As May approached, pirates and pirates along the coast became more and more rampant, and news often came that the coastal guards of Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Fujian had been breached, and many local people left their hometowns and began to flee in all directions.

Young, strong, capable and capable, if you are lucky, you can be a slave and a slave by a large family, and you can only beg for food if you don't have a book, and there is really no way to hide in the mountains and forests or be a hermit for a lifetime, or embark on the road of banditry.

By April 29, more and more displaced people had begun to come to Erweibao, and the news that Erweibao was going to build four new villages outside the fort, and the four villages were responsible for cement manufacturing, and Su Ren had already put out the new locations of the four villages, which were just a mile outside the fort, and they could enter the fort at any time if they were in danger.

Erweibao has no cultivated fields, and the occasional vegetable yield is only enough for their own food, so there is nothing wrong with the village being close to Erweibao, anyway, the people in the village need to rely on Erweibao to live.

Su Ming walked with his eldest brother Su Ren on the way to the salt factory early in the morning, and ten people behind them carried a flat burden, each carrying a stone of snowflake salt.

"Eighth brother, even if you don't let your fifth brother accompany you, at least let the thirteenth brother or Tiezhu follow you. You carry so much snowflake salt alone, even if you have a musket, it is not safe, there are a lot of water in the Huangpu River area, you are too dangerous alone. Although Su Ming insisted on going alone, Su Ren still said in his ear.

"It's not good to go to Fengjingdu with more people, I'm still small with ten stone salt alone, and when I get to Fengjingdu, their village owner will send someone to respond, big brother, you can rest assured." Su Ming said.

This time, because he was carrying 10 stones of salt, Su Ming couldn't ride a horse to bring so much salt to the wind chime ferry, and he rowed to the wind chime ferry by himself so that he could hide the secret of his coast guard ship warehouse.

Su Ming also wanted to try what difficulties he would encounter when rowing a boat alone to go to the wind chime ferry, if this waterway could be walked, he could hand over the matter with the wind chime ferry to others.

Several people came to a bay in the north of the salt factory, Su Ming saw that the fifth brother and the thirteenth brother were waiting for him on the beach, and a two-zhang long boat was docked at the seaside, this boat was the same boat brought by the Japanese last time.

The imperial court did not allow the coastal people to trade with the maritime merchants, nor did they allow the guards to own ships, so the ships were hidden by the eldest brother in some hidden bays in the south, and quietly rowed from those places when they were used.

Su Ming watched the soldiers put bags of snowflake salt into the cabin, Su Ming boarded the boat to say goodbye to the eldest brother and others, and rowed the boat along the coast to the north alone.

In April, most of the east coast of Daming was a north wind, and Su Ming rowed a small boat without much effort taking advantage of the ocean flow to the north.

When he couldn't see the figure of the eldest brother and the others, Su Ming put the snowflake salt bag in the cabin into the warehouse of the coast guard ship, and the speed of the boat suddenly became much faster.

Su Ming has been rowing without stopping, and only walked to Bishui Bay at noon, walking 40 miles in two hours, and the speed of the boat is less than 2 knots, which makes Su Ming can't help but miss his coast guard boat, if it is a coast guard ship, it can be reached in a quarter of an hour, and it is enough to go to Fengchime for an hour.

From the wind chime crossing into the river and going upstream, Su Ming's speed was a little slower. Fortunately, it was an empty boat Su Ming's physical strength was now more than usual, and he was still recovering his strength while consuming his physical strength, and in the afternoon, he came to the first water village he passed by last time, and a boat saw Su Ming and rowed over.

"Stop, this is our White Dragon Village, what are you doing?" A man stood at the bow of the boat and looked at Su Ming and motioned for him to stop the boat.

Su Ming took out the gun and hung it on his waist, if it didn't go his way today, he wouldn't mind breaking through, killing a group of water bandits along the road, and then bringing the guards of Erweibao over and occupying this place.

Su Ming stopped the boat, and the man brought a companion on board, and was very surprised to see that there was nothing on Su Ming's boat.

"Two big brothers, I know the owner of Zeng Guosun Village in Fengjingdu, this time I went to Fengjingdu to discuss something with him, and asked the two eldest brothers to make it convenient." Su Ming said with a smile.

"Going to Wind Chimes? Why don't you hang up the village flag? Pay 100 pennies! The man said.

Su Ming thought about it and still didn't pull out his gun, took out a string of money from his pocket and handed it to the other party, this money was originally placed in the warehouse of the coast guard ship, and he put it in his pocket just for show.

Passing by the harbor and ferry where the imperial court soldiers were in charge, the fee charged was much more than this White Dragon Village, so Su Ming didn't have much disgust with this White Dragon Village, this world is like this.

After the White Dragon Village, Su Ming rested for a quarter of an hour, rowed the boat and continued to go against the current to the west, and in the afternoon he passed through the two water villages and spent 100 yuan, here is actually not as fearful as Su Ming imagined, the water bandits are actually more rules than the officers and soldiers.

It was getting dark, and Su Ming didn't even get to the wind chime ferry after rowing for a day, and if he had ridden a horse, he might have finished trading and returned to Erweibao.

In the dark night, Su Ming hung an oil lamp on the bow of the boat, stopped on the bank of the river only two miles away from the wind chime crossing, tied the boat to a big stone with a rope, and Su Ming walked in the direction of the wind chime ferry on foot.

"Who?" Just after walking a few steps, Su Ming heard a voice in front of him.

"I have an agreement with your Zeng Zhai master, and I will make a deal with him today!" Su Ming saw two young men with bows and arrows aimed at him in the distance, and he didn't lie at all.

