Just when everyone thought that there was nothing to do, Wang Dalun said lightly: "By the way, the price of salt on the market is very high now, you are all big salt merchants in Shandong, and you have a lot of salt in your hands, and the responsibility of maintaining the stability of the market price will be handed over to you, everyone should put more salt!" ”

As soon as Wang Dalun's words came out, Ning Peng, who originally wanted to be dumb, immediately spoke, and he said: "General Wang, it's not that we don't want to maintain prices, but we don't have much salt in our hands, and now it's the off-season for production, and we encountered a military disaster some time ago, so we can't do anything!" ”

"Really?" Wang Dalun said with a smile: "Everyone, you are the leader of Shandong's salt industry, if the price of official salt is too high, the people have to buy private salt, you can have today, it is inseparable from the support of the government, if you do your best to fish, then you will suffer at that time!" ”

"We really don't have salt for this!" Ning Peng was looked at by Wang Dalun's eyes, and his heart was a little drumming, but thinking of Yan Shenggong's explanation, he could only say stubbornly.

"Oh well! Ladies and gentlemen, you don't have much salt in your hands, but it is impossible to have nothing at all, hand over all the salt in your hands, and the government will mix it uniformly, and here is the paper, you can write down the amount of salt you have and the place where it is stored!" Wang Dalun sighed and seemed to give up.

When everyone heard this, they had to take the paper over, they made up their minds in their hearts, just hand over a little bit casually, of course the others can't be handed over, and Fang Wenjin must be resigned!

"By the way, I warn you, if you don't explain it clearly. If I found that there was still salt, I would treat it as private salt, don't blame me for not making it clear to you in advance! Wang Dalun added a sentence when everyone was about to pick up the pen and write.

When everyone heard this, they all stopped, they turned their eyes to Ning Peng, the big fat man, to see what he was doing, only to see that Ning Peng didn't seem to hear Wang Dalun's words, his subordinates didn't stop at all, he finished writing in one breath, and then said in his mouth: "The court is in difficulty." Of course, we have to do everything we can to support it! ”

watched Ning Peng's movements. Everyone understood what Ning Peng meant, and it seemed that they were going to die to the end, but everyone had already prepared for this, because their salt was stored very hidden. Since we want to create a salt shortage. Of course, people have to be ignorant of the way.

Everyone hurriedly followed and wrote down the numbers in their hands. Jiang Quan looked at the people who were struggling to write, and hesitated for a while, but then he still lowered his head and wrote out a part of his salt. It's better to go with the flow!

Wang Dalun took the data handed to by everyone, looked at it, and said lightly: "It seems that there is really a salt shortage, and the landlord's family has no surplus grain, hey, it seems that we have to consider transferring salt from other salt farms!" ”

Everyone listened to Wang Dalun's words, and there was a sneer in their hearts, adjusting salt? Without our permission, would other salt farms dare? This market is well divided, and if they dare to do so, our private salt will be sold to each other's market!

Wang Dalun didn't want to talk nonsense with them, so he said directly: "Okay, since there is nothing to do, let's go back!" ”

When everyone heard this, they hurriedly rushed out, and after the people were gone, Fang Wenjin said lightly: "It seems that they don't give you any face!" ”

"They're killing themselves, and I've given them a chance, huh! They'll regret not filling in the numbers today! Wang Dalun raised the paper in his hand and said disdainfully.

And the salt merchants who were supposed to go back to their respective families gathered together again, but not in the yamen, but in Ning Peng's mansion. I saw Ning Peng waving his chubby arm and said loudly: "We must hold on!" Hide all the salt for me, and make sure they both fuck off! ”

The salt merchants patted their chests one by one and said: "Don't worry, we won't let Wang Hu succeed, the price of salt will rise if we want him to rise, and fall if he wants!" ”

"Well said!" Ning Peng stroked his palm and smiled: "That's it, we must not let Wang Dalun succeed!" Starting tomorrow, everyone will start to reduce the amount of supply, so that this price will be higher and higher! Let the wind go, we don't have any extra salt in our hands, and if we don't buy it, we will have to wait for a while! ”

Ning Peng's words were orders, and with his order, from the next day, the people of Jinan City and even Shandong found that the price of salt had risen again, and it had risen sharply! The people began to complain about the government's crackdown on smuggled salt.

The news quickly reached Fang Wenjin's ears, and Fang Wenjin asked Wang Dalun with a headache: "What do you say about this?" These guys are crazy! ”

"Heaven must first make it mad if it wants to destroy it! They won't be able to jump for two days! Wang Dalun said with a sneer.

"Hey, now it's all burning eyebrows, don't worry about anything, you can get rid of them quickly!" Fang Wenjin felt a little anxious, and he didn't care whether Wang Dalun's method was violent or not.

"Two days! Within two days, they were gone! Wang Dalun said with an oath.

