The heavens start with letting the bullets fly

Chapter 480 The Great Battle of the Salt Merchants

"If he cleans up Qingyun's house, and then cleans up us, it won't take much, just a few hundred thousand taels at a time, and we will definitely not have a safe life."

Zhao Shanhe sat at the head, talking eloquently.

He is the leader of the Salt Merchant Guild, the largest salt merchant in Yangzhou, and the most powerful person in Yangzhou City.

Usually, when he distributed the profits of various companies, although everyone frowned, they seldom objected.

But now it's different.

Many people saw the appearance in front of Liu Qingyun's mansion with their own eyes, and knew that Chen Zhao's force value was very strong, and it was not something ordinary people could subdue.

The businessman's vision is very realistic, and his abacus is very clear.

If I can deal with you at the minimum cost, I will spend money to kill you and continue to make money.

But if your father's butcher's knife is very sharp, I can't beat you, and if you carry it on, you will be beheaded.

That didn't matter, I immediately knelt beside you and called Dad, I will do whatever you ask me to do, and make some money casually.

Everyone can see that Chen Zhao's force value is really against the sky. Who can beat a stone lion of several thousand catties at will, without blushing or panting?

The owners of these salt merchants have been interrogating their own offerings during this period of time. Everyone shook their heads, saying that there are many masters in the world, and those who are willing to kill people are like crucian carp in the river. But to kill such a great master with peerless force , Few people in the arena are willing to do it.

Even if the legend claims to be the best master in the world, such as Xiongba, Wuming, Ximen hammer blood, Shaolin master, Wudang Taoist priest, he cherishes his feathers and dare not deal with such masters easily.

No one who has practiced martial arts to a certain level is a fool.

We all know the truth of taking money with your life and spending money with your life.

As for muskets?
Get rid of it, this thing is a forbidden item just like armor.

If you dare to use this, the happiest thing is the old emperor.

He could justifiably issue an order to loot Yangzhou salt merchants because it involved rebellion.

So many salt merchants agreed with Zhao Shanhe's words on the surface, but they didn't think so in their hearts.

There are even some old, treacherous and cunning people thinking about whether they should go home and get out some news, so that the inspector Yan Yushi's yamen can focus on the Zhao family. If Zhao Shanhe's family is ruined, will he have a chance to be the champion?

After all, Yangzhou salt merchants are a huge business alliance, and even the emperor cannot swallow it in one gulp.

Lin Ruhai and Chen Zhao attacked one or two at most, and when they got enough silver, they would naturally give the emperor a good deal.At that time, they can train their own people.

Since the establishment of Yangzhou salt merchants, the government of all dynasties have done this.

But Zhao Shanhe didn't think so.

He is the head of the Yangzhou Salt Merchant and has been in charge of the Salt Merchant Guild for decades. What kind of officials have you never seen?

So he clearly understood that this Lin Ruhai, and this Chen Zhao, were determined to strip the salt merchants of their skins.

Zhao Shanhe would naturally not be afraid if he was peeling off his skin as usual.

Because behind him is not Ge Lao, nor is it some tyrannical prince.

It's the Supreme Emperor.

The reason why he was able to serve as the leader of the Salt Merchant Guild was because the Supreme Emperor came to Yangzhou and lived in his house when he was on a tour to the south.

During the reign of the Supreme Emperor, he went to the south of the Yangtze River six times and lived in his house five times.

Not only that, he also contributed tens of millions of travel expenses.

The Yangzhou salt merchants headed by Zhao Shanhe contributed a lot to the consumption of the Supreme Emperor and his palace eunuchs, courtiers and concubines, as well as guards, carriages and horses.

Because of this, his Zhao family jumped up and became the head of the Yangzhou Salt Merchants Guild for decades.

And the Supreme Emperor has also become Zhao Shanhe's great backer, no one can touch him.

But once the emperor and the courtiers, the Supreme Emperor abdicated, and now Emperor Xiaode ascended the throne, the first personnel arrangement he made was to send his confidant Lin Ruhai to Yangzhou to be the patrolling censor. The reason for this is self-evident.

Obviously, if Emperor Xiaode wants to seize the money bag, he must attack the salt merchants in Yangzhou.

The bigger Zhao Shanhe's backing was, the more likely Lin Ruhai would attack them.

So although at the moment, Lin Ruhai's Chen Zhao just pulled a hair out of Liu Qingyun who was ranked last, but Zhao Shanhe had to plan ahead.

There is a saying called "boil a frog in warm water". If the salt dealers clean up the private salt a few more times and get rich rewards, they will immediately turn into wolves and tigers and rush to the private salt warehouses of many salt merchants. beat.

Who will lose the most by then?
It must be him, Zhao Shanhe!
Because other salt merchants will definitely send letters to the salt workers secretly, telling them where the Zhao family's private salt warehouse is.

Although the Zhao family ranked first in the top ten salt merchants, the tigers couldn't stand the wolves biting them.

So Zhao Shanhe followed Liu Qingyun's reasoning, and finally said: "Since this is the case, then everyone should come up with a regulation and see how to solve this matter."

The reason why salt merchants were able to become salt merchants was because they had the money to invest in the salt quota issued by the imperial court.

Only with Yanyin can we get salt from the salt field, and with salt, we can use mud and sand to turn salt into our own private salt and sell it to make money.

But for now, they can't think of any other way to deal with Chen Zhao.

Count on the court to take action?

Don't be ridiculous, if the emperor doesn't speak, no one can drive Lin Ruhai away.

So either attack with force or buy.

From the current point of view, they won more than 80 taels of silver when they came up, how much money do you have to buy?

100, 200?

Isn't this just cutting meat and waiting for eagles?
So the best way is to use force.

If you can't kill him with personal force, then hundreds or even thousands of people will do it.

From this point of view, this is the most worrying thing for salt merchants.

What is the most advantageous weapon in the hands of salt merchants?Of course it's white money.

With silver, they can offer rewards to a large number of masters and brave men who are not afraid of death.

Dozens or hundreds of gangsters can't kill Chen Zhao, so how about hundreds or thousands?

There are endless brave people wielding knives and axes, and even the invincible will be jealous, how long can they last?

Is the overlord of Western Chu fierce?Wasn't it dismembered by Han soldiers in the end?
But if you want to offer high rewards to the warriors, you can't let Zhao Shanhe's family pay.

Everyone pays.

Only when everyone contributes money, the news will not leak out, and everyone will be regarded as grasshoppers on the same line.

Instead of letting some people consider moving the disaster to the east, it is used to seize other people's share.

Salt merchants quickly acted.

A few days later, Chen Zhao received news again that Liu Qingyun's family wanted to smuggle a batch of salt to Anhui Province because of the huge loss this time.

And in order to make up for the loss, you transported as many as [-] shi of private salt this time.

As I said before, one stone is 120 catties.Then one hundred thousand stones is 200 million catties.

The cost price alone is as high as 12 taels of silver.

The selling price is also as high as 60 taels of silver.

With such a huge number, there is no way to hide it from others.

So Yanding can easily receive the news.

There is no way, the reward they received for the last interception was so generous that their eyes turned red when they heard the news.

However, Chen Zhao also understood that this Liu Qingyun was by no means an idiot with a head, and there must be many dangers in this operation.

So this time, Chen Zhao took more than 20 people to explore the road.

Of course, he was the one who dealt with the private salt gangsters alone.

Therefore, Chen Zhao was suddenly surrounded by thousands of people.

Each one is holding a steel knife and big axe, each one has a fierce look, and there are even archers not far away.

"This is really a big battle." Chen Zhao sighed.

(End of this chapter)