Liu Chang was surprised and delighted, and almost forgot to bargain: "Ye Niang contacted the Westerners?" Are there really foreign guns and cannons for sale? ”

Ye Niangzi gently scratched Liu Chang's hand with her fingertips: "The inspection point is promised to be fifty-five?" ”

Liu Chang immediately asked: "If you can really contact the Westerners, it doesn't hurt to give half of this batch of salt to Ye Niangzi." It's just that I have to buy Western firearms first. ”

For Liu Chang's urgent need for Western firearms, Ye Niangzi, as a sea tycoon, can understand, after all, Western artillery is much sharper than all kinds of firearms made in China, she immediately said: "Give me half of the salt tonight, and I will take you to sea." ”

"Out to sea?" Liu Chang hesitated, and now he is in charge of the affairs of the entire Panshi Village: "You want to go to sea?" ”

"That's right, the foreigners are afraid that we will hack him, so they don't dare to drive the boat into the river, so they stop outside the sea mouth and wait for us to pass." Ye Niangzi added: "Although people recognize silver and make money, it is best to bring more foreign silver." ”

"Yes!" Liu Chang is not afraid of Ye Niangzi's black food: "After dinner, I will go to sea with Ye Niangzi." ”

He had already thought about it, took out all the money in his hand to buy a batch of firearms, and suddenly smiled again: "Ye Niang, since you want you to buy salt from me, you should trouble us to pay a deposit here." ”

Ye Niangzi grabbed the money bag tightly: "No, no, you owe a lot of fish on credit here, and this batch of fishing salt has to be given to me on credit first, how can there be any reason for me to pay a deposit." ”

It's just that Liu Chang has already found Ye Niangzi's lifeline: "Ye Niangzi, if you want to divide the next batch of private salt into five or five halves, please pay me a deposit, otherwise forget it." ”

Ye Niangzi hesitated for a moment, and finally agreed to Liu Chang's conditions: "It's not the next batch, at least the next batch is also this condition, how much deposit do you need?" ”

Liu Chang's conditions were not high: "One thousand silver yuan." ”

Ye Niangzi agreed: "Okay! The deal is sold, at least the first three batches of private salt we have to divide in half, otherwise I can't explain to the owner. ”

Liu Chang attached great importance to this batch of private salt escorted by Nanxi Sentinel, and he personally brought half of the dragon lance sentry out of Panshi Village to bring back this batch of salt.

Huo Qiu's face was excited: "Check, a total of eighty-three stones, we have agreed with the salt farm, and we will pull a batch from them next time." ”

He said about the situation of selling smuggled salt this time: "We have been in this business for more than ten years, and we have never been so majestic as we are today. ”

Usually selling smuggled salt, he first has to think about how to buy off the characters in the official face, especially the patrols, green battalion soldiers, and the big and small people in the county who can do bad things.

But today, he brazenly pulled out the team, dozens of wheelbarrows, a dozen pack mules and pack horses, a team of more than 200 people, mighty, but no one dared to intervene in their affairs.

All the way was peaceful, no one dared to provoke such a powerful force existence, and several supervisors of the salt field had already gone to Wenzhou City to report that they had been hijacked by thieves and that all the official salt had been lost, and at the same time urged them to hurry up and pull the second batch of illegal salt.

As for their prices, they are also outrageously low, but they are much higher than the price of official salt purchased by the public, and they don't have to be overwhelmed by some big people, and the salt works are already satisfied.

