Amidst the strong smell of soy sauce, Liu Dapao bowed deeply and stood up, while old lady Murong, Suning Xian, Shen Yi and Murong Yan were all speechless for a moment.

Liu Dapao didn't say some words so directly, but everyone understood the meaning.

Soy sauce is a new thing, but it requires salt to make. It can replace salt to a certain extent when used. In essence, it should be part of the salt policy. But in fact, the salt policy is also the top priority of Yangzhou, and it has a certain monopoly. Effective, coupled with the newness of this thing and the unfamiliarity of the court, the operating space of this thing can be said to be huge.

If you pick a little bit of something worth millions or even tens of millions of profits, whether you keep it for official business or keep a little to line your own pockets, the huge economic interests in it have reached the point of affecting politics, let alone just a little bit. It is not impossible to use soy sauce to feed Mrs. Murong's three thousand veterans, and use this money to feed the entire army of Jiangnan East Road.

After all, this is something that is enough for the local government in Yangzhou to further increase its voice and thus have more capital to negotiate with Kaifeng.

After all, the salt policy is led by Kaifeng, and in the final analysis, Yangzhou can only monopolize about 40% of the world's salt consumption, so the room for maneuver is limited.

But if they engage in sauce politics, Yangzhou's dominance here is too great. As long as they control the formula and workers more strictly, and do a better job in anti-smuggling, at least within twenty years, the entire Great Zhou Dynasty will be better than Yangzhou. There should be no soy sauce factory anywhere else.

To be honest, once the world is divided again one day, Yangzhou and Jiangnan East Road will have a 30% chance of winning even if they want to fight for world hegemony.

The key to this thing is that Liu Dapao is not only the inventor and creator who undoubtedly knows it best, but he can also control the circulation of private salt to a certain extent. In other words, can this thing make as much money as salt and wine? Profits, to a large extent, are really decided by him, Liu Dapao.

To put it another way, if sugar is not sweet, other people make acetic acid. It is completely impossible to kick Liu Dapao out on the issue of Jiang Zheng. In fact, he can only take the lead in this matter.

It just so happens that he also has a newly established patrol battalion, whose main task is to prevent another large-scale gang riot. But the question is how many times can such large-scale rebellion occur in ten years? How can it happen on weekdays? Isn’t there nothing to do? Isn’t it just right for him, Liu Dapao, to be the one to arrest smuggling?

This money is the same as public money. It seems that Liu Dapao didn't put a penny in his own pocket. This thing involves too much, and Liu Dapao will not get involved in name. After he gets it, he will take the lead in opening the factory. That is definitely the case. I have to leave it to old Mrs. Murong.

Who gives her face?

Liu Dapao had no choice. He made the soy sauce without intending to use it at all, but in the end he became the commander inexplicably, and he was inexplicably involved in the civil and military disputes in Yangzhou City and Jiangnan East Road.

As the saying goes, it is difficult to be a daughter-in-law between two wives. He is such an uncivilized and unmilitary official. Both civil and military officials can control him. In other words, both of them can set KPI for him. Even if they have a harmonious relationship, they have to torment him. Anyway, not to mention the overt and covert fighting between civil and military forces.

No matter which way he fell, the other side would bully him to death.

Not relying on both ends is like walking on a tightrope, like walking on thin ice in an abyss. No one can suffer this sin.

There was no other way. In order not to be bullied, Liu Dapao had no choice but to take this thing out. It was not easy to be a daughter-in-law between two mothers-in-law, but if this daughter-in-law could manage the family's money, it would be different.

The two mothers-in-law will only compete to please you and win over you, and no one will dare to bully you.

Liu Dapao has always emphasized that the meat is rotten in the pot but has never said how to divide the meat, which is what he meant.

Liu Dapao has the final say on how to divide it, depending on my mood.

But he had to rely on his status as the gang boss to control the private players and insist on going to the poker table.

