Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 72 Fatty Feng

He Liu and Lao Hu put on silk clothes, pretended to be wealthy men and went straight to Sifang Tea House.

This Sifang teahouse can be said to be full of customers.But most of the guests are dressed in coarse cloth and old clothes.He Liu and Lao Hu were particularly eye-catching in their silk clothes.

He Liu secretly said: Miscalculation.Those private salt dealers were doing ulterior motives, and naturally they dressed as inconspicuously as possible.

The waiter in the teahouse greeted him: "Are the two guest officials here to drink tea, or..."

He Liu made up a lie: "We are merchants from Shandong. I heard that you sell other things besides tea. Heh, we want to buy some of that."

Xiaoer smiled openly: "How much money did the guest officer bring?"

He Liu has a habit of taking all his belongings with him.This is a disease that a hundred households get after checking.He rummages through other people's houses all day long. What if a thief enters his own house and rummages through boxes like him?
After 20 years of inspecting hundreds of households, He Liu also saved tens of thousands of taels of silver in several banks in the capital.All banknotes of the bank are stored in his robe sleeves.

He Liu said to the little girl, "I brought 1 taels of silver."

As soon as Xiaoer heard this, he immediately changed his face, from a full of smiles to a cold one: "1 taels? Heh, then go to the second floor and wait!"

He Liu and Lao Hu glanced at each other: This Xiaoer is very arrogant, it seems that 1 taels of silver can't get into his eyes at all.

The two came to the second floor and ordered two cups of pre-rain tea.

In the Sifang teahouse, a cup of Yuqian tea costs 50 taels of silver.Two cups is 100 taels.You know, even in the capital, a catty of good Yuqian tea is only worth three or five taels of silver.

The two sat for more than two hours.A fat guy sat down in front of the two of them.

"I'm here, Feng Xu. Others call me Fatty Feng. Xiao Er said, are you two here to buy salt?" Fatty Feng asked.

He Liu deliberately put on a Shandong accent: "Yes, yes. We are merchants from Shandong. We are going to get some cheap salt from Jiangnan and ship it to Shandong."

Fatty Feng laughed and said, "Cheap salt? The price of official salt in the two capitals of Ming Dynasty and thirteen provinces is the same, which is more than four taels of silver per load. Heh, if you want to get cheap salt, naturally you want to sell salt." No. Without Yanyin, your private salt can’t even get out of Yangzhou! Just come to our Sifang Tea House! How much money you have, we have as much Yanyin here!”

He Liu asked, "How many loads of salt can you sell for 1 taels of silver?"

Fatty Feng stretched out five fingers.

He Liu asked, "Five thousand dan?"

Fatty Feng was a little impatient: "It's not [-] dan, could it be [-] dan of salt?"

He Liu rubbed his hands together: "It's a bit expensive."

Fatty Feng shook his head and said, "Two taels of salt are expensive? You spend 5000 taels of silver to buy five thousand taels of private salt. You spend another 1 taels to buy five thousand taels of salt. The total is 5000 taels." Ben. With Yanyin, your private salt can be transported to Shandong for public sale. Five thousand dans can be sold for more than 2 silver. You can make a net profit of 5000 taels at once! Our Sifang Tea House is open for business. bully."

Fatty Feng put his head next to He Liu's ear, and said, "Let me tell you the truth. The former Lianghuai Salt Transport Envoy, Mr. Wu, had an accident and was sent to prison. The new Salt Transport Envoy has not yet arrived. During this period of time, people in the Yanyun Yamen dare not resell a load of Yanyin! Fortunately, I still have some stock on hand. Heh, Yanyin is in great demand now! If you don’t want it, someone will naturally want it.”

Lao Hu said from the side: "Shopkeeper, I think we'll buy it! Master Feng's account is clear, spend 1 taels, earn 5000 taels of profit. This business is very cost-effective!"

He Liudao: "Hongkou Baiya, you must let me see Yanyin?"

Fatty Feng said: "I will let you see it. But you also said, red mouth and white teeth, you always let me see your bank note."

He Liu took out a bank note from his sleeve and handed it to Fatty Feng: "Look carefully, this is the bank note of Detai Village. You can exchange it for silver when you see the note."

Fatty Feng took the banknote and looked at it carefully: "Well, it's the real banknote of Detaizhuang."

He Liudao: "Where is Yanyin?"

Fatty Feng yelled, "Little Er!"

The waiter came to Fatty Feng.Fatty Feng whispered something to him.

The waiter turned and left, and after a while, he came back with a tea tube.

He handed the tea canister to Fatty Feng.Fatty Feng unscrewed the tea tube.There is no tea in the tea tube, only a large roll of salt.

Fatty Feng handed the salt to He Liu: "You can see clearly, this is the salt from the Lianghuai Salt Transport Yamen. Each piece is one hundred dan, a total of fifty pieces, exactly [-] dan!"

He Liu looked at Yan Yin: "We don't have much knowledge, how do we know whether this Yan Yin is fake?"

Fatty Feng laughed and said, "Before you came here, you should have inquired about our Sifang Teahouse. What does our Sifang Teahouse do? Is it necessary to lie to you for a mere 1 taels of silver?"

He Liu nodded: "That's right."

Fatty Feng said again: "Okay, that's it. Next time you come to Yangzhou from Shandong, you can still find me. It's the same sentence, as much silver as you have, I will have as much salt!"

He Liu and Lao Hu took the salt and led them to Sifang Tea House.They have already arranged thirty or forty guards in brocade clothes around the Sifang teahouse.Just wait for Fatty Feng to leave the teahouse, follow him up and arrest him.

Old Hu said: "Lao Liu, you don't sell smuggled salt. To you, these five thousand dans of salt are like straw paper to wipe your ass. If you can't hold Fatty Feng for a while, your ten thousand silver will be in vain. .”

He Liu smiled wryly: "Yes, that's the dowry money I saved for Xiangxiang, I hope there will be no mistakes."

In the evening, Fatty Feng walked out of Sifanglou with his belly outstretched.

He Liu gestured to the thirty or forty guards in brocade clothes who were ambushing around him.A group of wrestlers followed.

Fatty Feng walked to a secluded place, and the wrestlers rushed up and pushed Fatty Feng to the ground.

He Liu walked up: "Oh, Boss Feng, we met in the afternoon."

Fatty Feng looked at He Liu.Ask: "Who are you? Is it possible that you want to be black and black? I can tell you, if you eat your master Feng and my black on the territory of Jiangnan, you will not be able to eat and walk around."

He Liu shook his head: "Hey, you are still stubborn when you are about to die?! If you commit crimes in the hands of our Jin Yiwei, I guarantee that you will not be able to eat and walk around."

"Jin Yiwei?" Fatty Feng was surprised.

"Yes, Jin Yiwei! Come on, take him to the palace of the imperial envoy!" He Liu ordered his soldiers to say.

After some interrogation, Fatty Feng turned out to be just a small shrimp.He was just running errands for Sifanglou's owner.

He Liu asked: "You keep saying that you are just a salt broker, running errands for the owner of Sifanglou. I want to ask you, who is the owner of Sifanglou?"

Fatty Feng replied truthfully: "My lord, I don't know who our boss is."

(End of this chapter)