Chapter 103: Safe and safe house

After the test and inspection, the four short muskets were handed over to the hands of several Li Meng's guards. Chen Liu and Wang Hai were two of them. Although the gunpowder and lead pills were relatively rare, they were still allocated specifically.

Under Li Meng's suggestion, the charge amount was divided in advance according to the best launch effect, and then wrapped it into small bags in oil paper and placed it in close-fitting cowhide bags. Hou Shan and Ning Gangui prepared about 4,000 taels of cash silver, 2,000 taels of scattered silver, 2,000 taels of silver bills, and most of the silver bills and silver were carried by the guards.

The elite salt dicks stationed in various places were also hurriedly rushing back. Li Meng had no special guards, but the salt dick team that was on the rotation was transferred. This time, they were selected and calm and dared to fight. They were all top-ranked in previous skill assessments. Moreover, the requirements for these people were to participate in the official road salt dick blood battle, Xiazhuang killing horse thieves and Lijia Manor killing fans.

Wu Tongzhi also unscrupulously opened up a large number of blank road guides. Now the rules of this road guide are corrupted and no one pays attention to it. Li Meng also sent a letter to Eunuch Liu in the capital, saying that he was about to travel far. If there was anything needed, just ask Wu Tongzhi to inform the servants.

Yingtou and Lingshan Salt Field in Jiaozhou were all transferred back to Zhao Neng, who was guarding Changyi, and Ma Gang also changed to Gaomi area. These two people supported each other and monitored each other.

At this time, Nanzhili and Henan were in chaos around Shandong, but Li Meng wanted to travel far away, and everyone around him was persuading him. However, Li Meng insisted on his actions, and the people below could only cooperate as much as possible, mobilize capable people, excellent weapons, and sufficient financial resources to ensure safety.

There were Donglu outside and Shaanxi chaos inside. However, along the Caohe Line, the capital, Jining, Nanzhili, and Zhejiang, these places were extremely prosperous. The great prosperity of industry and commerce and the powerful landlords were concentrated in these places, resulting in nearly modern consumption and lifestyles in these places.

I just don’t know if such extreme prosperity is a so-called sign of prosperity and decline, or if everyone thinks that the end of the world is approaching, so everyone is crazy...

According to the news that Li Meng got at his own fragrant salt shop in Jiningzhou, perhaps because of his own methods last year, the consumption of green salt suddenly increased. Moreover, when Li Meng used fine salt to pretend to be green salt last year, he once said that there are many different aspects of green salt compared to ordinary fine salt, such as smell and color.

At that time, I thought it was a deceptive method, but after the green salt trend was really started, some people who really understand the industry said that green salt and ordinary salt do have many different places, and in fact, the green salt and mineral composition produced in the salt lakes in Qinghai and Gansu must be different from well salt and sea salt.

Since there is a difference, the price will rise. In fact, there are similar cases of this kind of speculation in Europe in the same era. For example, the merchant-oriented Netherlands has a craze for tulips to rush prices and speculation. The essence of tulips and green salt is no different. It is just a gimmick for speculation. Merchants want to use this speculation to make the price of green salt in their hands higher.

However, the inventory of real green salt is really scarce. It is intermittently transmitted from Liu Chuan from Henan and Sichuan, which cannot satisfy the market at all.

Although the price of green salt is high, the price of fine salt that can be used as a substitute is only 20% higher. Whoever can get green salt can make a fortune.

Li Meng was very confident about this. As long as he could open up the trade route, get more profits, and expand his manpower, he could steadily control this trade route and make a fortune.

It has to be admitted that although Zhou Juren was reckless and talked a lot, the so-called base area was really a gem for Li Meng and his inspection system. Shandong was not a long-term place, so Li Meng gave up the idea of ​​long-term business. Instead, he wanted to grab as much money as possible here, and to accumulate more strength, he was the strength.

If you are the first to open up the Qingyan channel, you will surely have a lot of money to make. Moreover, Shandong is not a long-term place. Taking this opportunity to go out and find new places is also a purpose.

These days, going out is very different from modern travel, especially in the chaos of wars everywhere, so many things need to be prepared. Most of the horses on Li Meng are brought with him, and several large carts are loaded with things. According to Ning Qiangui's arrangement, three hundred people will follow him this time.

Li Meng never expected that there would be such trouble. So many people traveled through the state and the prefectures were too noticeable. Finally, he repeatedly discussed it and there were 200 people who went there together.

