This shopkeeper Zheng is naturally clear about the situation in Fujian and Guangdong. He thought to himself that even if you Li Meng cut off all those people, it doesn’t matter to me. It’s better if the ship is there, I will look for it again if there is no one. The Zheng family is on the sea. No matter how fierce and fierce you Li Meng, you are on land. There is no intersection anyway, and I don’t have to pay for those you captured!

But the shopkeeper still came, and the reason was very simple, because the prisoners who came to report the news and the sailors of the fleet said that they saw a very large salt field at the Lingshan Guard.

Manager Zheng is also one of the representative figures of the Southern Shang Dynasty in Jiningzhou. He is very familiar with the door. He spent money to go to the Yanyunsi Yamen to inquire. He really knew about Li Meng in Jiaozhou. He asked about the news outside. Li Meng, the identity of the largest salt owl in Shandong, was about to emerge.

Although Fujian is near the sea, it is cloudy and rainy, and it costs much more than other places to boil salt. Although there are good harbors by the sea, there is no suitable salt farm. Therefore, eating salt requires input from Huai salt, but the price is also very expensive. For example, when selling the salt farm in Li Meng, it is 1, 50 cents a tumble of salt, which is considered the wholesale price of private salt in Shandong. However, in the same situation, in Fujian, one tumble of salt costs five taels of silver. This is just the wholesale price, and it is even more expensive to sell it to ordinary people.

Huai Shangshang is in great power, and the salt road leading to Fujian is under their control, whether by land or sea, and the price cannot be reduced.

If Zheng Zhilong is also a powerful man, why don’t he start fighting like Li Meng? Because Huai Shang is also strong, the reason why Shandong is like this is because the market itself is not big, but Fujian’s salt prices are so high and profits are so amazing, how could he be willing to give up? Zheng Zhilong is also rich in money and doesn’t care too much about this.

But the big boss didn't care, and the people below were all targeting the price difference. However, the salt merchants on Huaihang were very strict and could not easily get salt by the beach. Li Meng's source of goods was like rain from the sky.

There are cargoes for Sino-Japanese trade back and forth, and all the trips are huge profits. They can be transported from south to north, transporting goods from Jiangnan and Fujian to Nanzhili and Shandong, and traveling north and south through the canal transport. There is no cargo to be pulled on when returning, or there is no profit for special goods from the north. It would be unprofitable if the ship was empty.

It happens to be used to transport salt. The key is how to get a suitable price from Li Meng. It is no problem for Zheng's sea ship to transport more than a thousand dan of goods per ship. If Li Meng can give a price of one or five dan per dan, what a ship earns, he will make back the money he bought from the 5,000 taels of silver.

However, Li Meng knew the salt prices in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, so he naturally could not let the other party make the cheaper. Since it was a business, he had to negotiate slowly.

But the person who was checking the salary here was about to arrive. The two bargained for half an hour, but there was no result. Li Meng thought that he would go there to see how he was preparing for the test, and he said immediately:

"Shopkeeper Zheng, please let the servants take back those prisoners. If there is no urgent matter in Jining, I will stay here for a few days. On the third day of the second month, I will welcome the officials of Laizhou Prefecture's military inspection. Let's see how?"

Manager Zheng knew that this was the statement that Li Meng left him to discuss in detail. This private salt transaction was a great way to make money for him personally, so he naturally could not let it go easily. He immediately agreed with a smile. As for the prisoners on the beach, just arrange a few servants to go there. As for the life or death, who would pay attention to it?

Jiaozhou camp has two thousand soldiers, which is the largest unit in Laizhou Prefecture. The level of those who test the troops and pay the salary is not low. Li Meng also got a notice, saying that he was the deputy envoy of Shandong Censor, and he was divided into the Lai Dao, Liu Qingsong and Liu came to inspect it. This was a third-rank official.

Not only was the Jiaozhou Camp busy preparing, but even Jiaozhou Prefecture was very busy. Li Meng focused on gathering troops and taking charge of military affairs. However, the people below were asking about all aspects as much as possible. Ning Gangui sent a special servant to wait for Wu Tongzhi there, and he also sent someone to inquire about what his preferences were.

In this era, there were many ways to receive Shangguan, and Li Meng was also a horizon. Yan Zhizhou was a very famous scholar. This time, he actually arranged for people to go to a prosperous place like Jiningzhou to attract several beautiful prostitutes and chefs. It is said that Lord Denglai Daoliao's family is a wealthy family in Hebei and likes fine wine and food. If he serves well, everything is easy to say. Master Ning can call a lot of public funds, and he also does things according to the rules.

Li Meng felt a little back to the past. When modern times were in the army, the superiors and the chief officer went to the grassroots for inspection. As the squad leader and the veteran, he led the people below to work together. Although he felt very tired at the time, he now felt very happy and fulfilled.

On the third day of the second month, Li Meng led several officers and a team of personal soldiers out of the city for thirty miles to meet the mission. Yan Zhizhou and Wu Tongzhi and his men also went out of the city together. Both sides just nodded with laughter, but there was not much to say. Relatively speaking, Li Meng was more polite, after all, he was pursuing the other party's daughter.

It was almost noon, and you could see a team coming from the official road. The team was riding a horse and the dozen knights led by Li Meng, who was rare to see in the new mandarin duck war jackets since Li Meng came to this era. After all, they were a team of deputy provincial cadres, and they were somewhat grand.

The dozen knights saw Li Meng and the others stopping on the side of the road, with flags behind them waving and dressed up by officers and soldiers. They knew that it was the target of this test. Two knights urged their horses to run towards this side and shouted from afar:

"But Li Meng, the garrison of Jiaozhou Camp?"

Upon hearing this, the officers and personal soldiers behind Li Meng all showed angry expressions. These cavalrymen were of no quality and ranked equally famous to Li Meng. Ning Gangui, who was following him, quickly persuaded and explained in a low voice:

"This is the personal soldier of the deputy envoy of the Censor. This is normal. Don't be angry."
Chapter completed!