Chapter 54: The Dispute Between Officials and Privates
Ruan Fatzi listened to Boss Lin's words, coughed lightly twice, and glanced at Han Feng with slanted eyes, as if he was waiting for Han Feng to take the initiative to ask. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Han Feng knew what he meant, and if he had a request for the other party in the future, it would be better to sell more favors at this time, so he smiled and asked: "Brother Ruan, if you have something to say, just say it directly, in the future, if the younger brother is not familiar with the place in Jiangnan, he will count on the elder brother to help him more." ”
The lively old friend encounter suddenly turned into a naked you buy me sell, Ruan Fat Man coughed twice, and then spoke: "I'm really sorry, I'm going to trouble my brother again." The last time those Orions in Ape Cry Town lied to me, I pushed them away after a few clicks when I saw you, and just now I jumped directly from the boat into my boat...... Presumably, the brother's kung fu is excellent. ”
Hearing this, Han Feng suddenly understood. He laughed and said, "It's not good, but if you deal with a few people, you can barely make do." ”
Boss Lin said loudly: "Okay! That being the case, this is the only thing that is going on with Brother Han." ”
Boss Hu, who hadn't spoken much, also helped at this time: "Yes." Brother Han is really refreshing, he deserves to come from the north!"
Han Feng saw that the drums poured out all of a sudden, and he felt a chill in his heart, but his mouth was still polite: "Brother Ruan, I am a vulgar martial artist, I don't know anything else, I don't know what Brother wants me to do?"
Ruan Fatzi said: "If I don't explain the cause and effect to you, I won't worry." Anyway, it's not in a hurry, you eat and drink first, and let's talk slowly. Come, pour wine for Han Ye!" This last sentence was naturally addressed to the women on both sides.
A pair of plain hands poured clear osmanthus wine to Han Feng's lips, and Han Feng saw that it was the prostitute who was angrily scolded by Ruan Fatzi just now. She is still childish, she looks like she is only fourteen or fifteen years old, and she is clearly just a child. The tips of her fingers were coated with Kodan, and the fingertips were more and more red next to the celadon, and the celadon was clear. He saw that the tears in her eyes had not subsided, and her hands were trembling, knowing that she must be extremely scared at this time, just afraid that he would be like that Ruan fat man, and he would beat and scold her if he was a little unhappy. Han Feng's heart softened, and he whispered "thank you", and instead of taking the wine, he leaned forward and took a sip of wine from the girl's hand.
The girl didn't expect him to behave so lightly, her hands trembled, and half a glass of wine spilled on his chest.
"Are you going to die?" Before Han Feng could speak, Ruan Fatzi stopped doing it first, and directly slapped the girl's head from behind.
The girl was beaten, her body shook forward, and two lines of tears flowed from her eyes. However, she didn't dare to cry, but apologized again and again in a low voice, and wiped Han Feng's chest with a handkerchief.
Han Feng couldn't see a man bullying a woman the most, but he couldn't turn his face with Ruan Fatzi at this time. He saw that the girl was crying with pear blossoms and rain and her face full of grievances, and hurriedly said softly: "It's okay, it's okay, it's just wine." Isn't it good for me to drink the bento on my clothes?
When he said this, the men next to him looked at him with strange eyes. The fat man Ruan was slightly stunned, and then smiled: "Brother Han knows how to feel sorry for people. If you like her, ask her to accompany you today. The people on this ship are all Qingqi, and the elder brother doesn't have to shy away from anything. After a pause, he pushed the girl again: "Are you deaf, what's your name, report it to Han Ye yourself." ”
"Little Girl...... The little woman is gentle. The girl said in a trembling voice, with a cry in her voice.
Han Feng was afraid that Ruan Fat would beat her again, so he hurriedly pulled her to sit next to him. He didn't have the heart to think about it for a while, he just wanted to promise this girl to follow him, and Ruan Fat would naturally not lose his temper with her again. However, when the men saw that he was moving quickly, they all looked at each other and smiled, secretly thinking that this young man would be easy to deal with when he saw it.
After three rounds of drinking, the women left their seats, and the men finally returned to the topic.
Ruan Fatzi said: "Brother Han, you know that our salt merchants are divided into two kinds, one is official salt and the other is private salt. ”
Han Feng nodded: "I know." ”
He had heard Bai Tong say before that there were three things in Daiguo that were not allowed to be controlled by the people.
At the top of the list, of course, is money. Gold, silver, and copper mines are owned by the imperial capital, and the management and mining are directly sent by the imperial capital to be responsible, and each mine is also guarded by soldiers, even the king of Yue has no right to inquire about the "money and mines" within his jurisdiction, and if new mineral deposits are found in various places, they must be reported to the imperial capital as soon as possible, and if there is any delay, they will be punished according to the conspiracy.
In second place is the weapon, that is, iron ore. However, iron ore is more lenient in management than the three types of deposits above. Taking Pingsha City and Lidu area managed by Xinghou as an example, Xing Hou is responsible for the management of the iron ore in Lidu, and the imperial capital sends people to supervise it every month, but the inspector does not need to go to Lidu, as long as he stays in Pingsha City to check the quantity and quality of iron ore. In addition, since Pingsha City was far away from the frontier, Xinghou was responsible for defending the Rongqian people from going south, so even if he mined some more iron ore to make his own weapons, as long as it did not exceed the routine of the army, then the supervision envoy would turn a blind eye and treat it as invisible. In the eyes of the upper echelons of the country, in the final analysis, the blade must be used by people, and I have control over your money, what money do you use to recruit troops and buy horses?
