After the test firing and inspection were completed, the four short guns were handed over to several of Li Meng's guards, Chen Liu and Wang Hai had two guns, and although the gunpowder and lead shots were relatively rare, they were still specially allocated for part.

At Li Meng's suggestion, according to the charge of the best shooting effect, it was divided in advance, and then wrapped in oiled paper into a small bag and placed in a close-fitting cowhide bag. Hou Shan and Ning Qiangui prepared almost four thousand taels of silver, two thousand taels of scattered silver, and two thousand taels of silver tickets, and most of the silver tickets and silver were carried by the guards.

The elite Yanding stationed in various places are also in a hurry to rush back, Li Meng has no special guards around him, but the Yanding team stationed around him in rotation is transferred, this time it is a selection of calm, dare to fight, in the previous skill assessments are among the best figures, and the requirements for these people are to participate in the bloody battle of the official road Yanding, the killing of horse thieves in Xiazhuang and the priority of the Li family manor to kill Fanzi.

Wu Tongzhi also unscrupulously opened a large number of blank road guides, and now the rules of this road guide themselves are corrupted, and no one pays attention to them. Li Meng also sent a letter to Eunuch Liu of Jingshi, saying that he was about to travel far away, and if there was anything needed, just let Wu Tongzhi inform his subordinates.

On the Jiaozhou side, Yingtou and Lingshan Yanchang Yantian were all transferred back to Zhao Neng, who was guarding Changyi, and Ma Gang was also transferred to the Gaomi area, and these two people supported each other and monitored each other.

At this time, Nanzhili and Henan around Shandong were in chaos, but Li Meng wanted to travel far away, and the people around him were all persuasive. However, Li Meng insisted on his own actions, and the people below could only cooperate as much as possible. Mobilize capable manpower, sophisticated weapons, and sufficient financial resources to ensure safety.

There is Donglu outside, and there is Shaanxi chaos inside, but along the Caoyun line, Jingshi, Jining, and South Zhili. Zhejiang, these places are still extremely prosperous, the great prosperity of industry and commerce and the concentration of powerful landlords in these places, resulting in these places of almost modern consumption and lifestyle.

I just don't know if this extreme prosperity is a harbinger of the so-called prosperity of the earth. Or maybe everyone thinks the end is near, so everyone goes crazy......

According to the news that Li Meng got from his own fragrant salt shop in Jining Prefecture, perhaps because of his own methods last year, the consumption of green salt increased suddenly, and when Li Meng used refined salt to pretend to be green salt last year, he once said that there are many differences between this green salt and ordinary refined salt. For example, in the smell and color.

At the time, I thought it was a deceptive method, but after the green salt trend really started, there were people who really knew how to say that there are indeed many places that can be distinguished between green salt and ordinary local salt. In fact, the green salt produced in the salt lakes of Qinghai and Gansu must have a different mineral composition than well salt and sea salt.

Since there is a difference, the price will also rise, and in fact, there are similar examples of this kind of speculation in Europe at the same time. Take mercantilist Holland, for example. There was a boom in price gouging and speculation of tulips, which are essentially no different from green salt fields. It's just a gimmick for speculation, and merchants want to use this hype to make the price of green salt in their hands higher.

However, speculation and sale of green salt, but the inventory of real green salt is really scarce, and some of it has been passed from Henan and Sichuan intermittently, which cannot meet the market at all.

Although the price of green salt is high, correspondingly, the price of refined salt that can be used as a substitute is only two percent higher.

For this, Li Meng is very confident, as long as he can open up the trade route, get more profits, and expand the manpower, he can firmly control this trade route and make a big fortune.

I have to admit that although Zhou Juren is reckless and talkative, for the so-called base area, it is really a pearl for Li Meng and his inspection system. This Shandong is not a long-term place, so Li Meng gave up the idea of long-term operation, but wanted to catch as much money as possible here, and to accumulate more strength is a strength.

Take the lead in opening up the passage of green salt, presumably there will be a lot of money to be made, and Shandong is not a long-term place, so taking this opportunity to go out and look for a new place is also a purpose.

This year, going out is very different from modern tourism, especially in the chaos of war in various places, it is necessary to prepare a lot of things, most of the horses on Li Meng's side are brought, and there are several big carts loaded with things, according to Ning Qiangui's arrangement, this time there will be 300 people to follow.

Li Meng never thought that there would be such trouble, so many people went through the state, and it was too attention-grabbing, and in the end, they discussed it repeatedly, and there were 200 people who went together.

By the time everything was ready, it was mid-July, and the weather was still cool and pleasant, without any hint of heat.

