Chapter 132: The Four Great Salt Merchants

As soon as he finished breakfast, Wang Lin, the same acquaintance, came to the door, only to see him respectfully see Li Kang, and then said: "Lord Prefect, this is the case, our colleagues from the Yamen of the four counties of Shaoxi Mansion, as well as the local squires and celebrities, want to set up a banquet in the drunken restaurant tonight, to receive the wind and wash the dust for the adults, and respectfully invite the adults to come." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

It is inevitable to usher in this kind of scene, and it is also a beginning to contact all walks of life in Shaoxi Mansion, but Li Kang has never liked to participate in this kind of scene, and was about to refuse, but Li Xiang stood up and answered for him: "Okay, Lord Wang, of course my father is going!" ”

After saying that, Li Xiang hurriedly glanced at his father, Li Kang suddenly understood his son's plan, so he nodded, smiled and said, "It's rare that your colleagues and squires are so kind, I don't know who participates?" ”

Of course, you need to know the participants in advance, and have a number in mind, so that when the time comes, it will be convenient to chat. Wang Lin obviously didn't expect that Li Kang would agree, originally he thought that judging from yesterday's situation, the new prefect would not go to the banquet, but of course he was already prepared, and immediately took out a fold from his sleeve, handed it over, and said: "This is the list of all the colleagues and squires who participated in the banquet tonight, as well as the congratulatory gifts they presented to the adults, and please accept them with a smile." ”

Shaoxi Mansion is a rich place in the end, and this congratulatory gift must not be light.

Li Kang smiled slightly, took the fold, slowly opened it, and looked at them one by one. Not only do you have to look at your name, position or identity, but you also need to look at the following gifts.

When many people give gifts to themselves, people will subconsciously make comparisons, and will pay attention to who gives the most and who gives the least. Of course, Li Kang is also concerned, although he doesn't want to accept gifts, but if he wants these people to become people who are willing to drive for himself, he can't help but follow the routine. Of course, these are all ideas that Li Xiang instilled in Li Kang along the way, and now Li Kang's thinking about being an official has also changed a little, after all, he has been unsuccessful before, just because he doesn't understand the way of officialdom.

The one who gave the most gifts turned out to be a salt merchant named Wang Lang! The Song Dynasty's policy toward merchants was relatively the most lenient in the feudal era. For example, these profiteering salt and iron were specialized in the imperial court in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but the Song Dynasty was different, the Song Dynasty allowed the existence of salt merchants, and there were also commercial salts in the market. Salt is an important forbidden commodity in the Song Dynasty, salt industry income occupies an important position in the finance of the Song Dynasty government, although trade is allowed, but the Song Dynasty government also strictly controls and manages the salt merchants, the unified purchase of salt, the division of sales areas, the salt merchants only act as the role of state agents, so the relationship between the salt merchants and the imperial court and the local government is very complicated, the arrival of the new prefect, so that the merchants and salt are both worried and afraid, of course, to envelop the new prefect.

Li Kang smiled, this Shaoxi Mansion is the largest salt production area in the Great Song Dynasty, I am afraid that there are a lot of cats in it, this time I will meet the officials and salt merchants of Shaoxi Mansion to see what the problem is.

Li Kang continued to look and found the one that gave the least, and the strange thing was that this person only gave a mere five taels of silver! And the penultimate is thirty taels of silver, and the difference between the penultimate is twenty-five taels of silver! Look at this person's name again, his name is Li Qingyun, but he is another big salt merchant, this is strange, among the four major salt merchants in Shaoxi Mansion, one Wang family has given the most, but the Li family is the least, and it is ridiculously few, what does this mean?

Do you tell yourself that they are strong and don't provoke them, or are you dissatisfied with yourself, the new prefect? However, Li Kang is not a person who loves money, of course he will not put these gifts into his pocket, he plans that these silver will be used for construction, for example, the Tongchuan Road Capital Courtyard located in Shaoxi Mansion also needs to produce artillery now, how to do it without silver, so he naturally will not show annoyance because of the small gift money.

Li Kang casually put the fold on the coffee table, picked up the teacup, took a sip, and said: "The love of the local people of Shaoxi Mansion for their parents and officials really touched the official!" ”

"That's, that's, you want to pay your respects."

Li Kang nodded and said: "I looked at this excerpt just now, there is a gift list of the four major salt merchants, although the official knows that Shaoxi Mansion is an important salt field in the Great Song Dynasty, but he doesn't know the situation of these salt merchants, Lord Wang has been an official here for many years, it must be very clear, can you introduce it to the official?" ”

Wang Lin hurriedly said: "That's natural, if you want to say that the salt industry in the world, it is naturally our Shaoxi Mansion that is the most developed, and our Shaoxi Mansion is also upgraded from Rongzhou by relying on the salt industry, of course, these are all relying on the hard work of the salt merchants, relying on our transshipment department and colleagues in the house, which has today's atmosphere." Speaking of this Shaoxi Mansion, the salt merchants are indeed the most in the world, but the four major salt merchant families occupy eighty percent, these four major salt merchants are the Wang family, the Li family, the Song family, and the Zhao family, each of which is a rich party, well, especially the Zhao family, or the descendants of the Song royal family. ”

Li Xiang had already turned on the live broadcast system, and when Tongzhi Wang Lin came in, Li Xiang took it into account, there should be a lot of people watching these scenes live, right?

But when he opened the live broadcast room, he was still startled, why?

Because there are thousands of messages that pop up in the live broadcast room, all of them were sent by those fans after the live broadcast was closed last night, and more viewers joined the live broadcast room, after all, through the live broadcast, this is an unbelievable thing in the world, the fans last night had already sent out the news, so how many fans were attracted, Li Xiang didn't dare to guess!

As soon as the live broadcast room opened, the scene of the entire flower hall was in full view, and to Li Xiang's surprise, tens of thousands of fans poured in the live broadcast room at once! This is amazing, this is simply bursting!

Li Xiang said to the fans with his heart: "Ladies and gentlemen, what you see now is the flower hall of the official residence of the prefect of Shaoxi Mansion in the Southern Song Dynasty, and sitting in the middle is naturally the father of this son, the new prefect of Shaoxi Mansion, Li Kang. And the person next to him is Wang Lin, the same acquaintance of Shaoxi Mansion, hehe, let's take a look! ”

", this is really the Song Dynasty, look at the decoration of this flower hall, those furniture are definitely not what those film and television cities can have now! Twinkle! ”

"666666, it turns out that the officials of the Great Song Dynasty are like this, and they still have to receive so many gifts, don't you blush the anchor?"

"Don't be blind upstairs, don't be blind, this is the way of officialdom, how can you convince people if you don't accept gifts? Pretending to be high will only die quickly! ”

"That makes sense, let's see what the prefect has to say!"

"Oh my God, so many gifts, so much silver, it's time to be sent! I'm afraid that the silver on the gift list is not less than a few thousand taels, right? It should be millions of soft sister coins, and sure enough, it is three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver, the ancients did not deceive me! ”

"That's not much, you haven't watched our live broadcast industry, there are a lot of anchors who earn millions a year! The prefect of the family is also equivalent to the municipal level - cadres, which is not much at all! ”

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