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Chapter 150: New Sprouts

"Hahaha!" The drinkers burst into laughter. After laughing, he sighed again about the good life of the scholars in Huai'an City, "One stone of rice plus one hanging money per month, and it's all copper coins!" Not only eat it yourself, save a province, and feed your wife and children. ”

"Isn't it? A thousand full-colored meat is good, and you can buy more than 300 bowls of wine. The surname Zhou is still reluctant to go. Lao Tzu just didn't have money to study when he was a child, otherwise, he would have gone to Huai'an! ”

More than 300 bowls of wine, drink 10 bowls a day, what a fairy day! The other drinkers who took a small sip of the wine bowl and tasted it slowly immediately released an aggressive light in their eyes. "Isn't it, I knew this earlier, and Lao Tzu also went to study!"

"Just you, your fingers are dumber than other people's toes? If you are still studying, you must have been beaten to death by Mr. with a board! ”

"Isn't that what I said? How did he get killed? That teaching gentleman dared to beat me, and Lao Tzu slapped him all over the ground to find his teeth! ”

"Hahahaha" everyone laughed again, shaking their heads while laughing. I feel that the reader and himself are completely in two worlds, and no matter how good the treatment given by others, they can't envy it.

The two long-shirted guests who sat at the back of the tavern did not accompany the group to tell jokes. Just pricked up their ears, and the audience talked nonsense from east to west, until everyone was almost drunk with wine in their bowls. Only then did he raise his head and ask very politely, "Uh-huh!" Brothers, where did you hear all those things you just said?! Is it reliable? Or is it a lie spread by falsehood?! ”

"Hey, what do you say?" When the drinkers heard this, their eyes immediately pricked up. However, seeing the neat silk robe on the other party's body, he quickly lowered his head again, "We, how do we know if it's true." Hearsay, hearsay. You know if you say it, forget it, forget it when you say it? ”

"I'm just asking! What you just said sounds weirdly fresh! Of the two caftans, the one who seemed to have a slightly higher status smiled and added in a low voice.

"Guest, your old cock ass!" Before everyone could respond, the shopkeeper had already flown over. Bending down and swinging his oily chicken butt in front of the two kaftans, he raised his hand and pointed to a wooden sign hanging high on the wall and said, "Slow use it." There are a few words here, yamen's. I don't know Xiaoer, can you help me read it? ”

"Hmm!" The robes were stunned, and their eyes quickly turned to the wooden sign on the wall.

I don't know how many years it has been hanging for the eight words "Disaster comes from the mouth, and illness comes from the mouth", and each word is covered with oily stains.

"Little second brother, check out!" All the drinkers were also alert, and took out the copper coins one after another and slapped them on the corner of the table. Stand up and get ready to go outside. In the past few years, the officials in the yamen have been working in the dark, and they have really dragged you into prison for the crime of "gangsters", which is the result of bankruptcy. Everyone is a person with wives and children, but they don't dare to make trouble for themselves on this.

"Isn't it just a few gossip? Out of my mouth, into your ear, and there is no witness beside me. Who knows after that I said it? The one of the two caftans, who looked a little higher, pouted and said loudly. Okay, everyone doesn't like to talk about it, just assume that Li didn't ask. Xiao Er, everyone here will add a bowl of hot wine, and it will be Li to make amends to everyone! ”

"Hey, here——!" The little second brother was overjoyed when he heard this, and he didn't bother to remind the guests to cause less trouble, so he trotted to sift through the hot wine. The other drinkers were also embarrassed to leave, and sat back down in their original positions with a sneer, "This, how embarrassing is this." Li, Master Li, I don't know you, how embarrassed to eat your wine! ”

"I can't afford to be a master! Under the surname Li, line four. Just call me Li Si! The one who looked to be of high status among the long-robed guests threw his body into the chair, patted the table, and said with a grin, "It's the first time I've come to the south of the Yellow River to do business, and I'm not familiar with the place, so I want to inquire more about things." I didn't mean to make trouble for everyone. Liuzi, give everyone a share of the chicken butt, there is wine and no meat, what is it! ”

"Yes, sit, sit, the sixth son will go!" Another chaffan-shirted drinker arched his hand and replied in a fluent northern Mandarin.

"Oh, don't you dare, don't you dare!" The drinkers hurriedly waved their hands to refuse, but the shiny glow on the corners of their mouths revealed their inner thoughts. Chicken butt, it costs 20 yuan to give a plate! It's not a New Year's holiday, who dares to be such a loser? Buying chicken butts for a drink? Create iniquity! Poor bones eat meat and vegetables, not afraid of farting and oily pants?!

