"Master Mei, I heard you say last time I visited, there is no stock of green saltpeter needed to refine refined salt in the Blind Mountain Salt Field, and it is impossible to find it anywhere. On the way to Suzhou this time, I heard that there was an abandoned chlorpeter mine in Leiyang, which is adjacent to Suzhou. I looked for someone to take a look, and sure enough, I saw the mine. So he hired someone to pick some, grind them into sand grains and bring them to Jinzhou. Please also ask Master Mei to distinguish one or two. Yi Buyi is a refreshing Jianghu person, and bluntly said what he meant today.

"Oh, where is the saltpeter?" Mei Siyuan asked with a smile.

"The saltpeter is still in the dart cart of the Chengdong Post House, but I brought the stone today. Yi Buyi said with a smile, while taking out a small bag of sand grains from his waist pocket and handing it to Mei Siyuan. In fact, he had already found someone to check it, and this was indeed the green saltpeter used to refine refined salt, and there was no doubt that his expression was relaxed at the moment, and he had a smile on his face.

Mei Siyuan opened the bag, took out the sand grains and put them on the table, rubbed them gently, and licked them in his mouth, the smile on his face became thicker, and finally laughed: "Yes, this sand grain is really green saltpeter." After a while, I will send the soldiers to fetch it with you! After checking the fineness and weight, the salt administration department will calculate the silver money for the dart bureau at the current price. Yesterday, Mei Siyuan still felt that he had reached the end of the road, and everything was difficult to do. How many hours have passed, and happy events have come one after another, which has given birth to a sense of reincarnation in his heart.

"Hehe, Master Mei, I'm afraid that you, the government secretary of the government, will not have enough soldiers! Let's go straight to the Blind Mountain Salt Farm, inspect the color on the spot, and save a lot of trouble. Yi Buyi said with a smile. He did not shirk the silver money calculated by the salt administration, first, the dart team had a long and arduous journey, and the dart masters' dart money, meals, lodging expenses, dart car repairs, horse riding additions, quarrying and scrubbing, etc., should cost a lot of things, and second, and most importantly, it was necessary to avoid suspicion. Mei Siyuan and the Wind Dart Bureau are unusual, and if someone takes this as an argument, it will be difficult to predict. People's words are terrible, and they must not be guarded against.

"Oh, Third Prince, did you bring a lot?" Mei Siyuan remembered at this time, and he seemed to have asked about this festival.

"We took 28 dart carts to Suzhou, and on the way back, we loaded these 28 dart carts with chlorpeter sand, which was roughly about 50 stones. Yi Buyi replied.

"Fifty stones?" Mei Siyuan was first ecstatic, and then embarrassed. Green saltpeter is extremely difficult to mine and explore, and the price is quite expensive, the current price of one stone is about 430 taels of silver, which is almost the same as the price of powder salt. Fifty stone green saltpeter is more than 20,000 taels. Although the Blind Mountain Salt Works made tens of thousands of gold every day, they were all handed over to the national treasury. The amount of the Yanyun Minister's Office was calculated by the three scholars of Shangshu Pavilion and approved by the emperor, and only then was allocated by the officials on a monthly basis. At this time, there was not enough money available in the account of the Salt Administration's office, and it was difficult to teach Mei Siyuan to be a good student.

"Lord Mei, please be relieved!" Yi Buyi had already expected this, and said with a smile, "It is not this day for the Imperial Wind Dart Bureau to communicate with the Salt Administration Mansion, and this fee is owed to the account first, and it is okay to pay it after the imperial court allocates the money!"

Mei Siyuan was overjoyed when he heard this, and couldn't help but be grateful. Seeing all this, Yi Tianxin on the side couldn't help but think in his heart, "It turns out that their father and son are all the same courtesy, and it is really the origin of family learning." ”

After sending off the Yi family brothers and sisters, the Mei family father and son finally got close. When Mei Yuanchen came back last night, it was the end of the hour, and the lights were swaying, and he couldn't see clearly. At this time, Mei Yuanchen was only more than two feet away from his father, and when he saw that his temples were slightly white, his eyes were sunken, obviously he had worked too hard and hurt his internal organs and meridians, and he was very sad in his heart.

"Chen'er, how did you get acquainted with the Yi family brothers and sisters?" Mei Siyuan asked curiously. Mei Yuanchen is studying in the capital, and Yi Buyi is walking darts all over the world, and the two can be said to be incompatible, and it is really difficult to connect them together.

"Dad, I and Yi Gongzi are also new acquaintances. The day before yesterday, the child and his party met Yi Gongzi's dart team on the post road in Shanzhou, it was raining heavily, and the impeller of the dart car fell into the mud and could not get out. That's how the child and he came to know. Mei Yuanchen briefly reported what happened that day.

Mei Siyuan stroked his beard and laughed: "Haha, you are good at forming good relationships! You help them in Shanzhou, why don't you help your father and the court!"

"yes. At that time, the child still thought, what is this dart cart carrying, why is it so heavy? It turned out to be green saltpeter that my father couldn't find. Mei Yuanchen recalled the reason for that day, and said with relief, "Perhaps, this is the fate arranged by God!"

