Although various arrangements have been made for Li Dajin and Li He, from Zhao Jin to Liu Yong, everyone feels that this defection is not fake, because through the news from those salt merchants in the early stage, the Feng family has indeed turned their faces on Li Dajin, and it is indeed his wife and children who are left as hostages.

I don't know who said a sentence first, and it quickly spread in Xuzhou, and there was a little guy who was on an errand in the Zhizhou Mansion who said this sentence, but it was heard by Zhizhou Tong Huaizu, and he immediately hit dozens of boards.

"Xuzhou is not in the city, but in Hejiazhuang" is such a simple sentence.

Tong Huaizu has been in Xuzhou for more than ten years, only to see that Xuzhou is withering day by day, and there are not many newly built houses inside and outside the city, and Zhao Jin has been in Hejiazhuang for less than two years, and there has been a great change there, with a new look everywhere.

At present, at the junction of Lin Jiawei and Xiaoshi Village, construction is being carried out on a large scale, and the idle laborers on the south side of the Yellow River have used to earn a share of their wages, and all kinds of materials are either manufactured on the spot or transported by water, and it has become a large construction site.

Although I don't know what this big construction site will do in the future, there is vague news that a big market will be built here, and wealthy businessmen from the southeast and northwest will come to do business.

Is there still business in this shabby place in Xuzhou? Even the locals of Xuzhou think so, but everyone has seen a lot of Zhao Jinying's means of gathering and growing, since Jin Ye is doing this, then there must be a door, and it will definitely not be bad.

The first to move was the commander of Xuzhou Wei and the thousands of households, they had already made a fortune in Hejiazhuang, knowing that the business opportunities here are unlimited, and the shopkeepers who put it here also have the duty of ventilating and reporting the news, as soon as it was built, they immediately came to ask, they didn't even ask what to do, but what price for the shop and how much the rent was.

The second action is the real power officials and errand leaders in the yamen of Xuzhou and Xiao County, they are also generations of local tyrants, they have accumulated a lot of money in their hands, and they are lacking a business to make money and eat.

They are native to their hometown, so they naturally know what kind of big thing Zhao Ziying is, and they know that Zhao Jin will not swallow other people's silver in vain, and he is very credible, in addition, Zhao Jin and Chen Sheng are both children of the Yamen Catcher, Chen Wu and Zhao Zhentang have a friendship with everyone, and under these guarantees, they will not be treated badly.

Xu Zhenzhen naturally won't let it go, but what makes Zhao Jin feel interesting this time is that the money Xu Zhenzhen invested in this salt market is not the Xu family's public money, but her own private house, stared at by Mei Xiang and another maid, and Zhao Jin didn't bother to ask about the woman's family affairs.

In addition, it is the gentry and tyrants everywhere in Xuzhou, after the Hejiazhuang conference, everyone has a face, there is a chance to get started, and it is always okay to get together after that, and even those who are cautious do not want to pay, but want to sell their labor and production to the construction site, which is naturally easy to say.

As a result, the establishment of the salt market was much smoother than Zhao Jin expected, and after more than ten days, Zhou Xuezhi, who rushed back to preside, was stunned to find that according to the silver, materials and even labor currently raised, the salt market no longer needed to spend a penny on Zhao Ziying.

The construction site was busy and noisy, and everyone also saw that on the tenth day of the first month of April, Zhao Jin led more than 200 of his men to leave the place of Zhao Ziying and headed to the east.

What is this going to do, and who is not long-sighted to offend Jin Ye, the big guys are all talking about it, and they can't see it, with the advance of Zhao Ziying, there are constantly small groups of horses joining or following along the road.

Now the local tyrants on the ground in Xuzhou have recognized one thing, what is Jin Ye going to do, then keep up, not afraid of desperate bloodshed, just afraid of not enough effort, Jin Ye has bright eyes and a bright heart, and he is heroic and generous, and he will never treat anyone who helps.

Xin'an Town, Pizhou, Huai'an Prefecture originally also had the Yellow River wharf, but now in addition to fishing boats, there are no big ships to see, and merchant ships will not stop here at all, and go directly along the river to Yutou Town, where the original ferry port is now full of barren grass.

However, this dilapidated scene has become the best cover for Cai Kui and his gang, and if they don't approach this side, no one can see the large and small boats moored in the grass beach by the river.

The Yellow River traverses the east and west of the Ming Dynasty, and there are also people who specialize in eating business on the river, and this Cai Kui is one of them, the so-called river thieves and water thieves.

Cai Kui is in his early forties, he has practiced a good water character since he was a child, the water fork and the Pu knife have both learned the arts, and he will not suffer a loss in fighting a pair of two or three on land, and in the water on the boat, Cai Kui can fight five or even more alone.

But what made this Cai Kui the leader was not this kung fu, nor his deeds of hacking seven enemies to death on the ship alone, but his good brain when he saw the wind and kowtowed.

There are a total of two inspections on the river from Xuzhou to Pizhou, among the two inspections, one is his brother, and the other is his brother-in-law.

