If you can't transfer the goods, your reputation and income will be greatly affected, and you are so anxious that you are like an ant on a hot pot, but you can't do anything about it.

At this time, the salt merchants of Jining City and the surrounding salt merchants, but they all knew a news, saying that there were a large number of salt goods sold by Wenru Commercial Bank, gathered in the south of Yanzhou Mansion in Jining, and the salt merchants of Dongchang Mansion and Jinan Mansion were in a hurry because their own sources of goods were damaged.

Where the salt goods come from, everyone knows that in addition to these salt merchants in Shandong, there is only one remaining salt merchant, Li Erlang's Laizhou salt.

Things seem to be very clear, the salt goods of the two Huai salt merchants were destroyed, and now there are salt goods sold by Wenru firms, and it seems that it is very clear who is the culprit of destroying those salt goods.

However, this paper and the generous gift went in, and when I saw the generous gift, everyone was smiling accordingly, and the name of the complaint on the paper could be seen, and the prefect's yamen and the salt transport made the yamen directly hit out, and the Zhizhou yamen received the case, and immediately sent someone to detain the shopkeeper of Wenru Commercial Bank (the shopkeeper Meng had already gone home to support the elderly) into the yamen, who wanted to think that the next day, the Zhizhou lord personally sent the shopkeeper out with a smile on his face.

The salt merchants' condition was directly thrown in the face by Lord Zhizhou, and if they hadn't spent money to make up for a generous gift, I am afraid they would have been arrested and put in prison.

The conscience of heaven and earth, the destruction of the salt warehouse was done by Li Meng, but whether it was Eunuch Liu or Li Meng of the Beijing Division, they were not familiar with the salt envoys, prefects, and governors, and they did not say a word of greeting.

It's just that Wenru Commercial House is an industry run by the Confucian family of Qufu and the Meng family of Zoucheng, and the Meng family is hereditary but a doctor of the Five Classics, but the Kong family is the prince of the country, and in addition to a few princes in Shandong, it is the highest grade of his family. Those princes may have withdrawn from the feudal domain in a few generations, but the Kong family has been passed down for thousands of years, and it has a great influence on the ground in Shandong.

Taking advantage of the salt land trade in the seventh month of Chongzhen, Li Meng's Laizhou salt goods finally opened up sales channels in Dongchang Mansion and Jinan Mansion.

At the turn of the seventh and eighth years of Chongzhen, the Huai merchants were anxious, the salt goods were lost and destroyed, and the lawsuits were entangled. But now Huai salt can only be sold in the southernmost part of the state. It was too close to Haizhou, and it was too cost-effective to use Laizhou salt.

By the beginning of Chongzhen's eighth year, Laizhou salt occupied ninety percent of the entire Shandong market, and Li Meng's monthly income more than doubled compared with the previous year. It's just that Li Meng didn't have any movement to expand, although his subordinates didn't understand it, but Li Meng placed 1,200 salt rods in Fengmeng Town and Lingshan Guard.

; _The market that the state capital and Dongchang Province had just occupied, because of the lack of manpower, was taken advantage of by some small traders and peddlers.

Fengmeng Town is heavily guarded, and the salt Ding guards the traffic arteries, although the trade of salt goods is still going on normally, but the people in the town feel a little nervous.

Li Meng was a little frightened by that sneak attack, and after coming to this era, the things he encountered and experienced were too smooth. Leads to self-carelessness.

The Chongzhen period was not a peaceful legal society, this was one of the darkest eras in Chinese history, and there were swords and swords everywhere. Li Meng thought that by his own strength, the area from Jiaozhou City to Lingshan had become a relatively peaceful place, but the general environment still did not improve.

Li Meng always felt afraid, and mobilized a large number of personnel to station around Fengmeng Town, not because he was worried that there would be another sneak attack that afternoon. Instead, he was worried that dozens of brocade guards would be burned down in the manor. There is no longer life, will it attract more attention on a larger scale.

Shandong Jinan Jinyi Wei Qianhu according to Li Meng's estimate. How can there be seven or eight hundred people in the shortage, if you come to the door, it will be really a big trouble, even if the combat effectiveness is not good, after this wave, the soldiers and horses of the imperial court will definitely not sit idly by, and their own strength is not enough at all.

After the incident, Li Meng sent people to quickly deal with a group of resentful salt sellers, these people were the people who were damaged by Li Meng's sharding system, and Qiu Dahai and his brother-in-law Ambassador Zhang of the Lingshan Salt Farm reported and gave instructions to Jinyiwei.

And in Jining, the salt merchants in the two Huai, all Li Meng can do is some commercial means, the salt merchants in Haizhou are a group that has existed since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention the rich world, the relationship between the officialdom and the land is also intertwined, like a monster, not very sure, easy not to provoke, in Jining those are small roles, who knows what kind of reliance they will have behind them.

