Chapter 146: Opening a new field

The silver box of 6,500 taels was stacked in front of the wooden platform, and the soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion were all disdainful, 6,500 taels of silver, the amount is indeed a lot, but it can be divided into everyone's hands, then it is pitiful, you must know that in addition to these 2,000 people, there are 500 people outside!

Looking at the indignation on the faces of the soldiers, Li Meng's heart was very happy, his expression was very serious, and he said in a loud voice:

"Today is also the day of our Jiaozhou camp's salary, the silver below will be released first, and we will send our own salary first."

After Li Meng finished speaking, he walked down the wooden platform directly, Master Ning took a group of people to escort the cart and was already ready, someone carried a wooden plate, on which were scattered silver ingots, Master Ning followed behind him with a roster, Master Ning read a name, Li Meng took the silver and handed it to the person's hand, these people Li Meng almost all knew, made a few jokes, and talked about family life, such as:

"Two years ago, your kid was shot in the arm by Yanding, and now it doesn't hurt!"

"You are from Aoshanwei's side, and the old lady and sister in the family are fine."

And so on, the soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion watched Li Meng hand over the full military salary, and said some warm words, after getting used to something, often everyone didn't feel it, but as soon as there was a comparison, there were strong feelings and feelings.

Li Meng's salary this time, the soldiers' emotions were extremely excited, many people wiped the corners of their eyes with their hands, and some people said solemnly:

"This life is given by adults, and I am willing to die for adults."

This kind of naked words of allegiance are directly spoken, it was already dark when Li Meng finished distributing the silver, this is not too easy work, even Li Meng, who boils up his body every day, is a little tired, after everything is done, the officers at all levels take people back to the barracks, and Li Meng returns to the manor in Fengmeng Town by himself.

After the afternoon inspection, Li Meng, who has always had a good impression of Liu Qingsong, has a good impression, without the restraint of the yamen at all levels of the imperial court, without this Liu Qingsong's style, how can there be such a good effect this afternoon, Li Meng knows that his control over the Jiaozhou camp has deepened a lot.

The uproar of the soldiers below, the first few words, were all carried out by Chen Liuzi and his cronies, and on this occasion, as long as the atmosphere was stirred, everything would be easy to handle.

After this inspection and proofreading, presumably the soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion will not have any illusions about the imperial court, according to the deputy envoy, Denglai Dao, this level of officials is also a deputy provincial official in modern times, this kind of person is like this, and the soldiers below must not have too many ideas.

How many days Liu Qingsong has been playing in Jiaozhou, how to blackmail is no longer his own business, the other party has also received the silver, all kinds of official documents have been obtained on his side, and the inspection of this matter should be regarded as the end, the Ming Dynasty is in chaos at this time, and the salary of Shangfeng is carried out together with the inspection, Li Meng is not worried about this at all, he does not believe that these officials will not be deducted next time he is paid, as long as it is the way it is today, it is harmless to Li Mengbaili, not to mention, Liu Qingsong said that this time the salary is still more, and the next time there will be more deductions.

The leaders of the Li family manor in Fengmeng Town, the Lingshan Salt Farm and the salt field have been waiting for a long time, these people are not the leaders of the soldiers, but the leaders of the stove households and laborers, and they are quite proficient in the output technology and the like, and now the Li Meng private salt system, most of the private salt in the various state capitals of Shandong are produced in the salt fields near the Shijiu of Qingzhou Mansion, as well as Yu'er Town, Haicang and Haiyang in Laizhou Mansion and Dengzhou Prefecture.

The salt production of the two salt farms in Lingshan is mainly supplied to the salt stack of Wenru Commercial Bank in Fengmeng Town, through the waterway to Jining, and also does some deep processing, such as counterfeit green salt and other transactions, since knowing that the main market for the private salt sales of Wenru Commercial Bank is not in Shandong, Li Meng's side has gradually increased the supply of Wenru Commercial Bank, but what Li Meng wants to know this time is whether the output can continue to increase.

According to the shopkeeper of the Zheng family in Fujian, if the two sides confirm the transaction, the Zheng family will have about 20 large ships trafficking southern goods every month to Laizhou Mansion to load salt, and at least 800 quintals per ship, there will be at least 16,000 quintals of output, according to Li Meng's estimates, the production capacity may not meet the needs of the other party.

Everyone knows that Zheng Jiala has so much salt, it must not only be needed in Fujian, but Li Meng is too lazy to care about him, at present, there are still many deficiencies in his own strength, and there are still many deficiencies in wanting to do the channel, and it is enough to grasp the origin and make the first pot of gold.

