Chapter 70 Recruiting people, blessing justice

The Jiaozhou City and Lingshan Vocational Office carried wooden stakes to give two taels of silver lasted for three days, and almost 800 taels of silver was paid. This matter became the hottest topic of talk this year in Jiaozhou. Everyone thought Li Meng was crazy. Isn’t this a random show of money?

On the first day of the second month, all those who moved wooden stakes gathered in Fengmeng Town. Outside Li Meng's manor, these young people were all excited and blushed. No one expected that they would just move a wooden stake when they were hot. Not only did they make two taels of silver, they were even recruited to the Li family manor to be servants.

Although I had already agreed in advance that the treatment of being a servant is half of the salt diced rice, but this is also five taels of silver and five dan of rice and flour, which is already a pretty good reward.

Moreover, the person recruited also told "the news" about the so-called "hometown" that if the servants do a good job, they are planning to make salt diced.

Good guy, it is even more attractive to say this. At present, in Jiaozhou City and even Laizhou Prefecture, salt ding is probably the most desirable profession for young people. Young people like to dance guns and sticks, but if they want to be yamen runners, they need to have background and social relations. They have to join the army. The performance of the officers and soldiers stationed in various places is seen by the civilians, extremely scattered, with extremely poor military discipline, and even more slutty than the bandits and Malays.

There are only salt diced people. Those of you of the same age have a solemn temperament in every move. Although they are salt diced, people can see that this is a real military soldier. Occasionally, there are people around you who are salt diced. When their parents talk about this, they look very proud. In addition, the real treatment is all better than the personal soldiers and servants of the general. The age is so bad. Isn’t it a good thing to have such a place to settle down?

After several salt owls in Qingzhou learned about this, they were stunned. Everyone knew that Li Meng's power was a little bigger, but there was no trace of the handle. My family is very rich, so no one can tell the problem!

Li Meng drew all the salt ding teams he had in his hands and the salt ding team stationed in Yantian, and sent them to various places to expand and set up cards. The 400 "housekeepers" he recruited were placed in the hands of himself and the two people stationed in Yantian, and trained hard.

With enough money in hand, and with the help of local local snakes from Qingzhou Prefecture and Dengzhou Prefecture, Laizhou private salt dealers who sell Lingshan salt quickly occupied these two markets. The territory was large, so the salt naturally sold more. Of course, the income from silver money was also immediate.

Starting from late February, Li Meng can earn nearly 6,000 taels per month, which is the amount after deducting all costs. Lingshan Salt Field and Xuejia Island's private salt fields are all working hard to start construction.

The more people you can use under your hands and the more money you have, all of which are real benefits. After this incident, Jiaozhou City and Lingshan Guard gradually realized that Li Erlang never joked. In addition to the previous few battles, everyone vaguely felt obedience to Li Meng. If these feelings and understandings were summarized in one word, they would be prestige.

The current Lingshan Vatican Site has more than 5,000 military households, almost all of which are on three ways out. One is that their children are salting for Li Meng, the other is to work in Li Meng's salt fields, and the third is to honestly plant military fields for the Vatican Site. If you think carefully, there will be much more military households who will obey Li Meng's orders than those who will obey the commanders of the Vatican Site.

In Yintan on Xuejia Island, a special salt field was opened up, which was hosted by experienced stove owners in the original salt field. The salt produced here is fine salt produced through many processing procedures. These fine salts were sealed in large tanks and wooden boxes and sent to the Lijia Manor in Fengmeng Town.

The Lijia Manor opened a workshop at the end of the first lunar month. The workers in the workshop were all the families of Liaodong military households. The job they did was to seal the fine salt in small porcelain jars and then transport it to Jining City by water.

Just after the first month of the year, a fragrant salt warehouse appeared in Jining City. The shop sold all the fine salt. The salt sold here is calculated in units of measurement of kilograms or smaller. At this time, the trend of green salt is almost the same as before. A batch of green salt from Shaanxi was transported intermittently by water.

However, due to the trend before the New Year, the demand for green salt suddenly increased, but the supply actually decreased. Rich people in the capital and Zhejiang areas of southern Zhili all wanted to use genuine green salt. The price of green salt was even higher than before the New Year. This wealthy and powerful family used good use.

The rich people who are second-class also need to brush their teeth and rinse their mouths, but they can go to the grocery store to weigh the bulk salt, which is really too much to lose face.

I don’t know who spread the news first, but when I discovered this shop, the news spread quickly. Soon, the rich people in Jining Mansion all knew about this shop. The shop was called Xiangyan, and the things they sold were worthy of their name. The salt had various fragrances, such as floral fragrance and refreshing fragrance.

