Luo Shengdong opened his mouth, but he didn't even say a word, because he really didn't know how to refute Tao Donglai's statement. In terms of mouth cannon kung fu, ten Luo Shengdong may not be as good as one Tao Donglai, whether it is vision, knowledge or mature world view, the level of the two is too far apart. But even if he can't argue with the other party, Luo Shengdong is still unwilling to give up his position.

Tao Donglai didn't mean to rush to take advantage of the victory, but just looked at Luo Shengdong with interest, waiting to see how he could refute it.

"But you are outsiders after all, and I, Daming, am the ruler of this land of ten thousand miles!" Luo Shengdong's every counterattack took a long time to think, and the content became more and more pale and weak.

"You're right, so we don't intend to overthrow the current court by force. Tao Donglai thought for a while and added: "At least we won't do that until the current imperial court takes a hostile attitude towards us." ”

"You ...... However, if you only seek trade and do not offend our prestige, no one will take the initiative to trouble you. After Luo Shengdong saw the scene of the artillery test firing on the ship, he basically gave up the idea of armed confrontation, and what he can do now is to retreat to the second, hoping that the Haihan people can take the initiative to maintain peace out of interest considerations, otherwise once the two sides start a war, I'm afraid that the sailor will die the fastest.

Tao Donglai just smiled, did not continue on this question, and asked another thing: "I remember that before you went back, you said that you would send ten times the population in exchange for you and your subordinates to get out, I wondered how there should be three or five hundred people, right?

Luo Shengdong got up when he heard this, and clenched his fists quite sternly: "Chief Tao, when it comes to this matter, there is also a matter of asking for something. ”

"Is it that you are in trouble in Yazhou and need our help?" Tao Dong came to see his cautious attitude, so he also put away his smile and asked.

"There are still forty-two subordinates serving in your labor camp, I don't know when we can release them?" Luo Shengdong asked, looking at Tao Donglai's face attentively.

Tao Donglai nodded knowingly and said, "I see, you want our side to release people first, and then you will send us the prisoners you mentioned earlier to do hard labor, I understand, right?"

Luo Shengdong said "don't dare", but he did not deny Tao Donglai's speculation. (Baidu search update is the fastest and most stable)

Tao Donglai pondered for a while before responding: "It's not difficult to release people, but after these people go back, can you guarantee that no one will betray you by talking nonsense?"

As soon as Luo Shengdong heard this, he knew that there was a way to do this, and hurriedly said: "What I want here is only to let the brothers regain their freedom, but I don't need to let them all return to Yazhou." Some of them were not tight-mouthed, so they were allowed to settle here, and their families could move in later. Before that, he had already made his own opinion, and had already written to the general and the magistrate of Zhizhou, and built a fort and garrison here to defend against pirates in the South China Sea, so that this group of soldiers could be left reasonably and legally, and the forced population could continue to be transferred from Yazhou on the grounds of building a fort. ”

Tao Donglai nodded noncommittally and said, "This method is not bad, but if there are still some of these soldiers who don't listen to you and want to go back to Yazhou, then what are you going to do?"

Luo Shengdong's face immediately became gloomy: "If someone disobeys the military order and undermines the important task of garrisoning my frontier, it will naturally be done by military law!"

When Tao Dong heard this, his perception of Luo Shengdong in his heart rose again. Luo Shengdong returned to Shengli Port this time, and he was able to take the initiative to intercede for his subordinates who were still serving hard labor, which shows that he is still quite bold and righteous, and he knows how to be flexible, and he can also distinguish the importance of things, and he is indeed an object that can be supported with heart.

Luo Shengdong got off the donkey, and asked again if he could bring back the bones of his colleagues and subordinates who died in the battle that day back to Yazhou, Tao Donglai also agreed, and said that he could prepare some thin-skinned coffins from the carpentry workshop. These unlucky ghosts who were killed by the crossing were buried somewhere outside Yulin Fishing Village, and they were the victims of Luo Shengdong's wrong decision, and now since he has the heart to help these unjust dead people transport the bones back to their hometown for burial, the crossing will naturally not stop them.

In the afternoon of the same day, Tao Donglai took Luo Shengdong to visit the Yanchang Commune and the Farm Commune, which was actually the first time that Tao Donglai himself went to the field to inspect the production organization of the commune. At present, the Commune's manpower has been replenished to the level before the conscription, and because the two communes have been injected with a lot of newly recruited young and strong laborers after the conscription, the proportion has even increased compared with before the conscription. Looking at the orderly labor scene, Luo Shengdong also had to admit once again that no matter what these Haihan people do, they seem to be very orderly and extremely efficient, even if it is a seemingly simple thing like growing grain and vegetables, its fine process is by no means comparable to the current level of this dynasty.

