Chapter Twenty-Six: Salt Eats Salt

There will be at least two more tomorrow.,Although everyone recommends the collection.,I hope I'll be on the new book list.,Thank you.,Lao Bai is out ^_^.

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The seaside of Shandong in the tenth month of the lunar calendar is already quite cold, especially at this time it is still almost dark, these young men are naked, some are standing in line there, some are running there, and some are holding bamboo poles and stabbing forward, Li Meng is sitting in the middle, he is staring at the people around him to practice, who has something wrong immediately corrected it.

The sun in the distance was already about to set into the sea, Li Meng had just finished correcting a person's movements there, and thought with a wry smile in his heart: "After coming to the Ming Dynasty, I still have improved compared to the modern era, at least I am a squad leader as a soldier, in charge of nine people, in the escort company is a squad leader, in charge of twelve people, and now I am in charge of more than a hundred people, at least I am a company commander!" ”

Illegal salt is profitable, there are teams selling illegal salt everywhere, but there are not many salt farms, originally where to eat salt in Changyi and Ye County in the north of Laizhou Prefecture, they all went to the Fushan Salt Farm in Dengzhou Mansion to buy, after Kong Youde's rebellion, Huang County and Dengzhou Mansion happened to block this section of the coastal road.

The imperial court mobilized a large army to blockade Dengzhou, and naturally blocked the coastal line, so the salt dealers came to the Lingshan salt field to buy, and it is a little strange to say that several salt merchants in Fengmeng Town did not sell to these places, and after hoarding enough salt, it was transported away by water.

In this era, it is not a trivial matter to cross the county and Yuefu, and the salt dealers in Changyi, Yexian, Pingdu, and Gaomi are all in a team of forty or fifty people, who come to buy and sell.

On the fifth day of the first month of October, more than 30 smugglers from Pingdu Prefecture came to Jiaozhou City in the name of selling dates, first rested for a day in Fengmeng Town, and then set off to Lingshan Salt Farm the next day.

There is also an official road between Fengmeng Town and Lingshan Salt Farm, but these smugglers do not dare to go, although they are all outlaws, but after all, this is a forbidden thing, it is better to cover up, the salt Ding in Jiaozhou City is staring at this kind of foreign smuggling salt dealers to arrest, the oil and water are particularly large, and the risk is small.

These Pingdu salt dealers take a relatively remote path, this road they are also familiar with, early from Fengmeng Town, Shandong salt farms are the locals eat their own food, the market is not smooth, the official salt merchants are unwilling to buy and sell, rely on these private salt dealers to do business, soon is the delivery is completed, since it is to take the road to ask for concealment, these people are also pushing chicken carts.

On the way back, it was just time to finish breakfast, and after walking more than ten miles, the leader suddenly raised his hand to let everyone stop, and the salt dealers behind were all puzzled, but to do this kind of business, there was still vigilance, and they all took out their weapons and crowded to the front.

I have never heard any strongmen between Fengmeng Town and Lingshan Salt Farm, why did they come out today, but this is also good, strongmen are always better than Yanding officials, and those who can't afford to spend money to buy a toll money, and those who can afford it will fight.

"We're from Pingdu Prefecture, and we're brothers there?"

Seeing that there was no sound on the other side, this person waved his hand, and the thirty or so men behind him walked forward a few steps together with knives and axes, getting closer, and they could see clearly that these people on the opposite side were also from poor backgrounds, and each of them stood there with a bamboo pole and did not make a sound.

The salt lord of Pingdu Prefecture thought to himself that he and his brothers were holding steel knives and iron axes in their hands, and he was afraid that you poor men with bamboo poles would not be cut down as long as they got close, and the estimated number of people on the other side would be thirty people, and the people on his side would have a slight upper hand.

It's just that these poor men on the other side are silent, there is always a bit of indescribable taste when standing there in a regular manner, and the salt lord of Pingdu Prefecture also has some intuition about danger, and he didn't dare to rush forward, but those companions behind him were already scolding, he stretched out his hand to stop, and said again:

"The road is facing the sky, each going to one side, everyone goes out just to ask for a fortune, why hurt the harmony, you can talk about anything!"

After he finished saying this, someone on the other side shouted:

"Brother Qiu Dahai, this salt is all from our Jiaozhou, you Pingdu Prefecture came to buy and sell, this is to drink the blood of our people, how can we compensate, we don't say dark words, we have collected five dollars and silver for your salt goods, this is not a loss, you take the goods in your brother-in-law's hands are also four dollars and seven one loads, I will also give you the foot money!"

Hearing that the other party called out his name, and was to find out the relationship between himself and the Lingshan Salt Farm, this Qiu Dahai was trembling all over his body, thinking that the other party really figured out his own details, the salt ambassador of the Lingshan Salt Farm is Qiu Dahai's eldest brother, relying on this relationship, every time he can get four coins of silver or five dollars of silver a load of salt, after transporting it back to Pingdu Prefecture, because Pingdu belongs to the inland, the price of salt is also high, and it is two taels of silver and a load of silver, and the profit is extremely thick, and the money is shared equally with the uncle, and the money is very happy.

Now there are fewer people on the other side than himself, but he said such unreasonable cruel words, how can he continue to discuss, Qiu Dahai has also been doing the killing business for some years, and he is not ambiguous, he waved his hand and shouted:

"Brothers, go on, don't leave your hands behind!"

As soon as this sentence was said, the Pingdu salt dealers who had been holding back their stomachs were all scolding in their mouths, and rushed up with the knives and axes in their hands.

What's more, how do you look at the other side, how does it look like a peasant or a poor military household in a nearby village who wants to make some extra money, and he is afraid of what he will do!

Rushing here, someone over there shouted:

"Hold it up, hold it down!"

Listening to this voice, they all trembled a little, the Pingdu salt dealers were more courageous, and their pace was much faster, but the people who rushed to the front were a little embarrassed, the bamboo pole in the other party's hand was more than ten feet long, and it was really a trouble to rush to the other party.

According to past experience, rushing forward with a knife and axe like this, even those strongmen and bandits in the mountains are afraid, and they often break up like this.

These salt dealers shouted in a louder voice, and at the same time quickened their pace, anyway, the bamboo poles were flat-headed, and they couldn't poke the dead, and the salt dealers who rushed to the front heard what someone shouted among these people with bamboo poles on their hands, and they didn't hear it clearly in a hurry, but they had already rushed to the other party.

Directly opposite, more than a dozen bamboo poles stabbed over with the sound of the wind