Chapter 23: My Responsibility
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At this time, the sun had gradually risen, and some pedestrians began to appear on this road, but these pedestrians saw from a distance that the chicken bus and the people sitting on it would rather turn around and run faster than come over, and the reputation of trafficking in illicit salt was never much better than that of bandits and robbers.
"Pack up your ropes, everyone is on their way!"
Li Meng shouted here, and everyone stood up, but at this time, the expression and attitude were a little different from Fang Cai, if you want to say it carefully, it should be a lot more determined.
The blood stains on the bamboo pole have been wiped clean, but some purple can be faintly seen on it, obviously the blood has seeped into it, everyone doesn't care, or so plugged in the wheelbarrow, a group of people just set off towards Fengmeng Town so quietly, everyone's steps are a lot faster, and more powerful.
After walking out of the trail, the salt ding in this vicinity will not ban any illegal salt, which is also the tacit understanding between them and these salt merchants in Fengmeng Town, of course, the truth is that they can't afford to offend these big salt lords.
It was similar to Li Meng's expectation, and he saw Hou Shan looking at the intersection from a distance, as if he was waiting for something, and saw them appear in sight, even if they were far away, he could see Hou Shan trembling, turning his head and running towards the town, which confirmed Li Meng's thoughts, and shouted loudly:
"How far do you think you can run and stay there for me honestly!!"
The words were shouted so headlessly that the pedestrians on the road couldn't understand it, but Hou Shan understood, so he only ran a few steps before stopping, knelt there, and waited for Li Meng and them to come.
Li Meng walked up to him, Hou Shan didn't dare to speak, just kept kowtowing, the ground was also a little sandy, and soon his forehead was bloody, Li Meng smiled, and just said:
"Don't say anything, lead them to sell the salt first, I'll wait for you here!"
Hou Shan raised his head in disbelief, looking at Li Meng's smiling face, he didn't know what Li Meng's attitude was, so he had to stand up tremblingly, and glanced at a few chicken buses, but suddenly saw that there were several waist knives and iron rulers pressed under the straw bags of one of them, and his body shook, and he almost fell directly to the ground, which made Chen Liuzi quite impatient, and shouted a few times directly, this is to lead a cadre to sell salt.
It doesn't take too much time to weigh the private salt, inspect the goods and pay the money, Li Meng's companion quickly finished doing it, Li Meng smiled and took out a string of money, handed it to the pale-faced Hou Shan, and said with a smile:
"It's still hot when you touch those people?"
Hou Shan was so shocked by Li Meng's words that he couldn't support his body anymore, his waist and legs were weak and he knelt directly on the ground, Li Meng took the salt and silver taels handed over by Zhao Neng, took out a tael of silver from it and said to Zhao Neng:
"Brother Zhao, lead the brothers to find a tavern to eat, I have something to say here."
In this small town, one or two pieces of silver can really eat a very good meal of wine, Zhao Neng took the silver, beckoned the companions who gradually recovered some of their elation to go to the tavern together, watching the companions walk away, Li Meng lowered his head and said to Hou Shan who collapsed on the ground:
"Those salt dogs are forced to do it, you can't help yourself, I don't blame you, and in the future, this person's money will not be short of yours, but I asked you to inquire about it yesterday, can you inquire?"
As soon as he finished saying this, Hou Shan stared at Li Meng in disbelief at first, and suddenly, he suddenly turned over, kowtowed to Li Meng a few times, and the wound on his head that had just healed burst open again, raised his eyes and said in a astringent voice:
"Uncle Li, you treat me like this, I don't know where to put this little face, I don't dare to ask for my uncle's money, I just have a request, I hope the uncle will agree!"
Li Meng asked rhetorically:
"What's the matter?"
"The little one is alone, just asking for food and clothing outside, and being helpless outside, begging the uncle to shelter him, give him a meal, and let the little one have the opportunity to make cattle and horses for the uncle!"
Li Meng's hairs stood up all over his body when he said this, but he could guess the feeling of this Hou Shan, where he came from to sell salt was what he told Yanding, but presumably this Hou Shan could also guess what happened to those salt dings, he was really frightened, and the only way to think of self-protection was to join Li Meng, otherwise who knew that he would be cut off by these daring salt sellers that day.
Li Meng came from the era of information explosion, came to the Ming Dynasty, and naturally knew that for a smuggler like himself, it was important to be well informed, and this Hou Shankou had a smart tongue and was also exquisite, in addition to being a little timid, he was really the person he needed, and said at the moment:
"Tell me the news that you asked you to inquire about yesterday, and then we'll talk about the rest of ......"
The people in Fengmeng Town have a kind of thinking that they have nothing to do with themselves, not to mention that Li Meng and his subordinates have a very awe-inspiring temperament, and they don't know what Li Meng and Hou Shan who are sitting on the side of the road talked about, what everyone sees is that Hou Shan, a Chinese in Fengmeng Town, finally kowtowed a few heads with Li Meng, and then left directly, and I don't know what was talked about and what happened.
After these two days of transportation, the salt goods stored in Li Meng and Zhao Neng's house were basically cleared, and they found out half a month ago that the salt goods collected were getting less and less.
The reason for the lack of salt goods is also very simple, as soon as Mu Patrol died, salt dealers and salt diners of all sizes were active, forcibly collecting salt goods in various villages, or setting up cards to arrest them, and there were also bold single households who went to Fengmeng Town to sell salt by themselves, these people are all lawbreakers, in addition to buying and selling illegal salt, they will definitely not stay honest.
Originally, the Lingshan Guard Station and these villages near the sea, because they were close to the sea, there was no good land, and their lives were poor. Because you can boil the sea and boil salt, it is somewhat subsidized to life, but now it is being looted by these large and small lawbreakers, and it is even more hard, and these people who sell illegal salt are not good people, in addition to buying and selling illegal salt, they also do many illegal acts, so that these poor people are even more guilty.
The salt administration patrol Mu Yan Wang died at the hands of Li Meng, and Li Meng felt that he was also responsible for the chaos that no one had jurisdiction over Yanding at this time, and the state of law and order collapsed everywhere.
Li Meng was a very responsible person from his student days to the army to the escort company, and this time Li Meng also told himself that he should take responsibility to solve this problem and calm down this chaos.