On the surface, the government has done a lot of work, posting notices everywhere, and arresting people very diligently, but it is also arresting scattered smuggler salt dealers, and it is also arresting people for the combination of officials, businessmen, and bandits, so as to have more effective control and monopoly.

At that time, the Salt Administration was very strict in punishing the crime of trafficking in illicit salt, for example, there was a notice stipulating that those who were less than 300 catties would be sentenced to fifth-class fixed-term imprisonment or criminal detention (almost 2-6 months); Those who are more than 300 pounds shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of the third or fourth degree (almost 1-3 years); Those who carry more than 3,000 pounds shall be sentenced to second-class or third-degree imprisonment (almost 3-7 years), and those who carry firearms with the intent to resist arrest shall be sentenced to the first degree.

Those who know that it is private salt and carry it for the purpose of buying it or for dental protection shall be reduced from the penalty of the first or second degree in Article 2; The salt and the articles used in the crime shall be confiscated.

Despite the strictness of the laws and regulations, the salt tax police roaming around to arrest people, and the arrogance of the gangs cooperating with officials, businessmen and bandits, there are still some small groups that secretly traffick illicit salt.

In fact, the eldest brother Mo said that the second brother, the official salt has a puddle of shit under his ass; Not only is the price of official salt extremely high, but it is also often adulterated with sprinkled water, such as gypsum, white sand, and even soil.

Eating such salt makes the people miserable, and they would rather buy illicit salt; The price of illicit salt is about the same or even a little lower, at least there will not be so much adulteration.

This new method of selling smuggled salt is for the locals on the trafficking route to participate, and they come to the dragon one by one, because the locals are familiar with the geography and disappear after three or two turns.

Second, it is convenient for the locals to cover up, and if there are chasing soldiers, they will go directly into other people's homes, put things down, sit down to drink tea and chat, and laugh at you on the side that you are as tired as a dog.

You are a salt tax policeman, and you are not a serious policeman, how dare you enter the house to search, even if you find salt, every household does not have salt, what's wrong with a lot, my family hoards more, you take care of it?

If you are in a hurry, be careful that the people in the village beat you, you will be unpleasant. If you are beaten, you don't even know who beat you, and the law does not blame the public; The officials and masters don't care about these trivial troubles, they deserve to be beaten.

Third, the strong dragon can't suppress the head snake, the villagers' clan concept is very strong, you a few outsiders, whether you are from the government or not, want to go to the village in broad daylight to arrest people, that is not to send yourself to death, you are killed and you can't even find the body.

Therefore, many government officials do not dare to go to the village to arrest people, unless they have committed a big crime, such as a capital crime, they will send many people, and suddenly come to the door in the middle of the night to arrest people, and when they are arrested, they will quickly pull them back.

Therefore, once such a trafficking of illicit salt is carried out, it will be difficult for the government to catch it, and it will be difficult for other forces to penetrate into such a detailed scope, mainly because they do not want to spend too much money to suppress it.

There is also a point that is not eye-catching, the number of such illicit salt trafficking is not large, the reason is that the number of solitaires in this section of the road is definitely not large, and the cost is gradually increasing, and each section has to eat a price difference, and in the end the price is too high to buy, and it is not smashed in their own hands.

Therefore, there is another way of transporting, that is, to ask a porter to pick, with a special person to lead the way, which means that I have contracted this underground line, passing by various mountains and lands, will give a little to buy road expenses, not much, people in the mountains and lands also feel that they can, do not have to work hard and brains themselves, how easy the money comes.

In this way, there are some people who specialize in leading the way on this road, ensuring that everyone is safe and making money at the same time, so why not do it.

Looking at this long-term account book, some bandits and village tyrants not only did not rob the private salt that someone led the way, but instead guarded and protected them in various road sections, and took other people's money, so they had to do some work, and protecting them was to protect their own money bags.

Do you want to say that the porter picks salt normally? There are also, it must be official salt, at the salt office designated by the government, or at the salt merchant point, pick the salt and transport it to other designated places to earn a little coolie money for transportation.

How to distinguish the porter from the official salt? The official salt office will write a slip for passage, indicating who is who, how many catties of salt to pick, where to pick, and in what time limit, please give passage to each centicard, and stamp the official seal to prove the facts.

However, many porters are not very willing to pick official salt, afraid of the scales of officials and businessmen, the two places are always not right, of course, there is much less, and salt is such a thing, there may also be spilled on the road, what is melted by water, and if it is lost, the porter has to pay out of his own pocket to make up for it.

As a result, there were some officials and businessmen who were engaged in slippery heads, and they joined forces to do it, such as designating someone to transport a shipload of official salt to a certain place, and when the ship reached the halfway point, they moved most of the salt.

When they arrived at the final dock, they deliberately pierced the bottom of the ship and let the boat sink underwater, and when they were finally fished up, most of the salt must have melted away and turned into some bags of salt.

This was originally a joint effort between the government and business, and it would definitely not make the shipwreck lose money, even if it had to be compensated, that is, a symbolic loss, so this confused account would be eliminated as a dead account.

Therefore, on this salt road, the top meat eaters are, of course, the government, and no one has ever fought for them, nor dare to have this idea; In the middle is a group of officials, businessmen and bandits, who are doing a large amount of business in the dark, and no one dares to provoke them.

Unless this official falls, there will be a power vacuum, but it will be filled soon, after all, the new official is coming, and the new official must also take a fancy to this piece of fat.

is flattering to others, and is often scolded half to death by his boss, so what is the purpose of being an official? It's not about getting rich; So as long as you are a person who likes money, there is nothing that this interest group can't handle.

If you meet a stupid Erhazi who is ignorant and can't pull into the water anymore, you will use the relationship above to make you stink or take you away, change to an obedient point, and do things together.

At the bottom of the food chain are these low-level traffickers who make some soup in the cracks; Therefore, on this salt road, if you are a living layman to do this business, you will lose money in minutes, and even your life will be difficult to protect.

Although in the twentieth year of the Republic of China (1931), the government issued a new salt law to allow the free trade of salt, but it was difficult to implement it throughout the country, and it was only free to buy and sell in the terminal market, and the upstream market was monopolized and controlled, and it was impossible to cut meat to the people at the bottom.

At the junction of the three provinces, freight is well developed, including salt; As a result, the incomprehensible "Red Bandits" (Red Army) came, and suddenly broke this ecological balance.

All the officials, businessmen, bandits, and people don't want to be bored, they all give me a regular and regular rules to do business, and the people at the bottom are of course the happiest, they don't have to be exploited, they can make more money just by their strength, and of course they support them.

But the problem is that the interests of this salt road are too great, in Guangfeng County, you "red bandits" hundreds of people and hundreds of broken guns, just want to cut off this big money road? Of course, it was not only this way of wealth, but also the landlords' fields and other monopolies such as timber, tobacco, cloth, and other industries.