The Fuyi Salt Division is in the east of Fushun City, and the Fushun County Yamen is only half a street away, but compared to the usual quiet in front of the county Yamen, the Yamen of the Salt Division has been noisy since the beginning of the year, regardless of the Li family, the Liu family, or the Zhang family, the errand and help of several major salt merchants in Fushun City No matter what grievances there are on weekdays, but here in the Salt Division, it has always been the well water that does not interfere with the river water, even if the two dogs have to fight out, in the Salt Division, at most, they don't care about each other. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the first year of Chongzhen, after the salt division opened the seal, there was a new thing - although they were all surnamed Li, these two groups of Li family members did not mean to treat each other as their own people at all. On the first day of the seal, he almost fought in the courtyard in front of the gate of the Salt Division, and then although he was stopped by the soldiers of the Salt Division, he still provoked the anger of the old man, and he played twenty boards on each side, and also asked people to release the words, if the people of the Li family dare to make trouble in the Salt Division, their salt will go to Fucheng in the future!

"What did you say!?" Li Yongbo stood up from the drum pier suddenly, knocked over the tea bowl and splashed the tea everywhere, he didn't care, a pair of eyes stared at the errand who knelt in front of the hall and didn't dare to lift the Tsing Yi hat, only felt that the teeth were itching, and he had to grind hard to solve it, he spit out the words word by word: "You said that the Qian curtain friend next to Sun Tiju sent you a message, saying that our quota this month is thirty percent more than in previous years!?" ”

In February, when the spring was cold, I knelt on the terrazzo bricks, only to feel that the cold was drilling into the knee cracks for a while, and no matter how thick the clothes were, I couldn't resist it. While trying to suppress his instinct to tremble, he carefully replied with a careful word: "Qian Muyou said that this quota is not only for the Li family, but also for the whole Sichuan well field this year. What's more, at the beginning of the year, Zhong Guan'er's well site paid all the quota for the first quarter. It is said that Zhong Guan'er also said that now the well field under the Li family is divided into two, Ding is Ding Mao is Mao, and each person is his own. ”

Li Yongbo had a big green tendon blooming on his forehead, and a pair of hands resting on the handle of the official hat chair in his early four years almost broke the hard sour branch wood, but it was really endured and endured before swallowing a mouthful of blood back into his stomach. He knew that Li Yongzhong would never be able to help him pay salt in the well field, and the excess salt in the well field was sold to the horse team who smuggled salt by the third aunt, although he made a lot of money, but because of this, Curry now only has one or two thousand catties of salt! Now that the salt division is urging the salt, don't look at the Sun Tiju who calls him a brother and brother on weekdays, once he knows that he can't pay the salt, waiting for Li Yongbo will be wiped out immediately, a monstrous disaster!

Taking a deep breath and barely calming down, Li Yongbo waved his hand to let the errand go down, while calling Yuanbao: "Please come to my study by Steward Zhou!" ”

Zhou's steward is called Zhou Yong, who was originally an old man in Liu's well field, and since he was eleven or twelve years old, he has been busy with Liu Sankui's father in the field, and later Liu Sankui was in charge, he was not Liu Sankui's original person, he was left out in the cold for a while, and he earned a future on his own, and he was the big steward of Liu's well field. This time, Li Yongbo asked his uncle for help, and Liu Sankui was not generous, so he sent all the pillars of his family to his nephew. Although Li Yongbo said that he was incompetent, he had gone through the previous events, and he obeyed Liu Sankui's words, and he got along very well with Zhou Yong.

"Steward Zhou." After Yuanbao gave Zhou Yong tea and retreated to the door, Li Yongbo almost put his upper body half on the table, and couldn't wait to say to Zhou Yong: "Now the salt department is urging the well site to hand over the salt, but you also know that this big head of salt has been sold to Wu Laosan's private salt horse team, and now the library only gets 2,000 catties of salt, only a fraction of the original amount!" Steward Zhou, what is the way to look at this matter? ”

Zhou Yong bowed slightly in his seat, his face was indifferent, he didn't even move his eyebrows, and only said dryly: "When the master said that he wanted to sell this batch of salt, I persuaded him to wait for the new salt to come down, and he didn't listen to how hard he persuaded the master." Now that the salt department is about to urge, he is looking for my idea - master, I am eager to pay off this amount, I am afraid that only the salt from more than a dozen well sites of the Li family in the past will be gathered in one place......" Speaking of this, a smile appeared on the face of this usually low-key and calm steward, "However, I'm afraid that Zhongguan'er's place is not very easy to talk to." ”

Li Yongbo walked around the room upset with his hands behind his back, and when he heard Zhou Yong say this, his eyebrows were raised and he was about to attack, but when he saw the other party's cold face, he swallowed it back raw, and choked himself so much that his face was red and tendons. After gasping for breath twice, Li Yongbo gritted his back molars and said, "That little bastard is waiting to see my joke!" He was willing to lend a helping hand in front of his brothers! ”

After scolding Li Yongzhong upside down, Li Yongbo gasped and sat back on the drum pier. He pressed his hands to his knees, and his face looked terrifying, but inside he was terrified. He still remembered that when he was young, he saw the salt merchant who couldn't afford to pay enough salt, and the family was frightened, and the soldiers searched the house at will, and the people turned over on their backs, and countless accumulations turned into smoke. Not to mention that now that the salt department is urging day by day, the amount of salt tax he owes is huge, how can he be willing to let him be a little accommodating!

