After listening to his daughter's words, Wei Tongnian was so angry that his beard and eyebrows were almost tangled together, and he pointed at Wei Manyao and scolded tremblingly: "What's so good about that Pang Gang? Is it worth it for you to protect him like this regardless of your own honor? You never thought about how you would get married if the matter got out! ”

Wei Manyao's big eyes also flushed, and she said stubbornly: "Daddy doesn't work hard for her daughter's lifelong event, but what's wrong with you, daddy?" The huge man doesn't seem to have offended his father, why do you mention him lately, his nose is not a nose, his eyebrows are not eyebrows, and he just doesn't treat you like this? Don't forget, he is now the commander of Zhengsanpin, General Dingyuan, and he is one level higher than you when he picks up the grade! ”

"What are you talking about!" Wei Tongyi's anger was even greater, "Will the old man be like a reckless man who can only fight?" As for the grade, hum, it's just the third grade" Wei Tongnian's tone at the beginning of the year was very disdainful, but at the end, his voice was much quieter.

"That's it! Master, Manyao, you all have to say a few words! Rou Niang on the side saw that the two of them were arguing, and hurriedly came out to play a round, she said softly to Wei Tongnian: "Master, Manyao only occasionally said a few words to a huge person, why are you so unrelenting." And Manyao, you don't have to fight your father like this, what if you make your father angry. ”

Although Rou Niang was born in Qinglou and was only Wei Tongnian's concubine, because she was as her name and surname as Ge Roushun, since she entered the Wei Mansion, she has done a good job in serving Wei Tongnian and treating Wei Manyao, so Wei Tongnian's father and daughter will give her three points of face. Now hearing Rou Niang say this, the two of them shut up.

Wei Manyao had tears in her eyes: "What's wrong with me, didn't I just say a few words to a huge person!" Dad, I know that you claim to be the son of a saint, and you always say that "everything is inferior, only reading is high", and you also look down on generals like huge people, but don't forget the phrase "useless is a scholar". A few days ago, if there were no huge people leading troops to the front to fight to the death with the Tartars, how could we have such a comfortable day now, why can't you put away the prejudice in your heart? ”

"I, I" Wei said in the same year after a long time: "How can the old man look down on that Pang Gang, it's just that the kid was just a poor soldier not long ago, but I didn't expect him to run to the old man's head after only a year, why?" ”

"Poof"

After Wei Tongnian's words came out, Rou Niang couldn't help laughing, and even Wei Manyao, who was originally crying on the side, couldn't help but burst into laughter, and they understood why Wei Tongnian looked at Pang Gang like this during this time, it turned out that he was jealous of people who got up too quickly.

Wei Tongnian, like all scholars, believes in a truth, that is, everything is inferior, only reading is high. In their opinion, governing the country and securing the state is the ability of scholars, and fighting and killing is the work of rude martial artists. Now Pang Gang jumped up so fast, but it caused some pantothenic acid in his heart. In addition, his daughter's relationship with him has been a little ambiguous recently, so he looked at Pang Gang even more unpleasantly.

After Wei Manyao understood the truth of the matter, she said angrily and funny: "Dad, although your prefect was promoted after ten years of hard study and so many years of hard work, but the huge people can have today's status, and they are also fought hard with a knife and a gun, what do you have to be angry about?" ”

Looking at his daughter's pretty face, Wei Tong sighed and stopped talking.

At this moment, a servant came to report: "My lord, I have commanded the envoy to come to the yamen, and he has asked to see my lordship." ”

The three people in the pavilion glanced at each other and said Cao Ying, Cao Ying, this is really a coincidence.

"Let him in!" Soon Wei spoke in the same year.

Not long after, a young sergeant wearing a red mandarin duck jacket came to Wei Tongnian under the guidance of the servants, Wei Tongnian looked at him for a while and asked in a deep voice, "What are you looking for the old man?" ”

When the sergeant saw Wei Tongnian sitting in the pavilion, he knew that this must be the master he was looking for, so he immediately knelt down on one knee and saluted: "Lord Wei, the villain has sent you a gift list on the order of the commander, please take a look." With that, the sergeant handed an envelope in both hands.

Wei Tongtong saw that it was a silver ticket issued by Qingzhou Datong Bank, and when he saw the amount on the silver ticket, his brows couldn't help jumping. Wei Tongtong put the silver ticket back in the envelope and asked quietly: "No merit, how could your commander give me this heavy gift for no reason?" ”

The sergeant said respectfully: "Replying to your lordship, the commander said that you have helped our commander yamen a lot, and he has never had time to thank you. ”

Wei Tongnian was noncommittal to this answer, he waved his hand at the sergeant and said, "Okay, I have accepted the gift list, you can go back first." ”

"Yes!"

The sergeant bowed and strode out, looking at the sergeant's upright posture when walking, Rou Niang on the side couldn't help but praise, "Seeing that an ordinary sergeant under his command is so magnificent, it can be seen that this huge man has real skills, but master, what did he send you this time?" ”

Pang Gang had a life-saving grace for Rou Niang, because Rou Niang had always had a good impression of him, and now he saw that people had given gifts, so he took the opportunity to say good things for him.

