On the other side, Liu Dapao naturally didn't know that he had fallen into the eyes of Zhao Kuangyin and other five retired bosses. In fact, the little things he faced every day already made him a little anxious.

From the outside, he is not very busy. The biggest thing for him is the establishment of the patrol battalion.

However, this patrol battalion is almost entirely staffed by brothers from the Yizi Sect. There is no need to recruit new soldiers. They can just wear a complete set of uniforms. It is not a combat unit, so there is no serious training.

In fact, if there is any training, he doesn't understand it. Unless something unexpected happens, his army will never have a chance to go to the battlefield in this life.

If they were really embarrassed to the point that they would be dragged out to the battlefield, they would definitely surrender directly.

Therefore, the adopted brothers of these 3,000 people are generally selected with relatively senior qualifications, and are selected on a semi-reward basis.

In other words, they are a group of old gangsters who are generally a bit older, with the minimum age being in their early thirties.

It doesn't matter whether you can play or not. Everyone spends most of their time playing cards and ball every day.

But these people are very familiar with the internal situation of the 108 cities and towns in Yangzhou City. Basically, as long as someone has settled in Yangzhou City for a period of time, if they name it, everyone will definitely know where their home is.

This group of people all know the subtle relationships between various towns, between various shopkeepers, and between various merchants from other places.

The daily work on weekdays is currently in charge of Guo Jianglong, while Liu Dapao goes to chat with everyone every morning, and has a meal together at noon to build relationships.

That's all.

Du Mengdong has done all the work on the bad guys side, and there haven't been any major cases recently. A few murder cases are more than enough for Du Mengdong to solve, and even if they can't be solved, it won't be a big deal.

Due to the temporary unification of the world, the entire Yizi Sect has no opponents and no troubles. The world is peaceful and quiet, and the income of each hall master and each younger brother has increased significantly. Even if they are not worried about being outnumbered,

There are still minor grievances, but at least so far there has been no internal conflict.

The other end of the Yanzi Building has also got on the right track. Murong Yan also brought a few ladies to drink as promised to cheer up the scene. Now, one after another, young ladies from good families are going to drink as customers.

The scale of the wine shop has also expanded a lot, with many part-time wine dealers, Liangjia wine dealers, etc. appearing. Even the takeaway business of Liyan Wine is now very good.

Several large inns, brothels, wine shops, and tile houses in Yangzhou City sell a large number of them every day at relatively discounted prices. Glycerin has also begun to be sold, but the scale is small and strictly controlled within Yangzhou City.

It was sold to the brothers inside the door.

This thing is essentially distiller's yeast, and it involves the cupbearer of the Zhou Dynasty. Like illicit salt sales, it is also a beheading business.

But why would he dare to do the beheading business?

Because he is now the godfather of Lianghuai private salt.

You’ve sold all your fans, so why do you still need so much laughing gas?

And this is undoubtedly one of the biggest sources of trouble for Liu Dapao.

He really, really just wants to wash his hands of himself! He just wants to live an ordinary life!

You must know that Black Heart Bear almost never touched private salt in the past, because the risks in this industry were too high and it was unnecessary. Although Du Mengdong and Guo Jianglong had more or less private salt business, they could not claim it.

It's the main business, let alone a salt owl.

After unifying the underground world of Yangzhou, because he annexed the original power of Hezimen and took over three salt lords who mainly engaged in private salt business, and because he had a relatively good relationship with the top ten salt merchants, the people in the city and outside the city

The ten major salt owls also came one after another.

Here we must explain the salt policy. In fact, most of the time, salt merchants and salt lords have a relationship of both competition and cooperation.

There are two types of salt lords. One type is purely life-threatening. They smuggle salt for themselves and sell it themselves. If caught by anti-smuggling agents, they will fight with knives. All the members are real desperadoes.

However, to put it bluntly, this kind of salt lord earns money by licking blood with his knife, which is similar to that of a gangster. In a basically stable and peaceful age, he will definitely not be able to do much.

These people are really similar to drug dealers in modern society. They are often small in scale, with few people, ruthless and as cunning as foxes.

To be honest, this salt owl actually has little to do with Liu Dapao.

A real big salt owl is just like a real gangster. He will try not to kill anyone if he can.

For example, the cold guy from Hezimen used to smuggle smuggled salt by transporting salted fish, fresh meat, ham and other foods on a large scale. You said that the anti-smuggling team and the top ten salt merchants did not know that the salt content in the things he transported exceeded the standard.

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How is that possible? Everything has been taken care of from top to bottom.

Salt merchants bought salt from the government at high prices, and were controlled by the court, so they had to sell this batch of official salt to the people at a relatively low price.

This salt tax collection method, which originated in the Later Tang Dynasty, is simply genius! It not only ensures that the court has income from the salt administration, but also ensures that the people can afford salt.

But in the whole process, it cannot be said that the salt merchants did not make any money, but it was really hard money.

You must know that those who can become big salt merchants must have a strong background behind them. Taking Yangzhou as an example, the top ten salt merchants were all guests of Governor Yang before this, and the connections behind them can even influence political affairs.

This happened to some of the husband-in-laws in the hall. In the past, they didn't even look down on the black-hearted bear.

For his status as an official salt merchant, he has to give away 1.8 million guan in gifts every year.

How could they honestly only earn a hard-earned salary?

Bribing salt government officials and buying official salt at low prices is only the most basic method. In order to avoid supervision and avoid responsibility, they naturally need private salt lords like Leng Lao to mediate.

In this way, even if something happens in the future, you can take it out.

Furthermore, in fact, private salt is not always sold cheaper than official salt. Taking Yangzhou as an example, the top ten salt merchants can form an alliance that works together and sell salt collectively in a certain month, so that

Only private salt can be purchased in the market.

