Chapter Sixty-Nine: Night into the Castle of Zha Yan
Su Ming came to Bishui Bay and took out the fifteen stone snowflake salt behind a bamboo forest, he asked Li Lin to guard it here, and he waited by the sea alone.
Before you arrived, Su Ming saw a small boat coming from the north, and it was Zeng Guosun sitting on the boat.
"Brother Zeng, come so early today? Why did you come here alone? Su Ming asked when he saw Zeng Guosun's boat approaching the shore.
"It's really Brother Su, the Jinshanwei pirates landed, I thought Brother Su couldn't come." Zeng Guosun said with a smile to Su Ming, he probably guessed that Su Ming might be from Erweibao, but he didn't ask much, at this time, the information transmission was not as fast as in later generations, and a small Erweibao was not famous in Jinshanwei, let alone outside Jinshanwei.
"How come, Brother Zeng Guosun can bring things?" Su Ming asked directly.
"I'm really sorry, because the pirates landed in Songjiang Mansion, the number of displaced people in various places has increased, and there are also many more displaced people in my Fengchidu Ferry City, and the business in the mainland has also been affected, this time there is very little food brought, but the silver is enough." Zeng Guosun said sorry at least, but his face was full of pride, which showed that he made a lot of money by relying on snowflake salt, and Su Ming would not refuse the silver transaction no matter what.
"It's good to have silver, the 15 stone snowflake salt in this transaction is in the bamboo forest, because I am afraid of being discovered by pirates, I have brought very few people, and I have to take someone to carry the salt out of the big brother Zeng." Su Ming said.
Zeng Guosun asked people to go to the north to inform his fleet to come, and soon Su Ming saw three boats coming over and docking on the shore, more than 20 members of the wind chime ferry disembarked, and someone carried a box.
Su Ming walked in front, Zeng Guosun led his men to carry the box and walked behind, they came to the place where Li Lin was, Zeng Guosun saw the piles of salt bags and smiled on his face.
"This is 1,500 taels of silver, I don't have to worry about doing business with Brother Su, I will move away with the salt, and next month it will still be 15 stone snowflake salt old place." Zeng Guosun directly handed over the box containing silver to Su Ming and asked him to go to Taiyan.
"Okay, then let's say that, it's not too safe here now, let's leave it at that." Su Ming opened the box and saw that it was full of gold and silver, neatly arranged, and he didn't check and count, and left with Li Lin.
"The owner of the village, why did this Su Ming leave only one person here to guard, maybe he is really the person of Erweibao, and Erweibao should have been taken down now." Zeng Guosun's side said.
But he not only took out the 15 stone salt for this transaction, but also set the amount of snowflake salt for the next transaction. There aren't too many footprints here, which shows that there really aren't many people who bring him to the deal.
We just need to make the money we should earn, don't think about the rest, no matter which side Su Ming belongs to, it is not something that we can afford to provoke.
This pirate landing gave us the opportunity to get a steady supply of silver by selling snowflake salt, and when the time comes, it will be enough to gather more men and buy more ships. ”
Zeng Guosun looked at it, maybe he snatched Su Ming with a crooked mind, and earned more than 2,000 taels of silver at a time. But that won't mean much to the wind chime, it's not too much to earn a few hundred taels of silver every month, but it's enough for them, so the most important thing is to make a long stream.
"I see, Lord! Therefore, there are a lot of displaced people who have entered my wind chime crossing, and when this batch of salt is sold, we will get some boats, and the surrounding water villages will not be our opponents, and we have the strength to take all the waterways of Bishui Bay on this day. The subordinate said happily to Zeng Guosun.
"This matter is not in a hurry, buying more food and weapons is the key, our strength is still too far behind, occupying too much territory will not collect much tolls, but it will attract the attention of the government, we are very good now." Zeng Guosun watched his subordinates carry bags of snowflake salt out and said softly.
"Yes, the owner of the village is right!" Someone next to him looked at Zeng Guosun with admiration.
After Su Ming left Zeng Guosun, he put the silver in the warehouse of the coast guard ship. Absorbing this gold and silver, he is still far from activating the next crew, and now there are not many silver taels left in Erweibao, and when the pirates retreat, Erweibao will inevitably usher in new construction and development, and this money is better to keep first.
The money given by Zeng Guosun was more than 5 taels of gold and silver, of which there were more than 40 taels of gold, and there were all kinds of shapes, which should have been obtained by him from the exiles.
After walking for half an hour, he came to the area of the Yanbao Salt Factory, and Su Ming saw that there was no one in the salt factory. I wanted to go to Qiyan Fort to have a look, after all, as neighbors, both belong to the salt factory, and it is not harmful to explore more now that it is just dark.
Outside the Zha Yan Fort, Su Ming looked at the dilapidated fortress wall, where there were scattered pirates active. Sneaking closer to them did not notice that the pirates had set up sentries, they entered the fort through a gap in the fort wall, and saw sporadic pirates breaking down the door and looting things.
Suddenly, a woman's scream came from the courtyard not far away, and Su Ming knew that there must be people who had been discovered by pirates. The voices of several men sounded from the courtyard, and Li Lin clenched the gun in his hand and looked at Su Ming.
