What these salt merchants didn't expect was that the silver was sent, but after seven or eight days, they gave a message, saying that there was no solid evidence after investigation, and that Li was a capable member of the inspection who was honest and honest.

This reply made the salt merchants half angry, thinking about how the salt envoy collected money and did not do anything, but he had no choice but to spend money to buy a small official of the salt envoy Yamen, this is to know, the current salt envoy's favorite is the patrol Li Meng in Jiaozhou, the previous inspection includes the king of Mu Yan, who has a background background, and after the local card is set up to investigate, no one is willing to pay the silver up, and the above urges, and reply to the Haiyan River Qing Taiping world, what are the illegal salt dealers.

The salt transportation makes the yamen's financial resources nothing more than the filial piety of the salt merchants and the handing over of the inspection in various places, the official salt in Shandong is dilapidated, the official salt and salt merchants have gone bankrupt, there is no filial piety to hand over, in the past, the local inspection was their own business, so the Shandong salt transportation Yamen has always been a clear water yamen.

After Li Meng became the inspector, the Shandong salt transport envoy had no hope, and the Dengzhou military disaster had just been leveled, and Denglai was barren land, so what silver would be handed over.

Unexpectedly, after Li Meng took office, the money handed over by law was actually paid up a lot, and the filial piety of the New Year was full, and such a good subordinate went there, and the salt transportation made the Yamen clear water for so long, and it was rare to have some oil and water, wouldn't it be necessary to treat it well and maintain it carefully.

"You salt merchants in the south of the country, usually sell in Shandong, and I don't see you come to my salt transportation to make the yamen filial piety, today there is something to ask me to temporarily send money, if the official investigates Li Meng, is there still silver filial piety, it is not as good as Li Meng and other kind people."

This is the words that were relayed by someone, it is said that the salt envoy said it when he was chatting with his cronies, and after the two Huai salt merchants in Jining heard the news, they all cursed a few swear words. But there is nothing to be done.

And there are some vague messages. said that a certain noble relative said that Laizhou salt was very good, and Li Meng was a good person, but this news was indeed vaguely possible, and he couldn't inquire about the source at all.

Laiwu and Xintai in Jinan Prefecture, Yizhou and Feixian in Yanzhou Prefecture, Laizhou Salt with better quality and slightly lower price have gradually squeezed Huai salt out of the market. This trend made the salt merchants in Huaishang anxious. However, it is not uncommon to encounter similar situations in the past, and there are ways to deal with them......

In fact, these things had similar signs in March, but Li Meng didn't notice at all that the news reported by Yanding from all over the country only said that he had encountered a number of bandits. Once you touch the collapse, it's not a big problem, so you don't need to worry about it.

The battle between the salt merchants and the bandits and Li Meng's men was not taken seriously by the people on Li Meng's side at all, and they felt that it was not worth mentioning, as if a mosquito was biting people and being slapped to death, and people would not take it seriously. For the semi-militarized Laizhou Yanding, those temporary ruffians were too worthless.

Li Meng's private salt sales market expanded very smoothly. In his opinion, the more his personnel swelled, his strength increased, and the more trade channels he controlled, the more competitors would naturally be squeezed out. It's a natural trend. He didn't take it to heart either.

Regarding the fact that the two Huai salt merchants were preparing to calculate him in Jining Prefecture, Li Meng did not think of it at all. There was no sign around him to let him know, he was worried about other things, but although Li Meng was anxious and worried, the days were still so ordinary, and it was soon August.

"Master, the usual silver Zhizhou Yamen received it, but the porcelain sent this time was rejected by the Zhizhou Mansion, that....that."

Rosie, who went to give the gift, trembled and said the situation of the gift, and at the same time peeked at Li Mengdi's expression, Li Mengdi's face was also not good-looking, and he was even more angry when he looked at the other party's appearance, and said coldly:

"This gift is not for you, if you have anything to say!"

Rosie cleared his throat, and then whispered:

"The housekeeper's face was not good, but he just said that Yan Zhizhou would do it step by step in the future, and persuaded some people not to want to eat swan meat.

If you want the civil officials on the right path of the imperial examination to have a good impression of Li Meng's inspection of salt politics, it really needs the sun to come out from the west, not to mention that Li Meng is still going to show goodwill to the other party's daughter, and he can't bear it, if it weren't for Yan Zhizhou and Li Meng being in Jiaozhou City together, Li Meng's murderous reputation and power are all fearful in his eyes, I'm afraid he would have turned his face long ago.

