Yang Lin chuckled in his heart, fortunately his father washed his hands, otherwise his identity as a champion would probably become a young proprietor of a group of outlaw salt dealers.

The Great Song Dynasty is a paradise for literati, and it is most comfortable to be a champion, and the salt dealers will know how dangerous it is by listening to it.

"Dad, how come I've never heard you talk about it."

Since Yang Tong was born as a salt dealer, he was bound to keep this secret, and once it spread, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Yang Tong thought of the past, evoked memories, his eyes were confused, and he said with a touch of eyelids: "Now that you have grown up, there are some things that should be told to you." We are not from Yangzhou Mansion, fundamentally we are from Taipingzhou, Jiangning Prefecture, Jiangning Prefecture, East Jiangsu, Zhejiang Road. When the south of the Yangtze River was hit by floods, heavy rains irrigated Taiping Prefecture and the people were starving, and five brothers and I met in a refugee camp.

The old garden was destroyed, the wolf officials and eagle officials exploited it layer by layer, and there were still a few grains of rice left in the relief grain sent by the imperial court, which were not even as good as water when boiled in the pot. People are hungry and anxious, they really dare to eat anything, dare to do anything, my father was chosen to cook porridge, and the cool officials who distributed the food at the end of the day took it, and there was not much left after peeling it off layer by layer, and this damn plague official still had to take it away! ”

Yang Lin's scalp was numb when he heard it, and his father, who was wide and fat, always laughed and groaned on weekdays, but after decades of talking about it, there was still fire in his eyes, which showed the depth of hatred back then.

"When I saw this, I begged him to leave a bag and let dozens of people live, but the thief insisted on refusing, and your third uncle stunned him with a stone from behind. Although the sixth year old is young, his temperament is the most intense, and when he went up, there was a burst of bites and beatings, and the little official's head was smashed and his eyes fell out. ”

Yang Lin could feel the scene at that time, it was really an official coercion and a rebellion, not only did he not feel cruel, but he even had a trace of joy.

"So you came to Yangzhou Mansion incognito?"

Yang Tong said with a smile: "When the catastrophe started, human life was like ants, how could we avoid it?" When my father saw that the third and sixth children had killed someone, he simply didn't do anything, took the five of them to rob the courtyard of the local corrupt officials, and started a profitable business with a sum of money. ”

"What kind of deal?" Yang Lin's tone had already begun to tremble.

"It's salt sales! At the beginning, there were salt dealers everywhere in the two Huai, and in order to compete for salt people and trade routes, what could they do? We have to fight with the government and compete with our peers, and each of them is a matter of human life. ”

Selling salt is indeed a lucrative business, and the profits are no less than those of drugs in later generations, and of course the risks are great.

How chic and free the scholars of the Great Song Dynasty are, how miserable the people at the bottom are, the productivity of society is still very backward, they occupy too many resources at the top, and many people below can only barely make a living by walking on the edge of crime.

Wine, salt, tea and other products are monopolized by the imperial court or authorized to merchants for sale, which is called the "liquor" and "salt" system. This system was the source of the luxurious life of the court and officials, but it was also a nightmare for the common people, who only ate salt, who produced it, who sold it, and whether it was used to make violence or not, the people did not care. The actual situation is that the price of official salt is high and the quality is poor, and there are even occasional reports of people dying after eating official salt, but the quality of private salt is better.

Because of this, the existence of salt dealers actually helps many people who cannot eat salt.

Yang Tong sighed and said, "In the Taiping Mansion, we are not in a good position, and we will lose the sixth child first. Two years later, we began to take shape, but we landed in Qingzhou, Shandong, and the second and third children died. There are more dead people, and our hearts will harden, and in the remaining years, we will kill all the hostile salt gangs and monopolize the private salt in the Huaiyang area. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Tong's tone softened, his eyes softened, and he said: "Then there is you, my father doesn't want you to be born with blood, so he took the rest of the brothers to wash their hands in a golden basin, lest they disagree, so my father took them to the Taoist temple to ask for a signature." Hehe, how do these frustrated birds know, I have already changed the signature. On that day, we got the sixty-eight signatures of Emperor Guan, and this signature is: selling pearls in the south and salt in the north, and the goods and wealth have increased several times over the years; Persuade the monarch to stop asking for a farmhouse, and he will be tired of it for a long time.

Since then, I have bought a lot of land for the fourth Lu Taixuan in his hometown in Zhejiang, and the fifth one has controlled our Cao Yun in Chuzhou, so that they can enjoy wealth and prosperity. In the past few years, the rumors have tightened again, and some juniors are too arrogant, so that rumors have spread in the government that the two Huai Salt Kings are back in the rivers and lakes, so I asked them not to come, so as not to get into trouble. ”

Yang Lin then remembered that he knew since he was a child that there was a fourth and fifth uncle in Zhejiang, and they would come once a year, take a group of burly villagers, and leave after a few days. I asked curiously before, but Yang Tong only said that there was something at home and he couldn't leave.

These two uncles love themselves very much, and always like to throw themselves into the sky when they meet, and then catch them steadily, but then they don't come for a long time, and it seems that they are the two remaining righteous brothers of their father.

Yang Tong's experience made Yang Lin breathtaking, what kind of father he had...

Since this is the case, these people are really the best choice for themselves, after all, what they want to do is not necessarily glorious, and many of them can't be put on the surface, these people are just right.

"Dad, without further ado, the Long Live Camp is about to be established, and I have to trouble your old man, run again." Yang Lin said with a smile.

Yang Tong was afraid that his son's book would be angry, so he ignored himself, and he would die, but when he saw that he was so open, it was really different from before, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

His identity has been like a thorn over the years, Yang Tong, who is not afraid of heaven and earth, is afraid that his son will not recognize him, after all, the previous Yang Lin was indeed a moral saint. He said that the fourth and fifth children did not come in order to avoid the limelight, but in fact, they were afraid that Yang Lin would not like it.

Now that his heart is gone, Yang Tong only feels comfortable, gets up and says, "Dad, let's go, you just wait for my good news." ”

Yang Tong wanted to go to Chuzhou, so naturally he took the Bianhe River, Yang Lin sent him to the dock and instructed: "Daddy take care all the way, Yang San, take care of my father." ”

Yang San patted his chest: "Don't worry, young master, as long as there is a small one..." Before he finished speaking, the hull of the ship shook for a while, shaking him so much that he almost crashed the ship, but he was grabbed by Yang Tong, and the little chicken was suspended in the air, and the boat was flattened before it was put down.

Is this still the obese, humble father... Yang Tong has been clumsy for so many years, and he seems to be wheezing when he walks a lot, and there is really no one else in this acting skill.

"Hahaha, Lin'er go back, now you can rest assured?"

What's not to worry about here, no wonder the Yang family's caravan rarely has accidents, this group of people is originally a group of outlaws.