Luo Longwen considers himself not a decent person.
But after all, he was born into a merchant and craftsman family. In his early years, every bit of ink making was something that I still dare not forget.
It was just that later on, luck turned around and used money to open up a path to Xiaoge Lao Yan Shifan, who was directly introduced to become Yan Song's disciple.
This time I went south to Hangzhou. In addition to going back to my hometown to see how my family's old ink-making business was developing, I also wanted to rescue the young people who had been deceived by me in the past.
It was precisely these two months of separation that allowed him to escape from the vortex of the strict Party.
On the one hand, without Yan Shifan and Yan Maoqing, a bunch of pig teammates who squeal every day, riding halfway down the south and seeing the fuss caused by the salt patrol, I knew that the Yan Party would capsize. It was just an instant.
For a second-generation true core disciple of the Strict Party like myself, there are also lower-level local officials who secretly complained to their faces that the Salt Patrol was too oppressive, causing local people to be displaced and officials to cut back on food and clothing.
It can be seen from here that Yan Song could not coax Emperor Jiajing with his pure words, but in the end he had to pay real money to his subordinates. Can you not complain? Doesn't this mean that everyone's offerings to Yan Song were in vain?
If it were before, it wouldn't matter. At most, they would just resell the private salt at a higher price. Can people not eat salt if they want to survive? Isn't it worth buying it with money?
But two things happened this year that completely ruined the plan. One is the severe drought in summer and the heavy snowfall in winter. Many tenant farmers directly became refugees. Do the refugees need to pay for salt?
The other is the rise of Hangzhou Weaving Bureau's foreign trade, which has caused quite a few small landowners with some property but no connections. All the gentry went over there. Without these people, they would sell salt directly to the countryside. Selling directly would be inefficient, and even old farmers would not dare to buy. Recruit people to sell them separately. When those few outsiders go to the countryside, especially in larger villages with clans, it is not clear who will pay whom.
Correspondingly, there is less money to be made, but more and more things to spend money on are becoming more and more expensive.
For example, Hangzhou's newly produced high-end printed silk, crystal glassware, story telling and so on.
The same is true for Huai'an, which is a water transport node, and other places along the way are not much better.
Obviously, the strict party could not take care of the interests of the subordinates, so naturally it could not command the officials, and the strict party naturally lost its use value to Emperor Jiajing.
Of course, if the Yan Party still wants to maintain its basic base, it must find new ways to make money for the following group of people, but this will only further worsen the Ming Dynasty's finances. The emperor wants to make money for himself, not for you, Yan Song. To do this is not to use the emperor as a robber, but to pay back even if you encounter a stupid king. When the emperor was in power, he must be from Menqing. If you do this, there will still be no end.
So now Yan Shifan is also aware of this problem. He can't pay for the Yan family to buy Baiguan for Jiajing to be satisfied.
On one side is Jiajing's bloody mouth, and on the other is Baiguan. Official's wailingWaiting to be fed. Yan Song could no longer take care of both. After the war in the southeast ended in the middle of the year, he was thinking about how to exit safely.
But the young and capable Yan Shifan is different. He does not want to retreat bravely, and sees the dawn from Qingliu. Since Gao Hanwen can be strict with the party and establish his own business. Why can't we, the leader of the strict party, do the opposite and recruit new members?
Thinking of benefiting without any expense, Yan Shifan started to regard himself as a medical Confucian and Taoist priest after seeing Xu Jie's delay in expressing his stance. Sure enough, by defending the orthodoxy of Confucianism, many original members of Qingliu were attracted.
This made the Yan Party, which was about to collapse at the grassroots level, come back to its glory.
But this thing, the merging of the strict party and the Qingliu, is almost impossible not to arouse Jiajing's fear. At this time, the newly independent Hangzhou New School was still quite weak and had no hope at all.
Ideally, at this time, Hangzhou Xinxue should be rapidly expanded. Only in this way can the emperor have new options. Otherwise, the emperor will inevitably be in a situation where he cannot lose his tail.
Then, the newly added Qingliu gathered to resist the new learning in Hangzhou.
So, the current situation of the strict party is basically a paradoxical dead end. Please remember to collect it, the latest and fastest website is free to read without anti-theft