The Salt Administration started with Emperor Wu of Han, and has been a major political policy for the court to accumulate wealth in all dynasties. It even supported half of the country in the Southern Song Dynasty. However, in the Ming Dynasty, the Salt Administration was also abnormal.

In the Qing Dynasty, the salt administration of Lianghuai could earn more than 10 million taels and 12 million taels per year, but even in the Wanli period, the salt water was only more than 2 million taels. During the Chongzhen period, it even fell below one million taels. The major policy of increasing fiscal revenue in the country became a place for a group of salt merchants to collude with corrupt officials and borers. More than 70% of the profits were divided by them. The court picked up leftovers and was scolded by the people for nothing.

However, it is precisely because of this abnormal politics that Yangzhou salt merchants are nurtured, a special group of wealthy people. The assets of salt merchants are so rich that they have nowhere to spend, and they are also spent on the cultural industry, making Jiangnan’s cultural development unprecedentedly rapid and developed. Among them, two special classes that specialize in serving salt merchants have emerged, Yangzhou Shouma and Shaoxing Army.

Mao Jue, the Yangzhou thin horse, has already seen it. Even Adrena is a Yangzhou thin horse, while Liu Botao is a member of the Shaoxing army.

The single-plank bridge of the imperial examination was too narrow, the literary style in the south of the Yangtze River was too prosperous, and the poor children who had no family background and no way could not get through. In order to survive, some of them went to business, while others came out.

In the Qing Dynasty, Shaoxing's ranks even became synonymous with counselors. Literati from all over the place were secretly enough to influence the political arena of the empire. Moreover, these people also accumulated profound valuable experience in financial management, punishment, and taxation and money management.

Mao Jue doesn't know how the overall level of the Shaoxing sect in the late Ming Dynasty is, but Liu Botao's level is definitely more than that of the talents trained by the Dongjiang Academy. He has experienced enough and is more than enough to be a prefect, even at the level of the governor, it is remarkable enough.

And it is not just about getting talents from the local governance area, but because of the regional nature of the Shaoxing army, if he was taken care of one, he might be able to catch a bunch of them. Especially when Mao Jue became an official, he also dug up the corners of the Jiangnan clan, causing some local politics in southern prefectures to fall into chaos, which was a killing of two birds with one stone.

So Mao Jue left him, Liu Botao for more than ten minutes, and only one thing was to recruit people, give him a position as the head of the Ministry of Personnel, and promised that if he could recruit more than 100, he would be promoted to the Ministry of Personnel, and to be promoted to the Minister of Personnel, and to be promoted to the Minister of Personnel, and to be promoted to the Minister of Personnel, and to be promoted to the Minister of Personnel, for one thousand.

It was too cost-effective for Liu Botao to be able to get promoted and to drive his fellow villagers. He just bought a study in Wenmo Store and left the pen to write letters.

These letters were just written, and the moji was still a little bit dry, so they were immediately invited by the officials of the Ministry of Personnel who were waiting at the door. What Liu Botao didn't know was that for him alone, he even launched a small amount of intelligence network in Jiangnan, Liaozhen. Lu Zhong, the new commander of the Jinyiwei under Mao Jue, was also mobilized and transported to Jiangnan in the form of a letter sent by flying birds.

This envoy from the Southern Ming Dynasty was still rushing on the road, and the densely packed poaching letters like leaflets were already scattered in the prefectures and counties of Suhu.

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Songjiang County Government.
Chapter completed!