Chapter 271: The news about the knife

Su Guanxue's words were at best just a smile in Jiang Feng's heart. It is true that Jiang Feng likes a cute girl like Su Guanxue, but when you look at a girl from ten to fourteen, you usually don't notice her growth. In other words, you think she is still a child.

Of course, the child's words cannot be taken seriously. Zhao Xiucai received Jiang Feng's order to store silver bricks in the cellar on the mountain. In fact, these silver bricks were already vaguely used as reserves for precious metals. In order to transport these cash silver from the vault, two hundred people were specially mobilized from the bottom of the mountain to escort the mountain.

These silver bricks were loaded onto the carriage and were about to be melted into silver ingots at the foot of the mountain and then exchanged for various materials. Tiedan and the Ma brothers in Tianjin had already received the order from Jiang Feng to start purchasing wood in the northeast according to the orders of these shipwrecks. Some commercial banks from all over the country also received scattered orders, which had clear requirements for the required materials, but the quantity of demand could not be determined at all.

After a period of prosperity, Dengzhou Prefecture City became a little deserted. Almost all the merchants who existed because of the sea trade moved towards Lingshan, Aoshan and Jimo County. Now, except for Jiang Feng's own fleet, the ships and merchants who were originally allowed to trade at Dengzhou Port were ordered to go to Linjia Island.

The more prosperous business in Dengzhou now is private salt. The related industries driven by the consumption of these salt owl salt merchants. In addition to those who sell private salt in Shandong, except for those who need to go up and down the river themselves, most people who have their own trafficking teams have moved to Jining or Dengzhou to live.

In Dengzhou, private salt exists in a nearly legal situation. Dengzhou Prefecture and yamen at all levels do not turn a blind eye to such illegal things, but both eyes are tightly closed. The market is prosperous, and their tolerances are also very active. Moreover, the largest local salt merchants are Jiang Laohu from Dengzhou. What to catch and how to catch them. Since no one cares, these salt merchants who are usually considered strong in the countryside in the countryside are prestigious, but the important thing for the government and the yamen is to give money in a low voice, for fear that they will be caught. Naturally, there will be no problems when they come to Dengzhou. As long as we have more money, we can walk openly, which can be considered as finding the feeling of living under the sun in Dengzhou City.

Moreover, the share of private salt is published in Dengzhou every year. If you have a good relationship with the Jiang family in Dengzhou, you may get more oil and water in the quota allocation in the second year. Naturally, you will be flocking to it. These salt merchants can easily get money, so they naturally spend money, paying a lot of money, paying attention to food, drink and clothing. In this way, because the smuggling merchants leave, the slightly deserted market is not too declining.

In the conference hall on Yantai, all the top figures in Dengzhou who can gather together stay here. Every month, they gather here for a party. It is a regular meeting, summarizing various things and making a judgment on the overall situation.

The first person to speak was Zhang Liang. He was quite uncomfortable when he started attending such a meeting, but now he is very natural to speak:

"During this period, spies from the government have come from all over the world, but they are all regular patrols, all of which are local officials and Jinyiwei from Shandong. There is a group of people from the capital. Strangely, my cousin came here and had no official duties at all. He just drank and had fun for a few days before going back."

Hearing this, Jiang Feng breathed a sigh of relief, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he spoke there:

"Kailai has been relaxed recently when we are watching Dengzhou, but we have been careful for more than half a year."

Zhao Xiucai was no longer involved in as many things as when Jiang Feng first started his business. He just listened silently. When it was his turn to follow the rules, Zhao Xiucai said in a hoarse voice:

"Master, the amount of money we can take out is about 30,000 taels of silver at any time. The remaining money is eaten by military pay and ships. The fleet and salt fields can only achieve this level."

"Hold on, and when this ship is built, you will naturally have more money, so don't be too anxious."

After hearing Jiang Feng's answer, Zhao Xiucai bowed and agreed. After hesitating for a moment, he still reminded him:

"Master, the flow of money has been too great this year. The relationship between the shopkeeper of the money shop at the foot of the mountain and us is quite good. When we started drinking and chatting the day before yesterday, we told me that the money we had in and out was actually worth the number of Suzhou numbers. Although he said it was an understatement, I think such a thing is still too eye-catching. Should we use some method to make up for it?"

Zhao Xiucai's words made Jiang Feng pay attention. Most of the military pay and the money purchased in the major camps in Shandong were transported through cash bank escorts. It's okay, but it is very inconvenient for merchants to carry these silver at sea. Moreover, many of them were merchants from Jiangnan or Shanxi, so they all asked Jiang Feng to use silver notes to deal with them.