In terms of official positions, you two are both feudal officials and I, a small official, can't compete with you, but when it comes to getting paid for selling soy sauce, you both have to be controlled by me, and we must at least have an equal relationship.

Especially the last words, although the attitude is still extremely humble, the meaning behind the words is undoubtedly extremely tough: I am not a soft persimmon, no one can bully me!

As for whether Liu Dapao has become darker or whiter after doing something like this, I really don't care.

Mrs. Murong, Suning Xian, and Shen Yi all understood what Liu Dapao meant. After a long while, it was Suning Xian who took the lead and let out a long sigh, stretched out a hand and patted him heavily on the shoulder: "Brother,

What a great talent."

Shen Yi followed up and added: "Brother Little Bear, you are truly a national scholar. No wonder even Mrs. Murong thinks so highly of you."

Finally, after the old lady gave Liu Dapao a meaningful look, she said instead: "You guys are all fooling around. What are we doing today? It's a big day for Little Bear to open a new store today, and there are still full seats.

The distinguished guests haven't even had time to say hello, so they just stayed with us, and so do you, Yan'er. I know you like to discuss politics with others, but political discussions have to be organized in separate occasions, right? It's all your fault. Originally, we had a good conversation about this private matter, but we had to

Drag me into this business."

Murong Yan took advantage of the situation and bowed to Liu Dapao: "It was indeed me who was rude. I would like to ask Commander Xiong not to take offense."

As he stood up, the look in Liu Dapao's eyes had become completely different.

The other three people are all focused on soy sauce and politics, but Murong Yan is different. She has no direct interest in this matter, so her mentality is naturally more free and easy.

But she couldn't help but recall the political discussion between Liu Dapao and her.

This so-called political stance, for Su, Shen, and even Liu Dapao, is more about the bottom deciding the head. What they say is all about doctrine, but what they think about is business, and their focus is on reality.

However, Murong Yan is different. She is a woman. She does not have any official status and will never have one in the future. She reads and studies purely out of interest. But precisely because of this, she is also the most popular among the people present.

pure.

What others were interested in was the soy sauce, but what she was interested in was what Li Liu Dapao said before taking out the soy sauce.

Everyone in the world says that Confucianism is good, but she prefers the Legalist viewpoint. This is not only due to her perspective as a general, but it is also her own recognition of the Legalist viewpoint.

She recognized the Legalist views not because this set of views could bring any benefit to her personally, but simply because she believed that this set of views was right.

Originally, she sneered at the so-called rhetoric of a strong country and a prosperous people, saying that these were just the shameless words of a rotten Confucian scholar. However, after Liu Dapao finished speaking, he immediately took out the soy sauce.

Although his original intention was to show the soy sauce to the two feudal officials, who were both civilized and military, but in Murong Yan's view, this was the best policy statement to refute him.

But he couldn't help but become deeply interested in Liu Dapao's thoughts and views.

In other words, he became interested in Liu Dapao.

To put it simply, it’s not noisy enough and it’s addictive.

Because there are not many people who discuss politics with her on weekdays, and most of them are either Legalists or Confucians.

Needless to say about Legalism, most of the people she could come into contact with were supporters of Legalism, but they often didn’t ask for a thorough understanding. They just decided their heads based on their butts. Because of their military background, they were unwilling to disarmament. In order to oppose what the civil servants said.

To recuperate and recuperate, I just got the endorsement of Legalism.

However, even the civil servants and Confucians who discussed politics with her would always speak and think in the same way as the Four Books and Five Classics. In her opinion, they were hollow and pedantic, empty words that were useless for governing the country.

She couldn't convince herself, and it also made her feel that such a debate was boring and meaningless.

As a result, meeting Liu Dapao today really made her feel a spiritual baptism. At least, what Liu Dapao said was indeed worth thinking about in her opinion.

However, we haven’t found a reason yet, so why did it end?

It's like when you're doing that thing and you just feel like blowing, suddenly, the man is done.

Can't go up, can't come down.

It just made her uncomfortable to death.

