Meriten said, "I have thought of this point as well, so what I want to tell you is that this time you should take out some of your own people, especially those archers, and send them out as much as possible!"

The Ming Dynasty allowed private ownership of weapons, but not armor and bows! Because bows and arrows are long-range weapons, they can't be guarded against! Once someone releases a cold arrow, those *** dignitaries are also easy to die! So bows and arrows must be banned among the people!

As for the reason for prohibiting the possession of armor by the people, it is even simpler! Officers and soldiers have armor, but bandits have no armor! A war between a person with a armor and a person without a armor must be won by someone with armor! Therefore, once the government finds that someone is secretly hiding two things, armor and bows and arrows, it is basically a crime of raiding the house, and you can't run away!

Qiu He also said, "That's a good thing! Also, this time, let's get together and take some more silver out to those salt barons, so that they can also recruit more outlaws, so that we have a better chance of success!"

He Yunshan nodded and said, "I agree with this! What is silver, something like dung! You can earn it back at any time if you spend it!"

In this way, several people successfully reached an agreement, that is, to block Liu Haojia with all their might! Then they made a plan. That is to snipe Liu Haojia in two parts!

The first is to contact the familiar bandits and gather them into a large force to attack the fleet transporting salt goods! It would be best if we could sink them all! Of course, this is certainly unlikely, so the rest is a matter on land!

As soon as the convoy carrying salt by land departs, it will be targeted. After all, there are only a few places that can land on the Yangtze River. When the time comes, gather the salt barons into a large group to loot and kill the caravan! And they also gave a silver reward, and killed a man ten taels of silver! It seems that they are ready to kill the people who helped Liu Haojia at one time, and no one will dare to take over his business in the future!

The reason why they were able to grasp Liu Haojia's information so quickly was because he didn't hide the news of the salt transportation team at all, and he was generous to the world. On the other hand, it's because of the existence of salt owls!

Salt barons are the main force of salt sales, big and small! And just like the distribution team of later generations, there is a strict classification and geography!

After the salt merchants get the private salt, they will allocate the big salt barons from all over the country, and these big salt barons can often master a dozen, or even dozens of offline! Therefore, they do not participate in retail themselves, but distribute private salt according to the ability of the downline.

These medium-sized salt barons are basically people who can occupy at least one county seat. Due to the densely populated county seat and its nearby villages, the price of salt here is relatively high, and the profits are great!

Moreover, such salt barons often have relatively fixed shops in the city, and basically use grocery stores to cover up their behavior of selling illicit salt. But in fact, this kind of behavior is actually a secret that everyone knows, and only local officials or errand officers can sell illegal salt semi-openly!

As for the other villages, it is the little salt lords who run away, but often these little salt lords are the most ferocious! They are small in number, and one person can only occupy one or two or a few villages, and the price is not too high! And you have to carry a load or push a cart to the village. ap.

In this case, they are the most vulnerable, so it is very likely that these little salt lords will be replaced at any time because of a failed fight, or lose their own market! So once they fight, they are extremely fierce!

So such a hierarchical system actually forms a dense intelligence network! As long as one of the salt lords at the bottom gets a certain message and passes the message to the salt lords at the next level, the news will soon appear in the hands of the people at the top! It can be said that this network all over Daming is much more powerful than Jinyiwei's monitoring network!

The only regret is that this network is unstable, and it often causes temporary interruptions due to mutual annexation. However, this interruption is very short-lived, and in just ten days, a disconnected node will be re-filled!

The five people of Yushi easily sketched a rough plan, and the goal they set was very practical, not requiring all the transport ships to be killed, as long as they could sink more than sixty percent! The rest is left to the salt lords on land.

After they set the tone, Qiu He commanded

A middle-aged green-shirted scribe was taken outside the pavilion by the little maid. Qiu He briefly stated the plan he had set, and then sent him away.

After leaving the garden, the scribe walked directly into a courtyard, where more than a dozen literati were enjoying the shade. When they saw him returning, they all got up and greeted the scribes, and asked if they had been ordered, or if they had made up their minds.

The middle-aged scribe nodded to indicate that he had been notified, and then repeated what he had just heard. His memory is also good, and what Qiu He said was almost word-for-word by him. Then he coughed and said, "Since the orders have been ordered, then you can make a plan to see who you want to use and how much silver taels it will cost?" Note that there are also a lot of family members to be sent out by the main family this time, and the list will be sent later, so you can arrange for them to go in at your discretion."

As soon as the words fell, a family member walked into the courtyard quickly, and said loudly, "Mr. Zhang, the head of the family asked the villain to send a list over, saying that you can use it at your discretion."

The middle-aged scribe known as Mr. Zhang stretched out his hand to take the list and nodded casually, and the family hurriedly returned the salute and quietly withdrew. It seems that this person has a very high status in Qiu He's family!

In fact, these people in the courtyard have a high status in each family, because they are the staff hired by these five salt merchants! It may be difficult for them to get into the Jinshi examination, but these people are familiar with history and geography, are well-versed in human affairs, resourceful, and are completely the brains of major families! Whatever ideas the heads of each family have, they all make plans through them and then arrange them! It shows the ability and importance of these people!

And these people are indeed worthy of the money given to them by the master's family, and more than a dozen people cooperate very well! Someone took the map, someone took the roster, someone was in charge of the record, and at the same time everyone quickly discussed, and the whole plan was enough in less than an hour, and the messenger and the escort of the silver were chosen! Even the list of water bandits and salt barons has been prepared.

When the matter was done, Mr. Zhang threw the pen on the table and said happily, "If this thing is done, I can keep it safe for ten years!"