"Brother Gao Ning, it's no good, the smuggler is here!"

This was training, and the pig hurried to report the news, and when everyone heard the news, their faces changed slightly.

The salt tax in the Ming Dynasty has always been very high, and the cost of salt is only a few cents, and dozens of times the windfall profits can be obtained in the middle, and the terminal retail price can be sold for more than 100 cents a catty.

Spurred on by such huge profits, smuggled salt dealers naturally emerged, usually not too many people, who walked the streets and alleys along the coast, collecting the sea salt that the people themselves secretly cooked, and then selling it at a lower price to the big cities, making huge profits.

The whole feudal society has never broken off the illegal salt dealers, like in the later Qing Dynasty, the salt merchants in Yangzhou were also synonymous with money, which TV series does not add a little Yangzhou salt merchants selling private salt, it seems that it is not a pure costume drama.

It is estimated that the screenwriter and director are embarrassed to say hello to others when they go out.

Nowadays, the government of the Ming Dynasty is extremely chaotic, and this is a little too busy to take care of itself in Beijing, not to mention the salt politics of Shandong.

Therefore, there are really a lot of people who are involved in this, but everyone who is a little bit of a doorway is engaged in the illegal salt business, and they don't pay attention to the face of the salt inspection department at all.

In fact, the Yamen is the biggest salt lord, they protect each other, have a backstage, have a way, almost control the entire Shandong network, they are rampant, control the entire Shandong salt business, have forced the official salt into a corner that cannot be seen.

The remaining corners and corners, where the adults do not look at them, are usually the places where the smugglers are active.

The emperors of the Ming Dynasty were poor and clanging, and Emperor Chongzhen was even more so, screaming that he had no money, in fact, except for the expenses of Liaodong and the clans that were burdened by the royal family.

The most important thing is that all the money is earned by the lower-level bureaucrats, the big landlords in the south, and the noble groups in the north, they don't care how the emperor lives, as long as they have money to spend and drink.

When Wei Zhongxian was not dead before, the state could still collect a little tax through the eunuchs, barely giving the behemoth of the Ming Dynasty a long way to survive.

However, as soon as Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, he was fooled by the Dongdong Lin Party to cut down Wei Zhongxian, and the entire martyrdom disappeared.

The tax system, which took eight years to construct with great difficulty, collapsed with a bang, and the later Emperor Chongzhen jumped to his feet, almost pleading, asking the ministers to support the silver to resist Li Zicheng.

There are no consequences of his own doing.

It is also a great irony that the state is now able to receive the salt tax, which is less than the original three tiers, and it is still falling year after year.

Most of the illicit salt cooked by the military households near Yangjia Village was sold to smuggled salt dealers, and the transactions between the two sides were tacitly carried out, and they were usually quick and convenient to receive money and goods from each other.

After these smugglers pool their vast resources, they will cross the Jiaozhou area to be sold, or hoard more salt and give it to their own families, or simply sell it to larger salt merchants.

But herein lies the problem, private deals are often not guaranteed.

The smuggler is powerful, and the military households are usually hungry and thin, so many times they are not even willing to give a low price of a few pennies, and when they see an opportunity to take advantage of it, they will directly start to grab it, and even rush to the homes of ordinary people and snatch all the resources, so that it will directly become a business without capital.

Yangjia Village is close to the sea, and it is the most remote place among several nearby villages, and its luck is relatively good, and it is encountered once or twice a year at most, and several nearby villages are not so lucky, and they will be robbed once every three or five times, making their already very difficult life even more difficult.

The problem is that even if it is robbed, there is no place to take care of it, and Wang Qianhu is one of the leaders of the salt lords, and most of the smugglers who operate in his territory usually pay a protection fee.

Clean up yourself, isn't this a brain disease?

So even if you are robbed, you can only knock out your teeth and swallow blood.

Recently, Yangjiacun has made a lot of noise, and it is doubtful, and the quality of life of various traders has been greatly improved, and its reputation has spread, and it really has attracted wolves.

The smugglers slapped the idea of looting on the head of Yangjia Village, Gao Ning is very happy, you are here!

