Han Xiufeng sent away the ambassador of the Salt Division of the Tea Field, and asked Yu Youfu to hurry up to the inner house to help clean up a guest room, and then went back to the public room on the right side of the second hall to accompany Han Chen to continue eating. The two waited while eating, and waited for nearly half an hour, when Wang Yuli, the ambassador of the Anfeng Salt Division, and Huang Zhiji, the ambassador of the Fu'an Salt Division, arrived.

Han Chen said that they are "very fat", first of all, their salt works are large.

There are only more than 90,000 acres of registered land and fields in the corner slope field, and less than 130,000 mu of new silt in the past few decades, while there are as many as 96 acres of registered land and fields in Fu'an field, and Anfeng is not as large as Fu'an field with 390,000 mu; There are only more than 7,000 stove Dingjiao inclined fields with stove registration, while there are more than 43,000 in Fu'an and more than 20,000 in Anfeng. Moreover, their salt farms have the most brine and the most salt production, and they collect more salt each year than several other salt farms combined.

Because of this, they also have a lot of pomp and circumstance.

There were six boats at once, and it was estimated that there were hundreds of people, including the curtain friends, the officials, the soaps holding the "quiet" and "avoiding" brands, the lantern bearers and umbrella bearers, and the shipwrights and sailors. I didn't miss the gifts, and I packed two boats of various seaside souvenirs.

The ambassador of the Salt Division is only the eighth grade, but their top wear is the fifth grade and the fifth grade respectively, not only donating the top wear, according to the reported errand officer, but also adding the third level record five times and the third level record four times, which shows how profitable they are as an official.

Zhang Shiheng wanted to ask them to see the seized private salt and the corpses of those private thieves first, but the people were unlucky, so they asked the accompanying friends and family members to see it, and only after the friends and family members finished reading it did they follow Zhang Shiheng to the inspection yamen. The accompanying handymen and shipwrights followed behind with dozens of greeting gifts, mighty. If it's broad daylight, I don't know how many people will gather around to watch the excitement.

Stretching out his hand not to hit the smiling person, people came with gifts, Han Xiufeng naturally had to go out of the door to greet him, and naturally he had to treat him with courtesy.

After a pleasant exchange, I stepped into the brightly lit lobby.

Huang Zhiji, the ambassador of the Fu'an Salt Division, saw that Han Chen was also there, and asked curiously: "Brother Yuzhi, why are you here too?" ”

"I can't think of coming, but I can't do it." Han Chen bowed his hand to say hello to the two, and then looked at the public houses on both sides of the courtyard and said with a wry smile: "These people actually took advantage of the Yamen seal and we were busy with the New Year to traffic in illicit salt. Millions of catties, appalling, if you alarm the saint, you and I will wait to be dismissed and investigated! ”

Fu'an is the closest to Hai'an, Huang Zhiji is the first to receive the letter, the reason why he rushed to Hai'an at this time, first, he didn't want to be ripped off by others, and as soon as he received the letter, he sent his family and officials to find out what was going on; Second, I wanted to discuss countermeasures with Wang Yuli, the ambassador of the Anfeng Salt Division, who had been advancing and retreating together.

Fu'an said that it was not small, but it was not big for him, the biggest official in Fu'an, and he found out the ins and outs of the matter in one afternoon, and knew that this level was not enough, but he didn't expect that the private salt seized by the Hai'an Inspection Division was also leaked, and he didn't expect Han Chen to be implicated.

Huang Zhiji secretly cursed Bao Daijie and the other businessmen who were not going to die, and then asked: "Brother Han, how did you and Zhang Ergongzi reveal the salt?" ”

"I asked clearly, but you can rest assured, there are gods in your head, some things are there, and if you don't, you don't! Xiufeng will neither fall into the well, nor will he take advantage of the fire to rob, let alone use this case to make a big fuss about framing innocent people. Han Xiufeng looked sincere, thought about it, looked back at Han Chen and said, "You two don't know, Xiufeng and Brother Yu are fellow villagers. ”

"Brother Han and Yuzhi are actually fellow villagers, I didn't expect such a coincidence!" Wang Yuli, the ambassador of the Anfengchang Salt Division, exclaimed.

"I only found out today, and I didn't expect such a coincidence." Han Chen smiled bitterly.

"It's really a big flood that washed the Dragon King Temple, and the family doesn't know the family." How could Wang Yuli miss this opportunity to make friends with Han Xiufeng, and pretended to be happy and said: "Brother Han, it's too rare to meet someone in a foreign country!" Brother Fool happened to bring a few jars of wine, and he must drink a few glasses later. ”

"Brother Wang is too polite, invite the three of you to come so late, Xiufeng has prepared a table of thin wine, and the three of you are invited."

……

Wang Qianbu had already re-arranged a table of banquets, and the four of them walked into the public room on the right side of the second hall and sat down around the Eight Immortals table.

Huang Zhiji was originally a guest, and the official was also older than Han Xiufeng, but he rushed to help everyone pour wine, and said helplessly after pouring the wine: "Brother Han, since you and Yuzhi are fellow villagers, and Yuzhi's friend is my friend, speaking of which is all my own family, I won't be polite to you, dare to ask how do you plan to investigate this matter?" ”

"Brother Huang, you look down on Xiufeng too much, I, Han Xiufeng, am a nine-grade sesame official, I only have the ability to be investigated by others, how can I have the ability to investigate others!"

"Brother Han is too modest, don't say anything else, you must be able to call the shots on the matter of Hai'an's one-third of an acre."

"Originally, I was able to call the shots, but last night, not only did I Han Xiufeng seize a batch of illegal salt, but the second son of our Taizhou Zhengtang Master Zhang's family also seized a batch of Zhongjiazhuang in our Hai'an, and the second son of Zhang did not return to Taizhou, and the person was in the town. He's here, how can I speak? ”

"Where does Second Prince Zhang live?"

"Post shop."

"So, we'll visit the post shop later."

Without waiting for Han Xiufeng to speak, Han Chen said hatefully: "You don't have to go, it's useless to go, although people are not officials, they are bigger than officials." Closed doors, no one is seen. I've just been there and just had a closed meal. The most hateful thing is that his family actually told me what to do. ”

Wang Yuli thought that the eldest master of Taizhou was not an honest and honest official, and couldn't help muttering: "What kind of official business, he must be planning to give us a dismount, and then the good lion opens his mouth." ”

"Three, it's not that Xiufeng has to help Zhang Ergongzi speak, but this matter is not trivial, in order to investigate these two batches of illicit salt, more than 100 officials and young men died on his side and on my side, and countless people were injured."

"Brother Han, what does Second Prince Zhang want?"

"Don't hide it, Xiufeng invited the three of them to help Zhang Ergongzi pass the word. This matter can be in Hai'an, and it can also be in Taizhou. If the three of you don't want to be in Hai'an anymore, and you don't want to be in Taizhou anymore, then hurry up and go to Yangzhou to find a way. ”

"Why go to Yangzhou, you don't have to go to Taizhou, of course it's in Hai'an!"

"Yes, yes, you don't need to go to Taizhou, let alone Yangzhou!"

"In this case, the three of you hurry up and prepare the silver, a family of five thousand taels, as long as it is delivered before noon tomorrow, then these millions of catties of salt were bought by the private lord on the Kuanchang River in charge of another group of private lords, and the other group of private lords have already run away, and the salt is leaked from which salt field is a confused account."

"Five thousand taels, Brother Han, this is too much."

"Brother Wang, if you think it's too much, then you go and tell Zhang Ergongzi that Xiufeng is just a messenger."