Chapter 161: Salt Merchant Gu Family
After teaching Hou Yuanqing the Wuxiang Tribulation Finger Exercises, Tang Yuan went back to the Six Doors to deal with various important tasks.
It's mostly a matter of rivers and lakes.
He moved his hands and feet, and he was not afraid of Hou Yuanqing's tricks.
Shaolin seventy-two stunts taught Hou Yuanqing, and as a disciple of King Kong Temple, he will definitely be able to exert his due power.
At that time, the faces of the Shaolin monks must be very good-looking.
Since Tang Yuan succeeded to the head catcher, no one dared not open his eyes and provoke some moths.
On the contrary, many small forces gave him gifts and silver openly and secretly.
Tang Yuan, who believes in being cheap and not taking advantage of the bastard, naturally does not refuse.
No wonder there is an old saying, three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver.
Where does he need three years.
These large and small forces have successively stuffed over 100,000 taels of silver.
The official business was complicated, and Tang Yuan simply left it to the staff to deal with.
After all, this world is still respected for strength.
Power can make things easier for him, so he tries to climb up.
But you can't let the power confuse your eyes and delay your cultivation, that would be like picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons.
After losing his official duties, Tang Yuan was relaxed and hurriedly plunged into cultivation.
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A few days later, Peng Hui rushed to Tang Yuan's mansion.
At this time, he also put on the deputy head catcher uniform and became a veritable deputy head catcher.
Tang Yuan had to withdraw from the cultivation state, and as soon as he saw Peng Hui, he frowned and asked, "What's the matter, that kid is in trouble?"
Recently, Fufeng County has been peaceful.
Tang Yuan immediately thought of Ah Kang.
Peng Hui came to his senses and knew that Tang Yuan had misunderstood, and explained: "Ah Kang has excellent marksmanship talent, and he has stepped into the acquired realm, and the lower officials are not here for Ah Kang. ”
"What's that?"
In the past few days, Tang Yuan has been in charge of the shopkeeper, giving all the rights to Peng Hui and Xing Luo.
Secretly, there is also Hou Yuanqing to supervise him and deal with other things.
"When dealing with important affairs, the lower officials found that the caravans coming and going to the county town had surged by 30% compared with before, and they came to report to the adults. Peng Hui bowed and hugged his fists.
"Is there a problem?" Tang Yuan asked.
Peng Hui pondered for a moment, shook his head and said, "There is no problem, this is what Xia Guan thinks is strange." ”
"Where did the caravan come from, have you checked?" Tang Yuan believed that Peng Hui would not be untargeted.
"Yangzhou, Shuzhou, Yuzhou, and even the Central Plains are all caravans of small forces from all sides, as well as salt merchants. ”
Peng Hui always said that there were many forces, which made Tang Yuan's brows gradually wrinkle.
What's going on?
"And the salt merchant?" Tang Yuan squinted and said, "Which salt merchant?"
Salt!
This word is as heavy as a thousand pounds.
There are only two situations in the Great Dry Salt Administration:
The first is purely official-run, where the big cadres monopolize all the salt-making links, make and sell them by themselves, and the court profits from them;
The second type is the government-private partnership, which forms the salt gang, but the salt made by the salt gang can only be sold to the imperial court, and it is not allowed to sell it privately.
However, there are always exceptions.
Once the Salt Gang is too strong and attracts the jealousy of the imperial court, it will also take care of the turmoil in the rivers and lakes and turn a blind eye.
There are many sects and countless families, among which there are 36 major forces, which can be called the top forces.
And the largest salt gang in the world, the Sea Shark Gang, relied on the joint venture with the imperial court to make salt, and from a small salt gang to one of the strongest forces in the world.
Today, it is one of the seven gangs in the world.
In Hanzhou, the Sea Shark Gang is a veritable emperor of the soil, and it is more effective than Emperor Qian's words.
After all, because of the existence of the Sea Shark Gang, the entire Hanzhou salt merchants are everywhere, and all of them rely on the Sea Shark Gang to survive.
