Zhang Ming entered Linzi City and called his three younger brothers.

"Yun Chang, you defend the city and start strengthening the city walls."

"Zilong, Yide, you each lead five thousand people to exterminate the surrounding bandits, remember, try to capture them as much as possible, these people can be captured to work."

The three of them listened to their orders and then set to action.

At this time, the big and small families in the city were very uneasy, and Zhang Ming controlled the city.

Zhang Ming asked people to announce that the city would be under martial law for two days, and it would open normally after two days.

Zhang Ming asked people to count the treasury, and the other thing was to get money.

There is a lot of money in the city, there are hundreds of thousands of copper coins, but this money is obviously not enough for Zhang Ming.

The most important thing is the population.

Qingzhou is quite wealthy and has a large population.

Although Zhang Ming didn't plan to make a move to the family in Linzi City, they couldn't sit still for a long time.

A group of people went to beg Zheng Xuan and asked Zheng Xuan to talk to Zhang Ming.

This Zheng Xuan is very prestigious in Linzi City.

All families are also looking for ways to talk to Zhang Ming.

A day later, Zhang Ming received the message.

After receiving the news, Zhang Ming planned to feast everyone at the Tanglin Restaurant.

Dozens of families were present, and if someone else controlled Qingzhou, they didn't have to give any face.

But Zhang Ming is unreasonable and does not rely on the family, he really dares to kill.

"Meet the Protector General."

Everyone was worried, so the ceremony arrived.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now that I control Linzi City, if there is anything I want to say, I will make it clear tonight."

"Don't worry, I'm not Dong Zhuo, I won't kill people casually, I have killed a lot of people in Liaodong before, but those who killed were people who did not cooperate."

Don't kill?

Although Zhang Ming is not like Dong Zhuo, he has killed a lot of people, and they are not afraid.

The crowd did not dare to speak, but sat in silence.

Zhang Ming looked around and saw that no one dared to speak, so he said, "Since you don't say it, then I'll say it." ”

"Since I control Linzi City, the protection fee will be collected, but I will not ask you to hand over the land, nor will I repeatedly ask you for money, how much money to pay every month, discuss a way to come out, of course, you can also not pay money, then please leave Linzi City within three days."

Zhang Ming knew very well that he was unable to control this Linzi for a long time, and now Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao were fighting, and he wanted to take the opportunity to reap the benefits, and then evacuate.

Linzi is an enclave after all.

The crowd still didn't dare to speak, it was all robbery.

Moreover, the robbery is so blatant.

No one wants to take out the family's money and hand it over to Zhang Ming.

Zhang Ming saw that everyone didn't speak, so he said again: "Then put forward another plan, first, pay 5,000 copper coins every month, and second, that is to buy my salt, the price of salt is two percent lower than the market price, and the quality is the salt used in Tanglin Restaurant." ”

"What do you think of this plan?"

Everyone was stunned, five thousand copper coins were a drizzle for each of them.

Selling salt like this, didn't Zhang Ming give them profits?

It's not that they pay Zhang Ming, it's that Zhang Ming sends them money.

They know that the salt in Liaodong is very cheap, and no one knows how Zhang Ming made it.

"It's so decided, if you don't want salt, please leave Linzi City within three days, the salt will arrive soon, everyone here must jointly eat my salt, these salts are enough for the entire Qingzhou."

At this time, everyone understood that Zhang Ming was going to use them and use them to control the salt in the entire Qingzhou.

This is an opportunity and a crisis for them.

The former salt merchants will no longer have a way to survive, and the two sides will inevitably have to go through a struggle.

Although the families in Linzi City are the strongest, some of the other places are the head snakes.

Now they are going to give up their family business in Linzi City, or they are buying Zhang Ming's salt.

Of course, when they buy salt, they can sell it elsewhere.

Anyway, the price Zhang Ming gave them was very low and very competitive, and they could make a lot of money, depending on whether they had the ability to make it.

After Zhang Ming finished speaking, he then said to everyone: "Good wine and good food are ready for you, my people will all be withdrawn, you can eat slowly and discuss slowly." ”

After Zhang Ming finished speaking, he left.

Dozens of people are here, and they really need to have a good discussion.

Good wine and good food, but this time it's not so unpalatable.

They understood why Zhang Ming didn't move them, he wanted to use them.

But how is this method of use so pleasing?

That's hard currency, it's very low-priced, very good quality salt.

After some discussion, most of them agreed to Zhang Ming's conditions.

They decided to form an alliance to win over a group of salt merchants and sell salt directly to them, or sell it themselves or sell it elsewhere.

In this way, all of Zhang Ming's salt can be followed.

The crowd ate and drank and left.

Zhang Ming has long been thinking about how to benefit from Qingzhou and improve his strength.

Recruiting the population is one thing, and the other is to dump Qingzhou and dump salt.

In this way, he can dump in two states, Xuzhou and Qingzhou.

Xuzhou, after Tao Qian came back from Luoyang, he wanted to regain control of the salt and drive Zhang Ming out, but it turned out that those merchants made a lot of money and began to rely on Zhang Ming, although they didn't like Zhang Ming, they liked his salt.

After Zhang Ming sold salted fish for a while, he began to transport salt to Xuzhou.

Two days later, Chen Yang came with a fleet, along with several boatloads of salt, and hundreds of people.

These people are all here to help Zhang Ming control Linzi City.

Chen Yang came with people, and Zhang Ming called Chen Yang to the Assassin's Mansion as soon as possible.

"Chen Yang, the matter is more urgent, I'm afraid you don't have any time to rest."

"Please instruct the lord, from the time when the lord is reckless, Yang has the honor to do things under the lord."

Zhang Ming nodded, he naturally wouldn't treat Chen Yang badly.

"This Linzi City doesn't know when you need to give up, you can mobilize all the resources in the city at will, you immediately recruit displaced people in Qingzhou, money and food are not a problem, when recruiting, as long as you are willing to come, regardless of men, women and children."

"After recruiting people, they were immediately sent to Liaodong, and they were promised to allocate houses, land and farm tools."

"It's all real, in the counties under our control, the construction of houses immediately began, but the allotted land is all wasteland and needs to be cultivated by themselves."

"In addition, we will vigorously send salt here, and we will let them pay for some of the grain, and we will also buy some grain ourselves and ship it back."

After Zhang Ming finished explaining, Chen Yang began to get busy.

Linzi City will become a springboard for Zhang Ming.

The army began to move, while Zhang Ming began to be busy with other things.

As soon as Zhang Ming arrived, the bandits around Linzi naturally suffered, and as soon as he came, he would wipe out all the bandits and bandits and empty the people.