"Divide this batch of salt into half of the leaf lady, and the accounts will be slowly closed later! The next two batches of salt, no matter how much they pull, will be divided into half of him! Liu Chang is very authoritative in Nanxi Sentinel: "She has already paid a deposit of 1,000 silver yuan!" ”

Huo Qiu just lowered his voice: "We work so hard, don't we have to do day jobs for Fifth Master Ge and them?" Divide them in half, it's too much of a loss. ”

Liu Chang told him: "No loss, no loss, Ye Niangzi will contact Westerners for us, and I will go to sea to buy a batch of foreign guns and come back." ”

Huo Qiu didn't have much knowledge, but he knew very well that Western firearms were extremely sharp, but he was fighting for the interests of his Nanxi Sentinel: "Check, we should also have a copy of this batch of foreign guns, right?" ”

Liu Chang nodded: "You have worked so hard to transport the salt back, how can you say it without your share, but tonight I will bring Qu Sentinel over, and this family will be handed over to you!" ”

Although Qu Jie is the captain of the dragon spear sentry, but this person is mediocre, let him guard the rock village, Liu Chang is really relieved, he would rather let Huo Qiu guard the rock village than want any chaos.

As soon as Huo Qiu heard that Liu Chang asked him to guard at home, his eyes immediately lit up: "Don't worry, it's absolutely foolproof!" ”

Eighty-three stones of private salt, which is already nearly 10,000 catties, Ye Niangzi is also very simple, not a fraction, that is, she transported away forty stones as fishing salt, but she is not willing to pay the 1,000 silver yuan nail gold: "I have some friendship with the foreigner, I can owe him some credit, I will help you beat the side drum after we get on the boat, and then calculate the deposit carefully." ”

By the moonlight, and lit the torch, Ye Niangzi took Liu Chang and Qu Jie on a fast boat together, and prepared to leave the mouth of the Oujiang River overnight, and went ashore with the most reliable and desperate warriors in the dragon lance sentry, who carried three thousand silver yuan with them.

This is the hard currency that Liu Chang took to pay, as long as he bought a batch of Western firearms, then he would officially gain a foothold in this time and space.

The river flowed in a hurry, Ye Niangzi's boat was going very slowly, Liu Chang saw only darkness, and he didn't know where he went, and Ye Niangzi next to him persuaded: "It's better to check or rest first!" Wait until dawn to arrive. ”

Liu Chang nodded: "When the time comes, trouble Ye Niangzi to wake me up!" ”

He and the brethren of the dragon lance were in a circle, and he was so close on the deck that he could not sleep, and the brethren of the dragon lance did not dare to sleep.

There were three thousand silver yuan in the sack beside them, before the incident, they had never touched so many silver yuan in their lives, and now they were on Ge Wu's boat, who would dare to sleep?

It wasn't until the third or fourth watch that Liu Chang barely fell asleep, and he didn't sleep for long before he heard Ye Niangzi's beautiful voice: "Check, wake up!" We're going to get on that foreigner's ship! ”

Liu Chang wiped his eyes, but saw that there was such a Western sailing ship not far from the sea, which was not big in size, but it was much more advanced than Ye Niangzi's Chinese-style sailing ship, with white sails hanging one after another on the three masts, horizontal and firm, which could not be counted, but it had a special beauty.

The sailboat sailed over in the morning light, and after a while, the two sailboats were already very close, and the Western sailboat threw down the suspension rope, and Ye Niangzi got on a sampan: "Check, let's go over together, be careful, don't fall into the sea!" ”

Liu Chang nodded, it was the first time he had taken such a small sampan, looking at the waves that floated from time to time, and watching the soldiers carefully jump onto the sampan with the bag containing Yinyang: "This wave is not big, right?" ”

Ye Niangzi combed her hair with her fingers: "It depends on whether the courage of the inspection point is enough, and if you fall into the sea, you can't save it!" ”

With the waves, Liu Chang watched the sampan get close to this beautiful Western sailboat, and then Ye Niangzi was the first to jump on the suspension line, and stretched out her hand again: "Check ......"

The sampan floated on the sea, Liu Chang boldly stretched out his hand, and slowly climbed onto the sailboat step by step, still reminiscing about Ye Niangzi's hand in his heart.

A Western merchant in a boat-shaped hat has been waiting on the deck for a long time: "Hello! My friend, I am the Earl of De Mons for the first time. ”

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