Text_Chapter 1277 Night Tide Monograph: Salt Field
Gu Beiyue was really afraid that Qin Min would say something just now, so he had to refuse in person, which hurt her.
But when I heard the sentence "I divorced you", I was obviously relieved, but I didn't know why, my heart was a little heavy, and I couldn't say a strange feeling.
Qin Min smiled at him, and his always generous smile revealed a bit of naughtiness, so that he couldn't figure out whether she was joking or telling the truth.
Gu Beiyue was a little crying and laughing, and he didn't know if it was because of her "Gu Beiyue" or because of her smile at this time, he suddenly felt that Qin Min at this moment was the real Qin Min.
Before he could answer Qin Min's question, she waved her hand, "Goodbye, Lord Dean!" ”
After she finished speaking, she left, this time she really left, and did not look back.
After last night, Gu Beiyue originally wanted to be cruel and dispose of her mind coldly, but who knew that he had no chance.
It wasn't until Qin Min's back disappeared into the alley that Gu Beiyue couldn't help but laugh lightly, but even he didn't know what he was laughing at.
That night, Gu Beiyue left Ningzhou City. No one knows when he will return, and perhaps even he himself does not know.
At the same time that Gu Beiyue left Ningzhou City, Long Feiye's carriage was also leaving Ningzhou City. Gu Beiyue went north to the medical city, and Long Feiye and Han Yunxi went east to Changning Salt Farm.
Something did happen to the Changning Salt Farm, but Long Feiye and Han Yunxi were not so anxious. The letter they sent to Gu Beiyue was deliberate.
When they were in the teahouse that day, neither of them suspected anything, but after thinking about it that afternoon, they both found out the clue.
First, Gu Beiyue was not a careless person, how could she really let Qin Min alone in Ningzhou City? He must have sent someone to protect him in secret. If you have such a big thing as a miscarriage, your subordinates will not be unkind. Second, Han Yunxi remembered what she had seen in that mansion, there were so many medicinal forsythia flowers, it was unlikely that ordinary gardeners could raise them, and it was very likely that Qin Min planted them himself. Third, it is really unacceptable to hide the miscarriage for three months.
Long Feiye and Han Yunxi both felt that Qin Min had a problem with her stomach.
Han Yunxi really wanted to find out, but she was afraid that Gu Beiyue and Qin Min would encounter something difficult, so she didn't say anything. But Long Feiye advocated not interfering in Gu Beiyue's housework. Han Yunxi looked back and thought about it, just Gu Beiyue's temperament, even if they asked, he would not say a word or two at most.
So, the two of them didn't know anything and didn't come to visit, so Lao Gu Beiyue and Qin Min continued to act, and directly found an excuse to avoid it.
The sound of horses' hooves accompanied by sleep at night, Rui'er had already slept peacefully in Long Feiye's arms, but Long Feiye and Han Yunxi were sleepless. They chatted about the Changning Salt Farm.
Salt is a daily necessity, and it is also a very influential thing, and its influence can even be equal to food, affecting the rise and fall of a country. Han Yunxi didn't know about salt originally, she only thought it was a condiment for cooking rice, but when she came to this world, she knew how important salt was.
Salt has a great use as a preservative. But few people can spend more than 100 times the price of lobster to get a bunch of ice cubes for a fresh lobster like Long Feiye, and several horses died before sending the fresh lobster to the house to stew for Han Yunxi to eat!
In this world without freezing technology, ordinary people can only rely on salt to pickle vegetables, meat and fish.
Seafood from the east of the clouds, meat from the west and central parts of the clouds, and dairy products from the north can be stored for a period of time after being processed with salt, and then they can be sent to different places in the clouds to be bought and sold with each other. That's how commerce and trade developed. Therefore, although the daily salt consumption of each household is small, in fact, the amount of salt used by the entire Yunkong Continent is very terrifying. Of course, the imperial court had to impose a salt tax on the salt merchants! The annual salt tax revenue of the imperial court is far dozens of times higher than that of other taxes.
Duke Huan of Qi, one of the five tyrants of the Spring and Autumn Period, relied on the state-owned salt farm resources of Qi to indirectly let merchants all over the world pay taxes to Qi by collecting taxes on salt.
The Changning Salt Farm that Long Feiye and Han Yunxi are going to now is the largest salt farm in the Yunkong Continent, if something happens to this salt farm, the entire business community in Yunkong will be earthquaked, and the income of Daqin's treasury this year will also be greatly reduced. Moreover, this salt farm involves the aurora, and there are thousands of workers in the salt factory, plus the people in charge of transportation, that is tens of thousands. As long as the salt works are suspended for one day, tens of thousands of people will have nothing to do and no money to make, and riots will easily occur.
It stands to reason that such a large salt farm should be controlled by the royal family, if it is not the royal family, it should at least be a relative of the emperor, but this salt farm is indeed shared by the four major families in the south of the Yangtze River, even if the Xiao family is raided, there are other three major families to support it, this is their biggest money bag, and it is also where they will not make concessions to the imperial court.
Long Feiye had already made up his mind about this salt farm, otherwise the three major families would use the Changning salt field to cause trouble that day, and it would be a big deal. The new tax system has just been implemented this year, and Long Feiye doesn't want to start so quickly.
Originally, I came to check how the tax reform was implemented, but who knew that yesterday afternoon Long Feiye received an urgent letter from Yunning, saying about the Changning salt farm.
Someone smuggled a large amount of salt from the Changning Salt Farm to the Dongwu Kingdom!
