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Chapter 49 Worry About Gains and Losses

It turned out that Inspection Mou had an income of up to 3,000 taels of silver per year, but why did Li Meng be so high? It turned out that Inspection Mou had two incomes when he was in office. One was to do some private salt transactions by himself, and the other was to plunder the salt managers and hand over them layer by layer. For example, if the bottom pawn got ten cents, he had to hand over them to the leader for seven cents, and the leader then handed them to inspect Mou for four cents, and the whole was a pyramid of fat sharing.

It is just that the amount of money is paid in layers, and there is no effective monitoring system, so it is to deduct it from layer to layer. Inspection inspector Mou is a mess, and a large amount of silver money is deducted by these little men. This is an extremely inefficient way to make money. Li Meng's is to control the source, master the channels, make the process simple and direct, and make money efficient.

Knowing that Li Meng could earn more without him, Master Ning still felt quite disappointed. How could he show his importance? However, after working in the inspector's yamen for a few days, Master Ning knew that Li Meng and his men were a very united and unbreakable group.

What shocked Master Ning even more was the combat effectiveness of the salt dicks under Li Meng. Although Ning Gangui was a literati, it was still obvious that these young men were much stronger than those who seemed ferocious and evil salt dicks in the past.

There are also Li Meng's disposal of salt fields and salt fields, which are simple and effective. Compared to the past, it can almost be called perfect, and it is difficult for others to take advantage of loopholes.

Seeing so much, Ning Gangui became more and more worried about his situation. He could understand that if he had no use to Li Meng, he would inevitably be driven out in the future. This place with chaos, rich income and protection is not so easy to find.

However, he did not expect that Li Meng still admired him very much. Almost all the official documents and daily administrative affairs were taken over by Master Ning, and he was in an orderly manner. Such a person really saved too many worries. Li Meng ran around Jiaozhou City, Fengmeng Town, Lingshan Salt Field and Lingshan Guard every day to train and produce.

One side was nervous, the other side felt appreciative. Li Meng quickly added monthly money to Ning Gangui, but this Master Ning was greatly moved. He thought that Lord Li Meng had a lot and worked harder, and was determined to take out some real things to repay the other party.

Now Li Meng is practicing salt diced outside the city, and the training of the queue and physical fitness remains unchanged. With the content of the training, the salt diced were divided into two teams and formed a formation to fight each other. Ma Gang came up with a very good idea, which was to hire children in the city to throw at the marching salt diced queue with clay and wooden sticks.

Anyone who moves randomly and moves randomly will be punished severely. This is also a kind of adaptive exercise for long-range weapons. I don’t know how effective it is when facing actual combat, but many people are smashed into purple.

"Sir, the student has something to report here!"

It took almost half a month to return to the inspection yamen. Master Ning basically only saw Li Meng during morning and dinner. Moreover, Li Meng either trained salt stewards outside the city, ran around in Fengmeng Town and various garrisons to check the production and sales of salt. When inspector Mou was in this position, he either was in a restaurant or a brothel or a gambling house every day. He just cared about enjoyment every day. Every time he went downstairs to buy and sell private salt, he also needed several divisions and a clerks, and even the salt stewards leader urged him to go there reluctantly.

Therefore, when Master Ning was planning for Inspection Mou, he often felt disdainful. What future could such a nouveau riche have? But now Li Meng's hard work every day makes Master Ning unable to understand. Sitting in this position without enjoying it at all, running around every day, what is this?

Seeing that the clothes Li Meng was wearing were also ordinary, mostly half old, she rarely drank in her daily life, and she didn't see any woman around her. After leaving the city to do things, she had to work hard in her own courtyard and practice weapons.

"Old Ning? It's been recently!"

Li Meng's voice sounded in the room, Ning Gangui smiled, thinking that the master was a little too peaceful and never talked about official authority with the people in the inspection office. He just treated the salt deputies with strict rules and seriousness. There were many strange things. I pushed the door open and went in.

Originally, the study room had become a canteen. Li Meng, Chen Liuzi and Wang Hai were having lunch there. The meal was also very simple. A basket of steamed white flour cakes (stewed buns), a pot of roasted mutton, and a pot of roasted pork. It was all thick oil and red sauce, and it was so roasted. There was no difference between superiority and inferiority among the few people sitting there, and they were all chewing there.

Seeing Ning Gangui come in, Chen Liuzi and Wang Hai both stood up and greeted him with a smile. Master Ning knew that these two were Li Meng's confidants, and he also greeted him with a smile. Although he had been with these people for a short time, he probably had less politeness than those salt chiefs in the past, but he had a lot of sincerity, which made people feel very comfortable.

Li Meng held a steamed bun in his hand and smiled and said:

"Lao Ning, I haven't used lunch, sit down and add a pair of chopsticks, sit down and talk, sit down and talk."

Ning Gangui smiled bitterly, hugged his fists, sat opposite Li Meng, and spoke:

"Thank you for your kindness to the inspector. The banquet at Shaohailou has been booked and the deposit has been delivered. Manager Lin promised the power to accept it. Please rest assured."

Li Meng nodded and turned to ask Wang Hai beside him and said:

"Did you bring my words to Hou Shan?"

Wang Hai was still chewing something in his mouth and replied in a vague way:

"I said it the day before yesterday. When I went there yesterday, I saw Hou Shan leading a few people to work hard."

All the things assigned were already said. Li Meng and the others asked Master Ning to eat again. Ning Gangui would either eat with everyone at this time, or they should have stood up and said goodbye. Master Ning hesitated for a moment and said:

"Mr. Li, the private salt we are going to inspect in our inspection office has two directions. One is the Lingshan Salt Field and the salt field by the sea, and the other is the salt coming from Haicang and Yuer Town near Laizhou Prefecture. In the past, the salt used there was Weixian, Changyi and Laizhou Prefecture in the north of Pingdu Prefecture, and Lingshan Salt is used to the south of Pingdu Prefecture."
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