Chapter 89: Trembling

Now that the goods cannot be transferred, the reputation and income will be greatly affected. The Huai merchants were so anxious that they seemed to be ants on the hot pan, but there was no way.

At this time, the salt dealers, Yan Xiao, who were all small and small in Jining City, knew about the news that the Wenru Trading Company had a large number of salt goods sold, gathered in the south of Yanzhou Prefecture in Jining. The salt dealers, Yan Xiao, who were in great anxiety because their sources of goods were broken. When they heard that there were salt goods sold, they all contacted each of them in the past.

Everyone knows where the salt goods come from. Apart from these salt merchants from the Huai River in Shandong, there is only one salt merchant left in Shandong, Li Erlang's Laizhou salt.

The matter seems to be very clear. The salt goods of Lianghuai salt merchants were destroyed, and now there are salt goods from Wenru Trading Company. It seems that who is the culprit of destroying those salt goods is clear. Lianghuai salt merchants were rampant in the world and were so cowardly that they were so cowardly. They immediately wrote a letter of paper and attached a generous gift to the salt transport envoy, Jining Prefecture Prefecture Office, and Yanzhou Prefecture Office in Guanyang.

However, when the paper and the gift came in, everyone smiled when they saw the gift. However, when the paper was reported, the prefect and the salt transportation envoy yamen directly called out. The prefecture yamen accepted the complaint and immediately sent someone to detain the shopkeeper of Wenru Trading Company (the shopkeeper Meng is already home to take care of his old age) into the yamen. Who would have thought that the next day, the prefect personally sent the shopkeeper out with a smile on his face.

The salt merchants' complaints were directly thrown into the face by the magistrate. If they hadn't spent another money to make up a generous gift, they would have been arrested in prison.

The conscience of heaven and earth, it is true that Li Meng sent people to destroy the salt warehouse. However, whether it was Eunuch Liu or Li Meng from the capital, they were not familiar with the salt transportation envoy, the prefect, or the prefect, and never said a word of greeting.

However, Wenru Trading Company is an industry run by the Kong family of Yansheng Gong in Qufu and the Meng family in Zoucheng. The Meng family inherited only a doctor of the Five Classics, but the Kong family is a super-quality duke. In Shandong, except for a few princes, his family has the highest grade. Those princes may have been removed from their vassals for several generations, but the Kong family has been passed down for thousands of years and has a great influence on the ground in Shandong. In order to offend Yansheng Gong in order to offend the salt merchants, no matter what official they are, they can figure out the account clearly.

Taking advantage of this salt goods transaction in the twelfth lunar month of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Li Meng's Laizhou salt goods finally opened up sales in Dongchang Prefecture and Jinan Prefecture.

During the turn of the seventh and eighth years of Chongzhen, the Huai merchants were in a state of great trouble. The salt goods were lost and destroyed, and the lawsuit was entangled. After the salt goods from both Huai were finally allocated, they found that Huai salt could only be sold in the southernmost part of Yanzhou. It was too close to Haizhou, so it was too unprofitable to use Laizhou salt.

By the beginning of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Laizhou salt occupied 90% of the entire Shandong market. Li Meng's monthly income was more than doubled than before the year, but Li Meng did not have any expansion. Although his subordinates did not understand, Li Meng placed 1,200 salted saline in Fengmeng Town and Lingshan Guard.

The market that Yanzhou Prefecture and Dongchang Prefecture just occupied was taken advantage of by some small vendors because of insufficient manpower.

Fengmeng Town is under strict vigilance, and salt dicks guard the main traffic roads respectively. Although the transaction of salt goods is still in normal progress, the people in the town feel a little nervous.

Li Meng was a little scared by that sneak attack. After coming to this era, the things he encountered and experienced were too smooth, which led to his carelessness.

During the Chongzhen period, it was not a peaceful and legal society. It was one of the darkest eras in Chinese history. There were swords and swords everywhere. Li Meng thought that relying on his own strength, the area from Jiaozhou City to Lingshan became a relatively peaceful place, but the overall environment still did not improve.

Li Meng always felt scared and mobilized a large number of people to station around Fengmeng Town. He was not worried about the sneak attack that afternoon, but about the dozens of Jinyiwei who were burned to the manor and never had a rest, and would attract more large-scale attention.

According to Li Meng's estimate, the Jinyiwei Qianhu Office of Shandong Jinan Jinan Qianhu Office would have about seven or eight hundred people. If it comes to the door, it would be a big trouble. Even if it is not effective in combat, the imperial soldiers will definitely not sit idly by after fighting this wave, and his strength is not enough.

After the incident, Li Meng sent people to cut the mess and deal with a group of resentful salt owls and salt vendors. These people were the people who were damaged by Li Meng's decision to divide the fragmentation system. Qiu Dahai even informed Jinyiwei and guided him with his brother-in-law, Ambassador Zhang from Lingshan Salt Field.

