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Chapter 86 It's time to take action

Chenxi solves the problem of city defense ownership, not only to open up a road for the people who leave the city and raise salt to the salt field, but also to establish his authority.

When the people of Guangzhou City saw that the governor personally inspected the city and took over the city defense with an order. Neither the governor nor the prefectures nor the prefectures and counties could interfere. How authoritative is this?

How could there be any problem with the salt indicia sold by the governor’s yamen?

As soon as Chen Xi returned to the inn, the people in the city flocked to the city, and the people outside the city continued to flock to the city, preparing to raise money for salt intake for ten or eight households.

Look at this situation, you may have to sell three or four thousand salt entries in a day. If the salt farm really puts salt, he will have to pay the boss a sum of money.

Chen Xi quickly asked someone to go out and announce that the price of a small amount of salt inducement was raised to 2 taels and 8 cents, and the tax and fee discount for the two cents of silver filled in the governor's office yesterday was cancelled.

Under the official position, even if the governor's yamen slightly raises the price, the people have no way to complain. However, those who don't have enough money still have to go back and raise other things. It turned out that ten households and twenty households were pieced together to buy salt, and now they may have to collect a few more households. But even if the price increases, the enthusiasm of the people remains unabated. Who made the price of this salt at least 70% lower than the market price?

Because the governor's yamen sold salt at a low price, the salt shops in Guangzhou had to lower the price of salt, and returned to more than 40 cents per kilogram, but no one was interested in it.

The front yard was busy, and Chen Xi stayed in the back hall to read books. The silver boxes were carried in one by one and placed aside. There was a temporary hired account to calculate the accounts. You had to carefully weigh the weight of the broken silver. When encountering bad silver, you had to cut off the folded part...

The entire governor's yamen is like a money account, each performing its own duties, except for the domineering president Chen Xi, who is a idler.

Salt scents were sold in the city, and the people who bought the salt scent the day before drove mule carts, donkey carts, or walked in groups of three or five to the nearest Xingshengchang Salt Field.

Usually, in order to avoid being robbed by bandits, salt fields try to be built near the city. In the Ming Dynasty, Guangzhou City was originally the county seat of Panyu County. At this time, a large alluvial plain near the estuary of the Pearl River had not yet been formed. Standing at the head of Guangzhou City, you can see a vast ocean. Only six or seven miles away from the city is the gate of Xingshengchang Salt Field.

The people flocked to the scene, and it seemed like a big enemy inside and outside the salt field. The stove owners in the salt field were unknown and thought it was a pirate who was coming. They were so scared that they hurried home to search the guys and prepared to defend themselves.

The gate of the salt field was closed, and the soldiers guarding the salt field took out their weapons and intimidated the unarmed people behind the fence. On the high walls around, crossbowmen stood in rows and fired at a single order.

"The salt-free class supervisor ordered that no one should bring salt!"

The salt farm has set a vent from the beginning. When encountering salt-raising, it will not be implemented in accordance with the regulations on salt transfer when seeing salt, but will be carried out as an excuse for the salt training department.

As the superior department of the salt farm, the Salt Course Training Department has been removed from the whole pot and the group has no leader. The salt farm has an excuse not to be responsible for the salt ray.

There were not many people coming on the first day. When they heard that the salt farm would not allow them to enter, they were anxious. They spent a lot of money to buy salt from the governor's office and could not be smashed in their hands, so they stayed outside the salt farm and refused to leave.

There were more and more people coming to bring salt. By sunset, several roads outside the salt field were crowded with people, spreading to the distant woods, crowded everywhere. Many people brought their own dry food, and when they were hungry, they would eat some to make their stomachs, and then guarded outside the salt field, and would not go back to the city even at night.

I didn’t get the salt, so I couldn’t explain it to my neighbors when I went back. It would be better to stay outside the salt field, when would they rush in to get the salt.

Although there are many people outside the salt farm, they are in order. In addition to the people following the rules, the Governor's Office sent soldiers from a hundred households to maintain order.

