The day of June 20 happened to be the day when the salt team of Fengmeng and Lingshan went to Changyi to change the guard, and every time the two salt teams were handed over, it always took half a day to settle down, and the blacksmith shop changed two styles of firecrackers, and Li Meng was not satisfied here.

Since there was nothing to do in Zhuangzi, Li Meng simply came to Zhizhou City to take a break for a long time, which could be regarded as a small rest, and arranged for the salt Ding on duty at the door to call Ning Qiangui, and Li Meng made a pot of tea by himself here.

As soon as Ning Qiangui entered the house, Li Meng poured out two cups of tea here, Master Ning smiled bitterly, he pretended to be good at flattery, to put it bluntly, he knew how to pat the horse to please, but in front of this adult, he often felt very powerless, Li Meng, the salt government inspector, did not understand the rules and etiquette at all, and acted no different from those ignorant village women, but if you really don't understand, the Yanding team has strict military laws and is extremely complete, which is not like not knowing the etiquette and rules.

But since Li Meng's performance, it can only be to cooperate, after Li Meng finished pouring the tea, he waved his palm, Ning Qiangui hurriedly put on a smile and said:

"How dare you pour tea as an adult and kill it."

But it is also polite, obviously I am used to Li Meng's style, tea is the most inferior kind, Li Meng just wants a bitter taste to refresh himself, and he is not particular, Ning Qiangui is also a little rich, and he really can't adapt to this tea, but he can only take a sip with an expressionless face.

"In the past few days, the state city has been very enthusiastic about lifting people this week, and I also wonder, I can't be an official if I raise people, why bother to make such a big effort."

As soon as he said this, Ning Qiangui's mouth almost squirted out of the tea, and he swallowed it forcibly, thinking that Master Li, you can't pretend to be stupid like this, but looking at Li Meng's puzzled expression, he still endured and explained:

"Master, nine products and eight small officials, people can do it directly, if there is a way and money, go to be a teaching, and then turn to Zhizhou, Zhixian is all there, that week is also a local big family, the future looks promising, naturally everyone is hugging to make friends."

Li Meng coughed a few times, these days I have less time to listen to people chatting, and my knowledge of the Ming Dynasty is still too shallow, making jokes everywhere, this week's lifting person is Zhou Xiucai some time ago, and it should be a calm and knowledgeable reader I heard when I was drinking in Shaohailou.

Both sides are in the same place, no matter what happens in the future, the relationship still has to be good, Li Meng quickly made up his mind and said:

"Lao Ning, you arrange for someone to send gifts and greetings, but it is estimated that the famous scholar may not be able to look down on me, a salt seller."

Hearing Li Meng's self-deprecation, Ning Qiangui also laughed a few times with him, and when he saw that he had nothing to do, he was about to get up and say goodbye, and when he walked out of the door, he heard Li Meng hesitating behind him and asked:

"Is there anything going on in Yan Zhizhou's yamen?"

"Back to the adult's words, Rosie bought two mothers-in-law and a cook in the Zhizhou Mansion, I heard that a few days ago the old man Zhizhou lost his temper in the inner house, and Mrs. Zhizhou was just crying there, and then Miss Yan's yard was locked, and several mothers-in-law watched there day and night, and heard that a maid was almost killed, if it wasn't for the young lady's survival."

Seeing that Li Meng's face was pale and uncertain, Ning Qiangui thought to himself that he was talking about the other party's private house, and the adult was really unhappy, so he quickly changed the topic and said:

"Zhizhou still writes and reads every day to entertain himself, and I heard the officials say that Tongzhi and the governor often go to Zhizhou, and want Zhizhou to come out and suppress the adults, but they are all rejected by Yan Zhizhou."

At this time, Li Meng's expression was very indifferent, in a small state city, there is anything secret about all kinds of news, as long as it is attentive, it is all a sieve, and there is no secret at all.

However, the news that Li Meng really cares about is the private house gossip in front of him, he sent porcelain like this, and Miss Yan is the only one in the Zhizhou Mansion who likes porcelain, after sending it three times in a row, it is strange that the Zhizhou couple is not suspicious, although the atmosphere of the late Ming Dynasty is not as rigid as the previous Ming Dynasty, but there are also rules.

This Yan Zhizhou didn't rush over and fight hard with Li Meng, this is really a scholar who knows how to cultivate obscurity, but Li Meng also understands that the civil official who was born on the right path in the other party must look down on himself for such a reckless character.

Ning Qiangui over there had already retreated, leaving Li Meng here in a daze, thinking about the experiences he had heard in modern times, it seemed that he had won favor, and the tricks of falling in love and closing the distance were not suitable for this era, what should he do, Li Meng slapped the coffee table with some frustration.

"I don't want to, go out to train the army, if you want to live a good life, you have to do these basic things well."

It's just, when everything is done, is there still time to live a good life?