Salt merchants are a group of merchants who sell salt legally, and they have the legal right to operate salt monopoly.
Salt merchants pay salt to the government and receive salt citations, which are the vouchers for the transportation and sale of salt.
Without this thing, if you dare to sell salt, it is a crime to kill your head.
Anyone who obtained salt must pay a huge amount of silver taels to the imperial court and obtain the privilege of hereditary transportation and sale of salt.
As a result, the salt merchants gradually formed an extremely terrifying group, mostly composed of hereditary families of salt merchants.
They may be a little lacking in force, but their financial resources can be described as terrifying, and it is not too much to say that they are rich and rival countries.
They colluded with each other, supported by huge financial resources, and married and held together with all the forces in the rivers and lakes.
In particular, the salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River are the worst.
Peng Hui lowered his head and said solemnly: "Jiangnan Yangzhou salt merchant Gu family." ”
"Gu family?"
Tang Yuan was puzzled: "They don't stay in Jiangnan, how did they run to Guanzhong." ”
If there are many salt merchants in this world, Tang Yuan is really hard to say, because there are too many.
But if you want to say who the biggest salt merchant is, it is none other than the three major salt merchants of Gu, Fan, and Xue.
Peng Hui said: "My lord doesn't know that the Gu family obtained the right to sell salt in some counties and counties in Ningzhou a few years ago.
But ......"
Tang Yuan raised his eyebrows: "But what, it's spitting." ”
"Compared with previous years, the Gu family has advanced by two months this year. Peng Huiyu reported.
"In previous years, there was not much difference in time?"
"Yes, but this year it's ahead of schedule. ”
Tang Yuan frowned and pondered for a long time, and said, "This can't be a reason for me to check the Gu family, as long as I don't make trouble in the county town, I won't care about him."
Even if he kills someone, it has nothing to do with us, this Gu family is more terrifying than a big force. ”
"That's right!"
Peng Hui smiled bitterly, "The Gu family has successively married the Xie family of Chenjun and the Xiao family of Jiangnan, and they will meet with the world.
The current head of the Gu family is also a brother and sister to the leader of the Sea Shark Gang, which is really terrifying.
It's also strange to say, with the financial resources of Gu, Fan, and Xue, it is impossible not to mix with the position of the eight great families. ”
"Avoid suspicion!"
Tang Yuan sneered, "It's so rich, if there are still a few True God Realm martial artists, then it's worth it." Our Majesty doesn't guard against him from raising troops to rebel every day. ”
"That's just as well. ”
Peng Hui thought so.
The three major salt merchants of Gu, Fan, and Xue are not a secret in their financial resources and power networks.
"Anything else?"
Tang Yuan asked again.
Peng Hui thought for a moment and said: "The Iron Sword Gate has been very strange these days, there have been several caravans running back and forth, and it has not been so ordinary in the past month, as well as several families near the Iron Sword Gate. ”
"What about Xing Luo, let him come over, he has always been responsible for this matter, why didn't he report it?"
Tang Yuan ordered, "Let Xing Luo come and see me." ”
Who doesn't know that Tang Yuan and Xu Hongwu, the master of the Iron Sword Gate, don't deal with each other, as the subordinates of adults, they can't be said if they don't find fault with the Iron Sword Gate.
Peng Hui thought about it and hurriedly said, "Xiaguan will go immediately." ”
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"Don't look at this Xu Hongwu who looks like a stupid man, and he has a bit of brains. ”
Pang Ze sprinkled fish food in one hand and said with a smile at Qi Hongru.
"Hehe......"
Qi Hongru chuckled and said: "I am also the master of a sect, and I am used to seeing the bloody wind and rain in the rivers and lakes, and it is reasonable to use some means to avoid the six doors of investigation." ”
"Hahaha. ”
Pang Ze smiled happily, poured all the fish food in his hand into the fish pond, attracting the fish to compete for food, clapped his hands and said: "This Xu Hongwu is getting easier and easier to use." ”
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