Chapter 271: News of the Knife

Su Guanxue's words were at best to win a smile in Jiang Feng's heart, Jiang Feng liked a cute girl like Su Guanxue, but when you look at a girl from ten to fourteen years old, you generally don't notice her growth, in other words, you will think that she is still a child.

Of course, the child's words can't be taken seriously, Zhao Xiucai received Jiang Feng's order, the silver bricks stored on the mountain, in fact, these silver bricks have been vaguely used as precious metal reserves, in order to carry these cash silver from the vault, two hundred people were specially gathered from the mountain to go up the mountain to guard.

These silver bricks were loaded into carriages, and they were about to be melted down the mountain into silver ingots, and then exchanged for various materials, in Tianjin Wei's iron eggs and Ma family brothers, had already received Jiang Feng's order, according to the orders of these shipwrights in the northeast began to purchase timber, some of the big river north and south of the business houses also received scattered orders, there are clear requirements for the materials needed, but the quantity of demand is not determined at all to do what.

After a period of prosperity, Dengzhou became a little deserted, almost all the merchants who existed because of the sea trade were moving towards Lingshan, Aoshan and Jimo County, and now in addition to Jiang Feng's own fleet, the ships and merchants who were originally allowed to trade in Dengzhou Port were ordered to go to Linjia Island.

Now the more prosperous business in Dengzhou is illicit salt, and the related industries driven by the consumption of these salt lords and salt merchants, the people who sell illicit salt in Shandong, except for those who need to go up and down the mountains and rivers by themselves, most of the people who have their own trafficking teams have moved to Jining or Dengzhou to live.

In Dengzhou, the illegal salt exists in an almost legal situation, and the Dengzhou government and the yamen at all levels do not turn a blind eye to this illegal thing at all, but both eyes are tightly closed, and the market is prosperous, and they are also active in the tolerance of the government, not to mention that the largest local salt merchant and salt seller is Jiang Laohu in Dengzhou, what to catch, how to catch. Since no one cares, these salt merchants who are considered to be strong in the countryside on weekdays are majestic, but it is important for the government and officials to send silver in a low voice, for fear that they have any handle to be caught, and there are naturally not so many problems when they come to Dengzhou, as long as we have more money, we can walk openly, and it can be regarded as finding the feeling of living under the sun in Dengzhou City.

And every year the share of private salt is released in Dengzhou, here and Dengzhou Jiang family good relations, maybe in the second year's quota allocation to get more oil and water, naturally are eager to come over, these salt merchants money is easy to come by, natural spending is to spend lavishly, pay attention to food, drink and clothing, in this way, because the smugglers left, a little deserted market is not too decaying.

In the conference hall on Yantai, all the leading figures in Dengzhou who can gather are staying here, and every month on the day of "ten", they have to gather here for a gathering, which is considered a regular meeting, and all kinds of things are summarized to make a judgment on the overall situation.

Zhang Liang was the first to speak, and he was quite unaccustomed to attending this kind of meeting at the beginning, but now he is naturally speaking:

"In the past period of time, the spies of the government have also come a few times, but they all belong to the kind of regular inspections, all of them are local officials and Jinyi guards in Shandong, but there are a number of people in the capital, and the strange thing is that it is actually my cousin who came over, and there is no official business at all, just drinking and having fun for a few days and then going back."

Hearing this, Jiang Feng breathed a sigh of relief there, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said there:

"Kailai has recently relaxed our attention to Dengzhou, and we have been careful for more than half a year."

Zhao Xiucai didn't have as many things as he was involved in when Jiang Feng was just starting out, he just listened silently, and when it was his turn according to the rules, Zhao Xiucai said in a somewhat hoarse voice:

"Master, the silver that we can take out at any time now is about 30,000 taels, and the rest of the money is eaten by military salaries and ships, and the fleet and salt works can only do it to this extent."

"Bear with me, when this ship is built, the money will naturally be abundant, and there is no need to be too anxious."

After hearing Jiang Feng's answer, Zhao Xiucai bowed over there and agreed, and after a little hesitation, he still opened his mouth to remind:

"Master, the flow of money in our past year is too big, the relationship between the shopkeeper of the money bank under the mountain and us is quite good, when I drank and chatted the day before yesterday, I talked about it, saying that it was our money in and out of the number of their Suzhou number, although he said it was an understatement, but I think such a thing is still too eye-catching, is it any way to make up for it."

Zhao Xiucai's words made Jiang Feng also pay attention, most of the military salaries and silver money purchased by several large battalions in Shandong were escorted by cash silver, which is easy to say, but it is often inconvenient for merchants to carry these silver taels at sea, and many of them are merchants from Jiangnan or Shanxi, so they all require Jiang Feng to use silver tickets to communicate.

