Chapter 19: A Model of Collusion between Officials and Bandits

The cloth ruler is in the back hall of the yamen of the inspection department, holding his most beloved concubine, drinking the Taibai alcohol of the drunken immortal building transported in the capital, although this wine is a first-class good wine, but drinking in the mouth of the cloth ruler, it is tasteless.

Early in the morning, his master went out with the gifts he prepared for the damn long-haired man, and when he thought of these gifts, the cloth ruler was a pain in his flesh, and it cost him nearly five hundred taels of silver to buy these gifts, and even if he was in this position of inspection, in addition to honoring the officials in a year, the yamen everywhere was dotted, and under his hands, it was only three or five thousand taels of silver, and he went out five hundred taels at once, which made no difference in digging a piece of meat in his heart.

The long-haired man, who is said to be a scholar, actually holds this cheap business, and he simply doesn't want any dignity at all. Thinking of this, he snorted angrily, and only on this Shandong ground did he hear that there was this strange thing of self-willingness, which should be placed on other grounds in the Ming Dynasty, and the local teachings would definitely be unlucky, but now Shandong is not very peaceful, and there are many important things, but no one cares about the trouble of finding this unlucky teaching.

"Master Liu hasn't come back yet?" He put down the wine glass in his hand and asked the little guy who was waiting on the side, the little guy shook his head slightly, similar words, the inspector has asked no less than ten times this afternoon. In fact, even this little guy knows that if Master Liu came back, the outer hall would have been noisy a long time ago, where would it be so quiet.

The inspection department inspected and gave a gift to a salt owl, is there anything more aggrieved than this in the world? The cloth ruler didn't want to do such a thing at all. However, the situation is pressing, and the people below have collected less and less money, and even the smuggled salt dealers who have been trading with him have disappeared. This is all a good thing that Yu Feng did, if it goes on like this, the inspection department yamen, this fat and oily place in the past, won't it soon become a clear water yamen.

For these guys who get in the way, the cloth ruler has always been not a good master, and he spent a lot of money to raise those salts, isn't this what he does? However, this time, when he was furious and wanted to investigate this bold salt lord, the people under his command were not as enthusiastic as before, or Liu Chengbin, who he had always relied on as a confidant, broke the sky in one sentence, and he realized that it turned out that this group of salt lords who caused his income to plummet is now known for his murder, and it is far from the rabble under his command who dare to provoke easily.

He still didn't know that the disappearance of many of the gangsters under him was related to these salt lords, and if he knew, I am afraid he would not have made such a rash move. Anyway, he doesn't have a concept of how many gangsters and gangsters under his command are, most of these gangsters are recruiting some fierce idlers, and then some of the helpers recruited by these idlers, he is an official of the imperial court, and if he puts down his body and deals with these people, wouldn't he lose the dignity of the imperial court.

Hearing that these salt lords nicknamed "Long Hair" are powerful, his first reaction was to find soldiers from nearby guards to come to suppress the bandits. However, Master Liu on the side knew more than him, and he told Bu Qi that these long hairs were basically the military households of this guard station, and it was a bit unreliable to count on these nearby guard posts to exterminate them.

This cloth ruler is not a native of Lingshan, at the beginning, he was in the salt transportation division, spent a lot of money, to get this position, now in office for more than a year, the money is far from reaching his heart expectation, naturally very unwilling, at this time, or this Master Liu, gave an idea, he still clearly remembers, when Master Liu and he discussed in the study.

"You have to deal with these chaotic people, is this still the world of the Ming Dynasty?" He remembered how angry he was.

"Dong Weng actually doesn't have to be angry, in fact, these long hairs are not also for wealth, Dong Weng treats them as those yamen who want to be honored, don't you just give them a share!" Yoo Sung-bin didn't react as violently as he did.

“......！” He pondered for a long time, this thing was too ridiculous to say, and, from the bottom of his heart, he felt that it was too embarrassing for himself.

"Thousands of miles for officials are only for money, Dong Weng is appointed to inspect the inspection department, but it's not just for money, compared with real money, he loses a small face, what is it!" Liu Chengbin knows his owner's thoughts very well, and what he said is very explicit, anyway, there are only these two people in this study, and he is not afraid of these words getting out.

"What's more, when Dong Weng has earned enough money in his hands, and then he will go to the activity to make a fat difference, with the relationship between the boss, it may not be difficult, as for these lawless long hairs, when the time comes, I will leave it for the next one to have a headache!"

