Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Province, Taizhou Road, Huangyan County.

When there is no wind in the sea, the waves are calm.

But the people who can't eat enough have no time to take care of the deep and charming scenery of the sea.

In all dynasties, the profits from the sale of illicit salt were at the top of all ranks, so salt dealers who defy the law have been repeatedly banned.

At the beginning of the unification of the whole country in the Yuan Dynasty, many people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were involved in the production and sale of smuggled salt, and the government captured "5,000 salt apprentices" in Shanghai County of Songjiang Prefecture alone.

With the increasing corruption of the government and the deterioration of the people's living conditions, all localities, especially along the rivers and seas, are even more private salt and public banks, and the officials sent to supervise this matter only want to make profits from it and do nothing.

At this moment, in a salt-boiling pavilion in Huangyan County, a dark-faced man was carrying two bags of salt to the official ship.

The sun is in full bloom, and the man is sweating from the sun, looking extremely hard, but his steps are extremely quick.

The black-faced man is Fang Guozhen, who Wen Xuan is looking for, and his family has lived along the coast for generations, making his business a tenant farmer and selling smuggled salt at sea.

In this generation, there are five brothers, and Fang Guozhen is the third, righteous and smart.

Fang Guozhen learned that after the government had just captured a large amount of illicit salt in Huaidong a few days ago, he did not dare to take risks and continue to take risks with his brothers, so he found a way to bribe the pavilion chief of the government-run salt industry to help the old men in the court to do things.

After all, there is still a large family behind him to bear, Fang Guozhen has always been cautious and cautious in doing things, and he is unwilling to make bold attempts without the guarantee of safety, he would rather tighten his belt and starve for two meals with the whole family, and the few men who are the pillars of the family must not make any mistakes.

Fortunately, the five brothers of the Fang family are hardworking and willing to work hard, and the life of the Fang family is getting better and better, and then there is Fang Guozhen's reputation for righteousness and heroism, so the Fang family has a small reputation in Huangyan County, and Wen Xuan, who went to Huangyan County, was able to find him smoothly.

Wen Xuan knew in his heart that if he wanted to control the sea power of Wen and Taiwan, in addition to pulling out a front tooth in the tiger's mouth of the Yuan Court, what he could not jump over was Fang Guozhen in front of him.

Wen Xuan was very interested in this first successful maritime hero in the history of the late Yuan Dynasty.

Especially after getting Zou Pusheng's recommendation, Wen Xuan spent plenty of energy and time to understand this person's temperament and background, and even after arriving in Huangyan, he did not hesitate to pretend to be Tinghu Yanding lurking beside him.

"Third brother, it's not good!" Fang Guoying, the old Sifang of the Fang family, came from afar and shouted anxiously.

Fang Guozhen reproached with some dissatisfaction: "It's frizzy, is the sky going to fall?" ”

Fang Guoying didn't have time to pant after standing still, so she continued: "Third brother, if you don't hurry up and come up with an idea, the sky will really fall!" ”

Seeing that the fourth brother was so anxious, Fang Guozhen didn't dare to be careless, hurriedly put down the salt bag, stroked his back and asked, "You make it clear, what's going on?" ”

Wen Xuan, who was following behind him, also slowed down his pace and pricked up his ears to listen to the conversation between the two brothers.

Fang Guoying hurriedly said: "Just now those people sent by Cai Chaotou went to the house to mess around again, the eldest brother and the second brother couldn't bear it anymore, so they beat those people, but I didn't expect this group of Haikou to sue first, and then turned around and ran to report to the official that our Fang family is actually the same party of Cai Chaotou!" ”

"Really?" Fang Guozhen asked in a deep voice, and his face became more and more ugly.

"That's right, I have a friend who works as an errand in the county government, and he also secretly sent a message to me just now, and the person who complained about the crime is still in the yali!" The more Fang Guoying spoke, the more anxious she became, wiping the sweat on her face and neck one after another.

Old Wufang Guomin also rushed over when he heard the sound, "This Cai Chaotou is really too deceitful, the third brother doesn't want to follow him into the sea, so he actually thought of such a way to harm us!" However, although the gang of arresters in the county government are greedy for money, they will not convict us of crimes without evidence, right? ”

Cai Chaotou? Unexpectedly, he was also trying to recruit Fang Guozhen...... But it could be your chance! Wen Xuan quickly thought about it.

"Fourth, fifth, you all calm down first, don't panic!" Fang Guozhen was quite calm, and spoke to comfort the brothers' emotions.

After thinking for a while, he analyzed: "Those officials have always been helpless against Cai Chaotou, and in order to cope with the errand, they are very likely to listen to false accusations to arrest us." ”

"How's that to be?"

"Why don't we go to the county office and confront them?"

After hearing this, the fifth child's expression gradually became solemn, and the fourth child was even more anxious, wiping the sweat on his face from the left and the right.

Fang Guozhen shook his head and said, "Just in case, you should go home immediately and inform the eldest brother and second brother, and take the whole family to escape overnight." ”

"What about you?"

A hint of coldness flashed in Fang Guozhen's eyes, "Since these people have bad intentions towards our family, I don't need to be polite." ”

"Third brother, do you want to ......" Old Wufang Guoying made a gesture to wipe his neck.

The timid old Sifang Guomin said with a tremolo: "Killing people will cost you your head, third brother ......"

Fang Guozhen waved his hand to interrupt him, and said: "You don't have to say much, I know it in my heart, you just need to go back and take your family and flee immediately as I said, if you can't do it, find a way to get two boats to escape to the sea, after all, don't be caught by the official and Cai Chaotou's people!" ”

Fang Guoying wanted to persuade again, but Fang Guomin pulled his sleeve the side, urging: "Let's listen to the third brother, when did he miss his idea?" ”

"Okay......" Although Fang Guoying was still a little worried, she couldn't resist them, so she could only go home with her fifth brother first.

Fang Guozhen stood on the spot and took a few deep breaths, continued to carry the two bags of coarse salt and put them in the place where they should be, took a hat to cover the sun and put it on his head, and left the pavilion, Wen Xuan also quietly followed behind him when he saw this.

Want my life? Then I'll slaughter you wretched mintagons first!

Fang Guozhen lowered his hat, quietly walked through the crowd in the downtown area, and took a sharp and powerful cattle slaughtering knife from the slaughterhouse, wrapped it in a cut sleeve robe, and pinned it to his waist.

After Fang Guozhen strode to the gate of the county office, he bought a pot of warm wine at a nearby wine shop, and then found a hidden corner to sit down, waiting for Cai Chao, who had murdered the Fang family, to come out.

Wen Xuan sat at a noodle stall not far from him, ordered a bowl of green onion noodles and ate it lightly, and his interest in Fang Guozhen became more and more intense.

Plan and then act, know and stop...... Indeed, as Zou Pusheng said, he is a shrewd and capable person.