Chapter 56: Control the Source
Now Wang Zheng doesn't know anything about the salt administration, and there are only a few people left who are scattered and run away from the original inspection department, and if Wang Zheng can find the people who are more familiar with this aspect now, there are only a few salt dings who came over from Xintoucheng yesterday.
In the afternoon of that day, Wang Zheng went to Qinglou.
Although Ninghaizhou City is not big, there are still restaurants and green buildings that can be handled, and the restaurant is Chenghaixuan, and the shopkeeper is called Qian Jingui, which is one of the several shopkeepers who followed Hao Sicheng to welcome Wang Zheng into the city that day.
The Qinglou is Wanhualou, and the bustard won't mention it, everyone knows that the owner of this Wanhualou is Hao Sicheng Hao's shopkeeper.
Wang Zheng went to the Qinglou not to go to the big health care, but was invited to participate in a dinner.
Hao Sicheng and a few familiar shopkeepers couldn't be invited yesterday, but they invited a few more times this morning, and they happened to have something to ask them for help, so Wang Zheng agreed with a look of uncontrollable hospitality.
Compared with the state dinner a while ago, this time the food was relaxed and pleasant, the owner of Wanhualou, Hao Shopkeeper, personally accompanied, and the courtesans and maikos who came were naturally the top brands, and Wang Zheng ate and drank well, but the main thing was that he didn't spend a dime.
Wang Zheng is all flattery, even when he is drinking, he has always kept his business in his stomach, and when he left, he said it intentionally or unintentionally, it turned out that he wanted to borrow a few accounts and books from Hao Sicheng.
The shopkeeper Hao was already a little drunk, and after hearing this, he didn't think so, and waved a few words with his big hand, and the account room and the bookstore borrowed it smoothly.
These people were directly arranged to help sort out the account books at the inspection department, although it was not difficult, Gao Liang and Heizi couldn't understand it at all.
Although Wang Zheng can understand it when he looks closely, he can't spend everything on this kind of thing.
The complacent Wang Zheng just came out of the Qinglou and collided with Duan Tiande, Duan Tiande is different from Wang Zheng, he came to this Wanhualou with a wave of health care.
Since Duan Tiande doesn't look down on himself, then Wang Zheng naturally doesn't need to use his hot face to stick to his cold ass, let's see, neither of the two of them can look down on anyone, and a cold snort is a passing shoulder.
But somehow, Wang Zheng went to Wanhualou to look for prostitutes on the afternoon of the second day of his appointment, and on the third day, it spread throughout the entire state city, as if someone was deliberately promoting, and in less than three days, this matter spread all over Ninghai, and the reputation of the new inspection stinks.
When Wang Dele, the governor of the state, who was handling government affairs in the state, also shook his head when he learned the news, but he didn't expect Wang Zhengcai to show his feet the next day....
Wang Zheng didn't care so much, he was busy going back and forth all day long.
At this time, Wang Zheng had already returned to Wendeng, you must know that he was not only an inspection, but also the third-in-command of the Wendeng camp, and he could not be delayed at any end.
It is not far from Ninghai to Wendeng, Wang Zheng and a few cronies can arrive in half a day on a fast horse, and it took a day to catch up with a round trip or daytime, and the first thing Wang Zheng did when he returned to the state city was to find the new Yanding to interrogate.
These people turned out to be salt dings who worked under King Zhang Yan, and they knew a little about things, and they were afraid and afraid of Wang Zheng, and they all knew everything.
It turned out that Zhang Dacheng had several ways to earn when he was in office, the most important of which were two, one was to use the convenience of his position to do some private salt trading, anyway, he himself was an inspection, and he could check his own success.
The second is to let his salters search for illicit salt everywhere, arrest the smuggled salt dealers who did not send money to them, and after a series of activities, they need to hand over the income layer by layer.
If the lowest level of Yan Ding searched for ten coins of silver, according to the rules, he would hand over eight coins of silver to the leaders above, and those leaders could keep thirty percent of the silver after getting the silver, and the rest would be handed over to Zhang Dacheng.
