So they look decent, but they don't work at all! They're like the cops in the movie, they're always the last to appear! Often, things have already happened, and salt goods or shops have been destroyed!

Liu Haojia even reflected these things to the imperial court, hoping that the imperial court would come forward and order these officials to cooperate. But his bad relationship with the civil servants made them delay it under various pretexts! Moreover, the salt merchants used to give them a lot of benefits, and now it is natural that it is time to contribute! Coupled with the traditional collusion of officials in the officialdom, they are just standing by and watching.

In desperation, Liu Haojia even contacted the health offices in various places through Xungui, hoping to protect the salt road and shops, but it still had no effect.

First of all, one reason is that the guards can't enter the city, and even if they do, they can only enter in disguise. However, if there are fewer people sent, the shops will still be attacked. But there are so many people who go that they can't afford it! After all, it always costs you some money to hire someone!

But things in the city are not settled, and things outside the city are still not settled! Because outside the city, the formed guards were actually defeated by the salt lords several times!

Now the guards of the Ming Dynasty are no longer in the early days of the founding of the country! Due to the long-term peace in the world, the officers of the guard have begun to corrupt! They transferred all the land owned by the guards to private names, and turned the military households into their own tenant farmers!

Moreover, because of their military status, the military families could not move freely at all, so they had to accept the exploitation of the officers, and finally became slaves! It's acceptable to just be like a slave, after all, slaves are the property of their masters, and they should be treated well!

But the identity of those military households is tenant farmers, free men! So the officers didn't even have to find excuses, and they didn't even want to give them food! The officers don't care about food, how can they organize training, so the current guards have no combat effectiveness at all, except for the family members around the officers, and they don't even have complete equipment! So much so that when these officers boasted that they would be able to escort the merchant capital to the place, there were repeated problems!

The two sides fought each other in the field at the most, and one of the guards organized nearly two hundred soldiers to escort the caravan, and counting the caravan's own guards and men, it was almost close to three hundred! But the salt lords gathered more than a hundred people and completely defeated them!

Under the guidance of the salt merchants, these salt barons chose an ambush tactic and attacked the caravan as it passed through a forest! However, because of the arrogance and contempt of the officers, coupled with the long-term lack of training of the three hundred under his command, when the salt lords appeared, they did not make any response!

By the time the salt lords rushed closer, it was too late to organize a defense in a hurry! And before the two sides could engage in battle, some of the soldiers who had never been trained in the guard had already dropped their weapons and started to flee, which directly caused the morale of the army to waver!

At this time, he wanted to fight back with a few horseback riders, but he was shot by five archers! These five archers can't shoot accurately! Three of the five feathered arrows missed the target, and the remaining two feathered arrows were all shot at the horse, and the horse was injured and fell, throwing the officer off the horse!

But the first thing the officer did when he got up from the ground was to get on his horse, turn around and run! So the whole team completely collapsed! The final result was that the salt lord was unharmed, and the guards and caravan had a total of eleven dead, and a bunch of wounded! More than 80 truckloads of salt were poured into the ditch on the side of the road!

In this way, the stubborn resistance of the salt barons and salt merchants made it very difficult to advance the low-priced salt! In fact, the promotion of low-cost salt is promoted by Liu Haojia alone, and the nobles in the entire court can't intervene, and the civil officials are watching jokes!

Even Liu Haojia had contact with You Qi once, but he was keenly aware of one thing, that is, Zhang Juzheng might be waiting for him to pick peaches when he couldn't hold on! And all the chaos caused in the middle is probably up to him! So he decisively cut off contact!

Another thing that Liu Haojia is worried about is that other business groups are also beginning to rise! At the beginning, in addition to the Liansheng business group, there was also a noble business group composed of nobles. But after the appearance of these two business groups, the demonstration effect is extremely powerful!

Officials and businessmen immediately saw how much profit this cooperative force could bring, so in the space of more than a year, three more merchant groups appeared in a row! One is the Northwest Business Group. The biggest support point of this merchant group was foreign trade and grain.

The other two merchant groups are known as the Two Lakes Merchant Group and the Zhejiang-Fujian Merchant Group. So now in the entire territory of Daming, there are already five relatively large business groups.

The Liansheng business group led by Liu Haojia is known as the Liu business group among the people. There are very few officials in this business group, and the participants are basically vassals of the Liu family, and the main composition is large and small businessmen. The aristocratic merchant group is different, and all of them are composed of nobles! As for the other three merchant groups, they are all trade groups composed of civil officials and officials and businessmen to whom civil officials belong!

However, Liu Ji's business group is different from several other business groups, they never seek to monopolize a certain industry, Liu Haojia only enters through a variety of means, and uses his prescient advantages to lead and lead! Because he knows one thing very well, monopoly will only create a backwater, and there will be no progress!

And now the world is a world of great contention, and the rise of the West has become inevitable! If you create a backwater in the Ming Dynasty, it will be equivalent to reshaping a "I Daqing", and in the end, it will be difficult to escape the fate of being knocked on the door of the country with a strong ship and a sharp cannon!

And the noble merchant group is a little better, because Liu Haojia often admonishes them: "You are nobles and have a fortune, so you should look good at eating!" So they're kind of restrained.

But the other three merchant groups are completely different, they are completely relying on the power of the government, monopolizing all the industries they can get, and at the same time brutally squeezing profits in order to maximize profits!

Liu Haojia also understands the psychology of these people, that is, they have the right not to use it, and it will be invalid when it expires! These civil officials are different from the nobles, who can always be maintained from generation to generation. When the Liu family was the most depressed, the court would also issue a fortune, although it was said that it did not fall into their hands, but at that time, because some people coveted their yard. And this at least represents the attitude of the imperial court, because Xungui also represents the face of the imperial court!

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