Chapter 106 Refusal to pay
(Thank you for the reward of taking a stick to the world, thank you!) )
Liu Jun presented awards to the whole team, and all members of the team received a positive award.
The reward and punishment rules of the nine-headed bird have made a lot of changes, among which the reward of cash silver has been reduced, and although the first-level military merit has been retained, the reward has also been reduced, and the collective reward is mainly shared. At the same time, however, a collective cash bounty was added.
The reward is divided into three classes, the positive reward, the additional reward and the quantitative reward. The reward is one tael of silver, four buckets of rice, and one piece of cloth. The bonus will be doubled and the reward will be halved.
The operation was a great success, and the harvest was huge, but there was nothing to be proud of when hundreds of men dealt with an unsuspecting salt dealer. But Liu Jun still gave the whole team a positive reward.
On the same day, the officials of the various yamen rushed to Shuangheji one after another.
These people came in a hurry, in fact, to share the spoils, and by the way, to share some credit. Zhao Wu is only a small salt dealer, but Liu Jun has seized a lot of private salt this time, especially Zhao Wu's accounts, and even arrested all those salt dings, and even Liu Jun also controlled the account book of Zhao Wu's bribery and customs clearance, but Liu Jun did not disclose it.
When the officials arrived, all kinds of gold, silver, silk, satin, calligraphy, painting, antiques, and even gold, silver, jewelry, jade, and even private salt were piled up into a mountain in the empty field in front of the Guangong Temple in Shuangheji.
Even if Liu Jun finally transported 70,000 catties of salt, leaving only 100,000 catties of illicit salt, when all the 30,000 catties of illicit salt were poured out and piled up into a snow-white salt mountain, the visual impact was still great. What's more, in addition to this salt, Liu Jun also left more than 2,400 taels of silver and more than 60 taels of gold.
There are many jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, furniture, satin, grain, etc. copied from the shops of the Zhao family.
Liu Jun had already transported most of it privately, and he asked people to send three hundred taels of gold and fifteen thousand taels of silver back to Hutou Pass. In addition, gold, silver, beads, jade, calligraphy and paintings, etc., also picked the most expensive and valuable ones to pack and transport away, not to mention that Liu Jun still had 53,000 taels of tickets stuffed in his arms.
Eating those would be enough, and he wouldn't mind keeping the rest for everyone to share.
Liu Jun knows very well that the meat of private salt is very fat, and there are many people who want to eat it, and now he breaks the original situation, bites a piece of meat by force, and eats it himself, and he must give some to others.
Several Taoist yamen, plus Huangzhou Prefecture, Huangzhou Weimacheng County, and even the local head snake Baoshengbao Township Group, etc., after everyone sat together and made a noise, they began to directly divide the spoils.
As the instigator this time, Liu Jun sat at the end in a very low-key manner, didn't say a word, and even simply closed his eyes and took a nap.
After more than an hour of arguing, the results of the distribution of the spoils came out. First of all, 30,000 catties of smuggling salt, Liu Jun, the person who seized smuggling, received a reward of 20 percent, got 6,000 catties of salt, and the remaining 30 percent belonged to the Yamen of the Salt Patrol Road, and the remaining 50 percent was divided into Shoudao, Bingbei Road, Huangzhou Mansion, Baosheng Fort and King Andong each got 10%. In the one percent of Huangzhou Mansion, the government accounts for half, Huangzhou Wei accounts for three percent, and Macheng County accounts for two percent. In short, the interests are evenly distributed, and those who see it have a share.
Of course, tens of thousands of catties of salt are just trivial, and what everyone is really staring at is the confiscated money, grain, fields, and houses, as well as the hundreds of illegal salt sellers.
Zhao Wu has more than 1,000 acres of land, several shops, and a mansion and two courtyards. Not to mention dozens of taels of gold and thousands of taels of silver, plus a lot of jewelry and furniture.
In the end, it was Hu Gongguo, the battalion officer of the Baoshengbao Township Regiment Barracks who came on behalf of Mei Zhihuan, to propose that it be divided into five parts according to the previous method. However, Liu Jun and the nine-headed bird made a lot of meritorious contributions this time, so they took out part of it and distributed it to them first, and then divided the rest equally among the five families.
This proposal was supported by all. This time, although people from all the yamen came, except for the magistrate of Macheng County, the rest of the families only came with staff, and no chief came in person. Before they came, they were almost informed, so they quickly came to an agreement.
Liu Jun pretended to excuse himself, and in the end he got a thousand taels of silver, as well as several shops in Zhao Wu. No matter how much he didn't ask for it, everyone was very satisfied with Liu Jun's humility, although everyone actually understood that Liu Jun must have been full before they came, but that matter can't be said on the surface.
Zhao Wu's most valuable thing is the more than 1,000 acres of land, worth tens of thousands of silver, and finally divided into five parts. Prepare to sell it to the insignees, and then divide the money.
After the agreement on the distribution of stolen goods was reached, everyone was very happy, and in the end, the cracking of Zhao Wu's extraordinarily large case of trafficking in illicit salt became a joint action between Huguang patrolling the salt road, guarding the Xiajiang defense road, patrolling the Xiajiang defense road, and the Huangzhou Mansion, Huangzhou Wei, Macheng County, Baoshengbao Township Regiment, and Nine-headed Bird Township Regiment.
Therefore, these hundreds of smugglers who were arrested can be regarded as everyone's share. In short, it was a huge anti-smuggling success case.
On the same day, Shuangheji was extremely lively, and the officials of the various yamen took the stage one by one to try the extraordinarily large smuggling case. After the trial, it was even announced that the seized 30,000 catties of illicit salt would be sold directly on the spot, and the price was much lower than the ordinary official salt price, along with some real estate, furniture, jewelry, and so on of Zhao Wu and other smuggled salt dealers.
