Chapter 238: Secret

With the help of Sun Manbo, Shi Bin was able to sell 400 stone of salt in Ezhou every month, with a minimum income of 4,000 taels of silver. And Sun Manpo, with the help of Shi Bin, earned an extra two taels of silver for every salt introduction, and he made a lot of money, and he was most in response to his name 'Manbo'. Sun Manbo is also a man of his word, and he has never lost a rebate to Shi Bin every time he introduces salt, but the monthly sales are different and the rebate is different, but it is basically one or two silvers. This is Shi Bin's additional floating income.

It has always been a good thing to have a lot of money, and after two or three months, Shi Bin and Sun Manbo have a more tacit understanding and trust each other. Since Shi Bin is still a transfer envoy in Jingnan, it is naturally impossible for the dignified officials to be nailed to Ezhou to see business at all times. When the business was on track, he found a reason to go back to Jingnan to take care of the big business and returned to Dingzhou, leaving Xu Feng to keep an eye on.

As a 'boss' who has hardly ever run a business, Shi Bin's only concern is his monthly income. As for where the sales are good and where the sales are poor, where the price is high and where the price is low, the economic situation of the partners is not in his consideration. The only thing he told Xu Feng was to prevent Sun Manbo from stealing his black iron order to help others transport salt. If Sun Manpochuang has to bear the trouble himself, he will report it to him immediately if there is any abnormality.

In Xu Feng's report to Shi Bin, Xu Feng said that the first three months were definitely 'daily progress and gold', and the other salt lords in Ezhou City were squeezed by Sun Manbo and almost had no way out. In the end, in order to prevent other salt merchants from attacking him, Sun Manbo had to sign an agreement with them to redivide the market share, and the matter was over.

Since he still occupies a five-percent more market than before Shi Bin went, with such a good result, Sun Manbo was naturally overjoyed, and raised the monthly salary of the people in the house by a penny.

But from the fourth month, Xu Feng's report pointed out that Sun Manbo's mood began to be weird, sometimes happy and sometimes sad, and he was not so kind to his subordinates, and he was easy to get angry. However, he still didn't do anything in business, just used the black iron order to buy more salt and sell more salt.

Weird mood? This made Shi Bin a little worried, although he was not afraid of being poked out of the salt sales, but he didn't want his partner to be so unstable, so that he didn't know the bottom of his heart. So he handed over the official business in his hand to Wang San and took Sai Zilong to Ezhou.

After taking the waterway, he arrived in Ezhou quickly, and Xu Feng immediately went to the dock to meet Shi Bin after receiving the news. As soon as he came ashore, Shi Bin spoke: "Xu Feng, tell me carefully about Sun Manbo's situation in the past few months, especially the situation of his mood swings in the fourth month you mentioned." ”

It was only more than ten days after his report was handed over, and Shi Bin came in person, Xu Feng is also a smart person, and immediately understood how much Shi Bin attached importance to this, and immediately replied: "My lord, as the villain said in the report, Boss Sun was in a very good mood in the first three months, but he didn't care about the mistakes made by the subordinates, but helped the subordinates to be relieved." He is also a typical businessman, with such a good opportunity to naturally expand the market, at most occupy seventy percent of the Ezhou market, and then return to one into five, or occupy fifty percent of the market. ”

Xu Feng, who took a breath, then said, "Although he has returned to the market of one or five percent, Boss Sun is not insatiable, so he is still very happy, because his status in Ezhou has greatly improved, and he is definitely the overlord of the salt industry." But from the fourth month onwards, things were not right, his business with us was not affected, he was still making money and it was steadily rising, but his mood swings were greater. According to his subordinates, he often beats and scolds his subordinates for some trivial things, and inexplicably smashes the antiques he has collected with great difficulty, in short, it feels like he is under a lot of pressure. ”

"Did his family get seriously ill or have anything difficult to do?"

Xu Feng shook his head affirmatively, and said that he often knew from Sun Fu's subordinates that Sun Manbo's parents, wife and children were very healthy, and the relationship between his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law was very good and enviable.

More or less educated, Shi Bin understands that this kind of violent mood swing must be a psychological problem, since it is either business or other aspects, and the pressure is not small, this unexplored thing may make him go to prison or even fall into a catastrophe.

Shi Bin definitely believed Xu Feng's words, so he instructed Xu Feng to go back to Yanxing as usual and not to tell anyone that he and Sai Zilong were coming. In Shi Bin's opinion, a businessman is not anxious about business matters, but Sun Fatzi is not, and things are strange. So he immediately ordered Sai Zilong, the head of the spies, to contact the agents he had set up in Ezhou City, and monitor Sun Manbo's every move from now on, while he hid in an inn to wait for the results of the investigation.

Sai Zilong really worked as a spy leader for several years, and he was familiar with the way to obtain intelligence, and found out within two days: Since the end of the third month when Shi Bin began to cooperate with him, there are often strangers in and out of the Sun Mansion, all of whom are burly, tall and mighty, and the key is that the facial features are sharp and angular, and they are northerners at a glance.

And since then, Sun Manbo has rarely gone out of the house to play, and even his family rarely goes out, all of them hide in the house all day long. As soon as a stranger comes, he will be brought into the study to coax them away, and the door will be latched before they begin to talk.

Northerner? Now that most of the north of the Yangtze River is occupied by the Yuan people, are these people Yuan spies?

Sun Manbo is also a person with status, and several relatives and friends who fled from the north may not be able to enter his mansion, at most they will be placed in the inn, and they will not be able to see each other, which will naturally not cause him such a big reaction. What's more, those people don't look like big families according to Sai Zilong's intelligence, and I'm afraid that only Yuanren spies are possible. At this time, Shi Bin was already a little suspicious that Sun Manbo was going through the Yuan or secretly selling some salt to the Yuan people.

