The world's first county magistrate

Chapter 25

As the first person entered the field, all eyes were on him.

He is a young man who looks about the same age as Song Wei.

The yamen servant on the side handed this person's information to Song Wei.

Song Wei stared at the person's identity information.

This is Song Wei sent people to investigate.

The first man is now on his horse, with a knife in his hand.

His fingers clenched the handle of the knife tightly, and it could be seen that he was very nervous now.

"start!"

The yamen servant gave an order.

Whoosh!
A man rode a horse and galloped, and he arrived at the designated location immediately.

The man raised the knife in his hand, and then slashed down fiercely.

Swish!
The wooden pile was chopped directly.

People breathed a sigh of relief, it was a good start for them.

Song Wei nodded.

In fact, he knew that this round of assessment should be easy to pass.

So Song Wei let the next person prepare after the first person passed.

and then the third,
the fourth,
the fifth.
Song Wei didn't stand up until everyone had finished the test.

The remaining 71 people all passed, and none failed.

Song Wei came to the 71 people: "You have done a good job. I am honored that all of you have not been eliminated. You can all become catchers in the Yamen. Now go back to the Yamen. You will have something to do in a few days."

Everyone looked happy, no one was eliminated and they could get the monthly fee.

Then Song Wei led the crowd back to the Yamen.

After returning to the yamen, Song Wei explained to them that he had to train in the next few days to ensure his strength.

Everyone also agreed.

Then Song Wei asked everyone to disband and go to rest first.

Song Wei also returned to his room.

Sitting on the chair, Song Wei frowned.

After watching today's assessment, Song Wei realized how poor the physical fitness of the people was.

Some of the outstanding ones are well-known hunters in Zhen'an County.

The long hours of hunting allowed them to acclimatize to a lot of bad conditions, but others did not.

So Song Wei planned to make up for their lack of equipment, but after the past few days of consumption, the Yamen's savings were not much.

Even if Song Wei wanted to exchange weapons in the system mall, he would lose points.

For all the points, Song Wei exchanged sweet potato seeds.

Thinking of this, Song Wei thought of Cai Hu who was still outside.

I don't know what's going on with Cai Hu now.

Song Wei dared to implement his next plan only after he planted the sweet potato seeds.

Just when Song Wei was thinking about what to do next, there was a sudden knock on Song Wei's door.

Song Wei stopped thinking and cleared his throat: "Come in!"

A yamen servant pushed the door open and entered: "Master, someone wants to see you."

"Ok?"

Song Wei also never thought that someone would want to see him at this time.

"who is it?"

Song Wei asked.

"It's some salt merchants. They want to talk to the master about cooperation."

The yamen servant replied honestly.

Song Wei was silent for a while after listening, then nodded.

"Okay, I know, let them wait, I will be there in a while."

Song Wei said lightly.

"Yes!"

The yamen servant left.

After Song Wei left, Song Wei tidied up his clothes. The requests from the salt merchants gave Song Wei some new ideas.

Coming to the room where the salt merchants were waiting, Song Wei opened the door and went in.

When the salt merchants saw Song Wei push the door open, they all knelt down on the ground.

"The villain pays homage to the county magistrate."

The salt merchants said in unison.

Song Wei nodded and told them to stand up.

"I don't know what you guys are talking about when you come to see me today?"

Song Wei asked knowingly.

Although Song Wei knew what they were looking for him for, the process still had to go through.

"Forehead!"

The salt merchants were all at a loss for words for a while, and none of them knew how to speak.

Then a person stood up and said to Song Wei: "My lord, my villain Li Bei, there is a shop in Zhen'an County that specializes in selling salt. I am looking for you today to discuss the sale of salt with you."

Song Wei looked at the man named Li Bei.

"What do you want to talk about?"

Song Wei asked.

"My lord, now everyone knows that my lord discovered a salt mine and sold it for five cents and one tael. This left us with no business to do. Why don't you relax a little bit and let us earn some money to subsidize it?" For home use."

Li Bei stepped forward and said.

"You also know that Wu Zhenkun is in charge of the purchase of the entire salt in Zhen'an County, and you have raised the price of salt to a price of one hundred yuan and one tael. I was also fortunate to discover the salt mine, which made it possible for the people in Zhen'an County to eat it. Salt, since you want to sell salt, why don't you lower the price of salt?"

Song Wei looked at Li Bei without changing his face and said.

"My lord doesn't know, we have lowered the price of salt back to [-] cents a tael, but adults only sell it for [-] cents a tael, and no one wants to buy salt from a villain's shop."

"Then it will be reduced to five cents and one tael."

"My lord, even a villain with five dollars and one liang can't earn money. You might as well relax the price of salt and give the villain a way to survive."

Li Bei said with a look of embarrassment on his face.

To be honest, they always believed that Song Wei's five dollars and one tael of salt would not last long, until after Song Wei broke out and discovered the salt mine, this idea was completely shattered.

Moreover, they had already approached Wu Zhenkun, but Wu Zhenkun didn't say anything to them, but asked them to drop the price back to the original price.

But Song Wei only sells salt for five cents a tael, no one would buy salt in their shop.

They really had no choice, so they came to Song Wei to discuss it.

"Well, it's okay to let you live, but there are some conditions."

Song Wei said to Li Bei after thinking about it.

Song Wei thought about it, and felt that it would be no problem to relax the price of salt, and he couldn't keep selling salt at the gate of the yamen.

There are only stalls, not even a shop.

Now that Li Bei and the others came, Song Wei had an idea.

When Song Wei said that the price of salt could be relaxed, Li Bei and others immediately looked happy.

As long as the price of salt can be relaxed so that they can earn money, any conditions are fine.

"As long as the adults can relax the price of salt, we can agree to any request."

Li Bei said with some excitement.

Song Wei pondered for a while and said, "It's okay for me to relax the price of salt, but you can only sell my salt, Wu Zhenkun's salt is not allowed to be sold at all, and you have to separate yourself from Wu Zhenkun."

In Song Wei's view, Song Wei's words are already very kind.

How come this salt battle is a confrontation between him and Wu Zhenkun, and has nothing to do with these common people.

As long as they can get rid of Wu Zhenkun's relationship, it's not impossible to let them live.

"This"

Li Bei really didn't know what to do now.

Before they sold salt, they always cooperated with Wu Zhenkun, and Wu Zhenkun did make them a lot of money before.

But now that Song Wei said that he had separated from Wu Zhenkun, it was a bit difficult to do.

Everyone in Zhen'an County knew that Song Wei and Wu Zhenkun were sorry, as long as they made it clear who they were with, everyone in the county would know about it, and there was no room for turning back.

But in order to survive, Li Bei gritted his teeth and said fiercely.

"As long as the adults can relax the price of salt, the villain is willing to cooperate with the adults and will never have any contact with Wu Zhenkun in the future."

(End of this chapter)