Now Laizhou is under the control of Liangshan, so Zhang Heng's ship did not stop at the Shipping Division of Mizhou City to pay taxes, but directly entered the dock from Laizhou in the Bohai Sea, and changed to a paddle boat to go upriver along the route of Wenshui, and finally went straight to Liangshanbo.

Although I made an extra detour on the sea, compared with the speed of the land route, I don't know how much, but in a few days, I returned to Dazhai.

In these days, going to sea is hard work, and it is very dangerous, and you can worry about your life at every turn.

If the boat capsizes in the river, it can still swim ashore, but if there is an accident in the sea, it will be a total annihilation, and there is no way to save it.

Normal people are basically reluctant to go to sea as long as they have a little way to make a living.

Zhang Heng and the others traveled all the way to the sea, and the credit was not small, and Li Gui personally led people down the mountain to welcome them back to the Liangshan village, and his own sergeant transported the goods on the ship into the warehouse.

There was already a big feast on the mountain, ready to pick up the wind and wash the dust for Zhang Heng and his entourage, who came back from overseas.

After everyone sat down according to their ranks, Li Gui took the lead in raising a bowl to toast: "Brother Zhang Heng has worked hard all the way, and we will salute my brother together." ”

Everyone agreed, and also picked up the wine bowl and drank it with Zhang Hengyi.

Zhang Heng poured a bowl of wine into his stomach and said with a smile:

"There is a lack of everything on this sea, especially this wine, which can be used as a substitute for fresh water, and you can't drink it casually, you have to measure it regularly, and it almost suffocates me!"

"Now that I'm back in the mountains, I'm going to have a good drink."

And they laughed, and laughed:

"I'll move ten barrels to your bedside when I turn around, and get drunk to death you're a drunkard!"

A group of brothers laughed and made love for a while before finally talking about the brimstone.

Zhang Heng poured another bowl of wine, and said angrily:

"When the ship I was waiting for first arrived in the Wa country, everything was normal, and the nobles and merchants of the Wa country were very affectionate, and the procurement of goods was also smooth."

"So I left some of my stewards in that harbor and went to find the mountain of Iwami."

"But not long after, when I returned to the port again, the merchants told me that the sulphur had been sold out and that there was no goods for me."

"The younger brother is not a fool, of course he knows that something is wrong here, so he bribed some nobles of the Wa Kingdom."

Zhang Heng poured himself another bowl and continued:

"The nobles in this world are all like birds, they see money, as long as the money is in place, everything is negotiable."

"The younger brother inquired from them, and the Emperor of the Zhao family didn't know whose advice he had listened to, so he issued a holy decree to the emperor of the Wa Kingdom, and it was not allowed to sell sulfur to the rebels privately."

"That Wa Kingdom is the loyal dog of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty will not let him sell it, so he will not sell the sulfur to me Liangshan."

"The Great Song Dynasty has also seen the power of artillery, and this sulfur involves the production of gunpowder, which is an important military item, and it is reasonable not to allow the Wa Kingdom to sell Liangshan to me."

"If there is not enough gunpowder, there is artillery, and it is only a big piece of iron, and there is nothing to be afraid of."

"It's just that even the bird official of the Great Song Dynasty knows the truth, how can the younger brother not know the importance of this thing?"

"Where are you willing to let the merchants of this bird country jam my Liangshan's neck?"

"The younger brother was furious, so he simply rushed into the mansion of the nobleman with a vote of brothers, slaughtered the so-called nobleman of the Japanese kingdom, and snatched a few carts of sulfur out."

"When the local garrison came to fight, I saw that they were numerous, so I did not fight them, but went out to sea with the brimstone."

"But this ship of sulfur won't take long, and most of it will be bought by the Wa Kingdom."

"I'm afraid that when the time comes, I will have to change the port to land, or simply pretend to be a merchant of the Great Song Dynasty to buy it."

