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Shen Man used to be a popular girl on the Qinhuai River, she was originally from Suzhou, her father was a poor talent who repeatedly failed the township test, in addition to reading and studying eight shares, she simply didn't hear anything outside the window, fortunately, her mother Liu opened an embroidery village, and she could earn dozens of taels of silver every year, and her life was quite good in childhood. The small family of jasper, with a good education, was already proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting at the age of twelve or thirteen.

It's a pity that the fourteen-year-old father was seriously ill, and the family had saved money for treatment, and even his mother's embroidery village was sold, in order to help the family, Shen Man finally sold himself for two hundred taels of silver, and at the age of fourteen, she took a small burden and held her pipa on a boat to Nanjing, and became a Qingqi person on the Qinhuai River flower boat, and then once became popular for a while.

However, doing this business is always a youth meal, so many beautiful young women joined, the new came, the old went, Shen Man was quickly replaced by younger and more beautiful girls, but fortunately, she had also saved a lot of savings in those years, except for the part for the family, the rest of herself was saved.

Later, like many of his peers, he married a junior official in his fifties as a concubine and went to Huguang. After a few years of being a concubine, but that kind of life is not easy, the husband has a jealous wife, married as a concubine for a few years, she does not have a son and a half daughter, and then the husband died suddenly, although he also left a last word to himself a village and a few shops to support the elderly, but unfortunately before the seven-seven, the main room kicked her out of the house, except for the cages she brought in when she entered, in fact, the same is not allowed to be taken away.

Shen Man was only in her twenties at this time, but she was already old in the fireworks industry, and it was impossible for her to return to Jinling to resume her old business, but Huguang was not her home. Although there is still a home in Suzhou, she can't go back there, although she sold herself to save her father and save that family, but her father refused to recognize her as a daughter.

Shen Man is strong, has his own ideas, and has his own persistence. Just as she sold herself for two hundred taels of silver back then, this time she took out all her savings and opened a green house.

The Qinglou was not opened in Wuchang, a bustling land and water wharf, nor in Nanchang, but in a noisy and noisy town in North Taiping Township, Macheng County, Huangzhou Prefecture.

The courtyard is not big, a three-story wooden building, located in the center of the long street opposite the Yacheng of Hutouguan, standing on the outline of the third floor, you can even see a group of sturdy young men practicing there every day on the playground in the Yacheng, sweating like rain.

Originally, there were only a few shops here, and there were no green buildings.

And now, with the young Lian always stationed here with his regiment of nine-headed birds, it is also lively, with a population of more than 2,000, various houses are constantly being built, and the streets are also extended. There are more young men here, but there is no family, Shen Man was just passing by here, but after seeing the lively scene here, she stopped and did not continue to move forward.

She rented the house on the street, renovated it into the first green building here, and recruited a dozen young girls from all over the place, and even bought a dozen young girls from among the homeless people from all over the world, and trained them in singing and dancing skills.

The red lantern printed with the three words of the red sleeve square adds a bit of ambiguity to this green building, and at night, the pink light and the laughter of young women can always attract the attention of young men and make them feel excited.

Every night, the building is always full of guests. Shen Man is very good at business, this Qinglou is not just selling color, appearance, skin, and flesh. There are wine, tea, all kinds of snacks, as well as the blind man telling the story, the blind girl stroking the piano, and all kinds of dressed up very chic, dancing very graceful singing and dancing, come here not only to have fun, but also to listen to the song and watch the dance.

The first floor is a hall with daily singing and dancing performances, and the second floor is a small box where guests can drink tea and drink while ordering a beautiful girl to play the piano and dance.

At the beginning of the day, the lights are on, and it is entering the most lively time of the day, and the soft and graceful singing and piano sound are scattered far and near with the cool evening breeze of the summer night, making the nearby and pedestrians can be crispy and numb.

Shen Man dressed up tonight, and even deliberately sprinkled some rose dew brought by Taixi, holding a very beautiful embroidered brocade handkerchief in his hand, standing in front of the door and looking around.

Today, a bold guest placed a deposit of one hundred taels to book the largest private room on the second floor, and asked her to prepare a table of the best table, and asked her to vacate the best girl. Shen Man naturally likes such a bold guest, but it is not the person who invites her to stand in front of the door at this time to wait for the guest, but the person who is invited tonight.

The guest invited by the bold guest tonight is the first person in Taiping Township today, Liu Jun and Liu Jiye, the general manager of the county regiment.

Shen Man opened a shop here, so he naturally had to inquire about the local snake here. Liu Jun is not the kind of ruffian and hooligan head snake, but he is really the master here. Now this place is thriving because of him. Even her red-sleeved workshop, the building is rented from Liu Jun, and in addition to paying the rent every month, she has to pay an additional amount of money, which is called public security management and sanitation fees, in short, it means protection money.

