Jiaozhou City and Lingshan Wei carried wooden stakes to two taels of silver for three days, almost eight hundred taels of silver, this matter in Jiaozhou Sili and Eight Townships has become the hottest topic of conversation this year, everyone thinks Li Meng is crazy, isn't this a silver mess?

On the first day of the second month, those who moved the wooden stake gathered in Fengmeng Town, outside Li Meng's manor, these young people were all red with excitement, no one thought that it was a hot head to carry a wooden stake, not to mention earning two taels of silver, and they were actually recruited to the Li family manor to be a housekeeper.

Although it has been agreed in advance, the treatment of being a housekeeper is half of those salts, but this also has five taels of silver and five quintals of rice noodles, which is already a pretty good reward.

Moreover, the person who recruited also told a "grapevine" for the sake of the so-called "local people", saying that if the family did a good job, he was going to make salt.

Good guys, it is even more attractive when you say it, at the moment in Jiaozhou City and even Laizhou Mansion, Yanding is afraid that young people are the most desirable profession, young people like to dance with guns and sticks, but if you want to be a yamen's servant, you must have a background and social relations, you have to be a soldier, and the performance of those officers and soldiers stationed in various places is seen by the common people, incomparably loose, and the military discipline is extremely poor, and it is even more bastard than bandits.

Only salt ding, those who are the same age as themselves have a kind of solemn temperament, although they are salt ding, but people look at it, they all feel that this is a real soldier, occasionally there are people around them who are salt ding, parents are very proud to talk about this, plus the real treatment, are compared to the general's pro-soldier family, the year is so bad, it is not a good thing to have such a place to settle down.

After several salt lords in Qingzhou knew about this, they were all dumbfounded, and everyone knew that Li Meng's power was a little bigger. But there is no trace of the handle, my family has a big business, hire more family, no one can say the problem!

Li Meng transferred all the salt ding team in his hands and the salt ding team stationed in the salt field of the salt field. Sent everywhere to expand and set up cards, and recruited these 400 "family members". It is a life-and-death training in the hands of himself and the two people stationed in the salt field of Yantian.

With enough money in hand, and the help of the local snakes in Qingzhou and Dengzhou, the Laizhou smuggled salt dealers who sell Lingshan salt quickly occupied these two markets.

Since late February, Li Meng has been able to earn nearly 6,000 taels a month, which is still the amount after deducting all expenses, and the Lingshan salt works and the private salt fields on Xuejiadao are all in full swing.

There are more people who can use land. There is also a lot of money, this is a real benefit, after this incident, Jiaozhou City and Lingshan Wei gradually knew that Li Erlang never joked when he spoke, plus the previous few battles, everyone had a vague sense of obedience to Li Meng. These feelings and perceptions, if summed up in one word, are prestige.

Now there are more than 5,000 military households in the Lingshan Guard. Almost all of them are on the three ways out, one is that the children are salt for Li Meng. The second is to work in the salt fields of Li Mengdi, and the third is to honestly plant military fields for the guards, if you carefully calculate, I am afraid that there are many more military households who listen to Li Meng's orders than those who listen to the commands of the guards.

Here in the silver beach of Xuejia Island, a special salt pan has been carved out. It is presided over by an experienced stove owner who used to be a salt farm. The salt produced here is the goblin salt that has gone through many processing procedures, and the refined salt is sealed in large vats and wooden boxes. Sent to the Li family manor in Fengmeng Town.

At the end of the first month, the Li family manor opened a workshop, and the workers in the workshop were the families of those Liaodong military families, and the work was to seal the refined salt in small porcelain jars, and then transport it to Jining City by water.

Just after the first month, there was a fragrant salt store in Jining City, this shop sells refined salt, which is the salt sold here is calculated in catties or smaller units of measurement, at this time, the trend of green salt is almost in the past, and the green salt of Shaanxi is intermittently transported by water.

However, because of the trend a year ago, the demand for green salt suddenly increased, but the supply actually decreased, and the rich people in Jingshi and Nanzhili Zhejiang all wanted to use genuine green salt, and the price of green salt was even higher than a year ago.

The second-class rich also have to brush their teeth and rinse their mouths, but they can go to the grocery store to weigh the bulk refined salt, which is too embarrassing and shameful.

I don't know who spread the news first, now this shop, the news spread quickly, and soon the rich people in Jining Mansion all knew about this shop, this shop is called fragrant salt, and the things sold are worthy of the name, the salt has all kinds of fragrances, what flowers, what fragrances.

And they are all packaged in exquisite porcelain jars, at first glance it is a good thing, out of the shop and hold it in the hand, others look at it is also glorious, but the price is higher, one or two silver and a jar of salt.

