Two years ago, Cui Mingyi was introduced to Xu Yunyuan at a banquet in the French Concession in Shanghai. They went back and forth to get on the way of the Military Investigation Office, and the rewards were naturally astonishing.

All those who originally sold salt to the Meiguang Autonomous Region, Guangde and Changxing counties, Fengzhong Mining, and Fengzhong Enterprise Group were banned. Only he got the exclusive monopoly. In addition to money, he also paid a price.

It is very important to provide the investigation office with some economic, military and political intelligence on time.

Although Xu Yunyuan's investigation office was not an illegal organization, and the Meiguang Autonomous Region was a third-level government agency, and he could be considered a semi-official businessman, this matter made him a little uneasy from the beginning.

Cui Mingyi knew exactly what the Military Investigation Department was and what it did. He couldn't find out how deep the water was here, but the profit-seeking mentality of businessmen still prevailed. If they don't take some risks, then

Can you make big money?

Later, when I thought about it carefully, it was not a big deal even if I became a snow fox. Maybe I could actually wear this tiger skin and achieve even greater things in the future.

Therefore, when he came in, he treated Chen Tianhua and Xu Yunyuan as superiors and subordinates, which surprised Ye Mingyan. Only then did she realize that Cui Mingyi had already boarded Xuehu's pirate ship.

"Shopkeeper Cui, the imperial envoy is here, please tell me about the Chongming Yangtze River Navy!" Xu Yunyuan asked him to sit down and said.

"Yes, Miss Xu!" Cui Mingyi leaned forward and began to answer:

"Nazan, the admiral of the Chongming Yangtze Navy, is from Qingzheng Lanqi, a relative of the royal family, and the descendant of Prince Chun Zai Feng's Niang. It is precisely because of this relationship that he became the admiral of the Chongming Yangtze Navy. This person does not have much ability, but

He is extremely greedy for money, and these businessmen like us in Chongming have suffered a lot from him."

Xu Yunyuan smiled and said: "Please tell me the key points. I don't have much time to listen to your nagging."

"Yes... Chongming produces salt, and the salt itself is extremely profitable. However, because it is a unified purchase and sale of materials controlled by the imperial court, in addition to selling official salt, Nazan also sells private salt privately. Speaking of which, it is sold from Chongming

Most of the table salt in China is private salt. The cost of these private salts is only 20% of the official salt, and the selling price is only half of the official salt. There is a huge market."

Chen Tianhua sneered:

"Shopkeeper Cui, what the private salt has escaped is the government tax. This is against the king's law. It seems that you have made a lot of dirty money from us. What you gave us is the official price!"

Cui Mingyi could somewhat understand the meaning of the imperial envoy, which was to support your Majesty's construction and investment in Chongming in the future. He shuddered when he thought of this.

When Xu Yunyuan saw it, she quickly smoothed things over and said:

"However, if Shopkeeper Cui obtained these private salts, he would definitely have to pay a lot of money to get out of the Yangtze River Navy's anti-smuggling operations. This is understandable. Nazan sells private salts by himself. How can he not pluck out other private salts when they are leaked out?

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"Not only that, Nazan also used the Yangtze River Navy to sell illegal salt to towns along the Yangtze River, which is more profitable."

"Has the Daqing Navy become so corrupt? No wonder water bandits are rampant and banned repeatedly, and the combat effectiveness of the Navy is getting worse and worse." Chen Tianhua couldn't help but said angrily.

"Commander, that may not always be like this!" Ye Mingyan, who was watching coldly, interjected:

"The commander of the Chongming Navy, Yu Dapeng, is good and loyal to his duties, but over the years, he has been gradually ignored by Nazan. He only has one battalion of navy available, and the other three battalions are led by Nazan.

Confidant, what can he do, the only way is to restrain his own troops and not get involved in these things."

After hearing this, Chen Tianhua nodded and said: "This is quite interesting. He can get out of the mud without being stained. This Yu Dapeng is amazing. How about this, Miss Ye, you can arrange an opportunity for me when you have time. I want to meet this Commander Yu."

"

Ye Mingyan pretended to be surprised and looked at Chen Tianhua, leaned forward and said: "As commanded, Commander, I can make arrangements for my humble duties these days."

"Well, that's very good, Miss Ye. Please keep in touch with Miss Xu."

"As commanded, Marshal, if the Marshal has nothing else to do, I will resign from my humble post!" Ye Mingyan stood up and said.

She is very knowledgeable and knows that Cui Mingyi is here, and there must be some secret matters that need to be reported, and she should avoid it.

"Mingyan, please stay here. There are many rooms. I will accompany you." Xu Yunyuan stood up on her own initiative and walked out of the room with her.

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The next evening, Chongming County.

The streets here are not spacious, and most of the people walking on the streets wear short undershirts and walk in a hurry. There are also some unkempt and disheveled saltmen or fishermen who go in and out of the opium dens on the street.

No one expected that these opium dens would come to an end in a few days, because as soon as the Governor of the Chongming Autonomous Region took office, the first thing he did was to close opium dens and destroy opium cultivation areas and processing plants.

There are many brothels along the street. In the evening, many painted women, wearing thin clothes, exposing large areas of snow-white skin, holding fans, stand in front of the upstairs windows, or lean against the door vertebrae, making flirtatious glances and making eye-catching glances.

The carriage was moving forward slowly. Chen Tianhua and Xu Yunyuan were sitting in the carriage. They lifted the curtains and looked outside. They saw the bodyguards of Fei Ge on the left and behind.

He was going to the best restaurant here - a delicious meal and a banquet.

In the Chongming Navy Admiral's Mansion, the chubby Nazan walked around the main hall with his casserole belly. After walking back and forth for several times, he finally stopped. He held up an invitation in his hand and sneered:

"What on earth does this Cui Mingyi want to do? Invite me to a banquet, grandma's bear, can I invite him if he wants? I haven't settled the score with him yet? I think that by relying on Chen Tianhua, I can be alone.

In the salt market, you still follow the old rules and give me your share. Do you think I’m a fool?!”

An aide named Master Ge said with a smile: "Junmen, this Cui Mingyi doesn't know the rules, so you have to go all the more. You have to teach him a lesson in person, let him understand the rules of the world, and let him make up for the missing elements.

, how can we let him go for nothing?"

After hearing this, Nazan sneered and said: "To teach him the rules, do you need me, the second-grade military attache, to go there in person? Anyone who goes out in the Admiral's Mansion can squeeze the bones out of his bones and pretend to be confused with me.

, I will let him know how many eyes Lord Ma has?"

Master Ge wiped his sweat and advised: "Junmen, not only is Cui Mingyi inviting you this time, but the imperial envoy Chen Tianhua is actually next to you. We can't do anything for sure. Although the imperial envoy is not here to inspect the navy's coastal defense, but

A courtesy call is still necessary."

After hearing this, Nazan touched his casserole belly and frowned:

"It seems that what you said makes sense, Chen Tianhua, he is now the minister of the Ministry of Industry, and also has a military position, so I can't be too close to him, but if we really talk about seniority, he still has to call me uncle.

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Chapter completed!