Gao Ning has been waiting for an excuse to get out, which is very important in this modern era, otherwise even if he can catch a lot of fish, he will not be able to give his goal a little advancement.

Gao Ning chuckled, raised his hands and feet slightly, and the black-clothed bandit behind him scolded loudly.

"All of them are assembled, copy guys!"

The camp of separate practice quickly dispersed, neatly forming a large phalanx, after this period of nourishment and training, the boys' originally thin body finally became a little strong, with a weapon in hand, it still felt very imposing.

rushed back to Yangjia Village with a large team of people to take a look, only to find that the experience in Yangjia Village was indeed a bit miserable.

Not only was the illegal salt that had been hoarded in the warehouse snatched away, but even the people in the village were also arrested, including many children and girls, and even more than half of Gao Ning's family had brothers and sisters arrested, and the situation was very serious.

Gao Ning was not unprepared before, assassinating ninjas is such a useful thing, I don't know that there are many in Yangjia Village, as soon as he came back, a ninja came over to deliver the news.

Gao Ning quickly glanced at the surveillance video, only to find that these smugglers were obviously veterans, they were quick and had accurate information.

After coming, they went straight to the smuggling salt warehouse, and there were a few families who hoarded a lot of smuggling salt, all of which were looted one by one, and the rest of the people scattered, each rushing to the target's house, and soon caught a large number of girls and children.

Almost all the thatched huts were in disarray, valuable items were taken away, and those who resisted were even wounded and killed.

With Gao Ning's intervention, the only family in the entire village that survived may be the uncle's family, but Uncle Yang also looked a little frightened.

On the contrary, Yang Debiao, after losing an arm, has changed as a person, and he is also calm on weekdays, even if he encounters such a big thing, he can still maintain his sanity and quickly count various data afterwards.

When Gao Ning entered the house, Yang Debiao quickly reported the number of casualties, the number of men and women who were snatched, and the number of seriously injured people who were about to die and needed immediate treatment.

The newly erected fence around Yang's house was destroyed, and even blood stains could be seen on the ground, apparently there was a fight at that time.

I took a look at the specially built warehouse next to it, and the sea salt inside was really gone.

The next-door neighbor was wailing for the land, and the 30 catties of rice that his family had bought yesterday had been directly snatched away by the smugglers.

This is not even a single hair left, it is even more vicious than a robber.

"I asked someone to secretly observe, the smugglers acted quickly, and the whole festival did not take more than half an hour, and after it was done, I took a large group of people and horses in the direction of Liujiagou!"

Yang Debiao calmly pointed in a direction, Gao Ning sneered, and waved his hand directly.

His men were already red-eyed, but they could barely keep their senses, and although they were panting and snoring, they were still able to keep the queue neat.

The pig gave the order, and the team rushed out.

Liujiagou is not actually a place, just a lake with relatively clear water, a maximum of 20 miles away from Yangjia Village.

After such a long period of training, the physical fitness of the boys has not been what it used to be, and under the rapid march, it will take less than 40 minutes to arrive.

Gao Ning took the lead and rushed to the front, faintly excited in his heart.

From the information he received, it is very likely that this raid was purposeful, because Yangjia Village was originally located in a remote area, and if you wanted to come over, you had to pass through at least two villages, and in the news that Gao Ning received, the other two villages were not affected in any way, which made it clear that the smuggling salt dealers came straight to Yangjia Village.

Combined with the recent changes in Yangjia Village, as well as the large yellow croaker that keeps pouring out of the outside, I believe that someone should be red-eyed, so he instructed the smuggler to do so.

Then there will not be many people who can command the smugglers of salt.

Gao Ning's mind flashed through several big names in the obscenity, including Qianhu and the rest of the bullies with official positions.

The mastermind behind the scenes should be a few of them

But this son is also smart, he didn't come forward to instruct the smuggler to secretly poison him, and sure enough, in this era, if you want to get into the mix, it's impossible to have a little brain.

Those who dare to be smugglers are usually outlaws who want money and do not want their lives.

If it was usual, even if Yangjia Village was robbed, there was nothing to be done.