It's more expensive, compared to the genuine green salt, but it's much cheaper, this porcelain jar looks brighter than the old goods, and there is a fragrance in the salt, after this gargle, in addition to cleaning the teeth and mouth, there can also be a fragrance, so you don't need to buy those expensive medicinal materials.

This fragrant salt shop has learned some experience from the green salt trend of the previous year, for example, if you want to distinguish the authenticity, the jar emperor in this house also has a ghost painting like a thing, which is posted outside the store every day, and the real and fake goods are known as soon as they are compared.

However, these merchants in Jining City finally figured out what the figure of this ghost drawing talisman is, this thing is really a talisman drawn by Taoist priests, this talisman is generally a complex figure, and it is really difficult to imitate if you don't touch the rules.

By the time the merchants in Jining had probably learned all of this thing, the fragrant salt store had already begun to sell goods to the cargo ships that came and went through the canal.

This fragrant salt shop is naturally Li Meng's business, and there is a net income of 1,000 taels per month.

When Li Meng was engaged in financial escort in modern times, he followed the cash transport truck to many places, and he had never seen any big rivers in Shandong, and the so-called Yellow River in Dongying City was also a ditch full of plants.

But in the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago, Shandong could actually rely on waterway transportation to reach various places, and the differences between ancient and modern times are really everywhere.

Li Meng now has a few ships of his own, which are transported from Fengmeng Town to Jining, and on the way back, he also carries some Jining goods, some of which are for merchants in Jiaozhou and Jimo County, and some of which are tools and materials needed for salt works and blacksmith shops.

It was only the beginning of March, and the production and marketing of salt was not yet in the peak season, although the Wang family and the Confucian salt stack did not know why, and they could get the goods at the price of nine dollars a load in the Lingshan salt field, but they needed to be escorted to the destination to sell, and could not be sold to the territory of Qing, Deng, and Lai. However, this cheap price does not mean that the demand has increased, so such a small river terminal is still deserted.

Today, however, there are two carriages waiting here, watching the boats with the big flag of "Li" on the river slowly coming, the young man in the carriage hurriedly jumped down, and a small leader said solemnly:

"This is an errand assigned by Master Li, and it cheers me up."

Several people agreed in succession, as soon as the boat docked, put down the pedals, four or five people moved a wooden box from the boat with small wings, and the people waiting on the shore followed with the same careful attitude, and then pat the horse that had been prepared for a long time on the board of the carriage with cotton wool and straw, and then patted the horse pulling the cart with his hand, and headed towards Jiaozhou City.

Yan Zhizhou of Jiaozhou City has lived a very leisurely life, and since he took office for a year, although the state city under his jurisdiction and the surrounding area cannot be said to be smooth weather, it is also very peaceful.

The common people have food to eat, there is work to do, after all, there is no intention of making trouble, Dengzhou suffered a military disaster, not to mention, Qingzhou and Yanzhou have always had thieves and thieves, even Changyi and Pingdu Prefecture in the north of Laizhou are also unstable, compared to them, Jiaozhou City can be said to be prosperous in all industries.

Because half of Shandong's salt merchants and salt sellers are going to Fengmeng Town to sell salt goods, the corresponding has also led to local prosperity, the number of shops and vendors has increased a lot compared with a year ago, and the taxes that need to be paid can also be completed in full.

At the age of forty, he was a fellow jinshi, and he was sent to Shandong, which was not poor or rich, to be a Zhizhou, this Yan Zhizhou was also content, and he went to the yamen every day to deal with half-day official business, and the rest of the time was to write in his own mansion, read books, and live a leisurely life.

He is comfortable here, but the other people in the yamen are very uncomfortable, Zhizhou Yamen is the largest in Jiaozhou, and the most effective yamen in speaking, but now the most effective person in Jiaozhou City is Li Meng, the salt government inspector, who is rampant in the township, but it is also so arrogant in the city. Li Meng should give a lot of silver, but not a penny, thinking of this, everyone is angry, in the past, King Muyan only made a few dollars, how much do you Li Meng earn, why give such a point, after all, the salt administration inspection is a nine-grade official, barely into the stream, but the state yamen These high-grade people think of the day Li Meng entered the city to take office, dozens of corpses outside the city, and those blood stains on the bamboo poles, each back was cold, and there was no thought at all.

The question is, Li Meng just paid the money according to the usual practice, why did he still stop the officials from asking for more money from others, for example, the errand servants could no longer go to Shaohailou to eat white food, and a few grocery stores could no longer extort money.