Chapter 68 Standing Wood
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Although Li Meng returned to Fengmeng Town, Jiaozhou Prefecture, on the 28th day of the 12th lunar month of the sixth year of Chongzhen, this Spring Festival was also the happiest one of the Lingshan Guards and Fengmeng Towns.
Li Meng brought back a large number of New Year goods in Jining City. Various goods in such prosperous places are much better than those in Jiaozhou City. They were all distributed as welfare to those who followed Li Meng's private salt system. This is the second Spring Festival. Although those who followed Li Meng also made some money during the first Spring Festival, they didn't know if they could make money in the next year, so they kept the money for emergency use.
The situation this year is different. Li Meng is already a salt administration inspector, with nearly a thousand elite soldiers under his command, Laizhou Prefecture and the neighboring Qingzhou East and Dengzhou West. If anyone wants to do private salt business, if Li Meng disagrees, he will not be able to sell a pound of salt. Judging from this trend, it will only get better and better, and good days will be coming.
Everyone was relieved and dared to spend more money on a rich New Year. Compared with the laughter here, the years in other places are getting worse and worse, so half of the pigs and sheep in Laizhou Prefecture were sold to Jiaozhou.
In order to live a good life, the core personnel around Li Meng were even more excited. They earned a lot of money, which means that Li Meng can further expand his personnel and power, which means that the power of the entire salt rod will expand.
Ning Qiangui is now increasingly feeling that his decision to kneel in front of Li Meng's door that day was correct. In just a few months, Li Meng actually made so much money. The method was unheard of. Originally, the captains of Salt Ding were talking about what Li Meng was possessed by Erlang Shen, but he even sneered, thinking that the country people had no knowledge. After these days with Li Meng, Ning Qiangui gradually believed this statement. If it were not for the possession of the gods, there would be such a series of methods. He thought that in Jining, he would have made money this time.
Who would have thought that there were subsequent methods? It would be incredible to think about it. A martial artist who grew up in the ward has so many ways to make money by merchants.
Fengmeng Town and Lingshan were laughing and laughing, while the salt dealers in Qingzhou Prefecture and Dengzhou Prefecture were complaining. The originally messy private salt dealers in Laizhou Prefecture suddenly came out a monster like Li Erlang, with ruthless means and vigorously squeezed their market. Qingzhou and Dengzhou also rely on the beach and also have salt fields. However, under the same conditions, the salt cannot be compared with the other party's quality and the price is the same, so everyone is naturally willing to use the goods well.
But if I improve the quality of salt on my own, I will only lose money. Originally, the territory of Huaiyan in the south was able to traffic in the east and north, but now the east was occupied by Li Meng, so they could only buy and sell in the north by Jinan Prefecture. This circle of Jinan Prefecture is the capital of a province, with convenient transportation and low salt prices, making less and less money. The situation in Dengzhou Prefecture is similar to theirs, but there has been a military disaster there, and the salt dealers are all single-handed, and they have no right to speak in front of Li Meng. It is estimated that in one or two months, the private salt transactions in Dengzhou Prefecture will completely fall into Li Meng's hands.
The desperate Qingzhou salt vendors, the single-handed ones, simply gave up this business. Since they can't make money, why bother to go and sell it? Some people are local landlords and tyrants, and usually buy private salt to sell it to the surrounding households. What they want is stability. These people are already preparing to join Li Meng. It is said that they make money there with stability and have someone to protect them. Then they will sell it to the lower house, which is less worrying than before.
As for the several big salt owls in Qingzhou Prefecture, these people are the ones who make the most profits in Qingzhou's private salt. They sell salt from salt fields and other places to single-handed households and landlords and tyrants. Now Li Meng has taken the big part of these things, and they can make less and less money.
These Qingzhou salt owls hated Li Meng to the core, but the key problem is that if they were to attack, no one was confident that they could deal with the salt ding under Li Meng. If they sued the official, there would be four inspectors in Shandong, and the areas where the salt stewards in Jiaozhou were responsible for the inspection were Qingzhou, Laizhou and Dengzhou.
Now these salt owls know that Li Meng wants to expand outward, but according to Li Meng's use of salt diced rice, no more people can set up checkpoints and intercept them in newly expanded places, and they can only recruit people to expand again. Now the 750 people under his command are the customary limit.
If Li Meng continues to recruit soldiers, he will go to the government to sue him for a ill-thinking scheme and then give him money, and let Li Meng wait for the arrest of the army. If he does not recruit new soldiers and maintain the current situation, it will naturally be something that Qingzhou Yanxiao is unhappy.
On the 20th day of the first lunar month of the seventh year of Chongzhen, a wooden stake was erected at the Lingshan garrison gates and at the gates of Jiaozhou City. The wooden stake was about the thickness of a sea bowl and more than six feet high.
There was a young man wearing a thick gray robe with a short robe standing next to him. Everyone knew that this dress was Li Erlang's salt.
It has been almost a year since the salt rod has become a salt cube. People in Jiaozhou City know that these salt cubes are different from before. They are very disciplined and do not oppress the people. Therefore, the curious people are not afraid, and they all go forward to ask questions directly. As for the Lingshan Guard, there are so many military children, and they are even more familiar with each other.
Seeing that there were too many people asking, the young man under the wooden stake began to shout:
"My Lord Li, take advantage of this first lunar month to bring more programs to everyone."
Li Meng's power and wealth have been heard and seen by the people from Jiaozhou City and Lingshan Vacation Center, but for most people there is still a sense of mystery. During this first month, everyone is looking for a lively atmosphere. When they heard many programs here to cheer for fun, they gathered around many people.
"This is not difficult. As long as you move the wooden stake to the gate of the inspection yamen in the city, you will give the person who moves the wooden stake two taels of silver, and pay the current silver, and you will never default!"
After saying that, the man left directly. If he was in the garrison, he would move the wooden stake to the west village of Xuejia Qianhuyuan. Whether it was Jiaozhou City or Lingshan stake, the distance between transporting the wooden stake was almost two thousand steps. The wooden stake looked not light in weight, but it was a laboriousness.
I don’t know why, but I just shouted the salt dicks from Jiaozhou City Gate and Lingshan Guard. Then I left without leaving there to explain.
Chapter completed!