"Uncle Zhang, what kind of business did that Huang Zhi do, how did he become the richest man in Qingzhou?" After a few people sat down, Wu Zhi asked Zhang Tong.

Zhang Tong's expression was a little solemn, he took a breath and said in a deep voice: "He is a salt merchant. ”

Everyone was stunned.

Salt merchant, a simple two words, represents not only an identity, but also a symbol of deep background and great wealth!

Wu Zhi's face changed slightly, and when he heard these two words, Wu Zhi had already fully understood why Huang Zhi became the richest man in Qingzhou.

Because whether it is the Song Dynasty or subsequent dynasties, and even in the 21st century, these profiteering industries such as salt, iron, wine, and vinegar are firmly controlled by the state, and they are all monopolized by the government.

In the Song Dynasty, because of the development of commerce, the government opened up some of the private purchase and management rights of these industries, which was called "buying" in this era.

After the private merchants bought the "primers" from the government, they could freely and legally sell those profiteering industries, and among these industries, salt was the most profitable, and its profiteering degree was enough to make everyone involved in this industry get rich even if they had no business talent at all and did not have any special business methods!

Even in the Ming and Qing dynasties, sometimes the imperial court had no military funds to fight wars, so they had to find salt merchants to borrow ......

But buying a flutter is not something that anyone can buy casually, especially the salt lead, which is not rich and related, and can't even touch the threshold at all.

Therefore, Huang Zhi's identity as a salt merchant not only represents that he is rich, but also represents a strong ability and deep background.

Wu Zhi rubbed his fingers secretly, the answer that the other party was a salt merchant only made him shake slightly, and Wu Zhi was also mentally prepared for Huang Zhi's ability and background, since the other party was the richest man in Qingzhou, he was naturally not a simple person, and when Wu Zhi planned to fight him, Wu Zhi took this into account.

In fact, Wu Zhi's fortune is similar to Huang Zhi's, both rely on the monopoly industry of the government, but Wu Zhi is playing the edge ball in the brewing industry, he buys a large number of liquor brewed by the government and then sells it at a high price under simple distillation and blending, not self-brewing, and it is all in his own restaurant, so the government did not ask.

"Huang Zhike is a big salt merchant, although he is the richest man in Qingzhou, but every state and county in the entire Jingdong East Road area of my Great Song Dynasty has his salt business, and the government business sells less than half of their salt every year." Zhang Tong continued.

Wu Zhi nodded with a deep groan, indeed, in a fair environment, the business of the government has always been not as good as that of the private merchants.

However, after hearing that Huang Zhi had semi-monopolized the salt industry of the entire Jingdong East Road, Wu Zhi was also secretly surprised in his heart, the local administration of this era was divided into three political districts: "road - government, state, military, prison - county, the road belongs to the central government, and there are 23 roads in the country.

And Jingdong East Road has accounted for nearly half of Shandong, it can be seen that Huang Zhi's industry is huge, the salt industry is not comparable to a restaurant, every people's life is inseparable from salt, and even the cattle and sheep have to drink salt water every day, the industry spans half of Shandong, which is enough to make Huang Zhi the richest man in Shandong!

"What is the origin of the outsider surnamed Li next to him?"

Hearing that Huang Zhi's strength is so strong, Wu Zhi will not be intimidated, after all, his industry has spread all over Shandong, and in terms of financial resources and power, he is at most a few steps behind Huang Zhi. Now Wu Zhi shuddered the most was the fat man with a wine trough nose who even Huang Zhi was respectful to him, and even took the initiative to buy a "thin horse" to please him!

"That one is from Bianjing City, called ****, and he is also a salt merchant, but his industry is even bigger, and the private salt on the eastern, western, southern, and northern roads of Jingdong are all controlled by him, and Huang Zhi is his next home. It is said that this person is supported by a prime minister in the court! ”

Wu Zhi panicked!

The word "Xianggong" in the Song Dynasty was not used by women to call their husbands, but specifically referred to high-ranking officials at the level of prime ministers in the court, that was the Great Song Dynasty, and even a few people at the top of the pyramid of the whole earth, the emperor did not dare to provoke them easily, Wu Zhi almost turned his back on him after hearing it.

If he provokes someone of this level, then Wu Zhi will bother to do business to help Wu Song pave the way, and go directly to Liangshan to rebel!