"What don't you dare, wine and meat have never been separated!" Li Si of the long shirt is a self-cooked, and waved his hand grinningly, "Shopkeeper, cut two more plates of fat intestines, and bring a pot of salted edamame, and the amount of salt should be sufficient." Serve it to everyone in small portions, and the account will be counted on my head! ”

"It's coming, it's coming!" The shopkeeper was also overjoyed, agreed, and trotted to the kitchen to prepare.

Street chicken feather shop, small business, it is rare to see a few such bold drinkers all year round. Therefore, from the shopkeeper downward, the hands and feet have become extremely nimble. In a moment, a jar of Huadiao wine was steamed, sprinkled with some dried osmanthus flowers, divided into small bowls and served in front of everyone.

Several appetizers were also divided into small portions, one for each of the drinkers present. The eyes of everyone were so greedy that they arched their hands one after another, and asked the caftan drinkers to use it first.

"Let's take a sip! Li respects everyone! Li Si was not humble either, picked up the wine bowl first, and took a big sip. Then he closed his eyes and savored it, exhaled a long hot breath, and said, "Well, authentically!" Huadiao wine, drinking is comfortable. It's not our northern burning knife, if you take a big bite, the whole person has to turn sideways! ”

"Fourth master, you are also drinking a pride!" The drinkers also took a sip, and then responded vaguely while moving their chopsticks to eat the food, "It's not like ours, everything is a small sip, and it's so fine!" ”

"To each his own good, to each his own good!" Li Si obviously didn't plan to waste more effort on the customs of the north and the south, waved his hand, and said with a smile, "I like you people in the south more, and you are careful in everything you do." Alas, let's not talk about that. In the exam just now, what happened to the person who gave rice and copper coins? How does it sound so fresh to me! ”

"This" Everyone looked at each other, and the chicken butt that had already eaten in their mouths was embarrassed to spit it out again. shook his head and laughed a few times, and replied nonchalantly: "We are also talking nonsense, fourth master, don't believe it." No one knows if it's true! ”

"I'm just listening to it interestingly. To tell you the truth, there has been a salt shortage in my hometown recently, so "

"Oh, no wonder the fourth master is so arrogant, it turns out that he is a big businessman!" Everyone immediately understood, smiled and nodded.

Half of the salt in the world comes from two Huai. More than sixty percent of the two Huai salt comes from Huai'an Road. Although Gaoyou and Yangzhou also produce salt, the quantity is not as sufficient as Huai'an. And it turned out that the salt of the two Huai was first transported to Huai'an City, and then to all parts of the country. In a hurry, this rule is also difficult to change. Therefore, as long as you do salt-related trading, there is a chance that you will go to Huai'an.

Since he was going to Huai'an to sell smuggled salt, Li Si would definitely not take everyone into the yamen. He asked everyone about Huai'an just now, of course, it is also reasonable, and it is not worth everyone to be careful.

Li Si was afraid that he would not explain clearly enough, so he smiled and continued: "It's not a big business. The elders of the family sent me to make a trip. As you know, in the past, only a few of them could do the salt trade. Others, no matter how rich they are, it is useless without salt! ”

"Then the fourth master, you're really right!" When everyone heard this, they immediately chattered, "Those families died by themselves, and they actually wanted to take advantage of Zhu Bayi's unstable foothold to gather slaves to recapture Huai'an." As a result, he was defeated by Zhu Bayi, and then chopped all of them one by one. At present, the salty salt in Huai'an City does not need salt at all. Anyone who can afford the price can buy it and take it away! ”

"Oh, so?" Li Si's brows jumped, and he deliberately pretended to be dazed, "Someone dares to go against Zhu Butcher?" Did they eat the leopard's guts? ”

"I guess I want to bully Zhu Bayiyi's subordinates? Those salt dealers weren't good birds in the first place, but this time they were full of evil! ”

"There are few people under the bullying Zhu butcher? No way! There are few people, how did he lay down Huai'an? ”

"Why not, I heard that when Zhu Eighty-one entered Huai'an, he only brought more than 100 people!" A drinker stood up, his face full of mysterious revelations.

"Isn't it? That Zhu Eighty-one and Sesame Li had already worshipped. Sesame Li took Xuzhou with eight people that day, he is the brother of Sesame Li, and more than 100 people seized Huai'an, which is already to give the government face! ”

"Yes, that Zhu Eighty-one, but he can thunder in his palm!"

"Others don't know, Zhu Bayiyi's subordinates must not have many people. In the past month, Sesame Li has broken Suzhou, Mengcheng, Huaiyuan, and Zhao Junyong all the way from Xuzhou to Suiyang City. Only Zhu Eighty-one, after defeating Huai'an, there has been no major movement. It wasn't until the last few days that another one named Xu Da was sent to take Sizhou City in the upper reaches of the Huai River! ”

When he landed, all the people came to the spirit. Spit out hearsay news regardless of truth or falsehood. And I also added oil and vinegar myself, as if everyone had seen it with their own eyes.

