The Only Favorite Ugly Husband

"Private salt? You, you, you..." Yang Jiang's face turned pale in an instant, and he shut his mouth tightly again, looking left and right.

He breathed a sigh of relief when he found that there was no one around, and said, "Are you crazy? This is the capital crime of beheading!"

Everyone will buy private salt, but the idea of ​​using private salt...

"I know." Jiang Zhen said, "That's why I asked you to find out about the situation." Jiang Zhen still knew something about private salt in ancient times.

No matter which dynasty or generation, private salt is rampant. There is no way, official salt is too expensive.

Their side is on the coast, and the official salt sells for forty yuan a catty, and the quality of the salt is not good... what about the inland?

Jiang Zhen used to read history books, and he saw records of one tael of silver per catty in some places... This is simply not letting the common people eat salt, no wonder everyone went to buy private salt.

Of course, although he came up with the idea of ​​smuggling salt, he didn't plan to do it right away, or go all the way down the road. He knew very well that with his own ability, it would be okay to earn some initial capital by doing small things. , It is impossible to make a big fortune in the business of selling private salt.

After all, he has no background at all, and today's private salt dealer...

With such a huge profit, I am afraid that all those private salt dealers have a lot of background.

Yang Jiang sized up Jiang Zhen for a few moments, and saw that Jiang Zhen talked about such a decapitation as calmly as if he was talking about what to eat later. Smuggling salt so he could be beheaded?

As soon as Yang Jiang had this thought, he suppressed it again.

Even if Jiang Zhen sells smuggled salt, those salt dealers may not be able to catch him... maybe he will become even more vicious in the future.

Yang Jiang thought about it, but he said all the things he knew about private salt: "I have also arrested this private salt dealer, so I know a little bit about the situation..."

There is a Hongjiang Salt Field on the east coast of Hecheng County. The salt field is owned by the imperial court, and all the official salt nearby comes from there. At the same time... the private salt nearby also basically comes from there.

A simple explanation is that after the salt was produced, some of it was sold as official salt, and the other part was all sold to private salt dealers, and even more salt was sold to the latter.

Just as Jiang Zhen thought, no one would be tempted by such a large profit.But those ordinary people, even if they are tempted, only dare to cook some salt and sell it secretly. Those who really dare to make a fortune are all big shots with backgrounds.

They have money and people, drive a big boat, go to the salt field to buy salt and send it to various places. They are very arrogant, but no one dares to check it.

"Boss, I won't hide it from you. We usually arrest private salt dealers, and we arrest those who secretly sell dozens or hundreds of catties of salt. If you are really a big shot, you dare not touch them, even those who are under the hands of big shots. People, we will also avoid them, they are also very good, and they will pay tolls when they come to sell salt." Yang Jiangdao: "The Hongjiang Salt Field catches private salt dealers better than ours, and only catch those A peddler who sells a hundred and eighty catties of salt will be killed immediately when he is caught, and those who arrest and kill people...in fact, many of them are directly under the hands of those big salt dealers."

A countryman like Boss Jiang doesn't know anything about what Yang Jiang said, but in fact, all the people in the yamen here know about it.

Speaking of which, why is official salt so expensive?Isn't it just to make the private salt more popular?This official salt and private salt are actually made by the whole family here.

The Hongjiang Salt Field is someone else's territory, and no one else is allowed to touch it, so there are peddlers who dare to go to the seaside to sell salt, and they are very ruthless, killing them when they see it.

"Before the imperial court rectified the salt industry, an imperial envoy came and worked hard for several years, but in the end it was nothing more than finding some abandoned children or going offline." Yang Jiang said again.Those private salt dealers at the top who control countless salts will sell the salt in their hands to their subordinates. Just find them.

Of course, just by finding them, the copied money has already satisfied the court, and one can imagine how much profit there is in it.

Hearing what Yang Jiang said, Jiang Zhen knew that the officials and private officials might have formed a big net of interests, trapping all the officials here.

In fact, this is not surprising.

The common people are poor these days, and the officials secretly raise taxes to fish the common people, but they can’t get much money. If they want to make a lot of money, they still have to rely on those special money-making things, such as the salt industry.

And since they want to make money here, naturally no one is allowed to poach their corners, so the crackdown on small-time peddlers is particularly severe.

In this way, it will be very difficult for him to get a few hundred catties of salt to earn some capital.

Jiang Zhen wanted to make money, but he really didn't intend to lose his life... After thinking for a while, he asked again: "I see that there are also seafood for sale in the market, and where do you get these seafood?"

Seafood is sold in Hecheng County, mainly marinated sea fish and dried kelp, and the price of these two items is not expensive, so people here quite like it, for example, they like to stew when entertaining guests A bowl of kelp came out.

"Boss, if you want to do this business, it's not difficult, just hire a boat to go to the sea to buy goods. But if there is no special way, it will be regarded as smuggling salt..." Yang Jiang giggled twice, and then said: "Anyway, when you go there, you have to be careful and don't get any salt on it. Of course, if you carry three or five catties with you, they won't bother to care about it."

"Do you have a way?" Jiang Zhen asked again.

"I know a few people who sell seafood. If you want to go, you can go with them." Yang Jiang said, those who sell seafood are small traders, and they are still happy to go with a few more people, so it's safe anyway.

