Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 74 Yan Maoqing takes over

Lao Hu pushed the wooden box in front of Li Dana.

"These are fifty banknotes from Detai Bank, 2 taels each. They can be exchanged into cash at Detaizhuang branches in the two capitals and thirteen provinces."

Li Dana pushed the wooden box to Fatty Feng: "Fatty Feng, check it out."

Not long after, Fatty Feng said: "The shopkeeper, you can't be wrong, it's the real bank note from Detaizhuang."

Where does He Liu have millions of taels of silver?This box of banknotes is all fake banknotes made by him!He Liu, an official in brocade clothes, has long cultivated a pair of piercing eyes to identify the authenticity of bank notes.To learn from the true and the false, you must first learn to fake.Li Zipian, the old eleven liar in Jinyiwei's Thirteenth Taibao, is a master at counterfeiting bank notes.He Liu had learned counterfeiting of bank notes from Li Zipian for a long time.

When Fatty Feng was interrogated yesterday, Fatty Feng told him that Li Dana was illiterate.

He Liu wondered: If Li Dana was illiterate, how would he know whether the bank notes he handled were real or fake?
Fatty Feng told him again: It doesn't matter if Li Dana doesn't know the authenticity of the banknote - as long as I, Fatty Feng, know!I have always done the identification of banknotes on my behalf.

Congratulations to Liu Daxi.It took a whole night to make these fifty fake bank notes to fool Li Dana.

Li Dana said to Fatty Feng: "Fatty, you have to watch carefully! This is not a small business of tens of thousands of taels."

Fatty Feng said: "The shopkeeper, you can't be wrong."

He Liudao: "I saw the bank note, should we show Yanyin?"

Li Dana pushed back the wooden box containing the banknotes to He Liu: "Don't worry. How can I carry more than 50 dans of salt on me?"

The salt quotations issued by the Lianghuai Salt Transport Yamen are all one hundred dan. There are more than 50 pieces of salt for 5000 dan of salt.No one would carry it with them.

He Liudao: "Well, since that's the case, when can I get Yanyin?"

Li Dana said: "At noon tomorrow, you can come to Sifang Tea House again. Then we will pay with one hand and deliver with one hand."

He Liu and Lao Hu got up: "Then it's a deal, let's say goodbye!"

He Liu and Lao Hu just walked to the door, but Li Dana stopped them: "Wait!"

He Liu was startled: Could it be that Li Dana saw the flaw?
Li Dana took out a piece of paper from his bosom, on which only the word "Li" was written.

He smiled and said, "I am illiterate, I can only write my own surname, you two take this piece of paper."

He Liu asked strangely: "What do you mean by giving me this piece of paper?"

Fatty Feng explained for Li Dana: "With this piece of paper, you don't need to spend money to eat, drink and have fun in Yangzhou City! You can eat the delicious delicacies in Huichun Building, and sleep with the beautiful girls in Yicui Courtyard! When paying the bill Just show this piece of paper, and those buyers and sellers will come to our shopkeeper Li to settle the bill!"

He Liu took the piece of paper: "Why is this so embarrassing?"

Li Dana said: "Heh, doing business requires frequent visits. I really want to make friends with you two. If you want to buy Yanyin in the future, just come to me!"

He Liu and Lao Hu just stepped out of Sifang Restaurant.Li Dana gave Fatty Feng an errand: "Fatty Feng, the owner of Yangzhou Dousheng Rice Co., Ltd. is from Shandong. The two people who came just now claimed to be merchants from Shandong, and they were first involved in the private salt business. They can come up with one time. One million taels of silver, I think their original business is quite big in Shandong. Go and find out for me, Boss Wang, if there are any of these two people in the Shandong business field!"

Li Dana's business might lose his head, so he is naturally cautious in his actions.

How did he know that Fatty Feng was already under the control of He Liu?

Fatty Feng said: "Okay, shopkeeper. I'll go to Dousheng Rice Store right away."

More than half an hour later, Fatty Feng returned to Sifang Tea House and said to Li Dana: "Master, Boss Wang and I have inquired clearly. Those two people are the owners of Tianfuxiang, the largest silk and satin village in Shandong! Tianfuxiang His silk and satin business spread throughout Shandong. These two have strong financial resources, and it is not difficult to spend a million taels of silver at a time."

