Early the next morning, the four of them still went to the lively lobby to eat.

"I sent a letter from my family, asking us to buy more salt and go back, but the amount needed is too large, and the family doesn't buy enough, and I don't know if there is so much in Jiangling."

During the banquet, Gu Traitor deliberately said that he needed salt, and his voice was not loud or small, just enough for the people at the two tables around him to hear.

Gu Traitor couldn't be sure if there were any illicit salt dealers around, but this word had to be spread, otherwise no one would take the bait.

"When you have eaten, go back to your room, and the eldest will accompany your grandfather to the market later, and see how much salt the surrounding salt merchants have."

Gu Traitor glanced at Li Yin beside him and instructed what he was going to do today.

"Okay." The three of them nodded in agreement.

After eating, Gu traitor took Li Yin out of the door, and Gu Wanchao and Xiao Yu'an also found the shopkeeper to understand the situation in Jiangling City.

"Shopkeeper, yesterday we heard that the guys in the store were rampant bandits in the city, specializing in robbing merchants who came and went, but we have been here for two days, and there are many merchants who come and go, and we have never heard of such a thing."

Gu Wanchao sat at the counter with Xiao Yu'an, and told the shopkeeper sitting inside about his doubts.

"You don't know, those bandits, they only robbed salt merchants recently, and once the salt merchants who approved salt from the salt field left the city, those salt were immediately robbed, and now there are very few salt merchants in Gangneung City who have salt in their hands."

The treasurer informed the two of them about the situation in the city.

"How so?" Gu Wanchao couldn't believe what the shopkeeper said.

"Who knows, now those businessmen don't dare to approve salt even if they have salt in their hands, after all, they are doing a long lead, and they can't even get out of Jiangling City, let alone sell it."

Hearing this, the two glanced at each other, and Gu Wanchao turned his head to look at the shopkeeper again, "Doesn't the government know how to manage it?" By doing so, it is easy for them to make the salt merchants dominant, which is to disrupt the market. ”

"Tube? The prefect is a careless person, and his biggest deed is to get the officers and soldiers to guard the city gate. ”

When the shopkeeper talked about the Jiangling prefect, he was full of disdain.

"I still have something to do, the two little guest officers, I am out of company."

After speaking, the shopkeeper turned around and went downstairs, Gu Wanchao got up and closed the door.

"I really can't figure it out, what are they doing robbing official salt? Even if they are smugglers, they also have their own channels for making salt, and they don't need to collude with bandits to rob official salt, doesn't this increase the cost? ”

Gu Wanchao looked at Xiao Yu'an, who was contemplative, and she asked the questions in her heart.

"The salt merchants in Jiangling City can only sell salt in Jiangling City, and the salt of those who have a long lead can't be taken out, where can the people around here buy salt?"

Xiao Yuan did not answer Gu Wanchao's question directly, but asked Gu Wanchao rhetorically.

Hearing this, Gu Wanchao suddenly realized that she was still the lord of the deep boudoir who had never been out after all, and she had lived for more than ten years, and she still didn't understand these things.

"They actually played such a big game of chess...... Gu Wanchao muttered.

At noon, Gu Traitor and Li Yin, who went out to buy salt, returned to the restaurant.

"How's it going, what's going on out there?" Gu Wan stepped forward and asked.

"These salt merchants don't have much salt in their hands, they do a short lead, the amount of salt that can be approved is very small, and those who have a long lead in their hands are afraid of being robbed, so they don't dare to approve salt, and there is almost no official salt in the entire Jiangling City."

Gu Traitor sat at the table and told the two of them what they knew.

"In this situation, the salt industry in Gangneung City has almost been greatly affected, but the Gangneung prefect has done nothing. Let it develop, I guess that the current situation in the city is inseparable from him. ”

As soon as Gu Traitor's voice fell, Li Yin took the conversation, and when he said this, he was even indignant.

"We also asked the shopkeeper just now, and he said that the Jiangling prefect has always cared about these things, and the robbers around here only robbed the salt merchants who came and went, and this matter is really strange." Xiao Yu'an said.

"This Jiangling prefect Wucheng was born in the list, His Majesty took a fancy to his talent, so he went to Jiangling to become the prefect, this Jiangling is a big salt city, and it is Linjiang, and it is an important hub for salt transportation and water transportation.

Gu Traitor really couldn't believe that the current Jiangling City was actually like this, on the surface it looked very prosperous, but in private it had festered into this state.

If it weren't for their secret investigation, I'm afraid that these parents and officials in Gangneung City wouldn't know what kind of illusion they would have created.

"What do we do now?" Li Yin looked at Gu Traitor and asked about his next move.

"Now in Gangneung City, I'm afraid that there is not only the situation of selling illicit salt, but also the situation of the Gangneung prefect not doing it. I'm afraid it can't be separated from the salt that has been robbed, so we have to inquire about the salt transportation now and see what the situation of the salt on this waterway is. ”

Gu traitorous minister glanced at Xiao Yu'an, Xiao Yu'an understood, and knew that Gu traitorous minister was asking him to inquire about salt transportation now.

"Okay." Xiao Yu'an responded.

The four of them roughly analyzed the current situation in Jiangling City, and then went their own way according to Gu Traitor's arrangement. Only Gu Wanchao, she was a child, and Gu Traitor was really worried about her following, so he let her stay in the restaurant.

But Gu Wanchao is not the kind of person who will stay obediently, since she came to Jiangling and participated in this matter, then she has to go to investigate together.

After Gu traitor left, Gu Wanchao pestered Xiao Yu'an and asked him to bring himself, Xiao Yu'an was really unbearable, so he took her with him.

The two of them first went to the Caoyun Wharf, which was managed by the people on both sides of the strait.

Xiao Yu'an and the two got in front of a few slim people.

"Big brother, we are merchants from the capital, we followed our grandfather to Gangneung to do business, I heard that there are robbers on the land road in Gangneung, so I want to go back by water, I want to ask if we go back by water, won't it be unsafe?" Xiao Yu'an asked the slender man.

Hearing this, a few slender people glanced back at the two of them, and saw that they were two little dolls, so they ignored them.