Li Yongzhong raised his hand to his lips and smiled slightly under the cover of the teacup. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This Wednesday is expensive, the words are not pure and untruthful, what kind of country landlords, what people are being picked upon, what small gains, just listen to it. But the last thing that was said to be that the poor people urged the salt should be true. In Li Yongzhong's view, most of the joint stock party pit the Zhou family, the salt well has always been a matter of opening a new well, the salt division must be reported, and the salt division will set the number of salt, which is extraordinary, one is not good, the ambassador of the salt department gives you a quota of millions of catties a year, so that you want to cry without tears. Most of the family didn't know about this festival this week, so people couldn't figure it out.

"Before opening the well, my brother also deliberately probed the rules and regulations, and swore to the family that the person who joined the shares was the brother who changed the Geng post and stuck a knife in the ribs, and it would be fine." Wednesday Gui sighed, and one of the dough dough's faces wrinkled like a folded bun, "But the messenger is urging the day to be tight, and the family is panicked, and they all say that it has been cleared, so why do you have to pay salt again?" My brother's friends couldn't find anyone, so they sent me to Yibin's salt division to ask for clarification. ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Zhou Gui stood up from his chair with great difficulty, solemnly straightened his clothes, bent down deeply to Li Yongzhong, made a big salute, and pleaded: "I also know that my behavior is reckless and abrupt, but this matter is related to the lives of dozens of people in my Zhou family, and I hope that Zhong Guan'er will save me for the sake of fate!" ”

Li Yongzhong had already flashed to the side when he saluted on Wednesday, and at this time he sighed and helped him up, and sat down according to him, his face showing sincere sympathy, like a handsome son who was compassionate and compassionate. He sighed and said: "Although the ancestral business of the younger brother's family is salt, after all, he is young, and he only knows one or two of the doorways. ”

Zhou Gui accompanied Li Yongzhong to pour a cup of tea carefully and diligently, and the two cheeks like dough squeezed out a flattering smile, and nodded again and again: "It is said that peers are enemies, this is the secret of the industry, Zhong Guan'er is willing to say a few points together, it is my great luck on Wednesday, and if you want to be greedy, it is not tolerated by gods and ghosts." ”

"That's good." Li Yongzhong nodded, took out a stick from the chopsticks, dipped it in tea and wrote on the table, "Brother Zhou, do you know that the country has a way to open the middle?" ”

"Yes, yes." On Wednesday, your head was like a chicken pecking rice, "It is our salt merchant who transports salt to the side, and with this you can exchange salt for lead." ”

"Exactly. However, this law of opening in the Jiajing Dynasty is becoming more and more devastated during the Jiajing period," Li Yongzhong wrote a big collapse on the table, "Unfortunately, although it is a good law, but the nobles have many peeps, occupy a lot of nests, to the Hongzhi year, change the law to the merchant to replace rice with silver, pay to the transport division, solve to Taicang, and then distribute to each side, each salt loses three or four coins, resulting in more than one million silver in Taicang, and the country's financial revenue has increased sharply. ”

Wednesday Gui admired: "Zhong Guan'er really has his own splendid heart!" This kind of thing, we and other businessmen have never been confused, and no one has ever been as clear and clear as Zhong Guan'er! ”

"False praise." Li Yongzhong smiled, tapped the head of his chopsticks on the table twice, and continued: "However, my Sichuan salt is different, the salt well brine comes out at the same time, and it can be boiled without firewood, which is more convenient than other types; In addition, the households of the stove are becoming more and more difficult, and there are many fugitives, and now they all rely on the merchants to pay for salt, so the salt department has 'those who are willing to pay salt for the Dai Na one after another, according to the well field, they will deduct three points from each dollar in the number for the benefit of the merchants'. ”

"That, that!" Wednesday's cheeks twitched, beads of sweat like soybeans rolled down his forehead, he jumped up from his chair on the ground, and said in despair: "My family has never heard of this festival!" My brother and friend once told my brother that we can get huge profits by exchanging salt for grain every year! ”

Li Yongzhong sighed lightly and said, "It seems that Brother Zhou's family must be being calculated here. Sichuan is far away from the border, and the law has long been not implemented, if this is the case, Brother Zhou's family is about to be in trouble! What he didn't say was naturally clear to Zhou Gui - the premise of being able to subtract three points per money for profit was that the merchant paid the stove household on behalf of the bank, but the Zhou family believed in the theory of exchanging silver for grain, so they never paid the tax silver, and now they are forced by others, so it is naturally not a trivial matter, and it is not possible to say, and it is common for the whole family to be overturned.

Zhou Zhou Gui suddenly felt a thrill, as if he had just woken up, his eyes were red, panting like a cow, he turned around twice in place, and slammed forward, ignoring the splashing of tea on the table, he grabbed Li Yongzhong's sleeve, two bags of tears in his eyes, and pleaded repeatedly: "Zhong Guan'er, Zhong Guan'er, Brother Li!" You're going to save me! There are dozens of people in the Zhou family, this, what face will our brothers have to see their ancestors in the future! ”

Speaking of the sincerity of love, he actually howled and cried, Xiao Er and the shopkeeper of the tea shed shrank aside, looking this side with curiosity and contempt in their eyes, Li Yongzhong gently and skillfully pulled his sleeve out of the hand of this Brother Zhou, Shi Shiran stood up and bent down, patted him on the shoulder with infinite regret, and said: "Alas, it is really sad to make a mistake with a bandit!" ”

Wednesday Gui shuddered, his eyes flickered, coughed twice, straightened his waist slowly, and muttered: "This, thank you Zhongguan'er......"

