Four taels? When Zhang Cai heard this price, he couldn't help but be startled. The imperial court only needed less than one tael of salt tax, but these moths actually demanded a full four taels of silver.

If I hadn't heard it with my own ears, I really couldn't have thought of such a ridiculous thing, let alone that these salt officials and moths would have taken so much.

At this moment, he finally understood why the silver ship that night could send hundreds of thousands of taels to a deputy envoy of the two Huai Metropolitan Envoys, it was really that these people were too greedy.

Wang Yue's hand left the teacup, but he looked up at Master Li calmly and said, "Your price is higher than what the old man knows, this is not the market in previous years, right?" ”

"In previous years, it was indeed lower! It's just that if you want to come in, you naturally have to bid higher than others, not to mention what the salt market in Huguang is, I'm afraid you already know it. Even if you really want five, six or seven taels, you have to be able to make a lot of money, and you have to come to us to cooperate next year! Master Li stretched out his hand and pinched his mustache, looking very frank and authentic.

Wang Yue knew that the other party's offer was actually very reasonable, and he was not a real trader after all, so he nodded happily: "Okay, then the price you said, please also take the old man Zhang Luo, Zhang Yu hopes to take the salt back to Huguang as soon as possible!" ”

"Huh...... Hu Yuan, please don't be in a hurry about this! As long as you raise enough silver taels, the salt tickets will naturally be presented at that time, and the stamped salt tickets will be unimpeded to all branches and salt farms! Master Li saw that Wang Yue was very good, and he was also very excited to forgive.

Wang Yue actually cleared these doorways in advance, and even slightly arched his hand and said: "Master Li, this is a little bit of heart for you and Lord Li, and please ask Master Li to say hello to Lord Li for the old man!" As he spoke, he gave Zhang Cai a look.

Zhang Cai found that the case was not happy, so he sent the two gifts he had already prepared, and only hoped that the family could be copied back by hand in the future, otherwise I am afraid that I would not be able to explain it to the emperor.

"Well said! At the beginning of February, one or two Huai Yamen will be introduced, and when you bring enough silver to come, someone will naturally teach you what to do! Master Li saw that Wang Yue was very good, and immediately pointed out with a smile.

Now it is natural that Wang Yue's family is not the only one who finds Li Zhiqing to ask for salt, and now that the matter here has been negotiated, Master Li took the gift and left.

Yangzhou Mengqing Building is very lively, at this time there are bursts of cheers in the hall, and an Oiran who is good at dancing is showing his dancing posture on the stage.

Zhang Cai saw Master Li leaving, and after sending the bald broker Zhu Lao Liu away, he said anxiously: "Wang...... Hu Yuanwai, what should I do now? ”

"Let's talk about it later!" Wang Yue is a very calm character, and he seems to be very vigilant.

"This master, come back when you have time!" The old bustard, who was dressed up in fancy clothes, saw Wang Yue leaving, but he waved the incense towel in his hand enthusiastically.

Reading books, thousands of lights shine on the blue clouds in the night market, and high-rise buildings and red-sleeved customers are one after another. Yangzhou City is like a city that never sleeps in this era, and the curfew system is strictly enforced in various cities, but it has long been invalid here.

In order to facilitate the investigation, after Wang Yue and his group came to Yangzhou City, they also rented a private house in Yangzhou City.

"Grandpa, we have been staring at the Yamen of the Imperial History of Salt in Lianghuai for five days in a row, and this new Imperial Historian is really good, and all the officials and salt merchants who went to give gifts were turned away!" Wang Yu and Hu Jun are no longer working as coolies at the docks, but are responsible for monitoring the two Huai patrol salt imperial history yamen, Wang Yu said with great admiration.

"He still hasn't had any contact with Li Zhiqing?" Wang Yue knew that the only two Huai Patrol Salt Imperial Historians were lowly and powerful, so he asked seriously.

Hu Jun saw Wang Yu drinking water, and replied for Wang Yu: "Lord Qincha, we didn't see the people from the two Huai Du transfer envoys to the yamen, and a salt official wearing a seven-grade official uniform was directly blasted out!" Wang Yue was originally worried that the new Lianghuai Patrol Salt Imperial History would be dragged into the big dye vat, but now it seems that this iron-faced Imperial History is indeed worthy of his reputation.

"Grandpa, since we already have the incriminating evidence that Yang Zhiqing asked for the salt fee, can we show our identities and arrest people?" Wang Yu wiped the water stains from the corner of his mouth and asked anxiously.