"You're alone? Come here! Seeing that Su Ming was just one person, the patrol captain said to Su Ming.

Su Ming was taken to a bamboo house in Shuizhai, two young men with long knives stood at the door, with a cup of boiled brick tea in front of him, and when he arrived at the wind chime, Su Ming could clearly feel that the discipline here was strictly prohibited than most local military camps in Daming, Zeng Guosun This person is not simple.

Su Ming didn't remember any big names named Zeng Guosun in the Ming Dynasty, and if it was possible, he would have liked to have a good relationship with Zeng Guosun, which would be a win-win situation for both parties.

"Brother Su, it's really you! I thought you'd have to wait until tomorrow to arrive. Su Ming was slowly drinking tea when he saw Zeng Guosun coming from outside the bamboo house.

"It took a little longer to walk by water this time, and it was late, Brother Zeng didn't know how to prepare the silver?" Su Ming got up and said with a smile.

Zeng Guosun came to Su Ming's side and smiled and motioned for him to do it, both of them had the intention of making friends, so they were very polite.

"Of course there is no problem with this silver, but where is your salt, Brother Su?" Zeng Guosun asked.

"Ten stones of snowflake salt is not a small amount, how can I get it alone, and I ask Brother Zeng to take the salt with me." Su Ming said that he got up and was about to take Zeng Guosun away.

Su Ming was in front, Zeng Guosun was behind with a number of subordinates, and the group soon arrived at the place where Su Ming stopped at Xuehua Salt. Su Ming was the first to board the cabin and release ten stones of snowflake salt from the warehouse of the coast guard ship before Zeng Guosun boarded the ship.

"You two go and call someone, Lao Nie, you go and get money for Brother Su." Zeng Guosun commanded his subordinates in front of Su Ming and asked people to get the money, just to reassure Su Ming.

A person dares to come out to do such a big business, this courage makes Zeng Guosun admire, he will never think that Su Ming is a stunned young man, because from the beginning Su Ming has a posture of being a bamboo in his chest, although he doesn't know what Su Ming has.

For a moment, Zeng Guosun thought about killing Su Ming, but soon he eliminated this thought, he was able to spend so many years in this wind chime, he has always been cautious, and the power of taking out 10 stone snowflake salt at a time will definitely not be weaker than their wind chime.

Su Ming dared to come to Fenglingdu to trade alone, there must be a reason for this, and the reason was not understood, Zeng Guosun would not do it.

Soon more than 20 of Zeng Guosun's men stepped forward to help, Su Ming saw that they had brought all the salt bags ashore, and he and Zeng Guosun followed the team until they came to Zeng Guosun's house, at this time the man named Lao Nie was holding a wooden box in a room of Zeng Guosun.

Zeng Guosun asked all the bags to be opened, and he carefully checked all the snowflake salt one by one, and then asked his subordinates to start weighing in front of the two of them.

"10 stones, 52 catties and 12 taels, let's say 800 wen per catty, a total of 1242 taels and 200 wen, brother, what do you think." Seeing that the quality of the snowflake salt this time was better than all the snowflake salts he had ever seen, Zeng Guosun was very different.

He began to pay great attention to the young man in front of him, and he took out 10 stone of snowflake salt at a time.

Zeng Guosun wanted to ask Su Ming how this snowflake salt came from, but in the end he didn't ask, as long as he could make money by getting things, he was afraid that if he asked too much, he would make trouble!

"If you say ten stones, then count it as ten stones! It's a lot of friends, I don't know if the owner of Zeng Zhai will still need snowflake salt next month? Su Ming asked.

"How much snowflake salt can Brother Su provide next month? It may take some time for my funds to come back here. Zeng Guosun said with some hesitation.

After finishing the wooden box given to him by Zeng Guosun, Su Ming opened it and looked at it, there were mostly 10 taels of silver ingots here, and there were also small silver ingots of five taels and two taels, and a small silver bag was full of broken silver, which seemed to be at least three hundred taels, which showed that 1200 taels of silver was also a lot of money for Zeng Guosun, and this time he might take all the silver from Fengjingdu.

"Then how about the little brother continue to send 10 stone snowflake salt, if the owner of Zeng Zhai needs more next month, we can also discuss increasing the amount." Su Ming weighed the medium weight of this box with his hands, about 40 kilograms, and then refused Zeng Guosun's request to bear the weight, and said to him.

"Okay, where is Brother Su's house, if it is convenient for us to find a suitable location to make an appointment to trade, then there will be no need for Brother Su to run away alone." Zeng Guosun said.

"Brother Zeng and I hit it off at first sight, it's really inconvenient to come to Fengchime Ferry, I see the location is in Bishui Bay, how does Zeng Guosun feel?" Su Ming said.

"Okay, what about time?" Zeng Guosun asked.

Bishui Bay is a natural port for smuggling by many forces in Songjiang Prefecture, and there are many rivers that flow into the Suzhou Ocean for a few miles to the north, and even if the transaction here is discovered by the Daming East Sea Division, it can be quickly evacuated.

"The time is still up to you, Brother Zeng! We need some food and weapons, and I don't know if Brother Zeng can get some. Su Ming looked at Zeng Guosun and asked.

When Zeng Guosun heard this, he also knew that there was a big force behind Su Ming, but the Huangpu River basin was doing business, and there was a shortage of food, but he thought about it and nodded and agreed.

"Is there more food in this, there are still dozens or hundreds of stones per month, I don't know how much Brother Su needs?" Zeng Guosun asked.

"As many as you can! I can pay 30% of the price of food to Brother Zeng's market, and how about the weapons according to the market price? We don't dare to ask for weapons in the barracks, and I hope we can cooperate for a long time. Su Ming said.