Chapter 245 Storm Rises, Enter the Mountain Gate

When the profit is greater than ten times, the businessman dares to abandon everything and take risks! ——

The content is excerpted from the forty-third letter between Lin Ye and An Zisheng.

Capital, Prime Minister's Mansion.

An Zisheng, who was only in his mid-thirties, already had a few strands of white hair on his temples.

The woman standing at the gate of the courtyard looked at her husband's lonely back with a distressed look on her face.

Outsiders only saw her husband as a prime minister, but only she knew about her husband's hard work over the years.

Every time I go home, I have to correct official documents, and I am often busy until late at night. In the first few years, I couldn't sleep at night.

Youth with gray hair is the best proof.

She is a woman, women do not understand officialdom, nor do they understand state affairs, all she can do is to take care of the house for her husband.

But she knew that her husband's appetite would definitely not be bad today.

In the past, as long as the husband received a letter from Shangyang City, his mood would improve, not only would he be able to sleep well, but his appetite would also increase.

After the husband read the letter, the woman also brought a bowl of ginseng tea from the kitchen and walked into the yard.

"Sir, what do you want to eat today?"

The woman put down the ginseng tea and stepped forward to pat the rain on her husband's cloak.

"Same as usual."

Hearing her husband's answer, the woman frowned. The usual behavior meant that her husband had a bad appetite. In the past, when he received a letter, the husband would take the initiative to say that he wanted to eat a certain dish he liked before.

Is this unreliable?

"Sir, isn't this letter a panacea this time?"

Although she never interfered with her husband's affairs in the past, even the panacea of ​​the past, the envelope, was useless. She was full of worries and couldn't help but ask.

"Medicine... If you drink too much, you will become stubborn."

An Zisheng had a wry smile on his face. He wrote to Lin Ye for the problems he encountered in previous reforms, and Lin Ye would give him some ideas in his reply. However, this time, Lin Ye's letter did not have an answer to his questions.

From the first year of the Great Shang Dynasty, the status of merchants has been gradually improved, which has indeed made the capital and some counties more prosperous than before. There have been no natural disasters in the past few years, but even if there are natural disasters, the common people will not be unable to live. go down.

Because ordinary people can choose to work in the workshops of these merchants, and because of the rapid growth of commerce and trade, the government’s treasury’s income is increasing year by year, and the income from taxation by the Ministry of Households for a year is worth the five years before the reform. .

The officials of the entire imperial court now support the reform, and the scholars no longer abuse him, but instead praise him as a virtuous minister, comparable to the Guan Xiang a thousand years ago.

An Zisheng was not dazzled by these praises, on the contrary, his worries became heavier and heavier.

Businessmen are becoming more and more important.

This important does not refer to status, but refers to the influence of businessmen.

For example, the Four Seas Commercial Company in the capital has as many as 3,000 workers under its banner, and behind these 3,000 workers are 30,000 families. The Four Seas Commercial Company affects the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. In the past one or two years, he has received many Sued the Four Seas Trading Company for some crimes, bribed officials, hoarded food and even hired hundreds of thugs...

These behaviors are not allowed. Some officials who were bribed just pretended not to see it, while some who refused to bribe wanted to set up the Four Seas Commercial Company, but before these officials could do anything, workers from the Four Seas Commercial Company gathered at the gate of the Yamen to intercede .

It is simple to move the Four Seas Commercial Bank, but how can the livelihood of the 100,000 people be guaranteed?

The Four Seas Commercial Firm is just one of them. There are five or six such commercial firms in the capital, and the situation in each prefecture is similar. These merchants have kidnapped the people, and they can already compete with the imperial court.

An Zisheng is not an official who doesn't care about the life and death of the people, otherwise he could arrest the heads of these commercial firms with a lightning strike, but he has to consider the people, and even more so, the impact.

For this reason, An Zisheng wrote a letter to Lin Ye, which mentioned these issues.

Lin Ye only replied one sentence to him.

When the profit is greater than ten times, the businessman dares to abandon everything and take risks!

He agreed with Lin Ye's words, but the key question was how to solve this problem.

"Sir, Mr. Lin is so talented, why don't you invite him to the capital? Even if he doesn't want to be an official in the court, he can still give advice to the master as an assistant."

After hearing her husband's explanation, the woman realized that most of the reforms proposed by her husband over the years came from Mr. Lin in Shangyang City.

"He doesn't want to be an official, let alone come to the capital."

An Zisheng smiled wryly. If Lin Ye was willing to come to the capital and become an official in the court, he would have given up the position of prime minister long ago.

"He is a practitioner."

A word of cultivator makes women stop persuading them.

As the prime minister's wife, she naturally knows that practitioners will not get too involved in the world.

"Is there really no other way?"

"There is a way, but this way..."

Although Lin Ye only had this sentence in his letter, it was also a hint to him: it is the nature of businessmen to pursue profit, and no one can change it. Only by making businessmen feel afraid can they suppress their greedy nature.

kill!

Kill a group of businessmen!

"Sir, you can't kill him. The businessman is the focus of the reform. If you kill the businessman, then the reform..."

Although a woman doesn't understand officialdom, she also knows that the status of businessmen is raised by their husbands, and many businessmen even enshrine the gods of husbands at home.

