In the blink of an eye, it has entered the wax moon.

Lin Yi planned to go to Shuibo Liangshan to have a look, and came to Zhou Dong's room, "Teacher, I have some business in other places, and I am going to go out to inspect it at the end of the year, and I will come back in about ten days and half a month."

Zhou Tong nodded.

"If you have a business, you naturally have to take care of it, and if you have time, don't fall behind in your cultivation."

"Knowing the teacher."

I went back to the house and talked to the daughters of Jinlian, rode a horse at home, rushed to Liangshan County, arrived at Liangshan County in the evening, stayed in the inn in the city for one night, changed my clothes the next day, changed my appearance and set off to Shuibobian.

"Oops, the second master is here!"

As soon as Lin Yi arrived at Zhu Gui's hotel by Shuibo, Zhu Gui greeted him with two small leaders, and he already knew that Lin Yi was coming over when he had just sent a sentry to report the news in advance.

Lin Yi dismounted,

Throw the reins to the guy, and the guy quickly catches it, and he will naturally lead it to the backyard to take care of it without commanding.

He was very happy to see Lin Yi and Zhu Gui, and stepped forward to give his hand.

"Second master, you have been there for three or four months, during this time you have made a great name on our Shandong Road, and many people have come to worship the mountain, and they all say that they have been subdued by you." Zhu Gui came up and talked endlessly.

"Are you okay on the mountain?"

"Everything is fine, since we changed the robbery to a fee, we have earned more and have more time to train, and now we are training according to the method you left, and our combat power has improved a lot compared to before." Zhu Guidao.

"Alright, take me up the hill by boat." Lin Yidao.

"Okay."

Zhu Gui immediately arranged the boat, he himself followed, and several people came to the cottage together, the cottage has four gates, and those minions saw Lin Yi, and quickly opened the gate to greet them, and one by one respectfully called the second master.

Wang Lun, a white-clothed showman, heard the report from the mountain that Lin Yi was coming, so he hurriedly brought someone out to greet him, and met Lin Yi at the second gate.

"Heian Lang, you're here, my brothers miss you very much." As he spoke, he stepped forward and pulled Lin Yi's hand.

Next to Du Qian and Song Wan also came to greet each other, and a guy came to greet him, but it was Jiang Dali, this guy's original cottage Heifeng Village was destroyed by Lin Yi and was homeless, after Lin Yi accepted him, he asked him to come to Shuibo Liangshan, this guy has now become the sixth master of Shuibo Liangshan.

The crowd came to the hall.

Sit down and start talking about the past few months.

After Lin Yi's reform of Liangshan, now Liangshan has two incomes, one is tolls, and now the reputation has spread, and the passing ships are more than double as before, all of them pay obediently, and the current income is more than three times that before Lin Yilai, and it is very stable.

This income is more than enough to feed three to five thousand people.

Another income is the sale of illicit salt.

In fact, during this period, the sale of illicit salt in the Great Song Dynasty was very rampant, and wherever salt was produced, it would be accompanied by the sale of illicit salt, and in order to resist the arrest of the officials and soldiers, the smugglers often went in groups, except for a few, dozens, and hundreds of people gathered to sell salt, and many places were often thousands of people in groups, armed and smuggled.

It is rumored that most of Fang La and his subordinates were from smuggled salt gangs, and his uprising was also financed by the smuggling salt group.

Shandong Road is near the sea, there is naturally a place for salt production, this business is now in charge of Du Qian, he led people to open a channel for salt purchase, salt transportation, and sales, and now the monthly income is also very considerable, and it is further increasing.

….

This sales channel, of course, also includes the cottages that Lin Yi accepted, and now they are all involved in the sale of private salt.

Lin Yi was very pleased with their results.

"Seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming, I plan to call the people from other mountains to come over and get together, they are now our Liangshan brothers, what do you think?" Lin Yi asked a few people.

"Okay, naturally it's good, they are all their own brothers, so they should naturally get together for the New Year." Wang Lun, the white-clothed showman, was the first to agree.

Lin Yi looked at Zhu Gui, "Then there is Brother Lao Zhugui, send someone to send a message to Qingfeng Mountain, Wangyue Mountain, Gusongpo, Hutouling, Jiudaogou, Mopan Mountain, and other cottages, just say Brother Wang Lun and me, as well as all the mountains

Invite them to celebrate the New Year together."

Zhu Gui surrendered and immediately sent someone to deliver the letter.

At night

A large table was set up in the Gathering Hall.

Several leaders drank and chatted with many small bosses.

Speaking of the toll business, people are full of praise for Lin Yi, and a small leader said:

"Second master, don't look at us taking their money, but those shippers and merchants are happy, there are more merchant ships now than before, and I heard rumors that they can transport goods with peace of mind after we collect money, and they make more money than before."

