Several horsemen stopped in front of the Red Sleeve Workshop, and several soldiers dressed in blue military uniforms and with a bronze battle medal on their chests stopped them.

"I'm Zhang Guodong of the baggage battalion, and I have something important to meet the lord of the town." A waist card lit up, and after several soldiers carefully inspected it, they saluted him, "Guerrilla Zhang, please!" ”

Zhang Guodong saluted several guards, left his own soldiers, and left his sword and entered alone.

All the way to the third floor, several more chief guards intercepted him, and after reporting his identity, the soldiers entered to report it, and then let him in.

"Winter dog, but what's wrong?" Liu Jun was drinking tea with Shen Man and Chen Yuanyuan, and asked when he saw him coming. Zhang Guodong is actually a winter dog, but now he has been promoted to the position of guerrilla general, a dignified acting commander, and a third-grade general. The name of Dong Gouzi is naturally a little inappropriate, and on the day of Dong Gouzi's promotion, he specially asked Liu Jun to give him a big name.

Liu Jun named the winter dog Guodong, and the dog left the name Guoliang, the second dog named Guozhu, and the dog egg named Guoqiang. After Liu Jun gave them these big names, there was a wave of name changes in the Nine-headed Bird Army, and most of them wanted to take a name with the national character, so now in the Nine-headed Bird Army, the current officers with the original cheap names have changed their names, and it is estimated that there are twenty or thirty of them. This is because everyone thinks that only handsome disciples such as Zhang Donggou and others are qualified to take the national character, otherwise, it is estimated that there will be more.

Now those who are in the Nine-headed Bird Army are all recognized as Hou Ye's disciples. In particular, Zhang Guodong is known as the chief disciple of Dashuai's disciples, and he also officially serves as the baggage battalion in the five battalions of soldiers and horses under Dashuai's standard.

"The many salt merchants and salt dealers in 100 prefectures and 15 counties in Yunyang who have received the post have only come to less than 100 so far, and most of them have sent housekeepers or family members, and only seven or eight have come in person after receiving the stickers, and they are all small fish and shrimp." Zhang Guodong reported carefully to Liu Jun. "We've got such a big scene in place. There are so many people, should you postpone the meeting time again and send some people to urge them? ”

"No need." Liu Jun's face became gloomy, although he had expected that there might be people who would not buy his account, but he didn't expect that these people would dare to do so much, and they would not even give a little face on the surface. "Since these people only sent stewards and even family members, they didn't take me Liu in their eyes at all. Since this is the case, then if you invite them again, these people will only be more and more embarrassed. ”

When Liu Jun had just returned to Macheng from Sichuan. Someone has already been sent to send invitation stickers to salt merchants and salt dealers in more than 100 counties under the jurisdiction of Yunyang Town, asking them to come to the meeting.

But now there are only seven or eight kittens here, and these people really don't take their own head town seriously.

"Let's go, meet them."

Liu Jun got up and went directly to Yacheng.

The emperor asked Liu Jun to train 50,000 new soldiers, and Liu Jun really wanted to take the opportunity to train a new army. But the emperor has no money now, although this year the emperor has decided to train more than 700,000 soldiers and horses across the country, and he has also levied more than 7 million training salaries for this purpose, which is equivalent to ten taels of military expenses per soldier. But Liu Jun's 50,000 new troops were not among the more than 700,000 soldiers and horses. Therefore, there is not a single cent of the more than 7 million salaries for him. Especially this year, the emperor has given Yang Sichang and Mei Zhihuan 500,000 salaries and rewards each, and now there is really no money.

The emperor wanted Liu Jun to train his troops, but he had no military salary, so he could only rely on Liu Jun to raise it himself.

Liu Jun will not turn stones into gold. The cost of training tens of thousands of new troops is very great, especially Liu Jun does not plan to eat empty salaries, he really wants to train a new army, not an ordinary new army. It is a new army that is truly elite and capable of fighting, so the demand for money and food is greater. Liu Jun preliminarily calculated that he would train a new army. Each soldier was paid at least twenty taels a year, and their equipment and training expenses had to reach this figure, and the cavalry was even higher.

On average, a soldier is paid forty or fifty taels a year for equipment and training, and a 50,000 new army needs at least two million taels of silver a year. This is a huge expense, although Liu Jun entered Sichuan to suppress the bandits and obtained hundreds of thousands of taels worth of goods, but even if these things can be sold, it is far from enough, the income from the armory workshop can subsidize the cost of some equipment, but it is still insufficient.

What's more, Liu Jun also plans to purchase a grain reserve of one million stones, and he is in urgent need of money.

