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For a period of time after being abandoned by the Ming government, Lao Cheng seemed to have a bit of a self-defeating thought, and his words often revealed thoughts of suicide. However, after being enlightened by the master, he seemed to be a lot more open, but when he talked with Professor Li, he mentioned the topic of Zhao'an more.

Professor Li fully understood why he had made such a change - that the master of the family had leaked all the information about his boss to them. And the infiltration of the traversers into the people around Cheng County Ling is far more than that, according to the principle of intelligence, the control of the informant should be all-round. Professor Li had never been a spy, but the stories of Soviet spies that circulated in Beijing in the fifties and sixties told him that the KGB's favorite thing to do was to make a fuss about the family members of their targets......

Cheng Daxianling's family situation is relatively simple, he got married very early, but his wife and sister-in-law stayed in his hometown in the northeast, and now he has long been gone. The current family members are all later continuations, a wife and a concubine, and a little daughter.

Of course, it is impossible for Professor Li to intersect with the female relatives of the county lord's family, but this does not mean that the big collective of the traversal does not have this ability. Wang Jiaojiao, Su Duxue, and Zhu Yueyue have been very depressed since they volunteered last time but were poured a basin of cold water by Pang Yu. Now that Professor Li and Aunt Song were about to give them a difficult task, the girls immediately expressed great joy.

"You don't need to do anything deliberately, it's just your usual lifestyle, just bring a few more friends to play with."

Professor Lee told them, and in practice they did. It is indeed easier for modern women and women in the Ming Dynasty to interact with each other than between men. Women are always interested in a few things: makeup, maintenance, and clothes and jewelry......

Like all men, Cheng Yegao doesn't like his daughters to have too much verbosity with the three aunts and six brawls outside. But also too lazy to stop. By the time he found out that the women in his family were talking about new terms such as Lenko Dianfen, it was too late to revive the family law. Although Professor Li specifically told the girls not to preach ideas such as equality between men and women in front of women in the Ming Dynasty, the pride and temperament that these girls naturally expressed in their daily conversations still profoundly influenced the female dependents of the county lord's family...... Now Master Cheng is still the sky in the family, but half of it seems to be slowly changing the sky......

Under the multiple influences from inside and outside, Cheng Yegao's thinking began to change unconsciously. Although he himself was not aware of this change, in Cheng Yegao's own mind, he was still a loyal and good minister of the Ming Dynasty.

So when Professor Li had a casual chat, it seemed that he was inadvertently talking about institutions such as the office in the capital and the office in the provincial capital, Cheng Yegao suddenly became very interested. Li Mingyuan only vaguely told him some of the ways of "ours" officials, among which the establishment of an office in the area where Shangguan was located made Cheng Yegao extremely admired.

There is a very similar thing between Ming Dynasty officialdom and modern officialdom - officials believe in the role of running relationships. The so-called "fire to the pig's head rotten, money to do things". Although Cheng Yegao's image in the eyes of his superiors is not very good now, the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty has always been magical, as long as he does not stand on the wrong team in politics, there is always a chance to redeem it.

In the final analysis, in the eyes of Ming Dynasty officials, the crime of "bending the knee to the thief" is far worse than the "eunuch party" that spread all over the government and the opposition in the previous year. When necessary, they can also consider cooperating with overseas visitors - Lao Cheng Nian chattered so many times, Professor Li finally gave him a positive response, although the words were very vague, but as a hope, it was enough.

Professor Li's enlightenment really made Lao Cheng feel a sense of openness, so he didn't want to believe that Professor Li Mingyuan had never been an official in his life. Lao Li just smiled and said nothing -- don't look at the Ming Dynasty's Beijing City, which has been the capital for more than 200 years. If you really want to say that at the feet of the Son of Heaven, the kingly spirit of the root of the imperial city, it is definitely not comparable to the modern Beijing City.

As a modern Beijinger living in the capital, 60 years of infiltration of officialdom culture is not the same as leisure, even if you are a taxi driver, you may know how to be an official...... Although Professor Li concentrates on culture, he usually has a little interaction with the heads of several small ministries and commissions, and he is not completely unfamiliar with officialdom.

Cheng Yegao quickly decided: arrange people to go to Qiongzhou Mansion to set up an office. He had already thought of the candidate - that was the great butler, who had followed him for many years, was very loyal, and was quite flexible in his work. It's just that there is a little trouble in the name, and this year he can't openly hang a sign of "Lingao County Office in Fucheng", not to mention that he still has a reputation as a "bandit".

But fortunately, there is an unwritten rule in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty - officials themselves are not good at business, but they can let their family servants do business - Zhu Yuanzhang is too stingy, and the low standard he sets for his officials is outrageous. But are the officials who hold power those who are willing to treat themselves badly? All kinds of ways to make money have naturally come out. Letting your family run a business is just one of the most decent and legitimate of them all.