These soldiers received rewards since they arrived at the Governor's Office. They kept in mind the instructions of Governor Chen Xi and should not be rude to the people. They would have any kind of superiors. They had no airs and had a good relationship with the people.

At this moment, the outside of the salt field was in order and there was no major storm. However, the governor's office, the Censor's Office, the Guangzhou Prefecture, and the Panyu Prefecture were in chaos.

Chen Xi did not play according to common sense. Within a month after coming to Guangzhou Prefecture, he made the temporary governor's yamen very successful and did several major things one after another to establish his reputation as the heyday in the city. Now the commander Li Che obeyed Chen Xi's words, which led to the great passiveness of other yamen.

The governor's yamen sold salt intake, and the governor's yamen and the prefectures and counties used their authority to prevent gentry and salt merchants from touching salt intake. The governor's yamen went the other way and sold salt to the common people. In the eyes of the government, these people were all unruly people, and there was no reason to tell them. There were many people, and once they could not get salt, it would turn into a civil chaos at any time.

Seeing that the matter was out of control, the prefectural yamen and the county yamen had no choice but to seek help from the Administrator and the Censorate. The Censor is not the yamen in charge of local administration in Guangdong, so it is difficult to come forward. This matter does not involve criminal prisons for the time being. Even if it involves criminal prisons, it is likely that the governor's yamen would be taken away by the governor's yamen saying "involving bandits" and the person would be taken away.

At this moment, everyone's attention was focused on the Guangdong Chengxuan Government Affairs Office.

Unfortunately, the left governor of Guangdong, Zhou Mengzhong, died in office. The right governor of Guangdong lost his reputation after the affairs of the Nanhai County Government. At this moment, he had almost no courage to compete with Chen Xi. Others expect the governor of the governor to come out to take charge of the overall situation, while Zhang Yuanying hoped to order all parties through Lin Tingxuan's prestige.

Before the State Administration and Censorate Office had no decision yet, the salt field inside and outside the Xingshengchang Salt Field in Panyu County was still facing a great enemy.

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After two days of selling salt in the governor's office, more than 4,000 small salt in the governor's office sold a total of more than 4,000. It seemed that they were bought by residents in the city, but in fact half of them fell into the hands of some merchants who were preparing to buy low and sell high.

These merchants are not those rich and powerful salt merchants, but small vendors. They are more of a rush to luck... They have seen that the governor's yamen is now gradually turning the decline in the match with the local yamen and gaining the upper hand. If the salt in his hand can finally be brought up, it will be several times the profit. Even if the salt cannot be raised, it can be converted between private salt and official salt, and the capital will not be damaged.

He sold more than 4,000 small salt intakes in two days, and Chen Xi had more than 10,000 guan of money on hand, including broken silver and copper coins. Boxes of all sizes were filled with the back hall. After nightfall, the inventory and calculation work was not over yet.

Tang Yin said with a sarcastic look: "Shen Zhongcheng has sold more than 4,000 salt entries today. It seems that it is not far from selling them all."

Chen Xi said angrily: "Brother Bo Hu has forgotten that he will no longer sell it from tomorrow?"

Tang Yin asked in surprise: "Selling so well, why don't you sell it in a dispersed way? Even if it takes a long time, it will not take two or three months."

Tang Yin had some wisdom, but he did not have much economic mind.

The reason why salt in the past two days has been sold is because the people in Guangzhou City have direct demand for salt, but how many people does a Guangzhou City have?

The 160,000 small citations of salt are salt citations covering half of the southeast region. Guangzhou City cannot digest them. It is impossible for ordinary people elsewhere to travel through mountains and rivers for a few citations of salt.

If there is no guarantee from the big salt merchant, Chen Xi could only sell at most 10,000 or 20,000 or 20,000 or 140,000 or 50,000 or 140,000 or 50,000 will not be sold, so the matter will still be ruined.

Chen Xidao: "Let's explain to Brother Bohu again. In short, we will only receive big merchants from tomorrow. We must purchase one thousand salt turbulences at a time, otherwise we will not be able to negotiate."

