Tang Yi likes fishing very much, and compared with other deliberate hunting behaviors, fishing treats the prey more fairly, there is no heaven and earth net, and the prey simply chooses between death and food.

It seems that a meal is insignificant compared to life, and a fool will choose. In the face of the fish biting the hook, will you give birth to a sense of superiority in intelligence?

It's just that according to Tang Yi's observation, a person's IQ, in most cases, is not as good as a fish. At least that's the case with Yan Maoqing and the salt merchants.

When he was in the southeast, he rushed forward ******** to fight for the interests of his own group, expand his power, and sometimes even did not hesitate to do some quite dangerous things.

For example, burning evidence, such as recruiting Xu Hai and Wang Zhi, and encouraging Xinxue to form a party and form a Yangtze River Shipping Company......

These risky moves certainly brought a large group of hardcore supporters to Tang Yi, but because they rushed too fiercely, they were too high-profile, set up too many enemies, and attracted a lot of criticism.

Man is a wonderful animal, especially in the circle of power, when you are too outstanding, only a very few geniuses will hold back their strength to surpass you, and most people think about how to pull you down.

Even if they don't get the benefit, just looking refreshed will have a good motivation.

This is also the result of Tang Yi's contemplation in his spare time after entering Beijing for a few months. So he went south this time, changing his previous style of being aggressive and charging into battle.

He is very tolerant of everyone, he did not rush to take down the hateful Yan Maoqing, provoked the dignified salt merchants, he did not destroy it immediately, and he did not rush to do it......

Although he acted as the backstage of Wang Wenxian and others. Although he used the power of the traffic line, these were all in the dark, and Tang Yi's movements on the bright side were indeed much softer, and it also saved enough face for the big guy.

Because of this, whether it was the Yan Party, the Xu Party, or even the Jin Party, which had suffered losses, they did not tear their faces with Tang Yi.

It's funny. Tang Yi's softness and softness made Yan Maoqing, as well as Wang Lutai and other salt merchants, feel that he had scruples and was weak and deceitful.

For now, Tang Yi put on a posture of preparing to return to Beijing, that is, to tell the salt merchants, I am leaving, and you should also take out something real and cut out a little meat. Let me give an explanation to the stove households, and at the same time maintain the price of salt in a reasonable range, hello, hello, hello everyone......

Unexpectedly, instead of being obedient, the salt merchants mistakenly thought that Tang Yi had bowed his head, and they could counterattack and make up for what they had lost.

From the arrest of the stove to the seizure of the convoy, the momentum of the counterattack is getting stronger and stronger. Until the price of salt began to rise, and finally showed its sharp fangs.

Tang Yi made a pot of kung fu tea with his own hands. He called Wu Tiancheng over, the master and apprentice sat opposite each other, and Tang Yi only poured himself a glass.

"This is a big red robe with only a few catties a year, which I bought from Grandpa Huang."

Wu Tiancheng's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said: "Thank you Master for your love, I'm afraid that the disciple is not a Sven person." Ruined good things. ”

With a polite mouth, he reached for the teapot.

"Slow!" Tang Yi smiled slightly, "It's not difficult to drink tea, as a teacher, I want to see if your ability has grown!" ”

Wu Tiancheng immediately put away his smile. Make the pen straight, and whisper, "Please give the teacher advice." ”

"Do you understand the methods of Yan Maoqing and the salt merchants?"

"Got it!" Wu Tiancheng said firmly: "They and Yan Maoqing cooperated on both sides, Yan Maoqing used the power of the Salt Transportation Department to crack down on the stove households that opposed them, and at the same time strictly inspected the salt transportation, so that the supply of small and medium-sized salt merchants would have problems." ”

"Hmm!" Tang Yi nodded with satisfaction, "Is there anything else?" ”

"Yes, a large number of shipments were made before, and small and medium-sized salt merchants had a lot of salt in their hands, so that the price of salt would not rise immediately. And in just a few days, the price of salt has risen by as much as 50%, because the salt merchants have thrown money! ”

Tang Yi lifted the teapot, poured half of it into Wu Tiancheng's teacup, stopped his hand, and said with a smile: "How can you see it?" ”

"The salt merchants have business contacts with the money bank ticket numbers of the traffic bank, and a large number of orders for withdrawing and depositing silver have appeared recently."

Tang Yi smiled slightly, poured the teacup full, Wu Tiancheng hurriedly picked up the teacup and took a sip, sure enough, the tea was pleasant, and the master's affirmation made him even more sweet.

Wu Tiancheng's analysis is correct, the salt merchant has adopted a two-handed strategy, one is to block the supply of goods, and the second is to buy salt on the market on a large scale.

With their long-term prestige, a lot of silver, and Yan Maoqing's support, those small and medium-sized salt merchants can't bear the pressure at all, and they will soon be broken one by one.

After they regain control of the salt on the market, they can make up for the loss by raising the price of salt.

"Tiancheng, what do you estimate the price of salt that the salt merchants want, and how much silver will they have to smash?"

Wu Tiancheng said with a smile: "Master, according to the disciple's estimate, it must be higher than before the turmoil, but I have to take care of Master's face, it will not reach the highest point, I estimate that it should be between two and a half to three points of silver." As for spending money, just buying salt on the market, not five million taels is not enough. ”

"Well, that's good, but you've forgotten one thing."