Liu Jun posted to those salt merchants, just to prepare to start with the salt first and get a quick sum of money.

He had a big plan, but unfortunately the salt merchants and salt sellers simply ignored him.

When he arrived in Yacheng, Liu Jun did not see the stewards of those families, but he personally met Liu Liangzuo and other eight or nine salt merchants who came in person after receiving the post.

In the official hall of Yacheng, Liu Liangzuo and other eight small salt merchants were very worried, they were just small salt dealers, in front of the dignified town of Nanhou Yunyang, it was tantamount to an ant in front of an elephant.

"The little Jiangxia Liu Liangzuo visited the Hou Ye, and was invited by the Hou Ye, which really flattered the little one, a little gift, and asked the Hou Ye to smile." Liu Liangzuo had been sitting on the cold bench in Yacheng for a long time just now, and when he saw that Hou Ye came back, he refused to see the stewards sent by the big salt merchants, so he immediately made a temporary decision to increase the gifts given to Liu Jun.

He originally prepared a 1,000 taels of silver tickets and another jade pendant. But now, he directly sent a 3,000 taels of Zhuang tickets, but fortunately, he brought more when he came, and the Zhuang tickets were also light.

Liu Jun looked at the Zhuang ticket and jade pendant that Liu Liangzuo held in his hand, and after just one glance, he knew that this Liu Liangzuo was very sincere.

Fu Shan stood beside Liu Jun and whispered to him about Liu Liangzuo's identity. Liu Jun knew that Liu Liangzuo was still the original Zhao Wu's master, but he was just a small salt seller.

"Liu Yuanwai can come, it already gives me Liu a lot of face, how can you still break the bank!" Liu Jun confiscated his silver gifts.

The more gently Liu Jun smiled, the more Liu Liangzuo felt flustered, and always felt that Liu Jun thought that there was less silver, and immediately scolded Liu Jun for being greedy, gritted his teeth, and said ruthlessly, "It's all small and ignorant, and the small one is willing to take out another three thousand taels of silver to help." ”

Shaking his head, Liu Jun said, "Liu Yuanwai misunderstood, I invited you to come here, but it wasn't to extort your money, I, Liu Jun, am not that kind of person." ”

"Yes, yes, yes." Liu Liangzuo nodded and praised again and again on the surface, but he didn't believe it at all in his heart.

Liu Jun just smiled. "Actually, I originally had a big deal to cooperate with you, and it was a deal that could make a lot of money, a win-win deal for mutual benefit. It's a pity, it seems that everyone still doesn't believe me Liu. Since this is the case, then I Liu can't force it, and the cow can't force his head if he doesn't drink water. But buying and selling is not lovely, since you are here, just play here for a few more days, and I will arrange someone to accompany you. ”

Liu Jun said some words of encouragement to the rest of the merchants, and then asked his soldiers to take him down to settle down.

After the salt sellers left. Fu Shan said to Liu Jun, "We have a total of 360 posters, but we only arrived at more than 50 houses in total, and most of them sent some stewards to come, and only Liu Liangzuo and other eight people arrived in person. More than 300 others have neither sent nor an explanation. ”

"Hmph, these people are toasting and don't want to eat and punish wine." Liu Jun still had a smile on his face, but his eyes were shining with a fierce light.

"Now these merchants refuse to come, what is the plan of the great handsome?" Fu Shan asked.

Liu Jun did have a plan. But it is not possible to cooperate without support. Now these salt merchants don't give him face so much, if he doesn't react, I'm afraid that the dozens of people sent here today will not pay attention to him next.

Yunyang Town spans four provinces. It has 10 prefectures, 15 prefectures, 100 counties, and is in the center of 4 provinces, so it is a huge salt wharf, and the salt merchants are also very large. The strength is huge, and the involvement is extremely wide.

However, although Liu Jun wanted to cooperate with the salt merchants, it did not mean that he had to kneel and beg them to cooperate.

"These people are afraid that they have forgotten. I am now the Marquis of Zhennan, and I am also the chief military officer of Yunyang, and they still have to listen carefully to my words in this acre and three points of land under the jurisdiction of Yunyang, otherwise, it will not end well if they offend me. Liu Jun sneered a few times, "Pick a closer family from those who haven't come, and those who have the exact handle will be wiped out directly." ”

"Da Shuai wants to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys?"

"Since others are not afraid of us, then we have to show our muscles."

"My subordinates understand, and I will arrange someone to do it immediately." Fu Shan responded.

That night, Liu Jun held a banquet to entertain Liu Liangzuo and other eight salt merchants, but Liu Jun still ignored the housekeepers who came on behalf of the head of the family. Some of the stewards were angry and went straight home, some of them brought the gifts directly, and only a few people from the family still lived in the inn of Hutou Fort, but sent someone back to ask what to do next.