Tang Yin thought Chen Xi was blinded by victory. He wanted to do a big deal as soon as he sold some bulk goods, but he had no right to interfere with the decision. He shook his head helplessly and went out to continue to help count the salt.

Chen Xi briefly explained to Zhu Shan a few words, then left the back door of the official post and took advantage of the night to go to Hui Niang and Li Jin. He had already messed up the situation in the city. In the next plan, the business run by Hui Niang and Li Jin should appear.

No one dares to buy salt scents in large orders. Someone always needs to come out and take the lead. He will not let Hui Niang and Li Jin come forward directly, but will ask them to remotely control others to buy salt scents as the behind-the-scenes boss.

When he arrived at the residence of the second girl, it was still the gate of Li Jin. He was very surprised to see Chen Xi being injured. Chen Xi did not make any noise and came to the main hall. Hui Niang, who was busy in the kitchen, heard that Chen Xi was coming and quickly took off her apron. As soon as she returned to the main hall, she saw Chen Xi's injured left arm hanging around Chen Xi's neck, she immediately shed tears and said, "Master, you are..."

Seeing Hui Niang's tears, Chen Xi felt that even if he was hurt, it was worth it. He always thought that Hui Niang was forced to commit herself to him and had no feelings for him, but the tears of women were the most real. Just like Li Jin, although Li Jin was so scared that she was dismal, she did not shed tears.

"It's okay, I'm just pretending to show it to others."

Chen Xi smiled and raised his left arm, "Fortunately, the left hand is injured, which will not affect too many things." Then, Chen Xi stretched out his right hand and wanted to embrace Hui Niang in his arms. Hui Niang struggled a little, got out of his control, and then helped Chen Xi sit down and asked, "Does the master have something to arrange?"

"Um."

Chen Xi nodded, "Tomorrow the Governor's Office will start selling salt in large quantities. With today's hot sales, salt merchants and gentry will definitely keep a close eye on the Governor's Office. I will block the time point and send someone to signal you. Don't be too hasty or delay the time. You must explain it to the people below."

Hui Niang nodded and then stood up: "Master, I have found a few people to help you. Can you see if it's appropriate!"

As she said, she got up and came to the door, waved her hand, and four women in men's clothing came from the next room. These women were only pretty and generally tall, about fifteen or sixteen years old, and they were about the same age as Xiu'er and Xiaoyu when they started working as girls. Needless to say, Hui Niang had just bought it back to train her in Guangzhou City.

Hui Niang said, "I and Jin'er have taught them a lot these days. In the future, they will cooperate with several shopkeepers. What else is there to worry about when I go out to do business?"

Hui Niang's meaning, since she and Li Jin are Chen Xi's outer house, not only can they not show up, but they must try to avoid seeing the male shopkeepers outside. In this way, we will find a few girls as a sound tube for internal and external ventilation, so that they can convey the meaning of Hui Niang and Li Jin, and at the same time use them to supervise the every move of the shopkeepers and friends below.

“Okay.”

Chen Xi nodded, "Anyway, you should avoid being caught by the government to find your whereabouts."

If Yu Niang and Jiang Liwei have left Fujian and Guangdong, Chen Xi doesn't have to worry too much. Hui Niang and Li Jin are not fugitives, but the problem is very serious after being discovered.

But what worries Chen Xi the most now is that he doesn't know what Yu Niang and Jiang Liwei have to come to Fujian and Guangdong. For the sake of Hui Niang and Li Jin's safety, the two girls must keep a low profile as much as possible.

Chen Xidao: "Things should be done as I told you before. I'm a little tired."

When he came to Hui Niang, Chen Xi was to feel Hui Niang's care. This was the obsession that a fan had after he had his own idol. Every time he came over, he would have a kind of longing in his heart. This was a special emotion that he had never had when he was with the women in his family.

Hui Niang understood what Chen Xi meant, but she still pushed Chen Xi away gently and said, "Master, I have some inconvenience in my body...why would you let Jin'er serve the master..."

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ps: The second update!

I feel exhausted both physically and mentally, so let the emperor take a break. Today, there are only these two chapters and will return to normal tomorrow! (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!
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