Chapter 128 127 Private Salt

In the evening, after a sumptuous reception banquet, Mr. Wei led the way down to the Wei family's yard.

Wei Guangde asked his personal soldiers to support his father into the backyard and placed him on the bed. After he asked Uncle Lin to arrange the places where the personal soldiers who accompanied him lived were all from Bengshan Fort and knew each other.

Wei Guangde asked Aunt Lin to clean the main yard two days ago.

"Zhang Ji, you sleep here tonight and call me if you have something to do."

Seeing that his father was asleep, his whole body was filled with a strong smell of alcohol. He probably had drunk a little too much at the banquet, so he ordered Zhang Ji to serve him here and leave the house and return to his yard.

My father was drunk and couldn't hear anything he said at this moment, so he would rather let him have a good rest for a night.

The next day, Wei Guangde got up much earlier than usual, and he got up at the main courtyard at the time of Mao.

Looking at Zhang Ji who was yawning all over the sky, he asked, "How was my father resting last night?"

"The master got up twice last night, drank some water and fell asleep again."

Zhang Ji replied immediately.

"Thank you harder today, take good care of my dad. You can go to the front yard to find Aunt Lin and ask her to prepare more food."

Wei Guangde ordered and looked at his father who was still on the bed. Wei Guangde walked to the chair and sat down and narrowed his eyes.

When Dad Wei woke up, it was already the end of Chen and Si, and it was the beginning of the next generation of nine or ten o'clock.

Wei Guangde was waiting for Mr. Wei to wash, and Zhang Ji notified Aunt Lin to bring food. The father and son sat at the table and started talking.

"You will take me around the house later. When the matter in the Guards is over, I will go back to Bengshan Fort to pick up your mother."

"Dad, I heard that the commander is going to be promoted?"

Wei Guangdebala asked in a low voice after a meal.

"Did you know everything?"

When Mr. Wei heard his son say this, he was a little surprised, but then he shook his head, "There was such a rumor at first, but later Mr. Zhang asked someone for inquiries, but the news was untrue."

"oh."

Wei Guangde nodded when he heard this.

Since my father said it was a rumor, it could basically be ruled out, and the fight in the ward station would not happen, so my father could only be his ward steadily.

"By the way, Dad, the Zhang family sent 1,000 taels of silver a few days ago, saying that it was the first dividend. The batch of goods was almost done, so I'll wait for you to come back."

Wei Guangde remembered that when he had just moved here, the Zhang Mansion brought a box. When he opened it, he saw that it was a box of silver.

"Well, you can collect the money for you and spend it as much as you should. I heard that scholars spend a lot of money. Don't be stingy with your classmates in the university. Who knows what their future will be?"

Dad Wei took a sip of porridge and said casually, "After the matter is done here, I will go back to Bengshan Fort and pick up your mother before the New Year. This year, our family will celebrate the New Year in Jiujiang."

"Hongfu said, you should be able to get ten thousand taels of silver here this time."

Wei Guangde thought about it and revealed to his father the news he had heard from Zhang Hongfu before that he must have known what he had gained in Zhejiang. He knew his gains, but he didn't know if it was less or more.

After Wei Guangde finished speaking, he stared at his father without blinking.

I haven't seen each other for half a year. My father felt older when he came back when he went out.

Before he could sigh too much, Wei Guangde discovered that the expression of his father in his eyes was a little unusual. He just chuckled and shook his head.

There are really fewer differences, the Zhang family is really unscrupulous.

Seeing my father's smile, Wei Guangde guessed that 10,000 taels of silver might be less, so my father would behave like this.

At this time, Dad Wei looked up at Wei Guangde, and suddenly asked with a blank expression: "What did you discover?"

Wei Guangde didn't know what Mr. Wei meant when asked about Mr. Wei's question.

"The Zhang family has been very squandering recently?"

Wei Guangde discovered that although his father still had no expression on his face when he said this, his eyebrows slightly frowned.

"It seems that there is no Zhang family. I just feel that Hongfu is very loose recently."

Wei Guangde hurriedly said that in his impression of the Zhang family, there seemed to be no change in his impression, except for the box of silver that Uncle Zhang sent him.

But even if there is one, Wei Guangde probably doesn't know. Only Zhang Hongfu has contacted him much. That guy is really rich recently.

"You boy, what you mean is just to know if the money is too much or less for the money? Hehe."

At this time, Dad Wei laughed, and Wei Guangde was a little embarrassed to lower his head.

Indeed, he was a little bit petty. After all, his father's official position was so big, so it was the best to be controlled.

Putting down the chopsticks, Dad Wei wiped his mouth with the veil next to him, and looked back at the door. There was no one outside and there was only father and son in the room. Then he spoke, "I know what kind of temperament you are. It's good, and the observation is very good."

Then he rubbed his hands and smiled, "This time I get the money, I will give you 10,000 taels. This is for your study. Before you become an official, you don't want to get one tael of silver from me.

Of course, the income from the eighty acres of paddy fields I asked your brother to buy for you last time was yours, and no one wanted it."

"Hongfu doesn't know which batch of things?"

Wei Guangde keenly realized something. Last time Zhang Hongfu told him that he had sold more than 40,000 taels of silver and paid about 10,000 taels from home. It seemed that he was less.

"Originally, there were only so many good things, and all the Japanese pirates moved away, but we found a warehouse of private salt dealers, which contained a lot of salt, so we called Fugui over at that time, just to find a channel to take action."

Dad Wei only planned to just mention it casually. He knew that his son was very strict and knew the severity of the matter.

“How many are there?”

Wei Guangde didn't think too much and asked directly.

"It's not your business. You are just studying hard now and strive to get a juren in three years. Then my father will buy you land."

After hitting a soft nail, Wei Guangde rubbed his nose and stopped asking. After finding salt, the silver should not be less.

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, several products were officially operated or strictly controlled, namely salt, iron, and tea.

Iron is easier to understand. The Ming Dynasty suffered constant border troubles, but most of these enemies were backward in production and could not produce enough iron to make weapons. Therefore, controlling the iron can suppress border troubles, at least prevent the enemy from invading the border.

The role of tea is similar. People of nomadic people have a strong dependence on tea, and even reach the level of "it is better to have no food for a day than to have no tea for a day".

As a necessary necessity for every household, the important role it can play in daily life is self-evident. There are huge benefits in it, which make countless people crazy.

The Ming Dynasty implemented the official salt system, which was specially designed for the "stove households" as a civil servant, and was purchased and sold by the government.

The merchants bought salt from the government by obtaining salt and sold it everywhere.

This system had a very positive role in the early days of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, but with the development of the times, especially the nobles played a disgraceful role, which completely ruined the salt administration and private salt were rampant, even surpassing the official salt.
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