In Jining, Li Meng could do some commercial means. The salt merchants in Haizhou were a group that had existed since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Not only was the world rich, but their relationships in the officialdom were also mixed. They were like monsters, and they were not sure and dared not provoke them easily. In Jining, they were all small characters, so who knew what kind of reliance they would have behind them.

The salt peddlers complained. It was not a big deal to stay in Fengmeng Town, but in Fengmeng Town, Li Meng personally supervised the training, and the training volume doubled, which was really exhausted.

When the first month of the year was about to come out, another letter from the capital made Li Meng finally relieved. Liu Fulai said in his heart with anger that since he is a relative, don’t hide it from him if he has something to do. Although we are the only ones and do not bully others, we cannot let others bully ourselves.

The letter was mentioned at the end, saying that Li Qianhu, the Jinyiwei of Jinnan, was his own family and could ask him for help if he had anything to do. After reading the letter, Li Meng was stunned for a while, and then breathed a sigh of relief, knowing in his heart that the crisis for him during this period had passed.

Since the crisis has passed, the establishment of 600 salt dices around Li Meng has been determined, and the personnel in various places for investigation and anti-smuggling salt have become sufficient. The occupied private salt market has gradually stabilized and began to generate continuous benefits.

This time, Li Meng also discovered a problem. The quality of the salt ding training was not too high. Perhaps several salt ding captains did not pay much attention to training. During the period when there were more than a thousand salt dings in Fengmeng Town, Zhao Neng, Chen Liu, Wang Hai, and Ma Gang's salt ding teams were only Ma Gang and Zhao Neng's guaranteed training, while Chen Liu and Wang Hai's were a little lazy.

If before the Jinyiwei arrested the people, Li Meng would just call the people to scold them and wait for them to correct them. The current method of handling them is very simple. He directly demoted Chen Liu and Wang Hai to the squad deputy and transferred them to his side to guard the guard. It turned out that the deputy of the Salt Ding team of the two of them was promoted to the captain of the Salt Ding team.

In March of the eighth year of Chongzhen, the weather showed no signs of spring. The news that was passed on to Li Meng on this day was very exciting: On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Fengyang Prefecture of Zhongdu was trapped by the Shaanxi thief Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's troops destroyed the imperial tombs and halls, and the Longxing Temple was burned. The Prime Minister Zhu and the Fengyang Prefecture of Zhongdu were all killed in battle.

In modern times, Li Meng never knew that so many things happened in this era, at least he could not learn all of this in textbooks in elementary, junior and high schools.

Li Meng was drinking strong tea in the warm house and watching the newspaper, but he didn't feel comfortable. There was not enough time and he solved the threat of Jinyiwei in fear, but he felt that this era was still moving forward.

Time is like a river that moves forward forever. Li Meng heard this sentence inadvertently in modern times. At that time, he was just a smile. He thought that these little bourgeoisie would find some beautiful words without any real meaning to show their profoundness. However, after coming to the Chongzhen period, Li Meng always remembered this sentence. At present, he himself was like a moth landing on the river, and could not change the flow of the river at all.

Everything is still going on the normal trajectory. If this continues, it will reach the darkest era. In that darkest era, Li Meng has no doubt that he will be crushed to pieces.

At the end of March, Li Meng finally returned to the house where his salt administration inspectors were stationed in Jiaozhou City. Three hundred salt dicks were stationed outside the city, and 300 people moved into the city. They trained as usual every day, making the part of Jiaozhou people who were used to sleeping in. The shouts during training outside were earth-shaking, which was also Li Meng's request. In the assassination training of the People's Liberation Army, the final ones must be shouted and killed to add momentum.

Putting down the mansion newspaper, Li Meng picked up the letter paper from Eunuch Liu of the capital on the table. The letter papers between the two sides can be said to be relatively frequent. Although the cost of passing letter papers on the road is indeed a bit high, it is just the official spending money. Li Meng occasionally thought that since the post station was cut off and Li Zicheng appeared, then the expensive letter papers would not be too much to be passed on.

The letter exchange between Li Meng and Eunuch Liu was intentionally avoiding things that were beneficial to both sides, and talking about the idle things that happened in their respective lives. For example, after the news of the burning of the Fengyang Emperor's Mausoleum reached the capital, Emperor Chongzhen cried bitterly, and the palace and all officials were wearing mourning clothes. Because the Fengyang Emperor's Mausoleum was burned, the army originally arranged in Shaanxi, Henan and Shaanxi were about to be mobilized again, and the elite troops in Nanzhili also began to be mobilized. The eunuchs of the Silijian were all trembling, and Emperor Chongzhen's temper became increasingly fierce. The fourth Bingbi had three words written in the wrong letter, Chongzhen wanted to order the beard to be killed. It was the eunuch Wang Chengen who stopped him, but he was also expelled from the Silijian.

However, these are not what Li Meng is concerned about. Although these things fall into the hands of some high-ranking officials and nobles, they are priceless treasures. For a ninth-rank salt administration inspector and the general flag of Lingshan Guard, they are just some gossip rumors from the capital.
Chapter completed!