of the Sitong Guild Hall and become the nominal helm of the Lianghuai Salt Merchant Group. Then his own family is bound to skyrocket, and Hai's interests will follow.

It can be said that the interests involved in this will be calculated in tens of millions of taels of gold and silver. With such a huge amount of interests, under normal circumstances, if the two families fight, they may lose their heads.

But what surprised everyone was that the Zhao family gave up on their own initiative, without any intention of fighting.

Zhao's attitude not only surprised everyone, even Xu Wenchang also showed some surprise.

After being slightly stunned, Xu Wenchang looked at Zhao Anmin seriously and said slowly: "Does Brother Anmin really represent the meaning of the Zhao family?"

This kind of matter is of great importance, and Xu Wenchang can't help but not pay attention to it, so he asks this question.

Zhao Anmin said with a smile: "This matter is of great importance. This is the resolution of my Zhao Clan's Old Council. My Zhao Clan enshrines Xu as the leader of the Sitong Guild Hall."

Xu Wenchang took a deep breath, the joy on his face couldn't help but burst out, he laughed and said: "Since that's the case, Mrs. Xu will do my part. From then on, I, Mrs. Xu, will definitely fulfill the responsibility of the leader of the meeting and do my best. Let’s do our best to lead everyone to seek more benefits.”

Leopard Room, Grand Campus
The Son of Heaven in full attire was riding a fine horse and galloping through the school grounds, only to see the worried faces of the eunuchs such as Qiu Ju and Gao Feng enshrined in the distance.

Even they all know that the Son of Heaven is not bad in martial arts, and his riding skills are much better than ordinary cavalry, but who made Zhu Zhaogui the supreme emperor.

Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just in case, if there is such a slight accident in the process of galloping the emperor, they can't bear such responsibility.

Compared with the worries of Gao Feng, Qiu Ju and others, Li Huan looked at the emperor galloping in the school field with a smile on his face.

Gao Feng, who was standing with Li Huan, saw Li Huan's relaxed appearance and couldn't help smiling bitterly at Li Huan: "Brother Li, why don't you persuade Your Majesty, if something goes wrong, we will take care of it." Get up!"...

Qiu Ju also looked at Li Huan with resentment.

Li Huan looked at the expressions of several people and shook his head slightly: "You guys have underestimated Your Majesty too much. Other things, just His Majesty's strength alone, even if you really fall off the horse, it will not hurt Your Majesty at all."

While speaking, I saw the emperor galloping on horseback in the distance, suddenly standing on the horse, with bow and arrow, shooting arrows very smoothly.

Such a difficult movement only startled Qiu Ju, Gao Feng and the others, their complexions changed drastically, and they subconsciously wanted to rush forward.

It's just that the emperor who turned over and landed on the ground again let out a hearty laugh, and drove his horse galloping towards them.

When he got close, Zhu Houzhao reined in the reins suddenly, and the horse under him roared, and stopped firmly a foot in front of Li Huan and the others.

Turning over and dismounting, Zhu Hou casually threw the reins to Qiu Ju who was trotting forward, and said to Li Huan with a smile on his face, "Li Qing, what do you think of my riding skills? Is it possible to go into battle and kill the enemy?"

Li Huan said with a smile: "Your Majesty's equestrian skill is rare even in the army of liberation. If he goes to battle, he will kill the general and capture the flag, and he will be invincible!"

Hearing what Li Huan said, the smile on Houzhao's face became even wider, and he laughed loudly at Qiu Ju, Gao Feng and others beside him, "Have you all heard that Li Du praises my riding skills.

Gao Feng and Qiu Ju, who looked resentful, could only agree with each other, but they looked at Li Huan with more and more resentment.

It was originally Li Huan who tried to persuade the emperor, but the result was not so good. Li Huan didn't mean to persuade the emperor, but he had the air of encouraging the emperor)
Taking the towel from the servant's hand and wiping off his sweat, Zhu Hou looked at Huan and said, "I called Li Qing here today because of the memorial that Li Qing presented a few days ago."

Zhu Houzhao looked solemnly at Li Huan and said: "The Lianghuai salt merchants have close ties with many officials in the court, and in the Lianghuai land (this chapter is not finished!)
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It is even more complicated and has great influence. Does Li Qing feel that it is time to take action against the two salt merchants?
As the king of a country, it is impossible for Zhu Houzhao to be unaware of the existence of the Lianghuai Salt Merchants Group. In the past, he was unaware of the benefits of the salt industry. It is impossible to notice the problem of the salt tax.

