Yi Cheng was naturally happy when he heard that Li Mi was going to make up for the travel entanglement, after all, he also thought that Li Mi was here to meddle in the accounting, didn't he not give him face?

At this time, he also knew that Li Mi was wrong, so he said to Li Mi.

"Ask your Excellency Gao Yi, it really makes the lower officials embarrassed, but your Suzhou Mansion is a rich place, and you passed by earlier, and you are all lavish, and what you spend on the trip is also paid clearly, and the account needs to be good-looking, and the adult is also a person in the officialdom, so it must not be unclear, right?"

Li Mi also knew this truth, and now he was going to talk about it, so of course he dealt with it, and then said to the post.

"It's embarrassing to say, just an escort, I brought forty or fifty private people, and the place is not very good-looking, but fortunately, Yicheng helped cover it up, but taught me to do things well......"

If Li Mi came to ask directly, this Yi Cheng would definitely not tell the truth, but Li Mi changed his way, he smiled and said to Li Mi.

"It's serious, who doesn't have three or five relatives and friends when you're out of the house, but your Suzhou Mansion is also wealthy, and you actually brought a caravan in, and it really made me wait for it not very easy, and I didn't hide it from my lord, at that time they gave some silver to take care of the top and bottom, but this post house is full of mouthful...... Hey hey ......"

Li Mi saw this posture and knew that he was reaching out to ask for money, but Li Mi would not cheapen him, but just made an empty promise and said to the post.

"Lord Yicheng and rest assured, this time it is the general Rong who asked me to ask, if it is reliable, it will become, if it is passed out, the general Rong side must be difficult to explain......"

As soon as Li Mi said this, Yi Cheng also became nervous, no wonder Li Mi had the courage to check the accounts directly, and questioned him again, it turned out to be the meaning of General Rong, but fortunately, Li Mi was good at talking, otherwise he would really offend General Rong, where did he have the courage to go to General Rong to ask for silver!

"Don't you dare, this is the duty of the lower officials, where do you dare to ask the general labor......"

Seeing this, Li Mi also snickered, if it was in the past, he still had some concerns, but now that he has identified himself to Mo Hengluan, Mo Hengluan wants to help him cover up, so Li Mi is also relieved to "bully others".

"Lord Yicheng also has a heart, but I don't know what is going on with this caravan, before leaving, they told the official that they just came from relatives and friends along the way, and they didn't dare to use the official face, how did it become a caravan now?"

When Yi Cheng heard this, he suddenly realized, it turned out that Li Mi was not to check the post house, but to check the cat in Suzhou Mansion!

Although he took people's soft hands and ate people's mouths short, he took those people's money and kept his mouth shut, but he had already done a clean job in the accounts, and when he talked to Li Mi, it was also a duck's back, and the so-called empty words were unfounded, who knew that he said it?

So he said to Li Mi: "Lord Li Wen doesn't know, this Tongzhou is a north-south thoroughfare, business exchanges, really make money, although there is a canal, but the Cao Yun is on the way to the river gang Caokou, along the way to collect road fees, seven percent off, can earn not much in hand." ”

"So many merchants have the idea of official errands, many officials pass by, usually take some merchants, take the official road, live in a post house, those local snakes, don't dare to offend the government?"

"In this way, the risk is smaller, the consumption is less, instead of letting those gangs collect benefits, it is better to give the benefits to the officials, and the investment is smaller, so it is also the norm of the line......"

After all, Yi Cheng is accustomed to seeing the world, and this Tongzhou is also a mixture of three religions and nine streams, and the fish and dragons are mixed, as soon as he said this, Li Mi also understood.

But the more he explained it, the more confused Li Mi became, because the escort team in Suzhou Mansion was not an ordinary official, and the escorts were all important criminals, and those people should not be so careless no matter how they committed crimes!

Yi Cheng was willing to help liberate, but Li Mi investigated: "I have been to Suzhou Mansion and Nanjing three or four times, which one of these caravans was brought up?" ”

Yi Cheng was a little hesitant at this time, because he had already noticed it, but he was afraid that Li Mi really didn't know anything, he wanted to hide a thing or two, but seeing Li Mi's grim expression, he didn't dare to delay any longer, and whispered to Li Mi.

"It's not a trip...... It's every trip...... There are caravans ...... every trip."

"What!" Li Mi was also surprised, if it was just an occasional thing, it might be a coincidence, but if it was like this every time, then he had to be cautious!

"What kind of cargo are those caravans?" Li Mi inevitably asked anxiously, but Yi Cheng smiled lightly.

"My lord and rest assured, it's not anything prohibited, otherwise the lower officials won't dare to let it go, about ten big cars at a time, the cars are all yellow clay, didn't there be a fire in the palace last time, the princes from all over the country gave money to repair the palace, and the merchants here in Suzhou Mansion are also clever, saying that they transported these yellow clay over, if the palace looks at it, it will also make a fortune."

"Yellow clay?" Li Mi was also a little puzzled, and said to the post: "If you build a palace, you should use lime river sand or sea sand, if you build a royal garden, how can you also use strange stones and black soil, this yellow mud is so barren, it can only be used to pave roads, where is it not, why bother to transport it from Suzhou Mansion?" ”

Yi Cheng heard Li Mi's words, and couldn't help nodding his head and praised: "Lord Li Wen is well-informed, at first Xia Guan also had this question, the caravan people said, this is not ordinary yellow mud, but the algae mud on the East China Sea Immortal Island, it should be green, but it has been stored for a long time, and it has become yellow......"