Ghost Li poured him full of wine, waved his hand nonchalantly and said:

"What else to buy?"

"Since Emperor Zhao knows the power of this artillery, I am afraid that in the future, this kind of material will only be sold by officials, and even the real Great Song merchants will not be able to buy the goods."

"Hmph, this small country is so uninteresting!"

"Giving them silver taels is for convenience, but it's not for fear of them."

"Since they don't want to give face, we don't have to talk to them about anything, just break his city, destroy his country, and turn his world's world into his own land."

Then they burst into laughter, and said:

"Brother, our current territory has not been digested cleanly, that small barbarian country, and the land is poor and sparsely populated, it is not worth occupying, right?"

Li Ghost replied with a smile:

"If it weren't for the stone seeing the silver mountain, a certain wouldn't bother to take him."

"Naturally, our local territory should be well managed, and we must eliminate the powerful and divide the land and the people, but then the Japanese country does not need to do this, as long as they can send labor to mine."

He turned his head again and asked Zhang Heng next to him: "Brother Zhang Heng, can you find the silver mountain?" ”

Zhang Heng hesitated:

"Brother, little brother has arrived at the place you said."

"It's just that it's deserted now, and no one is there, whether it's the place my brother is looking for, and the younger brother doesn't know."

Ghost Li said:

"Just determine the approximate location, and when we occupy Dongying, let them send someone to build a road to it, and explore it in detail."

"The mountain is there, look slowly, you can always find it."

After Zhu Wu listened, he asked:

"How many people does the elder brother need to take with him, the younger brother will arrange manpower and boats, and he can set off in ten days at most."

Ghost Li laughed and said:

"What soldiers and horses to bring?"

"We are running out of people for internal purging, where can we waste people on such trivial matters at this time?"

"Just go on a trip with Brother Ma Ling."

"His wind and fire wheels are very powerful, walking rivers, lakes and seas like walking on flat land."

"I estimate that it will be as fast as ten days, as short as two months, and I will be able to come back."

Zhu Wu said:

"Brother is laughing again!"

"If there are no soldiers and horses, how can my brother occupy that Dongying?"

"Is it possible to kill all the people?"

Li Ghost said with a grin:

"We need a lot of people for mining, and if we kill them all, we will waste them."

"Since I don't plan to run it there, it's much easier to occupy Dongying."

"As long as you keep those nobles who surrender and kill those who don't, you can easily become the ruler there."

"Just like this Great Song Dynasty, if we hadn't killed the gentry, never divided the land, and never offended the Confucian Mansion and the Taoist Buddha, a certain family would have dominated the world a long time ago."

In the past two years of battlefield fighting and government affairs experience, everyone has long discovered the contradictions between these gentry and the commoners, and they have all realized the huge power of these gentry in the local area, and understand that in order to rule steadily, those gentry must be eliminated, and they will no longer speak at the moment, and let Li Ghost make his own decisions.

Ghost Li said again:

"That Song Jiang is now chasing Wang Qing and Tian Hu's remnants to fight, and he has no time to fight our Liangshan for a while, I will go and come back quickly, I will definitely come back before he comes to crusade, and I will not delay the matter here."

When Lin Chong heard this, he shouted:

"My brother looks down on people!"

"The last time the little brother was defeated, it was purely because of the lack of soldiers, but it collapsed after a few rounds of artillery fire."

"Now all the elites on my Liangshan are enough, and the artillery and gunpowder are enough, if Song Jiang dares to come, the younger brother will let him see how powerful my Liangshan is."

"Brother, just rest assured to go to that Dongying to play tricks, don't worry about the things on Liangshan!"

Ghost Li laughed, thinking so, he raised the wine bowl and continued to drink with everyone.

After Zhang Heng received the wind, the next day Li Gui took Ma Ling to leave Liangshan, passed through Yanzhou and Yizhou, and went straight to the beach of Mizhou.

(End of chapter)