Salt scarcity has always been a big problem in East Asian societies (and possibly the world), and the Great Zhou could rely on the Jiangnan salt industry to supplement it, but it still could not meet the needs of the people, so that illegal salt ran rampant (and also gave Qi salt an opportunity).

In the grasslands and in places like northern Liaoning, which are far away from salt-producing areas, the problem of salt shortage is even more serious.

The Muguls regarded salt as a dowry or dowry, and the Jurchens treated salt as hard currency.

In the past, the Jurchens occupied the three major salt-producing areas of southern Liaoning, such as Yaogai, Changfu, and Jinlu, and they often used salt to buy the small Mughul and Jurchen tribes to take refuge in order to increase their strength.

At that time, the reward that Wanyan Wu bought for these small tribes was only an average of one pound of salt per person, but this was enough for the men of these small tribes to work for Dajin.

Now that the Jurchen Tartars have lost all the salt fields in southern Liaoning, the amount of salt that can be bought or traded has plummeted, and even a knowledgeable Qi person like Zhang Shun can roughly guess how much the Jurchen desires for salt.

However, Qi State, which generally implements the salt drying method, is the least short of salt, so this time, Zhang Shun predicts that if he can really reach his destination, he will definitely have some contact with the local raw tartars who lack salt.

At this time, it is better to bring anything than salt (in fact, spirits are also fine, but spirits are also high-priced in Qi State, and Zhang Shun is reluctant).

Sure enough, when he heard that Zhang Shun had salt, the captured raw tartar's eyes lit up with gold, and this guy said a lot of compliments to the translator, meaning that as long as he was released, he could find the nearby Harada (clan leader, equivalent to Meng'an of the Jin Kingdom; The following is divided into a number of Mo Kun, the leader is called Mo Kunda, which is equivalent to the Mouke of the Jin State), to trade with Zhang Shun.

Harada has good ginseng and sable skin, and in previous years Jurchen or Goryeo merchants traveled overland to trade over the mountains and mountains, but after the war, no outsiders have visited the area.

The captives swore that as long as they were given salt, whoever they were, they would be friends sent by the gods, and they would be treated in a friendly manner.

said a lot of nonsense, Zhang Shun sneered again and again, but he didn't believe it at all.

In this day and age, no matter which way of the Tartars, they do not have a reputation for being able to sing and dance, warm and hospitable, on the contrary, they are full of lies, fraudulent, and ready to make cameos as robbers (in fact, it is more appropriate to say that they robbers occasionally make cameos in the common people) are their labels.

Therefore, Zhang Shun did not believe in the captive's promise at all.

But he still plans to release this person, and the reason is simple - Tartars, afraid of power but not virtuous, usually they can't believe a word of what they say, but after beating them hard, they will be much more honest.

Especially if you are capable of killing them and let them know that you are ready to use it.

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After freeing the captives, Zhang Shun led the men back to the "Great Shunfeng".

And then immediately prepare for battle.

In this era, everyone on a sea ship is a warrior, and the Great Tailwind is no exception.

Zhang Shun divided his men into two teams, one team consisted of 10 Han Chinese and 10 Koreans, these twenty men were well armed, the Han people all had flintlock pistols and sabers, and the Koreans used slice arrows, which had a long range and were also good against unarmored enemies.

Zhang Shun personally led these people to form a "mobile force", once the battle began, they were responsible for outflanking the Shengnuzhen, and even prepared a whaling cannon removed from the ship, even if there were hundreds of people from the raw Tartars, they would have an advantage in firepower.

Zhu Gui led the remaining 25 people to defend the "Great Shunfeng" itself, mainly to prevent Zhang Shun from being transferred from the mountain to steal his ship when Zhang Shun attacked-without Great Shunfeng, even if he won, everyone can only be savages in this wild land.

Fortunately, the side of the large downwind ship was much higher than the riverbank, and it was like a small city parked by the river, and as long as the defenders were firm, it was impossible for the enemy who lacked the ability to attack the fortification to capture the ship.

Now, everything is ready, just wait for the prey to take the bait on its own.

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Two days later, Zhang Shun and his people fished out a few big fish in the Molong River, boiled fish soup with these fish, and roasted a large piece of pickled whale meat, each of which was divided into a piece, and then added the roasted hot, dry food made of orange peel and flour and crisp pickled radish, and everyone ate with their mouths full of oil, and they were very happy.

The aroma of food and the sound of cheerful laughter wafted in the wind, stimulating the taste buds of the more than 300 Sauron warriors who had been lurking in the primeval forest on the shore for more than two hours.

"Master, they brought a lot of food!" The once captured biological girl really approached a strong man with a beard on his face and whispered: "It seems that they are right, these Han dogs have salt!" ”

He was the leader of the Guigudar tribal alliance of the Sauron tribes near the mouth of the Molong River, and his name was Guigudar.

When this guy was the strongest, there were thousands of strong men in the tribal alliances under his command, and he was one of the most powerful clan leaders under Bomu Boguoer, the leader of the entire Jurchen Alliance.

However, in recent years, the Jin army has been beaten by the Qi army in the south, so it is customary to go north to find real trouble for a daughter.

One is how much you can grab some food and livestock, and more importantly, you can replenish a large number of people - the Shengjurchen who are known as the Sauron tribes are barbaric by nature, but they are not equipped and organized, so they are not strong in combat, as long as they are captured on the Liaozhong Plain and equipped with armor and iron weapons, they are the best supplement to the Jurchen army.

I don't know why, in the face of the well-equipped and skillful gold ** team, Bomu Boguoer repeatedly gathered an army to resist head-on, but this time he was beaten to the ground.

In the worst case, Sauron's troops lost 6,000 men, more than 30,000 women and children, and even Bomu Boguoer himself died under the golden saber.

Since then, the various divisions of Sauron have not dared to deal with even the Jin army squad, and many fertile lands and villages on both sides of the Molong River have to be abandoned, and the living have to retreat to the north bank of the Molong River, or simply hide in the primeval forest.

Fishing and hunting, this way of life sounds good, but in fact, the income is very unstable, if you can hunt big prey, you can still make do with half full, if you can't hunt the right animal, the whole clan starves together.

It has become common for clans to starve to death, and the Guigudar Alliance, which used to be able to gather thousands of strong men, now does not even have five hundred dings.

This time, hearing a report from his men that a boatload of Han Chinese had come from the sea, and they must have brought a large amount of food and other supplies, Guigudar hurried up to gather three hundred men and ran to see if he could grab something.

Now that it opens, the other party does have good things, and even Guigudar is greedy.

However, this does not seem to be an easy opponent to deal with.