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On this day, a tattered official boat came to the mouth of the Badao River on Liuqiu Island, and it led several sea boats directly into the mouth of the Badao River.

The official boat was under the banner of an envoy along the river.

Captain Bao Wei immediately ordered the team to row the swordfish boat and go to the official boat, and now they are rowing better and better, and it really looks like a knife on the surface of the eight rivers or a river.

They stopped when they were twenty paces away from the ship, for this distance they had tested was exactly the distance at which the Tiger Squat Cannon on the bow of their ship was most effective.

The team members asked in a loud voice who was coming.

At this time, a young official dressed in green clothes came out of the cabin, and he arrogantly claimed to be the official of Zhu Qing, the envoy of the system along the river, and wanted to discuss things with Zhang Guoan, the captain here.

The members of the Liuqiu Guards had never seen this formation, and immediately went back to tell Zhang Guoan's main family.

Along the river? He checked the information himself...... Know, they're a bunch of pirates who have been recruited!

Zhu Qing, the envoy along the river, is 29 years old, and was originally a native of Yaosha, Chongming.

Originally a slave of the Yang family, he avoided Chongming Island, the largest island at the mouth of the Yangtze River, because he could not bear his abuse and killed his master.

Surrounded by water, Chongming Island was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and was no longer under the control of the Great Song Dynasty government, so it became a free paradise for pirates.

Later, two people were killed from the many pirates, one was Zhu Qing and the other was Zhang Xuan, and they unified the pirates on the island and began to loot and sell illicit salt. Plundered the wealthy merchant giant ships, at most once gathered nearly 10,000 pirates, 500 ships, the scope of activities is generally in the south to Tonghai, north to the Jiaodong Peninsula and Laizhou Bay.

Because they were always making trouble on the waterways of the Yangtze River, the Southern Song Dynasty government could not bear to disturb them. He recruited them, gave them a very false title, and made envoys along the river.

What the Southern Song Dynasty government means is that you should take care of the safety of the Yangtze River waterway...... Taxes can be collected, the two sides open three seven, the official seven collects, he keeps three, and does not pay wages......

In this way, they really don't rob. And they also specially cleaned up other small groups of pirates, so that the Yangtze River waterway was quieter, and they also turned to professional tax collection and trafficking of illicit salt...... Fortunately, this is the only one, and most of it is sold to the north, and the Southern Song Dynasty government put up with it.

If history had not changed, in 1273, when the Southern Song government had not yet completely perished, Zhu Qing and Zhang Xuan betrayed the Southern Song Dynasty. Turning into an important force in the Tatar naval army, Zhu Qing was awarded the military position of acting in charge of the army of thousands of households.

Three years later. The two former pirates were tasked with transporting the Southern Song Dynasty treasury.

In that year, the Tatar army captured Lin'an, and the Southern Song Dynasty ministers suggested that Prime Minister Boyan transport the Southern Song Dynasty treasury, including archives, charts, and sacrificial utensils, to the capital of the Yuan Dynasty at that time, for the revision of Song history.

After they successfully completed the task, Kublai Khan's big leaders appointed Zhu Qing and Zhang Xuan as the ten thousand households transporting grain by sea. Responsible for sea transportation.

The last two are as rich as the country...... As a result, the wealth they made in the Tatar bandit group was confiscated by an unjustified "crime of rebellion", and the family property was confiscated, and the people died and lost their wealth.

jungle society. Everything that the mouse saves will be possessed by the cat.

Of course, this is more than ten years later, and now, they are still acting under the banner of the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhang Guoan doesn't feel very good, it's not that he's afraid of them, but he doesn't like to deal with such people.

However, he went in person anyway.

As a matter of courtesy, he invited the servant to his house, where there was an empty room that served as an office.

The little official said proudly: "My family has been famous for the sea salt at the bow of the boat for a long time, and this time I came here to discuss a business. ”

Zhang Guoan thought, what kind of system, wouldn't it be better to call my family king?

But he can't say it explicitly, just that whoever comes here can come here to do business, but it must be fair and just, and no credit will be owed......

Zhang Guoan knew from the report that the ships he brought this time were all empty, and he really didn't understand how they were going to do business.

The little official said, "That official ship can be used as a low-security thing?" ”

Zhang Guoan shook his head coldly and said, "That's the property of the Great Song Dynasty, I don't want it." ”

Damn, a tattered sea ship, split into pieces and burned, I don't even bother!

The most important thing in the island is wood......

Zhu Qing was a big smuggler of smuggled salt along the river, and he was quite concerned about salt affairs, so when he heard that someone could sell tens of thousands of stones and tens of thousands of stones, he was immediately very surprised.

At this time, Yangzhou City is the salt capital of the world, and a total of 10,000 stones in a transaction is not enough, and someone can send tens of thousands of stones at once, which is also amazing.

So I sent someone to investigate, and I heard that it was the maritime merchants of Yindi Anguo, who were praying for the blessing of the Great Song Dynasty to overseas desert islands, and what other formations they were doing, and I heard that they had a good relationship with Pingzhang Jia Nidao, and their refined salt was also specially handed over to the inner treasury of the Great Song Dynasty official family......

At that time, in the official office of the so-called envoy along the river on Chongming Island, Zhu Qing's envoy and his brother and deputy envoy Zhang Xuan tasted the rumored refined salt...... First of all, the appearance of white as snow was pleasant, and they took some to taste, and sure enough, as the rumors said, there was no smell of sea and no bitter taste of application.

The eyes of the two lit up, this thing can be sold for a good price in the Northland!

Although the Tatar bandit group established political power north of the Yangtze River and the Huai River, and although they also absorbed some rebel generals of the Southern Song Dynasty, their current maritime power is far inferior to that of the Southern Song Dynasty.

They have too many eyeliners and contacts on the coastline of Shandong and northern Jiangsu.

Smuggling and selling, they don't go to the market to sell, they need to have a large and capable family.

Over the past ten years, they have come and gone with pirates from all walks of life, fighting and killing, and everyone has slowly built their own network.

Zhu Qing's envoy said: "That guy has heard that the method of drying salt has been used on some overseas desert island, and he has produced a lot of ...... every day."

Zhang Xuan said in surprise: "The method of drying salt, just the stone is the investment, it is huge, even if it is a giant businessman's house, it is difficult to succeed, could it be related to Jia Pingzhang?" ”

If they do, they must not provoke it.

Zhu Qing was a little unwilling, and said: "It doesn't matter if it has anything to do with Jia Pingzhang or not, let's listen to the truth and talk about it, the business still has to be done......

His brother Zhang Xuan nodded immediately, if he can't grab it, then he will do business normally, which is also a matter of course.

Zhu Qing's envoy casually summoned a government official and instructed him carefully.

The current Chongming Island has been run by the two brothers like an iron bucket, and it has completely become a big village. (To be continued.) )