Now the people in the inspection house also know that Li Meng is interested in the young lady of Yan Zhizhou's family, but the literati of the Ming Dynasty look down on martial artists, this is almost a hundred years, a nine-grade inspector wants to marry the only daughter of six-grade Zhizhou, it really belongs to Gao Pan, if Yan Zhizhou agrees, I am afraid that he will not be able to raise his head in front of officialdom and colleagues, these truths, even Luo Xi, who used to be a salt ding, understands in his heart.

But looking at Li Meng's appearance, he also knew that this matter could not be persuaded at all, so it was better not to find himself bored, Rosie was just laughing awkwardly there, and scolded the rest of the servants in his heart, I said that I would push this job to me when I came back outside, it turned out to be such a drudgery.

When Rosie was standing there embarrassed, someone outside hurriedly ran in, and without saying hello, he just pushed the door and entered, and said breathlessly:

"My lord, this is today's Di Bao ......"

"Lao Ning, why are you in such a hurry."

"Your Excellency, didn't you say that any news of a Tartar in the newspaper should be reported to you immediately?"

As soon as he heard the news that it was a Tatar, Li Meng suddenly got up from his seat, rushed to Ning Qiangui, grabbed the newspaper, and began to look carefully, there is a foundation of simplified Chinese characters, more than a year and a half of familiarity, these traditional Chinese characters can still be read clearly, but there is no punctuation, but it does not affect the understanding of the general idea.

"In July, the Dongyu divided into four roads from Datong to enter the Kou, and the border forts of Datong Xuanfu were lost, and the officers and soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the troops crossed the north and went straight to the ......."

The transmission degree of news in this era, after more than a month from Beijing to Shandong, is also decent, the Manchu Tartars entered the Kou, didn't it take a long time for the Manchus to defeat Li Zicheng and enter the customs, why start now, is it that history has changed.

Li Meng's hands began to tremble a little, although Master Ning on the side was out of breath, but he didn't have a panicked look, he looked at Li Meng's eyes were a little bloodshot, and the hand holding the newspaper began to tremble, and couldn't help but say:

"My lord, a few days ago, the merchants from Beizhili came to our Shandong suddenly few, everyone thought something had happened, it turned out to be the East captive, and now the mansion has reported down, it must be fine, adults don't have to worry."

Li Meng raised his head from the newspaper and glanced at Ning Qiangui who was explaining there, his eyes were almost blood-red, Master Ning was almost frightened by this glance and withdrew, extremely angry, as if there was panic and despair, it was really inexplicable, Master Ning slandered, you are a nine-grade salt seller, what are you doing so much about the affairs of the imperial court, the old scholars of the pavilion are not as anxious as you?

complained in his stomach, but he still explained with a smile:

"My lord, the Ming Dynasty is iron, it's almost three hundred years, and the Mongolian Tartars have hit Zhili not once or twice, and it's not all right, this Dongyu Jurchen is just jumping for a few days, but this Di newspaper said that the Shaanxi thief Gao Yingxiang ran out of the encirclement of the Carriage Gorge army, which is a big trouble. The Ming Dynasty's Di Bao system ensures that the news is transmitted to the whole country, which also ensures that these scholars who are related to the government have some insight into the world's major events, and what Ning Qiangui said is not outstanding, but it is also the common view of the current Great Tomorrow, although the Dongyu is a scourge, it is not the biggest scourge compared to the peasant army.

Listening to these words, the void fire in Li Meng's heart rose up, thinking that I can't tell you, I know that the Ming Dynasty was defeated by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it was also massacred, and the next few hundred years were the dark age of the Han people, and the troubled era of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Han people did not exist in ten.

But no matter how angry he is, these words really can't be said, Li Meng racked his brains there to think, what did he learn in history class back then, especially the history of the Ming and Qing dynasties, but what can be remembered is that Li Zicheng destroyed the Ming Dynasty, and then the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and the rest of the details are unknown, at that time, I felt that the content of history was really small, easy to learn, but at this time Li Meng was extremely angry, the textbooks of primary and secondary schools are only about the general outline, talking about the peaceful season, for the disasters and dark periods in history, All the drastic content is brushed aside, and the Boxer rebellion against the Eight-Nation Coalition will not be mentioned, and the several massacres of the Manchu Qing Dynasty will not be mentioned.

Everything in the history books is selected according to the criterion of "peaceful and prosperous times", and those who meet this criterion are to be talked about in a big way, and those that do not meet are all brushed aside or even not to be told.

There are also countless clowns who falsify history for their own dirty purposes, and publicize it in various media.

As a result, if anyone who receives history education in school does not read historical materials to understand the truth by himself, if he really uses history, he will find that there are many faults in his historical knowledge and many things he does not understand. This is the case with Li Meng.

He only knew that Li Zicheng entered Beijing, and knew that the Manchu Qing Dynasty finally established the Qing Dynasty, but Li Meng didn't know anything about the details in the middle.