The sky is high and the clouds are light, and the autumn is clear and the air is cool.⊙.

The warm sunshine shone down from the clear and cloudless blue sky, casting Zhao Liangzuo's figure on the flat bluestone street. Zhao Liangzuo's steps were hurried and he had no interest in paying attention to the dense shops on both sides of the street. The eaves of these shops are not high, but the storefronts are very wide, with old silk and satin shops and Japanese Japanese knives. In addition, various signature guise are dazzling.

On the streets, there were people riding sedan chairs, riding horses, riding donkeys, walking, and bustling.

Merchants from both east and west, from all over the world, traveled in this street market, carrying various merchants. The teahouse carrying lanterns in front of the door was filled with seats, including blind men who were telling books, blind women who were singing songs. The restaurant with fragrance was filled with people, and the chuckling of the singer was floating with the fragrance.

Although the Ming Dynasty has reached its present, the northern Tatars and southern Japanese have finally been pacified. However, the rise of Jianlu in the north and the bandits in the south have become bigger. The world is becoming more and more chaotic than before. Shaanxi and Henan have suffered disasters for years, and hungry people in various places have been in chaos. Even the rice price in Wuchang City has risen to one tael of silver and one stone.

But even so, when Zhao Liangzuo walked in Wuchang City, he still felt a dazed feeling. Here, he was still full of gold and intoxicated, singing and dancing, just like the bustling places in the south of the Yangtze River in Nandu and Yangzhou.

Liu Liangzuo has been to the north and even travels to the big cities in the north every year, such as Beijing, Datong, Taiyuan, Xi'an, Luoyang, Kaifeng, etc. The north and Jiangnan are not only different regions, but also different from the climate, but also like two completely different countries.

Half a month ago, there were many changes in Wuchang City. Beggars increased a lot, grain prices rose, and even many refugees continued to come. The gentry and merchants in teahouses and restaurants often had a few worries on their smiles. Many rich people even began to prepare to move to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

It turns out that land that is difficult to buy even if you have money, has begun to be sold on the market, and even the land price has begun to fall a lot.

Then, half a month ago, it suddenly went with the wind. Wuchang City returned to its former appearance, becoming rich and magnanimous, singing and dancing, prices also fell, and there were fewer refugees and beggars. The fields were priceless again, and those who had packed their luggage and prepared to move also put their luggage back, and everything was still the same.

The thieves in Xian Cao, who had been very troubled, were defeated by the official army again, and the thieves were captured alive. The bandits finally failed. It turned out that the bandits that had once made Wuchang City nervous have disappeared without a trace, and there were no famous bandits in the entire Huguang area. Wuchang City was finally safe and reliable again.

This Huguang Provincial Capital, which is surrounded by 3,098 meters, is a thoroughfare of nine provinces. The water and land pier is still prosperous.

However, not everyone has returned to their original life. Liu Liangzuo felt uneasy at this time. He was a gentry, and his father once passed the magistrate and left the magistrate outside the magistrate, and finally became the magistrate. Liu Liangzuo was a student since childhood, but it was not the material for the imperial examination, so he finally donated a prison student.

The Liu family is also a wealthy family, with hundreds of acres of land at home, but the Liu family's possessions were not passed down from ancestors, but mainly earned by Liu Liangzuo over the years. Although his father had become the prefect, he was later convicted and had his family all been lost. If it weren't for Liu Liangzuo, the Liu family would have been defeated.

Liu Liangzuo, a prison student who spent money to revitalize his family business, actually relied on selling private salt. With this, he has made a fortune over the years and bought land and houses.

But now, Liu Liangzuo found that he might not be able to do the money-making business. This morning, he suddenly received a post inviting him to go to Macheng. The signature was Zhennanhou.

Liu Liangzuo knew who Zhennan Hou was, a newly-surgent who had risen quickly, was promoted to the position of a new leader with a defeat of the bandits. He practiced the general manager all the way from a small group, and was promoted to the general officer in less than three months. He even captured Zhang Xianzhong and was named Zhennan Hou for the first time.

This new Hou is now deeply trusted by the emperor, and he is also a student of Mei Zhihuan, a Grand Secretary of the Eight Provincial Governor of the Division, and Li Changgeng, the Governor of the Five Southeastern provinces. Such a red and purple figure suddenly invites him to the banquet.

This may be a glory for others, but for Liu Liangzuo, he knew that he was in trouble. He clearly guessed why Zhennanhou was looking for him because of salt.

When Liu Jun was just a Macheng General Manager several months ago, he had investigated private salt. At that time, Zhao Wu, who distributed private salt in Taiping Township, Macheng, seized more than 100,000 kilograms of private salt.

That Zhao Wu used to get salt from him. Liu Liangzuo was the best at Wu Zhao's salt dealer, and Liu Liangzuo was just one of a huge private salt dealer website. After Liu Jun checked Zhao Wu, he spoke and asked him to withdraw from Macheng.

He was afraid of the Meili family at that time, and finally temporarily stopped selling private salt in Macheng. But now, Liu Jun posted it to him again, and it seemed that the matter was not over, but it became more and more troublesome.