The three major families controlled the salt farms, and the imperial court could not monopolize them, and the current trade of salt within Daqin was very free. However, if you want to buy salt outside of Great Qin, you have to come forward with the imperial court, and private trading is never allowed, and this also involves tax evasion.
If you can get a large amount of salt, this matter must be implicated in the three major families. As long as he can take the opportunity to suppress one or two families, it will not be difficult for Long Feiye to recover the salt farm.
Five days later, Long Feiye and Han Yunxi arrived at the Changning Salt Farm, Rui'er was taken by Xu Donglin to play, Han Yunxi and Long Feiye dressed up in disguise, Han Yunxi disguised herself as a rich boy, and Long Feiye dressed in white and dressed as a noble son. Han Yunxi is handsome and handsome, Long Feiye is handsome and extravagant, the two stand side by side, it is really a scenery, and it attracts the attention of many passers-by when they don't go on the street.
They didn't go directly to the salt farm, they sent a visit post to the stewards of the four major families in the Changning salt field in the name of the Donglai Palace in the three-way black market.
It's just a visit to the Donglai Palace, you don't have to say anything, and those who understand will know their intentions. When people in the black market found the owner of the salt factory, they naturally came to buy salt and smuggle it!
It was originally quite difficult for Long Feiye to secretly investigate the smuggling, but the background of Donglai Palace gave him great convenience. The Yunning Chamber of Commerce has influence in the Santu Black Market, which many people know, but Long Feiye has the greatest influence in the Santu Black Market, which few people know. Anyway, the people of the three major families in Jiangnan will not know.
Long Feiye used the name of Ye Gongzi, the young owner of Donglai Palace, and when the people in charge of the three major families saw this visit post, they were all shocked.
The Zhou family is in charge of the third young master of the Zhou family, and the Murong family is the ninth young master of the Murong family, and the Zhou family and the Murong family are in-laws, and they wear the same pair of pants. Wednesday Shao immediately discussed with Murong Jiu Shao.
"You're here to ask us for something?" Wednesday Shao said cautiously, "He gave you and me two visit posts at the same time, won't he also vote for the Xie family?" ”
"What does he want to do?" Murong Jiu asked puzzled.
"Lower the price!" Wednesday snorted coldly.
"What then?" Murong has always listened to Wednesday.
Wednesday Shao thought about it and hurriedly said: "Instead of the three of us fighting infighting and taking advantage of him, it's better to ...... Find Xie Yujun over, let's join hands to raise a high price? The Donglai Palace in the three-way black market is the real master of silver, and the young owner is here, it must be a big deal! ”
Murong Jiu Shao immediately agreed, who knows, before they could find it, Xie Yujun came over and wanted to cooperate with them. The three of them hit it off. This Xie Yujun is the eldest young master of the Xie family, five or six years older than Zhou Shao and Murong Jiushao, and he is a well-known loser in the three major families. However, Xie's family fought fiercely, and his mother knew that he was a loser, but she still insisted on getting him to the Changning Salt Farm to take care of things. said to be in charge, but in fact, it was a lot of money!
Xie Yujun said proudly, "I have found out clearly, that Ye Gongzi brought a friend over and lived in Lerong Winery, and I heard that he had chartered the entire Lerong Winery." Hehe, what a rich man! Young Master Ben has only covered one floor. ”
"I heard my father say that the real rich country is Donglai Palace. You see, when our emperor is done, he will definitely clean up the three-way black market. Donglai Palace may be the target! Murong Jiu Shao hurriedly said.
"Hey, this has to take advantage of the emperor to raid the house, let's hurry up and make a fortune for him!" Wednesday laughed less.
The three of them discussed and negotiated a high price, and then they each met with Ye Gongzi, said the price, and refused to give in.
Long Feiye's step was just to test who dared to do business with the black market and smuggle salt, who knew that the three families actually came forward. This made him very angry! These three guys, how much money do they have to take away that should belong to the treasury on weekdays?
Long Feiye didn't negotiate the price, only said that he had to think about it, and he didn't reply to the three young masters for five days. This can make those three young masters anxious.
Finally, Wednesday Shao couldn't sit still, "Well, let's set up a banquet to invite him, and the price is negotiated in person, how about it?" ”
Xie Yujun agreed very much, and Murong Jiushao also agreed, he said, "Talking about business is inseparable from wine, and I have bought the wine." ”
Xie Yujun's eyes flashed with a touch of cunning, and he said with a smile, "Talking about business and leaving women is not a woman, I will take care of a woman!" Make sure to find the best girl in Ningzhou City! ”
So, when Long Feiye and Han Yunxi went to the appointment of the three of them, they saw a beautiful woman sitting on the side holding the pipa and half-covering her face.
After taking a seat, Xie Yujun immediately put on the sign and said with a smile, "Ye Gongzi, order the song first, our girl today is the top brand in Jiangnan." Her song...... Hehe, it can hook the soul! Ye Gongzi is careful, don't be hooked by the soul, we can't negotiate this deal? ”
As soon as he finished speaking, Han Yunxi, who was sitting on the side, smiled and said, "This person can also be seductive." ”
She said as she walked over and gently lifted the girl's chin with her folding fan.
These people in Jiangnan are simply speechless, the old one wants to give Long Feiye a concubine, and the little one is actually here to summon Ji for Long Feiye!
Han Yunxi was angry, and the girl suddenly avoided her hand and ran towards Long Feiye with the pipa in her arms......