Chapter Eighty-Five: Let's Go to Liangshan Together
"Don't hide it, the villain's surname is Zhou, the double name is Ming, because of the tall birth, the brothers can hold on. We are the subordinates of the leader of Jeju Yangsan Bo Lu Qian, and this time I came to Haluo to visit the brother of the leader of my family, the former head of the 800,000 forbidden army in Tokyo, and the head of the leopard Lin Chonglin. ”
"At the beginning, the leader of my family killed Gao Kanna, and he died in the rivers and lakes, and he didn't ...... for many days."
Zhou Daming is familiar with Lu Qian's deeds, and he has a sense of honor when he talks about it, because he is following such a righteous man, his face is also bright. Zhou Daming didn't think that he would be guilty if he knew his origin. Didn't this flower monk also kill people to escape Buddhism? Nor is it a good citizen.
Lu Zhishen's hand holding the wine bowl was also put down, "My God, it's so ingenious." "He Hua Monk's best friend in Jingdong is Lin Chong, after hearing about Lu Qianyi's deeds of killing Gao Kan, I don't know how remorseful I am, and I couldn't meet as soon as possible. But he didn't want to be rescued by his men today.
Zhou Daming was also stunned, he didn't want the big monk in front of him to have such a relationship with his own leader, he was really a good person with good rewards. I really saved the right person today. But when I heard the reason why Lu Ti went to Heluo, it was Lin Jiaotou who committed a lawsuit.
Zhou Daming is honest, but this honesty does not mean that he is a lump of wood. It only took a turn of his mind to understand, "Isn't Gao Yu that ghost?" ”
"It's not that vicious. He did a trick and framed my brother for the crime of robbing money and killing him, and he was put in prison. Lu Zhishen got the letter from the old sect leader Zhang, so he hurried to Heluo, and this happened on land.
Lu Zhishen had a fierce face on his face, and his whole body seemed to be burning with a circle of flames, as if he wanted to ignite the air around him.
Zhou Daming didn't say much, and quickly greeted the minions and sailed quickly to Luoyang. In the meantime, he talked to Lu Zhishen about what Lu Qian did after Liangshan, and gave Huang An, Jiang Lei, He Tao and others the heads, and the heroes of Liangshan 'do the right thing for heaven and eliminate violence and peace', and came together one by one, so that Lu Zhishen listened to the loud exhalation and exhaled a long breath.
It's a pity that I didn't meet those two captains on the road, otherwise I would have taken revenge.
The bow of the ship docked at Mengjin Wharf, Lu Zhishen picked up the whistle stick prepared on the ship, and led Zhou Daming and others to the house of Zhang Laojiao. The address was left on the previous letter.
It was late autumn weather, and the golden leaves were falling on the post road, and in the sun, a few pieces were flying in the wind. The wheat fields on both sides of the avenue have been sown, but the wheat seedlings are leaking slightly. There are endless vast fields, but they are all owned by the high-ranking families in the city.
Approaching Luoyang, Xijing, the post road is getting wider and wider, and the people are becoming more and more dense, and the traffic is endless. Although it is a few points less than Tokyo, it is not much more prosperous than the prefectures and counties of Qilu.
A group of people were walking on the road, and there was a ringing of horse bells behind them, with a hundred and ten horses' hooves, and the tide seemed to rush forward. Lu Zhishen and the others hurriedly dodged aside, and when they saw a cloud of yellow dust rolling up on the road, they jumped a few feet high, rode a horse in twenty or thirty, and grabbed it. Several of them were young men wearing purple and gold crowns with tied hair, tight-fitting crimson embroidered brocade robes, and gold waistbands. Ha Lang laughed, and regarded the people and passers-by who were embarrassed to avoid it as an interesting thing.
Lu Zhishen watched them over. Only Zhou Daming scolded in the back: "This handful of birds, at the foot of Xijing, is still showing off its might, and it is very good!" It threw me in dust. ”
Lu Zhishen smiled coldly, "Xijing is an important place for the court, and how many ministers and high-ranking families live here. There are a lot of wealthy sons here. ”
"People are no better than Tokyo, that is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, the rules are strict, but more open hands and feet."
