Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 73

Fatty Feng was caught by He Liu, and he didn't know anything about He Liu's questions.

He Liu said with a smile: "You must have heard of our Jinyiwei's torture methods. It doesn't matter if you don't talk about it now. When you get to the place, you will naturally talk about it."

A group of Jin Yiwei dragged Fatty Feng into the palace of the imperial envoy.

The old Hu ordered the wrestlers to tie up Fatty Feng.A wrestler stood in front of Fatty Feng, playing with a small knife in his hand.

He Liu said to the strongman: "You used to be with the old twelve, Zhao Ci? What kind of torture methods do you know about the old twelve?"

The wrestler replied: "Sixth Lord. I used to be with the Twelfth Lord. Although I only learned a little bit from him, it is more than enough to make this fat man unable to live or die."

Fatty Feng wanted to cry: "Gentlemen, the little one is really just an errand runner!"

Old Hu asked: "Where did you get your salt? Who did you hand over the 1 taels of silver note we gave you in the morning?"

Fatty Feng said: "I gave Li Dana the Yanyin and the bank notes!"

"Li Dana? What does he do? Seriously!" He Liu asked.

Fatty Feng was a man with no backbone, before He Liu asked his subordinates to torture him, he poured beans out of the bamboo tube and recruited everyone who could be tricked.

Li Dana is the shopkeeper of Sifang Tea House.This person is in his 40s.Although he is only a shopkeeper of a teahouse, he has great powers in Yangzhou.When he went up to the Yamen of the Salt Transport Envoy and down to the Yamen of the Yangzhou Prefect, officials at all levels would give him a little bit of face.

He Liu asked Fatty Feng: "Is this Li Dana the behind-the-scenes boss of Sifang Tea House's Yanyin business?"

Fatty Feng denied: "No. He also runs errands for the boss. As for who the boss of our teahouse is - I really don't know!"

Lao Hu called He Liu out of the house: "Lao Liu, I don't think Fatty Feng can do anything. That man named Li Dana, should we arrest him?"

He Liulue thought for a while: "Don't startle the snake. Not only will I not arrest Li Dana, but I will also put Fatty Feng back."

He Liu and Lao Hu entered the room.

He Liu smiled at Fatty Feng: "Do you want to live?"

Fatty Feng nodded hastily: "Yes! I beg you to spare the villain's life."

He Liu frightened Fatty Feng: "You must have heard of Jinyiwei's reputation. If you listen to me, I will keep you safe. If you don't listen to me. Heh, Jinyiwei can find out about your family within a day. Where the old and the young are, exterminating your whole family is as easy as exterminating a nest of ants."

Fatty Feng is just a small person, there are seniors and juniors, and although the "business" that he has said is often tens of thousands of taels, what really gets to him is only a few dozen taels of silver.He earns a small amount of money to support his family, and it is impossible for him to be "loyal" to Sifang Teahouse for a mere few dozen taels to a hundred taels of silver.

Fatty Feng said: "It's all up to the adults."

He Liu nodded, and ordered someone to untie Feng Fatty: "What kind of person is that Li Dana? Tell me what you say."

Fatty Feng talked eloquently: This Li Dana was originally a small ruffian in Yangzhou City.Relying on cheating and abduction to make a living.If you don't say anything about the last meal, you will be caught in the yamen every few days and eat prison meals for a few days.

Ten years ago, the little rogue Li Dana suddenly became famous.It is said that he met a noble man.The nobleman saw that he was quite clever, so he paid him to open the Sifang Teahouse.

It stands to reason that opening a small tea house is only a small businessman.However, Li Dana, a small businessman, had a hot fight with the gentlemen of all levels of government in Yangzhou City, calling them brothers.

Later, Li Dana suddenly invited all private salt dealers in Zhejiang and Nanzhili to Sifang Teahouse, claiming that he could get a huge amount of salt.

Those private salt dealers didn't believe it.But later they discovered that Li Dana could get as much salt as they had.

After coming and going, this Sifang teahouse became a nest for Yanyin's black market trading.The private salt dealers in Jiangnan all know that if they want salt, they have to go to Sifang Teahouse to find Li Dana.

He Liu suddenly asked Fatty Feng: "How many brokers like you do Li Dana have?"

Fatty Feng replied: "More than ten."

He Liu asked again: "How much salt can you sell in a year?"

Fatty Feng said: "80 to [-] taels are always available!"

He Liu was surprised for a while: One person sells salt notes of 80 million taels of silver a year, isn't it necessary for more than ten people to sell tens of millions of taels of salt notes?

That is to say, private salt worth tens of millions of taels is continuously transported from Lianghuai to various parts of Daming every year.

No wonder the Lianghuai salt tax deficit has reached [-]%!
He Liu said to Fatty Feng: "Is there any way for you to let Dana Li meet with me?"

Fatty Feng shook his head and said, "If you want to meet him, you need to buy at least 50 taels of salt at a time! If the amount is not enough, you can only do errands like me. He won't serve you personally!"

He Liu confessed to Fatty Feng so and so, and then let Fatty Feng go.

The next day, He Liu and Lao Hu changed into coarse clothes and came to Sifang Teahouse again.

As soon as he entered the teahouse, Fatty Feng greeted him graciously: "Dear guests, please come to the private room!"

Fatty Feng led He Liu and Lao Hu to a private room on the second floor.

In the private room, sat a thin middle-aged man with wicked eyebrows and mouse eyes.

The man got up and cupped his hands: "I am Li Dana. You two are the two merchants from Shandong that Fatty Feng said?"

He Liudao: "Exactly. Boss Li, please be polite."

Li Dana sat down, looked at the two of them, and said after a long time: "According to Fatty Feng, you are here to buy 50 dans of private salt?"

He Liu nodded: "That's right."

Li Dana laughed loudly: "Such a large amount of private salt, if there is no salt lead, I am afraid that it will be copied by the government before it even reaches the ground in Zhejiang!"

He Liu laughed loudly: "That's why we came to find you, Boss Li!"

Li Dana said seriously: "The price of 50 Dan of salt should be 100 million taels. To be honest, the two of you are big customers and new customers. I, Li Dana, intend to make friends with you. How about it, Yin Zi, I'd rather I’ll charge you 100 million taels. Yanyin, I’ll give you 53 dans! The extra [-] dans of Yanyin should be given to you by me, how about it?”

He Liuxi raised his eyebrows: "Have fun, Boss Li. I'm willing to do business with a straightforward person like you!"

Li Dana said: "Tell you the truth. Recently, something happened to Mr. Wu, the Lianghuai Salt Transport Envoy. The new Salt Transport Envoy has not arrived, and I don't have much salt in my hand. Add up, there is exactly 60 million yuan. Dan. I want to give you all the Yanyin, and I will close this Sifang Teahouse for two months. Red mouth and white teeth, I have to confirm that you really have so much money in your hand!"

Lao Hu took out a wooden box from the bag he carried with him.He opened the wooden box, and inside the wooden box was a stack of banknotes.

(End of this chapter)