The reason why Huang Changzong wanted to save Cao Bang was that although the personal friendship between the two played a certain role, the proportion was not very large.

After all, everyone is a businessman. Friendship is often useful, but more often it does not have much effect. In the face of interests, this kind of friendship seems fragile and ridiculous.

What's more, in this situation, if the Cao family is concerned, it is likely that Huang Changzong would be involved. It is impossible for Huang Changzong to do this just by relying on his personal friendship.

Huang Changzong wanted to help the Cao family, in addition to personal friendship, he also started from the perspective of interests.

In recent years, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was in charge of Huang Changzong, has a deep understanding of domestic business. He also knows the emperor's plan. He will definitely clean up the sea trade after cleaning up the salt. This is not a strange thing.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs is already preparing for the sea trade, and the Tianjin Shipyard has also started to take action. In this case, Huang Changzong needs someone familiar with sea trade to go deeper.

Although the Ministry of Internal Affairs has made a lot of preparations, some places do not say that you can prepare it. In addition to selling salt, the Cao family also has some help in maritime trade.

If no one helps, the future internal affairs office may cause chaos. After all, the dominant domestic affairs office is not their internal affairs office, nor Hui merchants, but Zhejiang merchants.

In recent years, the Ming Dynasty has not had enough food. If the emperor had not promoted the new crops, it might have begun to cause a shortage of food now.

In addition to weather reasons and insufficient grain production, more are the changes in seeds. In places where grain production was originally developed, such as Zhejiang and other places, rice was changed to mulberry.

To put it bluntly, it is very simple. It is to change the fields where rice was originally planted into mulberry trees, raise silkworms, spin silkworms, and weave silk cloth through mulberry trees.

For wealthy families, how can we make money by growing grains?

This is also the reason why various large-scale handicraft workshops developed in the Jiangnan region have almost become an industrial chain, and the final sales are not in China. The Ming Dynasty could not digest so much silk, but more were sold overseas.

Since the opening of the sea in Longqing, the Ming Dynasty's sea trade has been in chaos. Although the imperial court had a Maritime Bureau, it was often useless. The Maritime Bureau was even more chaotic than other government offices. What everyone does is actually smuggling trade, and even openly.

In addition to these, there are also tea and porcelain. The coastal provinces do this, and the Cao family also participates in such a business.

Of course, the Cao family and the others have no say in silk, but they still have a certain say in porcelain, so Huang Changzong wanted to bribe Cao Bang.

If Cao Bang enters the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he will definitely have great development in the future. It’s just that he wants to abandon some of the things in front of him, such as the profits he makes on salt, or even more.

With Cao Bang's current family background, the emperor definitely did not allow him to enter the Ministry of Internal Affairs, so his family must be handed over.

This is a bold decision that not everyone can give up.

But in Huang Changzong's view, these things are just burdens. Because they have been targeted by the emperor, there is nothing to say. It is the king to take them out obediently, otherwise the ending would be even worse.

However, this kind of thing cannot be explained clearly by the emperor, and it is impossible to even hint. You can only take the initiative to offer it and find a suitable reason.

What Huang Changzong told Cao Bang today was hinting at this matter, wanting to see if Cao Bang could react.

If Cao Bang can react, there will be help; otherwise there will be no help.

After hearing Huang Changzong's words, Cao Bang's face also showed a solemn expression.

After taking a deep look at Huang Changzong, Cao Bang did not rush to speak, but fell into deep thought.

Cao Bang didn't know whether Huang Changzong represented the individual, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, or the Emperor at this time?

You know, this meaning is different. If it is just a personal relationship, then this matter can be ignored; but if it represents the Ministry of Internal Affairs, you need to think carefully; if it represents the emperor, you don’t have to think about it.

But Cao Bang didn't dare to ask Huang Changzong. He knew that Huang Changzong would not say it. He could only rely on himself to think about this matter, to see if he dared to gamble.

Huang Changzong looked at Cao Bang, and he felt a little anxious.

You should know that the Office of the Internal Affairs Office has reached a bottleneck, not that it has reached a bottleneck, but that it has reached a bottleneck in talent.

For the past eight years, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has been developing, but some places are not so easy to reach out, and it is difficult to deal with without familiar people. Huang Changzong has been targeting Cao Bang for a day or two. If it weren't for this incident, Huang Chongzong would have begun to find a way to pull Cao Bang in.

Now I can't wait anymore, and it is obvious that the emperor no longer wants to tolerate Cao Bang and others. There is no way, I can only change it.

