"Li Meng, can we really make money this time?"

On the path in Jiaodong, Zhao Neng asked Li Meng who was walking in the middle while pushing the wheelbarrow. Li Meng spent all his strength on pushing the wheelbarrow and answered without hesitation. The expressions of the dozen people next to him seemed a little relaxed, but he also looked around and seemed very nervous.

There were four or five wheelbarrows in this group, and the rest were carrying shoulder poles. Whether it was on the car or on the shoulder pole, they were all bulging straw bags.

In the summer of the fifth year of Chongzhen, the Denglai area seemed particularly deserted. Kong Youde caused rebellion in Dengzhou, plundered officials and people, and did everything he could do, and even had beastly behaviors that were not enough military rations to eat people. The Denglai military preparations were always relaxed, and they were beaten by these border soldiers from Liaodong. The court could only mobilize troops from all over the place to suppress them. For a time, soldiers from all over Shandong were mobilized, and the wind and waves were heard.

However, this tense situation also has its advantages. There are very few pedestrians walking on the official road. The soldiers were all transferred to suppress the rebellion, and there were no patrolers. Li Meng and the other dozen people walked on the road without worrying about being caught. As for why they were so nervous.

It's very simple. What these military children do now is to violate the law and traffic in silence.

Li Meng was knocked unconscious and when he woke up, he still held a pot in his hand, which was used to make salt. He ate the mountains and the sea, and was so close to the sea, he had to rely on him to earn some food and clothing money.

Throughout the dynasties, salt and iron tea were sold exclusively, and everything sold privately was a serious crime, and the degree of this serious crime was basically beheaded or snatched, just to ensure the profits of the government's monopoly sale. However, if there are profits, some people will inevitably take risks, such as salt trading.

The good land of the military households in the Xue Family Institute was occupied by officers at all levels, but they were all a large family. Seeing the barren land, they all wanted to find another way out. This is the easiest way to boil sea water and salt.

Walking ten miles southward at the Xue Family Qianhu House, there is a Lingshan Salt Farm. As long as you boil salt, the salt farm will buy it. A load of salt, about 120 kilograms, can be sold for three cents of silver.

The sea water is inexhaustible, and firewood is also not short of it. Three cents of silver are used to supplement the household income. Therefore, all military households who do not farm will cook salt on the sea by the sea. Li Meng was also caught by Zhao Neng to boil salt. The money earned from boiling salt can be supplemented with some living expenses.

But it is a bit risky to sell this salt to a salt farm. There is a police inspector Mou Laozhong living in nearby Jiaozhou. In the past, the inspections of private salt are generally the largest private salt dealers in the area. They gather hundreds of rascals and rascals and rampant counties.

This inspection can sell private salt by itself, but it is not allowed to sell it by others. People can be investigated and arrested everywhere. After being caught, people can be fined and extorted. The salt goods will also fall into their own pockets, which is the most delicious.

Among them, military households such as the Xue Family, which are even worse than those of the private households, especially those who boil sea salt, are the best targets for Inspection Mou.

In Li Meng's almost blank memory, "King Mou Yan" was one of the words he feared. It can scare a fool like this, which shows his majesty. There are hundreds of families in the Xue family who boil a lot of salt every year, but most of the money falls into the pocket of the King of Mou Yan.

Moreover, it is not only this one that harms the military households. The girl in Zhao Neng’s neighbors was ruined by this inspection and committed suicide by holding a stone and throwing a cart there. Chen Liuzi, who was pushing a cart there, saved one or two or five cents of silver last year, and wanted to buy medicine for his father to treat his illness.

As a result, he was caught by inspector Mou on the way to sell salt, saying that it was the money for selling salt. He beaten up and robbed him. Chen Liuzi's father had no money to see a doctor and went there in a few days.

Speaking of which, this is a garrison, and there are just a small ninth-rank inspection. One army and one civilian. It should not be afraid. However, in the past few decades, those who have fought outside have recruited soldiers. All those in the garrison are soldiers who work hard and cannot escape their military status. To put it bluntly, they are half-slaves. The inspection of private salt inspections is the salt administration with the greatest oil and water. All parties are flattering, and they have money and power in their hands, so they are naturally majestic.

The hundreds and thousands of households in the Xue Family were polite when they saw King Mou Yan, for fear that their wealth of selling private salt would be cut off by the other party. The above were like this, let alone the following military children.

When Li Meng tossed and turned at night, he remembered something. When Zhao Neng boiled salt, he talked to others that after collecting salt in the salt farm, some of them were mixed with sand and sold as official salt, while others were not sure where to buy some salt. Li Meng was very careful when he remembered this.

Next time I went to the salt farm to sell salt, I asked indirectly that the stove owners and salt Ding in the salt farm were also bitter and had no confidentiality. I could tell you everything for more than ten cents. It turned out that the private salt in the salt farm was also leaked out in two parts, part of which was bought by inspector Mou, and part of which was sold to private salt dealers in Fengmeng Town.

Guan Yan and inspector Mou came to buy salt, one liang of salt and one liang of silver, and one liang of salt was 120 jin. The private salt dealers in Fengmeng Town cost one liang and five liang of silver.

When Li Meng heard this price, he took a breath. He sold it to the salt farm and sold it to the salt farm and had a profit of one tael of silver. He didn't have to do anything and took the difference.

Li Meng, who is already a modern person, is deeply influenced by the market economy. With so many price differences, he feels that he should make the money by himself. I really don’t know why his neighbors and friends don’t do it.

Li Meng naturally wanted to go over and ask, but fortunately everyone thought that he had returned from a fool to a normal person, so he thought carefully about what he said. It turned out that the people from the Xue Family Qianhu Office were unwilling to directly traffic in private salt to Fengmeng Town because they were afraid that they would be caught by King Mou Yan on the way.

More people's reasons are even more ridiculous. Most people don't know the matter of selling salt to salt dealers in Fengmeng Town. Li Meng thought it would be very troublesome to convince everyone. Who knew that if he had given this situation, as long as he sent the salt to Fengmeng Town, more than 20 miles away, a load of salt would make an extra ounce of silver. Everyone was moved and everyone wanted to make this fortune.

Since everyone has this meaning, it will be much easier to deal with. When Li Meng went to Lingshan Salt Farm to deliver salt, he found out that Laizhou Salt Farm inspector Mou had to collect salt in the salt farm on June 13 and 14. He himself is a big private salt dealer. Every time he buys salt, it is a bulk transaction, so he can't get rid of it and will leave after two days.

The gap between the past two days is a good opportunity for the Xue family to sell private salt. Everyone is thinking about it. This fool has indeed become smarter and has considered things so thoroughly.

Since King Mou was not here, everyone knows how to walk on the small road and it also makes great profits - for poor military children, a load of salt and a tael of silver is a huge amount of money.

On June 12th, Zhao Neng and Chen Liu took the lead and called more than a dozen military men who were familiar with each other. Everyone kept 1,200 kilograms of salt in this job of boiling sea and drying salt. It was said that they could make 70 or 80 cents more silver than usual, and each became enthusiastic. They went to their neighbors to borrow a chicken bus (wheelbarrow), and took a shoulder pole to carry salt.

On June 13th, eleven people got up early, pushing the cart and carrying a shoulder pole out. When they first walked out of the house, everyone was still a little scared. After walking for half an hour, they looked back and could no longer see the house of the Xue Family Qianhu House, and gradually walked into the woods.

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