Liu Chengbin's heart-to-heart words touched the mind of the cloth ruler, he can't do it if he doesn't think about it, if it goes on like this, I'm afraid that in two months, more than half of his people will be scattered, if he can really make eye to eye with these long hairs, the other party is a master, and his own interests will not be harmed, what does he care about these long hairs.

"Dong Weng, Dong Weng!" Liu Chengbin's voice came from the front, and the cloth ruler was refreshed and stood up.

"How?" Seeing Liu Chengbin coming in, he waved his hand and sent his concubine away.

"Fortunately, I was not dishonored! Fortunately, it is not disgraceful! Liu Chengbin smiled slightly, and when he heard this reply, the fat face of the cloth ruler and the eyebrows that had been locked suddenly stretched out.

"Come, come, talk to me carefully......"

Just when Master Liu was describing in detail to his host what he had seen and heard in the long-haired old nest, Yu Feng, the long-haired leader in his mouth, was at home with a table of wine and food, and was having a family banquet with a good atmosphere.

At Yu Feng's insistence, there is no rule that women are not allowed to serve on the table, Zhao Zongqi's family, Yu Feng's family, and then Wu Yanran's brother and sister, there are no outsiders, everyone eats and talks, and the atmosphere is also harmonious.

Yu Feng invited Wu Yanran's brothers and sisters, firstly, to thank them for their hard work these days, and secondly, the silver promised to others has to be cashed out, it has been a few months, Yu Feng has the intention not to mention the matter of this silver, and wants to take this opportunity to see the character of the Wu family brothers and sisters. The brothers and sisters of the Wu family, especially Wu Yanran, seem to have forgotten the agreement with Yu Feng, and they don't mention this matter, they only care about doing things every day, which makes Yu Feng sweat a little.

After talking about Wu Yanran, Yu Feng turned his conversation to what Zhao Zongqi said about asking for an official body during the day, how much silver is needed, who to fight, and how much time it takes.

"Is this official so important to you?" Seeing that Mr. Zhao and his wife got up and went out to eat, Wu Yanran couldn't help it anymore, and asked with a frown, regardless of the fact that her brother was still by her side.

"Of course it's important, what we're doing now, you don't know, there's an official body, and when the time comes, maybe there's an extra talisman!" Yu Feng didn't want to talk to him about this, so he diverted the topic, "By the way, I want to find a few stove households in the salt field, and try to open some salt fields here with us, you don't think it will work!" ”

"There is nothing good about being an official!" Wu Yanran muttered in a low voice, her voice was almost inaudible, but she reacted quickly to Yu Feng's question.

"It's okay, the output of dried salt is much higher than that of boiled salt, but if you have your own salt pan, I'm afraid this fine salt workshop will have to increase the number of people!"

"I'm not afraid to increase manpower, but I'm afraid that I won't be able to produce salt!" Yu Feng didn't care, when he said this, he was simply polite and changed the topic, but he didn't really mean to ask Wu Yanran's opinion.

"It's those stove households, I'm afraid it's not so easy to handle!" He groaned slightly, his eyes drifted from Wu Yanran's body in front of him, looking behind her, his hand subconsciously tapped lightly with his fingers on the table, now he and Lingshan Salt Farm are simply incompatible, and people are guarding against long hair like thieves, I'm afraid this matter is quite difficult.

"What's so hard to do, it's really not good, I'll teach a few people to come out!" Wu Yanran saw that he looked like he was nothing, and she was secretly annoyed in her heart: "It's just salt, how big is it?" ”

"Well, it's not a big ......" Yu Feng responded absentmindedly, and suddenly reacted: "What did you say?" How many do you teach out? Do you know about this salt? ”

"I can even boil fine salt, so what's so difficult about this salt?" Wu Yanran said proudly, "Compared with boiling fine salt, this dried salt is inferior!" ”

Yu Feng retracted his gaze and looked at the girl in front of him intently, this girl has such a big tone that ordinary people may think that she is bragging, but when Yu Feng sees her like this, he takes it for granted, uh, how to say it, this girl has such a temperament, a temperament that is lacking in women in this era - self-confidence. Yu Feng had no doubt that as long as she could say it, she would definitely be able to do it.

"Wu Yanran Miss Wu, ahem, can you tell me at one time, what else will you do?" Yu Feng coughed and said to this girl, he found that he didn't know much about this girl more and more, in fact, he didn't know much about it at all, but this girl can always surprise him when he is in trouble, last time, this time.