It's just that this form of money-making method is too slow, and it is the same as the imperial court's salary, who can stare at how much of those salts are searched all day long, and in the end, few people will honestly hand over the amount, that is, layer upon layer of deception.
Zhang Dacheng only knows how to make money for pleasure all day long, and he doesn't care about anything else, his subordinates are naturally a plate of loose sand, and a large amount of silver money is deducted by salt and ink from all over the country.
Wang Zheng listened to a look of sudden realization, the first thought is to control the source of private salt, it seems that the way to make money from this inspection is not much different from modern urban management, as long as the source of the salt road is firmly in their own hands, control the circulation channels of private salt, this is the real grasp of the lifeblood of Yanding.
Where is the source of the private salt in Jiaodong, it is naturally the Chishan Town Salt Farm in Jinghaiwei, which is one of the largest salt farms in Jiaodong.
Just do it, on the fourth day after Wang Zheng took office, when the others were still immersed in the joke of Wang Zheng looking for prostitutes, Wang Zheng had already driven out of Ninghai Prefecture with the soldiers of the Wendeng battalion.
These days, the people of the inspection department often go out of the city for training, thinking that these people were originally the military households of the Wendeng camp, and the guards guarding the city don't think anything is wrong.
Greeted respectfully, the general guard of the gate opened the gate with a smile, the new inspector was a figure he couldn't afford to mess with.
The team of more than 200 people walking on the road inevitably attracted attention, and everyone who saw it thought that Wang Zheng had either gone to drill or returned to Wendeng.
They didn't know that Wang Zheng was taking someone to take office again.
The matter of the acceptance level has long been fruitful, Wang Zheng got the official position of Jing Haiwei commanding the affairs, this was originally just a fictitious position, and Wang Zheng did not want to take office with chicken feathers as an arrow.
But this thing is really coincidental, if Wang Zheng wants to control the source of the Chishan salt field, he has to go, Chishan Town is in Jinghaiwei, so he has to pretend to go to Jinghaiwei for the last term.
Along the way, he first went back to Wendeng, Wang Zheng was still sympathetic to his subordinates, and knew that everyone missed their relatives and ordered them to rush the next day, which also made the sergeants grateful.
At noon the next day, Wang Zheng finally came to the territory of Jinghaiwei.
Since it was in the name of taking office in Jinghaiwei, it was natural to go to Weizhi Ningjin to guard the thousand households, and the people in the city were taken aback when they saw this group of people, and they closed the city gate from a distance, and the gate was also closed.
The last question, there was a big misunderstanding, they never thought that it was actually the commander who came.
If there were still people in office in the usual vacant position, it would have caused a lot of laughter, but the people in the city couldn't laugh at all at this time.
Seeing the team of people standing in the forest under the city, they all just felt dry mouth, and their faces were full of fear, it seems that this newly purchased commander has two brushes.
The thousand households in the city didn't want to let Wang Zheng enter the city, so that his authority would be challenged, but Wang Zheng was not interested in Jing Haiwei's power struggle, and all he cared about now was the proof that he had taken office.
The two sides discussed, and finally threw down a basket from the city, which contained the proof that Wang Zheng needed, and both sides achieved their respective goals.
After a few words of goodbye, Wang Zheng turned his head and went to Chishan Town.
Ninghai's inspection department can't control Jinghaiwei, but Wang Zheng is not only an inspection, but he is also the general manager of Wendeng Battalion, the commander of Jinghaiwei's Zhengsi Rank Department, and is appointed by the regular military selection department.
After taking office this time, Wang Zheng has political and legal power, and the official can already interfere in the salt field of Chishan Town.
Jinghaiwei is also the jurisdiction of the Wendeng battalion, and when it comes to war, Wang Zheng, as a subordinate of the Wendeng battalion, can even take Wu Weizhong's warrant to mobilize the guards, which is the real combination of military and political power.