There will be a lot of things that have not been looted for the first time, so some small pirate teams can only drink soup with them, and the small pirates here also play a warning role for the large army, if they are attacked by the large army, the large pirate army will also make force adjustments.
"You help me up the wall, and I'll pull you in. Kill the pirates and you come out quickly, you can't delay here for too long. Su Ming looked at Li Lin's eyes and knew that he couldn't wait long for this woman today.
Although she was saved today, there is a good chance that she will be discovered by other pirates, and the result will be the same, but since something happens to him, he has to do it.
Su Ming climbed up the wall and pulled Li Lin up. As soon as Li Lin turned around, he had already landed in the courtyard, and the ground was inaudible, Su Ming was staring at the surroundings from the wall, if he encountered danger, he would pull Li Lin back and retreat quickly.
Su Ming saw Li Lin enter a room, and then a few slight gunshots rang out, and the room fell silent. Li Lin came out of the house, and Su Ming saw that he was included in the template of the coast guard ship, and then gently went down the wall.
There are more than 30 pirates in this big brother in this Zha Yan Fort, and it seems that they are not together. Su Ming wanted to investigate the situation in Heishi Village again tonight, so he planned to detour back to Erweibao from the western road of Qiyanbao.
Just as he was about to walk on the path to the south, Su Ming suddenly heard the sound of a carriage in the western direction, and he and Li Lin quietly hid behind the big rocks on the side.
One of the four pirates rode at the front, seemingly leading the way. The other three sat in the carriage behind, the carriage was full of the trophies they had robbed, Su Ming saw the light of the big knife reflected on it in the faint moonlight, and the four of them talked and laughed as they walked.
Seeing this, Su Ming guessed that the pirates might have used the Fort as a stopover point when they retreated, and they stored all the things they had looted in Fort Ayan first, and then transported them back to the ship, after all, they were pirates to make a fortune, not to kill people.
Li Lin grabbed his plane and set it up and waited for Su Ming's order, Su Ming rang There are only more than 30 pirates in the fort, and the silver money they collected from the villages and forts of Jinshanwei may not be much, but the weapons may not be less.
Today, the battle of Jinshanwei should have started, and the pirates did not dare to let the extra weapons stay outside Jinshanwei Town, and now they are likely to find a lot of weapons when they go to Qiyan Fort.
The most lacking thing in Erweibao now is weapons, and the reason why the escort team can't get up is because of the lack of weapons, Su Ming didn't say a word and waited for the carriage to leave, and then quietly followed behind him.
The two followed to the gate of Qiyan Fort, and Su Ming motioned for Li Lin to follow, and he watched the carriage enter a courtyard from a big tree next to him.
"The carriage enters the second courtyard on the right hand at the end of the road, and there are pirates in the courtyard in front of you on the left, at least two people." Su Ming whispered the enemy information he had detected to Li Lin through the walkie-talkie.
"Roger, the gate of the courtyard on the left is closed, and I will go directly to the carriage." Li Lin returned.
"There are enemies all around the yard where the carriage goes, and the gates are open, so try not to alarm them." The big tree where Su Ming was located was far away from the yard where the carriage was, and he could only see a rough idea at night.
"Roger!"
More than half an hour passed, most of the pirates may have been asleep, Su Ming did not hear any abnormal sounds in the castle, and at this time, Li Lin's voice finally came from the walkie-talkie.
"The eight enemies in the courtyard have all been resolved, and a large amount of food, weapons, and other things have been found." Li Lin said.
"Wait a minute, I'll come here!" Su Ming heard the voice and replied.
Entering the fort from the broken fort wall of Qiyan Fort, Su Ming quietly entered the courtyard where Li Lin was, and saw that all the doors of the courtyard were open, there was no sound inside, and a faint smell of blood wafted out, Su Ming walked all the way to the back room and found Li Lin.
"Here, there are about 500 stone for grain, more than 200 taels of silver, a lot of copper coins, and only some jewelry for gold.
Most of these weapons were spears, about 200 or so, less than 100 broadswords, few bows and arrows, and only a few broken armors. Li Lin said to Su Ming.
Su Ming put all the things into the space of the coast guard ship, and the space was almost all occupied, and the two of them went out of Zha Yan Fort together, Su Ming saw that it was very late, and the pirates of Zha Yan Fort had lost all their loot, and there might be any changes, so he decided to go home directly.
"Captain, I can be summoned by you at any time, it doesn't make much sense for us to go together, it's better to go separately.
You go back to the secret passage exit first, let Erweibao carry all the loot back, I will contact you after going to Blackstone Village to investigate the situation, and you can summon me again, and we will not delay on either side. Li Lin proposed to Su Ming.
"That's okay, you go to Blackstone Village, try not to alarm the pirates, just find out the number of people captured in Blackstone Village today, don't take more risks." Su Ming thought for a moment and said.
Li Lin went west alone, Su Ming went east into a forest area and then went all the way south, the pirates did not arrange too many sentinels near the fleet at night, and Su Ming passed easily.