The Yanchang Commune had already collected 2,000 catties of salt according to the arrangement of the Executive Committee, and was ready to hand it over to Luo Shengdong to sell and test the water. Schneider completely treated Luo Shengdong as an agent distributor, and sold this batch of salt to Luo Shengdong on credit at a package price of 100 taels of silver, and then asked him to sell it in the market at a price of 150 to 200 wen a catty, which was exactly about half of the official salt price. When the next time the goods are sold, the first payment will be settled.

Luo Shengdong calculated that one pound of salt could earn at least 100 yuan, and after the 2,000 pounds of salt were sold, he would get at least more than 200 taels of silver, which was equivalent to four years of salary for this position! Even if the transportation and channel expenses on the way were removed, this profit was extremely rich. Luo Shengdong counted his salary again, plus the gray income on weekdays, whether he can get a hundred taels of silver a year now, he still has to draw a big question mark, it seems that the money of this Haihan person is really easy to make!

Luo Shengdong is not worried about how to ship the salt after it is transported back, after the last time the action team left Yazhou, Luo Shengdong has already begun to arrange this matter. At present, there are two salt merchants in Yazhou, selling official salt from Danzhou, the cost is higher than the private salt that Luo Shengdong got from the Haihan people, if they dare to reduce the price to the same level, then basically don't want to make any money, to fight a price war with private salt is bound to lose. And Luo Shengdong is not too worried that competitors will report to the official because of this, because the Ming army has always sold salt privately.

According to the regulations of the Ming Military Department, all those who eat grain in the army and serve as soldiers have a certain monthly quota of salt, which can be bought from salt merchants at only one-third of the market price or lower, which is also one of the benefits enjoyed by soldiers. But in this way, the short-paid military leaders can use this regulation reasonably and legally to earn the difference in the market price, and they buy low-priced salt according to the number of people on the roster, and then sell the short-term part after the price increases. Although this method is not public, it is a tacit acquiescence between the military, salt merchants, and local governments.

The military leaders of the army can take advantage of this to make a little gray income, and the salt merchants have the mentality of taking advantage of each other, using this opportunity to win over the relationship with the local military leaders. As for the local government, as long as no one makes trouble and the world is peaceful, anyway, it is the household department that collects the salt tax, and the salt department is in charge of the salt administration, and it has nothing to do with the local government. And the salt class lifting division is basically the same as the salt merchant, the salt merchant does not speak, and the salt class lifting division is also happy to be idle.

Although this method is good, Luo Shengdong has not been able to use this routine to earn extra money in the past, one of the reasons is that his past military rank is not enough, and he can't eat on many occasions, and the salt merchant may not sell his face. Secondly, because the situation here in Shuizhai is relatively special, it is almost full of staff, and the vacancies are pitiful, even if you can buy and sell smoothly every month, the little money earned by reselling salt is not enough.

But now the situation is different, Luo Shengdong has the Haihan people behind him, a big salt merchant, although it is a little early to say "big", but Luo Shengdong has no doubt that Tao Donglai promised him that "the daily output of the salt farm will reach more than 2,000 catties in the second half of the year".

Luo Shengdong is now very grateful to his father for sending him to study in a private school for a few years, and he also learned to read and calculate accounts, otherwise he may not be able to calculate how much he can earn in a year. There are more than 20,000 residents in Yazhou, according to the Haihan people, the per capita annual consumption of salt is five catties, that is, about 100,000 catties, and a pound of private salt only earns one penny of silver, which is also a transaction of 10,000 taels of silver per year!

This is not the business that was talked about in Yazhou City at the beginning, but the real money has been delivered to the mouth, and people can't refuse at all. While reciting silently in his heart, "If a person is not a sage, who can do nothing", he signed the bill of goods taken out by Schneider and signed for the two thousand catties of salt.

Seeing that Luo Shengdong was finally completely dragged into the water, and the plan to buy and corrupt the senior cadres of the Ming army was considered to have achieved phased results, Tao Donglai could not hide his excitement, and called Ren Liang in front of Luo Shengdong, asking him to arrange for the prisoners of the Ming army in the labor camp to end their current hard labor life, and give a certain relaxation in treatment. In addition, several people named by Luo Shengdong will also be released when he returns and return to Yazhou together. At this time, the more than 40 prisoners of the Ming army who remained in the labor camp were also counted as the time to operate, and if Luo Shengdong was a few days late, maybe some of them would be trained to death by the evil man Takahashinan.

After finishing the business business, Tao Donglai simply took Luo Shengdong to the recruit training camp by boat, one he also wanted to see the training progress of this batch of recruits with his own eyes, and the other was that he could also use this to knock Luo Shengdong again, so that he could know how much power the executive committee had in his hands.