In Luoyang, Henan, twelve carriages drove towards the city. The two carriages in front were passengers, and the ten carriages behind were full of cargoes. The convoy stopped outside the city gate. The Qing soldiers guarding the city gate at the door saw the banner of Kangshantang on the convoy, and their eyes were lit up, and green light like wolves appeared.

"Salt merchants! You're rich! Brothers, prepare to work!" Qing Junshi chief shouted his soldiers to prepare to collect city gate taxes.

Since the Lianghuai merchants were defeated by Jinyiwei, Hui merchants have become the largest salt merchants in the Qing Dynasty for a few days, among which Kangshantang is the strongest. As we all know, Kangshantang is a famous salt merchant spanning the north and south. Even the regent of the Qing Dynasty had to facilitate the north and south trade of Kangshantang. After all, the warriors of the Qing Dynasty also had to eat salt. People do not have enough salt to maintain normal saline concentration, which would kill people.

This era is not like later generations. People in later generations have better living conditions, and they should eat low oil, low cholesterol and low salt. But in this era, the fatter the meat, the better. Foods with high cholesterol are delicious! Salt is even more important. The price of salt in this era is very high, but people also have to eat salt. Otherwise, if they don’t eat salt for ten days, they will be exhausted. If they don’t eat salt for a long time, their metabolism will become worse, and their detoxification ability to harm harmful substances will decrease. Waste will accumulate in the blood, causing blood stasis, and eventually death from illness.

Too much salt seriously affects physical health; but without salt, it will also affect physical health.

The warriors of our Qing Dynasty wanted to eat salt. The green camp soldiers ate ordinary sea salt, while the Eight Banners warriors ate well salt from Shaanxi. Those high-end goods were produced in the area controlled by Li Zicheng. Shanxi merchants had become rats crossing the street. Not only were Shanxi merchants prohibited from entering and leaving the area controlled by the Ming Dynasty, but Shanxi merchants were also prohibited from entering and leaving the area controlled by the thieves. Therefore, only the "neutral" Kangshantang can freely enter and exit the area controlled by the thieves, obtain expensive well salt, and then transport it to the area controlled by the Qing Dynasty for food for the Eight Banners warriors.

The high-ranking officials, the Eight Banners Warriors, and the Qing nobles used fine well salt. The fine salt was not only a condiment, but also a must-have for their washing and brushing teeth.

Hui merchants are salt merchants traveling between the north and the south, providing a lot of salt to the military and civilians in the three places, and also earning a lot of money.

The green camp soldiers with shiny eyes stopped the convoy with Kangshantang banner. The leader of Qing Junshi shouted: "Get out of the car, check, collect city gate tax!"

The two passenger carriages in front of the convoy stopped and got off from the first luxuriously decorated carriage. The man wore a melon-skin hat, a light blue satin long cannon, and a Han Confucian hat; the woman was wearing a Han women's outfit, about sixteen or seven years old, with skin as good as snow, bright eyes and white teeth, very beautiful.

Because the Qing Dynasty could not solve the problem of Dashun in the northwest for a while, it was not daring to force the hair shaving and change clothes for the time being. Therefore, in the area controlled by the Qing Dynasty, whether it was Hanfu hair tied, long gowns and jackets, or money rat tails, you could walk freely.

The man was Wang Quan. He showed the famous sect, and saw the words "Jiang Fu, the shopkeeper of Luoyang Branch of Kangshantang" written on it, as well as the seals of the governments in Luoyang and other places. Then he took out a waist sign with his identity as a student on it.

At that time, many salt merchants had the status of a scholar who donated to make business convenient for traveling all over the world. Although they were the status of a gentry donated, the green camp soldiers still did not dare to act rashly. After saluting respectfully, they asked for city gate tax. Respecting scholars was a tradition of the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and it was necessary, but city gate tax must be collected.

Wang Quan did not argue with the Green Camp soldiers, but took out a handful of silver dollars from his arms and handed a piece to each Green Camp soldiers.

Seeing that the soldiers seemed not very satisfied, Wang Quan turned around and took out a few bags of fine salt from the carriage and threw a pack of them to each Green Camp soldier.

But the tall man whispered in Wang Quan's ear: "Brother, you, a great salt merchant, will you give me one tael of silver? How can you give me more?"

Wang Quan knew how to find a ten-yuan gold coin from his arms and beat it to Shi Chang's hand.