Li Yongzhong dusted off his edge, sat down slowly and crossed his legs, took a sip of the teacup, exhaled a breath, and glanced at Zhou Gui's anxious face again, curled the corner of his mouth and said leisurely: "Brother Zhou, I have a doubt, and I want to ask you to explain it to me." At the gate of the salt division, there are famous people, magnificent people, and young people, and the next one is young, two is simple, and three is nameless," he chuckled, stared at Zhou Gui and said slowly: "How did Brother Zhou decide that I can solve your doubts?" ”

"This, this ......" Wednesday Gui sweated like rain.

"Brother Zhou's family is in such a big disaster, which makes people sympathize, but I also want to ask, how can a contemptible person be so virtuous, so that Brother Zhou values it so much? How important is it to entrust the secrets of the family? Brother Zhou," Li Yongzhong sighed, he really didn't understand, "Could it be that you really deceived me when I was young?" Deceived me into not understanding the world? ”

Wednesday Gui's body froze, crying with a face, his mouth opened and closed, and finally he held back a sentence dryly: "How dare you, how dare you ......"

Looking up at the skylight, Li Yongzhong drank the residual tea in the cup in one gulp, called the little second account, and finally turned his head to Zhou Zhougui and said unceremoniously: "Brother Zhou, you and I originally met in Pingshui, and the younger brother asked himself if you had nothing to do with Brother Zhou before, but Brother Zhou had ill intentions. That's all it takes, the younger brother still has important things to do in the Salt Division, so Brother Zhou should do it himself. ”

If Wednesday was barely a cry before, now it is like a soul. He rushed to Li Yongzhong's side with a flexibility that did not match his fat body, and dragged him by the sleeve alive, "Zhong Guan'er! Zhong Guan'er! He was so anxious, "Listen to me!" Listen to me! ”

He spoke quickly and quickly, "What I said is true! My brother was deceived by others, and he was forced to pay taxes, so where could he come up with so much in his eagerness! When the family was poor, they wanted to try their luck with the salt division, not to get rid of it, but to give it some time! But there is no way, I wandered in the salt division for a few days, a few days ago, suddenly met the lifting master to send a young man out, so he tried his luck fiercely, the young man listened to me and told me, one day before the salt division ordered I can wait for someone here. ”

Li Yongzhong smiled and said, "It seems that this person must be me." ”

"Exactly." On Wednesday, Guizhu poured beans and confided cleanly, "The young man only said, I can tell this person about this, and if this person is willing to help me in the end, he will turn his cheeks to the old man for me." Speaking of this, Zhou Gui was also very embarrassed, he gritted his teeth, and said in a deep voice: "I also know that this matter is ridiculous, but as I said before, the Zhou family has dozens of mouths, and the family has money, depending on the outcome of my trip to the salt division, if the little official can really say a thing or two for my family, it will take my life!" "Clear vision, where is the previous cowardice and sluggishness!

Li Yongzhong only felt angry and funny. Wednesday Gui said that the young man, he knew who it was as soon as he heard it, and he only felt that this person could really be innocent, and when they met, he felt that he was a little infatuated, and he hadn't seen him for several years.

As a result, Xiao Er handed him the reins of the horse, turned over on the horse, and shouted at Zhou Gui who chased him out: "You tell that little official, I already know who he is, and since he has taken over the trouble of the Zhou family himself, he has to settle the account by himself!" This matter has nothing to do with me, he wants to come out of it, carefully follow his master's family law! As soon as he pulled the reins, the Dian horse neighed, screamed happily and shook off its four hooves, and after a while, there was no longer a figure.

On Wednesday, Gui was so anxious that he turned around in place, rubbing his hands and chopping his feet, and his mouth was repeated: "It's okay now, the people have also run away, and I don't know if this little official still admits it?" After turning around twice, he called the sedan chair man, got on the sedan chair with a depressed heart, and walked straight away.

At the door of the salt division, the merchants who called in one after another, seeing that there were fewer and fewer people, and the sky was about to brighten, but Li Yongzhong still didn't see anyone, and He Tai couldn't wait to share it himself. It's good to go out and find him. In his eagerness, he suddenly heard a crisp sound of horses' hooves on the bluestone pavement, and when he looked up again, Li Yongzhong rode his horse and trotted all the way over.

He Tai breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly stepped forward a few steps, and just picked up Li Yongzhong to dismount, only then did he realize that his heart was beating fiercely in his chest, and his close-fitting middle coat was all sweat ****, and he couldn't help complaining: "Zhong Guan'er is going to never go back!" I'm almost too anxious to wait here! ”

Li Yongzhong snorted, threw the reins to his follower, and said with a calm face: "I wanted to join in the fun and watch a trick, but I didn't expect to be played by someone else." It's not a big deal. ”

He Tai was stunned for a moment, and then thought of someone about something, and asked tentatively: "Zhong Guan'er is talking about ......?"

"Who else? O old man! ”