In the copper-colored crane beak incense burner, a dense and quiet light smoke continues to float out from the crane beak of the incense burner, with a light fragrance, after the rendering of this light smoke, the surrounding air that was originally ordinary has become expensive after being contaminated with the fragrance of sandalwood.

This is an antique study, the crane beak incense burner burning, is the price comparable to gold hundred-year-old phoenix sandalwood, this study is located in the northwest states of Yinzhou in the east of the state city, more precisely, in the northwest transfer yamen of Yinzhou City, the owner of this study, is the authority of the northwest transfer Jiang Tianhua.

At this moment, the Northwest Transit Envoy was wearing a crimson official uniform, sitting next to a desk in the study, stretching out two fat fingers that were as well maintained as shallots, and gently picked up a handful of things as crystal clear as snow from the porcelain plate in the middle of the desk, and in front of his own nose, he was turning over and over carefully observing.

Jiang Tianhua is in his 50s, with big ears and a little obese, because there is too much meat on his face, at first glance, he thought that his face was stung and swollen by a wasp, his eyes have been covered by a mass of flesh, only two slender slits are exposed, and the eyeballs cannot be seen in the gaps, and the whites of the eyes are not seen, only occasionally two cold lights that make people tremble in the gaps, and because he is too fat, Angjiang Tianhua's face looks like he is smiling at any time.

In the northwest officialdom, Jiang Tianhua's nickname is "Smiling Tiger", the smiling tiger Jiang Tianhua is ruthless and insatiable, he has the power to supervise the northwest officialdom, and there is a prime minister behind him as a backer, even if the states assassinate the history, they have to give him some face, and they dare not offend easily, as time goes by, this Jiang Tianhua has become more unscrupulous in the northwest.

Jiang Tianhua stared at the small white thing in his hand very seriously, and after staring at it for half a minute, he put the small handful of things into his mouth, and then closed his eyes.

After a while, Jiang Tianhua opened his eyes and nodded, and a beautiful maid next to him brought over a cup of warm and superb Xuefeng tea, and a beautiful maid knelt in front of him and raised a pure gold spittoon in her hand.

"Gurgling ......" Jiang Tianhua tilted his neck, took a sip of tea, rinsed his mouth with tea, spit the tea in his mouth into the pure gold spittoon, and took the towel handed by the third beautiful maid, wiped the corners of his mouth and hands, and then waved his hand and let all the maids go down.

"This is the new snow salt from Pingxi County?" Jiang Tianhua asked, staring at a businessman in front of him who also had a sneering face and a big belly.

"Back to my lord, this is snow salt, do you know how much a pound this snow salt sells for now?"

"How much?"

"This snow salt is now in complete short supply, a pound of snow salt, now in the market, a pound costs four taels and five cents of silver, twice as expensive as the best green salt, that's twice as much!" When talking about the price of snow salt, the merchant's eyes were golden, and he stretched out his tongue and licked his lips, and the greedy expression was completely written on his face.

"Worthy of this price!" Jiang Tianhua nodded and smiled, "This kind of salt, there are few places in the entire Han Empire that can produce it, even if it is compared to tribute salt, it is not much better!"

"Who says it's not?" The businessman who was also pot-bellied was also smiling, "I heard that the salt field of this snow salt is completely in the hands of Lei Sitong, the thorn of Ganzhou, and our family sent a letter from the imperial capital, so I wanted to ask the lord for a favor, can you tell Lord Lei that the snow salt that will appear in the salt field in the future will be sold by our family!"

"Hahaha, as Lord Gu, just write directly to Lei Sitong, why bother to come to me, I think Lei Sitong will definitely give Lord Gu face!" Jiang Tianhua said with a laugh.

The big-bellied businessman also laughed, "Our lord said that he and Lei Si are separated by the same layer, which is not very convenient, and Lei Si Tong is soft and hard and does not eat, he is in the imperial capital, it is not easy to meddle in the things in this northwest place, this salt is also a thing that is transferred with the army, if Lord Jiang can get this thing done, then the matter that Lord Jiang said to my family last time, my lord will definitely be able to do it!"

Jiang Tianhua's eyes flashed, and then he laughed, "Well, you tell your family, I want to find a way, I will go to Ganzhou in a few days, I will talk to Lei Si first!"

"Then I'll wait for good news from my lord!" The big-bellied businessman was very eye-catching, and when he saw Jiang Tianhua pick up the teacup again, he had already stood up politely and obediently said goodbye and left.

Seeing that the merchant had left, Jiang Tianhua's smiling face slowly had a trace of coldness, and he snorted softly with disdain, "Your Gu family's hand is also stretched too long, such a business, where is your turn, can you really be the servant official in the imperial capital who can reach the sky with his hands and eyes, wait until your family's squire master makes a book!"

Behind the screen in the study, a figure flashed, and an old man with a thin face, full of silver hair, wearing a flowing blue dress, holding a fan in his hand, and a beautiful long beard on his chin had quietly walked out.

"The Gu family is indeed too greedy, adults still have to stay away from the Gu family in the future, so as not to be affected by the pond fish!" The old man came to Jiang Tianhua's side and said softly.

