"Let's go to the busy side, Ruhui will accompany me to the salt market for a walk, and I will say hello when it opens in February." Zhao Jin put on his burqa and said with a smile.

Everyone stood up one after another, the side of this conference hall is Wang Zhaojing's study, and it is also where he works, the others dispersed, Wang Zhaojing frowned and entered the study, spread out the paper and pen to draw a circle, and then spent a few small circles around this circle, the north side is marked on the Yan Shenggong Confucius Mansion and Lu Wangfu, the south side is marked on the Fengyang eunuch, the west side is marked on the king of Zhou, and the south side only wrote the two words Nanjing, after writing, Wang Zhaojing let out a sigh and said to himself: "Sooner or later, it will meet, and now it has been encountered." ”

Zhao Ziying started from Xuzhou, with the state city as the center step by step to the south of Zhili expansion, Xuzhou City, the whole territory of Xuzhou, Pizhou, Qingjiangpu, the whole territory of Huai'an Mansion, as well as the west of the Guide Mansion, and now even Yangzhou Mansion has reached into the hand.

These places have one thing in common, that is, there are no real tyrants, and there are no big forces that really take root, the most difficult ones are nothing more than the wealthy merchants in Qingjiangpu and a few salt merchants in Yangzhou, but these rich people are rootless duckweed, and they only rely on wealth, relying on the power of piling up with money, and they are vulnerable to an elite like Zhao Ziying.

In this way, step by step expansion, it is about to start to contact and collide with those behemoths, large and small vassal kings have a large number of grange properties in each place, although they do not go out of the city, but their subordinate officials and disciples are entangled into the largest tyrant in the local area, there is land, there are people, and the support of the government and the imperial court, as well as the deep-rooted operation in the local area for more than a hundred years, and the confrontation with these big forces, not only against a royal palace, but also against the court behind them.

But avoiding is unavoidable, Zhao Ziying's sphere of influence is gradually expanding, but in the north, there are Yanshenggong Confucius Mansion and Lu Wangfu in Shandong, in the west, there is the King of Zhou in Kaifeng Mansion, in the south, there are Fengyang's garrison eunuchs and the central capital Fengyang's Huangzhuang Guantian, if you look farther, it is the Jiangnan rich and Nanjing nobles south of the Yangtze River.

In a sense, these huge forces will be "surrounded" by Zhao Ziying, as long as Zhao Ziying is expanding outward, it will contact them, and they will collide with them, Zhao Ziying's power is big, it means that their power and financial resources will be reduced, this is a fundamental matter, there is no way to end peacefully, from this point of view, the conflict between the four counties of Shandong and Luwangfu Wangzhuang is not accidental, but inevitable.

Wang Zhaojing drew pictures on that piece of paper, a habit he inherited from his father, Wang Youshan, and always wrote when he was meditating.

"Go and call the shopkeeper of Yunshan to come in." Wang Zhaojing put down his pen and said to the outside.

There are many types of industries in Yunshan, and the businesses that can make money must be mixed together, but one of them is a money-losing business, that is, the merchants who walk everywhere, they take the goods of Xuzhou and Nanzhili to travel and sell everywhere, and they can't make a few dollars each time, and they have to make up for Yunshan in some places, but they have been maintained, because this is an important channel for Wang Zhaojing and Ruhui to go outside to inquire about the news.

Xuzhou Salt Market is not a bazaar, can not be noisy and lively every day, he is the most lively time of the year is spaced, February is the most lively month in Xuzhou Salt Market, because everyone is here to set the price, set the sales, this year's trading degree must be set within this month, in the days to come, many carts and salt boats on the Yellow River will come out, will be set salt everywhere.

Among them, Kaifeng Mansion in Henan, Ruzhou in the eastern area of Henan Prefecture, and Huaiqing Mansion, Weihui Mansion and Zhangde Mansion on the north bank of the Yellow River are all bulk purchases of salt goods, as is the case in the Daimyo Mansion of Beizhili and Yanzhou Mansion in Shandong.

Don't mention it elsewhere, the salt industry of Kaifeng Mansion in Henan, whether it is official salt or private salt, is actually the industry of the Zhou Wang's family, and his family's salt stack and salt shop business is extremely prosperous, not to mention Kaifeng Mansion, even several other places in Henan are also all over the place, in the past they were traded with Yangzhou salt merchants, and now they are purchased in Xuzhou Salt City.

Here in Xuzhou Salt City, there is no need to worry about being slashed in the price, and you can save a lot of foot money, and there is a benefit, the people of Zhao Ziying can ensure the safety of the team transporting salt, and there will be no long-eyed black and white forces harassing, and after entering Kaifeng Mansion, no one dares to touch the goods of Zhou Wangfu.

Listening to the name of the salt market here, many people think that this salt market must be filled with the smell of pickles and salted fish, it is good to come in winter, and it must be a stinky piece in summer, but this salt market is the most clean and elegant place in Xuzhou market, the salt merchants have been rich for several generations, and those who traffic in large quantities of private salt are also wealthy figures, so they naturally want to be decent.

