The guy who was welcoming guests at the door scratched his head and thought to himself that Li Meng and the three ordinary people were just ordinary people. Why was their shopkeeper so respectful? After entering the inner courtyard, Chen Liuzi, who was called "Boss Chen", was very uneasy and said with a hurried smile:

"Shopkeeper Li, this is our eldest brother Li Meng. I'm here to settle the scores. I've hidden it so much, don't blame me."

Manager Li quickly reacted. He also knew that the private salts in Jiaozhou City were now monopolized by the so-called "salt rods". Since Chen Liuzi called the eldest brother, he must be the big boss with many legends. He immediately clasped his fists with a more respectful attitude:

"So this is Li Erlang. Speaking of which, we are still our own family. We have been very much impressed. If you have any negligence when you meet for the first time, please atone for your sins."

He said sorry words, with a smile on his face and a false invitation on his hands, which had already brought people into the inner hall where the backyard was greeted. Li Meng smiled and signaled that it was okay, but at the same time he felt quite friendly in his heart. The late Ming Dynasty was a chaotic world, but it was also an era of extremely prosperous business.

Seeing that the shopkeepers in this Zhoucheng store had a level of service and service level that was no different from those modern merchants with good service attitude. Li Meng thought so, but he didn't expect that the shopkeepers of this warehouse were also secretly surprised. The legend of Li Erlang was widely circulated in Jiaozhou City. Naturally, he knew about the well-informed place of the warehouse. However, not many people have seen Li Meng. Everyone imagined him as a strong man with a height of nine feet and a waist circumference of nine feet.

Who would have thought that when he met like this, although Li Meng was tall, he was a very gentle person. Unlike the military men he had contacted in normal times, to be more precise, he had some strange temperaments and attitudes that were combined with literati and businessmen, and his attitude was also polite.

With this impression, Manager Li was even more polite and respectful. He asked Li Meng to sit down and serve good tea. Seeing that Chen Liuzi and Wang Hai, who are not afraid of the world, stand respectfully behind Li Meng, he felt that Li Meng was not yet waiting for the salt bars and other people to speak, Manager Li said first:

"From the twelfth lunar month to the first lunar month, there are a total of 120 taels of silver payment, and the cabinet is ready to come out..."

While talking, a guy walked in with a silver bag in small steps, put it on the coffee table, and then stepped out. Manager Li stopped and said nothing, and smiled and pushed the silver bag in front of Li Meng.

In the Ming Dynasty, the official sales of salt in Jinzhou was not an official salt merchant. They bought Li Meng's salt, so they were naturally a private salt transaction. The official salt was sold for two taels of silver in Jiaozhou City, and there was a lot of debris and mud inside, so the people were unwilling to buy it. The salt merchants also responded to the story.

In Jiaozhou City, all the warehouses of some scale operate some private salt sales business, and the people are also happy to buy them. They sell salt into small bags, and the retail profit is higher. These people usually collect some private salt in Lingshan Salt Field. Since Li Meng's salt rod rises, they have taken advantage of the situation to provide this supply.

What everyone was a little confused about the salt rod was that the price Li Meng sold to these merchants in Jiaozhou City was nine cents per pound, which made the other party take advantage.

Li Meng opened the silver bag, split a small pile, pushed it to Manager Li, and said with a smile:

"My family's business is also hard-working, so please accept these."

Although Manager Li was surprised to see the money delivered to him, he still couldn't help but put the money in his sleeves and said with a smile:

“How does this make.”

"In the future, if I sell a lot of salt for a high-priced account, I will have the benefit of a piece of silver from the shopkeeper. This is just the first one. Don't be polite, the shopkeeper."

The more you sell, the more benefits you get from the individual. Are you afraid that the other party will not try hard to sell the salt for yourself? People seek profit. This Jinzhou Inn is not the property of Manager Li, but it is just that he manages it here. If there are benefits, it is naturally disrespectful. Modern commissions and kickbacks are also very useful in ancient times.

Both sides were polite again, and Li Meng took a sip of tea and asked in a deep thought:

"How is the salt merchant business in this city?"

"Li Erlang said that Zhang's family sells official salt. Zhang En couldn't continue to work long ago. He opened a restaurant in the city to supplement the household income..."

The official salt tea business is also hereditary, but private salt is flooded, and official salt has no sales at all, so this identity has become a burden. When Li Meng heard this, before he could wait for him to speak, shopkeeper Li smiled and said:

"Not to mention this salt merchant, even this inspection is not popular."

Li Meng said in surprise, "Oh" and Shopkeeper Li looked at Li Meng as he was interested. He was happy with the money and started talking quickly.

The Salt Administration Inspection is just a ninth-rank small official, but countless people are flocking to it. It is not that this position can be used to investigate and smuggle salt and fill the private bag, but that this position can openly traffic in private salt. Trafficking in private salt is a worrying business. Just to defend the salt team, it takes a lot of extra expenses and energy to clear the joints.

But the salt administration inspectors sell private salt, which is like a thief, and just doing it openly. It can also sell private salt, but the price is much higher, so the profit is naturally much higher.

The areas in Jiaozhou City are responsible for Laizhou and southern Dengzhou. Recently, Dengzhou's military disaster was so we could only focus on Laizhou Prefecture. This Laizhou Prefecture can make money from it, and it can make a share of private salt, and it can make a share of private salt by itself. There is also the filial piety of foreign salt merchants.

Therefore, after inspector Mou died, many people took out money and used their relationship to compete for this position. However, things often change with time. Now there are chaos in Qingzhou and Yanzhou. Although the military disaster in Dengzhou is about to end, the sequelae will not be maintained for a short time.

The chaos in these places is equivalent to the filial piety of foreign salt merchants for a while, and there is no need to rely on it. However, many people are still competing for the ban on private salt and the sale of private salt trafficking. However, after time, Lingshan Salt Field and the surrounding areas are gradually controlled by a salt owl.

The salt deers could not gather their strength to stop anything, and the government did not care about it. This means that the two financial paths of banning private salt and trafficking private salt were also cut off, or at least it would take a lot of effort to recover. There was no money to make money. What's the point of this position? This situation made many people who were interested in fighting for this inspection position feel cold.

So a very strange thing happened. The position of the salt administration inspection stationed in Jiaozhou was vacant, but no one cared about it, so he just started to die.

Manager Li looked at Li Meng with concentration and thoughtfulness, and said with a smile:

"The seats for the first time, which were popular in the inspection, are now cold and dry food. The Ministry of Revenue does not care about it and the Salt Administration Department does not care about it. It is said that it was pushed to the magistrate, but no one dared to take it off and just left it there."
Chapter completed!