After traveling through time, I became Han Zhang’s grandson?

While Han and Wang were still "attaining enlightenment" in the Shuaisi Yamen, on the other side, Cai Ting, the Jiangxi Provincial Commissioner of Justice, and Zeng Fengxian, the Commissioner of Grain and Oil, were doing very well.

However, in just half a month, the salt industry environment in Hongzhou, the capital of Jiangxi Province, has greatly improved.

Cai Ting and Zeng Fengxian used the previous military rebellion as an excuse to accuse Jiangxi's private salt dealers of often using thousands of people to harm prefectures and counties, and in serious cases, colluding with bandits to launch rebellions.

For this purpose, the two set a deadline and strictly ordered all places in Jiangxi who had previously participated in the illegal salt trade to hand over their weapons and armor, and their crimes would be pardoned.

This made the brothers Di Liang and Di Zi very busy. They led their troops to attack everywhere and collect weapons and armor. As a result, they obtained tens of thousands of weapons.

Looking at these weapons and armor, Cai Ting and Zeng Fengxian were speechless. No, are you smuggling salt? Or are you smuggling weapons?

Seeing so many weapons, Cai Ting and the others panicked for a moment, but then they couldn't help but feel relieved when they thought that these things were now theirs.

"Well, Lord Han is really powerful. He knows how to win over these people first." Zeng Fengxian said with emotion.

"Who said it wasn't true? I initially thought these people were just using Nong Zhigao's bandits to coordinate internal and external forces to turn Jiangxi upside down. I never thought they had this kind of tricks!"

"Thank you for your hard work, both recruiting envoys. You have made great contributions during the inspection over the past half month!" Zeng Fengxian bowed.

"I don't deserve such praise from the Minister of Revenue. It's all my duty." Di Liang responded humbly.

"Alas, but, but, without the two recruiting envoys, how could we free our hands and vigorously implement the new salt law?"

As Cai Ting was a military general, he was naturally closer to the Di brothers.

"In this way, we can implement the second step and put a good pressure on these people in the salt industry!" Zeng Fengxian looked at Cai Ting with some excitement.

"Not only that, distribute these weapons and armor to your patrol officers so that they can better enforce the law. This is the only way to curb the private salt trade."

Immediately afterwards, Cai Ting and Zeng Fengxian introduced a policy stipulating that any salt merchant who sold less than 20 kilograms of salt, had fewer than five peddlers, and did not carry weapons would not be pursued by the government, but would only be ordered to pay commercial taxes.

This is a punishment regulation that aims to eliminate the smuggling of salt from small details.

When it was first implemented, there was a lot of discussion throughout Jiangxi, and many salt merchants kept blaming the government, feeling that this was different from the conditions they had stated when they were recruited.

Cai Ting and Zeng Fengxian didn't care about so many things. Anyway, this mess had to be cleaned up sooner or later, and it wouldn't matter if they dealt with it sooner or later.

Besides, what were the identities of both parties when they were negotiating the terms, and what are their identities now? If you dare to jump up and down, the glaring knife is waiting for you!

At the same time, new salt officials were selected to go to the Huaihe River Basin to transport new salt. The salt transport fleet of the Huainan government was divided into twelve groups, each with twenty-five ships. The salt had to be transported directly to the destination before it could be unloaded.

Originally, he wanted to use Han Ming's method, accept the channels in the hands of private salt dealers, and transport new salt from Guangnan Road.

However, this incident caused dissatisfaction among illegal salt dealers and smugglers in Guangnan Road, leading to internal instability and causing the plan to fail. They had no choice but to transport salt from Huainan.

This shocked the official salt office and salt merchants in the Huaihe River basin, as they had never seen so many orders.

After nearly a month of hard work, this batch of goods finally entered Jiangxi Province.

Cai Ting and Zeng Fengxian used the excuse of field survey to visit the river projects in Jiangxi Province and concluded that the Ganjiang River was dangerous.

As a result, it was decided that salt ships should be replaced every three years, and the reward standard for officials and boatmen should be based on the purity and impurity of salt. The quality of salt was also improved (officials and soldiers no longer dared to mix sand and gravel into salt).

If the amount of salt carried by the gang ship exceeds the amount required by the government to be escorted, the government will purchase the remaining salt at a fair price.

The money was then distributed to the officials and soldiers who escorted the salt ships, thus reducing the phenomenon of salt theft by those who escorted the salt.

This greatly enhanced the enthusiasm of Jiangxi salt officials, allowing them to work harder in the salt industry, conduct strict screening and sell at low prices.

At the same time, Cai Ting and Zeng Fengxian took the most important step and ordered a reduction in the price of official salt.

This move completely destroyed the last tool of the private salt dealers - the price of salt.

The common people also saw the sincerity of the government in reforming the new salt law, and suddenly changed their attitude and praised the official salt.

So, in front of the eyes of Jiangxi's illegal salt dealers, the group on which they depended for survival was broken up, and even their means and trump cards for making trouble were destroyed by Han Ming.

Since then, the malpractices in the salt industry that had accumulated over the past decade have been eliminated, and the situation where "official salt is of poor quality and expensive, while private salt dealers' salt is of good quality and cheap, so the trend of private salt trafficking is growing" is gone forever.

