Seeing Luan'er leave, Huo Guang still felt that it was a pity, Luan'er was fair-skinned, beautiful and had a good personality, and her soft voice was easy to push down, but it was a pity.

In the next few days, the salt company gradually got on the right track, in fact, the business is really not complicated, that is, to collect money from salt and salt, and the more troublesome part is to coordinate with the four Shaofu Courts in the county to check the tax.

However, because of the visible increase in income with the naked eye, the Shaofuyuan is very active from top to bottom.

Huo Guang thought that it seemed that the matter was almost the same, so he set off early in the morning to find Ganfu to learn the way of life.

But as soon as he opened the door, Zhang Jiaqi rushed over in a panic: "Brother Guang, it's not good, Brother Guang." ”

"What's the matter, don't be in a hurry to say it slowly."

Zhang Jiaqi stretched out his hand and opened it to see that there was pearl salt in his hand, but it didn't look like a problem.

"Brother Guang, this is sold in the county town next door, I have a friend who just came to bring it to me, and the county town next door also has pearl salt."

Huo Guang frowned: "Is it a large amount?" ”

"It is said that the amount of two stones a day these days."

"Let's go, go to the company."

The emergence of an unexpected situation made Huo Guang have to deal with it first, and the two of them quickly rushed to the company.

Huo Guang doesn't think that the technology of pearl salt has flowed out, first of all, it is theoretically impossible to be so fast, and the salt field is in Jiaodong, if the technology is outflowed, it must be passed along the way that there is pearl salt flowing into the market in the area around Jiaodong first.

Second, there are only two stones a day, and if it is really a technology outflow, it should not be only that.

Then there is only one possibility, which is to flow out of the hands of these salt merchants in Hedong County.

I have solemnly warned me, but there are still people who are doing things behind their backs, and it is obvious that they don't take themselves seriously.

At present, the daily supply of pearl salt is about half a stone to one stone per salt merchant, and it is distributed according to the arrival of the goods, and if the next county town can have two stone a day, it means that there may be more than one.

Huo Guang took the import and export data of the past few days and took Zhang Jiaqi to the county guard's mansion.

Chu Yuxiong greeted Huo Guang with a smile on his face, and after greeting him a few words, Huo Guang cut to the chase: "Chu County Shou, now the county next door also has pearl salt, and the amount is not small, this is nothing to the market, the circulation of commodities is only, but one of the purposes of our establishment of the company is the strategy of Guanshan and Hai, and it is not a good thing for us to circulate to other counties." ”

Chu Yuxiong also understood Huo Guang's words: "However, it may be too difficult to completely stop circulation. ”

"Naturally, grasp the big and let go of the small, and a little circulation every day can be regarded as invisible, and now this amount is obviously not taking our previous warnings to heart, these people will break the big thing, I plan to catch it out and cut off the supply."

Chu Yuxiong was a little melancholy: "Ah Guang, will this cause a bad reaction." ”

"Check it first, if there are too many shops involved, think of a way, if not, kill the chickens and make an example."

Chu Yuxiong weighed the pros and cons: "Let Zhang Tai, the county magistrate of Xiahe County, cooperate with you, check it first, don't easily startle the snake." ”

Huo Guang found Zhang Tai for the first time and explained clearly what happened, and Zhang Tai also asked cooperatively: "What should I do?" ”

"I am tired of sending county officials to secretly observe the whereabouts of the salt in each salt shop after the salt was removed from our company today."

"Yes, you can."

Zhang Tai is very capable of doing things, and immediately began to arrange, Huo Guang returned to the salt company to start distributing the newly arrived pearl salt, which is still divided into half a stone today, but after ten salt shops took it together, it was five stone salt to be listed together, and now the pearl salt in Hedong County is enough, and the price began to fall, after all, the price of pearl salt is high, and it is difficult for ordinary people to buy and use it for a long time.

The luxury goods of the elite class are now slowly lowering in price and becoming a daily commodity for the middle class, and by that time it will still be able to make a lot of money for the salt shop, and for the salt shop, the salt tax charged by the ordinary salt is 15 taxes and 20 taxes and 1 for pearl salt, but the tax paid is less.

As the salt went down, Huo Guang waited, and in the evening, the people from the county governor's mansion came with news.

"Huo Gongzi, follow all the salt merchants today, four of them did not sell the salt in their own salt shops after taking the salt, but transported it to the salt shop, and then transported it to the dock in disguise, and transported it away by the boat of the Stick Gang, and the tracking was broken, but the salt was transported out of Hedong County."

As he spoke, the man handed Huo Guang the bamboo piece with the names of the four salt shops written on it.

Huo Guang's eyes were cold, staring at the names of these four salt shops, and said lightly: "From tomorrow, these four salt shops will directly kick out the purchase qualifications of pearl salt." ”

"Brother Guang, it's not good to be so arbitrary." Zhang Jiaqi was busy persuading.

"Jiaqi, do you know why, the county magistrate of the county governor's mansion only found out the ins and outs of this matter after only one day?"

Zhang Jiaqi was puzzled.

"It shows that they don't take me seriously at all, they don't even bother to cover it up, just put on a façade, do you think there are only these four companies that have salt flowing out of the world?"

"Brother Guang, do the others have it too?"

"You don't have to think about it to know that there must be, now the price of pearl salt in Hedong County has dropped, but the pearl salt in the surrounding counties is hard to find, these shops are wide, and a little bit of it is sold at a high price to the rich customers of other counties that they are familiar with, and the high profits are enough for them to break the rules, but they don't know how much to take care of some face, these four are put on the market for sale, without any scruples, slap us in the face."

Huo Guang continued: "He slapped us in the face, and he was also ready to make false accounts to fool the county Shaofu Yuan, Jiaqi don't forget that the original intention of our establishment of the salt company was to control the salt tax, if you can't control it and let them be the same as before, what's the use." ”

Zhang Jiaqi was still a little worried: "But Brother Guang, I'm afraid of causing a bad reaction." ”

"What are you afraid of, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, if others bully you If you don't fight back, people will bully you more ruthlessly, and those bystanders next to you may come to bully you, we are young, these businessmen don't take us seriously, men are the most taboo to be soft, soft is weak, weak is bullied."

"Today is four salt merchants, and in a few days, other salt merchants will join in when they see that there is no punishment measure, but it is really a mess, and the county magistrate handed over the matter to me to do, and it is all my fault if I do it badly."

Zhang Jiaqi looked at Huo Guang with intent, and he found that Huo Guang had the temperament that he said he wanted the most and did not have, the kind of momentum that was always responsible for his decisions.

"Brother Guang, do you want to send someone to inform, or just stop?"

"Just stop, there is no need to bother more, pearl salt is our exclusive product, they have to figure out, now is a buyer's market or a seller's market, other salt merchants will not object, less competition but let them have more profit margins."

"And that Zhu Youcai, the little stick gang, always works against me, it's time to clean up, Jiaqi, I heard that you have a lot of friends."