Chapter 3221 Ask for advice

When the children Bai Jingxing and Bai Ruoyu were forcibly taken to the restaurant, they happened to meet Bai Shan and Bai Erlang downstairs.

Bai Shan was used to it when he saw his dirty daughter. He just took out a handkerchief and wiped the sand and tears from her face, and asked her, "Why are you crying like this?"

Bai Jingxing immediately complained, "Aunt Wuyue won't let me play in the sand."

Wu Wuyue quickly reported: "My wife sent someone to say it's time to eat."

Bai Shan said to her, "Isn't it just playing in the sand that makes you cry like this?"

"You must have played a lot these past two days, and you should have a certain amount of fun. If you always play in the sand, and you get bored of it later, aren't you missing a piece of fun?"

"I won't get bored."

"This is as unbelievable as your previous statement that you wouldn't get tired of eating fat meat."

Bai Jingxing immediately stopped talking.

When she was just one year old, she especially liked eating fatty meat. She continued to eat it until half a year ago. Her favorite food was to chop 70% fat and 300% lean meat into meat soup, which was especially delicious when mixed with rice.

But six months ago, she suddenly didn't like eating fat meat anymore. She couldn't see any fat at all, and she had to be completely thin.

Bai Jingxing sighed like an adult.

Bai Erlang had already ordered the palace attendants to take his son down to clean him with a look of disgust on his face.

This restaurant is not small, and some of the large private rooms have washrooms. Coincidentally, the one that Zhou Man booked today was a deluxe large private room.

So the two of them were taken to the cubicle to be cleaned.

Tang He was dumbfounded, "Are these two kids so naughty?"

Isn't this too dirty?

He felt that his son was naughty enough, but he rarely got so dirty.

Bai Shan said nonchalantly: "How can a child not be naughty?"

Zhou Man nodded in agreement, "Just follow the rules."

Tang He: "...can being naughty and obedient go together?"

"Of course," they said, "it's not against the rules to have fun."

"Okay," Tang He waved his hand and decided to ignore the matter and talk about business, "Junior Yin, when will you leave to return to Beijing?"

Yin Yue said: "I have calculated that the first day of August is a good day."

Tang He raised his eyebrows, "It is indeed a good day. You guys should take your time on the road. It will be the Mid-Autumn Festival when you return to the capital."

Bai Shan asked: "Has the case in Laizhou been solved? Does Senior Brother Tang want to stay with me for a while, or..."

"I still have to go back to Laizhou," Tang He said, "The case hasn't been solved yet."

He twirled the tea cup and glanced around the room.

Bai Shan asked all the servants and guards serving in the room to leave, leaving only May and the eldest palace maid who were looking after the children in the compartment.

Both of them are absolutely trustworthy.

Tang He then said: "Zhi Shan, have you ever seen a pirate?"

Bai Shan: "Does the corpse count?"

Tang He looked at him.

Bai Shan explained, "Last year, pirates attacked merchant ships. When the news came back to Beihai County, I asked General Liu to send troops to the sea to suppress the pirates and bring back the merchant ships. At that time, in addition to the merchant ships and the people on them, General Liu also brought back two

There are some broken boats and a dozen corpses, they are all pirates."

Tang He sat up straight and asked, "Have you checked who they are?"

"The refugees over there in Baekje," Bai Shan said after a pause, "but the thieves on the sea are not only Baekje people, but also Japanese people, and even fishermen from Silla."

"Of course, as far as I know, the most powerful ones are actually the pirates from Pingzhou and Dengzhou. Most of them are islanders."

Tang He was surprised, "Jin people?"

Bai Shan nodded helplessly, "Yes, quite a few of these people are exiled sinners or descendants of sinners. They went to sea with local fishermen for various reasons, but the most original purpose is for profit."

He said: "General Liu and I both have a headache because neither place is under the rule of Qingzhou. We can only fight back when they appear and cannot control their home base."

Tang He tapped his fingers on the table, "This is very interesting."

"Why, is the sinking of the official ship related to them?"

"More than that," Tang He said with a slight smile: "But at this time, I can't tell you the details of the case."

Tang He thought for a long time, then approached Bai Shan and asked: "Zhishan, you know a lot about salt politics, and you figured out this method of drying salt. Tell me, how much is the profit from one stone of salt now?"

Bai Shandao: "Now salt is exclusively transported and sold by the Salt Transportation Department, and the price has dropped by nearly half compared to three years ago. The profit is actually not great. After all costs are removed, one stone only earns between five and ten cents."

After all, selling salt is now regarded as a national charity.

Tang He rubbed his chin and thought, "It doesn't sound like a lot."

Bai Shan poured himself a cup of tea, took a sip and said, "Brother, you have to ask this question when salt has a cost, or in other words, when there is a complete cost procedure."

Tang He raised his eyebrows, "What do you mean?"

Bai Shandao: "The official salt was robbed. In other words, they got the salt for nothing. There was no time, labor and material costs, and only part of the transportation cost. In this way, it is extremely cheap. If they sell it at the normal salt price, then

They earn more than one stone, five cents and ten cents."

Tang He patted the table lightly, "Yes, if they transport it to other places and the price of salt is higher than this, they will make even more money."

After Zhou Manggang finished talking to Mingda about Baekje Silla, he asked sensitively: "What do you mean another place?"

Yin Yue said: "Fan Bang?"

Tang He nodded, "Yes, I checked and found that the sunken official ship was not simple at all. It is said that sea-going ships are difficult to build and are extremely precious. Even if they wanted to grab the salt, they would not sink the ship."

This is also the reason why no one thought at first that it was a prisoner stealing, but that pirates were running rampant and robbing official ships.

After all, an official ship is no cheaper than the salt on the ship.

"Before the official ship sank, the loss of official salt in the Laizhou Salt Farm was very serious. You may not have noticed it by looking at it alone, but I have compared it with the accounts of your Beihai County Salt Transportation Department. Their losses, from production to disembarkation, are ten percent of yours.

Times more than that.”

Bai Shan clicked his tongue twice when he heard the words, "Liu Governor of Laizhou seems to be quite smart, why is he so hard to think about it?"

Tang He said with a strange look on his face: "I didn't know until I arrived in Laizhou that the person who secretly reported the matter to the Laizhou Salt Farm was Liu Governor."

At this time, everyone opened their mouths. Bai Shan was the first to react and asked: "Laizhou Salt Transportation Department?"

Tang He nodded, glanced at Bai Shanhou and said: "Back then, the Beihai County Salt Farm attracted too much attention. Although the official position of the Salt Transportation Department was not high, it involved great interests. Therefore, at that time, the Beihai County Salt Transportation Department was carefully selected by His Majesty, the Crown Prince and the courtiers.

The carefully selected candidates are upright and strong, and the Salt Transportation Department in other places will be inferior."

Bai Shan rubbed his forehead, feeling a little annoyed, "The Salt Transportation Department has only been established for three years, right?"

How could something like this happen so quickly?

Yin You understands very well, "Even if salt is a monopoly and the price is reduced by half, it is still one of the most profitable industries. After all, people in this world can do without tea and iron, but they cannot do without eating salt.

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Mingda suddenly said: "Destroying someone's money is like killing one's parents. Mr. Tang, you should be more careful."

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