Chapter Seventy-Five: The Profiteers

The people who came were Qin Ting of the Right Wuwei and Huang Ji, the assassin of Yuzhou.

As the saying goes, it is difficult to buy goods without money, although the right Wuwei is trapped in Chengdu, but he is never short of money and food, because Chengdu is the last barrier between Tuguhun and the Great Zhou, Chengdu is broken, not to mention that Tuyuhun can sweep the entire Great Zhou, but the entire land of Shu is afraid that it will change hands.

Therefore, even the most incompetent people in the DPRK know that Chengdu cannot afford to lose, so at this time, the taxes of the Great Zhou Dynasty and Shuzhong do not go out of Sichuan, and all of them are used to support the right guard.

Just like putting aside the history of the imperial court, then the marching chief of the right military guard is a festival envoy who rules the entire Bashu, of course, the Great Zhou did not appear in the official position of the festival, but the taxes of the entire Bashu are in his pocket, which is not false at all.

It's a pity that money can't buy goods that you don't have, salt is this kind of goods in this world, no matter how rich you are, you can't buy salt, and the sergeants won't have the strength to fight without salt, and you can't fight the war.

Therefore, Qin Ting, who was the loser of raising salt for the army this time, was worried about this matter, and he was not allowed to hold a banquet in this Linjiang Building to entertain Huang Ji, just so that Huang Ji could raise a hundred loads of salt for him.

One hundred quintals of salt is really not much for having fifty thousand sergeants and right guards, but there is no way to lack salt for the entire Great Zhou, and it is already very good to have one hundred quintals.

Qin Ting asked for a private room on the third floor and was going out to greet Huang Ji, when he saw his nephew and Wu Zheng also entering the Linjiang Building, and when he saw Qin Xiang, Qin Ting's mind couldn't help but remember that Qin Xiang showed him the salted fish last night, a salted fish in a wooden box.

Is salted fish rare? It has always been uncommon, at least fifty years ago, it was everywhere on the streets, and although I dare not say that everyone could afford it, at least the precious people generally did not eat it.

It's just that I don't know when such a thing has quietly faded out of people's field of vision, in Qin Ting's opinion, this salted fish has become a rarity now, and a salted fish is just a wooden box to be packed separately, which is like ginseng.

At first, Qin Ting didn't care, he just thought that Qin Xiang liked to mess around when he was young, but when Qin Xiang opened the box in front of him, he was dumbfounded.

Salted fish is not wrong is salted fish, with Qin Ting's eyesight, this is still a bad silver carp, as a salted fish, it is normal to stick some salt particles on the body, but if half a box of refined salt is laid under the salted fish, it will be a bit too much.

Where is this selling fish, it is clearly selling salt!

"Xiang'er, where did you get this salted fish?"

"Third uncle, this fish is not cheap, one or two silver and a catty."

"As long as each one carries so much salt, and a tael of silver is worth it, tell me where did this salted fish come from?"

Qin Xiang seemed to have expected such a reaction from his third uncle, and said with a smile: "This is just a sample given by others, as for whether the other two hundred catties of salted fish are the same, the little nephew still doesn't know." But when you meet the seller tomorrow, you will find out. ”

"Tomorrow? Why not today? ”

Qin Xiang said with a smile: "This is news from the tooth shop, and there is no way for people to show up their nephews!" ”

"Okay, good, tomorrow will be tomorrow."

After Qin Ting finished speaking, he turned around and sent a letter to Huang Ji, inviting him to talk about it in Linjiang Tower today, the purpose was naturally to raise salt, but Qin Ting also knew that it was a little difficult for him to get a hundred loads of salt at once, so when he felt embarrassed, let him use the power in his hand to take down the seller who sold salted fish, and forced him to ask where the refined salt came from.

After all, this is someone's territory, and his right military guard has already occupied the taxes of the entire Bashu, and if he still meddles in local affairs, it will inevitably attract the suspicion of the imperial court.

You must know that in order to defend Chengdu Mansion back then, his second brother, fourth brother and fifth brother all died on the battlefield, and the enmity between the Qin family and Tuguhun can be said to be incompatible.

This is also why the right military guard always likes to provoke Tuyuhun, although every time there is a victory, but the result is often that the soldiers lack salt and do not retreat to Chengdu Mansion.

But this time is different, if the problem of lack of salt can be solved in one fell swoop this time, with the combat power of the right Wuwei and the remnants of Tubo on the snow field, this group of savages will definitely be buried on the grassland forever.

So when he saw Qin Xiang and a young man in Linjiang Tower, he no longer had the mind to drink with Huang Ji, in his heart now there is nothing more important than catching this kid, of course, if the kid is not the one who sells salted fish, then it's another matter.

But when he listened next door for a while, his whole face turned red, not ashamed but excited.

"Brother Shaoze, why are you so excited?" Huang Ji looked at Qin Ting, who was excited, and said puzzled.

Qin Ting smashed his fist on his palm excitedly and said, "Our matter of raising salt finally has an eyebrow." ”

Huang Ji was even more puzzled when he heard this, and pointed to the next door and said, "What, could it be that young man brought by his nephew ......?"

Qin Ting said: "That kid said that he can make salt, and Qin Mou has seen the best refined salt with his own eyes, as long as this kid is caught, the lack of salt in our right martial guard will be solved." ”

Huang Ji was also stunned, and couldn't help but follow Qin Ting's example and put his ear on the wall to listen, the entire Linjiang Building was wooden, and he put his ear on the wooden board to listen to the movement next door, and he could hear it clearly.

It's just that after a while, Huang Ji pondered, and Qin Ting couldn't help but ask, "What's the matter, Brother Zhongming, is there something wrong with this son?" ”

Huang Ji said: "This son's name is Wu Zheng? ”

Qin Ting shook his head and said: "Yesterday, Qin Xiang only said that this kid sells salted fish, and he also showed you a salted fish sold by this kid, a salted fish in a wooden box, a wooden box is similar to Korean ginseng, have you ever seen it?" And under the salted fish, half a box of salt, the best refined salt, this is simply selling salt under the guise of selling fish! Do you think such profiteers should be arrested and tortured? ”

Huang Ji shook his head and said: "If Brother Shaoze is an ordinary kid, you don't need to say that Huang will definitely arrest him, Miki is not afraid that he will not tell the whereabouts of Jingyan, but if this Wu Zheng is the Wu Zheng who wrote Yebo Jialin, this matter will not be easy to do." ”

Huang Ji said with a smile: "Xia Shi recently took a fancy to a kid, so he did not hesitate to recommend the dog to Zuo Xiang's subordinates. ”

"Congratulations...... No, what does this have to do with Xia Shi's crush on a kid? ”

"Brother Shaoze said that I don't know, the way of Wu back then was our Yuzhou people, after his death, the right minister let him cut off his career for three generations, even if we Yuzhou's solution to the test can not have the name of his Wu family's descendants, the foolish brother as the assassin of Yuzhou, whether he can win the test of the Wu family is not a matter of the foolish brother moving the pen.

Xia Shi and his old man's name sticker in exchange for next year's test The foolish brother can raise his noble hand to that kid, you say that if this Wu Zheng is really the Wu Zheng that Xia Shi fancies, can the foolish brother still embarrass him now? ”