Wu Yingying saw that the faces of all the businessmen were a little worried, probably knew their thoughts, walked into the crowd of businessmen, smiled and arched his hand to the left and right: "Chu Jun is not harmed?" As if a stone was thrown into the calm water, all the businessmen got this opportunity, and they all became polite, some bowed and said that business has been good recently, and some stepped forward to wish Lord Wu a good family, in short, the rectification scene of an underground organization meeting suddenly disappeared.

Merchants are very profitable, if they take the line of Wu Yingying at this moment, the tea, silk and porcelain in the south of the Yangtze River can go out by Hexi Trade Road, which is much safer than the sea route. The only worry is that Wu Yingying wants them to rebel in Jiangnan, which is a major event of raiding the family and exterminating the clan, and these wealthy businessmen dare not do it.

Wu Yingying wants to have this effect, after the politeness is over, he stretched out his hands and pressed it, and the businessmen below were suddenly silenced, and Wu Yingying said in a deep voice: "Jinling City is broken, things are not people, Jiangnan is the lord of the North Hunt, I also call Bianliang a minister, Chu Jun broke away from the Divine Guard, and operated all kinds of industries, each with a small family, and it is not a dangerous matter to gather everyone to discuss, but a business." His tone was familiar to all the merchants, gentle and seductive.

"If your lord has any orders, I just have to do it, and to talk about business is to meet with our subordinates. How can it not be chilling, my lord!" Han Shang suddenly knelt down with tears in his eyes, and the other businessmen suddenly realized that since they got on the boat of Wu Yingying, it was the fate of being in the same boat, if Wu Yingying had an attitude of talking about business and intersected with his group of businessmen, if something was not harmonious in the future, he patted his ass and retreated to Hexi, and his net worth and life were pinched in the hands of Da Song. The only way is to take refuge completely, so that Wu Yingying will always take care of a trace of incense in his future actions, and will not sacrifice his forces in vain. Everyone secretly scolded the old fox, followed closely behind Han Shang, and cried with a handful of snot and tears asking Wu Yingying to reintegrate himself and others into the system of the Anxi Army, and even several people asked Wu Yingying to re-register his family property into the military property of the Anxi Army. The status of merchants in this era is not as respected as in later generations, so it is natural that everyone has this concern, otherwise they would not have invested in the Divine Guard system back then.

Seeing a group of primitive bourgeois elements crying and shouting to return to the ranks of the proletariat, Wu Yingying, who had originally planned to persuade these businessmen to cooperate with the Anxi Army with benefits, was taken aback, he looked at Gou Luo'an suspiciously, and Gou Luo'an shrugged his shoulders helplessly, which was the signature move he learned from Wu Yingying, indicating that it had nothing to do with him.

Wu Yingying frowned, the reaction of the merchants was greatly beyond his expectations, but there was always something to talk about, he coughed, helped Han Shang up, and said in a deep voice: "Han Dutou, what are you doing, I came to Jiangnan, I didn't see anyone, let Luo'an find you, is this a way to abandon you and wait?" Because Han Shang and others are old acquaintances with Gou Luo'an, Wu Yingying only calls him by his name in front of these people, and the famous Han Cicada, after a long, long time, no one knows who he is, and many Song Liao courtiers even think that it is another identity of Chase himself, the director of the Military Intelligence Department.

Han Shang and other businessmen stopped crying, stood up aggrieved, and looked like his subordinates were looking at the master, Wu Yingying sighed in his heart, and said that there are no businessmen and no traitors, and the abacus in the hearts of these businessmen's subordinates sometimes doesn't see it very thoroughly. Fortunately, I won't leave too important things to them to do. This layer of master-slave relationship is beneficial to the big things that he wants to plan with the help of these businessmen.

Seeing that everyone began to listen carefully to what he said, Wu Yingying said in a deep voice: "Since you and others voluntarily return to my command, you must do the order and prohibition, and the specific rules, Luo'an will tell you on my behalf." At the moment, I want to discuss with you a few things. His tone was serious, and the businessmen Jia Shicai had already done a scene, and they didn't dare to interrupt him repeatedly, so they all quietly lowered their hands and listened.

"The first case is the sale of salt. Wu Yingying's words came out, and there was an uproar below, and all the businessmen understood that what Wu Yingying wanted to traffick could not be official salt, which was a big crime of stealing his house and killing his head. Everyone knows that there are many large salt lakes near Hexi controlled by Wu Yingying, which produce high-quality salt, but in this era, you can not sell salt everywhere, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the salt tax accounted for about half of the imperial treasury revenue, and the middle officials and officials went up and down, and the benefits were several times this, so to speak, the salt industry was the first major industry in the late Tang Dynasty, and it was also the first major tumor in the late Tang Dynasty.

The high price of salt greatly stimulated the emergence of smuggler salt dealers, who affected the interests of the government and caused bloody repression by the government. The government's indiscriminate punishment is simply a model of violence, and in the face of huge interests, the smugglers not only did not get subdued, but instead armed themselves in groups and began to fight against the government in open fire. One of the most famous of these is the Yellow Nest, which is known as "the Heavenly Incense Array breaks Chang'an, and the city is full of golden armor". Since then, trafficking in illicit salt has become synonymous with rebellion. The smugglers are all ambitious and courageous, except for Huang Chao, Wang Jian, Qian Di, and Zhu Xuan have successively seized one side. And the regular traders are far away from the dangerous field of selling illicit salt.

Therefore, as soon as Wu Yingying said that he wanted to sell salt, the businessmen below "chuckled" in their hearts, and many people said that the lord was really not the master who kept his own peace, and he would sell smuggled salt when he opened his mouth, which was incompatible with the imperial court.

The expressions of the merchants below were fully visible to Wu Yingying, and the allegiance that was crying just now was like a joke, Wu Yingying sneered in his heart, coughed, and said in a deep voice: "You are quiet, the salt selling that I am talking about below is a voluntary participation, and it is by no means strong." Also, you only need to transport the salt from the northwest to the state capitals in the south of the Yangtze River, and then my son will send people to pick up the goods, and then hand them over to those real smugglers to sell them separately, and you will not meet those people. When he said this, the businessmen below were greatly relieved, of course it was good not to do such a dangerous business, only a few greedy people were thinking in their hearts, if they contracted the salt business in the northwest, I am afraid that in a few years, they will become the leading businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River.

And Wu Yingying just wanted to find a few collaborators in the Jiangnan merchants who sold Northwest green salt. In fact, there are many merchants who go to the northwest every year to find illegal salt to sell to the Central Plains, but these people may not be reliable and reliable, and the amount of capital is too small. At present, the salt policy of the Great Song Dynasty was still strictly official sales and official buying, and the sale of smuggled salt could only be contacted by private salt dealers, and when the imperial court implemented the salt introduction salt money system, and allowed private merchants to sell salt, they could imitate salt banknotes, and then let the green salt be sold with great fanfare through these merchant networks.