Zhang Lin continued, "The chief said, in order to reassure you and express the sincerity of our volunteers, I will now give each of you a big gift. ”

The people below looked at each other, what kind of trouble is this? It can't be some kind of torture! Who can stand this.

Zhang Lin didn't know that the people below were thinking in the opposite direction, the big gift he said was to give benefits to the people, not the torturous things that the people thought, and he didn't let them think about it much, Zhang Lin announced his big gift.

Zhang Lin: "Now give each of you a pound of refined salt, this refined salt is a good thing in the county." ”

The so-called refined salt is just the salt that has been preliminarily purified by sea salt, and there are other ingredients in it, but this kind of salt is a rare refined salt in this era, white and slightly transparent sea salt, which is invisible to ordinary people.

The price of salt in the production area is very cheap, and the reason for the high price is not only the transportation problem, but also the high salt tax and the monopoly of officials and businessmen.

Zijian set salt as a cheap commodity, and Zijian didn't know how much salt was in other places, but he set the price of salt at ten cents a catty, which was definitely a conscience price. As for who dares to hoard salt and then make huge profits, Zijian sees who dares to play like this, the businessman who is not long-sighted hoards a meal of salt, Zijian has the ability to release ten tons in the market, see who dies quickly, if he is violent, he will go directly to the door to raid his house, this is the territory of the volunteers, who does not follow his rules and copy his house. This is Zijian's usual trick. Zijian just raided his house like this, he must give a reason! This is simple, just say that those businessmen endanger the safety of the volunteers, and the reason is enough!

Zhang Lin asked the people to line up, and then began the welfare of distributing refined salt. You can't eat too much salt, but you can't lack it, if you don't eat salt for a long time, you will have weak hands and feet, salt is wrapped in a small bag, and the person who comes up gives one to each person.

Jay Wu is a scholar, and he has a little relationship with the Wu family, a family in the county, but he is already very thin, and of course he has no idea of avenging the Wu family. He doesn't have much affection with the Wu family, so to avenge them, is he stupid! It's a pity that he couldn't get into Xiucai, a few days ago in the face of the wolf-like volunteers, he was very interested in not resisting, and was obediently tied up, and after coming over, he found that there was no torture that happened as imagined.

Because he is a scholar and knows how to read, the volunteers made him a clerk in the 21st team, mainly responsible for registration, in the face of manual labor and responsible for copywriting, Jay Wu chose the job of a scholar very interestingly.

He opened the cloth bag he had just collared, and the white refined salt in it surprised him a lot, if this small bag of refined salt was sold in the county, it would be worth at least five taels of silver, because it was refined salt, and the price of refined salt had always been high, so it was not something that ordinary people could use.

But look at the present, every common person receives a bag, that is, a catty, and these thousands of taels of silver are divided like this, what a ruined behavior! After coming here for a few days, Jay Wu knows that the boss of the Volunteer Army is called the chief, who that leader is, and it is difficult for a star-fighting citizen like him to guess.

After giving the people a big gift, the resentment towards someone has decreased sharply, and someone's approach is a little reckless, but it's not to make amends for everyone, and it's not right to hold on to the pigtails.

Zijian guessed a little about the people's thoughts, and left with confidence, his purpose was to go out to "borrow a boat", and the purpose of borrowing a boat was simple, that is, fishing.

The increase in the number of people in Zhangjia Village, relying on a river to supply meat is not enough, can only put their eyes on the sea, Zijian recruited people to inquire, there are a lot of fish in the sea, unimaginably more, the Ming court put the fish in the sea and did not catch them, but let their people starve, what is the reason, Zijian wants to break his head and don't know why?

It stands to reason that as long as the imperial court has the heart, it is no problem to catch the fish of the ocean and supply it to all the Ming people, even if it encounters natural disasters and the land is not produced, as long as the fishing industry is strong, let the people eat fish every day, will the people rebel!

As for saying that it is not easy to preserve meat and transport it, these are actually excuses, as long as the imperial court wants to do it, this problem is easy to solve, but there are no imperial court officials to do it, who knows what they think.

Starting from Zhangjia Village, I hurried for four days in a row before I arrived at the changes along the way, and there were more and more people on the official road, but when I saw these two hundred riding over, they all hid aside.

The appearance of the volunteers is different, two hundred inches, clean and neat, with a ruddy face, which is obviously different from the people on the side.