By the end of December of the third year of Jiayou, the sales of salt in the entire Jiangnan West Road had increased by 120,000.

In just five months, Han Ming led a group of people to first suppress the banditry in Jiangxi, and then vigorously promote reforms.

Such a thundering move intimidated all the officials in Jiangnan West Road. Everyone who met the Pacification Commissioner was a little cautious.

What's more, he contacted Wang Jiefu, who was from Jiangxi, as an intermediary, hoping to establish a relationship with Han Ming.

As a result, the matter did not even reach the military headquarters, as Wang Jiefu alone kept them all out.

This made Han Ming very happy. With someone like Wang Jiefu around, many interpersonal relationships became extremely easy.

Time passed unknowingly and it was the Lantern Festival of the fourth year of Jiayou.

Han Ming no longer did anything surprising to announce his presence, but people in Bianjing City still couldn't help but pay attention to this guy.

Because of the great success of the new salt law reform in Jiangnan West Road, the heads of the Sansi Yamen speculated that if the subsequent stability was guaranteed, the amount of salt sold in Jiangnan West Road would increase by at least 400,000 each year.

This is still within the country. If a virtuous cycle can be formed with surrounding areas, it is likely to more than double.

This inference shocked the entire Song Dynasty court. This was just the salt industry of one route. If all eighteen routes of the Song Dynasty could implement the new salt law, wouldn't that be...

It can be said that there is no shortage of imaginative people in every era.

When a man, who was not sure whether he was stupid or foolish, stood up at a court meeting and proposed to implement the new salt law throughout the country, within three days, he was notified by the Secretariat of the East Palace and transferred to another place.

In order to commend Han Ming and his subordinates of the Pacification Commissioner's Office for their contributions, Emperor Renzong and a group of important officials gave them "verbal rewards".

Yes, Xiao Han never thought that they worked hard and traveled thousands of miles to Jiangxi to work, but in the end they didn’t get a penny, just a verbal praise.

This made Han Ming and everyone in Shuai Si scratch their heads. They didn't understand why, as even their grandfather and father didn't reveal any information at all.

"Am I being tricked again?!"

"Could it be?!"

Han Ming glanced at Cai Ting and Zeng Fengxian, with something strange in his eyes.

"Sir, why are you looking at us like that?!" Cai Ting, a military man, asked bluntly.

Han Ming rubbed his chin and muttered to himself: "Is it possible that you two are going to be promoted?!"

"Huh?!" Cai Ting and Zeng Fengxian were completely confused and had no idea what Han Ming meant.

Wang Jiefu's expression changed, and he stroked his beard and smiled, "Then I congratulate the envoy and hope he can return to the capital soon!"

Everyone finally realized what was happening, and Di Zi said excitedly, "So, the emperor intends to summon us back to the capital, so he's not rewarding us now, waiting to reward us after we return?!"

Seeing Han Ming, the Di brothers, and Zhong Zhen seeming to be lost in thought, Cai Ting and Zeng Fengxian quickly asked, "What about us?! Aren't we going back to Beijing?!"

These two people were originally temporarily assigned to help Han Ming. Now if Han Ming goes back, there will be no one to protect him. Why does he feel a little exposed?

"Well, if my guess is correct, I think the imperial decree summoning us back to the capital will include rewards for you two."

Han Ming's guess was indeed correct. In order to stabilize the local situation, the court did not release the news early to distract Han Ming's man.

In Han Ming's guess, the next people to take charge of Jiangnan West Road would be Cai Ting and Zeng Fengxian. After all, these two people are indeed capable, and the court has also seen their level.

After Han Ming's analysis, the two of them immediately became energized and began to work beyond the quota.

On February 15, the fourth year of Jiayou's reign, Cai Ting and Zeng Fengxian discussed again and introduced a second policy to benefit the people - lowering the price of rice.

This made the people of Jiangxi very happy, and for a while, voices praising Han Ming and other staff members of the commander's office were heard one after another.

This made Han, who had benefited from the success, feel a little ashamed, and he thought that the court should issue an order to recall him as soon as possible.

As a result, the reduction in rice prices triggered a chain reaction, causing grain reserves to increase to more than 100 kilograms from March to April.

Cai Ting and Zeng Fengxian were delighted, so they cancelled the special fund for buying salt that had been previously agreed upon by Huang Bing, the Yuanwailang of the Ministry of Personnel.

Once again, relevant benefits will be provided to those engaged in salt industry reform and the people.

This series of operations allowed the court to see the administrative level of Cai Ting and Zeng Fengxian. In addition, Han Mingcheng took advantage of their abilities and submitted a memorial to strongly recommend the two.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of the fourth year of Jiayou, the imperial court issued an edict to recall Han Ming, Di Liang, Di Zi, and Zhong Zhen, and specially authorized Wang Jiefu, the temporary lieutenant general of the military command, to return to Beijing with them.

At the same time, the court appointed Cai Ting and Zeng Fengxian as capable officials and retained them in Jiangxi.

Cai Ting was appointed as the transport commissioner of Jiangnan West Road, and Zeng Fengxian served as his deputy to assist in handling all affairs of Jiangnan West Road.