In the afternoon of the same day, Ma Dechang's mother taught Ma Dechang that being a salt merchant has the advantages of being a salt merchant, and being an official has the advantages of being an official, and you can't have both.

Ma Dechang immediately poured his bowl of salt, which represented the salt merchant, and vowed to be a good official and never be a salt merchant again.

The next day, Ma Dechang went to the Yamen of the Salt Transport Envoy to take up his post.

At this time, the salt merchants were like flies that had seen rotten eggs, and they all pounced on Ma Dechang, especially the original Ma Dechang's subordinates, who suddenly had the backbone.

As a result, they didn't expect that Ma Dechang was an egg without sewing this time, and he didn't give them a bite at all.

At this time, the salt merchants, especially those who had been cut off the salt, completely stopped.

When they met two officials who were not greedy, they were the two who had the final say, which was their luck and their misfortune.

From then on, they were trying to make crooked and evil, and they didn't dare to do it easily, it was too easy to get into trouble.

But as long as they do business in a proper manner and become salt merchants, this is a good thing, at least no one will take advantage of them.

After these salt merchants went back, they thought about it, and decided that it would be better to do business well, and they would not think about the crooked ways for now.

A few more days passed in the blink of an eye.

The Emperor's will has come again.

After He Yan saw it, he called Ma Dechang, Wang Chaozong, and Bao Yi'an over.

When they all arrived, He Yan came out of the back office, and the three of them stood up and saluted, "Hello, my lord." ”

He Yan said: "It's all your own people, so you don't need to be polite." ”

The three of them sat down as soon as they heard this.

He Yan said: "The emperor has just sent a will, there are two in total, one good and one bad, I will say good first." ”

"The emperor has canceled the citation."

When the three of them heard this, they all stood up happily.

Bao Yi'an, who had the fastest mouth, was the first to smile happily: "Great, this is a great thing." ”

Ma Dechang smiled: "This is really a good thing." ”

Wang Chaozong smiled: "That's right, this solves a big drawback." ”

He Yan said: "The price of salt is so high now, because all kinds of expenses are in it, so the price of salt is high." ”

"Now that the introduction of salt has been cancelled, the price of salt should naturally be reduced accordingly."

The three of them stood up together and said, "Lord's statement." ”

He Yan pressed his hand, motioned to sit down, and said, "Let's talk about the bad ones after talking about what we see." ”

"The bad thing is that the emperor asked you salt merchants to return all the silver that was misappropriated from the warehouse, do you have any problems?"

When the three of them heard this, they were still full of smiles a second ago, and they all turned into shock.

It was Bao Yi'an who was the first to say: "No, Lord Ah, we don't have money now!" ”

Wang Chaozong said: "My lord, you also know that this year's salt industry has just begun, and the money in our hands is used to collect salt, and there is indeed no money." ”

"What's more, this is still a moment, let us take out a few million taels, we are indeed powerless."

"Please also ask your Excellency to explain the details to the emperor for us, even if we pay more interest after the silver returns in the autumn...... I think the emperor's holy candle will definitely grant it. ”

He Yan said: "I also have this idea. ”

"But whether it can be done or not, I'm really not sure."

"That's why I just said that the price of salt was lowered, and I didn't talk about it halfway, which is also the reason."

Ma Dechang stood up and said, "My lord, let me say a few words. ”

He Yan said: "Say." ”

Ma Dechang said: "My lord, Lao Wang, Lao Bao." ”

"Thanks to the emperor's grace, I am the salt official."

"People say that officials and businessmen are responsible for their own responsibilities, and please let the adults call the shots and hand over the shore and salt introduction of my Guangtai Salt to the next chief merchant."

"So it stands to reason that the imperial court is now issuing an edict urging the deficit, and it has nothing to do with me."

"I knew that when I was wide, I would change my face." Old Bao was angry and immediately said unhappily, and after speaking, he picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea.

Ma Dechang said: "Old Bao, listen to me." ”

"Although I am no longer a general merchant, salt is related to me, and Yangzhou is related to me."

"What's more, I'm now a salt transport envoy, and at this critical juncture, I, Ma, can't stay out of the matter."

"For so many years, I, Ma, as a general merchant, know the difficulties of salt affairs."

"The deficit of the transportation warehouse over the years has nothing to do with the salt merchants, and forcing the salt merchants to take the silver at this time is unreasonable."

Wang Chaozong was moved to cry when he heard this, and saluted Ma Dechang: "Brother Ma, no, Master Ma." ”

Ma Dechang helped Wang Chaozong and said: "Chaozong, you have picked the beam for so many years, you can leave this opportunity to me." ”

He Yan said: "Then you mean, you are also going to be on the fold?" ”

Ma Dechang said: "That's right. ”

He Yan said: "Well, I won't persuade you, you actually said it, oh yo I think you should also know how much risk it will be if your excerpt is really written according to what you just said." ”

"In this way, let's each have an excerpt and see if we can postpone it."

Ma Dechang said: "Okay." ”

He Yan said: "Disperse." "Eight One Chinese Net

Then, after the three of them left, He Yan began to write excerpts.

The excerpt shows that now is the time to collect salt, and the salt merchants are indeed out of money, and they ask the emperor to extend the deadline until after the autumn, and the salt merchants are willing to pay interest.

And Ma Dechang did write an excerpt after he went back, risking his life to admonish.

As for how he wrote it, He Yan doesn't know.

And the emperor is also thinking about it now, because he is worried about destroying the salt business, so he has not yet made up his mind about how to rectify the small salt officials in the Lianghuai area.

At this time, He Shen appeared, and he proposed to Qianlong to open a levy for criminal money to punish those corrupt officials.

Qianlong thought about it after hearing this, and then agreed.

When He Yan's excerpt returned, Qianlong agreed to the salt merchant's request, and at the same time asked He Yan to discuss the guilt silver.

He Yan doesn't care whether this discussion is good or bad, and whether it is good or bad is not something he can manage, since he has already made an order, then he will do this.

He Yan directly found Ma Dechang and asked him to pass on the instructions to the subordinates, and consciously come to discuss the guilt silver, otherwise he would start to arrest people.

Ma Dechang went to do it after receiving the order.

When the people below received the message, they were all overjoyed, and they could be unscrupulously greedy in the future.

After raising enough money as fast as they could, according to what they had committed, they excitedly came to He Yan's Yanyuan Yamen to pay the fine.

At this time, the yamen of the salt courtyard became lively all of a sudden, and Master He was tired.

He Yan smiled at Master He, who was taking a break for a while: "Stick to it, it is estimated that it won't be long before it passes." ”

Master He said with a bitter face: "Now it's really big fish and small fish that have jumped out." ”

"I insist, my hard work is deserved."

"Who told me to take your money?"

Then after Master He had rested enough, he went to the front to collect the cash and settle the accounts.

"Brother Shen!"

"Hmm!"

Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.

But it doesn't matter who it is.

There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.

on this.

Shen Changqing is used to it.

Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.

Arguably.

In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.

When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.

The Demon Suppression Division is huge.

The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.

Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.

Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.

Have memories of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.

Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.

Access to the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.

The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.