Chapter 833: The Difficult County Order
A warning about the prefectural order?
Qin Ming was a little confused, thinking to himself what does this mean? Could it be that this yamen is really so miserable? Also suppressed by the Salt Gang?
Qin Ming was quite puzzled, so he agreed.
Together, after leaving He's house, the two walked on the street.
Speaking of which, in this Los Angeles, Qin Ming hasn't taken a good turn yet.
Los Angeles is still a relatively large city, and to the east, it is one of several well-developed cities.
Walking down the streets of L.A. and looking around, everything is still very good.
This is Qin Ming's world, thinking about it, there is still a little excitement.
Along the way, Qin Ming watched everywhere and arrived outside the county government with satisfaction.
The middle-aged man's name is Zhou Long, and he only found out when Qin Ming chatted with him on the road, so he called him Brother Zhou.
After Zhou Shen went all the way to the county office, the county government official didn't stop him, so he directly let him and Qin Ming in.
Qin Ming's face was ugly, as soon as he took office, he ordered the Ministry of Officials, the Criminal Department, and the Dark Web Department to vigorously investigate officials from all over the country, crack down on corruption and bribery, and so on.
In this place of Chu State, these corrupt and bribe-taking officials have basically been dealt with, why does the Yali of Luocheng County in the east seem to be in collusion with the Salt Gang?
This made Qin Ming's face ugly.
After he followed Zhou Long into the county office, Zhou Long went directly to the back office.
All the way, the officials did not stop it, it was very strange.
Entering the back office, this Zhou Long shouted with a big grin: "Lord Zhang! ”
Not long after, in a room, a county magistrate in his forties who did not wear an official mansion walked out, looked at Zhou Long, and said:
"Heh, the official is still looking for you."
I can hear that Zhang Xianling's tone doesn't seem to be very good!
Qin Ming thought to himself, could it be that he misunderstood this county order?
Zhou Long sneered: "Looking for us? Do what? ”
The county magistrate said coldly: "Yesterday, the official received news that the official salt transported to my Los Angeles was robbed, surnamed Zhou, you dare to say that this matter has nothing to do with you?" ”
Zhou Long smiled when he heard this: "We did mix in this matter, but I can tell you responsibly that my salt gang did not rob this batch of official salt, and as soon as it arrived in our hands, it was robbed by two other masters." ”
"What?"
The county commander's eyes widened: "In addition to your salt gang in Los Angeles, there are still people who dare to rob official salt?" Or is it taken from you? ”
"That's the case, that's what we're here for, Li County Order, we don't know who robbed this batch of salt, but I have to guarantee you that there will never be any other salt dealers in this Los Angeles who are not controlled by my salt gang!"
Zhou Long said lightly, his tone threatening.
Zhang Xianling laughed: "What, your business was robbed?" That's a great thing. ”
"Don't come to this set, Zhang County Order, you should know the consequences of angering our salt gang, now, we will take revenge on the imperial court, just let you Luocheng cut off salt for a few days. It really angered my salt gang, if you cut off salt for a long time, you people in Los Angeles will really have no salt to eat. ”
Zhang Xianling snorted: "It's okay for your salt gang to smuggle in Los Angeles on weekdays, but now you dare to shout with my court like this, do you really think that Your Majesty can't govern you today?" ”
"Our salt gang controls a large amount of private salt, which is the guarantee for hundreds of people to eat salt, Zhang County Order, you should know that with the current power of our salt gang, once the salt is cut off, it will also rob all the official salt transported in, and at that time, millions of people in the entire Los Angeles City will have no salt to eat, and the consequences will be very serious, right?"
"Heh......" Zhang County Commander sneered: "Your Salt Gang used this to threaten me with a small county order, it is indeed possible, and it has successfully threatened me for many years." But you want to threaten the imperial court with a city without salt? Ridiculous, pathetic! ”
Hearing this, Qin Ming nodded secretly, this Zhang County Order is still far-sighted.
At the same time, Qin Ming also realized the difficulties of this Zhang County Order.
He is only a county order, and in the face of the salt gang that can cut off the salt eaten by the people of a city at any time, indeed, many times he is very helpless.
This He family's salt gang, with more than 10,000 salt dealers, really provoked the salt gang, raised his arms and shouted, these 10,000 people, can a county order be provoked?
Although not all of these 10,000 people are in Los Angeles, they are always a threat to the county order.
Whether it is their ability to monopolize private salt, and the terrible number of people, it makes the county order jealous, and on weekdays, there are many things that can only be turned a blind eye.
After all, smuggling has always existed, and there are all over the country, what can he do with a county order?
As long as the Salt Gang is not too excessive, just to make some money, everyone can be considered to be fine!
"The people take food as the sky, my salt gang controls the salt that all the people must eat, in these dozen cities, my salt gang is also very strong, really do not let the official salt come in, the private salt is cut off to the people, it is not difficult, when the people have no salt to eat for a few days, there may be some chaos, then I don't know."
What Zhou Long said is not unreasonable, once he cuts off the salt and robs the salt of the government, then the tens of millions of people in the dozen or so cities where the salt gang monopolizes the private salt will have nothing to eat, whether it is official salt or private salt.
This made Qin Ming feel a headache too.
If he hadn't learned about the Salt Gang's plan here in the palace, he really wouldn't know how to deal with this matter for a while.
If there was a shortage of salt in the palace and more than a dozen cities in the east, he could only ask the household department to step up and deliver a large amount of salt to these dozen cities.
But on the way to transportation, if it was robbed by the Salt Gang, the salt became the salt of the Salt Gang.
Sending troops to escort?
This is indeed a solution, but not only do you have to send troops to escort it, but you also have to send troops to guard the place where the salt is kept, and you have to send troops to watch it while the salt is sold.
In short, as long as there is official salt, there must be heavy troops, and it will continue like this forever, and the salt gang will not be given the opportunity to rob the salt and destroy the salt.
This is laborious and laborious, how difficult!
So, it's unrealistic and it's too exaggerated.
Besides, isn't it shameful that the salt gang will force the court to use the army for the sake of it?
Fortunately, Qin Ming has infiltrated the He Family Salt Gang at the moment, and has also figured out their plans and conspiracy, and the official salt is also in Qin Ming's hands, so the people are really cut off the salt, and the Salt Gang can't do it at present.
It's just that Zhang Xianling is still worried after all.
He was really afraid that a million people in Los Angeles County would go without salt in the next few days or even ten days, if this was the case, without waiting for the imperial court to find a way, it was estimated that the people of Los Angeles would panic and do things.
Thinking of this, Zhang Xianling sighed and said, "What do you want this official to do?" ”
In this case, Zhang Xianling is uncompromising, and things will only get bigger and bigger.
Within the scope of what he can compromise, he can only compromise, which is something that cannot be helped, as long as it does not touch his bottom line.