Chapter 204: The Salt Affair Finishes Cannon

It turns out that most of Jiang Feng's income depends on sea trade, although he is very profitable, and he has ten boats, but this is equivalent to putting all his eggs in one basket, if there is any risk, it is a loss.

Moreover, since the Xia family has the port of Jiangfeng, the Xia family was originally a maritime merchant family in Fujian and Guangdong, and this time there is such a stronghold in the north, and the cost and distance of smuggling and trade with Japan are much more than that of other merchants, and the business is getting bigger and bigger.

Every time Jiang Feng wanted to increase the number of ships and expand the scale of his business, the Xia family's fleet always shirked for such and such reasons, but Jiang Feng knew that the size of the Xia family's fleet when they came to their port was probably doubled, and these things could not be concealed from the iron men who walked the sea with the Xia family.

But now Jiang Feng has made a big profit from private salt, and after the Spring Festival in the eighth year of Jiajing, the salt lords in Shandong know that if there is no passage document signed by Jining Huangping and Dengzhou Jiangfeng, the safety of the salt transported will not be guaranteed at all, or in other words, it will not be safe.

This kind of thing that is almost blackmail, at the beginning, naturally some people did not believe in evil, such as the smuggler salt dealers close to Nanzhili, whose business was inextricably linked with the two Huai salt merchants in Nanzhili, and the salt merchants in Nanzhili had such and such a relationship with the nobles and officials in Nanjing.

At that time, when the salt roads in Shandong were full of bandits, Lunan was affected very little, but the fluctuation of salt prices caused these salt merchants to suffer a lot of losses, so when the whole territory of Shandong began to obey the orders of Jining Huangping and Dengzhou Jiangfeng, there were quite some powerful salt merchants in the south who still went their own way.

Moreover, some people of the official forces in Nanjing began to move around, preparing to investigate the affairs of the officials selling smuggled salt along the Shandong Road, and the noble forces in Nanjing were intertwined, and the hundred officials of the six departments in Nanjing were idle and had nothing to do, and at most they complained, and they were about to make trouble.

Zhang, the supervisor of Yanzhou Mansion, is known as a good local person, known as Zhang Dashanren, secretly the largest salt lord in Yanzhou, and also has a family of 300 in his hands.

On February 11 of the eighth year of Jiajing, Zhang's family was bandited, the strongman was extremely brave, and the Zhang family was slaughtered, and when the official came to the door the next day, he found that Zhang Jiansheng was covered with salt grains, and the local salt stack was found to be checked, just saying that this was Huai salt, not local salt.

Then, with the help of some well-intentioned people, the officials found countless evidence of trafficking in illicit salt in Zhang's house, which was enough evidence to raid the house and destroy the door. After this incident came out, all the salt lords and salt merchants in Shandong who were not convinced by Huang Ping and Jiang Feng quieted down, and Zhang's evidence was already in front of everyone.

When the officials and nobles of Nanjing were searching for evidence, the eunuchs of Nanjing town held a private banquet and invited some very important nobles and officials to participate, Nanjing City was the founding capital of the Ming Dynasty, and there were six hundred officials in Nanjing, and there were three people in charge of Nanjing, Nanjing Garrison, Nanjing Town Guard Eunuch, Nanjing Military Department Shangshu, and three people were in charge of Nanjing's vital affairs. The Ming Dynasty has always been an internal official. The eunuch guarding Nanjing is faintly the biggest figure in Nanjing.

The banquets he held

, Everyone naturally wants to participate, and they also know that this kind of banquet will definitely not be eaten, the eunuch of Nanjing Town Guard said a thing with a smile on the banquet, Huang Gonggong, the commander of Jingshi Dongchang, is relying on a cousin named Huang Ping Zhou Ji in front of his body, and now Huang Gonggong is also developed, it is really feng shui in turn.

It seems to be normal, it is nothing more than a change in the world, everyone sighs and sighs, but a few people are soaked with cold sweat behind their backs.

Now the salt in Shandong is to be distributed by Jiang Feng and Huang Ping, and there are also salt classes in charge of the salt field who want to be tough, but now the public security committee in Shandong is really too bad, and the bandits are openly rampant in the prefecture and county, and several salt farms that think they can be hard are engaged in after being wiped out.

A new order began to emerge in Shandong's private salt market, and basically every smuggler and official salt merchant had to pay about half of the fee in Jiangfeng and Huangping before they could be allowed to transport salt and sell salt in Shandong, according to the communication and transportation of this era, of course.

Naturally, Jiang Feng could not deter all the large and small salt merchants, but the profits that most of the salt merchants in the entire Shandong Province could generate were already about the same as those brought by ten sea ships.

Back to the Yantai Mountain Thousand Households in Dengzhou, people are saying that when the laborers get a satisfactory remuneration and do not have to worry about food and clothing, the enthusiasm for invention and creation will be greatly stimulated.

Now almost all the places around Yantai Mountain are Jiangfeng's industries, which is originally a barren land, except for the thousands of households on the mountain who can still farm because of the shelter of the valley, these places under the mountain even have a natural harbor that can be moored, and there is nothing particularly attractive.

Therefore, after Jiang Feng enclosed the land, no outsiders came, and under the shelter of the low wall outside the barracks, there was a craftsman workshop that could be called a huge scale inside.

Yanzhou's coal and iron through the canal, through the official road towards Dengzhou, Jiang Feng's order to Zhao Xiucai is in terms of weapon building, as long as these craftsmen are not greedy for ink, how much they need to give them, and there are heavy rewards for doing a good job, the craftsmen who used to work hard every day and have no food and clothing are naturally working hard to get such treatment.

Moreover, his sons and nephews are all serving under Jiang Feng, and in addition to making money and inviting rewards, the weapons he has built have more motivation.

Last time, Jiang Feng spent tens of thousands of taels to buy two cannons, but they could only be placed in the port as shore defense guns, and several old craftsmen were not convinced in their hearts, thinking that we could build such things better, so why bother to find foreigners.

Jiang Feng, who crossed from modern times, actually has no memory of the clear historical era at all, in fact, the gap between the artillery of the Ming Dynasty and the West is not big at this time, and the race between the East and the West is just beginning, but it is indeed a lot behind in navigation.

"My lord, our bronze cannon is also cast according to the cannon style of the port, our brother thinks, this cannon has to go with the army, so it is lighter and shorter, and the cannonball is two catties of lead pellets, and he also made a big wheel of iron casting for him on his own initiative."

Jiang Feng didn't answer, he just looked at this cannon with his mouth wide open on the side, and in his mind, he still saw the name of this cannon in front of him in modern times, what kind of field gun was it......