Chapter 145: The Ills of Official Salt
[Ran^文^Library][]. []. In the next few days, the newspaper continued to track the usury and incite hatred against the people, and the newspaper has released a lot of clues and evidence, all of which are faintly pointing to Huang Zhi, and there are even many keen people among the people who have begun to suspect Huang Zhi. (Ran Library (7764))
Just wait for the day of the outbreak.
After learning that Wu Zhi was the behind-the-scenes boss of the newspaper, in addition to those who came to give gifts and curry favor, it was naturally indispensable for the prefect Murong Yanda to visit.
After the Wuzhi newspaper came out, all officials of all sizes in Qingzhou City adhered to the principle that if they could make a sycophant, they would never be offended, and they had always reported on the positive image of officials, especially Murong Yanda, who was even more praised, saying that he was diligent in government and loved the people, and had made great achievements, and even reported that they were justified and well-founded.
Now Murong Yanda really feels that he is a good official who has done a lot, and the gifts that Wu Zhi gave him some time ago were all sternly rejected by him.
However, although Murong Yanda was corrupt before, he was greedy for the money of a wealthy businessman like Wu Zhi, and he did not exploit ordinary people, and he looked very good. And what is even more rare is that due to Murong Yanda's laziness, he directly copied the previous policy in Qingzhou, not only did he mess with the construction of any image projects, but also did not charge any taxes, so the people did not hate him.
As for the things that hurt the heavens and reason, he didn't do a single ......
Murong Yanda was able to come to Wu Zhi's mansion in person, it was not as simple as thanking Wu Zhi for touting him in the newspaper, Wu Zhi knew that he was here to ask for food!
Jin Lian recently learned a new dish of "Piaoxiang Palm Treasure", this dish is skewered with a small handful of crispy meat in the middle of the chicken feet with bamboo skewers, and then fried with oil and dried red pepper with natural condiments, the taste is crispy and delicious, and it has become one of the signature dishes of Deyi Lou as soon as it is launched.
Murong Yanda is the number one fan of this dish, and he loves this dish better than salt-baked chicken, but unlike salt-baked chicken, the cooler and more flavorful it is, this dish is best fried and eaten to best taste the taste, and Jin Lian is not often in the proud building, so Murong Yanda can only come to Wuzhi here to ask for food with a cheeky face.
In this regard, Wu Zhi is naturally a hospitality.
In the living room, Murong Yanda was greasy, his lips like a little chrysanthemum were spicy and red, and there was a small basket made of fresh bamboo in front of him, which was covered with layers of bright and bright red dried chili peppers, only chili peppers, because the simple "treasure in the palm" in it had been eaten up by Murong Yanda!
"Uh~cool!"
Murong Yanda burped with a look of satisfaction.
Wu Zhi hurriedly handed Murong Yanda a clean towel to wipe his hands, who knew that he immediately waved his hand to signal not to.
"My hands are clean!"
Murong Yanda shook his little white oily hand at Wu Zhi, and after speaking, he put five fingers in his mouth and smacked it......
"Look, it's clean, isn't it?"
Shaking his hand at Wu Zhi again, Murong Yanda picked up the teacup on the table without any disdain and tasted the tea leisurely.
"The oil also tastes good! Gee! ”
Wu Zhi swallowed his saliva, glanced at Murong Yanda with appreciation, and said in his heart that he was worthy of being a god-level foodie, and he didn't even let go of his fingers that were stained with the smell of grabbing vegetables...... It's a good thing the smell didn't soak into his fingers, otherwise he wouldn't have nibbled on his fingers like chicken feet......
Chicken flavor, crunchy!
"Wu Zhi, the newspaper is doing well, keep up the good work!" Murong Yanda said with a voice.
"It depends on the adults to give you a lot of advice, hehe!"
"You can always do unexpected things, in fact, as soon as the newspaper came out, I knew that you were the ones who made it!" Murong Yanda looked at Wu Zhi and said with a smile: "Except for you, who in our Qingzhou still has this ability!" ”
Wu Zhi smiled "embarrassedly" and said, "I have hidden it from everyone, but I can't hide it from you, Lord Prefect!" ”
"Huh! Didn't I say it a long time ago, you and I will be brothers in the future, if you don't dislike it, call me a big brother in the future! Murong Yanda patted Wu Zhi's shoulder and said.
Wu Zhi looked at Murong Yanda's little hand that was still oily, and then looked at the oil stains on his shoulder, and secretly felt a pain in his heart, my haute couture gold silk soft satin robe of a few hundred taels was ruined by Murong Yanda like this......
"How dare you! In the Lower District Grass People ......"
"Wu Zhi, why are you polite to me again? Is there something begging me again? You have to call me big brother, otherwise I won't care about your affairs in the future! ”
In fact, Murong Yanda is nearly a round older than Wu Zhi, and Wu Zhi didn't want to call him big brother, but now that he can't shirk it, Wu Zhi no longer twists, anyway, he does have something to say to Murong Yanda.
"Big brother! My brother has saluted you! Wu Zhi bowed unequivocally.
"Oops! Good good brother! Sit down, sit down! ”
Murong Yanda happily helped Wu Zhi up, his eyes full of relief.
"Say, what's the matter? Every time you're polite, I know you're in trouble, just tell your big brother! Murong Yanda said to Wu Zhi.
"I still can't hide it from my eldest brother!" Wu Zhi smiled awkwardly and said, "But this time it's not for me, but for you, big brother!" ”
"For me?"
"Not bad! Generate income for Big Brother! ”
"Eh, your eldest brother and I are officials, in order to benefit the people, where do you need to generate any income!" Murong Yanda waved his hand, and then approached Wu Zhi and asked with a glint in his eyes, "How do you generate income for me?" Tell me about it! ”
Wu Zhi smiled mysteriously, did not speak, but dipped some tea and wrote two words on the table, "official salt".
"Official salt?" After Murong Yanda saw Wu Zhi write these two words, he immediately scratched his head, and said with some puzzlement: "The official salt really can't compete with the people's salt, and now it is losing money year after year, and it is all barely maintained by various subsidies from the government government, what kind of income is this?" ”
"If you turn a profit into a profit, isn't that revenue generation?" Wu Zhi replied lightly.
"Alas! Brother Xian, you don't understand the affairs of this officialdom, the main reason why the official salt will lose money is not that it is not good at management and quality, the doorway is complicated, there are many smart people in the official government, but no one can make the official salt better. Murong Yanda frowned.
Wu Zhi nodded: "Big brother, I understand what you mean, I also know a little about the drawbacks, but since I dare to bring up this matter with my eldest brother in person, then I have a way to help you solve it!" ”
In fact, the competition of official salt but the salt of the people Wuzhi has always felt very strange, you must know that the salt of the people is bought from the government, there is no difference between quality and government, but it is under the same quality, the salt of the government has been squeezed by the salt of the people for years and years, and there is no way to help, if it is not for the financial subsidies of the government, it would have closed down long ago.
With the same quality, why can Qingzhou's official salt be squeezed so thoroughly by the private salt industry headed by Huang Zhi?
These Wu Zhi can't figure it out, according to some rules of business, the quality is the same, as long as the price is controlled, it is easy to compete with the folk salt industry, why is the official salt so vulnerable!
So Wu Zhi sent someone to investigate in detail.
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