Wei Tongqing snorted and put the gift list on the table, his complexion was much better at this time, but he still said stiffly: "This Pang Gang is really cheesy, he is giving some things to block, but this time he is quite generous, and he gave the old man five thousand taels of silver at a time." ”

Wei Manyao was dissatisfied with her father's virtue of being cheap and obedient, and her beautiful eyes glanced at her father, "If your father dislikes it, this is a thing of Ah Du, you can go back." ”

Wei Tongnian said with a smile: "It seems that these silvers are the share of Pang Gang's income from selling illicit salt in Qingzhou and his father's share, if his father doesn't accept Pang Gang, he will be suspicious." ”

Wei Manyao rolled her eyes again but didn't speak, she also knew the trivial matters in the officialdom, and she also knew that if Pang Gang wanted to sell illicit salt in Qingzhou safely, although it touched the selfish interests of those salt merchants, but if there was the cooperation of Wei Tongyi, the prefect of Qingzhou, the two military and political officials would really not be afraid of anyone.

Looking at the daughter who broke into tears and laughed. Wei Tongnian sighed secretly in his heart. Knowing his daughter Mo Ruo's father, Wei Tongtong understood that his daughter was probably in love with Pang Gang's house, if not at least she had a good impression of him, otherwise with her daughter's seemingly peaceful but rather arrogant surname, she would not intercede for a person or even meet frequently. But what should I do? Is it a forced dismantling of people's homes? The official family is bigger than himself, and he is much better than himself in terms of money, and now he is a salt dealer.

Just when Wei Tongnian was having a headache for his baby daughter, Pang Gang was settling accounts in a room in the command envoy's yamen. Due to the importance of the matter, there were only Pang Gang and Ruolan in the room......

The crackling abacus sounded for a long time, and Ruolan, who had been busy non-stop, stopped, wiped the fragrant sweat on her forehead and said to Pang Gang with a smile: "Xianggong, the accounts have been calculated, and the profit we have obtained from selling refined salt in the past half a month is 55,436 taels of silver, Xianggong, we have money." ”

"What?" Rao was prepared, Pang Gang couldn't help but be shocked by the huge profits of private salt, he only sold refined salt for half a month, and the profit he obtained was more than 50,000 taels, and this is only the profit of Qingzhou, what if this scope is expanded to the entire Shandong, to the entire Jiangnan? Isn't that a thousand times more profitable? No wonder I watched those braids on TV in later generations, the tax revenue of the imperial court is nothing more than a few pieces, and the salt tax accounts for half of the entire imperial court tax, it seems that the sale of illegal salt is really profitable!

Looking at her silent husband, Ruolan thought that her husband was so happy that she couldn't speak, she couldn't help but purse her lips and smiled: "Xianggong, don't be too happy, the reason why we can get such a high profit in Qingzhou is because this is our territory, even those salt merchants don't have the courage to make trouble, if we go out of Qingzhou, we will have such a high profit." ”

"Well, I know that!" Pang Gang nodded, "I don't expect to be able to eat a big fat man in one go, as long as I can occupy the salt roads of Shandong, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu, I will be satisfied with your husband." ”

Ruolan couldn't help but laugh dumbly when she heard this, stretched out her Qianqianyu finger and nodded it on her husband's forehead, and her beautiful eyes flowed with flattery: "You, other people's salt merchants are satisfied just by occupying one or two states, your appetite is quite big, and you still want to occupy the land of the three provinces, if you really let you occupy the salt roads of the three provinces, I'm afraid that even the imperial court will have to borrow money like you." ”

Pang Gang didn't smile, but sighed solemnly: "You see, the said that we can get such a high profit is certainly related to our self-production and self-sale, but from this we can also see how big the profit of the salt road is, I estimate that if our Ming salt tax can be collected in full, it will be at least tens of millions of taels of silver a year, but last year, the salt tax handed over to the imperial court by Jiangnan was only a pitiful more than 6,000 taels, how hard do you say the people below should be scraped!" ”

"Alas!" Ruolan also sighed lightly, and shook her head lightly: "Xianggong, even the emperor has nothing to do with this matter, what can we do." ”

"You now understand why I'm so unscrupulous when I sell illicit salt, right?" Pang Gang's eyes shot a gleam: "Instead of letting those black-hearted salt transporters and salt merchants make this money, it is better for us to make it!" ”

"My lord, Dengzhou urgent!" While Pang Gang and Ruolan were talking in the room, a personal soldier called outside the door.

"Squeak!" Pang Gang opened the door and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The pro-soldier handed over a letter with both hands, "My lord, it's not good, Dengzhou sent a three-hundred-mile expedited, and Dengzhou mutinied!" ”

"What? Mutiny! When Pang Gang heard this, his face suddenly changed

(To be continued)