It's just that his incense head belongs to the branch of Yutou Town, and he is not instructed by Xuzhou, Cai Kui does not believe in gods and Buddhas, but the Xiangjiao is tightly controlled in Caoyun in Yutou Town, and if he wants to sell stolen goods or even hide, he has to go through the Smelling Fragrance Sect, Cai Kui directly believed in Maitreya and the childless old mother.

Don't talk about this incense master, Cai Kui's friendship with the inspectors has also been slowly managed, and it is all because of his clever flattery that he has reached this point.

With these layers of relationships, Cai Kui's life on the water is very comfortable, and there are originally two small forces, but under the double pressure of the government and the rivers and lakes, they were all swallowed up by Cai Kui, and the merchant ships and civilian ships coming and going on the Yellow River have become Cai Kui's targets.

The official ship Cai Kui never touched, the merchant ship Cai Kui also did a very measured job, not until the last resort, never see blood to kill, after getting on the ship, it is not to fish everything out, but to take away three to four percent, do not tear the face, leave room for each other, and there will be endless entanglement and revenge afterwards, as for the civilian ship Cai Kui will not leave his hands, how to practice how badly, how to practice badly, the young woman may be able to live a few more days to keep having fun, and the rest directly cut the stomach and stuffed the stones into the Yellow River and sank into the Yellow River, and even the boat was dragged ashore and burned.

However, Cai Kui has not gone out of the river for half a year, and several leaders under his command have taken boats out of the city to do business, because when the thieves went south last year, it was this Cai Kui who helped the thieves cross the river, and Cai Kui thought that it was time to sell favors, and collected a large number of ships to go over.

Of course, he didn't expect that the ending would be like that, Zhao Jin was so fierce that he was so scared that he didn't dare to come out at that time, he thought that he would be able to avoid the limelight in a few months, but he never thought that the more he hid at home, he heard more and more news about Zhao Jin, and the more he listened, the more scared he became, until now.

"I'm afraid of a bird, it's a big deal that Lao Tzu takes a boat to do business on the lake." Cai Kui scolded while drinking.

The river thieves are not too worried about the grievances on the land, because everyone has two roads, and they get on the boat and go, of course, they can't catch up and can't find it, but Cai Kui doesn't want to give up this side of Xin'an Town, in addition to being familiar with the land, there is also business coming to the door recently, and people from Huai'an Mansion and Yangzhou Mansion asked him if he could help transport salt.

Salt transportation in the Yellow River is a big business, not to mention the money earned by transporting salt itself, unloading and distributing along the way, and the relationship with the owner of the nest along the coast, Haoqiang, can do a lot of other business along the way, which is a great thing to make a prosperous fortune.

Once he is not in Xin'an Town, the business of transporting salt is also in vain, and he says that he is going to the lake, but Luoma Lake and Hongze Lake are two self-proclaimed situations, and the lake thieves and water thieves are the general trend, and he can't be inserted by an outsider at all, so he enters rashly, and is either swallowed or killed.

There are a total of seven people in the drinking house, and the remaining six are Cai Kui's leaders, although Cai Kui has not shown up outside in the past few months, he has a tight grip on these hundreds of people under his hands, and his Cai family holds all the important places, but Cai Kui has cronies with foreign surnames who control the leaders of the clan, and they are interlocked, so they firmly grasp it.

"When the people in the sect come, you all be respectful, don't look like you don't believe it, do you understand?" Cai Kui shouted angrily, and everyone put down the wine bowl and nodded hurriedly.

"Second uncle, can this group of incense burners believe it? Llama Lake is their territory, can we go in and get a little bit? The young man sitting on the outermost side asked aloud, he was Cai Kui's distant nephew.

This sentence inexplicably brought up Cai Kui's anger, and the wine bowl slammed over, and the young man hurriedly turned his head and flashed.

"You block Lao Tzu all day long, let you do business, you can't do it, Lao Tzu will find a way out for you, but you talk nonsense, what is your brain confused?"

"Second uncle, I can't do anything bad for the people, and at other times, my nephew has never shrunk!"

"Cai De, who are you saying this, let's shrink!" Someone squinted at the side and said.

The young man named Cai De said with a cold face: "Shrink or not, you know in your own heart, the last time I hit the salt boat, it wasn't me who led the brothers to pounce, the boat just left, only two arrows were released, and your people didn't move, why, is it the time to kill the people and abuse the girls?" ”

"What the fuck you!" The man on the side stood up after dropping the wine bowl, and Cai Kui did not have the slightest favoritism for this distant nephew, and also glared at him viciously.

Just when he was about to tear his face and do it, the dishes, cups and chopsticks on the table trembled and crackled, and several people in the room listened to the quarrel, looked at each other, and someone whispered: "Is this a large group riding a horse, last time Zhao Jin crossed the border, it seems to be like this." ”

"The people in the sect are so majestic?" Someone said incredulously, Cai Kui stared at Cai De viciously, and scolded: "You give me a little care, wait until I offend the people above, no need for others to say, Lao Tzu slaughtered you first to feed the fish!" ”