Chapter 429: Bloody Case on the River

Although there are a lot of fun places in Jining, and the quality is very high, but the salt merchants after the salt fair are not willing to stay here, and they have to hurry back to arrange production and purchase, which is a major event related to the year.

Several Lianghuai salt merchants who made a fuss at the salt meeting did not get any benefits, but only got the benefits they deserved, and embarked on the return journey on the same day in a huff.

Jining to the two Huai most convenient distance must be Cao Yun, the salt merchants on the ship is still scolding, two Huai was originally one of the world's largest salt production areas, the center of the world's salt industry is also in Yangzhou, but ten years ago, Shandong's Xiangma Green Forest suddenly twisted into a rope, the two Huai into Lu to traffic in the smuggling of salt team are defeated, Lu Yan is sold to the south of the area by the protection of knives and guns.

Looking at the struggle, the salt merchants of Lianghuai can only bow their heads and admit defeat, honestly participate in the salt industry conference, get their due share at the meeting, and earn their annual sales. Fortunately, it is a salt production and easy to transport, that is, the salt farms of Tianjinwei, Shandong and Lianghuai.

Although it is not possible to buy and sell to Shandong, but in Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi sales are gradually increasing, and from the road is always worried about all kinds of risks, after participating in the salt industry conference, the trade has become much more peaceful, plus the increase in the number, deduct the risk, the money has increased slightly, but Lin Yutang, who presided over the salt industry conference last year, suddenly sold a hundred percent of the salt merchants in Shanxi.

Lin Yutang is nominally a member of the Salt Industry Conference, but in fact he is the successor of the salt industry laid down by Jiang Feng and Huang Ping, when Jiang Feng left Shandong, the trade of Shandong salt merchants has been done in the south of Zhili Henan, and Shandong salt merchants must rely on Lin Yutang's snort.

In other words, the salt industry in these places is controlled by Lin Yutang, where to buy, where to buy, most of the number is held by Lin Yutang in his hands, in the past, Huai salt was swaggered through Shandong sold to Henan, Shanxi, after the salt industry conference, it was to be transferred through Lin Yutang's merchants, such a desperate thing, Lin Yutang was naturally unwilling to do too much, that is, to charge some fees in name.

At the beginning of the eighteenth year of Jiajing, the situation changed, Lin Yutang suddenly acted in accordance with the rules of the salt industry conference, and sent intermediary businessmen to buy and sell salt goods, but the merchants who came to buy and sell salt goods were still salt merchants in Shanxi, which was equivalent to making the salt merchants in Lianghuai unable to make money.

The two sides were already in a uproar last year, or Lin Yutang gave the leaders of the two Huai salt merchants in advance, saying that they were going to give up one or five of the shares this year, one of which was traded to them, including Henan, some markets in Shanxi, this is a big piece of fat, the two Huai businessmen gathered to discuss a few times, and felt that Lin Yutang sold his cornucopia like this is really incredible, but last year's Shanxi people made a fortune, presumably they can't fake it, and they will eat this year's loss.

In the second year, the price increase in the share was earned, and this year the two Huai businessmen came here with enough silver, but they did not expect that the meeting did not mention the matter of five into five, and suddenly they could no longer bear it, and they were noisy at the meeting, and the salt industry conference was full of pampered salt merchants.

On weekdays, there are all commanding uncles, even if these businessmen want to make trouble, that is, they are scolding people, and Lin Yutang didn't pay attention to it at all, but the Shanxi businessmen who bought a share last year jumped out first, scolding and scolding, but they didn't do anything.

The angry Huaishang salt merchant didn't even participate in the regular banquet held in the evening, and went directly to the boat to return to his hometown, and these people still kept complaining and cursing on the boat:

"Jiang Laohu has been gone for almost ten years, Lin Yutang relies on the support of the Xiangma bandits, if it weren't for the fact that everyone who watched this salt industry conference was a lot more convenient, who would pay attention to him!"

"Today he is not benevolent and righteous, and he specializes in pit our Huaishang, we don't care about the feelings of our peers, and we will give a generous gift to the father-in-law of Nanjing City when we go back!"

"It's a pity, Huang Shilang, if his old man is still here, how can we be in such a situation!"

The boat on the canal was unusually slow, and by the time it was almost dark, the boat that the salt merchants were riding had just left the confines of Jining City.