Several stove leaders are all old connoisseurs who have been boiling salt for generations, since following Li Meng, the salary is rich, the status has improved, and Li Meng is obedient, when I heard Li Meng say this plan, these people combined, and the result is that the current Lingshan salt field and the original salt field, the output can not be satisfied at all.

However, someone pointed out that there are a few good places in Aoshanwei that can be used as salt farms, speaking of which, Li Meng remembered one thing, after Zhao Neng led people to lay down the Sanqingguan, the old Taoist priest did a small private salt business, which seemed to be made by boiling salt in the sea.

The salt-producing land in Jimo seems to be in his own hands, because part of the floating wealth and gold and silver of Sanqingguan were used to relieve the hungry, and part of it was brought back as war booty, and as for the property of those fields and houses, they were all placed there to collect low land rent and maintain it.

These documents such as the title deed as trophies were placed on the side of Fengmeng Town, and they were directly called over to take a look, and sure enough, the salt-producing land mentioned by the head of the stove happened to be in his own hands.

The policy of opening up salt fields near Sanqingguan was immediately decided in the evening, but as for the labor, it was very easy to manage, and with Li Meng's remuneration, a large number of displaced people from Dengzhou were willing to come, and in today's world, it is already a great luck to have a place to maintain food and clothing.

After probably clarifying the production capacity on his side, Li Meng returned to Jiaozhou City the next day to renegotiate with the Zheng shopkeeper, when those captives were doing hard labor on the beach, they were naturally miserable, one by one, they looked like no one at all, Li Meng wondered if the other party would make a fuss about these things and reduce the price, who thought that this Zheng shopkeeper would not talk about this matter at all, and did not take it to heart at all.

But by torturing those pirate captives, Li Meng learned a very interesting news, that is, the Zheng family's fleet trafficked Huai salt in Haizhou, and the price of Huaishang salt merchants was three taels and five cents a load.

Knowing the other party's bottom line, this price is much easier to negotiate, but after all, it is a meeting gift of five thousand taels of silver from the other party, and after two days of discussion, the price agreed by the two sides is a load of salt and two taels of money, which is a hard doubling for Li Meng, and for Zheng Shopkeeper, it is also about the same amount of money, and the amount of both sides is very large, even if it is a small amount of a few taels or a few cents, it has become a lot of money when converted into such a large amount.

After agreeing on this, the recruitment of laborers on the Aoshan side and the business of opening up Yantian began to act directly, which is very easy to do, even the local powerful families in Mojiao Prefecture are also involved, although Li Meng's big victory is fifteen heads in the official documents, but everyone in the local area knows what is going on, and their own children are still working as auxiliary coolies for the Jiaozhou battalion, who dares not to help.

However, the advantage of Li Meng is that the emperor is not bad for hungry soldiers, and promised that these powerful landlords will boil salt and dry salt in the future in accordance with the production and purchase of Li Meng's salt farm, which is not a small income, since Li Meng sat in the position of inspection, it is impossible to make money by boiling sea and boiling salt, Li Meng let go of this way to them, and made an extra income out of thin air, everyone is naturally happy, the world is bustling, all for profit, after there is money to be made, the local attitude towards Li Meng began to have a slight change.

There is no need to sign any documents with the shopkeeper Zheng, there is always a place to sell this salt production, and after the two sides said that they would set the price, they would say goodbye to each other. In fact, the Zheng shopkeeper of the Ba Min Commercial Bank is quite strange, and now the Zheng family's business is a commercial shipping at sea.

The sea trade of the Ming Dynasty is the most prosperous industry, there is a way that the sea is full of gold and silver, as long as you take a boat to go to sea, it is loaded with gold and silver back, relying on the prosperous industry and commerce of the Ming Dynasty, as well as the backward manufacturing industry and surrounding countries, as well as the difference in gold and silver, the Zheng family who controlled the sea earned to fly, and the people who had a relationship with the Zheng family did not want to get a piece of the pie, and the two Huai salt merchants were like this.

Those salt merchants have always wanted to take the opportunity of selling illegal salt to Fujian and Guangdong to join the maritime foreign trade, but the Huai salt merchants have been rich for generations, and the accumulation is not trivial, Zheng Zhilong naturally will not easily lead the wolf into the room, the two sides have been deadlocked, and they are unwilling to give in to each other.

Originally, this shopkeeper Zheng thought that Li Meng would also make the same request, and he was also ready to do some trading with the other party, there were so many ships, not one could make all the money, but Li Meng didn't mention this stubble at all, and the two sides skipped it directly, which is really strange!

After sending off this Zheng shopkeeper, plus worrying about Yantian's affairs, he was busy in March, and the most unexpected thing was actually that Zhu Yunyao, the county lord of Zhouwang, since he said that frostbite was not good-looking during the New Year, he actually stayed in the room honestly every day, which was really quiet.