Qiming 1158

Chapter 644 Xin Qiji Enters Song Dynasty

Xin Qiji and Wang Kangshi walked side by side, walked for a while, and said some things.

In the end, Xin Qiji asked Wang Kangshi another question.

"What will be the disposal of Chen Ying this time?"

"I can't decide what it is, and it depends on the results of everyone's discussions, but I will insist on removing his position as deputy director. In his current state, without deep reflection, he will not get a deep opinion. Lesson, you can't continue to hold this responsibility."

Wang Kangshi gave his answer.

"I'm still a little curious."

Xin Qiji asked: "If he is punished, will it have any effect on his current official position?"

"The official position is the official position, and it has nothing to do with the Renaissance. The two have nothing to do with each other."

Wang Kangshi smiled.

"Book?"

Xin Qiji keenly grasped the point: "In my opinion, the relationship between the status in the Renaissance Society and the official position of the court is not so simple, right?"

"Hahaha, it is true, you have been in the center for a long time, and you don't know much."

Wang Kangshi smiled and said, "However, it only takes a few months for Haizhou to fully implement His Majesty's orders, and we don't have much feeling for ourselves, but I think 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. Everyone is a member of the Renaissance, and they should work together, but one of them did something wrong and was punished, which is a big blow to his personal image."

Xin Qiji paused for a while, then asked again, "In this way, isn't the county magistrate Chen Ying unstable?"

"No, judging from the mistakes he made, although he violated the court's decrees and did not need to be dismissed or demoted, the judicial bureau's handling was safe, and he was still a county magistrate."

Wang Kangshi shook his head and said, "But after that, his situation should not be as good as before, and he won't get the complete trust of his subordinates as before, and how can a person who ignores the people get the wholehearted approval of his colleagues?"

"That's pretty much what I thought. It seems that the revival will still have a lot of influence."

Xin Qiji smiled and said, "Director Wang, your burden is not light."

"Do your best, you can't disappoint Your Majesty."

Wang Kangshi nodded and said: "Haizhou is the first place in the country to implement His Majesty's policy, and everything is seen by the colleagues of the Renaissance. We can't do anything wrong. If we do it wrong, it will affect the overall situation."

"It's hard for everyone."

Xin Qiji shook his head and said, "But if we want to ensure that the Ming Kingdom will no longer have to worry about starvation, and no one will be exploited and oppressed, the only way to go is to persevere to the end."

Wang Kangshi took it seriously.

After the meeting with Wang Kangshi, Xin Qiji still lived in Qushan County and waited for news from the Southern Song Dynasty.

Before officially entering the Song Dynasty, he further learned a somewhat interesting thing through the conversation with Zheng Chenghong.

The sale of private salt in Haizhou has had a bit of ups and downs recently.

The official smuggling salt team led by Lin Jingchun has three teams in Haizhou. It is secretly organized by the Salt Department, a subordinate department of the Ministry of Finance. It is not public and unknown.

As early as the period of the Restoration Army, Zhao Kaishan used the price gap between gold salt and Song salt to make a fortune. Later, after Su Yonglin took control of Haizhou, he took over this money-making method and continued to sell private salt to the Southern Song Dynasty.

After Su Yonglin took control of the Central Plains, he carried out the reform of the salt policy, which greatly reduced the price of salt, improved the quality of salt, and made salt a daily necessities that every household could afford. The cost of the Southern Song Dynasty.

In the Jin Kingdom, selling private salt to the Southern Song Dynasty also had to go through some twists and turns. During the period, some people took a cut of it, which indirectly increased the cost of the Jin Kingdom and reduced the profit.

And Su Yonglin killed all the middlemen as soon as he took action, and acted as a supplier and a channel provider himself, all through one-stop service, without intermediate links.

In this way, the sale of illicit salt to the Southern Song Dynasty has become one of the important financial sources of official control, providing very important assistance to the Restoration Army and the current Ming government, and this income can fill many important expenditure needs.

And it should be said or not, even if the Liberation Army made a lot of money and made high profits from it, plus the Southern Song smugglers made a fortune from it, and finally sold it to the people of the Southern Song Dynasty, compared to the officials who were eaten by the people of the Southern Song Dynasty Salt, the price of this private salt is still much cheaper.

Not to mention a lot cheaper, the quality is still very good, white and fine, not like official salt, yellow and tide.

Therefore, even though they knew that eating smuggled salt was dangerous, and that if they were caught, the consequences would be serious, the people in the Southern Song Dynasty were still willing to buy smuggled Ming salt to eat 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 nowhere to go, and would rather risk their lives to eat private salt than to eat "safe" official salt.

Originally, from Haizhou to Chuzhou, and then sold to various places by the Southern Song smugglers in Chuzhou, it has become a chain of smuggled salt sales. Everyone takes what they need and makes a fortune together. Hello, everyone. Hello everyone. .

But some time ago, the Southern Song dealers who had been in contact with the salt sales team in Haizhou disappeared one after another.

After Lin Jingchun learned the news, he immediately instructed people to investigate. The investigation found that Song Ting had carried out a major rectification of the private salt market in Chuzhou, and even took down the original prefect of Chuzhou and replaced it with a new one.

Then the private salt system in Chuzhou under the protection of the old people has been completely finished.

As a result, the old sales channels for private salt can no longer be used, and the new ones do not know when they 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 probably couldn't stand the Ming Kingdom's large amount of private salt to earn profits that should belong to them, but they did not dare to blatantly engage in friction with the Ming Kingdom, so they could only secretly stab their own people. If it is removed, a new group of people will come up, so as to cut off the sales of private salt in the Ming Dynasty.

He didn't dare to engage in friction with Minguo, but he could kill the thieves in his own family.

Unless Ming Guo blatantly helps these thieves be the masters of the house.

Ming Guo probably wouldn't do this blatantly, because it was too ugly.

Therefore, the current situation is a bit deadlocked. 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 is really cut off by the Southern Song Dynasty, it may have a considerable impact on the finances of the Ming Kingdom.

But Xin Qiji was not worried about this.

"The world is bustling, and it's all for profit. The world is bustling, and it's all for profit. With such a big profit from private salt, who will not be moved?"

"what do you mean?"

"Wait, without our salt, it's not us, but Song Ren himself."

Xin Qiji sees this very clearly, and he dares to bet that the Song people will come to the door again soon and continue the business.

Even if it is against the emperor's orders.

A few days later, on the eighth day of the December lunar month, Xin Qiji received a note from the Southern Song Dynasty allowing entry.

In addition, the Southern Song Dynasty also sent a commissioner to welcome Xin Qiji, and escorted Xin Qiji all the way to the south to Lin'an.

Knowing that Xin Qiji was the chief of staff of the Ming Dynasty, 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 in the Southern Song Dynasty were unclear.

Of course, this was no secret, so Su Yonglin later sent someone to inform the Southern Song Dynasty about the responsibilities of some of the newly established Ming official positions.

For example, the General Staff Council is the department responsible for negotiating military aircraft with the emperor, formulating tactical strategies, and then issuing orders to the army.

To put it bluntly, it was the Privy Council in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, but it just changed its identity.

In this way, the Southern Song Dynasty knew what the identity of the chief of staff Xin Qiji was.

Good guy, the big guy with military command is here!
This is incredible and has to be handled with care.

So I knew that Wang Lun, a member of the Privy Council, was appointed as the welcoming messenger, and went to the border to meet Xin Qiji in person - and tried every means to understand the purpose of Xin Qiji's southward journey.

(End of this chapter)