This is still a normal entry and exit, after all, although Jiang Feng's fleet firepower is large-scale, but purely in terms of commerce and trade, compared to those smuggling groups of tens of thousands of people on the sea in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it is still much worse, but this year because of the plan to cast cannons and build large ships.

Most of the materials are not produced locally in Dengzhou, and they need to go to other places to purchase, but the amount of silver required is quite huge, and it is also impossible to take the cash on the road, and they all need to go to exchange and silver tickets in the money bank ticket number. Such a huge flow of cash is really eye-catching.

Jiang Feng traveled from modern times, and some things are still known, such as when you go to the bank to deposit and withdraw more than 100,000 or 50,000 yuan, you will be noticed and registered. At this time, most of the money banks and ticket numbers were private properties, so they were naturally afraid of the government, and no one was sure whether there were similar surveillance regulations in them.

The large-scale transfer of money during this period of time must have attracted the attention of people with a heart, and now the problem of the Dengzhou camp is to try not to attract the attention of others, so I have to be on guard!

Everyone explained the matter, and when everyone retreated, Liu Twelve stayed, as the main staff and mastermind, Liu Twelve had his own mansion on the mountain in Dengzhou, and he spent more time with Jiang Feng every day, and everyone didn't feel anything.

Among the people from all parties in Dengzhou, there are Jiang Feng's descendants like Zhang Liang, there are also officers from Tieding like Luo Yi, as well as Yang Da and Zhao Xiucai, the descendants of the anti-thieves back then, and the Liu brothers on Weishan Island, although they are all united by Jiang Feng's side, but there are still such things as mountainism, but Jiang Feng's careful precautions, basically they are loyal to Jiang Feng at the same time, and there are checks and balances between each other.

Under Jiang Feng's training system, as long as the military pay is used on the soldiers, and the soldiers are trained according to the drill regulations, there is nothing to doubt about the combat effectiveness.

The only exception is Liu Twelve, Liu Twelve's subordinates have always had some forces that no one else knows very well except Jiang Feng, and they are active in various parts of Shandong, so reports and exchanges of similar things are carried out in private. Liu Twelve's body is already quite well recuperated here in Dengzhou, and his originally weak body has gradually become stronger. looked at Jiang Feng and retreated the guards and servants on the left and right.

Liu Twelve took out a few pieces of letter paper from the rucksack hanging from the armrest of the wooden wheelchair, obviously he had already read the content on them, and took them out just to make a look, cleared his throat and said:

"Wendao is now set up a stockade near Mengshan, and now the rebels who were rout are now gathered, and now there are four or five hundred people, that kid said that he has been holding back on the mountain for more than a year, and he is already a little idle and panicked, saying when he can be released to move."

Jiang Feng couldn't help laughing and scolding when he heard this, after hearing the knife and fleeing with the two hundred cavalry, although the government sent a sea fishing document to arrest it, but the terrain of the Yimeng Mountains is dangerous, and it has been a good place for outlaws and rebels to hide since ancient times, although their two hundred people said that they were fleeing, but the money was sufficient, and the soldiers and horses were strong and well-armed, and after escaping into the Yimeng Mountains, the other officers and soldiers in Shandong saw that Jiang Feng's Dengzhou battalion did not care about this matter, why did they bother, they did not see the 1,000 soldiers of Laizhou Mansion chasing tightly, was killed by these 200 people, and only more than 300 people ran out, and after everyone passed the buck to each other, there was no result.

After entering Yimeng Mountain, Wen Dao fell into the grass for Kou can be regarded as a familiar business, and he didn't say much, he directly became a fire and a cottage with a good location, and he started to be the king of the mountain, and there was never a shortage of silver money in his hands, because there was always a secret channel to send the best weapons and silver supplies, there was money, food and weapons, and there was professional training, so the thieves should not be too comfortable.

Gradually, the surrounding cottages also knew that there were strong dragons here, and they all whispered and begged for peace, and there were also some outlaws who couldn't live under the mountain and the rout of the rebellion that year, and they actually slowly gathered four or five hundred people, such young people can't live a peaceful life on the mountain, and they are idle there, and then look at their majestic relatives Liu Shisan in Laiwu, and ask for a job.

Jiang Feng had a good impression of this knife smeller who had seen him from afar under the city of Rongyang, but now he was afraid that others would notice what tasks would there be, so he patted his head there and came up with an idea:

"Let that kid go to Nanzhili to rob the salt merchants, don't suffocate on the mountain!"