"How can you be so clear!" Leng Zhuo looked at Wei Zhilan, although most people knew many things, but Wei Zhilan seemed to know too much about the salt, at least Leng Zhuo thought so.

Wei Zhilan looked calm and surprised, but she glanced at Leng Zhuo with all kinds of amorous feelings, and said: ,, A large and lucrative industry like salt and iron has always been controlled by a few companies, and the salt of Chicheng, our Wei family is also mixed in, and it is one of the relatively large items in the family!", Oh, I see!" Chatting all the way, Leng Zhuo finally understood the general situation clearly.

There are only three main salt productions in the empire, salt lakes, sea salt and well salt, salt lakes are mainly distributed in Yongzhou and Liangzhou, and there are not many natural good salt lakes, most of them are sour and coarse salt, the quality is not good, and the mountains of the two places are stacked, the road to the outside world is not smooth, the cost of transportation is too high, and it is far more competitive than Shanghai salt, so it only maintains the local supply, and there are few takeaways.

The distribution of well salt is mainly in Shuzhou, the west of Chuzhou, and the west of Youzhou, and the quality of well salt is very good, but the output is not high, and the investment in the early stage of mining is too large, so the output of salt is supplied to the place at most.

Seventy percent of the empire's edible salt are produced from the coast, Yunzhou's reed salt, Qingzhou's Huai salt, Yangzhou's Tang salt can be said to be famous in the world, marketing Yun, Qing, Yang, Chu, Zhong, You's six major states, and trade North Hu Nanman, and these three major salt producing areas belong to Huai Salt The geographical location is the most superior, the area is the largest, the output is the most, and the quality is also superior, and the salt here occupies half of the salt in the world.

Squeaked, the carriage suddenly stopped again, "Master Hou, you're about to enter Yancheng!"

"Mouth me!" Leng Zhuo sat up and listened to Wei Zhilan say so much, but Leng Zhuo wanted to see the demeanor of this salt capital Chicheng, so he pushed the car door and got out of the car.

Standing on the ground where the ice and snow were frozen tightly, stepping on the snow, and looking at Yancheng a hundred meters away, Leng Zhuo also gasped. Air conditioning, a good salt capital, a good snow city.

As Wei Zhilan said, the ice-covered Chicheng is actually like a snow-covered city, as far as the eye can see, a piece of snow white, in the sun, the snow-white city bricks reflect the sunlight, shaking people's eyes, stretching out for more than ten miles, magnificent.

This city wall is made of salt bricks, its texture is not even worse than the rock, facing the wind and rain, standing for hundreds of years, it can be said that this is the greatest pride and pride of this salt capital.

Outside Yancheng, there has been a stretch of camp lined up, this is one of the three major legions in Qingzhou, the camp of the Huaishui Legion, in view of the location of Chicheng, and the importance of this city, the five masters under the jurisdiction of the Huaishui Legion have reached two and a half, plus the salt merchant guards in the city, the city guards and soldiers, there are almost 70,000 people.

It may be that the Tang army is infested nearby, so the whole city of Chicheng has entered a state of alert for battle, and the investigation is very strict all the way, and the people who want to enter and exit the city have already lined up a long line, but fortunately, Leng Zhuo walks the nobles, and it is okay to take the special road of the nobles, but there is no need to queue up.

After a simple inspection, after confirming that it was correct, Leng Zhuo and his party were released, of course, Leng Zhuo was not less watched on horseback, the twenty-year-old imperial marquis, no one believed it, but there was such a person in front of him.

After the city gate tower of Chicheng, the first thing to see was not the prosperity on both sides, the shops lined up, but the piles of mountains, and indeed the same large salt piles, Leng Zhuo only saw the tip of the iceberg outside the city, and was a little surprised what it was, but at this moment, it was now that the salt mountains actually stretched out three or five forces away.

"Nothing surprising! This is the largest distribution center of Huaiyan, not only the city wall is built with salt, but even many houses are built with salt, this ground is also salt, and the salt mountain you see is a scene here, in fact, in previous years, there would not be so many salt mountains here, so tall, but the salt ban has been implemented in the past two months, so there will be so much salt piled up!" "Why did you come out, be careful of catching a cold!" Leng Zhuo looked at Wei Zhilan wearing a fox fur and riding on a horse, and said.

"It's okay, the real urban area of Chicheng is not large, there is only a small inner city, and you can see it further on, but the people who can live in Yancheng are the top two salt merchants in the empire, and their families are huge, and they are so rich!" Needless to say, Leng Zhuo could guess this, I used to watch movies, but I often said how rich and rich the salt merchants were, no way, people can't go without eating salt for three days, this thing is a necessity of life, no matter how expensive it is, you have to buy it.

Stepping on and stepping, Leng Zhuo's side had not yet walked half the distance, and dozens of horses were obliquely inserted from the salt mountain in front of him, and what surprised Leng Zhuo was that these people were not riding horses, but a kind of lizard.

Salt lizard, a kind of demonic beast that lives in the salt pool, is covered with a layer of salt armor all over the body, and belongs to a very small species of demonic beasts, but in Chicheng, there is a rock lizard demonic beast cavalry regiment with a number of no less than eight hundred, and this demonic beast cavalry regiment is not subordinate to the government, but belongs to the major salt merchants.