When the number of Li Meng's subordinates expanded to more than 2,000 people, the salt farm resources in the area of the Lingshan Guard could be completely guarded by newly recruited people, and the original old salt Ding was sent out, and Dengzhou, which was in tatters by the war, did not talk about him.

With the cooperation of local salt lords and salt dealers, the illegal salt trafficking roads in Laizhou and Qingzhou are guarded by the salt kings, and except for the salt from Lingshan, the salt from other places really cannot enter at all.

If it is said that the salt administration inspection in the past, such as King Mu Yan, was also set up to investigate, and it was extremely vicious, but the money collected was not as much as one-tenth of Li Meng's, the reason is that he patronized himself to make a fortune, and he hated it, the big salt lord did not bird him, the medium salt dealer was wary of him, and the small salt dealer hated him to the bone. As a result, he made enemies everywhere, and naturally everything could not be done, and everyone did not salty and filial piety to him for a few taels of silver, so they didn't bother to pay attention to it.

Those big and small salt dealers are not much better, they either take salt in the local salt farms in Shandong, and then return to the local sales, sometimes look at the high price of salt in the places they pass by, and sell it directly to the local, salt sellers and salt dealers fight with each other, frame each other, and beware of the investigation of those bandits in the inspection department, the income is unstable, the profits are not high, and the risks are also large, all of which are listless.

But Li Meng is doing this now, dividing the districts according to the villages and towns of the prefectures, counties, and villages, and all the salt merchants and salt sellers related to illegal salt in various places, the landlords and heroes are the ones who choose the greatest cooperation, and Li Meng sorts out the local order for them, provides them with a source of goods, and ensures that they are not investigated by the government.

What these Haoqiang do is to buy these salts and sell them, and after the income and profits are stabilized, they are much stronger than before, and everyone benefits, and everyone is naturally attentive.

Li Meng has already woven a tight network of private salt sales in Dengzhou and Laizhou, in which each participant has his own interests, and driven by this interest, he automatically and consciously maintains and protects this network.

Of course, choosing the largest local gentry to cooperate will inevitably touch the interests of others, but since it has found the largest, the two join forces, and others can't turn the sky.

Many of the characters who were originally famous in the local area have disappeared like this, for example, Qiu Dahai in Pingdu Prefecture, greedy to buy salt from Yu'er Town and Haicang at a cheap price that day, but he didn't catch up with Li Meng Shaohailou's meeting, originally he was the biggest salt lord in Pingdu Prefecture, but after half a year, he couldn't buy a grain of salt in Laizhou, and the salt he bought in other places couldn't reach Pingdu Prefecture, and his subordinates all disappeared, and now people are nowhere to be found, and he is the same as the salt poles that escaped from the Lingshan Guard.

Li Meng, whose strength has expanded, has already begun to sell illicit salt to the south of the border between Yanzhou Mansion and Qingzhou Mansion, as well as to the south of Jinan Mansion.

However, these places are the traditional territories of the two Huai salt merchants, which are very close to Haizhou and Ganyu, and the transportation by water and land is also convenient.

As a result, when Li Meng's power infiltrated over, the two Huai merchants suddenly jumped like thunder, the so-called "two Huai salt, the world is salty", Huai salt is marketed all over the world, the two Huai salt merchants are also rich in the world, the power is amazing, originally the salt is set up by the province, and the salt is sold all over the place, but the local salt farms in Shandong are squeezed by the Huai salt without any living space, of course, the two Huai salt merchants are not really buying and selling official salt, but in the official salt with private salt, a salt of 400 catties, but the salt merchants pulled out 4,000 catties, 8,000 catties of salt for sale, Or buy and sell according to the price of official salt, and the profit is naturally extremely high.

Yanzhou Mansion, Dongchang Mansion and Jinan Mansion are the three richest mansions in Shandong, Huai Salt is full of them, and the profits are also huge, how can you give up easily.

The two Huai salt merchants also have their own salt thugs, but these people are just thugs, not to mention any training, relying on good courage and ruthlessness, and Li Meng's organized and trained salt dads to confront them, and they were beaten down, and they couldn't mobilize the power of the government in Shandong, so they couldn't do anything for a while.

Being occupied by Li Meng for one day, that is, making one less day of silver, Haizhou salt merchants are naturally unwilling to suffer this loss, but now it seems that they can't beat it, so they can only use some other means.

Jining is the hub of Shandong's Cao Yun, Shandong Salt Transport Envoy Yamen is also located in Jining Prefecture, Haizhou salt merchants are also gathered here, after threatening Li Meng is not easy to use, they started to fight, did not fight, and finally these salt merchants finally thought that the boss of the inspection was the Shandong Salt Transport Envoy, looking for his boss, and removed Li Meng, a bold guy, this is the best means.

These salt merchants are used to dealing with the government, so they naturally know the rules, and they put together the money and send it up......

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