As the commander of the Western Army, although he is only a middle- and lower-level officer, Lu Zhishen's insight is much stronger than that of people like Zhou Daming.
By the time the group came to Zhang Jiaotou's house, the time had already reached the afternoon.
When the old sect leader saw Lu Zhishen and his party, his eyes were full of tears, and he was full of gratitude. Since he came to Luoyang with his son-in-law to retire, he has been worried about it, lest disaster come. Fortunately, the news of Gao Kan's killing was too public, and the old thief was forced by public opinion to temporarily release his son-in-law. I didn't expect that after only a few months, Lin Chong was framed.
That Zhang is already two months pregnant, which is a great joy. Lin Chong's beating his father has been a single lineage, and now Lin Chong is also in his thirties, and finally the lady who is looking forward to is pregnant, and the family does not know how much joy there is, but they are doused with a basin of ice water.
"The Lin family is also a big family in Luoyang, and after the son-in-law was framed, each branch got some money, bought it and sued it, and took care of the yamen. Fu Yin Xianggong also knew the whole story, and he really wronged his son-in-law, so he made a little thoughtful and stabbed Cangzhou with 20 canes on the charge of hiding stolen goods. Since there is an old thief in this matter, the old man does not ask for his son-in-law to be exempted from the lawsuit, so the result is very fortunate. He only begged Tihar to escort him all the way, and Hugh told the man to earn his life on the way. ”
The old sect leader is a clear-eyed person, and he knows that his son-in-law's catastrophe is not only now, but also on the way to distribution.
The lives of many heroes are bad in the hands of those black-hearted dukes, and no matter how strong his son-in-law's martial arts are, he can't escape his life without defense. Besides, there are only a thousand days to be a thief, how can there be a thousand days to prevent thieves?
"The martial arts are strong, and the head of the Lin sect is escorted along the way, and he can protect himself from harm. But the villain has a sentence that he doesn't know whether to say or not. ”
Zhou Daming didn't intervene for a long time, and now he finally spoke.
"It's okay to be a good man." Up to now, Zhang Jiaotou is very grateful to Lu Qian, but he doesn't feel that Zhou Daming is humble.
"As the old leader said, there are only thieves for a thousand days, and there is no thief for a thousand days. Even if the head of the Lin sect arrived at the prison camp of Cangzhou Mansion safely, as long as the old thief was still sitting on the official chair of the palace marshal's mansion, and wanted to kill the head of the Lin sect, wouldn't it be easy? ”
"What's more, the fetus in Lin Niangzi's womb is the bone and blood of the sect head, how can she not make that Gao Yu hate?"
Zhou Daming's eyes were brightening, "Old sect leader, since the world is muddy and doesn't give people a way to live, why don't you take the family and Lin Niangzi to go to Shandong, stay in Tokyo, and then save Lin Jiaotou on the villain and Lu Tizhi Road, go to Liangshan together, and the family will be reunited?" ”
Zhang Jiaotou was speechless for a while, and his face changed uncertainly; Lu Zhishen touched his shiny scalp, but felt that it was a good idea.
"I have long admired the name of Marquis Lu Yu, and I hate to see it. In this way, the Sprinkle family will visit Liangshan. ”
Zhou Daming laughed innocently, "The leader of my family loves Han the most." If Tihar is willing to go up the mountain, it is very good. Zhou Daming's words were a little presumptuous, but Lu Zhishen didn't care, obviously this thing on the mountain is promising.
There are two flowers, one on each branch. Let's say that Lu Qian, who is still in Liangshan at the moment, would never have thought that Zhou Daming, who he sent, would have such luck. At this moment, he had just taught a batch of snowflake salt to Chao Gai in exchange for five thousand taels of snowflake silver.