However, after Zhang Tong finished speaking, he gave Wu Zhi a reassuring look and continued: "But don't worry, the big officials don't worry, this **** is just coming to Qingzhou to play, and he is about to leave." ”

Wu Zhi finally breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, Bianjing is far away from Qingzhou, and Wu Zhi didn't provoke him much before, this little festival, anyone who understands the world will not trouble the prime minister in the court.

As long as the **** leaves, Wu Zhi has no need to worry about Huang Zhi at all, if he dares to take revenge on Wu Zhi by any tricks, then Wu Zhi can just double the dedication!

Playing yin, Wu Zhi likes it the most...... Who's afraid of whom?

"What is the relationship between Huang Zhi and the Murong Prefect?"

When he asked this question, Wu Zhi already had the answer, as the richest man in a state, then the relationship with the prefect must be good, but what Wu Zhi wanted to know was whether Huang Zhi and the prefect had any special iron relationship, such as blood or marriage.

If there is, then it's tricky.

If not, then Wu Zhi will save a lot of trouble.

"This, the relationship between the two is very average."

After listening to Zhang Tong's answer, Wu Zhi was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it again, in addition to the private Huang Zhi, there are also government officials who sell salt, although the court intends not to compete with the people, but this Murong Yanda is a corrupt official who loves money, so he naturally wants to make a profit from the salt profits.

But Huang Zhi's business is so good, the government-run competition is not enough, and the relationship is inevitably tense.

Thinking about it, Huang Zhi also spent a lot of money to barely maintain this general relationship.

"Haha! In this way, although Huang Zhi is rich, he has no backing, as long as we are closer to the prefect, we don't need to be afraid of his revenge! Knowing this, Jiang Jing on the side smiled reassuringly.

At first, he was also worried that as the richest man on the other side, it would be a headache to retaliate.

Wu Zhi also stretched his waist back, his expression was a little relaxed, Jiang Jing was right, the most important thing is that he has not only climbed to the prefect, but also has a relationship with the noble concubine Niangniang in the Bianjing Palace.

At this time, Zhang Tong secretly glanced at Wu Song, who was sitting next to him with a straight and calm expression, and said to Wu Zhi with a wry smile: "The big officials don't know, although Huang Zhi has a general relationship with the prefect, he has another equally strong backer!" ”

"What backer?"

Wu Zhi raised his eyebrows, looking a little surprised.

"This Huang family is a prominent family in Qingzhou City, and the Huang family has two sons, Huang Dalang is Huang Zhi, the richest man in Qingzhou; And Huang Erlang ......"

"Who is Huang Erlang?"

Wu Zhi had a faint feeling of weirdness in his heart.

Glancing at Wu Song again, Zhang Tongcai said slowly: "That Huang Erlang's name is Huang Xin, and his name is Zhensanshan, and he is the supervisor of Qingzhou's soldiers and horses...... In the army, it is two levels bigger than the second master of Wu! ”

After listening to Zhang Tong's words, Wu Zhi suddenly opened his mouth wide, not because he was nervous or afraid, but he never expected that Huang Xin, one of the original one hundred and eight generals in Liangshan, was the younger brother of Huang Zhi, the richest man in Qingzhou!

And he just had a bad relationship with Huang Zhi!

"Alas! Not only Huang Xin, but also Huang Xin, a master, called Thunderbolt Fire Qin Ming, is the Qingzhou Soldier President Ma presidential system! You say, he has these two backers, and does he still use the prefect? Zhang Tong sighed, looking at Wu Song's eyes were also full of worry, in his opinion, if he offended these two generals in the army, then Wu Song would not want to stand out in the army in the future.

Of course, these Wu Zhi knew it, and he didn't think about it so much, and now he was recalling Huang Xinqi's affairs in the Water Margin.

Zhensanshan Huangxin, one of the 72 Earth Evil Stars of the original Liangshan!

Although this person's martial arts are not among the five tigers and eight horses, he is also the first of the sixteen small biao generals, and his martial arts can be regarded as average, and in the later battle process of Liangshan, Huang Xin is the deputy of Lin Chong, the head of the leopard, and has also made a lot of contributions.

Wu Zhi's overall impression of Huang Xin was that he was very ...... Wit!

Definitely not a stupid person, from the beginning of the design to catch Hua Rong, to the later battles, either stealing and killing the enemy general in the chaos, or acting as Lin Chong's deputy and being reliable when he was alone with the enemy general, not dropping the chain, until the final official death, all proved this person's wit!