Four days later, on the river downstream of this Jiangwan village, a huge fleet of boats was swimming upstream! Since it is countercurrent, the boat speed is very slow. The whole fleet looks ordinary, just a little larger than the normal fleet.

On the bow of the first boat, a big man is sitting on the bow of the boat with his feet down, enjoying the river breeze comfortably! Seeing that he was dressed like an ordinary boat handle, but if there was an acquaintance, I am afraid that he would be surprised, this person is actually Zuo Liqiu, the staff general of the Yangtze River Naval Division!

At this time, there were footsteps behind him, and he turned his head to see that it was the family who had followed him for many years. So he turned his head and squinted his eyes and said, "Have you told your brothers?"

He sat down cross-legged behind him and said, "It's all said! I told the brothers to hold on for two days at most and there should be results! And he told them as the master commanded, that the reward for this sale was tripled, and the brothers were very happy."

Zuo Liqiu said with a smile: "The reward for encircling and suppressing a group of water bandits who have no skills will be tripled, these boys are blessed!" But fortunately, we don't have to spend our own money, Wu Ninghou has silver!"

Then the family behind him said, "But I just don't understand why you are taking this errand, sir? As long as we fight, our identities will definitely not be hidden, and this will offend those salt merchants! We're all on the ground of those salt merchants, and if they do, I'm afraid we'll ......."

Zuo Liqiu laughed twice and said, "I thought the same way! However, Wu Ninghou made the stakes clear in the letter, so I decided to go to Beijing to meet him."

Jia Ding twisted his body curiously and said, "Then what did Master Hou say?"

Zuo Liqiu didn't answer his question, but asked slowly, "You have been to Jingshi with me, and you also know the current price of salt in Jingshi!" And we inquired about the news that the price of salt north of the Yellow River has been completely reduced, so do you think this low-cost salt can be promoted in the whole Ming Dynasty?"

The family was stumped by this question, and was so anxious for a while that he scratched his ears and cheeks! But after thinking about it for a long time, he said seriously, "I think I can?! Maybe it's just a little longer!"

Zuo Liqiu turned his head to look at him in surprise, and said with a smile, "Yohe, I'm going to think about it!" Then why can you promote it?"

Hearing the head of the house say that he was talking about himself in a mocking tone, the family not only did not get angry, but said happily as if he had been praised, "That's what the villain thinks! There is no such thing as low-cost salt, and everyone can bear it if they can't see it! But this thing has come out now, and it is sold everywhere in Jiangbei, where can the people in Jiangnan bear it! I will definitely try to get some cheap salt back to eat! After a long time, it will naturally be slowly promoted!"

Zuo Liqiu said, "That's the truth! And let me ask you another question, do you think those salt merchants are powerful, or is our Ming Zhang Xiangye more powerful?"

Jia Ding patted his thigh and said, "Do you still need to ask? Of course, Zhang Xiangye is amazing! He's the prime minister, and he's the biggest except for the emperor!"

Zuo Liqiu said: "Wu Ninghou told me in his letter that Zhang Xiangye has not stopped him since he started to promote low-cost salt, but has been watching from the wall, neither encouraging nor supporting! Especially since he had already had a lot of trouble with the salt merchants in the south, he still didn't keep quiet! Then guess what Zhang Xiangye is thinking?"

Jia Ding scratched his ears and cheeks again before he said tentatively, "Sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight?"

Zuo Liqiu nodded and said, "Wu Ninghou said the same thing! And he also said that there is nothing else to ask for when the official achieves the position of Zhang Xiangye, and what he asks for is probably to leave a name in history! And let the people of the whole Ming Dynasty eat low-cost salt, this is something that the three emperors and five emperors have never done at the beginning! He would not miss this kind of great feat, so he watched from the sidelines and waited for ......."

Jia Ding felt that he was very smart at this time, and said, "When Wu Ninghou wins the salt merchant, he can send a decree to the whole Ming Dynasty to promote low-cost salt!" If Wu Ninghou loses, he will reach out to clean up those salt merchants, in short, the final credit is his, right?"

Zuo Liqiu shook his head and said, "That's not what Wu Ninghou said! He said that if he lost, the low-priced salt would end in the Yangtze River, and Zhang Xiangye would make it

Gradually develop southward by means of infiltration, and in the end, those salt merchants will succumb sooner or later, but it will only drag on a little longer!"

Jia Ding sighed again and again: "Sure enough, it's Zhang Xiangye, this is called sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai!"

But then he smiled and said, "Master, isn't it a bit unauthentic for us to take the salt merchant's money and deal with the salt merchant?"

Zuo Liqiu laughed and said, "Who collected the money? Did I collect the money? It's just that the battalion officials below collected the money, and Lao Tzu can confiscate it! And I think Wu Ninghou is completely sure that he can win this time!"

Jia Ding said, "Master, if he is sure, why does he still ask us? Don't you think crookedly, do you?"

Zuo Liqiu sneered and said, "Wu Ning is waiting for us because he abides by the rules! If he doesn't follow the rules, do you think he won't do the thing of bringing people to makeup as bandits? There are more than 10,000 Wu'an troops in Tianjin, and there are tens of thousands of navies on the sea outside, is it difficult to just take some people to kill the whole family of those salt merchants?"

Hearing this, Jia Ding gasped and said, "Oops! It's not that hard to put it that way! We all eat water food, and we all know that those bastards in the sea are much more ruthless than us! Especially those who are pirates, who kill their whole families without blinking!"

Zuo Liqiu said with a smile, "That's why I put the treasure on Wu Ninghou! In particular, Wu Ninghou introduced me to the Holy Lord, and the Holy Lord also told me to make more efforts and help in promoting low-cost salt, so I agreed to Wu Ninghou to help him do things!"

Jia Ding slapped his thigh again and said, "I see! Wouldn't we have won! When the time comes, the old man will be promoted and make a fortune, and the little ones will follow and eat some benefits! It's just that the tailless fish is going to be deflated!"

Zuo Liqiu smiled proudly and said, "I'm afraid he didn't know that we had already been keeping an eye on him, and he was familiar with him!" Originally, I didn't think he would cause much trouble, but I wanted to keep it for later! As a result, this time he jumped out and counted him unlucky!" Look at the book

Jia Ding also sneered and said, "That dead tuanyu still thinks that he is cautious in doing things, and he has been sending boats to follow us, and he thinks we don't know! Does he think that our sailors are stupid?"