Zhang Heng took people to the island to arrest and exterminate pirates, and Li Jun took two large ships to wander in the open sea to monitor.

Seeing that a sea ship had escaped from Liu Island, Li Jun immediately led the sea ship to rush over to prepare to seize the ship.

Unexpectedly, before it could get closer, the ship stopped, and it didn't take long for the white flag of surrender to be raised.

Although the task was completed, Li Jun was still a little unhappy.

Hooking the pirate ship with an iron hook, the big sea ship approached, mounted the plank, and Li Jun took the people on the pirate ship.

As soon as he saw Li Jun, Chen Hong took Chen Lan's head and said flatteringly: "I don't know if it's the leader of Liangshan, the little one is called Chen Hong, but after the order of Brother Zhang Shun, he should cooperate with Liangshan to arrest Chen Lan, the thief!" Look, this is the thief's head! ”

Hearing Chen Hong's words, looking at Chen Lan's head in his hand, Li Jun felt nauseous.

Chen Hong, Li Jun also listened to Zhang Shun. When Zhang Shun visited Chen Lan that day, he noticed that Chen Hong was a greedy villain.

After Zhang Shun secretly went to the island today, he immediately rebelled against this person. For three hundred taels of silver, Chen Hong immediately sold his cousin Chen Lan and acted as Liangshan's internal response.

Although he doesn't like Chen Hong's character, if it weren't for him, it would not be easy for Liang Shan to eradicate Chen Lan and Wanbao.

Li Jun waved his hand to let Chen Hong go down, out of sight and out of mind.

Compared with Chen Hong, Li Jun is happy to be able to harvest this sea ship in good condition.

As the leader of the navy, who would think that he has more ships?

A 2,000-stone sea boat is much more useful than a small fishing boat. Li Jun happily escorted the ship back to the fishing village.

Chen Lan is dead, Wan Bao is dead, Wang Gang is also dead, and the pirates who have been entrenched in Liu Island are all dead.

Now that Liudao has been completely controlled by Liangshan, some people want to take advantage of the chaos to escape in fishing boats.

But not long after they went to sea, they were captured by Li Jun, who was wandering and monitoring in the open sea.

Except for a very few, or the pirates were captured by Liangshan.

Most of the pirates died in the firefight, and all those who survived were taken prisoner, probably more than 160 people, and a total of 29 complete fishing boats and 2 sea boats were captured.

In addition to the four thousand taels of silver that Shi Jin gave to Wang Gang and Wanbao at the beginning, nearly 3,000 taels of silver were also found from the homes of the black dragon Chen Lan, the earth-shaking wave Wanbao, and the hanging eared tiger Wang Gang.

Among them, the black dragon Chen Lan accounted for more than 2,000 taels.

After taking full control of the pirates on the island, Shi Jin landed on Liu Island with several leaders.

Looking at Li Shi and Chen Hong, who were standing at the head, Shi Jin said, "I'll give you fifty taels each, and you can take your family and go." Don't go back to Liu Island in this life! ”

When they first saw Shi Jin, Chen Hong and Li Shi were very frightened, and they didn't know how Shi Jin would treat the two of them.

Now I heard that not only did I have fifty taels to take, but I was also willing to let myself go. Chen Hong and Li Shi shouted excitedly when they heard it, "Thank you Shi Zhai Master!" Thank you, Lord Shizhai! The small ones will definitely roll away! ”

Chen Hong and Li Shi took the silver, for fear that Shi Jin would regret it, so they packed their luggage and left with their families on a fishing boat that day.

With so much silver, what kind of pirate are you going to be? Of course, I want to buy a few acres of land, build a big house, and live a leisurely life.

Looking at the back of Chen Hong and them leaving, Zhang Shun said puzzledly: "Big brother, why do you want to let those two guys go." Wouldn't it be better to slaughter it with one sword! ”

Shi Jin shook his head and said, "It's not worth it!" If it gets out. Who will believe our words and be willing to do our inner duty in the future? ”

"Oh!" Zhang Shun replied knowingly.

let go of Chen Hong and Li Shi, the two internal directors, and the other captives were not so fateful.

Those who have committed the most heinous crimes will be hanged directly, and those who have committed lesser sins will be used as coolies, building camps, and building docks.

As for the old and weak women in the three villages, who wept and knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, Shi Jin disagreed.

Whatever it was, they brought it on themselves.

When you become a pirate, how can you not have a few lives in your hands, and they may be innocent. Since you chose this path in the first place, you should have expected such an outcome.

Shi Jin didn't care about their begging for mercy at all, he didn't kill them, he was already open, and he hoped to be forgiven.

From the beginning of the fierce battle in the early morning and until the evening, the Liangshan army completely took over Liu Dao.

The sun is setting and the sea is shining golden.

In a simple thatched hut in Liudao Harbor, the table of the Eight Immortals was filled with rich seafood flavored delicacies, which were captured by Liangshan naval sailors only today.

These seafood flavors don't use much seasoning, but the umami alone is the most delicious dish.

