At this point, Lin Weifeng had no other ideas.

Either be obedient or leave the salt merchant business and do other business honestly in the future.

If you dare to participate in reselling private salt in the future, according to what Zhang He said, you will definitely lose your head.

Zhang He felt very unhappy about Lin Weifeng's attitude just now.

I will discuss things with you carefully, or convey His Majesty’s meaning to give you wealth and honor. How dare you be pretentious with me?

Zhang He, who was unhappy, reached out to the Jinyiwei who was standing behind him. The Jinyiwei who had been standing behind Zhang He did not make any noise, took out a thin booklet from his arms and threw it to Lin Weifeng.

After Zhang He took it, he threw it at Lin Weifeng without any attention and sneered: "Look, if this thousand households were not for the sake of His Majesty's intention to leave you a way out today, haha.

As for the booklet in your hand, just look at it and see which one of the things that I have never left in the Jinyiwei or have made too many mistakes for you."

Lin Weifeng picked up the booklet that looked only a few dozen pages, opened it and saw that the cold sweat on his forehead immediately came down.

The fly-headed small calligraphy on it is the record of giving gifts from me one after another. It has even been detailed in a certain year, month and time. The amount given to someone is the amount.

Although I have heard that the Jinyiwei has great magical powers, the information revealed in the records is too detailed.

——There are many records. Apart from myself, no one knows whether it is the servant or his wife or concubine.

Even the butler who always keeps his steps away from him doesn't know very well. He can only say that he knows when he has entered the warehouse at home. As for what he took and gave to whom he gave, no one knows it.

But the booklet in front of me, from the day I showed my strength in Yangzhou City, there was no error in the records on it.

There are even a few gifts that I can't even remember clearly.

There are clear records of when the salt introductions I made were given to whom, as long as they were 100 kilograms or more.

Zhang He looked at Lin Weifeng with sweating all over and sneered: "You can try to leave the man here, and then pull the flags and rebels from the government agencies under your command to see who will be bigger than Huang Taiji and Lin Danhan."

Lin Weifeng, who had a little strange thought in his heart just now, instantly turned off.

Although I had the urge to keep these Jinyiwei in the mansion in an instant, I still had a little rationality after all.

Or in other words, the fear in my heart finally successfully suppressed what I thought in my heart and began to regain a trace of rationality.

Not to mention people like Huang Taiji and Lin Danhan, even those of Wang Er and Wang Zuogu in Shaanxi who dare to rebel with a knife are definitely not as good as those of them.

And who dares to rebel with his own desperate people?

Rebellion is not about treating guests and drinking to play houses, but about losing one's head and killing the nine clans.

Even if all of my subordinates dare to fight, who can't think about their wives and children?

Why do you want to be so busy on weekdays? It’s not just for the old and young people in the family.

After forcibly suppressing the good anger and fear in his heart, Lin Weifeng smiled and handed the booklet back to Zhang He, bowing: "What is Lord Qianhu saying? The young man is a good person who obeys the public and abides by the law. Although he has done many wrong things in the past, he is forced by life and has to do it. I hope the Lord will observe it clearly."

Zhang He laughed and said, "If Your Majesty hadn't been to the point where you took care of the poor people and did more good deeds in the past, could you still wait until today?"

After saying that, Zhang He's face changed and he stared at Lin Weifeng and said, "I asked you one last time if you plan to take over the transportation of Lianghuai and serve the emperor well, or do you plan to change your business and be a rich man from now on?"

Looking at Lin Weifeng's tangled look, Zhang He sneered again: "Think about it first, there are only one chances for many things."

Lin Weifeng was even more confused when Zhang He said this.

If you are honestly obedient and serve as the two-way transfer officer of the Salt Administration Department, the consequence will be that other salt merchants will be hated.

But if you don’t take on this job, you will be completely lost in everyone’s mind. In the future, you will be a rich man.

But how many people have I offended after so many years?

So much so that I can't even remember it myself...

But there is an old saying that wealth and honor are in danger.

Anyway, even if I am honestly a rich man, I probably won’t be able to lose. However, once I become the Transportation Commissioner of the Two Huaihe Rivers, I will be considered an official status.

Even if the former enemy wants to be unfavorable to you, you have to think carefully, right?

After thinking about it, Lin Weifeng said to Zhang He with a smile on his face: "What Lord Qianhu said is that Xiaomin is willing to take on this burden and share His Majesty's worries and life."

Zhang He smiled and said, "You are polite. Since that's the case, Lord Lin will be ready. After a few days, there will be an order. This thousand households will also say goodbye first."

However, Lin Weifeng picked up the booklet that was forgotten by Zhang He on the table, handed it to Zhang He, and smiled and said, "What did Lord Qianhu fall behind?"

Zhang He smiled and said, "You can burn this thing. If the Jinyiwei wants to slander people, there is no need for these things."

Then Lin Weifeng smiled and put the booklet in his arms, and sent Zhang He and others out with a smile on his face.

After seeing off Zhang He and others, Lin Weifeng returned to the house with a gloomy face and ordered his servants to call the housekeeper in.

Lin Chengdong looked at Lin Weifeng with a gloomy face. He didn't know what made the master so unhappy, so he asked tentatively: "Master?"

After Lin Weifeng was awakened from his reverie by Lin Chengdong's voice, he threw the booklet and ordered: "Take this thing away and burn it.

