Chapter 18 Win-win is king

Yu Feng walked slowly along the beach, and the slightly fishy sea breeze on the seashore smelled in his nose, but it smelled so good. In a few months, to be able to achieve such a big situation, if you are an ordinary person, you should be content a long time ago, but Yu Feng is not an ordinary person, in his heart, he knows that he is far from enough. In this era, there is not much time left for him.

I didn't dare to think about drying salt before, but now I should be able to think about it! He thought as he walked, but this salt, with Wu Yanran and his laymen, it must not work, this is not as good as boiling salt, it is a person who can do it, it is said that on the side of the salt field, there are also hundreds of acres of salt fields, and there are special stove households in it to take care of these salt fields, which are professional salt makers in this era. There are civilian households in the Ming Dynasty, military households in the army, craftsmen and craftsmen, and stove households in this salt farm. It's just that these stove households are all dependent on the salt farm to survive, so they have to use some method to dig some people from the salt field.

Yu Feng's strength has swelled hard, and now he doesn't dare to directly hit the idea of Lingshan Salt Farm, in Shandong, it is just a few large salt farms, in the Yamen of Shandong Salt Transportation Division, but they are all registered, the production of this salt farm, not to mention the salt that supports the people in Shandong, but also a source of wealth for the large and small bureaucrats in this Shandong officialdom, if he dares to risk the world's disapproval and move the money bags of these bureaucrats, he doesn't have to think about it, even if the rebels make too much trouble, These bureaucrats will also mobilize elite troops to quell their own "bandits" in the future.

"Sir, sir!" In the distance, a figure stumbled over, screaming in the sea breeze.

Yu Feng stopped and looked fixedly, but it was Liu Xiaoliu, who had gradually become his confidant recently, seeing that he was so unstable, Yu Feng sighed in his heart, this is still a half-old child, and his temperament is still a little off.

"Sir, someone from the Yamen of the Inspection Division has arrived, and Lord Zongqi has ordered me to call you back to discuss matters!"

"Someone from the Yamen of the Inspection Division? How many people came? Yu Feng thought that it was the Yamen of the Lingshan Inspection Division who finally couldn't hold it back, and the gathering officials came to the door, and he couldn't help but jump in his heart.

This Lingshan Inspection Division is a patrol yamen under the Shandong Salt Transportation Division, and this salt transportation inspection is just a small official of eight grades, but the official is small, and the real power is not small. The officials of the Ming Dynasty did not go to the countryside, and the official officials appointed by the government also went to the administrative units at the county level. In an ordinary medium-sized county, it is already very good to be able to raise thirty or twenty people, but this Lingshan patrol has more than two hundred salt dings, and the oil and water of this position are so rich, needless to say.

"Just a master, with a few servants!" Liu Xiaoliu wiped the sweat on his head, "I said that I wanted to discuss important matters with Mr." ”

Only a few people? Yu Fengden was relieved, whether it was saluting first and then soldiers or something, in short, it was definitely not to come to trouble immediately.

Just as Liu Xiaoliu and Yu Feng were talking, at Zhao Zongqi's house, Liu Chengbin was holding a teacup, gossiping with Zhao Zongqi, and his two little eyes were looking around.

This is the old lair of the salt lord boss? That's too basic, isn't it? In addition to the larger place, there is an additional martial arts arena in the courtyard, what is the difference between it and ordinary seaside people, and I don't know where this salt lord boss has used so much money to make so much money?

"Who is the Lord of the Inspection Division!?" The sound of the afterglow sounded outside the courtyard, and Liu Chengbin put down the teacup and stood up suddenly.

"Liu Chengbin, the writer of the Inspection Division, has seen Yu Xianggong!"

It is said that this Liu Chengbin is also from Xiucai, and when he sees another Xiucai, there is no need to be so polite, but this Xiucai and Xiucai are really incomparable, if he has such a few hundred men who can fight, it is another story.

"Master Liu is polite!" Yu Feng arched his hand and looked at the master in front of him with a smile. This Master Liu is also in line with the image of the master in his mind, with a pair of small eyes and a wisp of mouse whiskers, he looks a little shrewd, a little philistine, but with a bit of the temperament of a scholar.

The two sides sat down, and Yu Feng asked Liu Chengbin's intention. Liu Chengbin didn't hide it, and directly ordered the servant to take the gift list, daring to love, this Liu Chengbin This trip is a special gift.

The gift is quite rich, a hundred taels of fine snowflake silver ingots, ten gold ingots, ten silk and satin of various colors, considering that Yu Feng is a scholar, there is actually a set of valuable four treasures of the study.

Yu Feng glanced at the gift list, put it aside, and stared at Liu Chengbin in front of him, but did not speak. The things in front of him made him feel a little weird, to say, it is normal for the inspection department to come to the door, but what is this to say that he gave himself a gift dryly.

