After learning of Li Yuntian's grand plan, Lei Ting's face was full of shock, and she never expected that there would be such an unknown secret in the matter of counterinsurgency.

In this way, wouldn't she have made a lot of money by winning the mining rights and a number of commercial franchises in Cochin this time? Indochina has a population of tens of millions, and the market potential is huge.

To be honest, Lei Xiaotian didn't take Jiaozhi's business to heart at all, and the Cao Gang made a lot of money from Caoyun every year, so he had already prepared that the money that Lei Ting invested in Jiaozhi would be wasted in the future, and it should be regarded as a dowry for Lei Ting.

"Brother Li, do you know why no one in the Salt Merchants Association today holds up a sign to take the salt industry franchise in Jiaozhi except for Vice President Lu?" While talking and laughing, Lei Ting suddenly remembered something, and couldn't help but ask Li Yuntian.

"Someone from the Nanjing household department must be obstructing it." Li Yuntian smiled slightly when he heard this, took a sip of the wine in the wine glass, and replied casually.

"How do you know it's from Nanjing?" Lei Ting's eyes suddenly showed a look of surprise, she didn't expect Li Yuntian to guess so accurately, could she have already gotten the news in advance?

"Those people in the Salt Merchants Association have backers, and if you want to make them obedient, then only the Nanjing Household Department responsible for the release of salt can do it."

Li Yuntian put down his wine glass and explained to Lei Ting with a smile, "As the saying goes, the county officials are not as good as the current management, how can those people in the Salt Merchants Association offend the Nanjing Household Department, and then the other party will use their hands and feet to make them suffer heavy losses." ”

"Brother Li, it seems that I can't hide anything from you." Lei Ting giggled when she heard this, "The second son of Chen Shilang of Nanjing Hubu put down his words to the people of the Salt Merchants Association last night, if anyone dares to buy the salt industry franchise in Jiaozhi, then don't think about doing salt business in the two capitals and thirteen provinces." ”

"Chen Shilang's second son?" Li Yuntian's brows furrowed slightly, and then a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he smiled bitterly at Lei Ting with some helplessness, "I taught him a lesson in the capital a year ago, but I didn't expect him to hold a grudge and secretly sabotage Jiaozhi's counterinsurgency, which is simply bold." ”

Before the Chinese New Year last year, Li Yuntian led the military attaches of the Xiaowu Army to the Sifang Hall Theater to listen to Lian Xiang's singing, and then sent Lian Xiang home, and met Chen Ergongzi, who was pestering Lian Xiang, at Lian Xiang's house, and wanted to exchange a priceless night pearl for a spring breeze with Lian Xiang, but was scared away by Li Yuntian.

Li Yuntian didn't take this little matter to heart, he could see the high-flying and domineering children of the powerful and powerful, as long as the other party didn't deliberately provoke him, he wouldn't care about it.

It seems that Chen Ergongzi failed to swallow this breath, so he took advantage of Li Yuntian's coming to Yangzhou to raise military funds for counterinsurgency, and secretly made a black hand, wanting to make Li Yuntian unable to raise enough military funds, so that Li Yuntian's counterinsurgency journey will undoubtedly be more dangerous.

Li Yuntian can understand Chen Ergongzi's revenge, under normal circumstances, he may ignore Chen Ergongzi's little trick behind the scenes, but quelling rebellion is an important matter for the country, Chen Gongzi's actions are treasonous, this is not something he can forgive.

Since Second Prince Chen sent him to the door to find death without knowing whether he was alive or dead, then Li Yuntian would not sit idly by, he wrote down this account first, and then slowly settled it with Second Prince Chen after the matter of Jiaozhi was over.

If it weren't for Chen Ergongzi's trouble, based on this morning's bidding, the final transaction price of the Jiaozhi Salt Industry franchise should have been around 250,000 taels, instead of the reserve price of 100,000 taels, which would have caused Li Yuntian to earn 500,000 taels less.

Five or six hundred thousand taels is enough for the military needs of an army of 100,000 for a year, and the annoyance in Li Yuntian's heart can be imagined, Chen Ergongzi would not have thought that his arrogant move had already buried the disaster of killing him.

Li Yuntian, as a dignified Zhenwubo and a general of Dingnan under the imperial seal of Emperor Xuande, naturally did not take the initiative to ask those salt merchants about the reason for the matter, he believed that Lu Dezhong would tell him the truth.

Obviously, Lu Dezhong, who disobeyed Chen Ergongzi's order, will definitely be suppressed by Chen Ergongzi's salt business in the future, Chen Shilang can hold the power to issue salt introductions, if he can't get salt quotations from Chen Shilang, then Lu Dezhong's business will be hit hard.

The reason why the salt merchants became the richest merchants in the world was that they were able to smuggle salt in the light with the salt in their hands.

To put it simply, the salt merchants first purchased salt from the Nanjing household department in accordance with the formal channels, obtained the qualification to sell salt, and paid taxes to the imperial court according to the rated amount of salt.

In fact, the actual amount of salt imported from the Nanking household was much greater than the rated amount of salt imported by the salt merchants who paid taxes, and the profits generated by the extra salt quotations went into private pockets because they did not have to pay taxes to the imperial court.

Some people once conservatively estimated that only 40% of the salt quotations issued by the household department in Nanjing each year were paid to the imperial court, and these 40% of the salt quotations were also controlled by the imperial court.

The remaining sixty percent of the salt quotation was not within the statistical scope of the imperial court, so it did not pay taxes to the imperial court, and became the black salt quotation, and the profits generated by it were divided among the salt merchants and officials at all levels, thus creating the wealth of the salt merchants.