"There will be no problem with reform."

An Zisheng was not worried about reform. Even if he killed this group of businessmen, the next group of businessmen would appear, but he would definitely be attacked for this.

"Madam, our son is six years old."

The woman didn't know why her husband suddenly asked about her son, but she still replied: "Well, I was planning to discuss with you just now. Shang'er has reached the age of enlightenment, and I plan to find a teacher for him."

"There's no need to look for it. In a few days, send Shang'er to Canglan County."

"Canglan County?"

The woman understood somewhat that her husband wanted to send his son to Mr. Lin to teach him.

"Okay, I'll go tell Shang'er."

An Zisheng looked at the back of his wife leaving, but he sighed. He gave his son to Lin Ye not only for Lin Ye to teach him, but also to entrust his son to Lin Ye in a sense.

He could already smell the rain coming.

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"Is this An Zisheng's son?"

Lin Ye looked at the child that Uncle Xu brought into the house, and was a little speechless. That guy An Zisheng would really find something for him to do.

"My lord, here is a letter from Lord An."

Over the years, Uncle Xu has also known that Mr. An was now the Prime Minister. It was really a trick of good fortune. Who would have thought that Mr. An was imprisoned by Mr. An back then.

After taking the envelope, Lin Ye opened it and read it, but after reading it, he sighed.

"Okay, then let this little guy live."

An Zisheng's envelope didn't contain much content, but he praised Lin Ye for his talent in the world. He didn't want his son to learn from those Confucian teachers and become a sour Confucian who could only study hard.

But what finally made Lin Ye willing to accept An Youshang was An Zisheng's last sentence in the letter.

"In my whole life, I was at the top of the temple, like walking on thin ice, trembling, looking back half my life, I found that only brother Lin can be regarded as a good friend."

"Tuogu, what a pity, I'm not Zhuge Liang."

Lin Ye muttered, this guy An Zisheng sent all his sons to him, it seems that he is really in big trouble.

"No worries, I hope you guys can survive."

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As for how to teach An Youshang, Lin Ye came up with an idea after thinking about it. He directly asked Lao Chen to take An Youshang away. The little guy was sent to Home Inn.

When guests come to live, the people who come in and out are high-ranking officials and dignitaries, while the Rujia restaurant is full of traffickers and pawns, so that the little ones can understand the life of the upper class without being separated from the bottom.

"My lord, is there something wrong with this?"

When Xu Bo saw that Lin Ye asked Lao Chen to take An Youshang away, he was a little worried. After all, he was the prime minister's son, so how could he be a waiter in a restaurant?

"There's nothing wrong with letting a child experience the suffering of the world in advance, just don't reveal the identity of this little guy to Old Chen."

Lin Ye knew that if Old Chen knew An Youshang's identity, he might not dare to arrange any work for An Youshang, and would offer sacrifices in a restaurant like an ancestor.

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After a month!

The three carriages drove out of Canglan County and headed for the god-level gate.

And the day after Lin Ye left Canglan County, an iron cavalry entered the city of Canglan County and went straight to the major commercial houses. The people in the city discovered that the heads of major commercial companies were taken away one after another.

The heads of the major commercial firms were taken away, causing the originally bustling commercial street in Canglan County to suddenly become depressed, and the shops closed one after another, for fear of being implicated.

Many businessmen who were not taken away went to the government office to file a complaint. You must know that the current Prime Minister An supports their businessmen, and the government arrests people without reason.

However, these businessmen got a piece of news that made them desperate in the government office. The person who took away the head of the firm was a member of the Supervision Department.

It's just that the imperial court established a new department, and it was Prime Minister An who fully promoted the establishment.

It specializes in monitoring businessmen. If a businessman commits illegal acts, he can be arrested immediately. If there is any resistance, he can be executed first and act later.

As soon as the news came out, the merchants were in an uproar, and Prime Minister An abandoned them.

After a few years of good life, is it possible that he will be beaten back to his original form?

The atmosphere of despair lingered in the hearts of the merchants, and this scene was not only staged in Canglan County, but also in all counties and cities of Dashang.

However, in just one day, the branches of the Supervising and Commercial Division were assassinated by people from all corners of the country. , Prices soared, workshops closed, and many people lost their livelihoods.

An Zisheng in the capital would never have imagined that when he raised the status of a businessman, he was opposed by many officials, but now that he is attacking the businessman, it is still these officials who oppose him.

Old vested interests are unwilling to break the rules, but once broken, these people will soon become new vested interests.

Collusion between government and businessmen, strong alliance.

On the third day, the number one scholar who was hand-picked by An Zisheng as the chief examiner presented a memorial, which caused an uproar in the court.

This is a memorial to sue An Zisheng.

"Using power to act as a blessing, recruiting power and accepting bribes, rejecting dissenting parties, controlling the court, and deceiving the saints..."

Impressively, An Zisheng was criticized as the powerful minister of the cholera court.

The Great Shang Dynasty Hall, which had been peaceful for nearly ten years, ushered in its first turmoil.

But at this moment, Lin Ye, who had arrived at the gate of the god-level gate, looked at the majestic mountain peak, the resplendent gate, and the strong yang energy rushing towards him, his eyes narrowed slightly.

It is indeed the number one martial arts holy land in Nanjiang!