Jiang Zhen nodded, and immediately finalized the matter with Yang Jiang.

After finalizing the matter, Jiang Zhen went to the pharmacy again.

Wang Haisheng was still taking care of Sun Xiaoshan, and the 20 taels of silver he gave earlier was enough for Sun Xiaoshan's treatment. Jiang Zhen greeted him and planned to go home first.

He didn't hurry to get Wang Haisheng's boat home just because he had already given Wang Haisheng money.He still believed in Wang Haisheng's character, and believed that after he took Yang Jiang there, Wang Haisheng would not dare to run away with his money.

Wang Haisheng really didn't have that idea. After learning that Jiang Zhen was willing to hire him to do business in the future, he was so grateful to Jiang Zhen that he was so grateful. He didn't even think about running away. Instead, he took Jiang Zhen to the boat and gave Jiang Zhen picked up some fish.

These fish are not big, and it is said that Wang Haisheng's two children caught them in the past two days - they grew up on fishing boats, and they already know how to fish.

Naturally, Jiang Zhen would not refuse, so he went home with the fish in hand.

It rained for several days, and the road was very muddy and difficult to walk. Jiang Zhen walked all the way, and the cloth shoes were not only wet, but also covered with mud, which was very heavy.

As a result, it took Jiang Zhen a lot more time than usual to walk home, and when he got home, it was almost dark.

After scooping up water and washing his feet, Jiang Zhen started to deal with the small fish outside the house. He scraped off the fish scales and dug out the fish intestines. While he was working hard, he saw five little ducks swaying not far away. The buttocks waved their little wings and crawled around in Zhao's vegetable field.

It's not raining at the moment, probably because Mrs. Zhao and Liu let them out to let the wind out.

Thinking of this, Jiang Zhen turned his eyes and saw Zhao Liushi not far away was digging for earthworms with a bamboo that was still a cylinder on one side and half cut off on the other.

People who raise chickens and ducks in the village often send their children out to dig earthworms, because chickens and ducks eat earthworms and grow faster and lay more eggs, but people of Zhao Liu's age generally don't do such things.

Jiang Zhen looked at Zhao Liushi who was digging earthworms, a little amused, and then chopped up the fish intestines on his hand with a knife.

Jiang Zhen took the fish intestines to the Zhao family's field, ignored Zhao Liushi's frightened gaze, and scattered the fish intestines on the ground.

Zhao Liushi was afraid of Jiang Zhen, and was very afraid, but those ducklings were not afraid of Jiang Zhen, they chirped, and soon surrounded Jiang Zhen to eat the fish intestines.

Jiang Zhen came back late, but Zhao Jinge came back even later.

The reason why Zhao Dahu is called Zhao Dahu is that his family is rich and has a lot of land, so they prefer Zhao Jinge to be a long-term worker.

Brother Zhao Jin can still have free time during the slack season, but he can only keep busy during the busy season. Of course, because he works hard and has low requirements, Dahu Zhao will also give him something during the busy season, such as today Gave him some eggs.

After handing the eggs to Zhao Liushi, Brother Zhao Jin went to the courtyard to wash off the mud on his body, and when he came out of the shower, Zhao Liushi had already prepared food for him.

During the busy farming season, the Zhao family also ate dry rice, otherwise the body would not be able to hold on. In addition to the dry rice, Zhao Liushi also made egg drop soup with the dry rice Zhao Jinge brought back.

"Mom, you can eat egg soup." Zhao Jinge said, Jiang Zhen brought him a meal at noon, and he ate the meat...

"I don't cook anything at home, what egg soup do I eat?" Zhao Liushi asked, but Zhao Jinge insisted on leaving half a bowl of egg soup for Zhao Liushi.

As for Zhao Fugui, he works part-time in a place a little far away, so he won't go home these days.

Brother Zhao Jin didn't like talking very much, but Mrs. Zhao Liu liked talking very much. While watching Brother Zhao Jin eating, she began to talk about family affairs. Of course, she also talked about Jiang Zhen, their current neighbor.

"That Jiang Zhen fed our ducks with fish intestines today. What do you think he thinks? After our ducks are raised, he won't steal them to eat them?" Zhao Liu became more and more worried. .

Mrs. Jiang is a person with a strong fighting spirit. She told the villagers all the things that Jiang Zhen had done in Jiang's house.

Speaking of which, everyone in the village is now afraid of Jiang Zhen, and feels that Jiang Zhen is wrong, which is also related to Mrs. Jiang's behavior.

Boss Jiang never uttered a word when he was wronged before. Even if everyone knew that Mrs. Jiang treated him badly, they didn't know how bad it was. The old lady Jiang was so loud, but let them clearly know what Jiang Zhen had done." evil".

Zhao Liushi was so worried when he heard about Jiang Zhen robbing chickens for food.

"Mom, have you ever seen him steal someone else's chicken?" Zhao Jinge said.

Zhao Liu thought so too, although Jiang Zhen was looking for food everywhere, but she really didn't see him stealing other people's chicken...

After thinking about it, Zhao Liushi remembered another thing: "Brother Jin, Jiang Zhen didn't grow vegetables himself, and he didn't come to our house to steal these two days. What kind of vegetables do you think he eats?"

She was worried about Jiang Zhen again.