"Good! Hurry up, I can't hold out for two days! Fang Wenjin shook his head and said.

When Ning Peng and the others heard that Fang Wenjin had released all the salt in his hand, they were all bought up in a blink of an eye, and they all smiled proudly: "This is the end of going against us!" In two days, someone will go to the political envoy to protest! Let them know what will happen if they provoke a popular uprising! ”

As a result, it didn't wait for two days, and the next day, the fathers and elders in the city jointly wrote to Fang Wenjin, asking for one, asking for the price of salt, and now everyone can't afford to eat salt, and they start to cook with salted fish! And Fang Wenjin had no choice but to lower his stature and promise the fathers and elders that he would definitely solve this problem.

And Wang Dalun has been closed for the past two days, he seems to be a person with nothing to do, pulling his wives and concubines to listen to music and watch dramas all day long, how leisurely he is, how leisurely he is.

Just when the salt merchants felt that Wang Dalun was hopeless to turn over this time, early the next morning, they received a news that frightened them, the salt warehouse where they hid salt was served!

It was Wang Dalun who did it, and what made the salt merchants angry was that they didn't get any news in advance, Wang Dalun didn't mobilize any anti-smuggling patrol at all, and directly let his personal guards do it, and overnight, the salt merchants' hidden salt warehouses in various places in Shandong were copied!

"What should I do?" The salt merchants who had lost their minds all came to Ning Peng's mansion and asked him for ideas.

"What to do? What to do? What can I do now? I was also copied, that's nearly 10,000 stone salt, much heavier than your loss! Ning Peng said in a cold sweat, he is now like an ant on a hot pot, walking around anxiously!

"What?" Everyone was dumbfounded when they heard this, this 10,000 stone salt is worth more than 100,000 taels of silver, while being shocked by Ning Peng's strength, everyone was also surprised by Wang Dalun's ruthlessness this time.

"Can you get Yan Sheng Gong to come forward and help us get the salt back?" Jiang Quan asked cautiously on the side, and as soon as he spoke, he knew that he had a stupid idea!

Sure enough, it was a stupid idea, but I saw Ning Peng roar and said, "If this is useful, why am I in such a hurry?" Of these 10,000 stones, 6,000 stones belong to the Yansheng Mansion! ”

Everyone was silent for a while, they couldn't imagine that Ning Peng was just a small role on the stage, and the real mastermind behind the scenes turned out to be the Yansheng Mansion, and it was really a thousand-year-old family, and all industries were infiltrated by him.

Everyone was relatively speechless, they didn't know what to do, it was useless to ask Wang Dalun now, he had something to say first, and if he found out, he would be punished as private salt, and everyone was very confident at first, but he didn't expect everyone to hide so hidden and be found out by him, did he have a dog nose, or was the people around him bought by him?

"How did Wang Hu find out? There are only a few people in my salt warehouse who know the Tao, and they are all brothers who usually sell illicit salt, and after receiving my orders, they have not made any major moves recently, and they have almost died down, how did he know about the Tao? Jiang Quan asked very curiously.

"We're not the same! It's all the brothers who sell smuggled salt, and they really can't figure out how they can be found by him! The person on the side also said in distress.

"What's the use of saying this now? Think about how to recover the loss, and I haven't completed the salt introduction task this year, will Wang Hu take the opportunity to cancel the official salt qualification? Someone said very distressedly that he regretted it now, and compared to the loss of money, the loss of the salt merchant's qualification was what scared him.

"What are you afraid of this? In a few months, you will enter the peak period of salt production, and by then everyone will help you, and you will be done! Everyone listens to me, Yan Shenggong will not let everyone suffer, now we can't panic, we can't mess up, and slowly think of a way! ”

Although Ning Peng was very panicked in his heart, he didn't know how to communicate with Yansheng, but in order to keep everyone from messing up, he could only comfort everyone in a deep voice, as long as everyone was united, any problem could be solved slowly.

"That's right! He Fang Wenjin and Wang Dalun can't cover the sky with one hand, we mobilize all our connections to put pressure on Wang Dalun, I don't believe that he Wang Dalun dares to swallow these salts! A salt merchant was encouraged by Ning Peng, and immediately came up with a fairly reliable idea.

"This method is good, put pressure on him, let him return our salt, no matter how bad it is, it can slow down his pace, and in a few days, the new salt in our hands will be produced, and it can be relieved!" Everyone immediately agreed, this is not the way to go.

Only Jiang Quan frowned, and he said cautiously: "According to Wang Hu's habit of making moves, do you think he will let us ease up like this?" Do you think he will attack the salt works and completely cut off our back road? ”

"Ahh Everyone was stunned by Jiang Quan's speculation, if this was really the case, they would really die without a place to be buried! (To be continued......)

PS: Finally caught up, hehe! It's a pain to not save the manuscript!