Therefore, Chen Ergongzi had to deal with Lu Dezhong very simply, only gave him the rated salt introduction, and did not give him those black salt quotations, and without the salt quotation, Lu Dezhong would not be able to go to the salt field to extract salt, and then could not meet the needs of downstream salt merchants, bringing a series of troubles.

Lu Dezhong naturally knew the consequences, but he still did it, which meant that Lu Dezhong wanted to give up his salt business in the three capitals and thirteen provinces and shift the focus of the business to Jiaozhi.

Li Yuntian is well aware of the dirty things of the Salt Merchants Association, but because this matter involves a wide range of people and involves a large number of people, he doesn't want to poke this hornet's nest now.

Emperor Xuande, who was in the prime of life, wanted to revitalize the Ming Dynasty, and naturally could not watch a large amount of salt tax loss, and now Emperor Xuande was still kept in the dark.

"Big brother, Miss Lianxiang has been waiting for you for so long, when will you take her as a concubine?" After learning about the festival between Li Yuntian and Chen Ergongzi, Lei Ting suddenly laughed and looked at Li Yuntian with a smile.

"Wait for me?" Li Yuntian was slightly stunned when he heard this, and he didn't understand what Lei Ting meant for a while, but he was innocent between him and Lian Xiang, and he didn't take a step beyond Lei Chi.

"Big brother, do you know why Grandpa Zhang is so respectful to Miss Lianxiang now?" Seeing this, Lei Ting knew that Li Yuntian did not know the emotional entanglement between Zhang Kedi, the second son of Zhang Hao, the Duke of Yiguo, and Lian Xiang, so she deliberately asked in a coquettish voice.

"Something to do with me?" Li Yuntian realized the meaning of Lianxiang's words, and the look on his face couldn't help but be even more surprised, could it be that something had happened between Zhang Kedi and Lianxiang, which made Zhang Kedi, who had been chasing Lianxiang relentlessly, give up the pursuit of Lianxiang?

If Li Yuntian remembers correctly, Zhang Kedi suddenly changed his attitude towards Lian Xiang back then, which made him very strange, but because this was Zhang Kedi's private **, he didn't ask about it, and now that he thinks about it, it is indeed very suspicious.

"Big brother, little sister heard that a few years ago, Grandpa Zhang drank too much wine again and forcibly broke into Miss Pianxiang's girl, but Miss Lixiang resisted to death, not only smashed Grandpa Zhang's forehead with a vase, but also made a cut on her neck with a broken porcelain piece."

Lei Ting nodded affirmatively to Li Yuntian, and said in an orderly manner, "I heard from the people of the Drunken Moon Pavilion that Miss Lianxiang personally told Little Grandpa Zhang that she liked the eldest brother, which made Grandpa Zhang retreat and leave gloomily. ”

After Lei Ting's reminder, Li Yuntian was stunned, he remembered that once when he was drinking in the Drunken Moon Pavilion, Zhang Kedi's forehead was suddenly injured, and he came to the banquet with a wound, and Zhang Kedi's explanation at that time was that he was injured during training in the military camp, so everyone didn't take it to heart.

Li Yuntian still remembers that Zhang Kedi was depressed and drank a lot of wine at that time, that is, after that, the relationship between Zhang Kedi and Lianxiang seemed to have changed.

"Big brother, you won't be unaware of Miss Lianxiang's heart for you, will you?" Seeing Li Yuntian stunned and in a daze, Lei Ting couldn't help biting her lip and asked tentatively.

"How could she like me? Second Brother Zhang is a little grandfather, thousands of times better than my little imperial history. Li Yuntian came back to his senses when he heard this, and looked at Lei Ting blankly, he didn't think about this aspect at all.

"Once a woman has true feelings for a man, then sometimes she will become very stupid and will abandon a qiē to be with a man!" Lei Ting saw Li Yuntian looking at her blankly, and couldn't help but feel angry and funny in her heart, she didn't expect that such a shrewd person as Li Yuntian would be so emotionally dull, so she bit her lip again and replied a little angrily.

Li Yuntian's mind was in a mess now, and all he was thinking about was the matter of mercy, and he didn't realize the change in Lei Ting's tone, so he nodded thoughtfully when he heard the words.

He wanted to ask Lian Xiang for an explanation, but the two were thousands of miles apart, and he was afraid that he would have to wait until the end of the counterinsurgency to deal with this matter that he couldn't take care of.

Looking at the restless Li Yuntian, Lei Ting couldn't help but smile helplessly, and her expression became a little gloomy and lonely:

It seems that Li Yuntian is busy dealing with the official business at hand all day long, and he hasn't considered the emotional problem of a person at all, otherwise he wouldn't seem to be in a hurry at this time, and he doesn't know when this enemy will know his intentions, do you have to let a girl take the lead in finding out about this matter?

When Li Yuntian left the house where Lei Ting lived, the night was already dark, Lei Ting sent him out of the door, and watched him get on the horse and leave stupidly, and only returned to the courtyard with a lonely expression after a long time.

In fact, the reason why Lei Ting wanted to mention Lian Xiang today was not only to do Lian Xiang a favor, but also to secretly remind Li Yuntian to notice her feelings for Li Yuntian.

However, judging from the current situation, the matter of Lianxiang has already made Li Yuntian confused, where is there time to think about other things, and I don't know when Li Yuntian, the enemy, will know her intentions.

To be honest, Li Yuntian didn't want Lei Ting to follow him to kill him, but he knew Lei Ting's character, and once he decided, it would be difficult to change it, otherwise Lei Ting would not have run away from marriage and "eloped" with Li Yuntian.

Therefore, for the sake of Lei Ting's safety in Jiaozhi, Li Yuntian decided to take her with him to take care of her, so as not to put Lei Ting in danger at that time, and the emotional entanglement between the two will be continued and sublimated in Jiaozhi.!^!