In the end, it became a live auction meeting, attracting a large number of vendors, squires and landlords to rush to buy.
Liu Jun just watched coldly from beginning to end, although he gave up a lot of benefits, but now he can't swallow it alone, so he can only give up some.
After dark, Lu Jinxi was the host, and he set up a banquet in Shuanghe to entertain the officials of the various yamen, everyone drank very happily, and Liu Jun also brought a group of Nine-headed Bird officers to accompany them.
After drinking until midnight, the banquet ended, and Liu Jun took his brothers back to the Zhao family's house. After a night's rest, he led the team back to Hutou Fort early the next morning.
"Continue to collect all the large and small illegal salt dealers in Macheng County, and then we will sweep away the illegal salt dealers in the county." As soon as Liu Jun returned to the fort, he proposed a new goal at the officers' meeting.
"The team went out to search for information at night, and the rest of the team continued to strengthen training. In addition, all the players performed very well in this game, and each official player was counted with 100 points, and the reserve team members were counted with 50 points. ”
However, before Liu Jun could find other smuggler salt dealers in the county, these people sent people to send gifts.
Some sent beautiful women, some sent gold, and some sent silver, all with only one purpose, hoping to get rich together. They proposed that as long as Liu Jun was willing to let them go, then they would send a filial piety every month in the future. After giving gifts, some people left some words of implicit threat, saying that if Liu Jun refused to raise his noble hand, then Liu Jun would cut off their wealth, and they would have to fight.
"Don't pay attention to these people, some outlaw salt lords, are we afraid to fight hard, they don't want to think about who we are before they come, and who are the nine-headed birds, really think that we are just some ordinary team exercises, desperate? We have been preparing desperately, and the salt lords dare to find the army desperately, and they are really too long. Make a note of those who dare to threaten us and make them a priority. Liu Jun did not show weakness, the salt lord may be very fierce, but don't forget, no matter how fierce the salt lord is, he is just some outlaws, and the army is the real violent law enforcer. Whoever is fierce, he can't be fierce in the army.
"The salt shipped back is put in the service cooperative's catalog, the price, just set a point for one catty, and each team member is limited to one hundred catties per month." This time, Liu Jun brought back 70,000 catties of private salt, and there must be enough supply of so many salt nine-headed birds. Liu Jun simply put the salt into the service club as a team member's welfare, and sold it at the price of one pound and one centimeter of private salt, which is actually much lower than the current price of private salt.
A team member is limited to 100 catties a month, and one catty is worth one point, which is their welfare, and they can buy it for their own families, and even for relatives and friends.
Zhang Shan was stunned for a moment, isn't this selling illicit salt in disguise. But since Liu Jun has spoken, he has no intention of objecting. "Cheap guys, now the players have something to show off to their friends and family. Low-priced salt is indeed a good favor. ”
"I will try to find some benefits for the players, but there are also requirements, that is, you have to train hard and not slacken."
"Yes."
After Zhang Shan left, Liu Jun found his father-in-law Lu Weizhang and handed him the banker tickets.
"This is 53,000 taels of tickets, which are issued by a number of money banks, including Macheng, Fucheng, and even Wuchang City, I want to trouble my father-in-law to send someone to redeem the silver, and then transfer it to my father-in-law's money and rice shop, so that it can also be withdrawn at any time."
Lu Weizhang carefully checked the stack of Zhuang tickets and swallowed his saliva, these are all true.
Fifty-three thousand taels, equivalent to a quarter of his entire belongings.
"From the Zhao family?" Lu Weizhang couldn't help but ask, and Liu Jun nodded.
Lu Weizhang wanted to speak and stopped, but in the end he didn't say much, Zhao Wu he knew, they were all from the same county, and even had some business dealings, that was not a good person, anyway, now that Zhao Wu is dead, this silver falls into the hands of his son-in-law, and it can still be used for the right way.
"I'd better take someone on a tour myself."
"I'll send a few team members to follow you and keep you safe."
Lu Weizhang set off on the same day, and overall it was very smooth. Many money banks are very creditworthy, and they pay immediately at sight, and there is no delay. However, when withdrawing money from Delong Money Village in Wuchang, there was an accident.
Zhao Wu's Zhuang tickets, Delong Qian Zhuang issued the most, there were 20,000 taels, and there were 20 cash tickets of 1,000 taels. But when Lu Weizhang took the ticket to cash, the shopkeeper of Delong Money Bank refused to pay it all.
Lu Weizhang hurried back to Hutou Fort and told Liu Jun the bad news.
"There's always a reason why they won't pay, right?"
"They said the banker ticket was fake and forged, so they refused to pay it." Lu Weizhang said angrily.
"There is Lao's father-in-law who will personally run this trip, okay, leave this matter to the son-in-law to deal with, I will send someone to send you back to rest first." Seeing Lu Weizhang away, Liu Jun called Chang Sheng, the captain of the escort this time, "Tell me, what is the situation?" ”
"Big brother, I secretly touched the bottom, probed, and inquired about the background of Delong Money. This money village is a shop under the name of the second child of the Liu family's third room in Suokouhe, and he accepted Zhao Wu's sister as a concubine. ”
"Oh!" Liu Jun nodded, understood. Zhao Wu was killed by him, and it is estimated that Zhao Wu's sister must have known about it. Liu Ling, the second eldest in the third room of the Liu family, is not only Zhao Wu's brother-in-law, but also the owner of Delong Qianzhuang, so he must know that Zhao Wu has the 20,000 taels of tickets issued by Qianzhuang in his hand.
Now that Liu Jun's father-in-law is holding these banker tickets to be cashed, Liu Ling dares to say that these are forged, and he is obviously going to repay the debt.
This Liu family, has he always looked down on himself like this?