When Li Meng heard this, he chuckled, took a sip of tea, Chen Liuzi and Wang Hai, who were standing behind Li Meng, glanced at each other, but they couldn't hide their pride, whoever trafficked illicit salt in Jiaozhou City or managed the salt administration, they had to consider the hundreds of bamboo poles of the salt poles, and the salt dealers from all over the country were pierced with blood holes and thrown on the side of the road waiting to die.

"At present, this new Ding comes out to be an official to borrow money first, and when he takes office, he has his own financial resources to repay his debts, in addition to some regular silver, the biggest amount of money in this state is the seasoning money given by the inspection when Zhizhou takes office, and now the inspection is dead, this money can't be taken out, and the Zhizhou family has just come over, I don't know what it looks like to be embarrassed?"

After speaking, Shopkeeper Li laughed first, and did not have any respect for the newly arrived Zhizhou.

"Oh? How much silver is this seasoning? ”

Li Meng finally couldn't help but ask, and Shopkeeper Li didn't think much about it, and said with a smile:

"Five hundred taels of silver, this Zhizhou is afraid that he is worried about this amount, and Zhang Dianshi in the yamen drank yesterday, saying that this Zhizhou released words, whoever takes out these five hundred taels, the position of this inspection is whose ......"

Shopkeeper Li sneered twice, and said with some contempt:

"This official and master are all decent, and it is really a shame for the court to be like this."

Seeing the high-ranking official make a fool of himself, no matter who he was, he felt a little schadenfreude in his heart, Chen Liuzi and Wang Hai couldn't help it, they laughed there, and found that Li Meng was holding a teacup there and didn't know what he was thinking, so he hurriedly covered his mouth.

Shopkeeper Li laughed a few times and saw Li Meng's state, and also shut up, the room fell into silence, after a while, the tea in Li Meng's hand was almost cool, suddenly, Li Meng put the teacup in his hand on the table, "touch", but frightened the people around him, he stared at the shopkeeper Li and said:

"Shopkeeper Li, give you five hundred taels, can you help me get this inspection position?"

Shopkeeper Li was taken aback by this sudden request, hesitated for a while, twisted his beard with his hand, and said in a low voice:

"This, I'm afraid it's ......"

"How about six hundred taels, how much is left is the benefit of the shopkeeper."

This naked benefit suddenly shocked the shopkeeper, even if the prefect has only eighty taels of money on the face of the prefect a year, the new Zhizhou is in urgent need of money, and the position of the local salt administration inspection is vacant, and this transaction of buying officials on behalf of others is at least one hundred taels of silver.

What's more, the forces outside Jiaozhou City are now faintly the biggest salt poles, and it is also very beneficial to please Li Mengjiang's business from home, and after a little hesitation, he said with a smile:

"Thanks to Li Erlang, let's ask someone to try, but this position requires some confessional documents......"

Shopkeeper Li thought that Li Meng was a good man in the green forest, not a good family, and he didn't expect the other party to answer like this:

"It's okay, I have the general flag of the Xue family of the Lingshan Guard, and the shopkeeper can use it."

“…… It turned out to be Lord Li, what a disrespect! ”

In February of the sixth year of Chongzhen, although there were still small groups of rebellious activities at the junction of Qingzhou Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion in Shandong, the whole Shandong Province was jubilant, and the Liao general Kong Youde, who had plagued the Denglai area of Shandong for almost two years, went to sea with rebellious soldiers, and the rebellion was finally put down.

Governors, political envoys and officials at all levels sang praises to the emperor's holy virtues, naturally saying that without the command of Emperor Chongzhen, there could not have been such a huge victory.

In this celebratory atmosphere, no one noticed at all the fact that Li Meng, a military household, had both virtue and ability, and was well-known in the Weisu area, and the salt law plan was the foundation of the country, and Li Meng was ordered to inspect the Shandong Salt Administration Department in Jiaozhou and take office on the same day.

The entire Xue family's thousand households were shaken, not to mention those who joined the salt pole, even the other hundred households, thousands of households were all giving gifts to show their respect, and the commander of the Lingshan Guard also sent people to pay tribute, although he was a nine-grade official, everyone saw the prestige of King Mu Yan back then.

This Li Meng's subordinates look more elite than the family soldiers who commanded the envoys, and there is such a large piece of salt from the salt field, and it is certain that they will be more majestic than King Mu Yan in the future.

Li Meng was also not ambiguous, and set up a flowing water banquet in the west village of the Xue family's thousand households, and feasted the villagers, but although the quality of the food of the salt transportation team and the salt boiling team was greatly improved, they were not given the treatment of the table, and they were still practicing by the sea.

Originally, those who did not dare to join because of the risk of trafficking in illicit salt all wanted to come and work, and the salt field must have needed a lot of manpower, but Li Menglai did not refuse, and they were all taken in, and at the same time, the 160 young men of the salt boiling team who were still boiling salt at the beach were only left with practice every day.

On the first day of the first month of March, Li Meng went to Jiaozhou City to take office, and everyone sent out a few miles to turn around......

This time, Li Meng led the salt poles to take the official road, and the role of this official road is to connect the Wei Station, Lingshan Salt Farm and Jiaozhou City, the salt is smuggled salt, and the Wei Office becomes a farm, and there is no one to interact with this official road at all, so Li Meng and the one hundred and fifty salt poles behind him are quite conspicuous.

Zhao Neng was the only one among those people around Li Meng who was allowed to drink at the table, and he was still a little swaying on the road, obviously he was not awake from a hangover, and he couldn't see the people behind him after walking out for a few miles, so he couldn't help but ask Li Meng and said:

"Brother Li, oh, Lord Li, is it necessary for us to bring so many people out?"

The salt poles behind him were lined up in five columns, although the queue exercise had only been carried out for a few months, it was already effective, and one hundred and fifty people walked solemnly on the road carrying bamboo poles, very neat, Li Meng smiled, and asked Zhao Neng rhetorically:

"Remember the other three former leaders of the Salt Clans who came over the other day?"

Zhao Neng shook his head and said with some doubts:

"Naturally, I remember, didn't we let them disperse on their own, and didn't want these things that harmed the people?"

Li Meng laughed in a low voice, and only said in a half-loud voice:

"These goods have no other ability than to harm the people, they can only be bandits, how can they be willing, there are people in Fengmeng Town and Jiaozhou City to spread the news, recently gathered in Fengmeng Town, more than 150 people, saying that they want to intercept me on the way."

Hearing this, Zhao Neng was full of excitement, and his hangover wine turned into cold sweat, and he hurriedly asked:

"What!? Then let's go down this path!! ”

Li Meng gritted his teeth and smiled:

"It's okay, it's a good thing to get together, so as not to kill one by one in the future!"