At this time, the price of private salt will naturally skyrocket.

The salt lords took advantage of this opportunity to make a lot of money, so they naturally reciprocated the favor and distributed the majority of the profits to these ten salt merchants who were hoarding and reluctant to sell.

Even many so-called big salt owls are actually dogs raised by salt merchants themselves.

Originally, Liu Dapao only needed to casually support them as a middleman and provide them with a platform in Yanzilou for salt merchants and salt lords to communicate with each other, so that he could get a portion of the profits from this huge transaction circle.

The risk is not big, so it would have been good.

At most, he can discuss with them when making soy sauce to see how much official salt and how much private salt he needs to buy according to the production plan, but this is only the consumer side after all, and soy sauce is not his industry, so the problem is still not big.

result……

His patrol camp suddenly became involved in anti-smuggling.

Suning, that shameless person, didn't care whether he agreed or not, and directly handed over the anti-smuggling business of Jiangnan East Road to him, and did so with great fanfare, hoping that everyone would know the news.

Euphemistically called it, for soy sauce.

Eighteen mid-level military attachés in his anti-smuggling team have been transferred to Qingping Town, and just as Shen Yi had expected, Guo Jianglong was assigned a mission among them, called a liaison officer.

Nominally, he was asked to contact the patrol camp in Yangzhou City and the Qingping Town garrison outside the city, but in fact, at least more than 300 of the Qingping Town garrison were directly subordinate to Guo Jianglong.

It is no longer important how this matter looks to Liu Dapao. What is important is that in the eyes of outsiders, this is collusion. What Guo Jianglong did could not have been done without Liu Dapao's support from behind.

Externally, Suning claimed that he wanted Liu Dapao to "help" with the anti-smuggling of salt work. However, soon, the governors of Huainan West Road, Huainan East Road, Liangzhe Road and other places all sent officials from the anti-smuggling team. Meeting with Liu Dapao in Yangzhou.

Who can tinker with salt these days and rely on this thing to make a living, who is not a human being? It is natural to see that these major military governors want to stand out, or at least they want to keep pace with the Yanzheng Yamen and compete with each other.

For a time, the door of Liu Dapao's house was almost broken open by the salt merchants who sent people. Gifts were delivered to their house one by one. He could not accept them even if he didn't want to. If he didn't accept them, he would be looking down upon them.

These salt merchants all had big backgrounds, and he really didn't dare to look down on them.

Regardless of whether Liu Dapao is willing or not, the burden of anti-smuggling is now on his head. In name, he is naturally fighting against the soy sauce that does not even have a shadow.

But the problem is that he has people under him who are engaged in illegal salt trading. The water transportation, shipping, porters and boatmen on the dock in Yangzhou City are all his people.

How could he, who was in charge of anti-smuggling, only target soy sauce but not salt?

Moreover, even if we just talk about soy sauce, it must be divided into official sauce and private sauce. In essence, private sauce is not much different from private sauce. Which of his brothers is not ready to make a move?

Even Du Mengdong is worried about this matter. After all, everyone was more cautious when dealing with illegal salt in the past. Now, Liu Dapao is in charge of both soy sauce brewing and anti-smuggling of illegal salt.

Good guy, my eldest brother has become a referee. Isn’t it too inappropriate for everyone not to come off the field and play football?

In other words, how could he, a well-behaved black boss, just an ordinary gangster, suddenly become the King of Secret Salt in Dazhou!

This thing is really going to blow your mind!

He took the initiative to go to Shen Yi, hoping to use the power of the Yangzhou magistrate's office to fight against Suning title and take some care of the matter so that he could get away.

As a result, Shen Yi was noncommittal about this matter. After all, this was all for the sake of soy sauce.

Liu Dapao said that my patrol battalion can be regarded as a soldier of your government. How about you come forward and divide the anti-smuggling business under the leadership of Yangzhou Prefecture, so that the power of your government can be expanded. A little bit, I can get rid of any difficult problems I encounter.

However, Shen Yi was so frightened that he waved his hands repeatedly: "Don't dare to say this nonsense. There are no government soldiers in Yangzhou City. Your patrol battalion is responsible for handling public security incidents. The establishment is only 3,000. You don't dare to put money on your face." ."

Seeing that Liu Dapao was confused, he explained to him in a low voice: "When the late emperor served as the prefect of Kaifeng, he once engaged in the government's soldiers, which is now the front office of the Forbidden Army Palace. The scale of Yangzhou is not Smaller than Kaifeng, even if I am braver, I would never dare to do this in Yangzhou!"

Liu Dapao always felt that Shen Yi's attitude towards him was a bit strange, at least he was not particularly enthusiastic about wooing him. Suning had already made a big move, but he didn't seem to have any reaction.

I've been thinking about it for a while, but I still can't figure it out.

And I couldn't help but wonder if I was being too sensitive and suspicious.

Maybe you are not as important in Yangzhou’s political landscape as you thought?

Thinking about it this way, he actually became somewhat unclear about his own political positioning.

All in all, in the recent period, if you say he is busy, it is really not busy at all. If you say he is annoyed, it is a bit nonsense. At least in the eyes of outsiders, he is definitely very happy now.

We have money and power. Under normal circumstances, at least 99% of the happiness a man needs can be solved through these two things. Even though the convenience of ancient life is far from that of ancient times, in general At his status, it is not difficult to meet most of life's needs.

To be honest, the taste of power is indeed quite intoxicating sometimes. Liu Dapao will occasionally indulge in it. People with such high status as the top ten salt merchants are still nodding and bowing in front of him.

Sometimes he even feels that he has the superpower to make all his wishes come true. He only needs a look and the people around him will help him get things done without speaking.
To be continued...