Another small boss continued: "This is natural, in the past, they were afraid of our robbery, some detours, and some did not dare to buy too many goods at one time, but now we clearly mark the price, and those who dare not go also come and go, and those who dare not buy more goods also dare to buy more, and now our income has increased a lot."

"But I've heard that the bandits on the other side of the road are having a hard time now, and the merchants are all on our side, and there is less and less business there."

When Lin Yi heard this, he immediately had an idea, and said to Wang Lun, Du Qian, and the others, "Big boss, brothers, I think this is a good opportunity."

"What good opportunity?" Du Qian asked.

"Those days are not good in the cottage, we can send people over and say, let them join Shuibo Liangshan, they don't have to worry about their livelihood in the future, we have also strengthened our strength, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone."

Wang Lun immediately nodded and said, "Ping Anlang's idea is good, in this way, there is still a few days before the New Year, and tomorrow I will send someone to those cottages to deliver a message, and those who are willing to come over just come over and celebrate the New Year together."

Du Qian immediately said, "I'll send someone to handle this matter tomorrow."

......

Lin Yi was on the mountain, not idle, and from the next day onwards, he began to practice the cottage minions again, and took them to exercise together.

At the end of the morning exercise,

Lin Yi played a game with these bosses, allowing them to attack themselves in many people, swords, guns and halberds were used casually, of course, they were all wooden knives and guns, and he was a wooden gun with a head, but it was much thicker and longer than ordinary guns.

[In other words, it is the best way to read aloud and listen to books at present, @

Who can measure the magic of the Tao and the law of ghosts and gods.

The workout is over.

Lin Yi went to the warehouse to see the private salt, and Du Qian accompanied him.

Du Qian was in charge of this business, and the private salt was pulled back from outside, stopped at Shuibo Liangshan, and then sent to all directions, especially the three states and fifteen counties around Shuibo, and each county developed a seller.

There is a load of coarse salt in the warehouse, and when you open the oilcloth, you can see that it is the most primitive coarse salt, the color is yellow, and there are mud and grass clippings on it, it is estimated that it is fished out of the salt pond and transported directly to the inland to start selling.

Lin Yi knew that the common people in ancient times ate this kind of coarse salt.

What impurities, harmful chemicals, for the common people are not a problem, some eat it is good, just like this, the price in the salt shop is also very expensive, the people also have to save to eat.

The imperial court stipulated that it was a felony to sell smuggled salt, and it was also illegal for ordinary people to buy illicit salt, and the price of illicit salt was often only half of that of official salt.

Now on the market, there is a better salt than coarse salt, called green salt, which is blue in color and is a grade better than sea salt.

Of course, the price is also high, now the green salt is mainly from the Western Xia, for the green salt trade, the Western Xia and the Great Song Dynasty have also fought many times, the green salt is an important trade resource of the Western Xia, the Song Dynasty did not allow imports, so it launched a war.

Lin Yi pinched a large piece of salt in his hand, thinking about things in his heart, green salt is actually nothing, it's just that there is no good purification technology in this era, but this can't help Lin Yi, in fact, the purification of salt is not complicated.

He could easily make snowflake salt that was better than green salt.

Pour the coarse salt into the wooden barrel and let it stand for about five or six hours to allow the sediment to settle completely, the grass clippings are cleaned up, and the supernatant is drained into another clean wooden barrel with a thin water pipe.

Limestone is burned with charcoal, raw lime is made, water is added to make lime milk, and the lime milk is poured into a saltwater bucket and stirred to remove the bitterness.

Let it stand for several hours to precipitate the lime milk, take the supernatant and distill, and you can obtain snowflake salts.

But now, don't worry, the consumer groups of snowflake salt must be those high-ranking officials and nobles, and the common people can't afford it, so this technology must be taken out to make money when they can control it.

As for these sea salts.

In fact, it is not as exaggerated as people say, eating dead people and so on.

Ancient people ate coarse salt for thousands of years, don't they also bounce around, for the common people, health, they all eat coarse salt and care about what health, it is good to be able to eat it.

Besides, those modern things with a bunch of chemicals are really better than these, not necessarily.

"What about the profit from private salt?" Lin Yi asked Du Qian.

Du Qian smiled and said, "One catty and ten wen, pure profit."

Don't underestimate 10 yuan, with the smuggling scale of Liangshan, 100,000 yuan a year is easy, this thing is a necessity of life, and you don't have to worry about selling.

The only problem is that they are afraid of being investigated by the government, but they themselves are bandits and bandits, and they will be punished if they are caught if they do not sell illegal salt, and they are afraid of what the government will investigate.

"Other cottages follow along, how much can you earn in a year, can you buy and raise cottages?" Lin Yi asked.

Du Qian patted his chest and said, "This private salt trade is enough for them to feed the cottage, and it is just the beginning, and the channels will become wider and wider in the future, and they will only make more money."

I just want to make money.

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