After looking at Li Yongbo's ugly face for a long time, Zhou Yongcai said slowly: "It's not that you mean...... There's no way to ......."

These words immediately gave Li Yongbo, who was still in fear, countless hopes! He slammed in front of Zhou Yong, grabbed the other party's sleeve, his eyes were bloodshot and red, and asked one after another: "What's the way?" Say it quickly! ”

Zhou Yong casually pulled his sleeve out of Li Yongbo's hand, he smiled on his face, and said with a look of great concern: "At this time, in fact, each family still has some surplus salt. The old man's family has a lot of money, and the Li family has a good reputation in Fushun, so it is probably not difficult to borrow from the rest. ”

Li Yongbo was stunned, straightened his waist and stood up straight, his face suddenly became strange, his eyes flew everywhere, and he said vaguely: "It's not that I didn't go to ......."

Zhou Yong asked: "What is the result?" ”

This question obviously embarrassed Li Yongbo very much, his face was gloomy, he sat back in his seat, and sighed: "Alas, you said I didn't borrow it? When the people at the bottom just reported that the amount of salt was not enough, I went to visit several other houses in person, and the result! He spat hatefully and said, "These villains climb high and step low!" One by one, they pretended to say that they had no spare energy, and some people picked out a few hundred catties of salt on the spot to send me away! Phew! The more Li Yongbo complained, the more the fire in his chest burned, and he blushed and roared: "I, Li Yongbo, am not rare!" They'll save the salt and eat it! And I'm not afraid of salt and salt killing them! ”

Zhou Yong's expression did not change, and he first comforted him: "Master doesn't have to meet this group of people. How much background do they have? The Li family has a big business, but now it's just a small bump, so what is it worth? The lord doesn't have to worry about these things. Then his tone of words changed, and it became a little intriguing: "It's just that I don't understand a little, the master is in this situation, why don't you ask Master Liu about it?" ”

"Ask uncle?" Li Yongbo hesitated a little, he picked up the tea bowl on the table and took a sip, and then put it down heavily, the angry look on his face before had disappeared. After a moment of silence, Li Yongbo spoke: "It's not that I don't want to ask my uncle for help, it's really that I relied on my uncle a lot of things in the well field before, and now I want to open this ...... again" He didn't say any more, but the meaning was already clear: Even Li Yongbo felt that he couldn't open this mouth.

Zhou Yong said disapprerovingly: "Master, this is what you want." Master Liu is the master's maternal uncle, no matter how close he is, the master is now at odds with Zhong Guan'er, and he should stand with Master Liu. In other words, if it is Master Liu who encounters this now, won't you help? ”

Li Yongbo cut off Zhou Yong's words and said: "How can that happen!" He hammered his left hand into the palm of his right hand, and called out: "It's me who wants to fork!" It's me who wants to fork in! Yes, my uncle must have treated me the same way I did with my uncle! Ouch, I was mistaken by a little mongrel, thinking that there was only that kind of dirt between relatives, but I forgot that there was still blood and kinship. He was excited, the gloom on his face was diluted a lot for days, he got up and walked a few steps in the house, the more he thought about it, the more he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and finally took Zhou Yong's hand and said earnestly: "This is all taught by Steward Zhou!" When this is over, I will thank you very much! ”

The Li family's tent is located in the east chamber of the courtyard at the head of the house, which is divided into two places: inside and outside. The inner account room is in charge of spending in the house, and the outer account room is in charge of the money exchange in the well field under the name of the Li family, led by the salt master, and there are more than a dozen shrewd and powerful account room gentlemen who can play and calculate, eleven inventory, January 1 to check the accounts, since Wang Huanzhi's leadership, the accounts have never been missing.

Today happens to be the day of the audit of the Li Jiajing field. Early in the morning, the account room and the apprentices waited solemnly, took out the account books of the past ten days from the counter drawers placed on weekdays, and summarized them into the main hall, the five chief stewards headed by Wang Huanzhi sat on the top with a serious expression, and the middle of the main hall was emptied of the former furnishings, and only ten tables and chairs were placed, and there were pen, ink, paper, inkstone and a huge abacus on the table.

Ten bookkeepers rushed in, and when they were seated, the apprentice shuffled up the books of the month. After the last account book was sent into the hands of the account room, Wang Huanzhi looked at the sky, got up and stood still, looked left and right in the field, and shouted in a deep voice: "Chongzhen's first year of February audit account, start!" ”

Li Yongzhong stood in the courtyard and looked at this hot place for a while, Wutong hurriedly ran from the backyard with a cotton jacket and sweaty, walked to his side, and while shaking off his clothes and putting him on, he whispered: "Zhong Guan'er just doesn't care about the quality of his body!" At this time, there is no reason to wear a jacket to go out! ”

"So you didn't go get your clothes?" Li Yongzhong scolded with a smile, and let Wutong dress himself, he seemed to think of something, and suddenly smiled, "Speaking of which, it's good to add some clothes," he stepped out of the door first, leaving Wutong behind, only to hear Li Yongzhong's unpredictable voice coming: "Seeing that the wind and rain are coming." ”