If Liu Jun was still just the General Manager of Macheng, Liu Liangzuo would of course ignore his posts, but now Liu Jun is the dignified Marquis of Zhennan and the General Officer of Yunyang.

In fact, it was not only Liu Liangzuo who received the invitation from Liu Jun.

When Liu Liangzuo hurried to the Zhou family in Wuchang City, after the butler brought it into the living room, Master Zhou said as soon as he saw him, "You must have posted it for Liu Jun's King of Hell?"

"The King of Hell?" Liu Liangzuo was stunned for a moment.

Mr. Zhou leaned on his official hat chair and said slowly, "When the Marquis of Zhennan was suppressing bandits in Sichuan, he killed people like Ma, cut down tens of thousands of heads, and got the title of King Liu Yan. Now as soon as he returned to Macheng, he immediately posted it everywhere. It is reported that salt merchants and salt vendors in Huguang have received his posts."

Liu Liangzuo did not expect that Liu Jun actually posted a post to all the salt merchants and salt vendors in Huguang, and was greatly surprised.

"What is Zhennan Hou doing? Does he want to crack down on private salt?"

Mr. Zhou sneered, "Liu Jun just suppressed a group of thieves, and really regarded himself as the eldest and second. He attacked the private salt in Huguang? Humph, he was trying to die. How could he know how many people were doing the salt transactions in Huguang? And who were doing it? How many people were involved in these people? It was really a long life to want to come and grab food. A mere new town Nanhou is not qualified."

Liu Liangzuo did not have the confidence of Master Zhou. Although he had some wealth, he was just a small ant in front of a marquis like Liu Jun.

"What is Zhennan Hou going to do when sending this post?"

Mr. Zhou shook his folding fan and shook it, then smiled, "I think he, Liu Jun, is not so brave, dare to go against all the salt vendors in Huguang. I heard that Liu Jun had an agreement with King Dong of Han before, and he cleaned up the private salt vendors who entered Qihuang for King Dong of Han and the others, and then got a piece of the pie."

Mr. Zhou was very confident in his analysis. He didn't believe that Liu Jun had the courage to go against all the salt merchants. But Liu Jun must have been attracted by the profits of the salt industry and wanted to get a share of the pie. The biggest possibility was that Liu Jun wanted to find salt merchants in Huguang to cooperate with those salt merchants who had serious salt and legal sales officials to investigate and crack down on private salt in their salt area.

Official salt and salt merchants have legal salt intake and salt areas, while Liu Jun has some teams, and the cooperation between the two sides has led to win-win results.

"It's really that simple?" Liu Liangzuo was half-believing and half-doubted, and even if it was true, it was not good news for them. In recent years, the official and private salts have long been separated. The salt merchants who owned the salt area actually only paid a small amount of salt tax to the court every year. After obtaining the legal right to sell salt, they only bought salt with water from the salt farm, and only paid a small amount of tax. Then they privately bought a large amount of salt without tax from the salt merchants, and brought it back to sell it, making a lot of money.

Officials and salt officials are therefore also private salt vendors. They not only carry private salt in their own salt areas, but also secretly sell them to other salt vendors' salt areas. It can be said that those slightly larger private salt vendors are actually official salt and salt vendors with official legal identities.

Liu Liangzuo is simply a salt dealer who specializes in helping Mr. Zhou distribute private salt to other regions. Mr. Zhou actually does not have the identity of a legal salt dealer. He is also a salt dealer, but he directly helps a legal Wuchang salt dealer distribute and sells more private salt.

Even if Liu Jun wanted to cooperate with salt merchants to crack down on private salt, they were all those who were hit.

"What should we do?" Liu Liangzuo was full of concern.

Mr. Zhou was not worried at all, "What Liu Jun asked for was just money. He was jealous of the salt trading and wanted to get a share. Do we still see such greedy people? Just give him some money to respect him, and he will naturally be satisfied."

"It's that simple?"

“It’s that simple.”

"How much money will be given to him?"

"Just just watch it, don't take his official title too seriously. It's not his turn to take this one acre of three-point land in Huguang." Mr. Zhou shook his fan, "I plan to send Zhao San to Macheng tomorrow and give Liu Jun 500 taels of silver."

"Master Zhou is not going there in person?" Liu Liangzuo knew that Zhao San was just a servant of Master Zhou. Zhennan Hou personally sent someone to ask for someone, and Master Zhou only sent a boss to accompany him, and only gave him five hundred taels of silver. Isn't this too much?

After thinking about it, he still persuaded Mr. Zhou, "Master Zhou, isn't five hundred taels of silver too little? After all, Liu Jun is the general of the Tang Nanhou Town! "

"My silver was not blown by the strong wind. Five hundred taels were already very proud of Liu Jun. I can take a new concubine for this silver."

After leaving the Zhou Mansion, Liu Liangzuo kept thinking about Mr. Zhou's words. When he got home, he picked up the post and read it several times, but in the end he still didn't dare to refuse like Mr. Zhou.

"Butler, go and prepare a banknote for the Dafa Money House with a total of 1,000 taels of silver." Liu Liangzuo thought for a while, and then told the Butler, "Well, you go and prepare another high-quality jade, worth about 1,000 taels. You must prepare it today." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!