In a deep mansion, Li Xueci was pacing back and forth.

"Elder Li, our people have surrounded the Anxian Salt Transportation Mansion, do you really want to do it?" a short and fat old man in his fifties reported to Li Xueci.

"Alas..."The arrow has been wound, and Li Xueci is suddenly a little uncertain. Mei Siyuan is a member of the first rank of the dynasty, if it is not a last resort, Li Xueci will never easily kill him. And although this Mei Siyuan is old-fashioned, his actions are really admirable. Li Xueci thinks that he is not a good man and a woman, but he is also happy and convinced of Mei Siyuan and his people, but his position is different. It's just that the fundamental livelihood of the Salt Gang is the buying and selling of private salt, and Mei Siyuan cut off the supply of dark salt less than two months after taking office, which is equivalent to cutting off the Salt Gang's financial and livelihood routes. The gang advocated sending Li Xueci to Jinzhou to solve the matter. Li Xueci asked Mei Siyuan several times to be accommodating, and the price offered was getting higher and higher, but Mei Siyuan was always unmoved and did not allow it.

"Damn, if you don't kill him, I'm afraid the helper will kill me. No matter how much it is, tell the brothers to do it!" Li Xueci thought about it for a while, and finally made up his mind.

The short and fat old man got Li Xueci's words, and quickly walked out in response.

"Dad, what's the sound outside?" Mei Yuanchen heard a commotion and hurriedly asked Mei Siyuan.

Mei Siyuan didn't hear anything unusual, but as soon as Mei Yuanchen asked, he already knew what was going on, stretched out his hand and put it on Mei Yuanchen's shoulder, and said with a forced smile: "Chen'er, you don't care, no matter what happens outside, there are government soldiers and your Grandpa Yun, you stay here!"

Mei Yuanchen couldn't hear clearly at first, but at this time he clearly heard a few cries, and he didn't understand anything, so he hurriedly rushed out with an arrow. Following the sound to the outer courtyard, what he saw made him extremely angry: a group of gangsters with black pressure were besieging the government soldiers and Yun Kite, Yun Harrier, Fu Cheng and others, the enemy was outnumbered, and the house was obviously difficult to support.

"Huh~" Mei Yuanchen used the "Douzhuan Diagonal Step Twenty-three" to rush into the battle circle. Reaching out and pressing on the shoulder of a black-clothed gangster, he crushed his shoulder blade. The heartache caused the man in black to drop the handle of his sword, and the ghost cried wolf. This is the first time in Mei Yuanchen's life that he has hurt people with martial arts, but soon there will be a second and third time...

Mei Yuanchen's feet were extremely fast, and the black-clothed gangsters everywhere he went were all crushed shoulder blades, and he couldn't fight anymore, and in a blink of an eye, thirty or forty people were controlled by Mei Yuanchen. At this time, the Taoist priests of the True Martial Arts Temple had also heard the movement and rushed in with their swords.

"Ah~~ my eyes!"...

"Ah~~~Ah!"...

"I can't resist it, retreat! Retreat!"

Hearing that the gangsters said that they were going to withdraw, Mei Yuanchen was overjoyed, but unexpectedly heard Yun Yuan shouting: "Block their way, don't let them run!"

Obviously, the martial arts of the Taoist priests of the True Martial Arts Temple are higher than those of the Fu soldiers and Mei Siyuan's personal guards, and they hold the sword in the direction, and the blood is splashed in the sky, and there is no way to stop it. Seeing that dozens of people had escaped from the hospital, Yun Yuan hurriedly flew up to follow, and Zhan Tong, Zhan Jue, Gu Yiqing, and Zhi Cang also rushed out after him.

When the five of them turned and returned, there was no movement in the courtyard, only the corpses lying all over the place and blood flowing everywhere...

Mei Yuanchen looked at the broken corpse and bright red blood in front of him, and was stunned there, having lost his soul. He took action to restrain the sixty-seven people, but he did not make a killing move, but the sixty-seven people who were restrained were all killed by the government soldiers, and none of them were spared.

At this time, Mei Siyuan had already walked over, looked at the corpses on the ground, sighed heavily, and asked the captain of the guard on the side: "He Jing, is there any damage in the house?"

"Back to my lord, Xu Haisheng and Zhang Xiaoxian are gone, and there are seven or eight more seriously injured. The captain of the guard, He Jing, replied with a sad face, paused and continued to report, "This time, more than 200 gangsters came, if it weren't for the presence of all the Taoist leaders and sons, we would definitely not be able to hold on." ”

Mei Siyuan looked at Mei Yuanchen, who was stunned beside him, patted his arm gently, and said in a low voice: "Chen'er, the world is so sinister, if others want to kill you, no matter how much you can't bear it, you must not be soft, otherwise, you will definitely harm yourself and the people close to you." If we don't kill them today, you and I, as well as your mother and Grandpa Yun, we won't be able to survive any of them, understand?"

Mei Yuanchen raised his head and looked at his father and nodded slightly. Two lines of tears fell, fell to the ground, dripping on the blood that turned dark red...