Chapter 33 Private Salt Specialty Stores

"Hahaha!" Yu Feng let out a hearty laugh: "Little Liu, you went so aggressively and scared people, so you didn't ask for any benefits?" ”

Liu Xiaoliu, who was at the bottom, pouted slightly, and said with a little disdain, "That splash, I'm afraid that even the last silver money has been taken out, and it's only two handfuls of silver, follow the adults, can my Xiaoliu still look at their little money?" ”

It's really not good, at the moment, the soldiers under Yu Feng have a monthly salary of one or two or five cents per person, not to mention officers like Liu Xiaoliu, in addition to military salaries, they can still get money in the salt works. From the very beginning, Yu Feng never thought about this military salary, and in his philosophy, he always kept one thing in mind, that is, there is no loyalty in the world for no reason.

If you want to get the loyalty of your subordinates, you have to give the other party a reason to be loyal, empty words, that won't work, you have to show real benefits for them to see, let them feel that they have a future with you. At present, a group of surplus soldiers who can't even make up for their military status have become official officers and soldiers, and they still have real money and silver salaries every month.

"These pimples are too blind, they actually use their brains to move our trading house, and it is light to scare them, and next time, adults, you can just take people away!" Liu Xiaoliu saw that Yu Feng was in a good mood, and took the initiative to suggest.

"Hehe, you got such a show, I'm afraid that the entire Lingshan City knows that this Wu family firm is our industry, and there shouldn't be a next time!" Yu Feng smiled, with a confident face.

This Wu family firm is Yu Feng's industry, and the young Wu shopkeeper is none other than Wu Yanran's brother Wu Ting, this Wu Ting was originally a merchant family, but it is very suitable to be the shopkeeper of this firm. Yu Feng was worried that there was no place to place Wu Ting, and as soon as this cloth ruler gave him the position of the inspection department, Wu Yanran immediately proposed from an economic point of view that since Yu Feng currently occupies such a position, it is necessary to set up a commercial organization to purchase what is needed and transfer his own private salt.

It can't be said that it is private salt, now that the right to speak is in the hands of Yu Feng, then, it is official salt or private salt, and he can decide with a word on the ground of this Lingshan Mountain. The sales network should be established, and once the sales channels below are established, the production and transit places are placed in one place, whether from the perspective of security or confidentiality, it is a bit inappropriate.

So, at Wu Yanran's suggestion, on the day Yu Feng went to work, this Wu family firm came into being.

Yu Feng took up the inspection of this inspection department, it is indeed very low-key, this Lingshan Zhizhou and Tongzhi and others, only the previous inspection was transferred, and a hundred households in the health office filled the vacancy, in fact, who is the inspection, they don't care, what they care about is just the example money of the inspection yamen, and the filial piety during the New Year's Festival, as long as these are not problems, it is a monkey to be the inspection, they can also pretend not to see.

Yu Feng brought a small flag of his own to take office, but it did not attract the attention of the officials of this Lingshan, this new inspector was originally a military attaché, that is, when he was this inspector, the military position is still there, what is it to bring a few soldiers, not to mention, Yu Feng's dozens of soldiers, compared with the salt of hundreds of people in the past, it is really not enough.

Yu Feng's subordinates, into the inspection department of the yamen, every day is a drill, occasionally go to the street to buy what is needed, but also real money, compared to the previous inspection department of the messy salt, the people's reaction is much better, like this soldier, not to mention dozens, even if it is the same as his predecessor, there are a few hundred, these people's food and drink, and real money to buy, not to disturb the people at all. Another point is that the original business next to the yamen of the inspection department is almost extinct, but it has recently prospered, and the trading of these soldiers is cheaper than those merchants near the inspection department.

Speaking of Yu Feng's official position, there is another saying here.

The Ming Dynasty implemented the system of capital guards. The capital is the commander of the envoys, which is the highest military leadership organ at the provincial level set up in the provinces of the Ming Dynasty. It is collectively referred to as the three divisions together with the political envoy department for civil affairs and the prosecutorial department for criminal affairs. The Guardian is a subordinate local military organization under the Metropolitan Command Division.

All command the envoys, and set up the commanders and other officials. There is no rule for the guard under the jurisdiction of each metropolitan division, and there are generally 5,600 people as a guard, with commanders and envoys and other officials. Each guard has jurisdiction over 5,000 households, with 1,120 people as 1,000 households, and 1,000 households and other officials. Every 1,000 households has jurisdiction over 100 households, with 112 people as a 100 households, and 100 households and other officials. Each hundred households has jurisdiction over two general flags, and a general flag officer is set up. Each general flag and five small flags are set.

Yu Feng's current status as a hundred households is just an official. Official position, in the Ming Dynasty, this official position is very clearly divided, this official is a hundred households in the guard, but this post is the inspection of the inspection department, which looks a bit nondescript. However, in the eyes of the personnel officials of the Ming Dynasty, it was a very normal thing.

