Chapter 489: The Illegal Salt Official Who Can't Push It Sells

"Brother, I've done everything you need to stay (treated) for me...... Er told Shiyun (rhyme) that her aunt and I had also been brought back, and she had been sent back by boat ...... Ming'er."

What made Xian Cha laugh dumbly was Chu Meng's letter--he was also a serious 800 person who had attended a private school, but this letter was written with rambling and typos. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

It's not good to study, but as the head of the Japan Division of the Special Intelligence Division, Chu Mengna has done a good job -- this guy seems to have been born to do these crooked things.

Needless to say, the headquarters of the Japanese Department in Nagasaki was thoroughly cleaned up first, and after eliminating the spies, there were few people left, but Chumeng expanded to about 30 people in less than a month, and there were many Ming people living in Nagasaki, so Chumeng was able to bring in so many people in such a short time.

In addition to the Ming people, Chumeng also developed a peripheral organization, called "Yamaguchi Kaisha", under the pretense of doing business, gathered a group of small traders, forced laborers, turtle princesses and even many ronin, and quickly extended the tentacles of the Special Intelligence Division to all corners of Kitakyushu.

That's not all, in order to cooperate with the vigorous Kishidanichi in southern Kyushu, Chumeng sent his most reliable henchmen deep into Kagoshima, established a new base there, and single-mindedly investigated the movements of the Shimazu family, and really gave Amakusa Shiro a lot of help in the newspaper, so that the fire of Kishidan, which Chu Fan personally ignited, became more and more prosperous.

In this letter, Chumon also mentioned the next step of the Japanese Division, that is, to prepare for the establishment of the Edo Branch -- he saw it very accurately, as the Kishitan was getting bigger and bigger, the intervention of the Edo shogunate in the war on Kyushu Island was already a sure thing, and the sooner he made preparations, the greater the initiative he would gain.

Of course, the rapid expansion of the Secret Service Division will inevitably clash with Kinoshitamaru, especially since the two sides still have unclear old accounts to settle - most of the spies in the Nagasaki headquarters were planted by Kinoshitamaru and the Kato family!

Chu Meng was not a tolerant master, and at the beginning of his tenure, he killed people all over the place - among all the spies, all the Japanese were dead, and the Ming people or those with Ming blood were also cut off their noses and ears and thrown back to the labor camp in Tamna.

In order to demonstrate, and in order to deter Kinoshitamaru, Chu Meng loaded a whole cart of the severed head, nose and ears and sent them to Abe Tadamoto, making the latter ashamed but helpless, so he could only knock out his teeth and swallow them in his stomach.

The last tail of this matter is the hostages who were held by Kinoshitamaru, that is, the Ming people represented by Shiyun's mother-Kinoshitamaru killed and did not admit that he had planted spies, and of course it was impossible to hand over the hostages honestly.

Chu Meng found the location of these hostages, but firstly, the place where Kinoshitamaru was holding them was too dangerous, and secondly, it was inconvenient for Chumeng to openly tear his face with Kinoshitamaru, so Chumeng simply resorted to a shady trick - if you can take hostages, I can too!

Hostage-taking is easier said than easy to do - Nagasaki is someone's territory, and Kinoshitamaru is mostly single, such as this Abe Tadamoto; The only one with a big goal and enough weight is the Kato family, but they are a wealthy tyrant in Nagasaki City, not to mention kidnapping, it is difficult for the family to see each other.

In the end, it was the Yamaguchi Kaisha that made a great contribution and dug up the illegitimate son of Tadaharu Kato and the outer chamber of Tsunazaburo Kato--such a secret thing can be investigated, which shows the energy of the Yamaguchi Kaisha--With these two trump cards in his hands, Chu Meng naturally staged a incisive play of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, and easily rescued more than 30 Ming hostages, which led to the words of invitation at the end of the letter.

Carefully fold the letter paper and put it back in the envelope, the smile on the corner of Xiancha's mouth did not decrease, shook his head and put the envelope into the box marked "Changlu River", but he was muttering in his heart: This little uncle is really a demon king of the mixed world, and the widows will have a headache in the future. Now it's only in Nagasaki and Kagoshima, and when Chumeng extends his tentacles to all corners of the Wa Kingdom, I'm afraid that there will be no place to have a clean life!

Only the last letter was left on the red silk on several cases, and Xiancha stretched out a big lazy waist and picked it up, ready to finish the most important homework of the day.

The letter came from Yangzhou, written by the shopkeeper of the new business there, and the content was to report on the business situation since its opening.

The rest is not to be done - all the commodities produced in Tamna, whether they are tobacco or glass products, snowflake candy or privately minted copper coins, hot sauce or leather products, are either rare items or necessities of people's lives, and they are not to be marketed. It may be an exaggeration to say that there is no disadvantage, but it is indeed a hot commodity, and I am not afraid that I will not be able to open the situation at all.

Yangzhou is the largest wharf in the whole Ming Dynasty, to open a trade route here, no money is definitely not possible, is to set up a new business with extremely abundant funds, to the shopkeeper authority is also very large, almost just want to take money to smash the state. This shopkeeper was carefully selected and repeatedly compared from the entire East India Company, and he was the most sophisticated in the world, and he was also a first-class talent.

The goods are new, the hands are broad, and the people are savvy, and the future of the new business is naturally bright. No, it has only been less than two months since it opened, and the orders for various commodities have flown in like snowflakes, especially for the glass item, if it weren't for Chu Fan's repeated letters asking for price control, I'm afraid that Dingyin would have already collected hundreds of thousands of taels!

In addition to orders, Yangzhou business district to this powerful and wealthy and very understanding of the rules of the business also quickly opened its arms, the shopkeeper day and day, night and night singing, early with the various lines of businessmen into one, a radiation of most of China's commercial giant network has been faintly formed.

These are all expected things, Xiancha is just a glimpse, what she really cares, or she knows that her young master really cares, there is only one thing, and that is the sale of refined salt!

Salt is the largest item and the most indispensable commodity in the necessities of people's livelihood, so from the Qin and Han dynasties onwards, no matter which dynasty or generation, the government will include it in the category of monopoly and will not allow others to touch it. Where the benefits are, how can people not be tempted, especially the salt drying method of Tamna, there is almost no cost, making money by selling salt is both stable and profitable, and it is naturally the first choice among many commodities, which is why Chu Fan wants to open up the refined salt sales chain no matter what.

Perhaps it is because the sale of salt is too sensitive, so although the shopkeeper has put a lot of effort into it, it seems that there has been little progress so far.

The path he took was naturally ordered by Chu Fan'er, that is, the sale of private salt. To put it simply, it is to replace the coarse salt cooked by salt farmers with refined salt from Tamna, so that it can be truly integrated into the chain of salt sales.

It stands to reason that this method barely touches any vested interests: the salt road yamen should sell salt and sell salt, how the salt merchants should sell salt and how to sell salt, how the Cao gang should transport salt and how to transport salt, and no one will lose a penny. If anyone had to be harmed, it would be the poor salt farmers - how could they compete for Tamna refined salt because of the high cost and poor quality of boiled salt?

However, Chu Fan had already thought of this and came up with a practical solution-Aren't the salt farmers unable to make a living? Then let them come to Tamna! Each family was given travel expenses and settlement money, and batches were gathered together and sent directly to Tamna.

It stands to reason that this last problem has been solved, and the trade route of refined salt should be opened, but the shopkeeper said in the letter that after giving a beautiful mansion to the imperial history of the salt patrol, the imperial history has been relieved, but the private salt official is still holding back, and he can't push it at all!

Why is that? (To be continued.) )