At the moment, it is different, Gao Ning's gang of guys has 80 people, and they have experienced a period of training, and they are definitely good at besieging or something, who makes the number of smugglers small.

Gao Ning and the others held weapons in their hands, and they quickly arrived at Liujiagou.

When they arrived, they found that they had rushed ahead of the smugglers.

Liujiagou is a lake, the plants here are relatively dense, but the terrain is very special, he is not a good place to ambush, most of the edge of the lake is sloping, bare, at most there are only some low shrubs, and they are not connected into pieces.

So it's almost impossible to ambush a large group of people.

Fortunately, Gao Ning didn't want to do such a thing.

He directly dispersed everyone, and 80 people lined up in two rows, forming a semi-circular arc-shaped encirclement, like a large net quietly waiting for the smuggler to break in.

After waiting for less than a quarter of an hour, there was a delicate sound of footsteps in front of them, everyone was in good spirits, Gao Ning coughed lightly, and the instructors immediately began to mobilize before the war.

"Prepare for battle!"

"Pay attention to the strength of the weapon in your hand,"

"Don't distance yourself from the smugglers,"

"Once you find an opportunity, quickly make a dead move, without any hesitation!"

Soon after, the sound of footsteps in the distance approached, and the swaggering procession of salt dealers swaggered over.

There were only about 20 of them in total, and by the way, more than 30 people were tied with hemp ropes, and the speed of their march was of course very slow.

The people who were captured were called coolies, and they were carrying salt on their backs or on their bodies, and their faces were sad as if they had no strength.

The salt dealer kept urging, and occasionally caught an unlucky ghost and whipped twice.

There is a fire in the hearts of the people of Yangjia Village, but they all tacitly bear it silently, there is still a group of young people in the village, who have been training for nearly a month, which gives everyone hope.

It is precisely because of this that they will try their best to delay time.

"Kill!"

Seeing the figure, Gao Ning waved his hand directly.

At the sound of an order, the young man behind him rushed out.

Everyone shouted, and the shouts of killing shook the mountains and forests.

The sudden shouting and killing frightened them for a while, and they subconsciously wanted to run away when they looked at the black and oppressive human heads.

It seems that the man at the head is a ruthless man, and with a fierce roar, he pulled out the steel knife as soon as possible.

Under the continuous reprimand, all the smugglers finally woke up, and they quickly gathered together, forming a circle to the outside world.

The idea is good, but it's a pity that Gao Ning didn't give this opportunity from the beginning.

The knife light flashed beside him, a transparent figure shook, and the arteries of the man headed by him were directly cut, and blood spurted out far away, and the man's body stiffened and fell straight down.

The sudden death frightened the accomplices around him, but the blood also aroused the murderous stars of these outlaws.

was regaining his momentum and when he stepped forward to fight, Gao Ning and his men pounced directly.

There is a huge gap in the strength of the two sides, there are only more than 20 enemies, no matter how powerful they are, they are by no means 80 opponents, and between the subtle changes, everyone is more or less contaminated with the ferocity of the black-clothed homespun, and their personalities are raised, and they really dare to hurt the key points.

Not to mention that Gao Ning actually arranged some assassination ninjas around, and once he found that a dangerous situation occurred, he would immediately stop it.

Therefore, the whole process of confession is like a wave washing away a castle on the beach, and when a wave hits it, all the smugglers fall on the rain.

As Gao Ning chopped off the head of a salt seller, Dou Da's head rolled on the ground.

The First War is over!

"What are you doing in a daze? Gather now and calm down! ”

When the boys were still stunned, the scolding of the instructors rang out, and the collection of their conditioned reflexes, the fear and trembling that had not had time to spread, disappeared unconsciously.

The group of people who were taken away sat on the ground with their butts in their hands, and they couldn't hold back their tears.

It's been here, it's finally here!

Everyone collapsed to the ground as if they had lost their strength, and now they didn't even want to move.

When cleaning the battlefield, his subordinates found a peculiar waist card on the body of the man in charge.

Gao Ning's eyes narrowed slightly.

Sure enough, it was him!