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This day is the day set by Shen Xi to sell salt, the main entrance of the post house was opened as soon as the sky was bright, the seats were set up in the courtyard, the people of the post house prepared tea according to the instructions, Shen Xi yawned and came out to sit in the town, until the sun was three poles, there was still no one.

Not to mention the gentry and salt merchants, there are not even ordinary people who come to see the excitement.

With their huge influence in Guangzhou City, the political envoys and the local government and county yamen were stunned by the ordinary merchants and ordinary people, and made Shen Xi's temporary governor Yamen an ornament.

Shen Xi sat as usual, dozing off while drinking tea, while Tang Yin was so anxious that he paced back and forth, it seemed that he was more attentive than Shen Xi in this matter.

After Tang Yin walked for a long time, he turned sideways to look at Shen Xi, who was recuperating with his eyes closed, and finally couldn't help asking, "Shen Zhongcheng, do you want to send someone out to spread the word now...... No one came to buy the salt introduction, and the salt introduction was about to fall into the hands of the governor's yamen......"

"The salt in the Guangdong salt field can't get out, and the people in the areas designated by the government to only sell Guangdong salt will have no salt to eat.

Shen Xi squinted at Tang Yin and asked, "Brother Bohu thinks that the salt merchants and gentry in the city don't know that salt is going to be sold here, so they don't come?" ”

The salt merchants in the city are more well-informed than anyone else, and of course they know that the Governor Yamen is now exercising the errand of the original Guangdong Salt Division, responsible for selling salt, but no one dares to come due to pressure from the local government.

Tang Yin said: "Then you can't sit back and wait like Shen Zhongcheng, it's really not good, it's better to let the families of those salt merchants temporarily detained in the post house spend money to buy salt and ransom people, as Shen Zhongcheng said before." ”

Shen Xi's expression was calm, and he said in an understated tone: "Brother Bohu, don't think about things so pessimistically...... It's not yet noon, and who knows if anyone will come? Even if I don't come, I can't use the sale of salt as a condition for ransom, otherwise the feudal department and the yamen will definitely impeach me to the imperial court, saying that I have done something wrong and committed the kidnapper in the name of the government. ”

"Besides, even if these salt merchants are forced to buy salt and bring it back, they can treat it as a ransom and will not risk offending the local government to go to the salt works to extract salt."

Tang Yin thought that Shen Xiqiang's idea of selling salt to salt merchants was good, after listening to Shen Xi's words, after thinking about it carefully, he felt that what Shen Xi said was not unreasonable, even if he sold the salt to Yinqiang, those salt merchants would not dare to mention salt, who would offend the government for silver?

Tang Yin was extremely depressed in his heart: "You are the one who came up with the idea, and you are the one who denies the idea, you are obviously playing tricks on me!" ”

Shen Xi seemed to be fine, drank tea, saw noon, stood up and relaxed, and said, "Brother Bohu will go back to the inn to rest for a while, and come back to wait after taking a nap." ”

Tang Yin said: "This is about to burn down the house, Shen Zhongcheng still has the heart to take a nap?" ”

Shen Xi smiled: "I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, maybe after a nap, it will be crowded here?" Haha, the official went to lunch first, and Brother Bohu took care of himself. ”

Tang Yin was so angry that he wanted to catch up and kick Shen Xi's feet, the emperor was not in a hurry to kill the eunuch, he felt that he was the nosy eunuch, and it was what he had done in the past two days that made him feel ashamed, and he actually had a strong sense of responsibility for Shen Xi and the Governor Yamen, otherwise with his character, he would not bother to pay attention to these nerve-wracking things.

"You can eat and sleep soundly, but I can't? You are not in a hurry, what am I in a hurry? Tang Yin was angry, walked out of the main gate of the post house, and went to the inn not far away.

The inn and the inn were separated by less than half a street, and Tang Yin could just observe the situation outside on the way. There were indeed officers and soldiers at the two intersections of the street to set up checkpoints, but the government sent many people to disperse to the tea shops and restaurants on both sides of the street.

Since Shen Xi can figure out that the salt field has to put salt under the issuance of a large single salt lead, those shrewd salt merchants can also think that some salt merchants really want to buy, but they don't want to offend the government, if it is just a family or two to buy salt, the salt farm can also find a reason not to release salt, and it is useless to buy it.

Tang Yin muttered to himself: "This is an unsolvable situation, unless the salt can be sold in large quantities, the salt farm will not release salt." But in today's situation, even if a few people jump out to buy salt, it is still impossible to do it on a large scale. Woohoo, it looks like I'm going to pack my bags and get ready to go back to Suzhou. ”

said that he would go back to have lunch and then rest, but Tang Yin went back to the room to pack his things first, thinking of what he had seen and heard since he went south, he felt a little reluctant.

Men have the ambition to show their strengths when they become famous, and Tang Yin is no exception.

But after the road to the imperial examination was blocked, he had no ambition for a long time, and his life became more and more difficult.

Although the road with Shen Xi was quite bumpy, he was still "kidnapped", and he was unwilling, but after getting along with Shen Xi for more than two months, he suddenly felt an inexplicable excitement, this is the ambition of male ergong in the community, even if he can't make a name for himself in the field, he can also fight with those powerful people, such as the feudal platform, the platform, the commander, the prefect, and the prefect......

Now no one dares to underestimate him when they see him, not for anything else, just because he is the chief staff member around the governor, even if he is admitted to the Jinshi and released to the county, he is not as beautiful as he is now.

Thinking of this, Tang Yin couldn't help but sigh: "What's the use of scenery?" It's always under the shadow of others, and besides, if you don't have the scenery, it's useless to ask for it. ”

Tang Yin packed up his baggage, and began to think about how to beg Shen Xi to return to his hometown.

