Traveling through time and space and becoming a deposed prince, he just wants to survive!

Fu Gang submitted a complaint, but the county magistrate kept evading responsibility, falsely claiming that an investigation was needed. He then hurriedly withdrew from the court and went to the back court to discuss with the legal advisor how to deal with the matter.

He did not receive any instructions at the beginning. It was only because the Cao Gang was powerful and he received instructions from the salt merchants that he awarded the Salt Gang's property to the Cao Gang as requested by the Cao Gang.

Of course, he also gained a 10% profit from it, but the rest was not something he knew.

After Fu Gang and his men from the Salt Gang made such a commotion, it soon became known to everyone in Binzhou City.

Especially the foreign merchants who stayed in Binzhou suddenly felt that there might be a turning point, because in the past most of their salt was purchased from the salt gangs.

This also explains why the amount of salt distributed is more than the actual salt produced. Most of it is because these salt merchants and some forces control the sales of salt. The salt transport inspectors are only responsible for anti-smuggling and have no control over legal matters.

Every year, the court received memorials about salt shortages from all over the country. The emperor had no idea what was going on and approved the officials below to expand the issuance of salt permits and salt routes.

Once public resources are controlled by certain forces, they are no longer simple products. Just like food, wealthy families would rather let it rot at home and use it to make wine than give a bite to the poor.

However, once these materials are out of their control, they will frantically suppress the emergence of these products, which is a monopoly.

A great man once said: "In order to prevent private capital from playing a role that is detrimental to the development of the New Democratic economy, it must be made into a state-owned enterprise and a helper in organizing the cooperative work of small producers.

We must appropriately strengthen state control and supervision of the private capitalist economy. A laissez-faire attitude towards private capitalism is fundamentally dangerous and wrong.

However, no matter what era, there are always people who try to monopolize or expand their capital. They will slander the current dynasty and exaggerate individual cases.

Of course, there are also those who are bribed by hostile elements, made certain promises, or suffered certain threats, and then did things that harmed others and benefited themselves. This has been the case since ancient times, as long as the foolish people were deceived.

I remember there was an uprising army named Li who claimed that if you followed him you would have food. However, all the people who followed him robbed food from the common people along the way. The people from the wealthy families did not fight against them and just gave them some food and sent them away.

As a result, the emperor was pushed off the altar by the people he had deceived before he could even accomplish his goal.

This is an example. We must know that no matter how the times change, human greed will not change. Just like the story I just told, the originally poor people followed these people to overthrow the court, and as a result, the people were treated even more cruelly.

After being a daughter-in-law for many years, she finally becomes a mother-in-law and is even more cruel to the next daughter-in-law.

Why should women make things difficult for other women!

There was a saying in the past: A city without government is full of thieves and robbers, because in this world, everyone respects the strong. Those who ruin the reputation of others just want to replace them, and the people are just cannon fodder.

In this farce in Chuzhou, Zhao Heng didn't know how to balance the market trend. What he did was to break this balance and make himself appear in front of everyone.

In fact, Zhao Heng did not have much ambition. He just wanted to control his own fiefdom.

Fu Gang's move soon produced a butterfly effect. Some people who originally wanted to transfer or had already transferred their salt permits stood up and wrote to the county government, demanding the return of their original salt permits and other documents.

Some things cannot be regretted just because you want to. The government office has issued a notarized document and changed the ownership of the salt permit. Now you go to the county government office and say that you regret it. According to the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty, such a person will only be fined.

If you don't do it well, you still have to return the original item.

Since the late Han Dynasty, private property has been explicitly protected because of concerns that some bureaucratic capitalists would annex private property, especially properties such as permanent farmland.

But in fact, there are countless pieces of land that have been annexed by the people. It is not that the law is ineffective, but that some people really cannot afford to farm, but the big landlords can get rich by farming.

Therefore, in that era, going back on one's word was only looked down upon, and did not have much legal effect. The key was to see what was allowed.

The aforementioned non-renewable properties such as permanent farmland and real estate will become irreplaceable properties once the Chuzhou government issues a salt permit. According to the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty, they can be reclaimed by applying for compensation.

This made Cui Zhendao a little anxious. One thing was easy to solve, but so many things happened at once, which meant that there was someone behind the scenes.

So who is this person?

The Salt Gang was backed by their own people. Although the Salt Gang was defeated in the end, the reason was still those salt merchants who felt that Binzhou was their territory and no one could stop them!

Now Cui Zhendao can’t even find a temple to burn incense!

Cui Zhendao walked into the Binzhou Salt Merchants' Chamber of Commerce with heavy steps. He looked at the big men inside and bowed as if his son had died. He said:

"My dear gentlemen, the county government is in chaos right now. Even though the salt works are not in chaos now, you will probably be the next to go after I fall."

In the Chuzhou Salt Market, the largest family is surnamed Zhou. In Binzhou, whether it is salt production or salt trafficking, it can be said that they are like a Buddha who will kill any Buddha who stands in their way. For thousands of years, no one has been able to shake the status of their family.

The president of this Chamber of Commerce is also from the Zhou family. His name is Zhou Haifa, a middle-aged man in his fifties. He squinted his eyes and played with a pair of iron walnuts in his hands.

Hearing Cui Zhendao's words, he said with a forced smile: "In Binzhou alone, my Zhou family has tens of thousands of people. If I give an order, no one in the entire Binzhou will be able to make salt."

In fact, what he said was a bit arrogant. The method of making salt had long been registered in the palace, but because of the Zhou family's face, the state-owned salt had always been operated and maintained by the Zhou family.

Sitting next to Zhou Haifa is the vice president, Jiang Xiaobo, who is also Zhou Haifa’s most important business partner.

I am not from Binzhou, but I have been here for decades and have a very close relationship with Zhou Haifa. There are things that Zhou Haifa cannot handle. His ancestral home is in Jingjiang, a hundred miles away from Binzhou.

Judging from his appearance, this person has a protruding forehead, a pointed chin, deep-set eyes, a hooked tip, thin lips, protruding teeth, and a thin body. If he were placed in later generations, he would look a bit like a drug addict.

This is the kind of person who has a famous name in Binzhou: marrow-sucking human essence!

The origin of this guy's nickname is that he likes to use leg bones to make soup when eating seafood. He puts all kinds of seafood in it and blanchs them, then eats them with salt. Finally, he puts leg bones in the soup and sucks out the soup from the seafood while sucking out the marrow.

Just like others, harming a person can completely drain that person's wealth, and will not let go of even the last bit of value left in his life.

When he heard what Cui Zhendao said, his eyes rolled rapidly, as if he was thinking about something, but he soon raised the corners of his mouth and whispered a few words in Zhou Haifa's ear.

Zhou Haifa nodded half-doubtfully, then called Cui Zhendao to his side and repeated what Jiang Xiaobo had just said.

Cui Zhendao must have understood what Zhou Hai meant. He said with a worried look on his face, "Is it really okay to do this?"

Jiang Xiaobo closed his eyes slightly, his body slid half down the chair, and he leaned back as if he had fallen asleep...