"It's a drop, it's a drop!" Since the Republic of China, the salt affairs basically follow the system of the previous dynasty, divided into Changlu, Fengtian, Haidong, Jianghuai, Zhejiang, Suzhou, Lingnan, Sichuan, Shu, Yunnan, Hedong, Shaanxi and Gansu and other salt areas, businessmen want to buy salt, must receive a voucher from the salt transportation department, and then take the voucher to the salt field to buy official salt, the people everywhere, can only eat local salt.

It is indeed normal to look at it this way, the people seem to be able to eat salt at a reasonable price, and when it really flows into the hands of the people, the price has increased several times, this kind of perennial inseparable from the local things, the price remains high, for the people, every time they buy it is meat cutting exploitation.

The salt merchants are also very helpless, once they sell cheaply, they are likely to not even be able to get the book back, and they can get the voucher all because they have given enough donations to pay tribute, and the white flowers and flowers go out, and the wool still has to be plucked from the sheep.

The southwest is mountainous and difficult to travel, they all know that salt is a big benefit, the government simply co-opted a part of the salt lord twist party, let them patrol the mountain roads in the major counties for the government, the real salt lord team is strong and strong, full of martial virtues, if the traces are found, designated to fight with the anti-smuggling team to win or lose, the anti-smuggling team is greedy for life and fear of death and love money, often let go of the real salt smuggling party, only concentrate on dealing with small minions that are not powerful.

I can't deal with the salt lord, can't I deal with you salt guest? Salt beaters belong to this kind of little minions that everyone can knead round and flatten.

Once they see the salt beaters selling illicit salt, they will immediately arrest the anti-smuggling bureau, and ask you to take out a few pieces of private goods, if you are willing, you will be ruined and avoid the pain of prison, most people walk outside, and they also know that the strong dragon can not suppress the head snake, most of them will give the ocean private, and then they also took a step back, and asked the salt beaters to carry the private salt home.

So they got salt, and the anti-smuggling team got the benefit, and they all rejoiced. Relying on these ways to make money, the anti-smuggling team has not been less extorting mountain people along the road.

Originally, there were more than 20 of these salt beaters, and the reason why the four of them died alone was entirely because these four people were young and vigorous, and they were too strong and iron-headed, and they didn't pay money in the anti-smuggling team.

After a trial, he was directly sentenced to hanging! The matter has come to this, the salt beaters dare not speak out, they can only raise money to ask Lan Ruling to drive the corpse back to their hometown, they originally wanted to borrow the road into Sichuan and Shu, and met Ren Peacock asked them to go with them before they turned to Yueyang City.

After listening to these words, Song Siyuan only felt that the officials were tricky and the people's livelihood was dark, and it was no wonder that the people in the three southwest places were so fierce and good at fighting, but if the momentum was weak, they would be bullied to death by the government.

Lan Ruling is also a fierce and jealous person, and she has already been angry when she mentions this: "Hey, the more you mention it, the more angry you become, these officials are not a thing, these people are only twenty-three years old at the most, it is the age of marrying the old woman, and now they are hanged to death, and the old man and the old lady don't know what to cry about." ”

"Hey, yes, you can go back to the cave, what's the matter with these people?" Lan Ruling looked at the three people in front of her.

"They, they want to follow me to the cave, and they also help me investigate the Luohua Cave, Song Qianjin is a scholar, I heard that she can see her articles in the capital." As soon as this was mentioned, Lan Ruling became curious about Song Siyuan, and turned around to observe her carefully, Yue Guanchao was afraid that she would beat Song Qianjin again, so he hurriedly stopped in front of him.

"Get up, big man, and I'm not going to eat people." Lan Ruling pushed Yue Guanchao away and continued: "You are not from Sichuan, Hunan and Qian, you look like a big man from the north, I haven't seen a cultural person in any way, how is it different from the old squire, I don't have a sour and old-fashioned body, and I don't say how much I am educated!" ”

"You don't want to talk nonsense, Song Qianjin went to a new-style school, and she has stayed abroad in a foreign country!" As soon as these words came out, Lan Ruling's eyes quickly brightened: "Sister, have you ever seen a foreigner?" ”

"Well, sort of, I studied in England."

"What is England?" Lan Ruling racked her brains, and she didn't know where Yingli was.

"On the westernmost island in the world!" Song Siyuan can only describe it like this, she has said too many geographical terms, I am afraid that she will have more questions in her heart.

"Sister Ling, don't you still want to find your negative old man." Ren Peacock saw that Lan Ruling was holding the foreigner and began to ask again, and interrupted in the past.

Lan Ruling sighed and said: "Ren Peacock, my mother said when I was a child, the old man will come back to pick up our mother, if you also know foreigners, maybe you can send me a message to him, I want to ask where he went, my mother is gone, and he didn't come back to pick us up, did you forget if you encountered something." ”

"Senior sister, many years have passed, your old foreigner really wants to remember your two mothers, you must have come back a long time ago, you are almost thirty years old and haven't come yet, don't think about this idea." The bamboo pole ghost interjected and came in, causing Lan Ruling to roll his eyes for a while: "I want you to take care of it, I am willing to wait." ”