Chapter Sixteen Seventeen
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Hearing the sound of Wang Hai, Li Meng moved the knife beside the door and opened the door and walked out. After going out, he was stunned. He looked at the dozen people standing outside the door that had been pushed open, including salt vendors that day, and whether there were any people who went there. Zhao Neng, Chen Liuzi and Wang Hai were standing in front.
Li Meng couldn't help laughing when he saw it and said loudly:
"What are you doing when you are standing outside? Just come in. The scoring hand is pushed open. Do you have no strength?"
This is not a funny joke, but the people outside laughed. With this permission, Zhao Neng came in together.
Li Meng's yard is not big, and so many people came in suddenly seemed a little crowded. But Li Meng felt puzzled and asked:
"Brother Zhao, is there anything wrong with me?"
Zhao Neng smiled awkwardly, hesitated and did not speak. It was Chen Liuzi who spoke first, and he said anxiously:
"Brother Li, I went to go to salt last time and made a fortune. When I got home, my mother was so happy. I thought we would do a few more good things like this, but this salt inspector is really troublesome. Brother Li is an idea and responsible person. We all want Brother Li to make an idea."
The people around me were interjecting and catering to each other, which was noisy, but they all mean the same thing:
"My father was trembling when he saw the silver."
"My parents ate the pork I bought at night, and the old couple burst into tears. It's really..."
Everyone talked to the end and said one sentence:
"Brother Li, come and take the initiative and lead everyone to sell salt to make a fortune!"
After all, it was Li Meng's idea to go to Fengmeng Town for the first time to sell salt. Li Meng looked at the excited young people around him and thought that he had to persuade him, but now everyone came to him on his own initiative, saving hard work.
Li Meng laughed and said loudly:
"We all want to live a good life. We all take care of me, Li Meng, for more than 20 years, and we should repay everyone's kindness."
As soon as he said this, the atmosphere became a little relaxed. Everyone laughed with a haha. Li Meng continued:
"This transaction is not something that can be obtained by reaching out for money. The risks are not small. Everyone has a family background, so you have to think clearly."
Although people got married early in this era, the men in the ward station were poor and the people who came to the yard were all single. When Zhao Neng heard what Li Meng said, he said that he was very close to Li Meng and could speak. He came over and patted Li Meng on the shoulder and said with a smile:
"Brothers all know this risk, so that Li Meng, you can take everyone to do it, and everyone can rest assured to follow you!"
Li Meng suddenly realized that at some point, everyone treated him with the attitude of a leader. In the past, this attitude was for Zhao Neng. I recognized this situation and saw the eager expressions of these people around me, Li Meng also felt at ease and said loudly:
"My brothers believe me, Li Meng, I, don't refuse. It's just that everyone is working together and still has to set rules."
Everyone's attitude towards Li Meng has changed from conviction to awe. The previous killing of Yan Ding on the shoulder pole has shocked everyone. Everyone has a vague suspicion of the murder of the inspector Zhongmu, Jiaozhou City. Thinking of this, he was even more awesome. Looking at the money he earned and thinking about what Li Meng did, everyone felt that following Li Meng would not suffer any loss, and at the same time, he could not disobey him. This person is too strong and powerful.
The Jiaozhou Inspection Officer Mou died at home because of a forced man who was killed in his family for money, and the government hastily closed the case.
A ninth-rank official will die, which is not a big deal. However, it is a trivial matter if King Mou died, but who is the inspector's position is a big deal? Although the position is called Jiaozhou Inspection Department, the ground under the jurisdiction is mostly half of Laizhou Prefecture, and there is only the Shangguan, the salt transport envoy in Jinan Prefecture, on which he gathers hundreds of rogue gangsters, set up checkpoints to check and smuggle salt, and then sell it on his own, with money and power, and rampant. This is a top-notch fat!
As soon as there was a gap here, someone immediately went to Jinan Prefecture to find the Yanyun Yamen to take over this fire, but although this is a small inspection position, the governor, the governor, and the Ministry of Revenue all have the right to participate in the decision, this also involves game in all aspects.
Although Shandong's salt administration is not as good as Lianghuai and Beizhili, it is a position that has oil and water, and it is really hard to make a decision easily. But there are too many things these days. All the yamen and institutions in Shandong are busy quelling the Kong Youde rebellion in Dengzhou and mobilizing grain, fodder, silver and money for all armies. The capital and courts are busy dealing with the chaos in Shaanxi and the Tartars outside the pass. This small matter really has to be postponed, but there are policies from the top and countermeasures from the bottom. It is also a thousand-year official tradition.
The salt transport envoy in Shandong simply ignored it. As long as the inspection department in Jiaozhou pays the silver regularly, it is equivalent to giving the salt peddlers the power to act on their own. Almost on the day the order was ordered to reach Jiaozhou, the salt peddlers in the inspection department immediately divided into more than a dozen gangs, with different numbers of people. Don't expect these hooligans to do anything. They are just a pile of loose sand. These people go to investigate and smuggle salt and plunder money on their own, but they are fighting each other and the ground in Jiaozhou is in chaos again.
However, these salt dogs who investigated and smuggled salt ran around everywhere, and there was one place that they never went to investigate. That is Fengmeng Town, where the salt merchants here unceasingly purchased private salt from various places in Linhai, Jiaozhou, and then transported it out of Jiaozhou by ship. This is the biggest private salt criminal.
However, the salt managers in the inspection department are all private salt dealers, big or small. If they investigate Fengmeng Town, they will sell the salt they have in their hands to anyone, and they will not be able to cut off their own financial resources.
On June 21, the fifth year of Chongzhen, there were a total of seventeen people gathered in the broken yard of Li Meng. Everyone decided to sell private salt to improve their lives.
Li Meng sold private salt in Fengmeng Town, killed salt Ding in the small way, and everyone's vague speculation about the cause of Inspection Mou's death, determined his leading position in this small group from the beginning. If it were written, it would be considered a small salt owl.
Since it was decided, it means doing it. On June 22, Zhao Neng and Chen Liuzi and others scattered to nearby villages near the sea to spread the news. Of course, they spread it through the channels of relatives and friends, saying that a load of salt and silver costs 50% and will never be deducted.
Half of these thousand and hundreds of households in the north of Lingshan Vacation Station are from the sea. Most of them cook the sea and salt to supplement their household expenses. Their salt is usually sold to Lingshan Salt Field, where only three cents of silver are paid per pound. In addition, they have to flatter the people who receive salt and have to endure the arrears and deductions.
Chapter completed!