You were fucking dismissed by the imperial court, whether you want to go back to the capital or go back to your hometown to live in a house, it has nothing to do with me, you at least pestered me so that I can return to Suzhou and continue to live a drunken life.

But Tang Yin himself was also very aggrieved in his heart, he was really unwilling to leave like this, he was put on the table by the political envoy department, the inspection envoy department and the local government, and he was angry in his belly, and he was used to eating and drinking clothes to stretch out his hand to eat and open his mouth, and then let him go back to live that kind of difficult life with a meal but no meal, and he felt extremely guilty.

"Oh, go see the fun."

Just when Tang Yin was entangled in his heart, he heard a commotion outside, he leaned to the window to take a look, only to see a large number of people gathered in the direction of the post house.

Tang Yin rubbed his eyes and muttered to himself, "I'm not dazzled, right?" ”

Tang Yin hurriedly walked out of the inn, only to see that the cards set up by the officers and soldiers on both sides of the street did not know when they had been removed, he squeezed into the crowd, followed the flow of people, and finally arrived in front of the post house, but saw a temporary notice board set up outside the post house, which was posted by Shen Xigang, and one of the sentences looked very dazzling: "...... Whoever buys salt will be charged at the official price, and if the official salt in the salt field is insufficient, the high-grade private salt can be changed to official salt......"

Roughly speaking, the salt is sold at the official price, and there will be no additional excesses and miscellaneous taxes, and if the person who has the salt is unable to extract the salt from the salt factory, he can turn the private salt into official salt and sell it.

Finally, there are a few big words that are even more dazzling: "...... Salt is on sale! ”

In Tang Yin's opinion, one introduction of salt here should be a big introduction, that is, four hundred catties of table salt, which seems to be a lot, but in front of the eighty thousand major introduction of salt, one introduction of salt is nothing.

The Governor Yamen has changed from wholesale to retail, and the amount of the starting sale is very low, so low that it can be sold as soon as it leads to salt, which is equivalent to saying that the small salt shops in the city can come first and two leads, even if it is a flat-headed common people, several families can get together to buy a guide of salt back.

How cheap this salt is!

The cost of one catty is only 14 Wen, and now because of the rise in salt prices in Guangzhou, the price of one catty of salt has reached 678 Wen.

Tang Yin suddenly felt that this was a joke, selling one by one, so it would be sold until the Year of the Monkey? But he was a smart man, and he had vaguely guessed Shen Xi's intentions in his heart...... This is not that Shen Xi is looking for trouble for himself, but for the salt works in collusion with the local government.

At this time, the officials of the 100 households of the Governor Yamen came out and announced: "Fellow villagers, you must be used to eating expensive salt on weekdays, and now the Governor has said, you can raise money by yourself, and ten households can buy a citation, remember, it is a small introduction, that is, 200 catties, and an average of 20 catties per household." ”

"Governor Fu Yamen each salt to make up two dollars of silver, a small introduction of salt is two taels of six dollars, an average of a household is only two dollars more silver, you people buy salt after the salt to the salt field to pick up salt, if the salt field does not put salt, there is the governor of the Lord for you to decide! But keep in mind that the Governor's Yamen only accepts bulk sales today and tomorrow, so those who come to buy salt should be early, and they will not wait for the obsolete! ”

Shen Xi not only sold salt in bulk, but also introduced salt to subsidize the tax of two coins of silver, which is equivalent to saying that the governor of the yamen sold one salt not only did not make money, but had to lose two coins of silver.

The people had never heard of such a good thing.

The people are not as slippery as the salt merchants, in the eyes of the people, I eat salt is the top priority, now the price of salt is expensive, I go to buy catties of salt to smash the pot to sell iron, now I spend four catties of salt, I can buy twenty catties of salt back, this is a great thing.

After all, the people of Guangzhou Prefecture are not farmers in the countryside and rely on bartering to make a living, they have some scattered silver on hand, and after the governor and the yamen posted the notice, there are already small salt shops that can't sit still, and they are ready to go in to buy salt.

A pound of salt is equivalent to only thirteen Wen, or the Ming Dynasty is quite good Guangdong salt, indicating that it is only sold for two days, and this day has passed in the morning, that is, it will only be sold for a day and a half, and there will be no store in this village.

"I buy salt!"

I don't know how a man came out of the people, a Cantonese accent, and his voice was very loud, Tang Yin glanced at it, yo, isn't this the chief flag officer Cao Daheng who just drank with me yesterday? How did the soldiers become civilians in a blink of an eye?

Another person next to him took out the silver and raised it above his head, the same local accent in Guangzhou, and his voice was equally loud: "Don't grab it, I'll come first, get out of the way, I'll go in." ”

This is Zhang Xiaoliu of the Che Ma Gang.

Tang Yin found that the first few people who came out to make a fuss, without exception, all had enough silver on their bodies, all of which he looked familiar with, needless to say, it was also arranged by Shen Xi to stir up the emotions of the people.

After these people went in to buy salt, there were already ordinary salt shop shopkeepers and people joining in, and the main courtyard of the post house was instantly crowded.

"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze, take your time."

There are officers and soldiers maintaining order, "Lord Governor said, as long as you come to buy salt today and tomorrow, even if it is the third watch in the middle of the night, you will definitely be allowed to buy it, but you must queue up, if there are those who cut the queue and are dishonest, the first offender will be beaten with ten canes, and then he will be punished with twenty canes!" ”

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PS: Second update!

On holiday, I took my daughter to the park for a walk. The Son of Heaven wishes all book friends a happy Mid-Autumn Festival, all the best, harmony and beauty, and a full moon reunion! (To be continued.) )