The sea breeze blows into the house through the thatch, drinking white wine and eating seafood, and it has a different flavor than usual.

Shi Jin grabbed a large lobster.

With a twist of his hand, he tore open the shell, took a big bite, and ate the white and tender lobster meat.

As he ate, he said, "Now that Liu Island has been controlled by us, this island will be managed by your brothers for the next period of time!" ”

Li Jun asked, "Big brother, how should we manage this island?" ”

From the very beginning of the plan to seize Liu Dao, Shi Jin had already thought about how to manage and develop Liu Dao.

Shi Jin put down the big lobster and said, "There are not so many people living in Liangshan, I will move all the extra people here." Build a few camps on this island to house these people. Then build salt pans, shipbuilding workshops, warehouses, etc.! ”

Salt pan?

Li Jun asked: "Big brother, I know what this camp, shipbuilding workshop, and warehouse are." But what is this salt pan for, and what is it used for? ”

Shi Jin thought for a moment and said, "You may not understand the explanation. Tomorrow, I'll have someone build a salt pan, and you'll understand! ”

The next day, it was just dawn. Shi Jin took Zhu Wu and Li Jun and them to a relatively flat beach.

The Yangsan Navy drove the former pirates with knives, bulldozing the beach with long planks, and then using pebbles and sand to pile up the beach and divide it into sand pools that resembled rice paddies.

There were no pumps, and there were no overturned carts (keel waterwheels), so Shi Jin had to tell the pirates to fill the barrels with seawater and pour them into the salt pans.

When the seawater in the salt pans can soak in the palm of your hand, you will no longer pour seawater.

Shi Jin asked someone to sit in the grass hut and wait.

Li Jun and the others looked at Yantian, and then looked at the eldest brother Shi Jin who was resting on the side, and they didn't know what he wanted to do at all.

It's summer, and the sun is raging. In time, the salt pans are saturated with sodium chloride.

Shi Jin asked someone to remove the sand and gravel from a corner of the salt pan, and the sodium chloride-saturated seawater suddenly flowed into the wooden barrel through the gap.

Shi Jin then asked someone to pour the seawater into a stone trough, and after being exposed to the sun for half a day, the seawater in the stone trough gradually precipitated salt.

Anxiously waiting for the evening, Li Jun and the others looked at the white flower layer outside the stone trough. He stuck a little with his hand, put it in his mouth and tasted it, and the tip of his tongue suddenly felt bitter.

He opened his eyes, pointed to the coarse salt on the stone trough and said, "Big brother, this ...... This is a great way to make salt. It's much easier to boil salt, and the yield is much larger! “

Shi Jin nodded and said, "Of course!" It's a pity that this Liu Island is a little smaller after all, and I'm afraid that it will be more than 200 acres of salt pans at most. This year, that is, one million catties of coarse salt can be dried! ”

I heard Shi Jin say that these two or three hundred acres of salt fields can produce one million catties of coarse salt in a year. The mouth is wide open.

Zhang Shun pulled his eldest brother's clothes and said, "Brother, how much will it cost to sell this million catties of salt?" ”

When Li Jun and Zhang Heng heard it, they hurriedly estimated it.

As soon as he calculated, his eyes lit up.

Zhang Heng trembled and said: "I'm afraid there will be 100,000 taels of silver this year!" ”

Shi Jin said calmly: "Calm, this is why it may be sold so high in the past two years." You don't want to think about it, this method of drying salt is not a difficult thing, let alone someone saying it, as long as someone looks at it, they can understand the mystery. One spread ten, ten spread hundreds, this spread, everyone dried salt like this, the output of salt came up, the price was naturally cheap, and then it was not so good! ”

Li Jun said: "Although this is the case, as long as we occupy a few more islands and expand the place where salt is made, we can still make a lot of money!" ”

Shi Jin looked at Li Jun and said, "Do you think the imperial court will let you sell salt so easily?" Don't forget, this salt and iron is a bureaucratic autocracy. If the imperial court knew that we were making illegal salt, I am afraid that it would not let us go! ”

"This ......"

I sat on a chair in Liangshan, and in addition to the public sharing of the income of this private salt, the remaining silver had my own share.

If the imperial court took back all these salt pans, it would be tantamount to cutting their flesh!

Thinking of this, Li Jun secretly made up his mind.

In order to prevent the loss of his money in the future, he must try his best to persuade his eldest brother to rebel!

Anyway, this officer and soldier have seen it himself, and it is nothing more than that. This uprising and rebellion don't seem to see much suffering!

As long as the eldest brother is not the emperor for a day, these properties will be very unstable.

If the eldest brother becomes the emperor, it is unlikely that all the income of the salt pan will be distributed to the brothers.

But if you have made a great contribution and ask the eldest brother to give him a few hundred acres of salt fields, it should be possible.

When the time comes, 100,000 taels of silver a year!

It would take a big house to hold so much silver!

It's not just Li Jun who thinks like this, Zhang Heng and the Tong brothers all have this idea! ()

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