Shi Chang's palm was tightly clutching the gold coins. His fingers were still touching the gold coins, and found that it was ten yuan gold coins. So he turned around and waved his hand: "Let go!"

The convoy entered the city gate, and Shi Chang put the gold coins in front of him. He looked at the exquisitely crafted gold coins carefully and was overjoyed: "Salt merchants are rich and powerful, and they are indeed rich! It would be great if salt merchants came every day. In the past, those salt merchants were old monks, and the old monks were so stingy! They were simply stingy! Now, if they were Hui merchants, they were much more generous than the old monks."

The gold coins and silver coins issued by the Royal Silver Crown of the Ming Dynasty have been circulated freely across the country. Not only did the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty use gold coins and silver coins minted by the Royal Silver Crown of the Ming Dynasty, but even the Shunjun control area used coins minted by the Royal Silver Crown of the Ming Dynasty. The gold coins and silver coins with exquisite workmanship and easy use are deeply loved by people. Just like later generations, Americans were not a good thing, but it did not affect people's preference for US dollars.

The convoy drove into the city and stopped in front of a two-story building with the words "Kangshantang". Two couples got off the two passenger carriages and surrounded by a large group of guys behind, they walked into the business. Then a group of people came out of the business, and moved bags of goods from the carriage behind and into the business.

This business is actually the secret intelligence station of the Jinyiwei in Luoyang City.

In the underground secret room of the shop, the lights were swaying, and more than 30 strong men gathered together, discussing what was going on.

"It's easy to kill the old thief Hong Chengchou. On the way out of the yamen and heading to the military camp, our brothers will work together, throw the sky-shaking thunder and kill a group of guards, and then rush out to shoot with two guns in hand. We can clear the masters around Hong's old thief. Let's find the old thief and chop off his head with one knife." Wang Quan said.

Qingzhu said: "It would be better to capture this thief alive and take it back to the Ming Dynasty and then execute it after trial. Otherwise, it would be too cheap to cut him with one knife!"

Wang Quan frowned: "It's not difficult to capture this thief alive. We throw the thunder out, blow up the Tartar soldiers, and then rush out. Each of us has two tiger-wing guns to shoot continuously, and then we can kill all the Tartar soldiers in a flash, so that we can catch the thief. But after capturing this thief alive, how should we bring it back to the south for trial? This is a difficult thing."

"As long as General Wang can succeed, Bei Zhi will do his best to send you back to the south." A man dressed in a businessman who was about forty years old and had a bright eyes said, shaking the fan. His hands holding the fan had a wide joints, and he was obviously a man who had been practicing martial arts for a long time. However, this man was wearing a long-term cannon jacket from the Qing Dynasty, with a bare forehead on his forehead and a rat-tailed braid hanging from behind.

Although the Qing Dynasty had not forced her to shave her hair and change her clothes at this time, there were many people who had spontaneously shave her hair and change her clothes on the northern land. As the stationmaster of the Jinyiwei Intelligence Station, Li Yuzhu took the initiative to shave her hair and change her clothes on the territory of the Qing Dynasty, which was even more confusing to the officers and soldiers of the Qing court. The Green Camp soldiers did not dare to offend these merchants who shave her hair and change her clothes casually.

Just imagine, the people who served in the army were forced to shave their hair and change their clothes before they could shave their hair and change their clothes. In fact, they felt uncomfortable. However, the shopkeepers of Kangshantang's business owners took the initiative to show kindness to the Qing Dynasty, shave their hair and change their clothes and express allegiance to the Qing Dynasty. Although they failed to get the flower feathers of an imperial merchant like the Eight Great Masters of Shanxi, they were all well-known figures in the Qing Dynasty. It is said that the general, governor, and governor all had to give them face, and even the five provincial governors Hong Chengchou had to give face to these merchants.

There was almost no salt produced in the Qing Dynasty. The salt in Kangshantang either came from the Ming Dynasty or from Dashun. Without the salt tax paid by Kangshantang, the Qing Dynasty would not even be charged a copper plate salt tax.

However, the supply chain of Hui merchants is at most to the Yellow River. After arriving in Luoyang, their goods will be bought by Shanxi merchants and sent to Zhili for sale.

With an additional intermediate link, the salt price became even more expensive. However, in order to make up for the losses of the Shanxi merchants, Dorgon forced the Qing Dynasty salt industry to pass through the hands of the Shanxi merchants to be sold to Northern Zhili, which made the salt price of Northern Zhili more than twice as high as Luoyang.
Chapter completed!