After dark, the cooks on the ship were busy, although these merchants said that they did not earn any silver last year, but it also depends on who they compared, the silver earned may have changed from hundreds of thousands of taels to tens of thousands of taels, and the absolute amount is still quite huge, and clothing, food, housing and transportation are all extravagant and abnormal.

Needless to say, the grade of the ship is needless to say, and the concubines, servants, cooks, and servants on the ship are even more complete, and the taste of the few of them at this banquet tonight will not be inferior to the restaurant.

Delicious wine, beautiful women, these three kinds of enjoyment finally dissipated the depression and anger of these salt merchants during the day, and while they were drinking and feasting inside, they heard the boatman shouting loudly there:

"Be careful, be careful, brother over there, our ship is too close."

The merchant inside suddenly felt a little unhappy, and followed the little guy next to him and said:

"What's going on, don't go out and see yet."

The little guy on the side hurriedly bowed down and ran out, and it didn't take long to turn back, and the report said:

"This is the cargo ship of those merchants in the north, it is too close to us, the boatman said it's okay, their ship is fast, and it will be fine if you miss it!"

As he was talking, the boat where the salt merchants were suddenly trembled, and there was a heavy muffled sound, obviously the two ships collided together, and the salt merchants, who were already in a bad mood, were suddenly furious, and they could hear the outside shouting 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the pole in my hand slipped a little'

The salt merchant shouted loudly:

"Call all our guards here, teach these bastards a good lesson, and beat them hard."

Just as he was saying these cruel words, the door was suddenly pushed open, several people took a closer look, and immediately gasped in fright, and a guard at the bow of the ship lay straight on the ground, with blood and flesh on his neck, obviously hacked to death, and the room was suddenly quiet, and then several women who accompanied the wine screamed in shock.

However, inside the house, the sound could not be heard far at all, and secondly, there was still a lot of noise outside, one side was accusing the other party of hitting the boat, and the other side said that the other party was parking the boat in the wrong place. Several men with masked faces walked in with knives and axes, and they were still loudly saying that there was something wrong with the position of your ship, otherwise how could they collide together.

When the salt merchants were noisy at the salt party, they seemed quite bold, but such a scene was so frightened that their whole bodies were soft, and the one who was furthest outside slipped directly from the chair and said with a crying voice:

"Good man, the little one is willing to give all the silver in his hand......"

Before the words were finished, a man in black raised his knife and cut off the head of the person who spoke, and the people in the room suddenly screamed again, and the remaining salt merchants finally reacted, and the other party's purpose seemed to be to kill all of them.

I don't know if it was the courage that erupted before dying or what, a salt merchant stood up and shouted loudly:

"You people must have been sent by that bastard from Lin Yutang, damn brute, I won't let you go even if I fucking do ghosts!"

Such cruel words are just venting, and they are useless to change the ending, several black-clothed and masked people quickly and mercilessly, and several salt merchants were simply cut off their heads.

At night in the canal, there are also a lot of boats passing, and the people who come and go are looking at the several ships that collide with each other as if they were watching the excitement, and the boats are simply noisy, and a dozen loud men are shouting there, it is indeed like a singing, and no one is aware of the bloody killing that is going on on the boat. This kind of night sailing, collision or something is extremely normal, and no one is surprised.

On the third day after the salt meeting, everything was calm, Jiang Huifeng, the owner of the Sanjiang Commercial Bank over there, was finally leaving Jining, Lin Yutang was relieved in his heart, although there were all kinds of signs, but everything was covered up.

Lin Yutang was also wondering, was he too suspicious, Jiang Huifeng might have come to Jining to see it, thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little pity, Tang Xuan was such an outstanding girl who was so cheap to the rich man of Liao Town, and the salt transport envoy Zuo didn't know how to deal with it?

Is it to force people to come back, if it is really just a distinguished guest of the patriarch, this matter is not a loss to himself, I heard Tang Xuan say, this Boss Jiang didn't do anything to her, it was better to come back and send it to the salt envoy according to the original arrangement, and he could still go to the sky in Jining as an outsider.

When Lin Yutang was writing here, Lin Liu's housekeeper outside ran in panting, his face was full of panic, and as soon as he came in, he shouted in a hurry:

"The owner, the owner, the Yamen, our people sent the news, saying that the night before the Huaishang salt merchants were all killed on the boat, and a small guy ran out, and today I went to the Yamen to beat the drum and complain, saying that it was instructed by you."

Hearing this, Lin Yutang stood up from the chair and asked incredibly:

"What, I arranged it!?"