So basically every Ming Dynasty official with a little power will arrange a relative or servant to be a businessman, with official power as a backing, such a businessman is still relatively easy to make money. On the other hand, the shop was often used to handle gifts received by officials. Everyone knows in their hearts, gives each other face, and will not go to the trouble of this kind of shop.

As for the goods sold in this shop, it is naturally provided by the shorthairs. This didn't even need Cheng Yegao to speak, and Xie Xi smiled and took the initiative to come to the door with a business cooperation agreement. The refined salt and refined white rice they sent last time were originally brought to Fucheng by Steward Cheng to open the way. Because I don't know the number of needs, I try to prepare as much as possible. As a result, after the very experienced old housekeeper sent everything that should be ordered in place, there were still a lot left, and they were simply disposed of at a low price to the largest grain shop in the city - the backstage owner of this shop was quite influential in Qiongzhou Mansion.

White rice is just that, and refined salt, which is snow-white in color, fine-grained, melts in water and does not have any impurities, is extremely popular anywhere. Even the quality of the tribute salt paid to the emperor is not as good as it, and the more rich and noble people are, the more they realize this. And there are far more wealthy people in Qiongzhou than in Lingao, and the demand for high-quality salt is also greater. For this reason, the front desk manager and the back office boss of the grain store have specially asked the butler Cheng to say hello - welcome to come again next time, safety is absolutely guaranteed!

With this layer of interest covered, it should be safer to go to Qiongzhou Mansion to open a smuggled salt den. Moreover, in this way, there is a formal alliance of interests between the Cheng County Order and the traverser - the commercial agreement is very clear: the Cheng family will give people, the seafarers will give salt, and both sides will take half of the profits.

After working for so long and paying so much price, the traversers finally succeeded in winning over a current official of the Ming Dynasty. The cooperative relationship tied up by interests has always been the most stable, and no matter whether Cheng Yegao wants it or not, he is on the same boat as the traversers.

The name of the ship is called "Qionghai".

Since they planned to officially sell salt as a commodity, those brothers who were engaged in sales immediately had a place to use, and a bunch of sales promotion plans were made. In the end, however, there was only one thing that was actually adopted - and that was to establish a trademark for their goods.

After some discussion, the final trademark was called "Qionghai Brand", which may sound uncreative, but it sounded much better than the "short-haired salt" that the locals had begun to scream. In fact, everyone prefers to directly use "crossing card" as a trademark, but they have to give up because they may leak the origin.

On March 15, 1630, on the second day of the second month of the third year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, in an inconspicuous alley in Qiongzhou Mansion, Hainan, an inconspicuous small shop was opened silently. The shop ostensibly sells some rice, flour and grains, but in fact it is a den for selling smuggled salt.

It didn't take long for everyone in Qiongzhou to know: it is not uncommon to get the best refined salt in Hainan in this shop, but because there are big people behind this shop, they are willing to spend money on weekdays, and there are many profits in business, and no one is looking for trouble for a while.

Of course, most of the high-ranking officials in Qiongzhou Mansion know the details of this shop, and they know that this is the capital of Cheng Qipin's family in Lingao County, who is not unlucky or lucky. In their opinion, what happened to this seven-rank sesame official can be described as bizarre - there are so many counties in Qiongzhou Prefecture, but his brother's jurisdiction has encountered Haikou, which is considered unlucky. But those pirates don't kill people or rob things, and now they actually partner with him to start a private salt business, which is hardly a kind of luck.

Of course, whether unlucky or lucky, this line must be drawn clearly. Regardless of whether those people are pirates or maritime merchants, occupying the city and seizing land, killing officers and soldiers is definitely a big crime, and the imperial court will send troops to exterminate it sooner or later. And Cheng Xianling actually mixed with those people, and obviously he was no longer a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, although the steward of the Cheng Mansion actually only spent very little energy on business, he ran up and down every day to save his master's reputation and restore his official reputation. But the officials of Qiongzhou Mansion just watched his efforts coldly and laughed at his filial piety, but no one dared to say a good word for him.

And on the side of traversing, spending such a huge price just to get an intelligence line to Qiongzhou Mansion. This has led to some doubts in the group -- represented by Ms. Hu Wen, some people have questioned whether that official is useful? Did everyone work so hard to make sea salt just to make a corrupt official in the Ming Dynasty make a fortune?

In the face of this kind of argument, even the mildest Professor Li Mingyuan could not help but be angry, and he unceremoniously dismissed this kind of rhetoric as "a woman's opinion". And it wasn't long before a piece of news from the Qiongzhou Mansion fully proved the value of this intelligence line, so that all doubters had to shut up.

-- According to the information brought back by the steward Cheng himself, an official letter was officially sent from the political envoy of Guangdong, demanding that General Qiongya and the officers and men of Baishazhai under his command send troops as much as possible, "advance by land and water, and suppress them in the future" and annihilate the "hairy bandits" entrenched in Lingao County as soon as possible!

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