Nuclear Warlord

Chapter 182 Salt shortage, chaos!
Zhao Zhijing sneered: "Patriarch, of course we can't let him go like this, but now is not the best time to make a move. Didn't Emperor Qianwu also make a move against the Wang family? Let's just sit back and watch the tigers fight!"

Zhao Tianquan said: "You're right, the Wang family controls [-]% of the official salt, and a single moth is enough for Emperor Qianwu to drink a pot. When he is messed up by the Wang family, we will step on it again." Only one kick can let him know how powerful my Zhao family is!"

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Huozhou, Datong city.

Old man Wang is a real farmer who lives in a small town thirty miles outside the city because there is no salt shop selling official salt in the town.So every time there is no salt at home, he has to walk [-] miles to Datong City to buy salt.

On this day, after a long journey of more than half a day, the old man Wang finally came to Datong City and went to the Wang Family Salt Shop where he often bought salt.

When he came to the salt shop, he found that the salt shop was different from usual times, densely packed with people, which made him feel very puzzled.

The old man Wang grabbed a young man who was running towards the salt shop with a cloth bag and asked, "My little brother, why are there so many people in the Wang family salt shop? What happened?"

The young man glanced at Old Man Wang and said patiently, "Is the old man from outside the city?"

"Yes."

"Then it's normal if you don't know. The Wang family said that due to the insufficient production of salt mines recently, they sell official salt in limited quantities every day!"

"Ah?!" Old man Wang was startled, and quickly asked, "How much is the daily limit?"

"A fight!"

"There are so many people in Datong City and surrounding counties and towns, how can this little salt be enough?!"

"So, everyone is rushing to buy it." As he spoke, the young man shook off Old Man Wang's arm, and said anxiously, "I'll go first, and if I don't get a good seat later, I have to continue eating plain water and cooking!"

After speaking, Sa Yazi ran towards Wang's salt shop.

Old man Wang also panicked and hurriedly followed.

When he ran to the Wang family salt shop, there were more people around the door, there were hundreds of people, all pushing forward desperately, blaming and cursing each other endlessly.

"Squeeze what? Hurry up to reincarnate!"

"Bastard, you stepped on my foot!"

"There has to be someone who comes first, right? Why do you want to squeeze ahead of me?"

"..."

Old man Wang, who was old and frail, also tried to squeeze in, but was squeezed out again and again, and even fell down.

"A sin!"

Old man Wang let out a mournful cry, quickly got up and continued to squeeze in desperately.

It is okay to not eat salt for a day or two, but it will cause problems after a long time. There is a three-year-old child at home, so we must get official salt no matter what.

People like Old Man Wang were everywhere, frantically crowding towards the door of Wang's salt shop, and there was even a riot and a fight.

The shopkeeper inside the shop looked indifferently through the crack of the door at the scene outside, and had no intention of opening the door at all.

The guy on the side couldn't bear it, and said in a low voice: "Shopkeeper, don't we have a lot of official salt in the warehouse? Why don't we sell it? These people don't have salt to eat, and things will go wrong after a long time!"

If you don't eat salt, the weakness of the limbs is mild, and if it is serious, it will cause edema all over the body, and it may even be life-threatening.

Young and strong men can carry it for a while longer, but the elderly and children can't carry it for long without salt.

The guy is a little unbearable.

But the shopkeeper's expression was still indifferent: "What could go wrong? The big deal is that a few people will die. What's the big deal? This is the order of the Patriarch, you just follow it!"

The man hesitated for a moment, pondered his words, and asked cautiously: "Shopkeeper, why did the Patriarch do this? Isn't this against Yin Zi?"

"This amount of money is nothing to the Wang family?" The shopkeeper sneered, and then whispered in a low voice: "It's okay to tell you, didn't your majesty raid many salt shops in the capital a few days ago? The owner was furious. I want to show His Majesty a little color!"

The guy was surprised: "This... how dare the Patriarch?"

"Hmph! Why dare you? In the eyes of the eight great families, the emperor is a fart! The Wang family controls [-]% of the world's official salt, and they still can't control the court to death? You just wait and watch the show!"

"understood!"

The man wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. While marveling at the Wang family's audacity, he was also a little angry.

The Wang family actually used official salt and other important materials related to the national economy and the people's livelihood, regardless of the lives of the people, to fight Emperor Ganwu?

It's shameless!
But as an ordinary guy, he dared not speak out.

The shopkeeper deliberately postponed the originally scheduled opening time, until the outside was almost crowded with people, and then slowly opened the door of the salt shop.

"Quiet! Be quiet!"

The shopkeeper let out a loud shout, and when everyone quieted down, he said loudly: "Fathers and folks, because the production of salt mines has dropped sharply, today we only sell half a bucket of official salt, and those who are in the back line will come back tomorrow!"

As soon as this remark came out, it immediately caused a commotion.

"Half a bucket of official salt? How can it be sold with so little!"

"Yeah, we've waited for so long, sell more!"

"My family has not eaten salt for three days, and if this continues, there will be problems!"

"My house has been without salt for nine days!"

"..."

The shopkeeper turned a deaf ear to it, and said coldly: "At least there is still half a bucket of salt for sale today, and I'm not sure if there will be any tomorrow, so hurry up!"

As soon as the words fell, the whole scene suddenly fell into madness. Everyone squeezed forward frantically, cursing and accusing each other endlessly.

The shopkeeper looked at all this indifferently, and deliberately slowed down the speed of selling refined salt. He didn't show a gloomy smile until the people were fighting and seeing blood due to the crowding.

This is the result that the Patriarch of the Wang family wanted.

Let the common people fight and make trouble because of the official salt.

This is just the beginning, and he believes that as more people run out of salt in their homes, the situation will intensify until the government is powerless.

The situation in Datong City is not an exception. Under the deliberate arrangement of the Wang family, this is happening everywhere in Datong. In many places, people have even died because of the robbing of official salt.

The whole Dagan was in turmoil because of the official salt.

Even in the capital, because the Wang family stopped selling official salt, many vicious incidents occurred, causing complaints.

This is not over yet, the Wang family even directly stopped providing official salt to the army, resulting in many troops who did not have much in stock and had no salt to eat, and the morale of the troops was a little unstable.

After the head of the Wang family learned about the situation in various places through the official salt sales channel, he sneered again and again.

"Emperor Ganwu, Emperor Ganwu, let me see what you do now! Now you know how powerful my Wang family is? If you don't apologize to my Wang family this time, and don't hand over the things in the secret camp, just wait for the world to be in chaos!"

(End of this chapter)