Houmen Fenghua: Meet the best evil mother-in-law

Chapter 705 Buying Salt
The waiter called a relative to help out.

Although the official salt shop stipulates that each person can only buy one catty, it's okay. His relatives still have salt, so don't worry. If you help buy one catty today, you can earn ten catties of salt. Why not do it?
When the time comes, he will go to the official salt shop tomorrow to buy it.

After a while, the waiter returned to the shop with the newly bought salt.

The shopkeeper was a little surprised, he didn't expect that the waiter in the shop really didn't bluff him, the salt in this official salt shop is really snow white? !
Needless to say, this grade of salt must be of high-quality goods.

Just don't know how it tastes.

The shopkeeper squeezed some with his thumb and forefinger, put it in his mouth, and tasted it.

After tasting it, I was even more surprised: Why doesn't this salt have a bit of bitter taste? !

Not only is it not, it is also purer than ordinary salt.

It's the shopkeeper's. I'm afraid I've never seen such pure salt in my life.

His heart beat faster, wondering if the court had discovered some new salt mine, so...

Just when he was thinking this way, Qi Rusheng from the young master came in from the outside.

"Young master."

The shopkeeper hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

Qi Rusheng asked him to get up and asked him about the situation of the official salt shop.

The shopkeeper told the truth.

When Qi Rusheng heard that the court might have discovered a new salt mine, he frowned slightly, and asked the shopkeeper to show him the salt he had bought.

Although Qi Rusheng is only a concubine of the Qi family, but because the Qi family has a great career and he is also striving for success, he got this job.

He is in charge of the salt shop in this area. If something goes wrong, he will have to pack up and leave.

As soon as Qi Rusheng tasted the snow salt, his brows were knotted, full of worry.

Could the shopkeeper's guess be true?
Isn't he too unlucky?

There is nothing wrong with other people's errands, why did such a thing happen to him?
His chest was a bit congested, but there was nothing he could do. Qi Rusheng packed snow salt and told the shopkeeper to keep an eye on the shop, while he himself went to find someone to report.

Not long after, the Qi family and other families received "Snow Salt" from the people below.

They are all veterans in this area. Whether this salt comes from their own salt mine, you can taste it once you taste it.

This time, all of them panicked.

"Master Qi, what should we do? This...doesn't seem to come from our salt mine?"

"That's right, the imperial court really discovered a new salt mine, right?! If so, wouldn't we be in danger?"

……

The imperial court wanted to deal with them a long time ago, but because they hid the salt mines in the world, the imperial court couldn't find out, so they had no choice but to "manipulate" them.

Now if the imperial court has its own salt mine, and they are still fighting against each other, can the imperial court let them go?
Mr. Qi said with a cold expression: "What? The shops are closed and the prices have been raised. You still want to go to the court and tell the court that you didn't do anything? The first ninety-nine steps have been released. Do you think the court Will you let us go?"

"Uh..." The group of people went dumb for a moment.

Everyone here is not a fool, everyone is very clear, since they confronted the court, there is no turning back.

If they really want to withdraw now, the price they will pay will be high.

Maybe the court will let them hand over everything in their hands.

How does that work?
That is the inheritance left by the ancestors of the family, why should it be handed over to the court?
If it is really handed over, what will they do?
Are they not sinners in the family?

How can I meet my ancestors when I go underground in the future?
"Besides, don't you think it's strange?" Seeing that they gave up the idea of ​​surrender one by one, Mr. Qi continued, "All the salt mines in the world are in the hands of several of our families, and we have dealt with Yan for generations. What is it like, we still don’t know? We all know that the output of refined salt is extremely low. Where did the court get so much refined salt? So much refined salt suddenly appeared. Could it be that the court deliberately released it for us to see? of?"

"What do you mean?"

"It means... Actually, the imperial court doesn't have that much salt in their hands, but in order to create the illusion that they don't lack salt, they have accumulated such a large amount of refined salt for I don't know how many years, and suddenly it is listed in large quantities, just to scare us. Let us think that the imperial court has salt in its hands. When we panic and admit defeat to the imperial court, isn’t that the fish on the knife board and let the imperial court punish us?”

"Isn't it?! But just in case, the court doesn't lack salt?"

Mr. Qi glanced at the old man who spoke, and said with some displeasure: "Didn't I say it? We have been dealing with salt for so many years. Who doesn't know how the output of refined salt is? Is it because we want to make more money? Is it so expensive to sell refined salt? Isn’t it because the production of refined salt is too low and there is no way to divide the salt into different grades... If the imperial court really has the ability to spread refined salt to the world, it will be suppressed by us so much for many years?"

"Uh...that's right."

……

If all kinds of salt were put together and pieced together, maybe they could still believe it, but the court took out so much refined salt at once, wouldn't it be obvious that there was something wrong with it?

If refined salt was so easy to get, their families would have already brought it out, why would they wait until now?
Even if they wanted to make money again, who would know the production of this salt?
The more I think about it, the more I feel that Mr. Qi is right. This must be a deliberate "confuse trick" by the court. This is to scare them and then take them down.

Think beautiful!
Even if the imperial court discovered salt mines, so what if they hoarded a large amount of refined salt?
Most of the world's salt mines are in their hands. As long as they keep silent, there will be no problems in a short period of time. After a long time, the court will definitely not be able to bear it.

So, they not only closed their own salt shop, but also secretly arranged for people to go to the government to buy salt.

They want to see how long the court can carry such a large amount.

Sure enough, within a few days, the official salt shop started to raise money.

Each household can only buy one pack of "parity salt" per month. If they want to buy more, they need to get ten more copper coins.

"See, the imperial court is almost unable to hold on. We will increase our purchasing power, and we must buy all the goods in the imperial court's hands. When the imperial court runs out of salt, they will beg us at that time." Qi There was a cold look on the old man's face.

Anyway, things like salt have been released and sealed up, and they haven't come back after a few months.

When they bought out the official salt shop of the imperial court, let's see what tricks the imperial court can come up with.

At the same time, they also tightened up the clan's children, telling them to be honest one by one recently, and don't cause anything to fall into the hands of the court, and no one will be able to protect them at that time.

Those fools who have no brains and knowingly commit crimes are still a minority. When my old man speaks, most of the people below are honest.

They also know in their hearts that only when they keep their own family can they have their prestige.

If their home is gone, they are nothing.

Besides, they can play at home if they don't go out to drink flower wine and molested good women.

Which courtyard does not have a beautiful maid?

It just so happens that we have picked enough wild flowers outside, so we can go home and taste the house flowers.

For a while, few descendants of the great families were seen outside.

(End of this chapter)