On May 8, salt pan No. 1 began to boil salt again, and this day was also the day when salt water began to be used in salt water in salt pan No. 4.

No. 5 New Salt Field is the last new salt field in the southernmost part of the salt fort, because there are many rocks there, it is very difficult to dig out 80 acres of salt pan, but the salt fort has been basically completed so far, Su Ming has asked the carpenter to make furniture for the room in the fort, and the extra workers who built the fort have been sent to the No. 5 new salt field construction site.

In the past few days, someone from Zha Yanbao has come to look for trouble, Su Zhe didn't give them a good face, caught up with a fierce hammer, and put the troublemakers with a blue nose and swollen face, and Zha Yanbao didn't have any overreaction.

On May 9, the first new salt field salt was cooked, and the second new salt field continued to be cooked, just as Su Ming was anxiously waiting for when the Fujian caravan would arrive, the eldest brother got the news from Jinshanwei Town.

Wang Zhi's fleet has arrived at Hangzhou Bay, they came to Hangzhou Bay on May 7, stayed for three days and continued to go north today, it is estimated that they will be able to reach Bishui Bay on the 12th, and then they will stay in Bishui Bay for a day.

Wang Zhi is the largest force in Fujian, Jiajing fifteen years began he relied on small boats to do business along the coast, and now it is the largest maritime merchant (or pirate) in the Ming Dynasty, the entire southern Fujian is basically under Wang Zhi's control, and many officials and ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and even the generals of the Ming Dynasty have close contacts with it.

Every year, Wang Zhi's fleet goes north along the coast, which is a major event along the entire eastern coast of Daming. The Daming sailors had to avoid it when they saw it, because there were more than 1,000 ships in Wang Zhi's fleet every year, and there were many forces in the fleet, many of which were some big families along the coast.

Daming sailors also didn't dare to offend these families, so they basically hid in the harbor at this time and couldn't come out. And others see that sea transportation makes money, and they want to follow with a little ability.

There is a saying along the coast that as long as you don't die and come back to the north, your assets will increase tenfold, and the profits will be so great that you can make the families so crazy.

Even if you don't have the capital, there are at least more than ten silver trucks for a trip with the fleet, so many ordinary people along the coasts of Fujian, Guangdong, and Zhejiang are willing to follow these fleets to the north, or serve as escort sailors.

Wang Zhi is the initiator of the entire fleet, it is rumored that there are hundreds of his ships, and his crew guards nearly 10,000 people, many people in southern Fujian have made their fortunes with him, and most of the grain in Fujian, which has many mountains and little grain, is provided by Wang Zhi.

In the eyes of Emperor Jiajing, Wang Zhi may be the biggest thief in the world, more hateful than Xu Dong, the recognized pirate king of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Dong occupies many islands in Hangzhou Bay, and even the largest Chaolie Port in the Ming Dynasty is under his control.

In the eyes of the officials of the coastal families of the Ming Dynasty, the importance of Wang Zhi is self-evident, although his subordinates often land to kill and plunder the coastal guards, but as long as they do not grab their heads, what does it have to do with themselves, although Wang Zhi is registered in the imperial court, but there is no how to deal with the goods that are embezzled and smuggled in his own hands every year.

The arrival time of Wang Zhi's merchant ship has been determined, Su Ming and his eldest brother began to discuss at home, how many people they should bring to trade at that time, Wang Zhi was able to make such a big force, the main reason is that he traded with anyone without asking where the things came from, and the price was reasonable and treated the big and small forces equally, which made everyone willing to trade with him.

The fleet that followed Wang Zhi to the north also followed his rules and traded according to the marked price. If someone does not listen, then Wang Zhi has a way to make the other party disappear in this vast sea, and he has a certain amount of power in the Liaodong Peninsula, the Wa Kingdom, and the Jurchen Department in Haixi, especially in the Wa State, the forces he formed are very large in the entire Wa State, and even the Ming court unanimously believes that the coastal areas are attacked by the Wa Kou are all guided and instructed by Wang Zhi behind his back.

Su Ming knew the news about Wang Zhi from the mouths of his eldest brother and Erweibao, and knew that he was a more legendary person than Xu Dong, this time he would definitely see this Wang Zhi's merchant ship, if he had the opportunity to activate the 34411 coast guard ship himself, he would probably also march to the sea.

The eldest brother Su Ren prepared all the six carriages in the fort, and collected more than 30 rooster carts and more than 100 flat carts from inside and outside the fort, all of which were prepared for this transaction.

On the evening of May 11, Su Ren, Su Ming, and Su Qingping led more than 80 soldiers and more than 200 young men to set off in the dark night, carrying a day's dry food and more than 80 stones of snowflake salt.

This time, they brought out almost all the combat power in the fort, leaving only Cao Chunrui with a banner of ten soldiers to guard the second Wei Fort, and most of the workers in the salt works were transferred by them.

Bishui Bay was only forty miles away from Erweibao, and it only took them more than an hour to reach their destination. Su Ming thought that they had come very early, but it turned out that behind the bamboo forest, rocks, and woods in Bishuiwan, there were convoys waiting, some of them had a very large team, and some were only three or five people carrying flat shoulders.