What the hell is going on with the palm thunder, Li Si has already figured it out. Listening to the more everyone said that the farther away from the topic they wanted to know, he hurriedly coughed a few times, and pulled back the conversation with a smile, "Well, hmph, uh-huh, that is to say, Zhu Bayi's hands are small, so those salt merchants want to take the opportunity to get a vote." As a result, I didn't catch it, but I put my life into it! ”

"yes, that's pretty much it!" Everyone drank Li Si's wine and ate Li Si's chicken buttocks, so naturally they wouldn't spoil him. They smiled and nodded.

"Oh, what an opportunity!" Li Si thought for a moment and nodded heavily. The salt administration of the Great Yuan Dynasty has been erosive for a long time, saying that all salt must be government-run, in fact, the big salt merchants in the Lianghuai area have long found countless loopholes from it. Every year, the government is really taxed enough, and less than 40% of the total amount is sold by the salt to the designated area. The remaining sixty percent are all private salt under the banner of official salt. The high profits also went into the private pockets of the salt merchants and the corresponding officials.

Therefore, Zhu Eighty-one chopped up the big salt merchants in Huai'an City, and from the perspective of the imperial court, Li Si did not feel how pitiful the latter was. What he only cares about is whether Zhu Eighty-one can establish a new rule and take the salt profits into his hands after Zhu Eighty-one has wiped out the original salt merchants. If it can, then the current direction of the imperial court's suppression of bandits must quickly move eastward, abandon Liu Futong, and take Zhao Junyong, Sesame Li and Zhu Tuhu as the main targets. If not, then the imperial court can still exterminate the red turban thieves step by step according to the size of their power. first concentrated his forces to capture and kill Liu Futong, the culprit, and then it was the turn of Sesame Li, Zhu Tuhu and Xu Shouhui and others.

"Of course it's an opportunity!" A yellow-faced drinker wiped his oily mouth with his hand and echoed loudly, "We people just don't have the capital, otherwise, we would have gone to Huai'an earlier." Pull a boatload of grain when you go, and pull a boatload of salty salt when you come back. One back and forth, at least ten times the bonus. Hey, or else, people have two legs, and money is one wheel. These two legs, no matter how you chase them, can't catch up with a wheel! ”

"Hehe, my brother is saying this interestingly!" Li Si nodded with a smile at the yellow-faced drinker, "But why do you want to pull a boatload of grain, aren't other things easy to sell in Huai'an?" ”

"That, I've also heard people say, I can't do it accurately! I can't be sure! The yellow-faced drinker waved his hand and responded with a smile, "It is said that although there is no need for salt over there, there is a strange rule. Every time you transport a shipload of local goods from Huai'an, you must transport a boatload of grain into it, otherwise, even if you can sneak away with the goods, you will have to be intercepted by the sailor on the way! ”

"Sailor, there is a sailor under Zhu Eighty-one?" Li Sisi was taken aback, and asked with round eyes.

"Isn't it!" The yellow face was obviously a little drunk, and nodded stupidly, "At first, no one expected that Zhu Bayi would pull the water master up so quickly." But I heard from my brother who walked on the Yellow River that the first thing Zhu Bayi did when he entered Huai'an was to form a sailor. Anyway, there is no shortage of ships in that area, and the sailors are also grabbing a handful! ”

Having a water division in the store, no matter how big or small, is a nuisance for anyone who tries to attack Huai'an. The north of Huai'an City is the Yellow River, and the west is the canal and the Huai River. In the east, less than 200 miles down the Yellow River, there is the ocean. Although a river boat and a sea boat are not the same thing, Zhu Bayi was forced to be anxious and took the risk of pulling the fleet into the sea. I was trying to catch him, but I was looking for a needle in a haystack! (Note 1)

"But you don't have to worry about the fourth master!" Seeing that Li Si's face was not very good-looking, the drinkers patted their chests and comforted loudly, "Although Zhu Eighty-one is a 6th Army and a sailor under his command, he is by no means an unreasonable master. We've heard people say that as long as you don't break his rules, he never takes the initiative to trouble you. The Red Turban Army under him is also extremely kind, different from the Red Turban thieves in other places. ”

"Oh, why is it different, aren't they all red turban thieves?"

"We can't tell you how it is different. But on the Huai'an side, it's true that the people are not bullied. It is said that they have something over there, the big one with big discipline, and the eight small disciplines. Exactly what it is, we don't quite know. Fourth master, you can go to the river and ask the guy who is boating. Zhu Eighty-one made up his rules into a song, not only can his subordinates sing it, but also the guys who often go over there can sing it! ”

Note 1: The coastline of the Yuan Dynasty was much farther west than it is now. Sheyang, Dafeng, and the sea are all around. Lianyungang is an island near 6 places, named Yuzhou.