Naturally, He Liu confessed that Fatty Feng lied to Li Dana.

Li Dana let out a long breath: "That's good! It's the first time we do business with them, so let's be careful. You have to be careful!"

He Liu and Lao Hu returned to the imperial envoy's office.Lao Hu asked He Liu: "Lao Liu, what kind of medicine are you selling in your gourd? Do you want to be a liar who steals from the rich and gives to the poor like Li Zipian, the eleventh old man?" ?”

He Liu nodded: "That's right. I just want to cheat the 50 dans of salt into my hands. Each of the salt quotes issued by the Lianghuai Salt Transport Yamen has a number. Thousands of salt salts all start with the character A 630 and end with the character A 680. If my prediction is correct, when Li Dana finds out that Yanyin has been cheated, people from the Yanyun Yamen will definitely come forward and take our hand The salt in the paper will be invalidated. At that time, the salt that we cheated will become a pile of waste paper."

Old Hu said: "Since the people from Yanyun Yamen came forward to cancel Yanyin, you can find out who in Yanyun Yamen is in collusion with Sifang Tea House, right?"

He Liu nodded: "That's right, this is called following the vines. Let's go, Lao Hu, go to Huichun Building for a drink! Anyway, it's Li Dan who pays the bill, we don't want to eat for nothing!"

Old Hu laughed and said, "No matter how much we can eat, we won't be able to get back the 1 taels of real money you gave to Fatty Feng yesterday! If this case can't be solved, you will lose your wife and your army! If Xiangxiang knew You lost her future dowry money, so you have to go without vegetables for three days?"

He Liu and Lao Hu were about to go out of the imperial envoy's camp, but the imperial envoy came to pass the decree.

The imperial envoy turned out to be Yan Maoqing who was recommended by Yan Song to patrol salt in the south of the Yangtze River!
"There is a decree! Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang Province, reported that Jinyiwei inspected hundreds of households. He Liu went to the south of the Yangtze River to handle the case, bullying the local government and insulting the officials. I am not very angry! It's really abominable to show off in the market! Now go to celebrate the Liuqi Martial Arts Festival, and the general will leave the ranks, and stay in the Jinyiwei, and make contributions in the south of the Yangtze River."

This edict of Emperor Jiajing is very strange.Mingli, he scolded He Liuyi, saying that he was "not very angry".But the punishment for He Liu was just to remove the dispensable Wu San class.This is not a decent punishment.

As for the phrase "doing crimes and making meritorious service in Jiangnan", it was obvious to tell He Liu: You don't have to go back to Beijing, and stay in Jiangnan to investigate the illegal salt case!
He Liu accepted the imperial edict.Yan Maoqing had been an official in the capital for a long time, so he naturally knew the sixth son of Jin Yiwei in front of him.

Yan Maoqing said: "Lao Liu, I came to the south of the Yangtze River to inspect the salt, and you came to the south of the Yangtze River to search the house. Heh, that person from Hu Butang is so unsympathetic. How dare you insult an official in front of the emperor. Why didn't I listen Said that your sixth son bullied the magistrate!"

He Liugong cupped his hands: "Master Yan, some of my subordinates did something inappropriate. I don't blame Governor Hu for this."

Although Yan Maoqing and Hu Zongxian are both strict parties, the relationship between them is not very good.Yan Maoqing thought Hu Zongxian was pedantic, and he didn't know how to make money in front of Jiangnan.

As for Hu Zongxian, he also suspected that Yan Maoqing had no ability to govern the country and the country except for making money.

Yan Maoqing sighed: "Oh, Liu Baili from the Ministry of Officials sent me an urgent message today. I was sent by the emperor to patrol the south of the Yangtze River to inspect salt, but the Ministry of Officials asked me to take over as the envoy of Lianghuai Salt Transport on the spot. I became one of Hu Butang's subordinates!"

He Liu was startled, and said, "Master Yan, you have taken over the Lianghuai Salt Transport Envoy?"

(End of this chapter)