The first time I saw that the two sides of the hall of the salt prison yamen were not standing in the yamen, but ghost-faced armor soldiers, these armor soldiers were also holding long knives more than one person high, and the blade was half a human length.

Some of them cowered and dodged to the back, and at once they stood out from the swaggering of several big salt merchants.

These people stood in the front, and before they knew it, they were a few steps away from the people behind them.

They didn't feel it, and they didn't look back, as soon as they came up, they first bowed to the eunuch according to the rules, looked at the eldest grandson Hong who was sitting on the top position, hesitated a little suspiciously, bowed slightly, and also bowed.

"Excuse me." The eldest grandson Hongda stabbed the way.

When this sentence of disrespect was spoken, it looked very pretentious, Wu Zhaozu's face was black and purple, and several salt merchants observed their words and knew that there was something wrong with the person sitting above.

"This adult is ......" Li Chengyuan's brother-in-law in the Tobe Shioti Shiro asked with a shy belly, turning his face towards Wu Zhaozu and asking suspiciously.

Wu Zhaozu's face was expressionless, and he threw out a sentence coldly: "This is Lord Hong, the eldest grandson of the Rongzhou regimental training envoy, he said that he was sent by the envoy to preside over the salt trade." ”

Team training envoy?

Presiding over the sale of salt products? 、

This is the first time I've heard of it, send a military future to preside? Isn't that messy?

"However, this official has not received an official letter from the envoy."

Wu Zhaozu added.

His face blinked in the direction of the salt merchant.

The salt merchants were stunned for a moment, and then came back to taste.

There is fraud!

The brother-in-law was duty-bound, so he stood up first, frowned and asked: "Lord Eldest Sun, you don't have the text of the envoy, and you are not qualified to preside over the affairs here according to the law. ”

"That's right, the law of the Great Song Dynasty, there is a way of civil and military affairs, military attaches are not allowed to abuse their power, and the eldest grandson leads troops into the salt prison yamen that does not belong to his own duties, what is this for?"

"Isn't it watching the salt profits, and you want to buy and sell by force?"

"Humph! Outrageous! Is there really no royal law? I've been a trader all my life, and I've never seen anything like this! ”

"Strange thing! Monstrous absurdity! ”

Someone was the first bird, and the salt merchants suddenly boiled like boiling water, and they were all indignant and noisy.

Wu Zhaozu turned his back to Changsun Hong, sneered again and again, secretly rejoicing, and said in his heart that no matter whether Changsun Hong really got the instructions of the envoy when he came here, he couldn't get off the stage. If it's fake, this guy must be crazy in his head; If it is true, it means that Wang Kui, the deputy envoy of Xichuan System, did not dare to take this responsibility, and deliberately did not write it, and he could not be found afterwards.

Salt production is profitable, you can be a rich man in Jiangnan after a year, how can it be so easy for these big-headed soldiers to intervene.

Hmph, he secretly glanced back, wanting to see Changsun Hong's reaction.

"Smack!"

One of the things grabbed his neck and flew out.

"Bump!"

Accurately hit the face of the brother-in-law in Tobe Shiotei Shiro.

After the thing hit the person, it exploded with a crisp sound, and the flying debris concentrated several people around him.

Everyone was shocked and involuntarily scattered around, leaving behind a brother-in-law who fell to the ground on his back facing the sky.

He had a big swollen lump on his forehead and bleeding from the bridge of his nose, and he didn't even snort before he fainted.

He probably didn't see what was happening until he passed out.

Look at the thing again, it is actually the lottery holder on the case in the yamen, made of brass, very heavy, this thing smashed on the head, and the coma is light.

The flying fragments were the bamboo sticks in the stick, and after the sticker hit the brother-in-law, the bamboo sticks flew out and scattered all over the place.

Wu Zhaozu's eyes widened, his mouth opened incredulously, shook a few times, and then hurriedly looked back at the direction where the sign was thrown.

Changsun Hong maintained the posture of throwing with his right hand and leaning forward slightly, turned his neck comfortably, and slowly sat back on the chair like a loose exercise.

The lobby, which was still noisy just now, immediately fell silent.

Everyone was stunned.

Hit someone!

What a fight?

The first time I saw an official smashing someone with a stick holder in the lobby, it was appalling!

"I'm sorry, everyone, I'm used to fighting with the Mongols, and I didn't hold back for a while, conditioned reflex."

The eldest grandson Hong smiled and apologized to everyone without sincerity.

If no one responds, who dares to speak?

There was also a copper paperweight, a striking wood, and, oh, a knife.

These things are heavier than the stick, in case this soldier leader can't hold back, no matter who he hits, the end will not be lighter than that of his brother-in-law.

"Take this merchant out and find a doctor to take a look." Changsun Hong ordered the little officials in the corner like no one, as if the lottery that smashed the person was not lost by him.

"You, you, you......" Wu Zhaozu's body trembled into a chaff sieve, I don't know if it was because of shock or anger, his lips trembled, and he couldn't say a complete sentence for a long time.

"Lord Wu's mouth is not good, so don't speak." The eldest grandson nodded at him kindly, then ignored him and turned his face to the salt merchants.

"You have come all the way to seek wealth, so why bother to cause trouble? If you get into trouble, not only will you not make money, but you will also easily lose your life. The eldest grandson said sincerely, with a "for your good" expression: "Although the Mongol army retreated, there were a lot of stragglers left, Sichuan is mountainous, and the officers and soldiers don't know where to hide, so the world here is not very peaceful, and there are often business travelers who are robbed on the road, and people and money are empty, so why bother?" ”

The faces of the people turned white.

What a naked threat!

"There have been several such incidents in this month, and everyone understands that although the envoys are trying their best to fight against them, they are suffering from insufficient military salaries and food shortages, and they cannot recruit troops and horses.

The eldest grandson spread his hands, and the powerlessness of being unable to help was very real.

And the faces of the people became whiter and whiter.

Since the beginning of the first month, there have indeed been many small raiding teams of the Mongol army wandering on the Chengdu Plain, basically all of them are Semu and Han people from the north, groups of three or five hundred, all of them have horses, whistling back and forth, picking on groups of merchants, killing people and plundering goods, and it is impossible to prevent it.

However, because they had not heard of the news that the salt team had been robbed, the salt merchants only heard about it, and they did not feel it personally, but at this moment, when it came out of the mouth of the eldest grandson, the meaning was different.

"You must be worried, aren't you? The envoy is also worried, as the training envoy of the Rongzhou regiment, the town is safe, and the two salt prisons are close to it, so he is also worried. ”

Changsun Hong stood up, and together with everyone, he watched the few little guys who came in outside the door use a hastily tied stretcher to carry out the unconscious brother-in-law who was still bleeding from the bridge of his nose, and continued: "The problem is that we don't have soldiers, and Xichuan is so big, what should we do?" The imperial court is also very difficult, counting on the upper authorities to allocate money and not knowing that it will wait until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse, so we can only save ourselves, but how to make money? ”

He looked at the salt merchant with a smile, his eyes lit up, as if looking at a pile of golden money, and everyone was horrified.

"It's up to you to cooperate. The rules are very simple, all Xichuan salt products, are from Ruifuxiang, you buy salt, are bought in Ruifuxiang, I have calculated, the price of Ruifuxiang will only be a little higher than the price of the salt prison, you ship out, but it will make a little less, for the big merchants with a lot of money, it is not easy. ”

(End of chapter)