When everything is ready, it is mid-July. The weather is still cool and pleasant, without any sign of hotness.

Chen Liuzi, Wang Hai, and a group of salt kids all changed into the clothes of caravans. Nowadays, merchants are everywhere, and they are carrying swords and weapons, so no one will say anything about the swords on their waists and the spears placed on the cart. Chen Liuzi and Wang Hai and others who are protecting Li Meng, and there are light leather armor on their bodies.

As for Li Meng, he had a chain mail inside and a leather armor inlaid with iron parts on the outside, which was a heavy protection. The carts and horses were waiting at the door of the inspection yamen's house, but before Li Meng went out, Wang Hai stared at the inner hall and said to Chen Liu beside him in confusion:

"Brother Six, what's wrong with sir? I seem to be afraid of?"

Chen Liu hit the back of his head and whispered:

"No, why are you afraid of being promoted and rich recently? It's all good things."

While speaking, Li Meng had already walked out of the house with a deep face and said nothing. He just waved at the brigade and turned over and the brigade of horses. The brigade of people followed one after another.

Originally, the road to the city did not have to pass through the gate of the magistrate's yamen. What made everyone wonder was that Li Meng instructed to take this road. Although he was confused, everyone still obeyed the order. So many people passed by the magistrate's yamen, and the yamen runners in the yamen were all so scared that their faces were pale. They closed the door early and looked out through the cracks in the door.

These more than 200 strong men are not something that a small prefectural magistrate can deal with, but it seems that these people are not here to cause trouble, and just pass by themselves.

Li Meng rode a horse in front. After walking through this yamen, he had already passed the mansion where the magistrate's yamen and the family lived. He came to the backyard. Li Meng suddenly stopped and stopped at the back wall. The wall was painted very clean. This was the mansion of the magistrate, and no one dared to have fun and make trouble here, and it was very clean.

Although everyone was strange, they still looked at Li Meng stopping at the back wall and staring at the wall. Yan Ding looked at the wall strangely, thinking that it was just a wall, and there was something good to look at.

After a while, Li Meng seemed to have reacted from a sudden dazed state. He shook his head, sighed, and was about to issue an order to leave. Several people close to him, Chen Liu and Wang Hai, could feel that Li Meng's emotions became very depressed. Everyone was very confused and wondering what was going on.

Just as Li Meng was urging the horse, he saw an old woman running over panting. She was surprised to see so many people standing behind the wall, but she still walked to the wall with a bitter face, brushed the wall with paste, and muttered in a low voice:

"I really don't know what it is for. I was locked in the house, but I said that this 'Safe at home' was posted on the back wall, so I could be at peace..."

While speaking, he put the short red paper banner in his hand on the wall, and then ran away hurriedly. Looking at the banner posted on the wall, Li Meng suddenly stopped his horse and stared at the banner for a long time.

The people in this team were completely confused. After watching for a while, Li Meng drove the horses and walked out of the city. After walking for a while, Li Meng laughed loudly, and the laughter was extremely joyful."

"...If you want, please arrange for your servant to put a red paper banner of 'Safe at home' on the back wall of the mansion. If you don't want to, you don't have to do anything..."

At this time, Li Meng felt more and more strange. He thought that he was still depressed when he went out, but why was he so happy suddenly? Naturally, Li Meng would not explain this to his subordinates, but just went out of the city with great pride.

In Laizhou and Qingzhou prefectures, Li Meng's group was very comfortable walking. The local tyrants and salt owls who were responsible for private salt sales along the way were eager for Li Meng to live with them. Now the salt administration inspection in Laizhou is their parents of food and clothing. As long as they are happy to serve, they will definitely have many benefits.

Li Meng took this route from Jiningzhou Technical Technical College, Danxian County to Henan, and along the banks of the Yellow River. The benefits of this journey are, on the one hand, by boat, by water transportation, and on the other hand, although in Henan, officers and soldiers can still maintain control on both sides of the river bank by relying on the high-speed maneuverability of water transportation.

After arriving in Jiningzhou, his own fragrant salt shop welcomed him in fear and fear. Needless to say, Wenru Trading, who is an old family, also came to entertain him.

The two salt merchants and shopkeepers of the Wang family and Kong family in Fengmeng Town were actually both sent by Wenru Trading Company. Li Meng relied on inquiries with other salt dealers, Yan Xiao, to know a long time ago that the two salt merchants transported the salt collected in Laizhou to Jining by water, and then sold it to northern Henan and southern Shanxi.
Chapter completed!