Chapter 45: Private Business
What do the Fu brothers do, Second Uncle Liu knows much better than Ximenqing in his heart, he says this sentence now, but it is intriguing, Ximenqing raised his eyelids, and glanced at Second Uncle Liu with a smile. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"Second Uncle Liu, the Huo family's brothers' business is not something ordinary people can do."
Second Uncle Liu said: "Da Lang, you are not an ordinary person, no one in Yanggu County knows your name now, and if you don't do business with them, you don't have to nod your head Da Lang." ”
Ximen Qing thought about it, the habitual bandits in the Yellow River of the Huo family brothers did the business of killing people and overselling goods, just like Zhang Heng, a fireboat among the heroes of Liangshan, who carried the rich merchants to the heart, revealing his original hideous face, and asked: "The guest officer wants to eat bandao noodles?" But do you want to eat ravioli? ”
What they have to do with themselves is nothing more than to exchange the looted goods for easy silver and copper banknotes to him, to put it bluntly, that is, to launder the black money into white, and then go around drinking and having fun, if they directly take the looted goods to play, the jewelry is very easy to be recognized by others, provoking the messenger who does the public, although they are not afraid, but once they show their appearance, they will not be able to be as chic and free as they are now, not to mention anything else, don't think about the neighboring states and counties, you can only hide in the countryside and villages, if the government chases tightly, can only go up the mountain and fall into the grass, cutting off his own back road.
Ximenqing now has a gambling house in his hand, which is a good place to sell stolen goods, but there are many people, and it is inevitable that he will cause some lawsuits.
His eyes were slightly blind, his fingers were gently tapping on the table, thinking about the pros and cons of this matter, and Second Uncle Liu stood silent, and now he said a few more words, and he was suspected of provoking Ximenqing to do his life.
Ximenqing asked: "Second Uncle Liu, they are all habitual bandits in the rivers and lakes and green forests, they must have their own channels for sharing the spoils, why did they find me this time, although I have a few gambling houses, they are all in Yanggu County." ”
Second Uncle Liu replied: "Does Da Lang know that Zhou Lizheng of Xiwang Village was originally there? He took it as a place where private businessmen from near and far frequented, but unfortunately he didn't know which official in the state he offended, and he was indiscriminately placed on a few charges, escorted to the prison, and died in prison within a few days, and his family property was also confiscated by the public, without Zhou Lizheng, they had no place to sell it for gold and silver, and later they heard that you had done a great job in our Yanggu, so they asked for it here."
Ximenqing nodded slightly, and after a little thought, he said: "If you want to do this matter, I'm afraid you can only trouble Second Uncle Liu to coordinate in the middle, after all, I am not familiar with them, and it is not easy to speak, although I have my father's affection, but after all, it is not safe, Second Uncle Liu, you are used to the rivers and lakes in your early years, and you are well-informed, and you will definitely not let us suffer." ”
Second Uncle Liu didn't expect to agree so quickly, and he didn't care if he came forward to do it himself, but asked: "Brother Qing'er, you have thought about it, what they want to do, but what they want to lose their heads, do you have to wait for the master to come back, I think that Zhou Lizheng was also a person with hands and eyes at the beginning, but he was still killed." ”
Ximen Qing bowed and said: "No matter what my father is, only I am the master, he will ask each other in the future, and push it straight to me, I am afraid that there will be a villain in the week, or he will act too arrogantly and imprudently, and provoke right and wrong." ”
Seeing him say this, Second Uncle Liu reminded him again, "Brother Qing'er, don't say what happened that week, just say that the Huo family brothers are not ordinary Jiang bandits, they are several leaders who are private businessmen, and when the time comes, the things they get will definitely not say a small amount, where do we go, don't think about it in the county or even the entire state, after all, caution can last a long time." ”
Ximen Qingxin said: "If it's a small fight, I really don't like it, as for the channels for selling stolen goods, he really has a few ideas, but he can't say anything to people for the time being." ”
"Don't worry, Second Uncle Liu, everything is in my womb, you act carefully,
Second Uncle Liu nodded, and replied to the Huo family brothers.
Ximenqing glanced at his departing back, and then moved his eyes elsewhere, thinking carefully about the pros and cons of this matter, he had the heart to make a big deal, so he would never be an honest businessman who could not follow the rules, he wanted to recruit high-rollers in the rivers and lakes, and the green forest was strong, in addition to the reputation of extravagance and benevolence, he also needed a lot of gold and silver to support.
He was trying to find a way to make money quickly these days, but he didn't expect someone to send a pillow when he fell asleep, although there is a risk, but high risk means high reward, as long as you act carefully, it is no problem to fish for a few years.
Besides, Ximen Qing's method of selling stolen goods is what he used to frame Shen Zhong and sell illicit salt.
In this salt is a necessity that the people do not need or lack, so in the past dynasties, the government monopoly, price monopoly, extremely large profits, since the filling of the treasury, the annual income is more than 10 million. Due to the high cost of official salt, in order to resist the high price of official salt, the people often take the risk of buying and selling private salt, and the price is naturally lower than that of official salt.
Therefore, there has always been an official price and a private price. In the Song Dynasty, there were three main types of salt, namely grain salt (Jiechi salt produced in Guanxi Road and salt in Hedong Road), end salt (sea salt produced in coastal areas), and well salt produced in Sichuanfu.
And the origin of this private salt, in addition to the private self-made, most of them are the officials who control the salt production greedy for ink to sell, so the imperial court has banned the illegal salt several times, but the harvest is very little, even if the criminal law is strict, under the extremely high profits, the sale of illegal salt is still getting worse.
Ximenqing just hid this matter in his stomach and didn't tell anyone, after all, he didn't know much about the business of selling illicit salt, and he still needed to think about it carefully for a while. Yanggu is a big county, there are nearly 100,000 households and hundreds of thousands of people in Yanggu, how much salt to eat every day, and how much is private salt in this eaten promise, only a rough estimate, there are no less than 100 copper banknotes, if Ximen Qing can take this kind of business in his hands, combined with private businessmen, there will be no more or lack of goods.
Illicit salt dealers are usually not visible, Ximenqing trades with them, first, it is not easy to be exposed, and secondly, those who sell illicit salt also like jewelry, after all, the amount is large, ordinary people do not have so much gold, silver and copper banknotes, and they are also troublesome to traffick.
After pondering for a while, he informed Ju'an to find Xue Yongjiao Ting and the others to discuss the matter, after all, the two of them had gone to the rivers and lakes before defecting to him, although they had never done some business, but they must have had rumors, and they thought they could give themselves some good advice.
Not long after, the two came to the house, and Ximen Qing invited him to sit down and said, "Brother Xue, Brother Jiao." I have a big thing to do here, and if I do a good job, the family assets are just ordinary, if the news leaks, I will flee to the rivers and lakes at the lightest, and the army will be distributed at the worst, and the heads will fall to the ground, I don't know what the two brothers think? ”