According to the regulations of Zha Yufeng, Yidu County is to dispatch 50 salt dings, but in Yufeng's salt ding establishment, there are no 50 people, either 30 people in a team, or 60 people in two squads, Yidu County is the first county in Qingzhou, and there will not be many 60 people.

However, except for a small area set aside by the Ya of Yidu County as a garrison point, leaving three or five salt dings, the salt ding of the brigade was stationed outside the county seat, anyway, these salt dings, in addition to investigating illegal salt, did not stir up the people much, and they could not let them go.

The leader of the squad is called Zhang Xiao, and this name is evil, but on weekdays, no one calls him by his big name, either he is called Team Zheng, or a few people with similar identities directly call him Zhang Mazi. There is no malice in this, for more than 20 years before he was called Zhang Xiao, he was called Zhang Mazi, and the name of this Zhang Xiao was taken by someone after he joined Yanding.

Zhang Xiao is in his twenties, his face is not good-looking, his face is pitted, he was born with a hemp face, and his body is more than those salty people from good families, there is always such a taste of the market. But this is the kind of person who is very much supported by his subordinates.

This Zhang Xiao was recruited by the Inspection Department in October last year when he became a salt ding, usually looks alive and smart, and he doesn't look very peaceful, as if he can't bear any hardships, but once he trains and practices, he is not ambiguous at all, and many people look at the frivolous atmosphere of the market on his body, and they speculate that he will not be able to work in this salt ding for long. Not to mention, once they are selected to be on duty, it is necessary to work with real knives and guns and smuggler salt dealers, and to be a good salt diner, not only to be able to endure hardships, but also to have courage. If you do these two things, you can still strictly obey orders, and you have the ability to discern yourself, then you will soon stand out from the many salts.

Zhang Xiao did all of this, and because he had mixed up in the market, treated people, and won people's hearts, these things were not bad, so he quickly attracted the attention of the above, and as soon as the New Year began, he was promoted to the captain of the team, that is, the team leader, and his brothers were also convinced. Later, there were several tasks in a row, all of which were done very perfectly, and everyone joked that before the end of this year, this Zhang Xiao, you can remember the position of the squadron, if it is valued by the inspector, it is also possible to directly make up for the wind word camp to do a test hundred households, then it is the military attache of the imperial court.

Zhang Xiao also knows where his future is, and he and his brothers are laughing and laughing on weekdays, and the relationship is handled well, but once he does serious things, he is resolute and ruthless. His performance, naturally some people see it in their hearts, like this person who dares to rush and dare to fight and has some ability, as soon as Yu Feng wants to use people, he was directly recommended, and the result is that Zhang Xiao's test hundred households did not wait, and he was directly sent to Yidu County, and although they are two teams, the above is clear, and the other team is about to listen to his moderation and promotion, and everyone can see it.

What does Yanding do, of course, is to investigate illegal salt. Is Yidu's illegal salt to be investigated? There is no need to investigate at all, because there is no official salt in Yidu, and anyone who sells salt must be private salt, and whether it is Baixin or the government, it seems that they have become accustomed to it, and they don't feel that there is anything wrong with it.

If you are a reckless, you may have started to sell illicit salt immediately, but Zhang Xiao didn't do it. The intention of their patrol lord to send them, those ignorant salters may not be clear, they just think that it is their duty to do what they are ordered by the above, but Zhang Xiao is thinking about it in his mind, why did the above do this.

According to the practice of the Inspection Department, it is natural that after the private salt is swept away, and then the official salt is clearly marked on the market, it is one thing for the people to buy it or not, at least, all the regulations are in line with the rules and regulations of the imperial court. There is no private salt on the market, and some can only be official salt with a low price, but this point must be distinguished.

The situation in Yidu County is simply impossible to start, unless all the salt dealers are arrested, can the illegal salt be eliminated, but the salt dealers are arrested, and the officials and people who can't buy salt to eat are bound to do nothing, and doing so is undoubtedly a huge hornet's nest. Zhang Xiao made a decision after careful questioning and investigation.

He didn't touch any of the salt sellers in the city, but he set up two checkpoints on the main roads outside the city to the west and south, and anyone who had private salt entering Yidu County must come from these two directions, the north was the sea, and the east was his own territory, so he didn't have to pay attention to it at all. To deal with those who sell illicit salt, his methods are also very simple and rude, detain the salt, dump it directly into the river, if there is a resistance to use force, it is directly the salt behind him with a spear and come over.