The price of this snowflake salt is fifty dollars a catty, which is enough for Liangshan to earn more than eighty percent. Such a load of salt weighs 100 catties, which is the profit of more than four dollars; A batch of goods full of thousands of stones, less than a month, to be exact, only 20 days before and after, more than 4,000 net profits fell into the hands. In this way, coupled with the money and food that needs to be paid into the surrounding villages every month, as well as the 'filial piety' that the merchants who come and go by land and water, the silver money alone is enough for tens of thousands!
Yes, tens of thousands. In addition to the private salt, the little profit on the waterway is not inferior to the profit of boiling salt, which is enough to be equal to the profit of more than 100 people in the cottage who have been busy for 20 days.
Originally, the Liangshan cottage to which Wang Lun belonged did not have the weight to provoke waterway goods. Liangshan's money and grain needs more to be obtained by land. But now that Liangshan has crushed the conquest and suppression of thousands of officials under the leadership of Lu Qian, he has turned around and intervened in the waterway, whether it is Chao Gai, Song Jiang and other tycoons in the rivers and lakes, or rich businessmen and tycoons who come and go to the waterway, they are all silent and obediently pay the fee.
And Lu Qian's share of collecting toll money by setting up a card is not high, two out of a hundred, this amount is equivalent to the commercial circulation tax rate (tax) of the old Zhao family, which is just a small amount of money for businessmen.
The Liangshanbo toll station is also quite incorruptible, at least much more incorruptible than the tax officials of the old Zhao family, and the taxes and fees can be both material and money, which is very flexible. It's only been a long time, and this income is no less than the income from boiling salt. Use facts to prove that Lu Qian thinks of today's Great Song Dynasty too simply. Sitting on the treasure land of Liangshan, as long as you can insert a foot in the waterway, how can the wealth be compared to boiling salt and sugar?
And counting the time, it has only been twenty-five days since Lu Qian broke Jiang Lei.
Among the captives at the beginning, there were those who were stubborn, plus hundreds of them, who were all cutting wood and carrying firewood in the mountains these days. A large amount of timber was stockpiled, and there were far fewer people who actually cooked the salt. This matter was placed in a meticulous place in the back mountain by Lu Qian, but all the people who knew the cause and effect in it were not allowed to move around at will, and the supervision of them could be said to be the strictest in Liangshan.
However, as a result, the speed of firewood harvesting on the mountain has increased sharply, and Lu Qian has already sent someone to buy charcoal.
The coal of the Song people is coal, the city of Tokyo has long begun to burn charcoal, the problem of insufficient firewood in North China in the middle and late Tang Dynasty forced the big cities to burn firewood for charcoal, there are as many as twenty or thirty charcoal factories in the city of Tokyo, and the charcoal mostly comes from Hedong.
The price of coal used in Yangsan is far from being as high as in Tokyo. In that place in winter, a scale of stone and carbon is worth two and five hundred coins, ten iron coins are used as one copper coin, and one scale is fifteen catties, that is, one catty of coal costs sixteen coins. This high price is painful.
And Liangshan, which relies on the convenience of water transportation, is too cheap to buy that charcoal. Not to mention that a scale of coal costs 250 yuan, even the price of a load of coal is not so high.
There is no shortage of coal fields in China, and every province has them.
In the end, on the major items of money and grain, it was the land part that fell at the end. However, this is also related to the fact that Liangshan's minions have not yet completely rolled out the scene.
"Brother." Zhu Gui walked towards Lu Qian, but before the person arrived, the voice came first.
"But it's all ready?"
"It's all ready. That Xiao Shusheng is worthy of the name of the Holy Hand, and with the vision of the younger brother, he can't even see the fake. Jin Dajian is also a skilled craftsman, and the seal he has figured out is not bad. ”
As he spoke, he presented the letter, Lu Qian opened the letter and looked at it, and compared the two, it was true and true. If you don't know it's fake, you really think it's an official document from Jeju Prefecture. There are really ghosts in this world!
"Well, such a big thing can be done. Brother, I will entertain those two of them, and as long as this is done, I will let them both go down the mountain, and I will never break my word. Lu Qian looked at the letter in his hand and was not happy. Guy wants to earn one person to go up the mountain, although this deception is not unscrupulous, but it is much better than the encounter in the original work of Water Margin.