There are four city gates in Shenwu County, after the establishment of the new city, four vegetable markets have been established next to the four city gates, there are not only farmers outside the city to sell vegetables, but also merchants in the city, there are many, farmers come here to sell vegetables and grain, and then buy back the objects they need, it is very convenient. Apex."

After the establishment of the vegetable market, at that time, Longxiao was still a county leader, and set up a management yamen in the four major vegetable markets, each of which had more than 100,000 people, which could be described as bustling. Long Xiao's original intention was not to charge, because he had already paid a copper plate for entering the city, and it would be redundant to charge any more, and the county yamen didn't care about this bit of silver. However, the head catchers who manage the four major vegetable markets have nearly 100 minions each, and the farmers who secretly want to set up stalls still have to pay a head fee for a copper plate. Long Xiao also knew about this situation, because they also had to spend money on food, and it was normal to charge a little management fee, so they turned a blind eye and ignored it.

In this way, the head catcher who manages the vegetable market has become a fat shortage, and there is an income of 1ooo taels of silver every day, which is a lot of money, in addition to handing over a little regular silver, most of them are greedy for ink, which is also regarded as fire consumption silver, and Long Xiao does not account for it. Over time, a rule was formed that if you sell something in the vegetable market, you need to pay a copper plate fee. Despite this, there are only about 100 managers in each vegetable market, and they still can't manage it, and some merchants may not pay, and some people may pay more.

It's not even, but there's no way around it. Because there are many and few farmers who sell vegetables, and there are some merchants who sell meat, it is different, selling meat is a profiteering industry, the people sell to the slaughterhouse is 1o copper plate a pound of pigs, but the slaughterhouse is to sell 2o copper plates, which has double the profit, a pig is the least 1oo catties, the slaughterer earns 1ooo copper plate per pig, that is, 1o two silver, generally speaking, a butcher can sell a pig every day, and some even sell two or three heads, which is a profit of dozens of taels of silver every day.

Zhang Santou, a butcher, has been in the vegetable market for some years, and when he didn't expand the new city, he sold meat and was a big meat seller. His name is Zhang Santou, which is actually his nickname, and no one knows what his real name is, but there is a legend about him. When he was young, he was not a meat seller, but a pig farmer in the countryside, and when he saw that selling meat in the city was very profitable, he raised and sold it himself, but the gangsters in the city did not let him sell meat, so they quarreled, and Zhang Santou took a pig-killing knife in his hand, and stabbed several green-skinned scoundrels at once, and he was also stabbed three times, and his head became three obvious scars.

Since then, no one dared to mess with Zhang Santou, and gave him a nickname, called Zhang Santou, which means that he has three lives, which is not something that ordinary people can mess with. Zhang Santou was also happy to be called Zhang Santou, so he moved from the countryside to the city, selling meat full-time, and no longer raising pigs. Don't look at Zhang Santou's arrogance towards others, he treats his customers well, therefore, he sells the most meat, he can sell more than 5 pigs a day, and he can earn 5o taels of silver a day.

When Zhang Butcher got rich, he bought a house in the city, married a daughter-in-law, and gave birth to a son, but Zhang Santou became more and more domineering, and there were hundreds of butchers selling meat in the market, and there was no one who was not afraid of Zhang Santou, just because he didn't want to die in a fight, and everyone was afraid of him. So, Zhang Santou set an unwritten rule for all meat sellers, all who buy farmers' pigs, must go through their own acceptance, the acceptance fee is one or two silver, at the beginning, everyone did not abide by it at all, Zhang Santou hurt the killer, injured a few disobedient, gradually, everyone was afraid, and also formed a rule, every day before selling meat, to give Zhang Santou a tael of silver.

Don't underestimate it is a tael of silver, but it can't stand the crowd, the whole vegetable market, just sell meat there are more than 4oo, each 1 tael is more than 4oo taels, this month down is more than 10,000 taels, a year is more than 100,000. Gradually, Zhang Santou didn't sell meat himself, so he hired a few guys to sell meat to himself, and he didn't have 2o pigs a day, so he earned 2oo taels of silver, and he hired a few thugs, and he charged a tael of pig acceptance fees every day, which was more than 4oo taels of silver every day.

