It was much easier than imagined to bring Luo Shixin under his command, and he also brought the Lu family in. Let's not talk about whether the so-called Wuhou military book inheritance is really so magical, it is Lu Chengcai who showed his ingenious craftsmanship, so he let the whole shout "super value".

After discussing it with Xu Shixian, he decided not to go to Changqing to visit Zhang Xutuo and Qin Qiong, who were suppressing bandits. First, there are more and more subordinates, and making money has become a top priority. The second is that the main thing that Ben came to Licheng was to find Luo Shixin, and the main owner was found, and the others had no chance to meet, so wait for the next time.

And the most important point, it can be seen from the recruitment of Qin Qiong that Zhang Xutuo is a person who loves only his life. Luo Shixin, Mai Tiedan, and Cheng Yanjin under his command are all one in a million, not weaker than Qin Qiong's fierce generals. In case he went to Changqing, Zhang Xutuo was happy to see that he was hunting, and he wanted to recruit these three guys to serve under him, and there was no better excuse to refuse, wouldn't it be a stupid fork to send sheep into the tiger's mouth. So, just don't go to the meeting to save a lot of trouble.

Leaving letters to Zhang Xutuo and Qin Qiong's mansions respectively, they went to the horse market to select a few good horses, prepared wine and food, and rode six people and nine horses to the northeast and went straight to Yanshan County.

In order to prevent the news from leaking, he listened to Xu Shixian's suggestion and did not live directly in Yanshan County, but lived in Qingyun County, which is fifty miles away from Yanshan County.

Because of the nod of Laihu'er from opening up the salt road, Zhu Er laid out Laijia's industry in Yanshan County and surrounding counties for future private salt transfer and news transmission. The Lukfook Inn, where I am staying now, is one of them.

Originally, the plan to replace the county magistrate and the official salt governor of Yanshan County did not go smoothly because of the strong opposition of Yu Wenhua, the general of the Right Tunwei and his brothers, Shaoqing of Honglu Temple and Yu Wenshi, the commander of the horse.

It is not surprising that salt and iron have been important strategic materials since ancient times, especially table salt, which is indispensable and very profitable civilian in addition to military use.

There are now 8,000 salt workers in Yanshan County, about 40,000 people, accounting for more than 40% of the salt workers in the entire Sui Dynasty. The income from the Yuwen family's sneaking out of the salt farm every year is not a small amount, and it is not easy for him to honestly give up the position of the salt farm supervisor.

Fortunately, Laihu'er is not a novice to officialdom, and the evidence thrown by people is enough for the Yuwen family to drink a pot. In addition, Yu Wenhua and his brothers are arrogant and domineering in the court, and they have a lot of enemies, and when they see that there is an opportunity to step on it, few people can bear it.

After instructing the person to throw out the evidence, Lai Hu'er sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight, and there was no other action, and Zhu Er sent a message to Lai Quan: Don't be impatient, wait and see what happens, choose a good position, prepare manpower, and wait for a turnaround.

I know that this is a cheap dad is very sure, but Yu Culture and deep roots are thick, and it takes some time to dig into his corner.

Luo Shixin and Lu Chengcai are both subordinates who have just been attached, and the trust level is not high, and the illegal salt trade is an extremely sensitive business, so he simply told the two to stay in the inn, and he took Xu Shixian, Cheng Yanjin and Mai Tiedan to Yanshan to inspect the site suitable for drying salt.

Although I didn't have any experience in salt drying in my previous life, I had visited the sea salt field and listened to the detailed introduction of salt drying, so I still knew the selection of salt drying sites and the general steps and basic principles of salt making.

According to the memories of his previous life, he found a flat beach on the seaside tidal flats twenty miles east of the official salt cooking field, which was very suitable for the salt drying field.

It took three days to make the tidal flats transparent.

The beach is seven or eight miles long and about five miles wide, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea in the north, forming a concave valley with several streams flowing through the valley and reaching the sea.

It is said that this harbor has plenty of sunshine all year round, the tide is stable, the wind and waves are not large, and there are many underwater reefs, so few fishermen come here to fish and dock.

This is really an excellent hidden place to steal smuggled salt, because the mountain is steep, as long as the three trails into the valley are blocked, the connection between this place and the outside world can be well closed, and even by artificially destroying the mountain road, you can completely cut off land transportation.

As for the vigilance on the water, it is even simpler, and during the day a few fishing boats pretending to be fishing can be arranged a little farther away to grasp the initiative. In the waters full of reefs, let alone now, even more than 1,500 years later, no one in the world with advanced radar and sonar dares to sail into the reef beach at night.

Because the location is far away from the official salt farm, even if the battle in the court has not yet been resolved, the family can arrange for people to build production first, and then use ant-moving boats to transport them to the sea and then convert them into large ships and transport them to various places by water.

Draw the selected location on paper, hand it over to the owner of the Liufu Inn along with the letter, and return to Luoyang with the whole person without staying anymore.

Because of the sale of private salt involved in a section of Shandong, it is completely insufficient to rely on the channels of the Cheng family alone, Cheng Yanjin can be regarded as the No. 1 person in Dong'e, but compared with Shan Xiongxin, who is already the leader of Shandong Green Forest, it is more than one grade worse. So the last stop this time is the single family village in Jiyin, Caozhou.

Illicit salt sales are undoubtedly a lucrative business at the moment, but it is also the Huangquan Trail that will lead to the scourge of killing and exterminating the clan if you are not careful.

For the sake of safety, Cheng Yanjin also decided not to return to his hometown of Turtledove for the time being, but to follow Lai Cheng to visit Shan Xiongxin together. The second is to discuss how to transfer and traffic on the boundary of Shandong in the future, so as to avoid mistakes and omissions and attract disasters.

Xu Shiyun and Shan Xiongxin are fellow villagers, and they knew each other originally, but after moving to Dongjun with their father two years ago, they had less contact, and they just took the opportunity to reconnect.

In the original history, in the ninth year of the great cause, Shan Xiongxin followed Xu Shiyun to Wagangzhai to take refuge in Zhai Rang, who rebelled against the flag. Because he had a grudge against the Li family for killing his brother, after the defeat of the Wagang army, he did not follow Xu Shichang to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, but voted for Wang Shichong of Luoyang.

After Wang Shichong was defeated by Li Shimin, Shan Xiongxin and other generals were captured and imprisoned.

Since he has decided to have a long time with the Li family, of course, the more people he can use, the better, and Shan Xiongxin, who has an enmity with the Li family and has a faction, is also a pretty good candidate.

After receiving Luo Shixin, I found the perfect place for the salt farm, and if I hooked up with Shan Xiongxin again, it would be a complete merit to come out this time.