"Yu Xianggong cares about the township and benefits one party, and the inspection lord also admires it very much, which is a little bit of caution from the inspection lord!" Liu Chengbin looked at Yu Feng's expression, and saw that he didn't have a displeased expression, so he said boldly.

This master's mouth really can't be believed, it is obviously a crowd to sell illicit salt, but when it comes to his mouth, it seems to have become a great thing. Yu Feng smiled secretly, but said in his mouth: "Don't dare, don't dare!" ”

"The patrol lord loves to make friends with people like Yu Xianggong the most, and I hope to walk around more with Yu Xianggong in the future!"

After clarifying his intentions, Liu Chengbin's next words were not nutritious, and he chatted a few words, but he didn't care about Yu Feng's retention on the surface, and left in a hurry with the servants.

Sent Liu Chengbin away, Yu Feng returned to the house, at this time, he still didn't figure out what the other party meant, befriending himself? There is this possibility, but this inspection department befriended the salt lord and gave a gift to the salt owl, which is a bit of putting the cart before the horse!

Zhao Zongqi walked out of the back hall, saw Yu Feng in a daze, and coughed lightly.

"Oh, father-in-law!" Yu Feng suddenly woke up, and when he saw his father-in-law coming to him, he couldn't help but secretly scolded himself for being confused, there is a ready-made thinker around him who knows what these lower-level officialdom are doing, and he is here alone.

"What does it mean that this inspection of the Inspection Division sent me these things?"

"The inspection of this inspection department, surnamed cloth, is called cloth ruler, but everyone calls this cloth ruler cloth three feet, and it means that only people send money to him, and today the virtuous son-in-law can make him bleed so much, which is also an outlier!" Zhao Zongqi said with a smile.

"I just don't know these things, whether it's hot or not!" Yu Feng sighed.

"What's hot, it's nothing more than a pier and hope to get rich together!" Zhao Zongqi snorted, he was much more sophisticated than Yu Feng about these calculating things, and seeing that Yu Feng was still a little ignorant, he explained to him carefully.

"Right now, we have long hair, and we control all the salt roads near the Lingshan Salt Farm, which is equivalent to cutting off most of the financial roads of the Inspection Division. This inspection department can't get the money to honor the officials, I'm afraid, this son may not be stable. In the past, if there was such a thing, this cloth inspection would have gathered officials to kill it, and now it is estimated that he does not have the ability, and he will come to show goodwill, but let us leave him some money, I haven't heard that the master said, do you want to move around more in the future? This is what it means to make you a master and see each other in the future. ”

"But he's an inspector, an eight-grade official!"

"What about the eight-rank official, you and I are still eight-pin, if you are not in this position, he is nothing!" Zhao Zongqi said disdainfully.

I see, Yu Feng smiled knowingly, during this time, he was a little more domineering, but this is also understandable, the inspection department and the smuggling salt dealers, that is a natural rival, so that they will not think about the other party, and worry about whether the other party can make money, but now, since the inspection department has expressed its goodwill, he can relax a little, and even, he can use the goodwill of the other party to expand his business a little, after all, this Lingshan Inspection Division is not just in charge of Lingshan.

He told Zhao Zongqi what he thought in his heart, and Zhao Zongqi immediately objected.

"This inspection department is originally a wolf that can't be fed, today can bow to us, because we are powerful, if one day, he thinks that he can be bullied on our heads again, we use the salt road opened up by the inspection department, isn't it for others to make wedding clothes! Rather than this, if you don't go to the virtuous son-in-law to seek this position, when the time comes, you say that it is official salt is official salt, and you say that it is private salt is private salt, is there still anyone who opposes it! ”

"I'm going to take this position?" Yu Feng's heart moved, if he can really get this position, not only will these long-haired people under him have a legitimate background, but also have unimaginable benefits for their own business, as Zhao Zongqi said, he has the right to speak, reversing black and white, it is not a normal thing.

"But my son-in-law, I'm just a showman, and I don't have an official body, this inspection is an official of the eighth grade, am I too ambitious!" Yu Feng said a little embarrassed.

"Now that you are in such a situation, and then take the road of the imperial examination, I am afraid that you will be criticized! Moreover, with this matter, you can't get into the circle of readers! Zhao Zongqi shook his head: "As for the official body, there is no need to worry too much, as long as there is silver, it is not easy to send it to the commander and envoy to make up a general flag!" ”

He smacked his lips, as if he was hopeless for Yu Feng's imperial examination, and felt a lot of regret, Yu Feng himself didn't feel how to regret it, his mind didn't think about that aspect at all, but it was Zhao Zongqi's last words that made him suddenly see a new direction, as for receiving gifts from others, he wondered if it was kind to smash other people's jobs, but he couldn't care about it.