Also, all the private salt business at home will be stopped in the future, so we will not get involved in this thing."

Lin Chengdong carefully picked up the booklet, but didn't even read it. Instead, he asked carefully: "Master, the salt business in the family is big, so I'll put it away as soon as I say it?

Besides, there are still many people pointing at us among the villagers?"

Lin Weifeng sneered and said, "Although the salt business is big and there is a lot of money, no matter how much money it is, you have to spend it to the death."

After hearing what Lin Weifeng said, Lin Chengdong opened the booklet.

After turning two pages, Lin Chengdong closed the booklet with sweat, looked at Lin Weifeng and asked, "Master?"

Lin Weifeng sneered: "We are my brothers. I won't hide it from you in this situation now.

You didn’t know what happened to Jinyiwei just now, they gave it to them.

Also, the master will be the transferee of the Salt Administration Department and the Huaihe River in the future. Such a business will not be allowed in the Ming Dynasty in the future.

For the villagers, let’s think of another way. We can’t let the villagers be without a single place.”

After hearing Lin Weifeng's words, Lin Chengdong also knew that things had become a foregone conclusion and there was no room for a turnaround.

For a moment, the two brothers were somewhat confused about the feeling of being in a sleepy city.

After Zhang He and others who left Lin Mansion returned to the Qianhu Office, Zhang He called Chen Xicheng a hundred-household household over and ordered: "Take your own subordinates and escort Zhao Dongming to the capital. Be careful in the middle of the journey. I guess there will be no more peace on the way."

Chen Xicheng bowed and said, "Please rest assured. I am willing to use the head to guarantee it. Zhao Dongming will definitely come to the capital alive."

There has never been an airtight wall in the world, and this is even more so in the Ming Dynasty.

Before Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, even the army's march route could sometimes be leaked through the court, not to mention that this kind of news was not particularly related and that Emperor Chongzhen had not deliberately blocked it?

The news that Emperor Chongzhen planned to ban all the private salt and official salt was spread from the capital to the ears of salt merchants in the Jiangnan area just over a dozen days later.

However, to Emperor Chongzhen's surprise, many salt merchants in Jiangnan were not even in a mood to discuss it, and they looked like they were accustomed to the death.

In the eyes of a group of salt merchants in Jiangnan, the court did not allow the court to do other things if it was not allowed to make salt. At worst, they could just make rice or do other businesses. There was no need to fight the court with the court in terms of salt.

Besides, even if I really plan to raise an army to fight the court, I have to be able to fight against you, right?

At least, the salt merchants in Jiangnan felt that even if they were under their command, even if they had many outlaws, even if the number of people increased several times, they would not be able to compete with the army in the hands of Emperor Chongzhen.

Anyway, although the outlaws I raised dared to fight and kill, they had no courage to rebel, and secondly, they were not as good as those in Shaanxi who were hungry and rebels?

Since you and others do not have the courage to rebel, it is better to obediently follow the court's orders.

Moreover, the news came from the home of Lin Weifeng, the leader of the largest salt merchant, that the salt in the hands of these people could be exchanged for silver at the original price.

This is the most important point.

Although the salt introductions in the hands of many salt merchants in Jiangnan are different, after all, there are many ways to come from, or to put it bluntly, it means that you didn’t spend money to get it.

At this point, everyone is actually similar, and no one is clean.

If the news that the court redeems the original price of buying salt is true, then in this way, it means that each of these salt merchants has obtained a lot of money out of thin air, which can be regarded as gaining some benefits.

Compared with the two, on the one hand, the head was chopped off after being beaten, and on the other hand, the salt merchants in Jiangnan who were unable to get a lot of money for nothing. They thought they were not stupid made the same choice.

Follow the instructions honestly and change your career to do something else after you exchange the money.

This made some of the backhands prepared in advance lose their original meaning.

In the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, it was impossible to not have some fun with the salt merchants in Jiangnan. There were probably several places that raised flags to rebel.

The reaction of the salt merchants in Jiangnan made Emperor Chongzhen completely realize that he overestimated the courage of these salt merchants.

At this time, salt merchants in the Jiangnan area were all having a headache, and Zheng Zhilong, who was not too far from Yangzhou, was also having a headache.

Unlike the salt merchants who made money or changed their business in the future, Zheng Zhilong had a headache about Emperor Chongzhen's intention to hunt whale.

What I know is that there are so many whales, and it seems that they can't be killed.

Even if the ten whales correspond to one king and a prince, there were not so many kings and princes in the Ming Dynasty!

Now I basically hunt and kill each end every three or five days, and the whale meat in my hand is more than 100,000 kilograms.

If the kings and princes are killed, I am afraid that all the kings and princes in the Ming Dynasty will die now.

Even if you eat five pounds per person a day, it is probably enough for more than 200,000 people to eat for a whole day.

If there is too much whale meat on the shore, it doesn’t smell good. What makes Zheng Zhilong even more trouble is that Emperor Chongzhen never mentioned when this thing will stop hunting and killing.

Even if you can hunt a whale in three or five days, let alone sometimes after encountering a large group of whales, you may hunt two or three or even three or five.

Now the whale meat is getting more and more day by day, and it can even be said to be increasing at a rate visible to the naked eye.
To be continued...