Ai Ke respectfully bowed: "Back to the Prime Minister, the small people are from a lowly family, although the family is very rich, but they have only gathered hundreds of millions of family fortunes in the past few generations. Moreover, if the businessmen are profit-seeking, if it is said that the small people are for the sake of righteousness, I am afraid that the minister of the country will not believe it. Therefore, the small people are willing to raise 100 million yuan, so they naturally have something to ask for. ”

He Bai nodded again and again when he heard this, as a businessman, his total assets are only more than 100 million yuan, but he is willing to spend 100 million yuan to do good deeds, how is this possible. It's not that He Bai underestimates the people of this era, the people of all generations are thinking of the descendants of the family, even if they have family wealth, it is also left to future generations, and there is indeed no great good person who does good deeds.

He Bai asked, "I don't know what you want, and tell me to hear it?" ”

Eco bowed more and more respectfully: "The little people have heard that there are two things in the hands of the prime minister, the Magi Wine and the Hero Wine, which are specially for the use of the officials under his command. The petty people thought that these two things could make huge profits of more than one billion dollars for the prime minister, and it would be too good and useless only for the officials, and they would destroy the heavens. Therefore, he wants to get the recipe of the two wines of the prime minister, and use them to sell the world and make profits for the prime minister. Xiaomin is willing to serve the prime minister with sixty percent of the profits. ”

Sixty percent? Too little, too little. He Bai smiled and asked, "Does the Ai family master know how much money did these two wines sell for one stone when they were in Luoyang City?" ”

Eco shook his head and said, "The little people only hear that the Magi and the Heroes are hard to find, but they don't know how much money is a stone. ”

He Bai compared a word and said: "The Magi wine is one gold and one stone, and the hero wine is ten gold and one stone." ”

"Ah?!!!h Bing Yuan, Wang Xiu, and Ai Ke were all taken aback, you need to know that even the best and most expensive alcohol wine in ordinary times is only about 500 yuan a stone, and this Magi and Hero wine is actually 20 times or 200 times that of alcohol, and the value is too different.

Bing Yuan, Wang Xiu and others can get a few catties of Magi wine from He Bai on weekdays, and there are about three or four stones in a month. I didn't want it to be so valuable. In this way, just one month's wine money is comparable to one's own March salary. After calculating it again, his monthly Yulu can almost be compared to the Lu of the Three Princes, far exceeding Jiuqing's Yulu a lot.

Although the two of them knew that the price of Magi wine was inflated, it was really difficult to say about the price of the goods. Maybe I don't think it's worth it, but the world thinks it's too worthy. The two of them always enjoyed the delicacy of the Magi's wine, but they did not speak ill of the Magi's wine. He Bai was very moved to support himself with the sage wine that was hard to find in the outside world.

At this time, most of the liquor was lees, liquor pulp and turbid liquor, and the liquor could not be made until the Sui and Tang dynasties, and then spread to the world. The distillation method of baijiu is not complicated, and once it is exposed to others, there is no longer any secret. At that time, there were not a few people who were good at drinking, and it was definitely promising to use liquor to lure the Magi with the method of hungry marketing.

But once it becomes a commodity, it is no longer attractive to talents. Therefore, He Bai will never sell the right to liquor in a short period of time. Even if he can make a profit of more than 10 billion, He Bai will not be moved.

He Bai said with a smile: "Although the Magi wine is rare and expensive at this time, there is still a chance to increase the value, so I don't want to sell the recipe for making it in a few years." ”

In later generations, the value of a bottle of liquor will vary by as much as a thousand or ten thousand times, but the current hero liquor is only 200 times, and it does have a great value of improvement.

Although Eco did not get He Bai's consent, he immediately cleaned up his mood and did not withdraw his words of raising 100 million yuan. Because although He Bai said that he would not give up the method of making fine wine within a few years, he had the fate of today, and I believe that in a few years, he will definitely get He Bai's trust and obtain the recipe for the two wines of the wise man and the hero.