There is not too much salt placed in each salt shop, at most a few porcelain jars, just to let the guests see the color of the salt, the salt shop in the salt market is more like a teahouse, or the kind of teahouse with exquisite and elegant decoration, everyone drinks tea and talks about business in it, and it is very relaxed.

The salt shop of Zhou Wangfu buys, every time I come, it is only on the side of the Feng family salt store, the price of the Feng family salt house is the fairest, and it can also raise the largest amount of salt goods, and more importantly, the Feng family salt store is now Zhao Jin's industry, and the people of Zhou Wangfu have nothing Xuzhou Zhao Jin in their eyes, but it is better to be at ease than to be able to deal with a well-spoken Jianghu tycoon.

"You said that Zhao Jin is young, his life is too boring, he has so much money in his hands, but his family is living so hard, what do you want?" There are two tables of people in the front hall of the Feng family's salt stack, where they drink tea and eat snacks, which is quite leisurely.

"It may be that the people here in Xuzhou are afraid of living a poor life, and they don't dare to spend money if they have a net worth, I heard that now they are just a wife and a concubine, if I have so much silver, I will buy a field house in Jiangnan, and buy him more than a dozen beautiful maids to serve."

"Brother, I remember what you said, waiting to tell my sister-in-law."

"Don't, don't"

chatted happily in the field, and suddenly laughed, these people are all purchased by the Zhou Wang Salt Shop, can do errands that spend money, and they are also related to the backers in the palace, and they live very easily, they have just negotiated business with the people of the Feng family salt stack, and Zhao Jin happened to come over to inspect, and the steward of the salt stack went out to greet them.

I stopped saying a word here, joking that the other party thought that the other party was on fire, and hurriedly got up to explain, but saw the brother who was called the elder brother pointing to the other side, and said with disdain: "Look, a few of the Luwang family." ”

The weather is not very cold, the door of the salt stack is open, and you can see clearly what is on the other side of the street, and you can see a few people who are almost dressed sitting opposite, and I don't know if you see that there is Zhou Wangfu here.

"These ungrateful bastards, they weren't dogs in front of our brothers, but now they are self-conscious characters."

"According to the rules, they want to take the goods in our hands, why did they come to Xuzhou by themselves, I have to go over and explain it."

"Sit down, Lu Fan is the uncle of today's son, how many years have we been in this branch, and we can't take advantage of it, and I'm afraid the palace will blame us."

"I just can't get used to this."

Someone wanted to make trouble in the past, was dragged by his companions, and sat down angrily, King Lu was in Wanli year, he was the younger brother of Emperor Wanli, Empress Dowager Li and Wanli were very loved, and the power was naturally smoking, when he first arrived at Wei Hui, he not only brought a large amount of silver in the capital, but also gave a large number of fields and various privileges after coming to Henan.

It turns out that the salt industry in Henan is the source of wealth of the king of Zhou and several other kings, the king of Zhou takes the lead, and the others follow with the profit sharing, and so the king of Lu comes to the domain, and the salt industry of Huaiqing, Weihui and Zhangde on the north bank of the Yellow River belongs to the palace of Luwangfu, and even sells it to Shanxi, and after fighting for the country, King Fu went to Luoyang to take the domain, and dug a large piece of the salt industry, but the first generation of King Lu is the younger brother of Emperor Wanli, and the first generation of King Fu is the son of Emperor Wanli, and the relationship between the son of Qitian is also close. King Zhou's branch was handed down from the founding of the country, and the intimacy is naturally different, and the fight is not competitive, so you can only pinch your nose and endure it

The subordinate officials of the various royal mansions are naturally related to the interests of the royal mansion, and these people in the Zhou royal mansion have less benefits, so they naturally look at those people in the Lu royal mansion unpleasantly.

Since the two sides are facing the street, you can see me, I can also see you, the three people from Luwangfu also saw the people of Zhou Wangfu across the street, and several of them had disdainful expressions on their faces, and one of them even sneered and said: "What kind of old qualifications, if it weren't for the mercy of our prince, we would directly do business in Kaifeng Mansion." ”

Several people laughed, and an old man picked up a crab roe broad bean and threw it into his mouth, chewed it and sent it down with tea, and then said leisurely: "Don't underestimate King Zhou, he has been in Henan for 200 years, and the branches are luxuriant, and we can't afford to offend." ”

It seems that this one has some prestige, after he said this, the others stopped speaking, this one drank another cup of tea, and said slowly: "Don't always think about what to fight with King Zhou's mansion, this King Fu, King Tang, King Yi, none of us can afford to offend, we are on errands below, don't stand out for the grievances of the main family." ”

Everyone felt bored, but there was no way to refute it, just there hehe smiled, each eating snacks and drinking tea, was embarrassed, but heard a commotion outside, the salt stack steward who had been waiting outside the door walked down the steps quickly, bowed down and greeted with a smile, only to see a young man smiling and greeting the steward, this young man followed by a few strong and strong men.

"Tsk, this is Zhao Jin, this kid has a big family, just a stick, it's better than our prince."

"It's just a poor man from a military man, I don't know how to spend so much money, I don't know how to spend it at home, and I can't compare to the people of our palace governor, he doesn't know who he earns this silver."

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