"This algae mud is a seabird that eats seaweed, moistens it with saliva, spits it out to build a nest, but has never stayed, the sea breeze dries, it is like green gum, some people call it green bird's nest, it is an extremely valuable tonic!"

When Li Mi heard this, he was also suspicious: "It turned out to be a tonic...... Since it is a tonic, why is it said that it is used for the royal palace? ”

Yi Cheng continued to explain with a smile: "The caravan also said, for us, these things are precious supplements, but for the royal family is different, this thing is the most suitable for flower fertilizer, it is said to contain the essence of the southern islands, if you use these algae mud to pave the garden, you can be in the north, planting southern flowers and plants!" ”

Li Mi also shook his head secretly, orange is orange in Huainan, orange is orange in Huaibei, and orange is orange in Huaibei, which determines whether plants can grow healthily, not only soil, but also a series of climate requirements such as light and temperature.

I have never heard of the fact that you can grow southern plants in the north by using the soil of the south.

However, scientific knowledge was not very developed in ancient times, and it is understandable that this limited cognition arose.

It's just that Li Mi didn't believe that these people went to great lengths, just to transport this kind of flower fertilizer, but it was the word algae mud, which made Li Mi have an extremely uneasy premonition!

After it was discovered, many people favored its powerful explosive power, but due to its extremely unstable nature, explosions often occurred.

Nobel used diatom mud and other soil to adsorb*, neutralize the vigor, and create a stable *!

However, *it will not be discovered until two or three hundred years later, and the Ming Dynasty still uses black*, even Western missionaries, there is no such technology and stuff to be transmitted.

But this kind of thing can't be said for sure, the so-called did not spread to China, in fact, it did not spread on a large scale.

In fact, many things were introduced to China early, but because of cultural boycott or other reasons, they have not been able to be promoted, and can only be spread on a small scale among the people, or even not spread at all, which does not mean that they do not exist.

The background and power of an organization like the Heroes Association are beyond the imagination of ordinary people, let alone something that can be measured by common sense.

As for those Japanese robbers, they lived by plundering at sea all the year round, and the exchanges around the world during the Age of Discovery were also extremely frequent, and it was not surprising that there were strange things coming in and out.

Just as the tobacco that Li Mi is carrying now has indeed been introduced, but it cannot be popularized on a large scale because of the resistance of scholars, and there is no way to accurately calculate the time of its introduction in history.

However, before he figured it out, all his worries were in vain, but since he had already noticed this abnormality, Li Mi would never let it go!

Moreover, if it is once or twice, it is enough, every time there is such a caravan escorted, each time there is a scale of ten carts, how much of this yellow algae mud should be transported into the capital!

What's more important is that these escort tasks are crucial, every time the escort is a big man, Li Mi is also a thousand instructions, and the appointments are all trustworthy, but such a thing still happens, how can people not be wary!

"Have you ever left a sample? According to the regulations, everything that passes the customs must be kept as a sample, right? ”

Many historical researchers believe that the Wanli Emperor is the most greedy one among the many emperors of the Ming Dynasty, in order to collect money, he extorted six departments openly, when he copied Zhang Juzheng, even the great eunuch also copied the house, and the income from the house was not handed over to the public, most of them were left to the royal family, and even thought that the house was a good way to collect money.

In order to collect money, the Wanli Emperor also set two measures, there are miners and tax envoys, miners are officials who specialize in exploration and mining, and tax envoys are special for collecting taxes.

Emperor Wanli let his cronies and eunuchs serve as mine officials and tax collectors, which also caused great harm to the people.

These eunuchs have another way to exploit the place, for example, he pointed to the homes of the rich and insisted that there is a mine under your house, and you still have to spend money to eliminate the disaster?

You say no? Then let's tear down the house and dig it up and see, right?

If you dig it wrong, it is also a matter of the imperial court, who asked you to build a house without thinking about it when choosing a location?

As for the tax envoys, it is even more excessive, and a large number of checkpoints are set up on roads all over the country, and it is really a goose plucking, going into the city to sell a chicken, and you have to squeeze out an egg first when you pass the customs.

Through these two measures, the Wanli Emperor's desire to accumulate wealth has been satisfied, and it can be seen that the harvest is not bad, and these local officials take benefits at all levels, and the pressure of the people can be imagined.

However, under this kind of measure, there are samples of things that have passed the level in post houses and other checkpoints, otherwise there will be no way for Li Mi to see this yellow algae mud now.

Yi Cheng saw that Li Mi was a person who knew the roots, so he didn't delay and led Li Mi to the warehouse.

This warehouse is extremely hot, the things in it are messy, like a mountain of garbage, full of a rancid damp and mildew smell, Yi Cheng himself did not dare to go in, under the pretext of dying the wind, getting gasp, not to touch the mildew dust, tell Li Mi the approximate location, let Li Mi go in and rummage.

Li Mi was also unambiguous, took a deep breath, covered his mouth and nose with a wet towel, and walked into the dim warehouse.

If that yellow algae mud is really something dangerous, I'm afraid that this time I enter Beijing will not be so peaceful!