At the banquet, Liu Jun personally entertained Liu Liangzuo and others, but did not say anything about cooperating to make money.

The next day, Liu Jun continued to entertain them, and then the few people from the few salt merchants left left.

On the third day, the feast continued. Liu Liangzuo didn't want to stay any longer, and just as he was about to ask Liu Jun for his resignation, Liu Jun waved his hand, but suddenly an officer strode in, and then reported loudly to Liu Jun.

"Report to the marshal, we found out that Zhou Wenshun in Wuchang City secretly returned to the fifth battalion of the left, not only exchanged private letters, but also Zhou Wenshun also purchased food, medicine, salt, cloth and other materials for the bandits of the fifth battalion of the left, and also collected all kinds of information of the officials and soldiers for them, and then the bandits paid them the looted gold, silver and ornaments and other stolen goods, all kinds of evidence is accurate, the brothers have raided Zhou Wu and the various business houses of the Zhou family, took down Zhou Wenshun and the various stewards of the Zhou family, and copied out a lot of evidence of banditry."

After hearing this, Liu Jun sneered twice, "Since all the evidence is accurate, then act according to the legal system of the imperial court, kill what should be killed, arrest what should be arrested, check what should be investigated, and seal what should be sealed!" ”

When Liu Liangzuo heard Zhou Wenshun's three words, his heart was already cold, and when he heard Liu Jun's murderous words, his legs were even weaker.

Zhou Wenshun, that is his upper home. When he came, he also went to see Zhou Wenshun, Zhou Wenshun despised Liu Jun, and originally planned to send a steward to send five hundred taels of silver, but later he came but did not see the Zhou family. When I heard the news of Zhou Wenshun again, I didn't expect it to be from Liu Jun's mouth, and what I didn't expect was that Zhou Wenshun had been named a bandit, and he was about to break his family.

In the banquet hall, all the salt merchants were also like Liu Liangzuo, and they had a feeling of panic. Is Zhou Wenshun a bandit? They think that this is very likely to be true, but this is actually not a thing, businessmen make profits, as long as it is profitable, who will care whether it is a bandit or not, and the businessmen in Shanxi have been doing business with Jianyu.

Now that Liu Jun suddenly took down Zhou Wenshun, Liu Liangzuo and others felt that it was not because of Zhou Wenshun's banditry. This is like an officialdom in which official is suddenly investigated, even if it is ostensibly because of corruption, but it must be just a cover, because no official is not greedy. They immediately thought that it must be because the Zhou family didn't come to meet this time.

At this time, they suddenly discovered in horror that this Zhennanhou is really a fierce tiger, and if he doesn't like it, he can eat you without even leaving the slag.

At this time, Liu Jun continued, "You don't have to worry, the town of Zhou Wenshun is naturally severely punished, but as long as everyone is law-abiding, the town will naturally not be difficult for everyone." On the contrary, I have a very good cooperation plan here, if you are interested, you can join a group. ”

Someone immediately asked what kind of business it was, and they were willing to contribute.

"Don't be in a hurry, let's have fun for a few more days, and we'll talk about it in two days."

On the same day, the news that Wuchang salt merchant Zhou Wenshun was investigated for bandits spread quickly like the wind. Zhennanhou sent troops to make a sudden move, and the entire Zhou family and the Zhou family's business were seized at once, Zhou Wenshun was directly executed for the crime of gangsterry, and the family was also imprisoned, and all property was confiscated.

Thunder means are extremely ruthless. It is said that during this period, some people came forward for Zhou Wenshun, but Zhennanhou did not give any affection.

And with the destruction of the Zhou family, there is still news circulating rapidly, it is said that Zhou Wenshun is not the only bandit, there are many, but Zhennanhou is still investigating the evidence for the time being.

Early the next morning, Liu Liangzuo woke up and suddenly found that there were many familiar faces in Hutou Fort, all of whom were salt merchants and salt dealers in Huguang, and there were many old rivals among them. As time passed, more and more salt merchants and salt sellers rushed to Hutoubao, and this time no one only sent their families, they all came in person, and even pulled a cart of gifts.

With Zhou Wenjiang's chicken killed in front, no salt merchant dared not to put Liu Jun in his eyes. At this time, many people remembered that this Zhennan Marquis was not only twenty years old, but he also had the nickname of Lord Yama.

"Let's listen to what big plans this Zhennanhou has first, I hope that a little wealth can be avoided!" Several salt merchants gathered together and sighed quietly. (To be continued......)

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