Ding is all complaining, stationed in Fengmeng Town is not a big deal, but in Feng personally supervised the training, the amount of training has been doubled, and it is really exhausting.

When he was about to leave the New Year's Day, another letter from Jingshi made Li Meng finally put his mind at ease, Liu Fulai said in a strange air in his heart, since it is his own relative, don't hide anything if you have something, although we are our own family, we don't want to bully others, but we can't let others bully ourselves.

At the end of the letter, it was mentioned that Jinyiwei Li Qianhu in Jinan was his own person, and he could ask him for help if he had something.

Now that the crisis has passed, the establishment of 600 salt dings stationed around Li Meng has been determined, and the manpower to investigate and seize smuggled salt has become sufficient again, and the occupied illegal salt market has gradually stabilized and begun to produce a steady stream of benefits.

This time, it also made Li Meng have a problem, the training of Yanding, the quality of those stationed outside is not too high, maybe a few Yanding captains do not attach too much importance to training, during the period when there are more than 1,000 Yanding in Fengmeng Town, Zhao Neng, Chen Liu, Wang Hai, Ma Gang's several Yanding teams, only Ma Gang and Zhao Neng's guaranteed training, Chen Liu and Wang Hai's, are a little slack.

If before Jinyi Wei arrested people, Li Meng just called people to reprimand them, and then waited for them to correct them, the current disposal method is very simple, directly demote Chen Liu and Wang Hai to the deputy of the team, and transfer them back to his side to guard, it turns out that the deputy of the salt ding team of the two of them was promoted to the captain of the salt ding.

In March of the eighth year of Chongzhen, the weather did not show any signs of spring, and the report delivered to Li Meng's hand on this day was very exciting: on the fifteenth day of the first month, the Fengyang Mansion in the middle capital fell to the Shaanxi thief Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, destroyed the emperor's mausoleum, burned the Longxing Temple, and the central capital stayed in Zhu Guoxiang and the Fengyang prefect were all killed.

In modern times, Li Meng never knew that there were so many things in this era, at least he couldn't learn all of them in the textbooks of elementary school, junior high school, and high school.

Li Meng was in the warm room, drinking strong tea, looking at the newspaper, but he didn't feel any comfort, there was not enough time, and he was frightened to solve the threat of Jinyiwei, but he felt that this era was still moving forward.

Time is like a big river that is always moving forward, Li Meng heard this sentence inadvertently in modern times, at that time it was just a smile, thinking that these petty bourgeoisie would find some beautiful but meaningless words to show their profundity, but after coming to Chongzhen, Li Meng always remembered this sentence, at present, he himself is like a moth falling on the river, and he can't change the direction of the river at all.

Everything is still going on according to the normal trajectory, and if it goes on like this, it will reach the darkest era, and in that darkest period, Li Meng has no doubt that he will be crushed.

At the end of March, Li Meng finally returned to the house where his salt administration patrol was stationed in Jiaozhou City, where 300 salt soldiers were stationed outside the city, and 300 people lived in the city with them. The shouting during the training outside was earth-shattering, and this was also Li Meng's request, in the assassination training of the PLA troops, the last one to be stabbed must be shouted to kill in order to increase the momentum.

Putting down the newspaper, Li Meng picked up the letterhead of the eunuch Liu on the table, and now the letterhead exchanges between the two sides can be said to be relatively frequent, although the cost of the letterhead on the road is indeed a bit high, but it is the official family to spend money, Li Meng occasionally thinks that since the post station has been abolished and Li Zicheng has emerged, then his expensive letterhead delivery is not too much.

The exchange of letters between Li Meng and Eunuch Liu was all about deliberately avoiding things that had interests on both sides, and talking about some gossips in their respective lives, for example, after the news of the burning of the Fengyang Emperor's Mausoleum reached the Jingshi, Emperor Chongzhen wept bitterly, and the palace and the hundred officials were wearing filial piety clothes. Because the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum was burned, the army originally arranged in Shaanxi, Henan, and Shaanxi had to be remobilized, and the elite soldiers and horses of Nanzhili also began to be mobilized. The eunuchs of the ceremonial eunuch are all trembling, Emperor Chongzhen's temper is getting bigger and bigger, and the fourth bingbi is about to order the cane to be killed because of the wrong three words written on a certain Chen, or the great eunuch Wang Chengen stopped it, but he was also expelled from the ceremonial eunuch.

However, these are not the contents that Li Meng cares about, although these things fall into the hands of some high-ranking officials and nobles, it is a priceless treasure, for a Jiupin Salt Political Inspector, the general flag of the Lingshan Guard, it is just some gossip scandals from the Beijing Division.