The guy who greeted the guests at the door scratched his head, thinking to himself to see how Li Meng, who was an ordinary person, was so respectful to his shopkeeper. Entering the inner courtyard, Chen Liuzi, who was called "Boss Chen", was a little uneasy, and said with a cramped smile:

"Shopkeeper Li, this is our eldest brother Li Meng, I just came here to settle the accounts, there is a lot to hide, no wonder."

Shopkeeper Li reacted quickly, he also knew that the private salt in Jiaozhou City was now monopolized by the so-called "salt pole", since he was called the eldest brother by Chen Liuzi, he must be the big boss with many legends, and immediately hugged his fists with a more respectful attitude and said:

"It turns out that this is Li Erlang, speaking of which, we are still our family, I really look up to it for a long time, if there is anything slacking in the first meeting, please atone for your sins."

Saying sorry words in his mouth, with a smile on his face, and a false invitation in his hand, he has already brought people into the inner hall of the backyard to meet guests, Li Meng smiled, signaling that it was okay, and at the same time he felt quite cordial in his heart, the end of the Ming Dynasty was a chaotic era of continuous famine, but it was also an era of extreme prosperity in commerce.

Looking at the level of the shopkeeper of this state store, there is no difference between the level of dealing with people and things in modern times and those merchants with good service attitude, Li Meng thought so there, but he didn't expect that the shopkeeper of this warehouse was also secretly surprised, the legend of this Li Erlang is widely spread in Jiaozhou City, and the well-informed place of the warehouse naturally knows, but not many people have seen Li Meng, everyone imagines him as a stout man with a height of nine feet and a waist circumference of nine feet.

Who would have thought that when they met like this, looking at Li Meng, although he was tall, he was a very gentle person, different from the military men he came into contact with, to be more precise, he had a strange temperament that was a mixture of literati and businessmen, and his attitude was also polite.

With this perception, the shopkeeper Li was more polite and respectful, invited Li Meng to take a seat, and then served good tea, seeing that Chen Liuzi and Wang Hai, who were not afraid of the sky and the earth on weekdays, were standing behind Li Meng respectfully, and felt that Li Meng was extraordinary, and did not wait for the salt pole to speak, the shopkeeper Li himself spoke first:

"From the lunar month to the first month, a total of one hundred and twenty taels of silver is paid, and the counter is already ready to come out......"

While he was talking, a guy walked in with a silver bag in his hand, put it on the coffee table, and then retreated, and the shopkeeper Li stopped talking, and pushed the silver bag in front of Li Meng with a smile.

The official salt of the Ming Dynasty was sold, and the Jinzhou warehouse was not a government-run salt merchant, and it was Li Meng's salt that was bought, which was naturally a private salt transaction, and the official salt was sold in Jiaozhou City for two taels of silver and a load, and there were a lot of sundries and sediment in it, and the people were not willing to buy it, and the salt merchants were also false stories.

In Jiaozhou City, all the warehouses of some scale are concurrently engaged in some private salt sales business, and the people are also willing to buy, they buy and sell salt into small packages, and the retail profits are higher.

What made the salt pole people a little incomprehensible was that the price that Li Meng sold to these merchants in Jiaozhou City was nine coins and a load of silver, which completely allowed the other party to take advantage of it.

Li Meng opened the silver bag, casually divided a small pile, pushed it in front of the shopkeeper Li, and said with a smile:

"My family's business is also hard work, please accept these for the time being."

Seeing the silver delivered to him, although the shopkeeper Li was surprised, he still couldn't help but put the money in his sleeve, and said with a smile:

"How does this work?"

"In the future, if you sell me a load of salt, you will have the benefit of the treasurer's silver, which is just the first share, and the shopkeeper is not welcome."

The more you sell, the more benefits you get, and you're afraid that the other party won't desperately sell these salts to yourself, people are profit-seeking, and this Golden State Inn is not Li's own industry, but he manages it here, and there are benefits for him, which is naturally disrespectful, and modern commissions and rebates are also useful in ancient times.

The two sides said a few more polite words, Li Meng took a sip of tea, and asked in a deep voice:

"How's the business of the salt merchants in this city?"

"Li Erlang is the Zhang family who sells official salt, Zhang En has long been unable to do it, so he opened a restaurant in the city to supplement the family......"

Salt tea official camp, salt merchants are also hereditary, but private salt is overflowing, and there is no market for official salt at all, and this identity has become a burden, Li Meng heard this, and before he could speak, the shopkeeper Li said with a smile:

"Don't say it's this salt merchant, even this inspection is not popular."

Li Meng was surprised "oh", and the shopkeeper Li looked at Li Meng's interest, and when he was happy to get the silver, he hurriedly said.

The salt administration inspection is just a petty official of the nine grades, but countless people flock to it, not that this position can investigate smuggled salt and fill private pockets, but that this position can be open to trafficking in illicit salt, trafficking in smuggling salt is a fearful business, simply to protect the salt team, to open up the joint is to spend a lot of extra money and energy.

However, the salt administration patrols and sells smuggled salt, which is equivalent to officers and soldiers being thieves, and they can do it openly, and they can also sell it privately, and the price is much higher, and the profits are naturally a lot.

The area in charge of the Mu inspection in Jiaozhou City is Laizhou and the southern part of Dengzhou, and the recent Dengzhou military disaster can only stare at Laizhou Mansion, and the money of this Laizhou Mansion can be made to the sky, and the ban on illegal salt can earn a share, and they will earn a share by trafficking in illegal salt, and the filial piety of foreign salt merchants will earn another share.

Therefore, after the death of Mu Xunjian, many people took out the silver and used their relationships to compete for this position, but things often change with the change of time, and now the people in the Yanzhou area of Qingzhou are in turmoil, although the Dengzhou military disaster is going to end, but the sequelae will not be short.

The chaos in these places is equal to the filial piety of foreign salt merchants for a while and a half, and there is no need to count on it, but the ban on illicit salt and the trade of trafficking in illicit salt is still a big profit, and many people are still fighting for it, but as time passes, the Lingshan salt farm and the surrounding area are gradually controlled by a salt lord.

The salt ladies can't muster the strength to stop anything, and the government doesn't care, which shows that the two financial routes of banning and trafficking in illicit salt have also been cut off, or at least it will take a lot of effort to recover, and there is no money to make.

So there was a very strange thing, the position of the Yanzheng inspection in Jiaozhou was vacant, but no one cared about it, so it hung up.

Shopkeeper Li watched Li Meng listen attentively, and also had the heart to show off his knowledge, and said with a smile:

"The original hot inspection position, but now it is cold dry food, the household department doesn't care, the salt administration department doesn't care, it is said that it was pushed to this Zhizhou adult, but no one dared to pick up the stubble, just hang it there."