"Sai Zilong, do you think this Boss Sun will be able to pass through the yuan?" Shi Bin asked.

"Tongyuan? This kind of thing he dares a businessman to do? My lord, this is a great sin to destroy the Nine Clans. Please also be cautious, after all, Boss Sun is your collaborator and has some identity. Shi Bin's words startled Sai Zilong, and made this fairly kind spy leader subconsciously defend Sun Manpo.

looked at Sai Zilong, lowered his head and thought about it again, and his fingers kept tapping the white porcelain teacup on the coffee table.

"Sun Fatzi doesn't seem to be so bold as Tongyuan, and he can't do treason as a businessman. The biggest possibility is that salt is trafficked to the north for profit. Shi Bin muttered to himself.

"My lord is right, how can I walk by the river without getting my shoes wet? Nowadays, in troubled times, a few people will do business honestly, and if they are really so honest, the business will collapse long ago. ”

Shi Bin agrees with Sai Zilong's words, that is, he Shi Bin himself sells smuggled salt, not to mention those merchants who have no official status? In order to do business and continue to do business, I am afraid that there are many smugglers of salt and iron to the north. So he asked Sai Zilong how to get Sun Manbo to tell this secret, because if he asked so directly, he would definitely deny it in order to survive, and even if he broke his mouth, there would be no result.

"My lord, there is a law that may be done." Seeing that Shi Bin's brows were tightly knit and a little anxious, Sai Zilong immediately spoke.

"Zilong, say it quickly!"

"If Boss Sun really sells salt to the north, and now he has made a lot of profits by cooperating with adults, he naturally doesn't want to walk the tightrope anymore, so he won't sell smuggled salt to the Yuan people anymore, so it has aroused the anger of the Yuan people, and now most of them are here to warn. We caught the person who entered and left Sun's mansion, tortured him and got the news

Sun Fu had a showdown with him and informed him of your attitude, what do you think? ”

It's a good idea to start with a stranger. Because most of the spies acted in small groups, in order to prevent omissions, Shi Bin ordered all the agents in Ezhou to be concentrated in Ezhou City, and all the three streets near Sun's Mansion were monitored.

It seemed that the stranger's need for salt was very urgent, and he was arrested the day after Shi Bin's control, and the interval between entering Sun's mansion was only two days.

After six hours of torture, the stranger finally couldn't bear the pain and confessed that he was a spy sent by the Yuanren, because they were not good at making salt, which greatly affected the combat effectiveness of the army, so he came to seek cooperation with the salt merchant who had sold salt to them again. However, Sun Manbo refused to cooperate, in order not to stimulate Sun Manpo, he did not do anything to his family for the time being, but said that if Sun Manbo did not agree this time, he would take his son hostage.

After knowing this, Shi Bin immediately said that he would abolish the Yuanren spy and supervise it, and he himself picked up the very distinctive bag on the Yuanren spy and went straight to Sun's Mansion with Saizilong.

Entering Sun's Mansion, Sun Manbo saw that the God of Wealth had arrived, and immediately came out to greet Shi Bin with a smile on his face. Seeing that Shi Bin was blushing and still holding a bag in his hand, Sun Manbo immediately knew that something bad was going on, and knelt down without hesitation to beg for mercy.

"Boss Sun, do you know this thing?" Shi Bin threw the brocade bag in his hand to the ground and threw it in front of Sun Manbo.

"Know, know, this is a token of the Yuanren spy."

"Since you know, why did he find your house?" Shi Bin asked very coldly: "I won't hide it from you, this official is Shi Bin, the transfer envoy of Jinghu South Road." ”

"The prestige of the adults is like thunder, and the villains have long known it." Sun Manbo said with some hesitation but as if swallowing a mouthful of bitter medicine, "The villain is just a cloth cloth, and his family is very poor, and my wealth at the beginning was obtained because of selling smuggled salt in the north." Later, there were some wealthy villains who wanted to accumulate some virtue for future generations, so they no longer sold salt to the Yuan people. Now that the war of the Yuan people is not favorable, there is a shortage of strategic materials, so since last month, I have come to the villain to discuss the sale of salt...

"Oh? That..."

Before Shi Bin finished 'that', Sun Manbo knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and said loudly: "The villain has no second heart for the Great Song Dynasty, and he has not yet agreed to the Yuan people to sell salt to the north, and now the person caught by the adult is the one who has repeatedly threatened me." ”

"The official knows that what you said is the truth, but after all, you smuggled salt to the Yuan people, although the crime is not death, it is also a big crime, you make it difficult for the official..." Shi Bin sighed and said.

"Adults don't have to be like this, the villain knows that he is guilty, but if the adult can save the life of the villain's whole family, the villain is willing to give all the family wealth." Sun Manbo said the words quickly.

I wanted to make some benefits, but I didn't expect Sun Manbo to be so 'generous', which made Shi Bin a little embarrassed, "Boss Sun doesn't have to be like this, I, Shi Bin, am not a person who takes advantage of the fire to rob, I don't want your family wealth, but I want you to help me do one thing." ”

Work? Sun Manbo was a little blind, he was guilty of a lot of sins, and if he didn't die, he was lucky enough to help Shi Bin do anything?

"Don't be too nervous, if it is done at this time, even if you have a merit or demerit, I will never pursue the previous matter." Shi Bin said with a smile, "It's very simple, it's to sell salt to those Yuan people, and the things in it have to be arranged by me." ”

Since Shi Bin became famous, no one knows his wisdom and bravery, and he is true to his word, and now he has to sell salt to the Yuan people himself, which must have a clever plan to deal with the Yuan people, and this is also his last chance, so of course Sun Manbo agreed without hesitation. (https:)

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