Eco then bowed and said: "It is a pity that the small people today cannot seek the wise men and heroes of the prime minister. However, since the small people promised to raise the money, they will inevitably invest in the capital, and hope that the prime minister will wait for a month, and the small people should give 100 million yuan to the minister of state to build the project. ”

This is an emotional investment in advance, and the bet is that He Bai will give him the franchise of liquor in a few years. He Bai couldn't help but deeply value Ai Ke's vision and boldness, so he asked, "I don't know what the ancestral business of the Ai family master is?" ”

Ai Ke respectfully bowed and said: "Back to the Prime Minister, the ancestral business of the small people is to make a living by boiling sea and selling salt. ”

He Bai praised: "Boiling the sea for salt, small profits but quick turnover, and it is a necessary thing for ordinary people, which is also a good way to make a fortune." ”

Salt and iron were one of the important resources of the war embargo in ancient times, and until the Qing Dynasty, salt taxes accounted for the majority of national taxes.

Ai Ke shook his head and said: "In recent years, the Liu clan of Youle Anli County has colluded with pirates to manage and carry out wanton killing salt in the realm of Beihai and Donglai, destroying the salt industry in Beihai. ”

"Oh?" He Bai asked with some surprise: "Since you know that it is the Liu family of Le'anli County who colluded with the pirates, why don't you report it to Le'an Taishou and Qingzhou Thorn History?" ”

Aike shook his head and sighed: "The Liu family of Lixian County is a member of the Han family......

He Bai listened silently, and didn't want to have an elder like Liu Yu among the clan relatives of the Han family, a man like Liu Bei, and a tyrant like the Liu family in Lixian County. It seems that after getting Qingzhou in the future, it will need to be dealt with.

Although He Baisi is in the north, he must also have a sailor. The pirate had soldiers and ships in his possession, or was the original source of soldiers and horses for his own sailors. So he asked, "How many ships and how many thieves are there under the command of the pirates?" I can send troops to finish him off for you, which can be regarded as a reward for your charity fundraising. ”

Eco thanked him with great joy: "Thank you for the great help of the Prime Minister, there are seven or eight hundred thieves under the command of the manager." More than two dozen ships. Among them, there was one large fighting ship with more than 100 people, five medium-sized triplane boats with 50 or 60 people, and 18 Mengchong boats with 30 people. ”

At the end of October, when the head of the Liu family in Guoli County, Le'an, heard that Ai's family in Duchang, Beihai, had once again summoned people to cook the sea for salt, he was furious. Immediately sent someone to find Guan Cheng, a pirate who had always been active near the mouth of the Yellow River, and wanted to ask Guan Cheng to kill a few more Beihai untouchables, so as to deter the salt merchants in Beihai, so that the salt industry of the Liu family in Le'anli County could spread throughout the land of Qingzhou.

After Guan Cheng got the letter, he couldn't help but be happy, just walk up at will, kill and injure dozens of people, and start with another hundred gold, this batch of transactions is also very easy. Recently, I heard that the new Bohai Taishou Yuan Shao has the intention of recruiting troops and buying horses to cause chaos. Salt and grain must be in short supply, or you can rob some sea salt to resell Yuan Shao, and you can make a big profit.

It's not bad to have this idea, there are a few people in the world who are born thieves. It is necessary to know that Guan Cheng was also a good people at the beginning, but because the county order of Changguang County, Donglai, his homeland, was unscrupulous, he was forced to become a pirate. Although he is a thief, he will mainly seek profit. But Guan Cheng is also a thief and a thief, and he is unwilling to infringe on the villagers of Donglai, so he goes as far as Le'an to beg for a living.

Inherited in Tatexian County, sometimes a thief, sometimes a businessman, the conversion between the two is also easy. Guan Cheng didn't dare to do the bad thing, but he still had a good idea of recruiting peace for the people in his heart. I hope that one day I will be able to be recruited by the court and become a good citizen. At that time, his own people were rich, or they could be the heroes of their hometown, and who could harm themselves at that time.

