Chapter 45: The Coming of Lin'an
On the one hand, the Lin family's own reasons have no one to take over, and all the big families are waiting for the Lin family to give a solution to avoid disasters for themselves, Lin Yaoming and Lin Yaojian are like ants on a hot pot, worrying about this matter every day, but there is no solution.
"Third brother, have you ever thought that if the emperor comes to check Yangzhou, we can transfer all the salt to other places, and then bring the salt back to Yangzhou after the emperor inspects, so as to avoid the emperor's investigation, so as to ensure that the Lin family is safe." Lin Yaojian had a whim and came up with an idea.
"It's not that I haven't thought about it, but now Yangzhou is tightly guarded, even a fly can't fly out, not to mention the area along the river, and the salt has its own fixed number. There is a relevant deed in the hands of the local government in Yangzhou, even if it is taken out of Yangzhou, it will not be able to escape the emperor's investigation, and it will be charged with fleeing. ”
When the Lin family was facing life and death, they only saw the people in the fourth and third rooms sitting in the hall, thinking of a solution.
After discussion, everyone found that only by selling salt to unsuspecting merchants from outside could the Lin family escape this catastrophe.
"Do they know the news? If I could, I would like to be able to get all of their salt leads. ”
Xu Siye looked at the man in black standing facing him, and handed over a box of silver to the man in black, "Now the news is unknown to everyone and no one knows, it is the Lin family, just like ants on a hot pot, we can get all their salt into our hands without much silver." The man in black was extremely respectful to Xu Siye.
"This matter can't be hidden for long, and if it's too late, it will change, so you can do your best." The man in black clenched his fists and slowly exited Xu Siye's cabin.
The moonlight was as smooth as water, but the strange thing was that the moon was as red as it was, as if it was a blood moon, and Xu Siye showed a sly smile, if someone familiar saw his smile, he knew that he was ready to take revenge on others.
On the bank of the Qinhuai River at night, there was a leisurely pipa sound, which was no different from usual, but the difference was that Xu Siye was sitting in the cabin of a pipa girl, and threw down a certain amount of silver to let him sing the ancient sound of "Jiangnan can pick lotus, lotus leaf He Tiantian", probably because he longed for that kind of comfortable life.
"Report to the third old lady, the person who claims to be from Lin'an outside the door wants to buy a large amount of our salt."
The kid on the second door ran all the way to the door where Lin Yaohong lived and shouted. In the past few days, Lin Yaohong and Lin Yaojian have been anxious about the salt, if they can solve it, they will definitely get a lot of rewards That kid was thinking.
"Don't hurry up yet, please." Lin Yaohong hadn't gotten up yet, and there was such a sound from the room, which could tell how much he attached importance to the matter of salt introduction.
After Lin Yaohong finished cleaning up, the Lin'an businessman was already waiting for Lin Yaohong and Lin Yaojian in the hall.
Lin Yaohong walked into the hall and saw the Lin'an businessman sitting on the Taishi chair, slowly taking a sip of tea. After a closer look, he found that the Lin'an merchant was wearing a light blue robe, a small guy behind him was carrying a burden, his air was magnificent, his sword eyebrows were starry, and he had already determined seven or eight points in his heart.
Lin Yaohong is very accurate in his self-possession, at this time, the Lin'an businessman, his words and demeanor are polite, there is nothing wrong, and his gestures reflect a kind of big family temperament, Lin Yaohong expected that the Lin'an businessman is not the kind of goods that deceive people and cheat money.
"I don't know where to treasure and what kind of wealth to make!" Lin Yaohong clenched his fists and watched how the Lin'an businessman answered.
The merchant was the person Xu Siye was looking for, and before he went to the Lin Mansion, he had already explained various answers to various questions.
The Lin'an merchant returned the salute with a fist, "Ben is begging for a bite to eat in the capital, and he is also doing a salt business." However, in the near future, for some reason, the salt is gradually decreasing, and it is rare to come to the precious land. ”
It was an ordinary few words that fell into Lin Yaohong's ears, but they became different meanings, he also did salt business in Lin'an, and knew that the salt introduction had decreased, so he knew that he had bought a large amount of salt introduction, so he came to find himself.
Lin Yaohong thought about it for a while, and then he made a difficulty, if he sold the salt to him, he would have to earn a few taels of silver less.
If he doesn't sell it, I don't know what the background of this businessman is, Lin Yaohong may lead to death, and when the two sides are in a dilemma, they will think about other families.
"I don't know if I've considered other people, but there aren't many salt introductions in the hands of the little old man." As soon as Lin Yaohong thought about it, he introduced the topic to another place.
"Old lady Lin laughed, everyone said that the Lin family controls salt affairs, I don't know if there is a ballad that Old Lady Lin has heard, the Lin family breathes, Yangzhou ten years of salt, if even the Lin family does not have salt introduction, then how can there be salt introduction elsewhere? I can't find those hundreds of thousands of catties of white salt in the Lin family, and it is impossible for other places to have them. The merchant smiled and said this slowly.
When Lin Yaohong heard this, his heart felt as if he had fallen into a hole under the sea, the merchant knew his bottom line, and if he didn't sell it, he was afraid that there would be trouble.
Although he didn't know what Lin Yaojian thought, he couldn't shirk selling salt, so he could only ask the businessman to wait for a while, and he would discuss with Lin Yaojian for a while.
Lin Yaohong instructed his subordinates to serve all kinds of oil fruits, and served a cup of tea, and then walked into the hugging building next to him with Lin Yaojian with their legs.
Lin Yaohong and Lin Yaojian looked at each other, and their faces were red like pig liver.
"Third brother, let the businessman know our details, what do you think!"
Lin Yaojian was originally inferior to Lin Yaohong in terms of planning, but when he heard the businessman easily tell his details, he was even more chaotic, and he only walked around the hall, but he couldn't come up with a way.
Lin Yaohong's heart was crossed, even if he made up his mind, since he wanted to get rid of the crime of salt introduction, he was bound to make sacrifices, and it was better to lose the silver than lose his life, and began to persuade Lin Yaojian to let him transfer the salt to the Lin'an merchant with him, so as to get rid of the crime of collusion between officials and businessmen, and prevent the emperor from tracking down their heads and harming their descendants.
The two of them made up their minds that there would naturally be no more chaos, so they came to the hall to take out all the salt leads, and agreed on the price with the Lin'an merchant, and finally made a deal slightly lower than the purchase price of the salt lead, and the Lin'an merchant took out the silver taels and Jiaozi that he brought with him at night, and the silver was cleared on the spot.
After the merchant left, Lin Yaohong thought, how could the businessman know the details of the Lin family so clearly, could it be that the Lin family had a foreign thief colluding with the businessman to earn all the salt of the Lin family.
But he couldn't explain the matter that the emperor was going to investigate, and he thought that it had already been cleared, even if he had more questions, he could only bury them in his heart, and he couldn't explain them to anyone, otherwise he wouldn't confess.