"Son-in-law, what is the reason for coming to the house this time?"

Hearing this long-lost title, Li Yuanmei opened his eyes and smiled, "Naturally, I came to see my mother-in-law."

Xu Shi laughed and said, "That's it, it's okay for you to deceive other women, but don't use it to deceive me, this old woman. Although my eldest sister is my own daughter, I am not as easy to coax as her. Why don't you recruit them honestly?"

"It's true that I came to visit the second elder, but the son-in-law has another important matter, and I want to ask my father-in-law to help me." Li Yuan nodded, smiled mysteriously and said in a low voice, "Mother-in-law, we are going to make a fortune. This time I went back to Beijing to discuss this matter with my father-in-law."

Seeing that Li Yuan's face was full of excitement, Xu Shi showed a puzzled look, frowned, and said, "Make a fortune? How much money is it that deserves such a surprise from you? You are now the dignified governor of Langzhou, the envoy of a town, what do you want, is it possible that you have discovered gold and silver?"

Li Yuan whispered that he would find a salt well in the north of Lizhou City, and the news that there was a large amount of salt in it told the Xu family 1510. As Li Yuan expected, even the wife of the richest man in Huainan couldn't resist this thing, and the face of his mother-in-law Xu was suddenly shocked and happy, uncertain, and more importantly, the salt business was the old business of the Zhou Mansion.

"I see! It seems that the virtuous son-in-law is really favored by God, and he can still encounter such a great opportunity? So, you are here for this matter today, and you want to cooperate with my Zhou Mansion to transport this salt out for profit?"

"Yes, with a salt well, there is gold everywhere. How can this opportunity be missed? You and your father-in-law are members of our own family, and we are familiar with salt matters, how can this fertile water flow into the fields of outsiders?" Li Yuan nodded and smiled.

Xu Shi muttered: "According to what you said, it is indeed full of gold, but you also said just now, the salt well is dozens of miles north of Lizhou City, and it is only ten miles away from the border of Jingnan. Although I am a woman, I also happened to hear your father-in-law say that the relationship between my Datang and Jingnan is not very good nowadays, if there is a mistake during transportation, or the news leaks during the excavation, the consequences are unimaginable, you have to send heavy troops to guard it!

You must know that it is a salt well, which is related to the people's livelihood and the country, how precious it is, and it can be met but not sought. Back then, my ancestor of the Xu family relied on a few acres of salt land to gain a firm foothold in troubled times......

Sure enough, behind Zhou Zong's successful man, there is an equally capable virtuous helper! Li Yuan praised and said, "Mother-in-law is really insightful! The son-in-law had this concern, and had already sent troops to garrison him, and now he was building a fortified city in the land of salt wells to defend it.

Moreover, I met with His Majesty last night, and I have already proposed to him to send troops to Jingnan. Your Majesty agreed, and if the Privy Council did not object, it acceded to my request. If we can build a few cities from Jingnan and push the border a hundred miles to the north, then that salt well can be considered really safe."

"I don't know anything about fighting, but you are my famous general, and I believe you have your own decision. But when you go out, you have to be careful, and you have to think about your mother, wife and children at home. Alas, it occurred to me that you seem to have been at war ever since I met you, and not a day has passed." Xu sighed lightly.

"Mother-in-law, don't worry, I have never fought unprepared battles, and I will never do anything rash."

"You are the husband of the eldest sister, and your life is related to her lifelong happiness, how can I not worry? Besides, the eldest sister also mentioned in her letter to her family before, your Wuping Army has been through many wars last year, and I heard that there were a lot of casualties, how can it not be worrying? In this case, are you sure that you will take the initiative to provoke Jing Nan? It is true that the salt well is extremely precious, but you need to know that the sword and gun have no eyes......

Li Yuan sighed and replied seriously: "Mother-in-law, as Emperor E said, the Wuping Army did suffer a lot of losses before, but with His Majesty's grace to expand the army, it is now being re-recruited, and it is estimated that after I go back, it will be no problem for the soldiers and horses to be in order." Jingnan District is a small country, and I am personally in charge, but there is no need to worry about this, it is naturally certain.

As for why these salts are urgently needed, I won't tell you the truth, although there are still four or five million yuan in the treasury of my governor's mansion, it seems that the wealth is rivaled by the country, but it is far from enough to manage the land of the four wars in Chudi, there is Jingnan in the north and Han in the south, there will be wars at any time, and it is necessary to raise enough soldiers and horses to develop and update ordnance at any time, and these expenses are huge.

I'm Wu Pingyi

The town is not like the festival town in the south of the Yangtze River, which has a steady stream of money and food support from the imperial court, and if it does not have a stable source of money, it will be difficult to hold it for a long time in the future. Anyway, though I'm not very greedy for money, I'm going to get the salt out for a long time. I also hope that my mother-in-law and father-in-law will definitely help my son-in-law this time."

Xu nodded as if he didn't understand, and muttered, "Anyway, I need money!" Anyway, the old man never thought that you, the governor of Langzhou, would also worry about money, which made me really cry and laugh.

I don't care if you want to take the money to fight or whatever, in short, I can't make my eldest sister's life miserable. Hey, you said it earlier, don't you know what kind of family my Zhou Mansion is, I can give you hundreds of thousands of yuan casually now, why do you have to say so worried?"

Li Yuan shook his head and smiled, "Mother-in-law, do I eat soft rice? Hundreds of thousands of dollars to send me? What I want is millions, tens of millions, or even tens of millions of dollars, mother-in-law, will you give it? If you really want to give, I'll dismiss that idea."

Xu's eyes widened, and he frowned, "Are you kidding? All the property in my Zhou Mansion is only six or seven million yuan, and all of them are given to you, will my father-in-law and I drink the northwest wind?"

Li Yuan spread his hands and said, "Isn't this over? Since your mother-in-law said, "The Zhou Mansion is only six or seven million", you must also be thinking that the more money the better, so why not earn a few more million? This opportunity to make money is just around the corner, why should my mother-in-law hesitate?

When my father-in-law returns, if he can agree to bring the private salt from my salt well into the exclusive channel of the imperial court, and then give me a fee for transporting salt and making salt in advance, the matter will be done at once. After the son-in-law finishes conquering Jingnan, the salt will be transported out safely, and the money will roll in from here, and we will share endless wealth and wealth at both ends, which is a great thing."

Xu shook his head and smiled, "I'm not hesitating, who would be afraid of money biting their hands? Virtuous son-in-law, you don't actually have to say anything about sharing wealth at both ends, you are the eldest sister's wishful husband, half a son-in-law, we are a family, no matter how much money you earn in the future, we have no complaints if you take it all, as long as you can be good to the eldest sister......

However, the matter of the imperial court's monopoly channel still needs to be decided by your father-in-law, after all, he is the head of the household, and I can only blow the wind on the sidelines at most."

Li Yuan immediately got up, looked at the Xu family and said, "Even if it is blowing the wind in his ears, the little son-in-law is grateful. You must know that you are the love of your father-in-law's heart, and the weight is extremely heavy and unmatched, how can your father-in-law stand it when the wind blows down? The son-in-law thanked his mother-in-law first!"