But not long ago, Li Huan submitted a memorial to the emperor before the emperor's case, directly revealing to the sky the huge profits that the salt merchant group had seized.

A mere salt merchant group earns tens of millions of dollars each year from the salt industry alone, but the imperial court doesn’t even get a fraction of the profits from the salt industry every year. How can this prevent Zhu Houzhao, the lord of the country, from being shocked? .

It can be said that Zhu Houzhao's first reaction was to send people to destroy the salt merchant group and completely control such huge interests in the hands of the court)
But Zhu Houzhao calmed down very quickly. The salt merchant group was really complicated. He said that he had ambiguous ties with many officials in the court. In the local area alone, hundreds of thousands of people were involved.

The people engaged in the salt industry under the control of the salt merchant group, among others, there are no less than hundreds of thousands of salt households that make table salt. …

If something goes wrong here, it might be a big commotion.

According to Zhu Houzhao's idea, regarding the benefits of the salt tax, we should take a long-term plan and plan slowly, but just two days ago, Li Huan presented a memorial, suggesting that the benefits of the salt tax should be controlled by the court with a thunderous momentum. hand.

It has to be said that Li Huan's memorial directly touched Zhu Houzhao's heart. According to Zhu Houzhao's original intention, he naturally wished to immediately grasp the benefits of the salt tax in the hands of the court.

After all, according to what Li Huan said, if the imperial court can completely control the salt tax profit, then the imperial court's tax revenue can be doubled at least, and with enough tax in hand, he, the emperor, will have enough money to do whatever he wants. Emboldened.

It's just that Houzhao also knows that it is not so easy to take action against the salt merchant group, so he specially called Li to come to the Leopard House to ask.

At this time, under Zhu Houzhao's signal, all the servants serving around had retired, only Gao Feng and Qiu gathered around to serve.

Li Huan said solemnly: "The minister and the Lianghuai salt merchants were false and appointed snakes to temporarily confuse Fang. They also sent Jin Yiwei to the south to use the opportunity of the Chen family to find out the details of the Lianghuai salt merchants. After the Lianghuai salt merchants are fully controlled , and then destroy it with a thunderbolt, and return the profit of the salt to the imperial court."

Li Huan looked at Zhu Houzhao and said with a smile: "I know the advantages and disadvantages, so I will not act rashly, at least I will not attack the Huai salt merchants until the governor Wang Yangming leads the Beijing army back to Beijing."

Zhu Zhaoyan nodded slightly. He thought that Li Huan would attack the Shang Group immediately. Hearing what Li said now, it turned out that Li Huan was just telling him that he sent Yiwei to make some preliminary preparations.

Although he was a little disappointed in his heart, Zhu Houzhao also breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that Li Huan's move was the real safe strategy.

As Li Huan said, as long as Wang Yangming returns to Beijing with a 10,000+ elite army, and then take action against the salt merchant group, no matter how the salt merchant group resists, there will be some chaos in the local area The court can also take it easy.

Zhu Zhao picked up a cup of tea, took a sip, and said with a smile, "I can rest assured that Li Qing will act. If Jin Yiwei is short of manpower, I will call Ma Yongcheng to help out."

Li Huan said with a smile: "I have already ordered the Jinyiwei to go south with their best strength. With Chen Wenliang's case as a big banner, there is no need to worry about arousing the suspicion of those people. If the people from Dongchang go south, it will be too conspicuous. On the contrary, it may be bad." .”

Zhu Houzhao nodded and said: "Those salt lords are all desperadoes, Aiqing must be careful in choosing the people to send, if they alarm those people, I'm afraid their lives will be in danger.

Li Huan said righteously, "Your Majesty is benevolent. If Jin Yiwei knows His Majesty's love and care, he will be grateful for it and vow to die to repay it!"

Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "If the problem of the Lianghuai salt merchants can be solved this time, I will reward you afterwards."

Li Huan hurriedly said: "On behalf of Jin Yiwei, thank you Your Majesty!"

While the monarch and his ministers were talking, a figure walked towards Ma Yongcheng, and a (this chapter is not finished!)
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The sealed letter was presented to Ma Yongcheng.

Admiral Ma Yongcheng is the director of Dongchang, and he is the owner of Dongchang. Needless to say, the information passed by that person should be collected by Dongchang)
Ma Yongcheng opened the secret letter and looked at it. He couldn't help raising his brows, took a deep breath, and quickly walked towards the emperor and Huan with the secret letter.

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