Guan Cheng immediately summoned the big and small leaders and soldiers under his command, and drove the big and small warships out to sea to look southeast. The coastal area of Duchang in Beihai is not close to the mouth of the big river where the pipe is located, and there are 700 miles of sea routes. The fast boat traveled more than 300 miles a day along the coast, so it took two days to complete. On the second day, after receiving Liu's bounty on the coast of Lixian County, he made a little supply and looked southeast again.

When he came to Duchang in Beihai, Guan Cheng temporarily settled on a small island and sent a group of soldiers to scout. I saw that there were thousands of strong women and children on the coastal line, densely cutting grass and racks on the coast, supporting pots to boil water, which was the most popular method of boiling salt at this time. There were no armed guards to protect them.

After Guan Cheng got the report, he couldn't help sneering, Qingzhou has a coastal line but has his own, whoever he wants to be safe, who can be safe; Whoever wants to cause chaos will be troubled. After being destroyed and killed several times, the Beihai salt lord dared to secretly boil salt, which was really greedy and bold. This day he will know that I will not allow him to boil salt, and he will not be able to boil salt.

Guan Cheng immediately drove the boat to the shore, ordered 70 pirates to guard the ship, and led 700 pirates to intercept and kill the salt people. In order not to startle the snake, the boat under the command of Guan Cheng was seven or eight miles away from the salt boiling place, and along the way, he caught a few women and children who were chopping wood and killed them with a knife, and no one found them until the salt boiling place.

Guan Cheng looked at the busy salt farmers hundreds of steps away, and had a great time with baskets of sea salt, it seemed that there were at least 300 stones of sea salt, which was almost the amount of salt boiled in a day. These 300 stones of sea salt, 800 yuan per stone, if sold to Bohai, it will be another 24 gold.

All the pirates shouted, revealing blood-devouring eyes, and raised their swords in unison to kill the salt people. The salt people were frightened by the sudden arrival of the pirates, and they all stared blankly at the pirates who had been killed. It wasn't until the pirates approached that they shouted frantically and fled in the opposite direction like a swarm.

Guan Cheng took the lead, cut down a slow salt man, and shouted: "You can only chase and kill five miles, and then you will retreat." "All the pirates responded together, although the pirates were fierce, but they were also afraid that a large army would come to suppress them, and they would have to retreat if they had to kill them.

Without waiting for the pirates to chase after them, they saw that hundreds of strong men with guns and spears suddenly jumped out of the salt people, quickly lined up, and a big man with a double hammer shouted: "Beihai General Wu Anguo is here, where are the thieves." ”

Guan Cheng was taken aback, he didn't want the Beihai salt lords to invite the Beihai soldiers to hide among the salt people, which was terrible. Guan Cheng didn't have time to look at the surrounding enemy situation, and immediately shouted: "There are officers and soldiers in ambush, retreat quickly." After saying that, he retreated first, most of the pirates were shrewd, and they didn't know what the situation was, so they all turned around and fled.

But suddenly there was thunder all around, and it swept like a tidal wave, and the sound was bursting. Guan Cheng turned his head to look around in his busy schedule, only to see that countless horsemen around him also appeared out of nowhere, and they began to gather in twos and threes, and came towards the pirates, numbering no less than a thousand people.

Guan Cheng screamed in mourning, where are the four legs of the two legs running fast, the pirate is the king only in the near sea and in the big river, and where is the opponent of the cavalry after going ashore. At this time, there were still six or seven miles away from the place where the ship was parked, and where could they escape the pursuit of the cavalry.

When a group of 100 horsemen gathered in front of them to block the road and prepare to charge, the fierce high-headed Da Ma Don made Guan Cheng's heart shatter, and he immediately fell to the ground, shouting for mercy. The seven hundred pirates saw it behind, and saw the scene of thousands of horsemen galloping madly, which was no less powerful than the tsunami, and they knelt on the ground and begged for mercy in fear.