As the saying goes, people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants, and Zhang Santou saw that the silver came so quickly, and his ambitions gradually expanded. At the beginning, Zhang Santou was only in the Nancheng vegetable market, but there were four vegetable markets in the county, one each in the southeast, northwest and southwest, and each vegetable market had more than 4ooo selling meat, adding up to more than 12oo. Zhang Santou thought, if he can unify the butchers who eat meat in the whole city, that is, each family has one tael of silver, then there are 12oo taels a day, wouldn't he be a big fortune?

However, the vegetable markets in the four city gates are not so easy to unify, and each vegetable market has its own leader, that is, those who bully and dominate the market. So, Zhang Santou thought of a way, and he domesticated a group of thugs, and there were only a dozen or so, all of them could do two times, although the martial arts were not very high, but it was enough to bully the common people, and Zhang Santou cleaned them up one by one. First of all, the meat selling industry in Dongcheng Dongcheng vegetable market is in charge of a person named Li Lezi, Li Lezi is even more ruthless, each pig killer is 2 taels of silver a day, you have to pay, you have to pay, if you don't pay, you have to pay, if you pay, you can sell meat normally, if you don't pay, you will be punched and kicked.

Although the butchers who sell meat are all fierce and ruthless, it is still those who really don't want to die, and ordinary people can't afford to provoke them. One day, Zhang Santou led more than a dozen of his thugs to the Dongcheng vegetable market, found Li Lezi, and without saying a word, he fought, and discounted Li Lezi's legs in public. It immediately caused a sensation in the Dongcheng vegetable market. Immediately, Zhang Santou put down his cruel words and asked Li Lezi to get out of Shenwu County, Li Lezi saw that his legs were also useless, so he had to beg for mercy, and he cleaned up and moved away from Shenwu County, and since then Dongcheng has also become Zhang Santou's territory. Zhang Santou announced that each butcher would give himself one tael of silver every day. The butchers were very happy, seeing that Zhang Santou collected less money, they were happy, and everyone also supported Zhang Santou, and Zhang Santou became the overlord of Nancheng and Dongcheng, not to mention anything else, as long as it was a butcher who sold meat, there was no one who did not dare not listen.

Then, Zhang Santou took the opportunity to attack Beicheng and Xicheng, without much effort to clean up the hegemony of Beicheng and Xicheng, although it was not fatal, it was also a broken leg and broken arm, and the four cities became Zhang Santou's hegemony, not to mention the vegetable seller, as long as it was a butcher who sold meat, he had to pay money, if it was a newly opened butcher, it would be even more outrageous, without the filial piety of 1oo taels of silver, don't want to sell meat. Not to mention, Zhang Santou's measure protects the existing butchers in disguise and avoids disorderly competition. Zhang Santou also had an income of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

If Zhang Santou is content and happy, with an annual income of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, then nothing will happen, but people's hearts will never be satisfied. Zhang Santou saw that the money came so easily, so he thought, if he took the entire vegetable market as his own, he didn't have to make more, that is, one copper plate per person, more than 4o people every day, there would be 4ooo taels of silver every day, if there were two copper plates per person, or even three copper plates, he would have an income of 10,000 taels of silver per day, which would be millions of dollars a year.

It doesn't matter if Zhang Santou dreams at home, he just wants to put it into practice. However, Zhang Santou also knew that he was a commoner, and he couldn't afford to provoke the government, and every vegetable market was responsible for catching heads, and there were 100 people in each head catch, and his own power couldn't afford to provoke them. So, Zhang Santou took the method of wooing, first to the Nancheng head catcher 1ooo two silver, bought a know, and then proposed to contract the charge of the vegetable market, or to the head catcher 1ooo two silver every day, the catchers do not have to work hard every day... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］