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For the sake of Hua Rong and Huang Rang to sacrifice prisoners this time, Shuibo Liangshan has been accumulating people since the beginning of winter last year.

- The heads of the people who were cut off in the public trial were frozen by the minions, and one or two thousand were saved.

Plus hundreds of heads in Qingfeng Mountain.

plus the leaders Yan Shun, Wang Ying and Zheng Tianshou.

Hua Rong and Huang made this battle a solid one.

At the same time, Jiang Hongfei arranged for people to go up and down to maximize the benefits of Hua Rong and Huang Rang's contributions.

Qingfeng Village is at the three-way intersection of Qingzhou, and the three-way road leads to Erlong Mountain, Qingfeng Mountain, and Peach Blossom Mountain, and the location is very critical.

Sun Jing and Zhu Wu both suggested to Jiang Hongfei: "Village master, this Qingfeng Village can't be lost, we have to let it become my Shuibo Liangshan." ”

Jiang Hongfei felt reasonable, so he asked Cao Zheng to take the name of a capital head who died in battle under Hua Rong, and gave Cao Zheng to replace Hua Rong as the Wuzhizhai of Qingfeng Village, and found a literati from Shuibo Liangshan to replace Huang Rang as the Wenzhizhai of Qingfeng Village.

The original sergeant of Qingfeng Village, Jiang Hongfei paid for the operation, and asked Hua Rong to take all of them away when he took office, and the three of the three infantry armies were transformed into the new garrison of Qingfeng Village.

The main armies of the other two capitals of the Third Infantry Army and the auxiliary armies of the five capitals were stationed at Erlongshan and were led by Jiao Ting.

The five or seven hundred minions on the Peach Blossom Mountain, after screening, training, and political education, Shuibo Liangshan supplemented the 500 garrison army and formed a new infantry army composed of the Wudu Regular Army and the Wudu Auxiliary Army, that is, the Fifth Infantry Army.

This step of the Fifth Army was led by Li Zhong and Zhou Tong was the deputy commander.

As soon as the Fifth Infantry Army was formed, it was divided into two, three of which were led by Li Zhong and three of which were garrisoned at Taohua Mountain; The two capital armies and the two capital auxiliary armies were led by Zhou Tong and were stationed in Qingfeng Mountain.

Since Yang Zhi and Ma Sijun were transferred back to Shuibo Liangshan, there was no master here in Qingzhou, and Jiang Hongfei transferred Guanghui, who did not have any ambitions, to take charge after careful consideration.

All of the above is easy to say, but in fact it is a lot of work.

In a nutshell.

It took almost half a year for all of these things to be implemented.

Hua Rong was promoted to the position of deputy head of Qingzhou soldiers and horses as he wished, commanding a thousand horse infantry troops, and like Huang Xin, the commander of Qingzhou soldiers and horses, he became the deputy of Qin Ming in command of the Qingzhou Command Division.

Not to mention how Shuibo Liangshan dotted, bribed, coerced, enticed, and even assassinated, let the upper and lower divisions agree that Hua Rong would take away all the original sergeants in Qingfeng Village, and steal Liang to change the pillars, and with the cooperation of the people in the recruitment office, all the recruits recruited by Qingfeng Village were replaced by the three people of the three armies.

It is only said that after Hua Rong became the deputy head of the Qingzhou Soldiers and Horses, there were actually only more than 300 infantry troops, that is, the original Qingfeng Village, and the rest were all paid by the upper and lower hands.

At the beginning of this year, the 1,000 spirit horses that Chai Jin gave to Jiang Hongfei in return were finally gathered and sent to Shuibo Liangshan.

During this time, the people of Shuibo Liangshan also bought back hundreds of spirit horses from Liaoguo, Camel Mugang and other places.

This made Jiang Hongfei arm a horse army after he had one man and two horses for Tiefutu and made up for the spirit horses owed to the four armies.

Jiang Hongfei assigned Hua Rong a horse army (that is, the Ma Fifth Army) and asked Hua Rong to train himself.

At the same time, Jiang Hongfei assigned Hua Rong two Liangshan garrisons, and completed Hua Rong's 1,000 horse infantry army.

This makes Hua Rong's actual controllable soldiers and horses the most in Qingzhou, more than Qin Ming's soldiers and horses, and Huang Xin can't be compared with Hua Rong.

It is worth mentioning that in order to ensure that the soldiers and horses under Hua Rong are absolutely loyal to Shuibo Liangshan, Jiang Hongfei specially selected a political work team with combat effectiveness and stationed it in Hua Rong's army for a long time.

Of course, the main job of this political work team is to turn Hua Rong's original 300 Qingfeng Zhai sergeants into Shuibo Liangshan.

Hua Rong's current residence has become a halal village, and Murong Yanda's expectation for Hua Rong is to exterminate the thieves on the Halal Mountain and completely eliminate the bandits in Qingzhou.