And they are all wrapped in exquisite porcelain jars, which are good things at first glance. When they walk out of the shop and hold them in their hands, they look glorious, but the price is a little higher, one tael of silver and one can of salt.

It is more expensive than the genuine green salt, but it is much cheaper. This porcelain jar looks brighter than the old product, and there is also a fragrance in the salt. After rinsing your mouth, it can also have a fragrance in addition to cleaning your teeth and mouth. You don’t have to buy expensive medicinal materials specifically.

This fragrant salt shop has learned some experience from the green salt trend before the New Year. For example, if you want to distinguish the authenticity, the Guanzi Emperor in this store also has a ghost-painted talisman, which is posted outside the store every day, and you can know the real and fake goods by comparison.

However, the merchants in Jining City finally figured out what the ghost painting talisman is. This thing is really a talisman drawn by Taoists. This talisman is usually complicated in graphics, and it is really difficult to imitate without touching the rules.

After the merchants in Jining learned all this set of things, this fragrant salt warehouse had already begun to sell goods to cargo ships traveling through the canal.

This fragrant salt shop is naturally Li Meng's business, and this item can be earned 1,000 taels per month.

The commuters relied on the waterways in Shandong, which was ridiculous. When Li Meng was engaged in financial escort in modern times, he followed the armored truck to travel through many places, and never saw a large river in Shandong. The so-called Yellow River in Dongying City is also a river full of plants.

But in the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago, Shandong could actually reach all over the place by water transportation. There are different things in ancient and modern times.

Li Meng now has several boats, starting from Fengmeng Town to transport them towards Jining. When he returned, he also brought some Jining goods, some of them for merchants in Jiaozhou and Jimo County, and some of them were tools and materials needed by salt fields and blacksmith shops.

It was only early March, and the production and sales of salt were not in the peak season. Although the Wang Family and Kong Family Salt Store were not sure why they could get goods at Lingshan Salt Field at a price of nine cents per dan, they needed to escort salt to the destination before they could be sold. They could not be sold to the territory of Qing, Deng and Lai. However, the cheap price does not mean that the demand increased, so such a small Heyun Wharf is still deserted.

Today, two carriages were waiting here. As the boat with the "Li" banner hanging on the river slowly drove, the young man on the carriage jumped down in a hurry, and a small leader said seriously:

"This is an errand assigned by Lord Li, and I'm cheering up all of them."

Several people agreed repeatedly. As soon as the boat landed, they put down the pedals. Four or five people carefully moved a wooden box from the boat. The waiting people on the shore used the same caution. Next, they matted the board of the carriage with a long time ago with cotton straw, and then patted the horse that pulled the carriage with their hands and headed towards Jiaozhou City.

Yan Zhizhou of Jiaozhou City lived a leisurely life. Since taking office for a year, the prefectures and surrounding areas under his jurisdiction cannot be said to be in good weather, but they are also extremely peaceful.

The common people have food and work to do, but they have no intention of causing trouble. Not to mention the war disaster in Dengzhou, Qingzhou and Yanzhou have been in chaos. Even Changyi and Pingduzhou in the north of Laizhou Prefecture are unstable. Compared with them, Jiaozhou City can be said to be prosperous in all industries.

Because half of the salt merchants and salt vendors in Shandong go to Fengmeng Town to sell salt goods, which has also driven local prosperity. The number of shops and vendors has increased a lot compared to a year ago, and the taxes that need to be paid can be completed in full. This year, the Ministry of Revenue Assessment has been "excellent" and is not a big problem.

At the age of 40, he was a Jinshi and was sent to Shandong, where he was never poor and rich, to be a magistrate. Yan Zhizhou was content. He went to the yamen to handle official duties for half a day every day. The rest of his time was to write and read books in his mansion, and live a leisurely life.

He felt comfortable here, but the others in the yamen were very uncomfortable. The magistrate's yamen is the largest and most useful yamen in Jiaozhou. But now the person who speaks the most effective is Li Meng, the Salt Administration Inspection Officer. It's okay to be rampant in the village, but he is also so arrogant in the city.

Li Meng should give away a penny of silver, but he didn't give it even more. When he thought of this, everyone was just angry. In the past, King Mu Yan only made a few money. How much did you earn more? Why did you give it so much? After all, the Salt Administration Inspection Office was a ninth-rank official and barely entered the market. But when these high-ranking officials in the state government thought of the day Li Meng came to the city to take office, dozens of corpses outside the city and the blood stains on the bamboo poles, and their backs became cold. They suddenly had no thoughts.
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