Although this method is simple and crude, but it is very effective, after several conflicts, those from the outside scattered into Yidu private salt, basically almost extinct, although there is no reaction in Yidu County, but the price of salt is unconsciously quietly rising, the people began to complain.

Zhang Xiao ignored these complaints in the city, what those people think, it's none of his business, he just needs to do his job. He clearly knew that these scattered salt sellers were all small fish and shrimp, and when the small fish and shrimp became extinct, they should start to emerge from the big ones.

Sure enough, he soon encountered a big test at the checkpoint outside the city, a group of nearly forty salt dealers, grandly with weapons began to attack his level, at this time, the usual hard training of the salt Ding finally saw the effect, forty salt sellers, and less than thirty people of the salt Ding team as soon as they started, they were pressed and beaten by the salt Ding, and finally, the salt Ding lost two people, injured more than ten, and the salt dealers were beaten back. Although they suffered a lot of losses, the salt sellers suffered even more heavy casualties, losing more than a dozen corpses.

When the salt sellers fled, they also loudly threatened that sooner or later they would come with their brothers and slaughter them salt dogs with a knife, and if they were not allowed to live, then you would also live.

The salters under Zhang Xiao began to be a little restless, and everyone took money to do errands, but in this place where life is not familiar, it is not worth it to lose their lives, and the place is powerful, it is not that they do not do their best, today it is a salt gang of more than 40 people, tomorrow it may be 80 people, 100 people, they can't resist this little manpower. This is to go back, and the inspector won't blame him, right?

Zhang Xiao was also anxious, while calming the emotions of his subordinates, telling everyone that if the salt seller was powerful and invincible, he would not drive the brothers to come forward to fight and die, and at the same time reported the situation here quickly, hoping that more people would be sent over to calm the scene.

Fortunately, near this Yidu, there was immediately a trouble, and the soldiers and horses of the Fengzi battalion, as if they heard his heart, drove to the outside of this Yidu County within a few days, and the action was so fast that even they felt a little smacked. Although the soldiers and horses of this Fengzi battalion came under the banner of suppressing bandits, Zhang Xiao's courage suddenly became sufficient.

What is the origin of this Fengzi Battalion, is it still unclear to everyone? Even many of the officers in the battalion are from the old salt ding, and this salt ding and the wind word battalion are originally a family. Mo said that these thirty or fifty salt sellers are three hundred and five hundred, Zhang Xiao is not worried at all, according to his understanding of his own soldiers and horses, it is three hundred and five hundred salt sellers, and two hundred households from the Fengzi camp are enough to wipe them out, not to mention that there are more than 1,000 people who came this time, more than ten hundred households, who dares to disobey again, blow up a thorn and see?

As soon as the Fengzi battalion arrived, he immediately went to ask for help in person, this kind of thing, as long as the general who led the troops, a little bit of responsibility, he would not hesitate to accept it, he was not worried about whether to come to the rescue. According to his identity, coming out to meet him with a hundred households was already a great face, but he didn't expect to be personally received by Lord Qianhu, who listened to his narration and didn't say much, but said very carelessly: "Our son, how can it be those pickled people who can provoke, you are too bold to do things, your subordinates have lost two brothers, then you have to recover this account tenfold and hundredfold, you can rest assured to do it, if there is anything, this official will bear it for you!" ”

With this guarantee, Zhang Xiao has a bottom in his heart. Go back to your level, take the initiative, and start asking about the origin of the salt sellers, especially the ones who hurt their brother that day. His brothers, I heard that the Fengzi Battalion wanted to help them recover this account tenfold and hundredfold, and their morale was also high, and their brothers' lives, how precious they were, they were all holding their breath, and now that they have the backbone, it is not a matter of working hard.

Soon, they inquired about the origin of the salt sellers, and they all came from a small village in the north, where there was a simple port, not big, but barely able to get in and out of some small boats, and the salt goods of those people came from that port, and the salt goods were unloaded into the villages next to the port, and then these people were sold to the surrounding county towns and towns. There were local outlaws in the group, and there were also some people with provincial accents mixed in, because the people in the village were selling salt, people did not often gather together, but according to the locals, if they got together, there were still one or two hundred people.

After figuring out the way and knowing the other party's lair, things were easy to do, Zhang Xiao immediately went to Jianjiazhuang in person and reported the news back.