After everyone left, Xie was the only one left alone.

She specially walked up to Wen Tang and smiled provocatively: "Third girl, I disappointed you by not being able to let you go to the shop in Xicheng." ”

Wen Tang knew that she was deliberately ridiculed, so he said angrily: "Xie Shi, you are really a good means." You were afraid that sooner or later I would please my father in this family, so you specially drove me away. ”

I saw that Xie Shi's eyes were shining at this time, and he said viciously: "Do you think that if you have evidence of Changzhi's deficit, you can bring me down from the master?" Then you're a little too tender.

As early as last night, I ordered someone to fill in the shortfall, so you don't even have the only thing you can threaten me, I see what you can do with me! ”

Wen Tang sneered at this time, and said: "Sanniang is very powerful, she made up for the deficit at once, it seems that she took a lot of private money to paste it to the son who didn't make it." ”

When Xie Shi heard this, he angrily reprimanded: "It's none of your business. Today, I just want you to know that in this Wen family, no one dares to fight me, and no one has ever fought me.

Do I know why I know that the master doesn't want you to go to the shop, do I still have to persuade him?

Because I want you to know who is really in charge of this family.

Where you want to go, I won't let you go. What you want to do, I can't do it.

Wen Tang, when you get there in the future, remember to clamp your tail and be a good person. ”

After Xie finished speaking, he was not very satisfied.

She smiled and turned to leave, leaving Wen Tang and He Ma in that hall.

Mother He said angrily at this time: "Third girl, I will rush to the master now and tell all her shameless deeds back then." I'm fighting with this old hen! ”

Mother He just wanted to rush up, but Wen Tang suddenly grabbed her arm.

Wen Tang, who was still annoyed and angry just now, suddenly laughed.

She said softly: "Mother He, it's done!" ”

"Huh?" At this time, He Ma was stunned and at a loss.

In fact, from the very beginning, Wen Tang's target was only the shop in the north lane of the south city.

Although the terrain is remote, it is very close to the smoke building where Wen Changping smoked ointment. Wen Tang planned that in the remaining days, she would do a good job in business while letting Changping quit smoking.

She expected that if she spoke in person, Wen Mengting would never agree.

But if it was through Xie's "help", Wen Mengting would agree.

Everyone thought that Wen Tang didn't know anything about business, and they were waiting for her to close her door as soon as possible.

But I didn't know that in Yangcheng back then, Wen Tang entered the shop with the help of Xu Huaisheng and learned a lot of experience.

Now, she wants to rely on these experiences to impress Wen Mengting, and make Wen Mengting absolutely trust her until she finally hands over the business to her.

This is not a simple matter, so Wen Tang must be foolproof in the coming days.

Three days later, in the north lane of the south city, the Wen family salt shop.

A few days ago, Wen Tang came to Jiangcheng with the ashes of the Lin family in a filial piety suit and nothing to do.

Now that he came out of the Wen Mansion, Wen Tang only brought a few changes of clothes to the North Lane of Nancheng, and he was brisk.

At noon on this day, He Xiangsheng counted the number of salts in the salt warehouse in large bags, and went to the shop to tell Wen Tang the number one by one.

Wen Tang's green and tender thin fingers quickly roamed on the abacus, left and right, and after a while, he filled in the number on the account book.

After that, she carefully looked at the ledger from beginning to end, frowning slightly.

He Ma on the side immediately asked, "Third girl, what's wrong?" ”

Wen Tang just shook his head and said, "It's nothing." Although I guessed that the business of this shop was not good, I didn't expect it to be so bad. This batch of goods is already half a year ago, but I didn't expect that there are so many left. ”

This salt is never like cloth wine, and the longer it is sitting, the more valuable it is.

On the contrary, such as salt, which is in demand every day, is placed in a lively shop at the entrance of the market, and it is normal to ship 100 bags a day, and no matter how bad the shop is, it can sell more than a dozen bags a day.

But like the shop in the north lane of the south city, the goods that have been advanced for half a year can still have more than ten bags of salt, which is simply incredible.

Just as he was thinking, an old voice came from his side.

It was Chang Bo, a guy who had been guarding the shop all year round, who spoke.

Uncle Chang is old and dizzy, and he doesn't need to raise his eyes, and there are already several wrinkles of different shades on his forehead.

I only heard him raise his voice and say: "Miss, this place is in a remote area, and there are many people around you who are not rich, so it is not easy to get out of the natural goods." ”

Wen Tang was puzzled: "But no matter how much money people have, they always need to use salt, I see that the last salt sold in this account book was ten days ago." ”

Chang Bo sighed at this time, he cautiously looked out, and after making sure that no one was passing by, he whispered, "Miss actually doesn't know. There's a reason why our salt can't be sold.

In addition to the bad terrain, the biggest reason is those smuggler salt dealers. ”

"Illicit salt?"

Wen Tang, He Ma and He Xiangsheng screamed in surprise at the same time.

Although salt is extracted from seawater, it is a gift of nature. But once it involves the people, it must be controlled by the government.

Although Wen Mengting started by selling salt, Zuo is also a businessman. The real salt works belong to the government.

If he wants to do a business selling salt, he has to go to the government to get salt to attract him.

Only with salt can you get salt and sell salt, which is official salt.

And there is no salt to introduce the salt, it is very likely that someone has dried the salt privately, the source of these salts is unknown, the light is not seen, and the price is naturally low.

The price of official salt on the market is twice that of private salt, but as long as the common people are not stupid, they naturally tend to buy private salt.

But it is illegal to buy and sell illicit salt.

Illicit salt disrupted the sales of official salt, and once the official salt was unsalable, it was not only the salt merchants who suffered, but the imperial court would also collect a large amount of salt tax.

Among the many transactions, the salt tax has always accounted for the lion's share.

Not to mention that the border is in chaos at the moment, and there is an urgent need to collect taxes and raise soldiers.

In the past, when illegal salt dealers were caught, they were indispensable to distribute to the frontier.

At this juncture, it is even more necessary to set an example for chickens and monkeys.

There were still people who dared to sell illicit salt, which surprised Wen Tang.

She continued to ask: "Some people buy and sell illicit salt, why does the government care?" ”

"Official? Hehe. Chang Bo laughed with a little disdain, "It's not enough for those people in the government to eat dividends, how can they smash their own jobs." ”

"Are you saying that the people in the government colluded with the smugglers of salt?" Wen Tang asked.

Uncle Chang suddenly shook his head at this time, and said with a wry smile: "Miss, I'm just talking casually, don't take it seriously." The master said that the shop will be taken care of by you in the future, and the shop will be handed over to you, and I should also pack up and go home. ”

"What? Are you leaving? He Ma called out at this time, "We have just arrived, and we are not familiar with many things, and we still expect you to help us a lot." ”

Uncle Chang laughed embarrassedly, "Miss, it's not that I don't want to help you, but it just so happens that my daughter-in-law from the countryside has just added a big fat grandson to me recently, and I should go back to help take care of the child." ”

"But." Mother He still wanted to speak, but Wen Tang stopped her quickly, and then said to Uncle Chang: "At your age, it's time to go back and enjoy the joy of bringing your children and grandchildren." Here is some silver that you can use to buy some good supplements for the mother, and some fine fabrics for your grandson to make some small clothes in the future. ”