Yu Feng's hundred households, if they are given military positions, they will be a general, and they can't even reach the garrison. This is the general, the garrison. The military positions of guerrilla and general are actually taught, that is to say, you have a hundred households, and you can not have a single soldier under your command, and you still deserve to be extremely nourished, but even if it is a small general, there are at least dozens of people under your hands.

Of course, Yu Baihu's two or three hundred strong soldiers, well-trained, and well-armed, this Tongshan commander can give him a false title, but this real job is not daring to give, this has to give, his command is a great is a garrison, give a general, this is to lift Yu Feng or embarrass Yu Feng?

Fortunately, Yu Feng didn't embarrass him for long, and soon he found a real official position, and with the position of inspection of the inspection department, he raised hundreds of salt or something, and he would not be criticized. As for the military position, whoever likes to give it to whom, anyway, it won't give Tong Shan a headache, of course, theoretically, these salt dings are still his Lingshan guard's soldiers, but if anyone comes to check, God will know.

"You go and tell Wu Ting, in a few days, in the name of his Wu family firm, send a post to all the salt merchants on the ground of this Lingshan, and I will invite them to eat and drink!" Yu Feng said to Liu Xiaoliu.

"Got it!" Liu Xiaoliu wrote it down, but he was still a little puzzled, "My lord, is this the salt road that you didn't need to inspect before?" ”

"Hmph, continue to use the road paved by others, whether others remember him or mine!" Yu Feng snorted: "Since I have become this official, this way has to be in my own hands, our brothers have limited manpower, and some money cannot be earned!" ”

"Manpower is limited, let's recruit manpower!" Liu Xiaoliu seemed to be a little upset that his adult would let others get a piece of the pie for such a profitable business, and muttered in a low voice.

Yu Feng smiled bitterly, he didn't want to recruit people, you know, the more power in this hand, the more security he had. However, raising soldiers is too expensive to do.

He is now boiling salt, producing salt, and transporting salt, including the two hundred or so people who have been registered in the army, and the military salary and weapons will cost him nearly two thousand taels of silver every month. When he subdued the mound in Daxiazhuang, he was still quietly training him to ride the army, more than 30 people, more than 40 horses, and a thousand taels of silver a month.

People are going to be recruited, but not now! He sighed slightly in his heart, right now, there is still a lack of money, it is more urgent than anything to turn the mountains of salt goods on the salt field into white silver, it is more urgent than anything else, rebuild the salt road, what is it to give those people some benefits, as long as these people are really in their own hands, become their own advantageous channels, and provide themselves with much-needed funds, then, it is worth it.

"Just do as I say, the time is set for the tenth day of October!" Yu Feng said.

"What if there is one?" Liu Xiaoliu asked what he wanted, this was not his verbosity, but, he must figure out what Yu Feng meant, the contact in these days, he has a little bit of understanding of Yu Feng, Yu Feng is usually not difficult to approach, and even can tell some jokes with them, but once it comes to business, the people below make their own opinions, or misinterpret his meaning, it is a very bad thing. The aftermath of laughter is like a spring breeze, but once he puts on his face, Liu Xiaoliu is unwilling to face that suffocating and oppressive momentum.

"Not coming? Then don't come again! Yu Feng said lightly: "What is the spear in your hand for?" ”

At the beginning of October, Lingshan Wujia Commercial Bank issued a post to invite local salt merchants to come to Lingshan to gather, and the new inspector of the Inspection Department will meet with everyone to discuss important matters. The ground of Lingshan suddenly undercurrents, and even Laizhou, Dengzhou, and Qingzhou had salt merchants who came to Lingshan after learning the news.

Since the rise of this Lingshan Mountain, except for the occasional way to sell some salt from the Lingshan Salt Factory, basically, this has become a forbidden area for salt dealers. At the moment, this forbidden area was suddenly opened, and it seems that everyone is welcome to go, and everyone is not stupid, who doesn't want to mix in such a profitable business.

What, you don't know who the new salt transportation inspector of this Lingshan is, are you brainbroken? I don't even know about Long Hair, the inspection Yu Feng is the head of Long Hair, and now that he is an official, he is willing to share some profits with everyone, so he doesn't hurry up. Oh, you said the Wu family firm, I don't even bother to talk about you, if this Yu Feng doesn't nod, this Wu family firm has eaten the bear's heart and leopard gall, and dares to do such a thing, maybe this firm is the business of people's own families, and people are now washed and will go ashore.

Words like this are circulated among salt dealers large and small, and at the same time, the origin of Yu Feng and the various deeds of Long Mao have also been turned out and told over and over again, but this does not prevent these salt dealers from reaching a consensus, this Lingshan is really open to them, and if they go late, the money will be earned.