In third place is salt. Salt is closely related to diet, a meal without salt can be improvised, but a meal without salt is ...... Within a year, the whole family will become a fistula ghost. From the Emperor Yue to the people of Limin, no one can leave the salt, so they have to take care of it, and they can't ignore it. However, the salt is not as good as the previous gold, silver, iron and copper, there is sea salt on the seaside, there is well salt in the well water, and it is said that there is a salt lake in the place where the people live, and it is difficult for the government to prevent others from interfering, so there are salt merchants.
When the dignitaries were still tightening their belts to buy Ming Ape to get by, the salt merchants could easily spend thousands of dollars. The profits were so lucrative that salt merchants often had inextricable relationships with local officials...... Of course, this refers to mostly official salt. The price of official salt is uniform, neither high nor low; the taste is uniform, salty and light mixed with fresh seaside gravel; the sales channels are unified, there are only 10 in one city; and the quantity is also uniform, and the amount is pitiful. As a result, private salt came into being.
The repeated prohibition of illegal salt is the most troublesome thing for the government.
And this Ruan Fat Man, Boss Lin, Boss Fang and Boss Hu dare to swagger and pack flower boats on the river, dare to talk in front of a group of girls, and they are wide and fat, so they are naturally official salt, not those smugglers who get up early and are greedy and careful to be caught.
Ruan Fatzi said, "Hmm." Recently, however, there have been more smugglers in the south of the Yangtze River, and the king of Yue has been ordered by the emperor to give a deadline of one month, and we must arrest the smugglers. ”
Han Feng said: "Arresting people is a matter for the government, you are businessmen, can you still punish you if you can't catch people?"
Ruan Fatzi smiled bitterly: "Where is the official mansion where you can reason? If you want to arrest it, you will arrest it." As mentioned above, if we can't catch the smuggler of salt, we will have to tie up a few of us as smuggler of salt. Anyway, there are many people who want to be official salt merchants, so who can do it?"
Han Feng said, "Then what does this have to do with the Jiang Xing Gang?"
Ruan Fatzi said: "Those low-grade low-grade lamps are not fuel-efficient lamps now. Hmph, they sell salt on weekdays, and when they are caught, they go to the beach to be pirates, and they go to the river to be boat bandits. ”
Han Feng suddenly said: "The Jiang Xing Gang is a smuggler of salt? Now that you know, you can directly ask the government to send troops to suppress them!"
This time, Ruan Fatzi didn't reply, and Boss Lin had already laughed sneeringly: "Young people are young people, thinking about things is so simple." Jiang Xingbang is just the name below, Ye Changzhou's real identity is the cousin of the fourth princess of King Yue, you don't have real evidence, move him to try?"
Han Feng was stunned and asked, "He is related to King Yue, can't he be a salt merchant of official salt?"
Boss Lin said: "The official salt earns less, and the private salt earns more. Maybe King Yue still intervened in it, what can we little people say?"
King Yue intervened in it! That is to say, King Yue took advantage of this to make money!
Han Feng's heart trembled suddenly, and at the same time, Bai Tong's voice rang out: "I'm right, he really has the opposite intention!Haha, haha, Han Feng, we really came to the right place this time!"
Boss Lin said again: "So Brother Han, do you know what we are worried about? This matter can't be talked about on the surface, and we can't help but talk about it, now I just don't know how to hurt my muscles and bones, and I take care of the face of the court, and I don't make King Yue ugly." ”
Han Feng said, "I understand. You want me to go to the Jiangxing Gang, hit them in the gang, and find out a few people who are doing things underneath. ”
The four of them looked at each other and smiled, and Ruan Fatzi said: "After the matter is completed, no matter what the brother wants to do, we will have ten thousand dollars to offer." Even if you say you want to be a salt merchant, we have a way for you to add it. ”
Han Feng smiled, picked up a glass of wine and drank it all, and didn't speak again: Who wouldn't say cheap words. When he really finished the matter, these four people allowed him to kill people and kill him, or as a scapegoat to the king of Yue to vent his anger. However, if the Jiang Xing Gang really has something to do with King Yue, no matter how dangerous it is, he wants this errand.
Having made up his mind, he glanced at the four people with his eyes like lightning, and said loudly: "Okay, that's it!"
"That's it...... It's decided?" Ruan Fatzi only suspected that he had heard it wrong, but he didn't expect that he was so lucky, and he handed over half of the heavy responsibility on his shoulders in the blink of an eye. The other three also laughed, and Boss Lin laughed the most, his body shook like chaff, and it was difficult for the girl next to him to grit her teeth to support him.
And in Han Feng's mind, Bai Tong praised it without words: "Okay, good, good, thoughtful, and agreeable, this is what I taught, and you are also half of the descendants of our Ajin clan!"
Han Feng sneered in his heart: "Don't be too happy, none of us know the inside story of the Jiang Xing Gang, maybe I will rob the house when the time comes, and I will have to put my head on the tip of the knife every day." ”
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