Although he paid an extra sum of money, this was normal in the eyes of Shen Man, who was traveling from south to north, and the other party also wanted the money very reasonably, and he received the money and returned the bill, and there was no rest of the asking for cards. And after paying this money, they did ensure that no one would make trouble, and if someone made trouble, they would come forward to settle it, and even the garbage in the alley in front of the house and behind the house, they were responsible for cleaning up.

Of course, if it was just like this, Shen Man wouldn't care so much. She has such a high opinion of Liu Jun because she has seen the rapid changes here since she opened here. Since she opened her business, Liu Jun has never come to her once, and Liu Jun can often be seen passing by the door of the building, but he has never entered once.

This made Shen Man have a great curiosity about this young man.

Today, a guest invited Liu Jun to a banquet in the red sleeves, and Shen Man wanted to take a closer look at Liu Jun. And now that the business is getting better day by day, she also has a careful idea, she wants to have a good relationship with Liu Jun, the landlord, if she can get closer, and even do a play once or twice on the scene, it would be better.

She is a **, so for a young, tall and mighty man like Liu Jun, she doesn't mind having a little intimacy.

The person who invited the guest tonight was surnamed Hu, he was a lifter, he was in his early thirties, and then he failed to pass the Jinshi exam for more than ten years, and then he also gave up. After being introduced, he went to Anton's Mansion to do things, which was considered lucky, and he was very appreciated by the county king in Anton's palace, and now he has become an external manager in the county's palace.

Hu Guang was able to earn tens of thousands of family fortunes, relying on the name of King Anton. Of course, he was not swaggering in the name of the palace, but because he was in charge of the big business of selling salt for the palace. The palace makes a lot of money, and what he earns is just the rest of the pen.

In Daming, there is no money to make by selling anything and salt.

In the early years, various salt policies, such as the opening of the Chinese law, allowed merchants to transport grain to Jiubian, and then exchanged for salt and then went to the salt field to support salt, so that those border merchants made a lot of money, especially the Jin merchants.

However, there is no longer a law in the middle of the book, and now it is mainly the Gang Salt Law, to put it bluntly, the imperial court has set up a compendium, and only the salt merchants whose names are on the compendium have the right to distribute official salt, that is, the monopoly right.

The imperial court directly changed the salt monopoly from a government-run monopoly to a merchant monopoly, and the government only collected money and taxes, and then designated salt merchants to monopolize the official salt monopoly, and the descendants could inherit this monopoly power. The government then designated areas for these salt merchants to transport and sell salt, which was very simple.

Those salt merchants colluded with officials through the powerful to apply for qualifications from the salt transportation department of the imperial court, and then paid a deposit, and then found the merchant to have a guarantee, and then they could get the nest order issued by the imperial court.

The so-called nest list is actually a certificate issued by the imperial court to the salt merchants for the legal transportation and sale of official salt, a special license. The list will indicate the amount of salt obtained by the salt merchant and the distribution area.

With this thing, there is the right to monopolize and monopolize, and this nest can be hereditary or bought and sold.

After having a nest order, it became an officially designated salt monopoly and had a monopoly. According to the instructions of the imperial court, each salt merchant shall transport and sell official salt in their respective monopoly areas, and each salt merchant shall not sell it beyond the border, which is the monopoly right. There is also a type of joint sale, in which multiple salt merchants operate an area in partnership and then divide the number of sales internally.

After having this nest list, every year in the future, you will pay money to the court first and then apply for a qualification certificate for this year, which is the New Year's nest. With the New Year's Nest, there is the monopoly of the year.

In short, under this kind of salt system, the most important thing is the nest order, and if there is a nest order, there is a monopoly and monopoly power.

Many powerful people rely on obtaining nest orders, and then reselling them for profit, and do nothing when they get nest orders, and they can make a lot of money by reselling them directly. King Anton is a descendant of King Yi, and of course belongs to this interest group. However, King Anton did not directly resell the nest list like many powerful people in Beijing, he mastered a lot of salt and ran it himself.

In fact, this area, one prefecture and eight counties, is led by the two kings of Jiangxi Yiwang and King Jing of Qizhou, and there are several county kings such as King Anton to participate in the sale together, occupying the monopoly of official salt in Qihuang region.

How profitable is this thing of salt, very profitable, so that those powerful people flock to it.

For example, at present, in the Qihuang area, the official salt sold by Anton Wang and others is transported from the Lianghuai Salt Farm, and the entire Huguangjiang, Jiangxi, Huainan, Liangzhejiang and other large regions belong to the salt area of the Lianghuai Salt Farm, and the exclusive sales area occupied by Anton Wang and others is in the salt area of the Lianghuai Salt Farm.