Jia Zheng is nearly sixty years old, his beard and hair are all white, but he was born with a good body, the evil spirit that he boiled out on the battlefield in his prime was filled between his eyebrows and eyes, his eyes under the thick eyebrows were blazing, and the dragon's head was on crutches, not angry and self-threatening, which immediately made the air in the room become heavy.

"What the hell is going on?" Jia Rudao looked at his cousin Jia Zongyan, who was sitting opposite with angry eyes and did not speak, his eyes gradually became gloomy and sharp, and he asked.

Although Jia Changhe is his cousin in terms of generation, he is much older, he is about to turn fifty, and his nephew Jia Changhe, who had an accident, is not a few years younger than Jia Yidao.

Killing people and goods, it was the children of the Jia family who died, which was very serious.

The interception of hundreds of people died, and the ordinary ringing horse couldn't do it, and whether someone behind the scenes was interested in the Jia family had something to do, we had to figure it out.

"The details are not very clear, because no one survived when they went out together." Jia Zheng rolled his eyes, looked at Jia Zongyan, and said regretfully: "It's a pity that Changhe, this kid, has always been shrewd and capable, and it is rare for this generation of Jia family children to be able to take the lead alone, and he is responsible for our family's industry in Sichuan." Shi Xian, you know, my Jia family has a big business, and I have run a lot of businesses over the years, after all, this big family has to eat, and I don't have much money to earn, in case there is a storm, I don't even have money to save my life. ”

"I know, the second uncle has worked hard to manage the whole situation, thanks to your Jia family, we are here today." Jia seems to be the first to say.

Jia Zheng said, of course Jia Rudao knows that the Jia family's commercial houses are all over the Great Song Dynasty, doing all kinds of business, making money and doing anything, but the core business is still the salt industry.

The children of each generation of the Jia family will follow the convention to distinguish the tendencies of aptitude, and start cultivating them from a young age, and those who can study or can't do it will be sent to the academy and the commercial house respectively at the age of ten after becoming literate in the private school, and strictly supervise and temper them.

Jia Rudao has been proficient in poetry since he was a child, and he has taken the road of politics, while his nephew Jia Changhe is a business man.

The Jia family accounts for a large share of the sea salt business in the south of the Yangtze River, and there are people from the Jia family in the salt farms in various places, and there are also their salt stacks in large and small towns in various places, trafficking and buying and selling to seek profits.

Business bigger, the vision will be long-term, just staring at the salt industry in the south of the Yangtze River is not possible, here in the Song Dynasty court stretched out a lot of hands, any salt merchant behind the senior officials at the level of the ruler, or the emperor's relatives, although the business is done separately, but it is inevitable that there will be friction and bumps, many times have to swallow their anger and give in.

Therefore, after Jia Zheng took care of his family, he began to extend his tentacles to the Central Plains, Sichuan and other places, and there were relatively few people who were worried about it, although the risk was greater than that of the prosperous places in the south of the Yangtze River, but the benefits were high, especially from the north of Shudi, trafficking salt to Tubo, Jinguo and other places, and the profits of a trip were worth half a month's harvest in the south of the Yangtze River, so the Jia family put the powerful clansmen over there, deliberately operated, and befriended the local eunuchs.

Jia Changhe is the representative of the Jia family in Sichuan, and he has been a salt merchant in Shu for nearly ten years.

When the Jin State was not dead, the Sichuan salt sold by the Jia family was mainly in competition with the Western Xia Qing Salt, and was sold to the Jin people in Shaanxi near Sichuan, the Mongols destroyed the Jin State, and the Zhongshu ordered Yelu Chucai to rule the Han land in the Yellow River Valley.

Baihuahua's salt was exchanged for golden money, Jia Changhe flourished in Shudi, and the inexplicable relationship between officials at all levels in Sichuan and salt merchants further made him bigger, although he was not the largest salt merchant in Sichuan, but the amount of salt sold from Shu to the north was definitely the largest.

In the Jia family's annual income, the proportion of Sichuan salt income is not small, and the family's attention to Jia Changhe is getting higher and higher.

never expected that Jia Changhe would die.

"Changhe more than a month ago, he once asked someone to bring back the news, saying that after the chaos in Sichuan, Puding, Xichuan's salt industry will be restored, it is a good time to squeeze the market, he is ready to show his strength, greatly develop our salt industry in Xichuan." Jia Zhengdao.

Jia Rudao nodded, listened intently, and did not speak, he knew that Jia Zheng still had the following.

Sure enough, Jia Zheng continued: "If you want to talk about clues, they are among them. Changhe said that the Xichuan Envoy sent a military general named Changsun Hong to be in charge of the Sichuan salt business, this person was a barbarian, unreasonable, and appointed a trading house to monopolize the salt profits, and other salt merchants who wanted to buy Sichuan salt had to buy it from this trading house, and the price was several percent higher. ”

Jia Rudao snorted and interjected: "Wufu is greedy!" ”

Jia Zheng thought so: "Changhe also thinks so, and when he sued the envoy of the system, he said that the envoy of the system took a cut of the salt profit and used it for military expenses, so he supported Changsun Hong's behavior, and there was no way to ask for help!" ”

Jia Rudao's brows tightened, wrinkled deeper, raised his eyelids and said: "There is no way to confirm this, how can outsiders know whether they smoke or not, they are doing the account book, and the court can't find out, maybe it's into a person's pocket, and it's not necessarily that some people are fat!" ”

Jia Zheng looked at him and said: "What Changhe wrote, exactly the same as what you said, if we follow this method, we will at least lose three or four percent of the profits from selling salt, which is really not cost-effective, Changhe wants to bypass the salt prison and do it himself!" ”

"Isn't that a sale of illicit salt?" Jia Rudao was a little surprised, and said with wide eyes: "The name is not right, why don't you tell me and I will deal with it?" If you go to the Privy Council to sue him, who would dare to cover it up? ”

"As it should be." Jia Zheng coughed and said, "Isn't this the north urging tightly?" Continuous heavy rain in the north, the salt pond over there was flooded, not a grain of salt can be produced, the price is high, the long river is calculated, the heart is on the road, and there is an accident on the road. ”

Jia Rudao's eyes narrowed, and he changed color and said, "What does the second uncle mean...... Isn't Changhe a bandit? ”

"Those who followed the long river, many of them were the two Huai soldiers who retreated with me and your father back then, and those who had no experience in martial arts said that a team of hundreds of people, ordinary Xiangma bandits were not opponents at all." Jia Zheng had a cold face: "And how many times has the Changhe walked that road, don't you know where the place is not peaceful and where there is danger?" Will you fall into someone's trap without knowing it? ”

Jia Rudao's pupils contracted, and said, "Second uncle, it's weird here!" ”

"That's right, I've already sent someone to Xichuan to find out, my child is gone, how can I give up?" Jia Zheng gritted his teeth, his hands clenched and gurgled: "There must be someone in Xichuan who can't get out of it, maybe there are people in the officialdom involved, the eldest Sun Hong, who is in charge of the salt administration, is not a small suspect, Shi Xian, I asked you to come back, just to tell you this, I hope you think about it, if it is really this person who did it......"

He stared at Jia Rudao, his eyes showed a fierce light, like a bloodthirsty old wolf, fierce and abnormal: "You know what to do!" ”

Jia Rudao's eyes touched him in one place, the same ruthlessness and violence, the muscles of his whole body tensed, and he replied in a low voice according to the handrail: "Second uncle, don't worry, I will let him return ten times the person who killed my Jia family!" ”

(End of chapter)