Li Meng is finally a little interested, the news from Hou Shan's side recently said that the salt sellers in Pingdu Prefecture have not come for a month, and he is still thinking about what the reason is, the north of Laizhou Mansion is the Bohai Sea, and the sea can also be boiled to boil salt, it seems that he is going to buy salt from other houses.

Seeing Li Meng put down the chopsticks, his attention shifted, Ning Qiangui breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and then became even more excited, it seems that what he racked his brains to think about for a few days was not in vain:

"Lord Li, our own salt field has a lot of salt, if it is sold as much as it produces, it will naturally be a lot of money, enough for the brothers to spend, but this sale must have one first, and the salt from other families cannot come in."

Speaking of this, not only Li Meng, but even Chen Liuzi and Wang Hai put down their chopsticks and listened attentively, Ning Qiangui was excited, but he still wanted to keep himself calm and said:

"Blocking the traffic arteries, controlling the salt works in Haicang and Yu'er Town, the two salt works over there were closed for two years during the rebellion in Kong Youdeden Prefecture, and their vitality has not recovered so far, my lord, we should work harder to make him unable to open again."

Hearing this, Li Meng frowned slightly, this Master Ning said that he had thought about it, but many details could not be solved at all, although Ning Qiangui seemed to have a clear analysis, but there was no specific way to implement it, it was tantamount to saying in vain, while pondering, Master Ning took out a piece of paper and said leisurely:

"Glue, Weishui, Daxiaogu River, Daxiaobai River, bulk salt transportation, manpower and animal power are huge, the most convenient is to take the waterway, as long as we are stuck in the waterway, set up a card to check, Laizhou Mansion's salt trading must be in hand, as for how to defeat the salt field of Haicang and Yuer Town, the adults naturally have a plan!"

"Good!"

Li Meng snorted excitedly, stretched out his hand and patted the table, from the modern era, he has a big concept of the geography of this era, but there is no way to grasp the details of the waterway in detail, you must know that the rivers mentioned above by Ning Qiangui have either dried up or become small ditches in modern times.

As for this bulk transportation, it consumes a huge amount of manpower and animal power, and it is convenient to take the waterway, this concept is really unheard of for Li Meng.

The two people on the side heard Master Ning's analysis, Wang Hai had a childish heart, and when he heard this plan, he felt that the future was so ambitious, and he rubbed his hands excitedly, but Chen Liuzi's expression became a little dignified, and he was silent for a while, and said:

"Brother Li, Master's plan is good, but we don't have so many people, there are more than 350 people at the moment, guarding the salt field and 100 households, and transporting salt and delivering salt is already very nervous, why don't you send another batch of people here in the state city out?"

Hearing Chen Liuzi's statement, Ning Qiangui also found that he hadn't thought about it so much, and one more person would cost an extra penny, except for the five or six necessary family members in the past, the rest of the Mu Inspector had spent money to buy maids and servants, and he was not willing to spend an extra penny on the people below.

Li Meng is the same here, his salts are all paid, and they are never in arrears, if they add one manpower, it will cost Li Meng an extra penny of money here, isn't it to make money for this inspection position, who will spend more money, Master Ning laughed dryly, and just as he was about to speak, he heard Li Meng say without hesitation:

"It doesn't matter if there is no one, let's practice, after the banquet tomorrow, we will immediately plan to recruit soldiers, oh, the matter of recruiting Yanding."

After saying this, Li Meng seemed to know what Master Ning was thinking, and joked with a smile:

"Don't worry about the money, one more person will occupy one more place, and one more place, we will earn a lot of silver, no matter how we count."

After saying this, the people at the table burst into laughter, and Li Meng said again:

"Lao Ning has been talking for a long time, you are hungry, Xiaohai, go get a pair of chopsticks."

Ning Qiangui wanted to refuse but felt that he was really hungry, looking at the other party's sincere invitation, he simply smiled and took the steamed bun handed over by Chen Liuzi, and opened his mouth to chew it.

After eating a few bites, Master Ning, who had just offered his plan, suddenly pondered Li Meng's words just now, "One more person, one more place" This doesn't seem to be the words of an inspector, but like a martial arts leader who is marching and fighting, and then contact those salts who are trained by military law, is it ......

Master Ning smiled to himself, shook his head as if he wanted to throw this idea out of his mind, and began to eat it in a big gulp.

The next day, Shaohailou, the best restaurant in Jiaozhou City, said sorry to many guests, saying that the second floor had already been booked, and everyone was invited to come back another day.

Jiaozhou City, the only decent place to invite guests to eat is this Shaohai Building, said that the second floor was taken over, and immediately there were rich and noble people who were furious, saying that what kind of person is so ignorant of human feelings, angrily scolded the restaurant and the shopkeeper not to stop, the master has to sit on the second floor.

After the shopkeeper of Shaohailou said that it was the inspector Li Meng who took down the restaurant, the people who had a big temper before were silent, obediently went downstairs, scolded badly, and gave the guy some silver, and begged carefully that he did not tell the inspector Li about this matter.

The shopkeeper of Shaohailou is also worried, because there is no business at noon, I heard that the inspector Li Erlang came here to eat, and even the street in front of the restaurant is a lot deserted, but yesterday the deposit was paid very much, besides, Jiaozhou City is also a sub-rumor, although Li Erlang is a killer, but he is also a benevolent and righteous knight, will not bully the people, very reasonable, Shaohailou's Lin shopkeeper can only comfort himself like this, in the past, the Mu patrol was a bastard who loved to be drunk and crazy, and caused trouble.

According to the rules of entertaining, the host should arrive first and greet the guests at the door, but before the time to eat, the guests have already arrived.

Shaohailou received all the officials and businessmen in Jiaozhou City, these people are either rich or expensive, and they are somewhat decently dressed, but these guests who came at noon today except for two who are businessmen, wearing long robes, the rest are short sleeves, rough and atmospheric characters, if it is not in broad daylight, look at that appearance to report to the official, not bandits must be robbers.

After these people sat down, they were also restless, shouting there with loud voices, what they said was illegal, either selling smuggled salt, or ** gambling business, Shaohailou's shopkeeper Lin and a few guys were pale, thinking that after today's banquet, they should not be tied up by the yamen, and, these people are so vicious, will they give money after eating? This business is really troublesome, Shopkeeper Lin and the guys are afraid to wait carefully upstairs, and if there is a slight mistake, they will be scolded by those rough people, and they can only endure it.