In the next door.

Zhu Youxiao leaned against the chair, reached out his hand with a expressionless face and took a sip of the tea.

Next to Zhu Youxiao, there were several eunuchs standing, and the expressions on their faces were not very good-looking.

What Cao Bang said just now was enough to make them feel that this person was ill-behaved. However, the emperor has no attitude yet, so they can't say anything.

If allowed, they would like to pull Cao Bang over and kill him directly. They dare to say anything, is this what you should say?

Wei Changsheng also stood aside and secretly worried about Huang Changzong.

If Cao Bang chose to refuse at this time, then there would be no room for a turnaround in this matter. Even Huang Changzong himself would be implicated, and His Majesty would definitely be dissatisfied with him.

If Cao Bang agreed, it might not be necessary. Maybe Your Majesty would be dissatisfied with Huang Changzong.

Sometimes, it doesn’t mean that the boss will be satisfied if you do things. This kind of thing has been common since ancient times. Maybe when you succeed, the boss will not say anything, but the nail has been settled and you will definitely cause trouble afterwards.

After a long silence, there was finally movement there.

Cao Bang looked up at Huang Changzong and said slowly: "If I join the Office of the Internal Affairs, what should I do with my family's business? It will be difficult for such a big business at home and so many people to live."

Huang Changzong knew that Cao Bang was negotiating conditions. While he breathed a sigh of relief, he became even more nervous.

You know, if you really start to negotiate terms, Your Majesty will definitely be angry.

Huang Changzong knew very well that no one could negotiate terms with the emperor; those who negotiate terms with the emperor died miserably in the end.

Huang Changzong said: "What do you think?"

In fact, Huang Changzong has already started to recycle this sentence. If Cao Bang said anything too much, Huang Changzong could not continue. If he continued, he would also add himself. To achieve this, it would be very dangerous.

Cao Bang looked at Huang Changzong and said, "It's better to hand over my business to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The family's money is enough. As for me, I am actually thinking about working for the court, but I was not good at studying when I was a child and I didn't have a chance."

"You also knew that the imperial examination was not like the Royal Academy now. If there was a Royal Academy at that time, maybe I would be an official in the court today. There is no way. Now I can only inherit the family business at home and be a businessman that no one looks down upon."

"I am very happy that Your Majesty now advocates equality among the four people. If you have the opportunity to serve Your Majesty today, it will be the ancestor of my Cao family that has emitted smoke and a privilege for me, Cao Bang."

"There are many industries in the family and many people are used. If I give up on them in order to join the Interior Affairs Office, many people may not have a way out. These people are all making a living with the Cao family, so that they have no food to eat, and my conscience cannot continue. If the Interior Affairs Office is willing to take over, then of course there is no problem."

After hearing this, Huang Changzong finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although it was also negotiating conditions, it was not for the sake of seeking conditions by oneself, but for the people under his command, and for the people who lived with him.

This is really very important. For the emperor, he doesn't care about Cao Bang, and doesn't care about death, and the Cao family doesn't care. On the contrary, it's very important to follow the people of the Cao family.

Those are ordinary people and the people of the Ming Dynasty. It is definitely impossible for the emperor to ignore them.

This is a very good ending.

"Then what do you want to leave behind?" Huang Changzong said excitedly.

"I don't want the salt business, and I'll leave it to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to take care of it." Cao Bang said after thinking about it.

This was the first business that Cao Bang sold out, and he was actually scared.

Both the Han family and the Ye family have already lost this matter. It is impossible to say that it has nothing to do with salt. I can't guarantee that the next one is yourself, so the salt cannot be kept.

To make money, you have to spend your life. Cao Bang has now reacted and continued: "There are some porcelain businesses in the family that can be handed over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to manage. In addition, there are some fields, but there are a lot of them, and they can also be directly turned into public fields."

In fact, among these parts, what Cao Bang cares the least about is the field.

Let alone the land of Huizhou, it is hard to describe it. Although their family is some other place, it is not the fundamental one after all.

After saying that, Cao Bang stared at Huang Changzong tightly, wanting to see Huang Changzong's reaction.

You know, this reaction can represent many things.

Sure enough, when Cao Bang saw Huang Changzong's relief expression, he immediately felt a bad premonition.

Faced with Cao Bang's desperate bets, Huang Changzong finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, a knock on the door suddenly sounded outside the door.

He pushed the door open and looked at the two of them with a smile, but there was a bit of meaning in his smile.
Chapter completed!