Under the old Tsubaki tree in the middle of Xiahetun Village, everyone gathered together, but it was very quiet, Tang Laohu had accumulated prestige for a long time, and his arrival made the original festive days change.

"Gang Master Zhang, let's get started."

Tang Laohu chatted with Liu Jin for a while, and then turned his head and said with a smile to a person led by the smuggler of salt.

Zhang Gangmaster, Zhang Tianhao, a well-known smuggled salt dealer in Changli County, Yongping Prefecture, Beizhili, started by selling illegal salt, and the scholar built a salt gang to occupy the illegal salt business in some coastal areas of Changli County, Yongping Prefecture.

This person is dressed like other smugglers, but he is not flattened, tall, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, a Chinese face, and a long scar on the left side of his face, like a centipede lying on his face, which makes people know at a glance that this is a ruthless person, and it is definitely not easy to mess with.

In fact, the person who dares to do this severed business, a few brushes are definitely not good, a fierce energy is far from enough, don't look at his appearance of being brave and ruthless, but in fact, he doesn't like to use force to solve the problem, because he clearly knows that if he wants to do a private salt business, the brain is more important than the knife.

For example, in front of him, this Tang Tiger is a local head snake, for such a head snake, he has always been in line with the principle that the strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, and try to have a good relationship with these head snakes.

When he came here to do business, he had to give gifts to Tang Laohu every year, otherwise he would not have been able to come here to collect salt, and without Tang Laohu's help, he would not have been able to reduce the price of salt to only 5 yuan a catty.

"There's Master Lao Tang, or let's drink tea together, let the people below be busy with these things."

Zhang Tianhao was very polite to Tang Laohu, and as his words fell, the people from the Salt Gang next to him moved out chairs and tables, set up charcoal stoves, boiled water, and even began to make tea on the spot.

"When I went out, I brought all kinds of things, and this chair is a bit of the prototype of a folding chair in later generations."

Liu Jin had been quietly observing these people from the Salt Gang, and when he saw this scene, he couldn't help but be slightly surprised.

After a closer look, I found that these people from the Salt Gang brought a lot of things, not only the tools used to transport salt, but also the things in life.

But think about it and be relieved, this is ancient, the transportation is inconvenient, it is not easy to go out a long way, and because of the sale of illicit salt, so I don't dare to enter the city at all, and even the official road sometimes dare not go, naturally, all kinds of things have to be brought, among which these dishes eaten by the salt gang have evolved into a very famous salt gang dish.

Here, Tang Laohu and Zhang Tianhao were drinking tea, chatting and laughing, and on the other hand, the people of the Salt Gang also began to collect salt.

"Collect salt, collect salt, line up, salt in one hand and money in the other."

Some salt sellers began to shout loudly, and at the same time, more than a dozen salt sellers took out large scales and began to collect salt.

With this shout, the tension brought by Tang Laohu was also eased, and the villagers selling salt began to get busy, and they all lined up very consciously, waiting for the salt dealers to collect the salt.

"120 pounds, 600 Wen~"

"200 pounds, 1000 wen~"

Soon, a loud voice continued to sound, and the salt seller happily picked the salt to the corner of the side, and then went to the place next to collect the money.

"It's still a flow work mode, and the speed is really fast enough."

Liu Jin carefully looked at the lively scene in front of him, the people of the salt gang have a clear division of labor, some people are responsible for weighing, some people are responsible for loading and keeping the collected salt, and some people are responsible for paying, this money is also strung together, a string is 100 Wen, when paying, the money can also be paid quickly.

The villagers who had just received the money here also immediately and honestly came to Tang Laohuren's side and began to pay the money.

The person who came with Tang Laohu, dressed as a housekeeper's account room, held an abacus and account book in his hand, and recorded it in detail while collecting 'run money'.

"Zhang Er Mazi, selling salt for 600 Wen, needs to pay 200 Wenrun money."

"Li Dalang, sell salt for 300 Wen, and you need to pay 100 Wenrun money."

While he was memorizing and reading, the two family members who followed Tang Laohu were busy collecting money, and after a while, the copper coins were piled up in a basket.

Liu Jin looked at the scene in front of him, and couldn't help but shake his head, these villagers in Xiahetun were very afraid of Tang Laohu, no one dared to hide a penny of this money, all of them were honest, lined up, and they calculated how much money they should pay early, and took out this part, and when it was their turn, they immediately handed it over.

After paying the money, they were also relieved, and at the same time, they counted the remaining copper coins in their hands, with a slight smile on their faces.

Although there is not much left after deducting the firewood salary, the feeling of having money in hand is different.

"Hurry up and get on errands."

Seeing that the salt was about to be collected, the salt dealers were already sorting out the salt they had collected, and Liu Jin also touched Zhao Erhu, who was stupidly stunned.

"Oh, I'll go."

Zhao Erhu nodded, then touched the things in his arms, and walked towards the salt seller.

Liu Jin looked at it carefully, and he was also very nervous in his heart, watching the leader of the salt dealer and Tang Laohu chatting while drinking tea, it seemed that the relationship was very good.

If this salt seller showed the snow salt on the spot, then he would be in big trouble, but Liu Jin was gambling, and the bet was that these salt sellers were very strict in their work, and they would never do anything in front of many people.

Liu Jin looked at Zhao Erhu, only to see that Zhao Erhu bypassed the place that the crowd was most concerned about - the place where salt was collected and paid, at this time, the eyes of the entire Xiahetun were staring here, how many catties of salt were in someone's house, how much money was sold, everyone looked at it carefully.

For the salt that has been sold, no one cares about it now, and no one stares at it, only the salt dealers of the Salt Gang are busy sorting out the salt and doing the work of waterproofing and leaking.

Zhao Erhu also took advantage of the fact that everyone was busy and didn't pay attention, stood in front of a basket of salt, then slowly squatted down, quickly stuffed the things in his hand into the salt, and then left slowly and leisurely, if he didn't put the salt away, he wouldn't find what he was hiding in it at all.

"It's quite clever."

Seeing this scene, Liu Jin nodded, but he didn't expect that this naïve Zhao Erhu also had a sense of cleverness, which made Liu Jin feel a lot more relieved.

Then Liu Jin stared carefully at the basket of salt, these salts were all placed together, once and again, the salt dealers were also very relieved, these honest farmers in Xiahetun did not dare to play any tricks with them, unlike the salt merchants in the salt shops, it is very common to mix sediment in the salt.

Because these baskets belong to the villagers of Xiahetun, they have to pour all the salt into the baskets they bring for transportation, and in the process, they can also check the salt they have received.

Each basket has its own mark on it, and if anyone wants to play tricks on these salt sellers, these salt sellers will also let the other party know how good they are.

Soon, the two members of the Salt Gang came to the basket of salt, and when they poured the salt into their basket, they immediately found what was caught inside.

But fortunately, it is a paper-wrapped thing, not a stone or a brick or something like that, otherwise the people of the Salt Gang will have a seizure on the spot, and the two of them will be silent, stuffing the things into their arms, and waiting for the help to deal with Tianhao afterwards.

"Whew~"

"It's okay, it's exactly what I expected."

Liu Jin, who had been staring at him here, also breathed a sigh of relief, and then said to Zhao Erhu on the side: "Let's go, Huzi, do business." ”