Liu Jinbao looked at his eldest grandson's stupid appearance, tapped his forehead with his finger and said, "Don't be stupid!" Before this matter is decided, it must not be publicized to the public! Even if it's the people in the house, don't tell them yet! ”

"Hey, hey! The grandson knows, and the grandfather can rest assured! Out of the door of his grandfather's study, his grandson just didn't understand anything! Liu Guanjie looked at Liu Jinbao with a smirk.

"Hmmm! You're still scheming! Liu Jinbao stroked his beard with satisfaction and nodded.

After the promulgation of the new policy, Lin Ruhai asked people to first distribute salt according to the amount of 30% reported at the end of last year, although there are many deviations from the expectations of salt merchants, but fortunately, this is only three months, and the next salt introduction will be according to the amount of salt produced in the first three months to distribute salt according to reason. So the salt merchants did not have any objections, and happily took the salt they got and left the salt administration yamen.

The amount of salt obtained by the Fang family was nearly half less than the amount of salt they produced, which was the smallest of all the salt merchants, just because the extra salt that had been obtained before was smuggled through salt channels. Now that Lin Ruhai has become a salt transport envoy, Zhen Yingjia doesn't care about them, and the extra amount of salt really gives the Fang family father and son a headache.

"Father! With so much salt in the warehouse, there is a lot of daily wear and tear alone! What's more, there will be a large amount of newly produced salt in three months, and if we distribute salt in this way, I am afraid that half of our salt will be piled up in the warehouse every month! After a year, the warehouse will not be able to fit! ”

"I don't know! It's no wonder that he didn't think about it when he reported the number at the beginning, and he only thought it was when Zhen Yingjia was in control of the salt administration, but now he has made us miserable! What about the others? ”

"The number of them in previous years is not very large, and the sum of several is not as large as ours, so the impact on them is not great, it is estimated that after the next distribution of salt introduction, the number of salt introduction will be almost the same as the amount of salt produced!"

"So, we're the only ones who have this kind of problem?" Old Lady Fang looked at Old Master Fang and asked.

Master Fang nodded, lowered his head and was silent.

Old Lady Fang sighed and said, "I didn't want to do this, but now it seems that I have to ......."

"Does Father have any good plan?"

"Good idea! It's not a good idea, it's a last resort! We are now forced by Lord Lin to sell a salt farm in our hands! ”

Master Fang looked at his father in shock and said, "This! Father, how did you get to such a situation? We can go and ask Lord Lin! ”

Old Lady Fang shook her head weakly and said, "You haven't understood it yet!" Lord Lin wants to break the situation of our dominance among salt merchants, otherwise, my old bones will wait to go to jail! Lying and falsely reporting the amount of salt produced, but you will be in prison for ten years, you Laozi and I are afraid that I will die in prison! ”

"This ...... Is there no other way? "Master Fang also knows the stakes, but he is unwilling to share his own pie with others.

"Lord Lin's step by step, all of them are yang schemes, so that people can't find fault at all! This dumb loss we have to eat and eat, and we have to eat if we don't eat! ”

The father and son of the Fang family sat opposite each other, and after being silent for a long time, the old man Fang opened his mouth and asked, "Then which salt farm does my father think we want to sell?" ”

Old Madam Fang closed her eyes and thought for a moment and said, "We have a total of three salt farms, let's sell the largest one!" ”

"Father think twice! That salt farm is our most profitable salt factory! Master Fang exclaimed lightly.

Old lady Fang opened her eyes and looked at her eldest son and said, "That's why I want to sell him!" It is precisely because it is the largest and most valuable, and the asking price must not be low, just imagine who else can eat in Yangzhou City today except for the Liu family? ”

"Does my father want to push the Liu family up?"

"I'm afraid that people won't accept it! That's fine, let the salt field be put there like that, and maybe you can force Lord Lin to make an exception and give us more salt introductions! ”

"Father's methods and scheming are not inferior to Lord Lin! In this way, not only will you offend him on the surface, but you can take the opportunity to take him to the army! Good strategy! ”

"He used his scheming to calculate me, and I will return it to him with his scheming! It's just that we are a little angry! Old Lady Fang said proudly.

"People are Tanhualang, Marquis Wenyuan, Doctor Yushi of Lantai Temple, we are just Xiaoming in the market, it is rare not to fall into the wind!" Master Fang said with a smile.

As if he had seen their victory, the father of the Fang family smiled and raised the tea bowl to celebrate in advance with tea instead of wine.

Within two days, the news came out that the Fang family was going to sell the largest salt farm, attracting many salt merchants to the Fang family to inquire, but none of them were willing to buy it.

Liu Jinbao also got the news that the Fang family was going to sell the salt farm, and as soon as his eyes rolled, he sneered and said, "This old fox Fang is really beyond his strength!" ”

Liu Jinbao's eldest son, Master Liu, asked his father: "Does my father think there is anything wrong with this?" ”

"I'm not the roundworm in Fang Lao's fox's stomach, how do you know what he thinks! Anyway, our Liu family won't touch their Fang family's things! ”

"Actually, we can take this opportunity to take the biggest salt pan for our own! Why didn't my father move? ”

"I told you a long time ago, the Tao is not the same! We are not all the way to the Fang family, so it's better to have less to do with them! He's probably going to fight against Lord Lin, wait and see, there will be times when he's uncomfortable! ”

"If it's really as my father said, then we must not make a move at this time, lest we spoil Lord Lin's good deeds!" Second Master Liu said.

"The second brother is right! The most important thing our family lacks now is silver, if Guanjie can come out, who cares about this star! Master Liu San said with a smile.

Liu Jinbao glared at Master Liu San, and Master Liu San shrank and lowered his head!

"Father! Although the words of the third brother are not good, but they are also true, the goal of our family is to get rid of this business status, if Guanjie can get the blue eyes of Lord Lin, and have the honor to worship under Lord Lin, and in the future, he will be admitted to the name of our Liu family Guangzong Yaozu, then the silver is nothing? Master Liu said.

Liu Jinbao took a look at his three sons, not to mention how promising they were, but the three brothers get along in harmony, brothers, friends and brothers, and they have never blushed for so many years. “

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