In the past few days, Zijian and his party have not encountered a single interrogation by the government, such a group of 200 people of unknown origin passed by the place, Zijian did not believe that the local officials did not know, they knew one thing, but did not see a little action to come over for interrogation, Zijian guessed that the officials had the practice of calming things down, as long as they did not make trouble in their own territory, they should not see Zijian and his party, this is Zijian's guess.

Regarding the official's approach, Zijian shook his head, if there was such a group of unknown people coming to his territory, the method of the volunteers was to collect the opponent's weapons first, and if the other party resisted, they would immediately kill the other party, and then slowly ask them where they came from.

Zijian despised the official's approach, but the thing that gave him a headache appeared again, what was it? Crossing.

I have to say that crossing the river in this era is a pit, not to mention the bridge repair technology in this era, as long as the river is more than 20 meters, the difficulty of repairing the bridge is not ordinary, if the river is more than 50 meters, that is hehe, even if the national power can not be completed, after all, this has exceeded the ability of the times.

The way to cross the river is very slow, it is difficult to be slow enough to doubt life, for example, Zijian has two hundred and one people, plus two hundred and one horses, when crossing the river, he can only use a small boat to cross the river with one person and one horse, if there are a few more ferries at the ferry, if there are only one or two ferries, then wait, at this time, Zijian can only sigh the backwardness of the times.

In front of me is a large river of more than 50 meters, this kind of river can be said to be common in the south, itself belongs to the alluvial plain, plus the south is densely packed with rivers.

A little old man came over, uh, it's not Zijian who discriminates against others, the old man who came up is about 1.5 meters tall, Zijian calls him a little old man, but he is not wrong.

"Ladies and gentlemen, do you want to cross the river, please?" The little old man said modestly.

Zijian got off the horse, and by the way, he took out an ingot of twenty taels of silver and gave it to the little old man, don't ask why, the local tyrant, it's so atmospheric, "It's enough for us to cross the river!" ”

The little old man's eyes lit up, and he was about to glow, and hurriedly said respectfully, "Enough, enough, thank you for the reward." ”

Usually one person and one horse cross the river, twenty wen is too much, if you discuss, fifteen wen is fine, Zijian, a large group of people, give a tael of silver enough for the little old man to be happy for a long time, after all, it is just to cross the river, where can the fee be expensive. My favorite thing in business is to meet a big dog like Zijian, why? Give money and be happy.

Zijian: "Well, by the way, by the way, let's find some forage for our horses!" ”

"Don't worry, the little one will wait for you."

Who is unhappy for a long time when meeting such a rich master, as for helping the horse find some forage, this is a trivial matter that is not worth mentioning. Sometimes when the ferry encounters something that needs to be fed to the horses, the people have already prepared soybeans, and soybeans are not worth much.

If Zijian was a little savage, he directly snatched the boat at the ferry, or put a knife on the neck of the boatman, they would naturally be obedient, and the knife was held by someone else, what else could they do besides being obedient. Zi Jian can't afford to lose this face, for this kind of ordinary people, Zi Jian is generally a good person, twenty taels of silver is nothing to him, just a drizzle, things that can be solved with money, what to do as a barbarian, except for leaving a bad name, there is no benefit at all, you know, Zijian is a righteous and bright person.

Zijian inquired, here is already Xinhui, that is, the generation of Jiangmen Xinhui in the future, Zijian took out the map to check the geographical location, not far from the Pearl River, as a special person, naturally there are many benefits, such as the map of Guangdong that Zijian is now viewing, this is a detailed map of the later generations, and the Ming Dynasty will not be too far behind, such as the name of the place, the name of the province, enough is roughly not far away.

Zijian is keen to borrow ships from the Pearl River, of course, there are his reasons, Guangzhou Mansion as an international port reached its peak in the Ming Dynasty, and existed as a commodity trade center between Chinese merchants and Southeast Asia and Europeans.

To put it bluntly, Guangzhou Mansion is a place that attracts wealth from all over the world, and as a commercial river of the Pearl River, you can imagine how many ocean-going ships there are on it.

And don't lose someone after borrowing a boat, it's someone's, anyway, it's not his loss, borrow someone else's boat, let others cry, a businessman who can have a big ship, I don't know how much tax evasion is, Zijian just wants a little for the Ming court. Isn't it excessive?