For a person to turn over from the salt lizard, indeed a young man less than thirty years old, far away, he clenched his fists to this side, and shouted loudly: "Ahead is the county lord of Yilan County, the Mansion of the Patriotic Prince!"

The eldest daughter of the princess of the Guogong Mansion will be canonized as the county lord when she is an adult, the daughter of the prince is the county lord, and the emperor's daughter is the princess.

"How can there be people you know!" Leng Zhuo looked at the person waving towards this side, turned his head, and asked.

Wei Zhilan smiled and said, "Didn't I tell you, the Wei family also has shares here, and they have been here once or twice, maybe they knew the news in advance, so they came to pick it up!"

"Brother Tian, why did you come out in person? ”

Wei Zhilan stepped forward with Leng Zhuo and called affectionately, but Leng Zhuo was a little surprised.

"Hehe, the county lord of Yilan is here, and it is rude not to go out of the city for ten miles to greet him!"

...... Ahem!" Leng Zhuo coughed twice and said, "Zhilan has now married into my Leng family, and it seems a little out of place to call the county lord!"

"This should be Zhilan, your husband, the Marquis of Ping'an!" Tianyan looked at Leng Zhuo twice, without the slightest intention of leaning over.

It's crazy, Leng Zhuo was about to teach this guy well, Wei Zhilan had already grabbed Leng Zhuo's arm and said, "Brother Tian, let's go into the city and talk about it, my little sister is freezing to death!"

"Hehe, look at me, patronize and talk, go, let's go to the city and talk about it! Everything in the city has been arranged, but these native soldiers can't enter the city, and I have already found a piece of land outside!"

Leng Zhuo was furious after hearing this, but was stopped by Wei Zhilan again, and said, "Don't talk yet, I'll explain to you later!" "Well, let's do it!"

"Why did you stop me just now!" Leng Zhuo said angrily.

Wei Zhilan sighed and said, "You, your temper also depends on the place, you think this is the Crying Blood Valley Net, you can toss it, this is the salt capital!"

"What's going on here!"

"I can't tell you clearly for a while, as long as you know that the four families of Yandu are not weaker than the four great families, and the existence of the four giants, it would be good! Tian, Mu, Cheng, Yi, the Heavenly Family ranks first, unless there is a wealth that rivals the wealth of the country, the ancestor of the Heavenly Family is one of the few Holy Spirit Masters in the empire, just rush here, you have to be polite!"

"Holy Spirit Master, Heavenly Family?" No wonder this person is so coaxing, in the Imperial Holy Spirit Master is a more secular existence, a family has a Holy Spirit level powerhouse, which means that this family can go sideways, as long as it is not treason, who does not give some face.

Count it out, Leng Zhuo, the marquis, is really awesome in front of others, the Holy Spirit Master is amazing! The old head of this young backyard who cuts flowers is the Holy Spirit Master.

"Okay, don't look indignant, let's settle down in this heavenly city, rest for a day and leave!" Wei Zhilan knew that this husband had to be coaxed, otherwise he would be forced to pull back three cows.

"Don't worry, Ben Shao doesn't have that open-mindedness, I'll go outside to see what happened yesterday over there, what a broken place, not even an inn, I knew that it was far away, and finding a small city was better than this!" Leng Zhuo stood up and said.

Outside the inner city, several connected salt mountains have been hollowed out into places like large stations, which are only found in this pond city, and the inner city does not even have shops, and some only have a large mansion, which is the rich salt merchants of the empire, and it is said that the salt merchants who can enter and settle here have at least five million family assets.

I really wanted to rob him, but only to think about it.

"Mingchen, do you have any understanding of the four major salt merchants in the salt capital, and asked Kong Mingchen, after all, by Leng Zhuo's side, the most proficient in various affairs of the empire belongs to Kong Mingchen.

"What can the young master say about the four families of Tian, Mu, Cheng, and Yi?"

"Yes!"

Kong Mingchen pondered for a while, and said: "These four families want to talk about it, but it is a little long, the heavenly family, it is said that they were born in the green forest, they were the Huaishui Salt Gang during the Tang Dynasty, and the Huaishui Thirty-six Rivers were the chief scoop handle, even now, the Heavenly Family also controls the salt gang up and down the Huaishui River according to the 1st, it is said that the salt gang has 100,000 children, entrenched in the rivers of the Huaishui Basin, and the power is amazing, especially the Tianjia produced a holy spirit-level master a hundred years ago to assist the Shenwu Emperor to quell the rebellion, and made great efforts, so he was named Chi Chengbo for generations. ”

"Damn, so awesome?" The 100,000 Salt Gang is indeed much stronger than him, the Hou Ye, and he does not have the capital to bird him: "What about the other three!

"That's not, the Mu family is the founding father, the ancestral home is Qubu Mansion, so it is considered a land snake, but the Cheng family started as a businessman, it is said that it is smuggled and smuggled salt, quite some business methods, a hundred years ago, when the world was in turmoil, bet on the right treasure, this is up, as for the Yi family, although not out of the green forest road, but it is from the sea, was a group of big water thieves in the open sea, and later voted for the Shenwu Emperor, the Shenwu Emperor can defeat the king of Qingzhou Dongling, this person is the key, the Yi family is still in control of the Huaishui Water Army, and the power is not small!"

"It's all ruthless!" Leng Zhuo gasped. Air conditioning, this salt capital is really worthy of being able to compete with the four giants.