"Well, yes, this Gu family is indeed getting more and more excessive, and now the Gu family earns at least more than 400,000 taels of silver a year in the northwest, and they are not satisfied, they actually want to instigate me to snatch food from Lei Sitong's bowl, so Lei Si is easy to provoke at the same time, really treat me as a fool!"

The old man shook the folding fan lightly and smiled slightly, "It doesn't matter what Lei Sitong thinks, what matters is how the Prime Minister thinks, the Prime Minister has great ambitions, and the plan is not small, if the Gu family does not know how to restrain and make the people angry, it will not be tolerated by the Prime Minister in the future, and the Gu family will be destroyed, and the family wealth accumulated by the Gu family in the past few decades is the Prime Minister's, and the Prime Minister can also leave a good reputation and be praised by the people of the world, such a beautiful thing, do you think the Prime Minister will do it?"

Jiang Tianhua was startled, quickly stood up, and arched his hand at the old man, "Thank you Mr. for reminding me, it seems that I really can't have more dealings with the Gu family in the future!"

"Well, as long as the adults win the manufacturing bureau, the salt works in Pingxi County will fall into the hands of the adults sooner or later!"

"Ah, isn't Sir comforting me, that salt field is now the lifeblood of Lei Sitong, how could it fall into my hands?"

"Don't you think it's strange, the salt field in Pingxi County is in Yuntao County, and several salt mines in Yuntao County have only produced soil salt before, but now they have produced such a good refined salt!"

"Didn't the news from Pingxi County say that Lei Sitong took the shit and found a rare fine salt mine in the underground of the salt field in Yuntao County?"

"Do you believe that?"

Jiang Tianhua frowned slightly, "What does Mr. mean ......"

"Before that Yan Liqiang came back, several salt mines in Yuntao County had been producing soil salt for so many years, why didn't any superb refined salt mines be found, why did Yan Liqiang come back, this superb refined salt mine was discovered, don't you think this thing is too coincidental?"

"Could it be that Mr. means that Yan Liqiang can have a way to turn inferior earth salt into snow salt?" Jiang Tianhua looked shocked, listening to such news in his ears was like hearing that someone would turn stones into gold spells, it was really incredible.

"Don't forget, my lord, that Yan Liqiang is in the imperial capital, but the way of things is famous all over the world, and he can also sit and discuss with Zhang Yourong, the first master of the world's first organ, and now the people in the entire northwest are saying that Yan Liqiang can be enlightened by a god in a dream, and the method he passed down to treat a drowning person is that he was taught by a god in a dream, and now it has spread all over the world, for such a person, how can adults infer it with common sense!"

Jiang Tianhua was stunned, the fat on his face trembled, and then a layer of oil appeared, and he rubbed his hands excitedly, "If Yan Liqiang has such a skill, then I really underestimated him before......"

"As long as the adults can pocket the manufacturing bureau this time and gain a firm foothold in Pingxi County, we can slowly figure it out, as long as there is a strict and strong method, the adults can turn the soil salt into snow salt, and at that time, the adults will naturally have as much money as they want, if you dedicate this method to the prime minister, the adult must be heavier in the mind of the prime minister, and the future future is unlimited......"

"Hahaha, yes, Mr. is right, as long as I gain a firm foothold in Pingxi County and win the manufacturing bureau, that Yan Liqiang is not at my kneading, it's just that Zhong Xiankui doesn't know what's going on, and there is no news for so many days......"

Just when the two of them were chatting in the study, an official from the transfer yamen hurriedly ran outside the study with a bundle of official documents, asking to see Jiang Tianhua, Jiang Tianhua asked the official to come in, opened the official letter and looked at it, and his face changed suddenly......

Just a few days ago, because there was no news of Zhong Xiankui for a long time, Jiang Tianhua, who thought that Zhong Xiankui and his party had been troubled by Lei Sitong in Ganzhou, also asked the transfer yamen to send an official letter to the Ganzhou Assassin Mansion, ready to go through the channels of officialdom to put some pressure on the Assassin Mansion, but he didn't expect the Assassin Mansion to drag on for a few days, and when he returned to the official document today, he told Jiang Tianhua that he didn't know that the people who transferred the yamen went to Ganzhou on a business trip, and there was no news about Zhong Xiankui and his party in Pingxi County......

"Call Qu Mingcheng to me immediately......" Jiang Tianhua roared angrily in the study.

Half an hour later, a man wearing a suit of armor with a cold face hurriedly came to Jiang Tianhua's study......

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On this night, the two patrol horse infantry battalions stationed in the transfer yamen outside Yinzhou City were completely noisy and boiling, and countless officers inspecting the horse infantry battalion began to shout loudly in the barracks, asking the people in the horse infantry battalion to gather......

Early the next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, Qu Mingcheng, the chief inspector of the Northwest Transfer Yamen, took two inspectors and more than 1,000 cavalry, fully armed, and rushed out of the Yinzhou camp with murderous spirits, and really went to Ganzhou......

On this day, it is already September 26......