"Please give me advice."

"Hehe, Yan Maoqing is not a fuel-efficient lamp, if you want to move him, there is also the Yan Party behind him, without this number, I'm afraid it won't be done!"

Tang Yi stretched out his hand and shook it, it was five million taels again!

Wu Tiancheng was shocked, the previous salt merchants had not made money for several months, and they had lost millions of taels, plus these two expenses, they had already used almost 20 million taels.

It is said that salt merchants are as rich as the country, but their families are big and their expenses are also big. Not to mention anything else, just the annual alms to the temple, the incense money is one or two million taels, to put it bluntly, the famous temples around the country have almost received gifts from salt merchants.

Do they still have enough silver in their hands?

Wu Tiancheng instantly sprung up with a thought, the idea of teaching the salt merchant a hard lesson, but after learning the lesson of the last time, he did not rush to say it, but lowered his head and fell into deep thought.

On the contrary, Tang Yi sighed very much: "Tiancheng, as a teacher, I don't dare to boast of being a gentleman, but everyone who does things and is an official has a standard, that is, you can't suffer the people at the bottom, even if there are great benefits, you can't damage the interests of the small people in Shengdou, if you smash their jobs today, tomorrow the family will starve and freeze, and even die!" ”

Wu Tiancheng could hear that the master was not preaching, but really from the heart, in fact, think about it, when he didn't meet the master, why wasn't it like this? For a meal, I was gray-haired.

Nowadays, from top to bottom, any piece of clothing, one wears, is worth a lot of money, enough for a poor family to live for a few years.

After being in a high position, many people choose to completely cut off from the past of poverty and shame. But Tang Yi always remembered the past when he couldn't even afford a bun.

"I was ordered to go south, and His Majesty gave me two missions, the first is not to make trouble, and the second is not to affect the salt tax. And in my heart, I have set another task for myself, that is, no matter what, to keep the price of salt down and let the poor people take a breath, so no matter what, I will not watch the salt merchants raise the price of salt again! ”

Tang Yi's tone was unquestionable, with strong persistence, Wu Tiancheng was extremely excited when he heard it, Master is not only able to learn for a lifetime, but also his own role model!

"Master, you just have to give the order, what do you need your disciple to do, even if you go to the soup and fire, you will not hesitate."

Tang Yi smiled, "There is no need to do this, what you need to do now is to give loans to salt merchants and help them buy more salt, the more money, the better." ”

In the past, Wu Tiancheng would definitely ask the reason, but this time he learned to be obedient, and he did what the teacher told him, even if it was abnormal, there was no need to doubt it. Anyway, sooner or later, there will be a time to lift the hole cards.

Wu Tiancheng hurriedly went to arrange, Tang Yi was still unsatisfied, drank enough tea, and took a nap for a while before Tan Guang prepared the carriage and quietly left the line, turning around, Tang Yi's carriage arrived at a small courtyard.

Coming out of the small courtyard, Tang Yi had already changed his dress, with a small beard, wearing a gorgeous silk robe, holding a small gold-sprinkled fan in his hand, and a dog skin plaster on his forehead.

All in all, no one will associate this killing Matt non-mainstream with the champion of the Chin Cha.

Tan Guang and the others also dressed up as dogs, and with Tang Yi coming out, they rode on the fast horse that had been prepared for a long time, and immediately went to Yancheng, a city named after salt!

As early as the Warring States Period, here began to boil the sea for salt, to the Tang Dynasty period, it is known as "the wealth of the southeast of Jia, half of the side salary is out of Zi", only in Yancheng alone, there are 123 salt pavilions, almost every family boils salt, and produces more than 100,000 stones of salt per year.

In the Ming Dynasty, Yancheng was more prosperous, it was the center of salt production in Lianghuai, just entered the city, the air was filled with the smell of fireworks, choking people coughing, and the road was full of Liba who was holding his trouser leg and pushing brine and firewood.

Their skinny skin, swarthy muscles bear a weight that is completely out of proportion to their bodies, and if they don't walk briskly, they look like bronze statues, weather-beaten, stiff and tall.

Tang Yi stopped for a long time before Tan Guang knocked on the door of the Wang family.

Squeak, the door opened, and a teenage boy poked out from inside, staring at the people outside, suddenly raised his fist, aimed at Tan Guang and hit him, and scolded in his mouth: "Let you arrest my grandfather, my master will kill you!" ”

His momentum is very good, but his fist is too bad, Tan Guang stretched out his hand, grabbed his arm, and gently took it, and fell on his stomach. The little boy was quite stubborn, he got up and beat again, but he was knocked down by Tan Guang again.

Four or five times in a row, the people in the house were alarmed, Wang Wenxian hurriedly ran in front, went out to see, he had seen Tan Guang, and then looked back, almost kneeling.

"Don ......"

Tang Yi hurriedly made a silent movement, and he quickly stepped into the gate of the Wang family. Wang Wenxian was surprised and delighted, and invited Tang Yi to the small living room at the back.

"My lord, why are you here? ＂

Tang Yi threw his hat aside and said with a smile: "If I don't come, you don't necessarily scold me!" ”

"How can you!" Wang Wenxian hurriedly shook his head and denied it.

"Stop talking nonsense, how much more salt can you take?" Tang Yi got straight to the point. (To be continued.) )