Su Ming found that most of these people were wearing cloths in front of their faces, and only a small number of people did not cover their faces.

"Put this on! If someone else reports the news of our deal with the sea, there may be some trouble. Although most of the people who can come here are domestic slaves of the family officials, it is better to be careful in everything. Su Ren said to Su Ming.

"Do you know what they're here to trade, big brother? Does this merchant ship take everything? Su Ming pointed to a convoy not far away, and the other party was also wearing a veil.

"In the coastal areas south of the Yangtze River, the fleet is mainly to purchase salt, cloth, silk, ceramics, tea, sugar and other goods, Wang Zhi basically controls more than 30% of the private salt in the south of the Yangtze River, and the big forces that come here are basically around the four major lines of salt, cloth, silk and tea.

In addition, there are some forces that take the opportunity to buy something, or sell the food and herbs accumulated at home to merchant ships, and generally merchant ships can give a good price.

Look at that group of people, if I am not mistaken, it is the butler who commands the servant (Zheng Sipin) Lord Lao, who controls most of the cloth and porcelain business in Jinshanwei Town.

When you meet acquaintances here, you'd better not make a noise, just treat it as if you haven't seen it, and when the fleet comes, we will trade quickly, change things and go home quickly. Su Ren told Su Ming the rules of trading here.

"Then big brother, can we trade with them now, I see that someone came over with a big bag of grain just now, and we need to buy food from the fleet later, it is better to buy it now and ship it back, and when we come back, we will definitely have time to sell salt." Su Ming said.

"This can be can... However, the leaders who can come here are more or less well-known, and they don't want others to know their identities, so it may not be good for us to rush up, and it is better to have a middleman, but we can't find a middleman with weight. Su Ren thought for a moment and said.

"It's just an ordinary transaction, what weight do you want. I rarely show up in Jinshanwei and even in the entire Songjiang Mansion, who can know me.

I'll take Tiezhu and the thirteenth brother over to see, and if they are willing to trade, let's buy grain first." Su Ming said.

Su Ren thought about it and nodded, although Erweibao now seems to be not short of food, but there are 300 stones of grain left, which is not much, at the end of this month, Fenglingdu said that it will send food, but who knows how much can be sent, and now Erweibao's food consumption is not small.

Su Ming took Su Zhe and Tie Zhu to the front of the convoy pulling food not far away, this team had a total of 15 carriages, escorted by more than 20 people, Su Ming saw that these people were dark-skinned, all of them were holding weapons, watching Su Ming and the others arrive, everyone was very vigilant, and it was estimated that it was likely to be bandits from which mountain.

"Brother, which of you is in charge, can you sell this grain?" Su Ming stepped forward and said directly.

"Of course selling, do you want to buy grain? What to trade with? The muscles of the leader of the team, the martial arts should be good, he came to Su Ming and whispered.

"We have snowflake salt here, can you change it?" Su Ming asked.

"Snowflake salt? What is the condition? "The team leader seems interested.

Tie Zhu took out a paper bag from his pocket and handed it to the other party, and the leader opened it and looked at it carefully under the oil lamp for a long time, and pinched some salt and put it in his mouth to taste it.

"Salt is the best snowflake salt, and if your goods are like this, we are willing to trade them.

We have 37 stone of fine grain and 152 stone of coarse grain here, how are you going to trade it? The grain leader asked.

"Fine grains are counted as 90 Wen a stone, and coarse grains are counted as 70 Wen! I exchanged 13 catties of snowflake salt with you, what do you think? Saying such words, Su Ming felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

The other party was full of fifteen carts of grain, secretly transported here, and he could only exchange it for a dozen catties of salt, which can only say that the productivity of this world is too low, and the gap between the rich and the poor is too large, making the price of salt too high, and snowflake salt is only eaten by the royal family and the big nobles.

The grain seller thought about it for a while, and felt that this price was indeed not low, and if he sold this snowflake salt, he would definitely sell more than his own grain. And the salt is only so little, when the fleet comes, it is easy for him to make a move, and the rest of his party has such a big goal here.

"Add another 8 taels! It was not easy for us to bring so much grain over. The grain transport leader thought for a moment and said.

"Okay!" Su Ming didn't say anything about making friends, the people who came here didn't want others to recognize him, and after this business was done, they would treat it as if they had never seen each other.

Su Ming asked Su Zhe to go back and weigh thirteen and a half catties of snowflake salt and hand it over to the grain seller. The other party carefully checked the fineness of the salt, then took out a scale and weighed it again, and saw that there was no problem, so he asked people to put the salt away.

"Salt is fine, do you want to check this grain? We put the food right here? The grain leader asked.

"Leave your grain by the southern highway! I had people check the grain. Su Ming said.

Su Ming watched a group of men move the grain to the side of the road, the eldest brother sent someone to check the grain, and saw that there was no problem with the grain, the man who sold the grain took people away, Su Qingping came over with a convoy, and more than 200 people in Erweibao were either pulled by a horse-drawn cart, or by a rooster cart, or by a flat pole.

After loading the grain, they headed for the south in the direction of Erweiburg.

And Su Ming had his first trading experience, so he came to the place where the eldest brother said that Jinshanwei Town commanded the housekeeper and began to ask him about the price of cloth.