This is a normal entry and exit. After all, although Jiang Feng's fleet firepower is large, it is still much worse than the smuggling groups with tens of thousands of people on the sea surface of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. However, this year, the plan to cast cannons and build large ships.

Most of the materials are not produced locally in Dengzhou and need to be purchased from other places, but the amount of money required is quite huge. It is also impossible to use cash bank to go on the road. They all need to use exchange and banknotes in the banknote number. Such a huge cash bank flow is really eye-catching.

Jiang Feng came from modern times and knew some things. For example, if you deposit and withdraw foreign exchange amounts in the bank exceed 100,000 or 50,000, you will be noted to register. At this time, the money houses and ticket numbers are mostly private industries, so naturally they are afraid of the government. No one dares to be sure whether there are similar surveillance regulations.

My mobilization of money during this period must have attracted the attention of those who are interested. The problem with Dengzhou Camp is to try not to attract the attention of others as much as possible, and I have to be careful!

Everyone explained the matter. When everyone stepped down, Liu Shier stayed. As the main aide and planner, Liu Shier had his own house on the mountain in Dengzhou. He spent more time with Jiang Feng every day, so everyone didn't think anything about it.

Among the people from all parties in Dengzhou, there are Jiang Feng's direct descendants like Zhang Liang, officers from Tiedian like Luo Yi, descendants of Yang Da and Zhao Xiucai, and the Liu brothers from Weishan Island. Although they are united and focused on Jiang Feng, there are still things like Shantouism. However, Jiang Feng is careful to prevent each other, and they are basically loyal to Jiang Feng, and they also have checks and balances.

These generals are allowed to have guards around them, but not private soldiers. Guards are also rotated. Under Jiang Feng's training system, as long as the soldiers are fully paid to the soldiers and train according to the training regulations, there is nothing to doubt about their combat effectiveness.

The only exception is Liu Shier. Liu Shier always has some powers that others except Jiang Feng don’t know very well, and they are engaged in various places in Shandong, so reports and exchanges like these are carried out privately. Liu Shier’s body has been well recuperated in Dengzhou, and his weak body has gradually become stronger. He watched Jiang Feng retreat from the left and right guards and servants.

Liu Shier took out a few pieces of letter paper from the backpack hanging on the armrest of the wooden wheelchair. Obviously, he had read the contents on it. He took it out just to make a look, cleared his throat and said:

"There is a village near Mengshan in Wendao. Now it has gathered the rebels who were defeated by the past, and now there are four or five hundred people. The boy said that he had been holding it in the mountain for more than a year and was already a little idle and panicked, saying when will he be able to release it and move it."

Jiang Feng couldn't help laughing and scolding when he heard this. After Wendao and the two hundred cavalry escaped, although the government sent out a sea captive document to arrest him, the terrain of the Yimeng Mountains was dangerous and has been a good place for the rebels to hide since ancient times. Although the two hundred of them were said to be escaping, they had sufficient money and had strong soldiers and well-equipped weapons. After escaping into the Yimeng Mountains, other officers and soldiers in Shandong didn't care about this when they saw Jiang Feng's Dengzhou camp. Why did they bother? They didn't see that the 1,000 soldiers in Laizhou Prefecture were chasing each other tightly. They were killed by these 200 people, and there was only more than 300 people. After everyone shirked their responsibilities, there was no result.

After entering Yimeng Mountain, Wen Dao fell into a gangster, which was a familiar business. He didn't say much, and directly bought a good-level counterfeit village and became the king of the mountain. Wen Dao never lacked money for money, because there was always a secret channel to send the best weapons and money supplies, including money, food, weapons, and professional training. Don't be too comfortable for such bandits.

Gradually, the surrounding mountains also knew that there were strong dragons here, and they were whispering to ask for peace. Some of the desperate attempts to live at the foot of the mountain and the rebellious defeated soldiers who surrendered to the past, and they gradually gathered four or five hundred people. Such young people could not live on the mountain and were idle there. When they looked at their mighty relative Liu Shisan in Laiwu, they even asked for a job.

Jiang Feng had a good impression of Wen Dao, who had seen him far from the city of Yuyang, but now he was afraid that someone would have any tasks when he was paying attention, so he came up with an idea there:

"Let that kid go to Nanzhili to grab the salt merchants, don't hold it in the mountains!"
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