Chen Liuzi, Wang Hai, and a dry salt Ding all changed into the clothes of caravan guys, and they were all carrying swords and weapons everywhere in these years, so no one would say anything about the sabers on their waists and the spears placed on the carts, and Chen Liuzi and Wang Hai still had light leather armor on the people who were guarding Li Meng's side.

As for Li Meng, he is covered with chain mail inside, and leather armor inlaid with iron pieces on the outside, which can be regarded as heavy protection. The cart and horses were waiting at the gate of the house of the inspection yamen, but Li Meng had not yet gone out, Wang Hai stared at the inner hall, and said to Chen Liu beside him with some puzzlement:

"Sixth brother, what's wrong with the adults, it seems that you are afraid of something?"

Chen Liu hit him on the back of the head and reprimanded him in a low voice:

"Nonsense, how can adults be afraid, those who have been promoted recently are all good things."

As he spoke, Li Meng had already walked out of the house in big strides, his face was very gloomy, and he didn't say anything, just waved at the team, turned over and got on the horse, and the team followed one after another.

Originally, the road out of the city did not need to pass through the gate of the Zhizhou Yamen at all, but what made everyone inexplicable was that Li Meng instructed to take this road, although confused, everyone still obeyed the order to step forward. So many people passed through the Zhizhou Yamen, and the officials of the Yamen were all pale with fright, closed the door early, and looked out through the crack in the door.

These more than 200 strong people are not something that a small Zhizhou Yamen can deal with, but it seems that these people are not here to find trouble, so they just pass by by themselves.

Li Meng rode in front, after walking through this yamen, he had already passed through the Zhizhou yamen and the mansion where the Zhizhou family lived, and came to the backyard, Li Meng suddenly stopped the horse and stopped on the back wall, the wall was painted very clean, this is the mansion of Zhizhou, and no one dared to have fun and make trouble here, it was very clean.

Although everyone was strange, they still looked at Li Meng stopping at the back wall, staring at the wall, and Yan Ding looked at the wall strangely, thinking that it was not just a wall, what was there to see.

After a while, Li Meng seemed to react from the sudden stunned state, shook his head, sighed, and was about to leave, a few close people, Chen Liu and Wang Hai could feel that Li Meng's mood had become very low, and everyone was very confused, wondering what was going on.

Li Meng had just urged the horses when he saw a woman running over panting, and was surprised to see so many people standing behind the wall, but he still walked to the wall with a bitter face, painted the wall with paste, and whispered in his mouth:

"I really don't know what it's for, I'm locked up in the house, but I say that the back wall is posted on the house is safe, and I can be at peace......"

As he spoke, he pasted the short red paper banner in his hand on the wall, and then hurriedly ran away, looking at the banner posted on the wall, Li Meng suddenly reined in his horse and stared at the banner for a long time.

The people in this team were completely confused, and after Li Meng watched the meeting, he drove the horses and walked towards the outside of the city, and after walking for a while, Li Meng laughed loudly, and the laughter was extremely cheerful. “

“…… If you wish, please arrange for someone to put a red paper banner on the back wall of the house that says the house is safe, and if you don't want to, you don't have to do anything......"

At this time, Li Meng gave everyone a strange feeling, thinking that he was still low when he went out, why was he so happy all of a sudden, Li Meng naturally didn't explain this to his subordinates, but just went out of the city proudly.

In Laizhou and Qingzhou, Li Meng's group walked very comfortably, and the local tyrants and salt lords who were responsible for the sale of illicit salt along the way wished that Li Meng would live there.

The advantage of this route is that first, he can rely on water transportation by boat, and second, although Henan is chaotic, the officers and men can still maintain control on both sides of the river bank by relying on the high mobility of water transportation.

After arriving in Jining Prefecture, his own fragrant salt shop greeted him with trepidation, not to mention that Wenru Commercial Bank, which is an old relation, also came to entertain him.

The two salt merchant shopkeepers of the Wang family and the Kong family in Fengmeng Town were actually people sent out by this Wenru firm, and Li Meng relied on the inquiries of his subordinates and other salt dealers to know a long time ago that the two salt merchants transported the salt collected in Laizhou to Jining by water, and then sold it to the north of Henan and the south of Shanxi.

Although it is the territory of Huaiyan, but since the beginning of the Shaanxi civil unrest of King Chuang and Chuang Jiang, the place is rotten, and what can be done in the original peaceful years cannot be done at this time. At least those trade routes have been cut off, but the two Huai salt merchants can't do it, but the Wenru business can.