Zhao Zhijing smiled coldly: "Master, of course we can't let him go like this, but now is not the best time to take action. Didn't Emperor Qianwu also take action against the Wang family? Let's just sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight!"
Zhao Tianquan said: "You are right. The Wang family controls 99% of the official salt. A little bit of it is enough to make Emperor Qianwu drink a pot. When he is embarrassed by the Wang family, we will step on him again." Only one kick can let him know how powerful my Zhao family is!"
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Huozhou, Datong City.
Old Man Wang is an authentic farmer who lives in a small town thirty miles outside the city. Because there is no salt shop selling official salt in the town, he has to walk thirty miles every time there is no salt at home. I came to Datong City to buy salt.
On this day, after more than half a day of long journey, Old Man Wang finally arrived in Datong City and went to the Wang Family Salt Shop where he often bought salt.
When he arrived at the salt shop, he found that the salt shop was different from ordinary times and was densely packed with people, which made him very confused.
Old man Wang grabbed a young man who was running towards the salt shop with a cloth bag and asked: "Brother, why are there so many people in Wang's salt shop? What happened?"
The young man glanced at Old Man Wang and said patiently: "The old man is from outside the city, right?"
"That's right."
"Then it's normal that you don't know. The Wang family said that due to insufficient salt mine production, the official salt is being sold in limited quantities every day!"
"Ah?!" Old Man Wang was startled and asked quickly, "What's the daily limit?"
"A fight!"
"With so many people in Datong City and surrounding counties and towns, how can this little salt be enough?!"
"So, everyone is rushing to buy it." As he said this, the young man threw away Old Man Wang's arm and said anxiously, "I'll go first. If I'm late and can't get a good seat, I'll have to continue cooking with plain water!"
After saying that, Sayazi ran towards Wang's Salt Shop.
Old man Wang also panicked and quickly followed him.
When he ran to Wang's Salt Shop, there were even more people gathered around the door, hundreds of them, all squeezing forward desperately, blaming and cursing each other.
"Why are you squeezing? You are rushing to reincarnate!"
"Asshole, you stepped on my foot!"
"There has to be someone who comes first, right? Why do you have to squeeze in front of me?"
"..."
The old and frail old man Wang also tried to squeeze in, but was squeezed out again and again, and even fell down.
"What a sin!"
Old Man Wang let out a cry of sorrow, quickly got up and continued to squeeze in as hard as he could.
It's okay to go without salt for a day or two, but it will cause problems over time. There is a three-year-old child at home, so I have to get official salt no matter what.
People like Old Man Wang were everywhere, crowding crazily towards the entrance of Wang's salt shop, and even riots and fights broke out.
The shopkeeper inside the shop looked at the scene outside through the crack of the door with an indifferent expression, with no intention of opening the door.
The waiter on the side couldn't bear it and said in a low voice: "Shopkeeper, don't we have a lot of official salt in the warehouse? Why don't we sell it? These people don't have salt to eat, and they will have problems after a long time!"
If you don't eat salt, the weakness in your limbs may be mild. In severe cases, it may cause edema all over the body and even be life-threatening.
Young and strong men can carry it for a while, but the elderly and children cannot carry it for long without salt.
The guy was a little bit upset.
But the shopkeeper's expression was still indifferent: "What can go wrong? The biggest problem is that a few people die, what's the big deal? This is the order of the head of the family, just follow it!"
The clerk hesitated for a moment, thought about his words, and asked cautiously: "Shopkeeper, why does the owner do this? Isn't this a problem with money?"
"This little money is nothing to the Wang family?" the shopkeeper sneered, and then lowered his voice and whispered: "It's okay to tell you, didn't His Majesty raid many of the Wang family's salt shops in the capital a few days ago? The owner of the family was furious, this
I want to give His Majesty some color!"
The waiter was shocked: "How dare this...owner?"
"Hmph! What's so daring about this? In the eyes of the eight great families, the emperor is nothing! The Wang family controls 99% of the world's official salt, and they still don't control the court to death? Just wait and see the show!"
"knew!"
The man wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. While marveling at the Wang family's boldness, he was also a little angry.
The Wang family actually used official salt, an important material related to the national economy and people's livelihood, to compete with Emperor Qianwu regardless of the life and death of the people?
It's so shameless!
But as an ordinary guy, he dared not speak out when he was angry.
The shopkeeper deliberately postponed the originally planned opening time until the outside was almost crowded with people, then he slowly opened the door of the salt shop.
"Quiet! Quiet!"
The shopkeeper shouted loudly, and after everyone calmed down, he said loudly: "Dear fellow villagers, due to the sharp drop in salt mine production, our store only has half a bucket of official salt for sale today. Those who are behind in the queue will come back tomorrow!"
As soon as this statement came out, it immediately caused a commotion.
"Half a dou of official salt? How can we sell it with so little!"
"Yeah, we've been waiting for so long, let's sell more!"
"My family has not eaten salt for three days. If this continues, there will be problems!"
"My family has been without salt for nine days!"
"..."
The shopkeeper turned a deaf ear and said coldly: "At least there is still half a bushel of salt to sell today. I'm not sure whether there will be any tomorrow. Those who want to sell it should hurry up!"
As soon as the words fell, the entire scene suddenly fell into madness. Everyone crowded forward crazily, and the sound of curses and mutual accusations could not be heard.
The shopkeeper looked at all this indifferently and deliberately slowed down the sales of refined salt. It was not until people got into a bloody fight due to crowding that he showed a cold smile.
This is the result that the head of the Wang family wants.
Let the common people fight and cause trouble because of official salt.
This is just the beginning. He believes that as more people run out of salt stored in their homes, the situation will get worse until the government is unable to do anything.
This situation in Datong City is not an exception. Under the deliberate arrangement of the Wang family, it happened everywhere in Daqian. In many places, people were even killed because of the robbery of official salt.
The whole of Daqian was in turmoil because of official salt.
Even in the capital, because the Wang family stopped selling official salt, many vicious incidents occurred, causing widespread complaints.
This was not over yet. The Wang family even directly stopped providing official salt to the army. As a result, many troops who did not have much stock had no salt to eat, and their morale was somewhat unstable.
After the head of the Wang family learned about the situation in various places through official salt sales channels, he sneered again and again.
"Emperor Qianwu, Emperor Qianwu, let me see what you are going to do now! Now you know how powerful my Wang family is, right? If you don't apologize to my Wang family this time and hand over the things in the secret camp, just wait for the world to be in chaos!"