"Not to mention that we haven't mentioned salt at all now, even if the salt is mentioned to reveal their identities and arrest people, these officials will not show up from beginning to end, and they can completely push things clean!" Wang Yue smiled bitterly, then shook his head lightly.

Although he has a deep degree in military affairs, he really has no chance of winning against these slippery officials.

Now you can disguise your identity to find out, but it is still very difficult to catch them all. Wang Yu couldn't help but put down the kettle in his hand in disappointment, and said with a bitter face: "Grandpa, I'm afraid you won't be able to cover up your fraud for long, let's fight quickly, I still think that I can show my identity and find the new salt patrol Yushi to help find the private salt farm!" ”

"Chincha-sama, please use tea!" Brother Dog brought tea and looked respectful. Last time, thanks to Brother Dog's ventilation message, they fled together.

After learning Wang Yue's identity, he has been following Wang Yue, and now he is taking the initiative to do things in the house.

"Brother dog, the old man suddenly remembered something!" Wang Yue thought that he couldn't make up his mind whether to look for the salt patrol Yushi to act as foreign aid, but he suddenly looked at this honest middle-aged man.

Brother Dog had a natural awe of the officials, and said with a sneer: "Lord Qincha, you are really tormenting the villain when you call it like this!" The villain's nickname is Gouzi, and his big name is Gou Huowang, so you still call me Dog! ”

"Then the old man will call you Huowang! Huowang, why did you fall out with the steward of the salt works? Wang Yue saw that the other party was really uncomfortable with his name, so he changed his words.

When Gou Huowang heard this, he cried and said, "This matter is angry!" Not to mention that my grass was occupied a large area, the salt field under my name was obviously only ten acres, but it turned out that it was twelve acres for their division, and the people of the two Huai were transferred to the Yamen of the division was also twelve acres! This has to pay a lot of extra taxes and salt every year, and as a result, you have to deal with the additional taxes of the imperial court, who do you say can stand it? ”

"You're not alone, right?" Wang Yue faintly felt that there was a lot of article here, and even asked.

Gou Huowang became even more angry in his heart, and immediately continued to complain: "Lord Qincha, naturally I am not the only one!" If you can really eat a full stomach, who is willing to leave their hometown, I don't know how many stove households have been forced away by them over the years! "In fact, many people don't know that their stove households can't produce food from salt pans alone, but they need the imperial court to provide firewood resources for their evenly divided grass farms.

It's just that they are all low-level people, not to mention that they have to bear a lot of inexplicable miscellaneous taxes, and the property they own cannot be protected, so they can only choose to leave their hometowns in the end.

Everyone in the world knows that it is difficult for the people to eat salt, but they don't know that it is even more difficult for them to cook stoves, no matter how hard they work, they can no longer sustain their livelihood.

"Why don't you report to the Lianghuai Patrol Salt Imperial History Yamen?" Wang Yu listened from the sidelines, and immediately couldn't help but interject.

Gou Huowang couldn't help but snort coldly, and said with a mocking look on his face: "My mother was obviously burned to death by the general destruction of salt and set fire to the house, but I went around to redress my grievances to no avail, and the officialdom of Yangzhou has always been protected by officials and officials!" You say that the new salt patrol is selfless, I don't believe it at all! I heard that when Lord Qincha tried the case in Jingshan County, he almost let a small official do something on the scales, and now I will send someone down to measure the salt fields, I am sure it is still twelve acres! Wang Yu couldn't help frowning when he thought of the scene in Jingshan County.

Not to mention whether the newcomer to the salt patrol imperial history is iron-faced and selfless, but let the scribes and yacha of the two Huai salt patrol imperial history go down to measure the field, and it is indeed a lot of twelve acres.

"Gou Huowang, Ben Qincha can administer justice for you! It's just that the case is complicated now, and the old man also has the emperor's order, so the old man needs your help! Wang Yue had an idea in his heart, so he said to Gou Huowang.

Gou Huowang's eyes welled up with tears, and he immediately knelt on the ground and said: "As long as Lord Qincha is willing to redress the grievances of the little one, the little one is willing to be a cow and a horse for you!" The next day, the two Huai Patrol Salt Imperial History Yamen received a complaint.

The person who submitted the complaint was Gou Huowang, and the object of the complaint was the Taizhou Branch under the Lianghuai Transit Envoy Division, and the crime was

"Shrink the rope and hide the salt field, embezzle the salt profit".