However, the three elders still looked satisfied, and including Liu Dapao herself, no one except her really cared about the political debate, and she could no longer forcefully start a quarrel.

With that look in his eyes, he couldn't help but look towards Liu Dapao from time to time.

Liu Dapao also noticed Murong Yan's eyes.

What does this little girl mean? Why are you constantly looking at me, intentionally or unintentionally?

He didn't narcissistically think that this woman was attracted to him. After all, not to mention the huge difference in status between us, toads sometimes fantasize about eating swan meat, but there is no reason why swans have fallen in love with toads.

Let's just say that at this age, Liu Dapao is actually a bit behind being a young talent.

According to Liu Dapao's memory, Black Heart Bear should be in his mid-thirties this year.

This age may still be considered the prime of life in modern society, but in fact, in ancient society, almost anyone could be called a grandfather, and even the age of forty could be called an old man in ancient times.

Although Murong Yan didn't know her exact age, she looked like she was around 20 years old, so she was already a generation behind.

So much so that when he felt Murong Yan's fiery eyes, Liu Dapao felt chills running down his back.

And everyone returned to the dance floor of Yanzi Tower, and sure enough they saw that it was starting to look like a group of demons dancing wildly inside.

A cider girl was occupying a small stage that was supposed to be a pole dance, and she was kneeling there. There were four dancers beside her, each carrying a large wine bucket, and four leather tubes were inserted into her mouth, and she was pouring wine like crazy.

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The leaked wine had already soaked the woman's clothes, exposing her figure, especially her belly, which had grown significantly bigger due to too much drinking. And everyone in the restaurant, whether they were guests or women, was having sex.

He was beating the drums rhythmically and cheering for him, and he was very happy to watch.

This fucking way of making money is life-threatening. If you drink this way, even if these fruit wines only have five or six degrees of alcohol content, you will most likely be drunk to death on the stage.

Liu Dapao felt a little unhappy for a moment, but he had no choice but to ask Li Jiayuan to check to see if the woman's drinking method was due to her own free will.

If she was forced by the customer's lust, I could seek justice for her, but if she wanted to do it herself, then... there's nothing much to say.

In addition to this, many girls have obviously been indoctrinated into confusion. Some of them are hugging and hugging customers, and they are probably not far away from selling themselves. Fortunately, it is hard to say whether the quality of today's customers is high or not, at least they are all good.

If you want face and money, losing your virginity is not a big deal.

Some who drank too much simply threw them on the bar and no one paid attention to them.

Sun Ningxian and Shen Yi looked at each other, but they ordered a big dragon in perfect agreement and went to have a drink. The special identities of the two people also made the guests on the dance floor fall into a crazy climax.

The cheers and cheers almost broke the roof.

Especially after the two of them drank one set, they both agreed to have another set. It seemed that if they didn't drink and lie down today, the matter would never be over.

Old Mrs. Murong asked Liu Dapao to open a single room and went upstairs to rest. The second and third floors of Yanzi Building are private rooms. In fact, they are not much different from the brothels outside. The old lady is older.

Unable to stand the excitement on the dance floor, but not wanting to leave early, so as not to send the wrong political signal to others and not reflect his care for Liu Dapao, he simply opened a room and asked Murong Yan to help her take a nap.

Seeing that the big shots at this end had finally dispersed, Du Mengdong saw the opportunity and ran over and said: "The girls are getting drunk too fast. If this continues, they won't be able to last through the night, and there will be no one to play music and dance."

, there are not enough women.”

"What do you think?"

"There are simply not enough women in the building, and there is an even greater shortage of women in the private rooms upstairs. In the long run, the number must be expanded, at least three times more, and divided into three shifts to cope with it. As for today, we can only use it from other brothels.

The brothel is urgently recruiting people to help with the situation."

"But if this happens, our family's other industries will definitely be affected. Cutting off flesh and mending sores is not a long-term solution. Either we have to find ways to lure women from good families into trouble, or we can only... buy and sell people in large quantities.
To be continued...