Let's talk about Huang Jean.

Huang Rang was transferred to Guangling Salt as the supervisor of Zhengqipin.

The reason why Jiang Hongfei sought this position for Huang Rang was not only because Guangling was under the control of Sanshan and Qingfeng Village, which was convenient for Jiang Hongfei to operate, but also because Jiang Hongfei fell in love with the original low-output salt boiling plant here.

Jiang Hongfei clearly knew that Shuibo Liangshan relied on Tianxingdao to live, and it would definitely not be able to last forever.

After all, there will always be a time when there is nowhere to grab.

In fact, there are not many places around Liangshanbo that can be used for the Heavenly Walk.

One of the reasons why Jiang Hongfei attaches importance to the development of the second base in Qingzhou is that the heroes of Liangshan will soon come to Qingzhou to do the way for the sky, otherwise it will be difficult for Shuibo Liangshan to survive.

This is not alarmist.

Be.

Shuibo Liangshan has robbed the surrounding local tyrants, and the heroes of Liangshan can also go far away to do the road for the sky.

But the farther you go, the more problems you have involved.

For example, due to being unfamiliar with the local geographical environment, the heroes of Liangshan are easily ambushed by the official army or the local powerful forces;

For example, the road is too far, the traffic remains the same, and the Liangshan army will have to bring a large amount of grain and grass to carry out again, and a large number of auxiliary troops will have to act together, undoubtedly, this will lose the invincible mobility of the Liangshan army, and it is easy to become passive, in addition, it will become difficult to transport the spoils of war back, and the transportation cost will become very high;

For example, if you are not familiar with the local situation, and if you don't have the help of people who are familiar with the local area, it will become more difficult to do the road for the sky.

Wait a minute......

This is actually a problem that is very difficult to solve at the moment.

The reason why the Zhao and Song courts were able to control the prefectures and counties under their rule was because the Zhao and Song courts controlled cities that were at the transportation hubs.

At this stage, Shuibo Liangshan has no city to conquer, so it can only be trapped in this area of Shuibo Liangshan by this city, and if you want to develop outward, you will not need those convenient water and land passages.

Of course, these problems can definitely be solved, at most they are just inefficient.

The real problem is that if Shuibo Liangshan wants to develop healthily, stably and rapidly, it still needs to have a stable financial road.

After understanding and investigating, Jiang Hongfei was shocked to find that the revenue from the salt tax actually reached three-quarters of the tax revenue of the Zhao and Song dynasties.

And if you want to sell salt, you must first buy the "qualification of a salt merchant", and with this qualification, you can buy "salt introduction", that is, a certificate for selling salt, and then you can buy salt.

While this makes ordinary people miserable, it also creates a huge chain of economic interests.

After understanding and investigating, Jiang Hongfei learned that in the eyes of people in this world, it is impossible to get out the real salt only by drying it.

- Drying seawater yields a lot of white powder, but this white powder is not edible salt. This kind of salt not only tastes bitter, but also causes a series of health problems such as diarrhea, and if consumed for a long time, it may be life-threatening due to heavy metal poisoning.

Therefore, the salt of this world is boiled.

Boiling salt in a pot is laborious, firewood-consuming, time-consuming, laborious, and extremely costly, and you can't get much salt.

It's no wonder that salt prices remain high.

Jiang Hongfei is also a high-achieving student who has been admitted to 985 and has learned the method of drying salt with seawater.

To this day, Jiang Hongfei remembers clearly: the first step is to dry coarse salt; In the second step, a large amount of coarse salt is reincorporated into the seawater, so that saturated concentrated salt water is obtained; In the third step, about one-fifth of the seawater is taken out and the remaining seawater is dried to obtain a purer coarse salt; In the fourth step, the coarse salt is poured into one-fifth of the concentrated salt seawater left in the third step, stirred thoroughly, and then the seawater is poured out, and what is left at the bottom of the container is the refined salt without impurities.

By the way, potassium carbonate needs to be added to the concentrated salt seawater, which reacts with calcium and magnesium ions to form a precipitate, and then filters it out.

At this step, Jiang Hongfei happened to know that an ancient method could be replaced.

The reason why Jiang Hongfei knows so much about salt drying is not only because Jiang Hongfei learned to dry salt in seawater when he was in school, but also because there is a salt drying factory in Jiang Hongfei's hometown.

In short, Jiang Hongfei will dry salt.

But because this is the Xianxia version of the Water Margin world, Jiang Hongfei is afraid that he will get that set of salt drying methods that will not work.

Therefore, Jiang Hongfei deliberately took people to the beach, first made a small salt drying field, and experimented once.

The results proved that the salt dried by Jiang Hongfei was purer than the salt cooked in the Zhao and Song courts, and the quality was good.

As a result, Jiang Hongfei got Huang Rang to Guangling Salt as a supervisor, making it a private salt factory in Shuibo Liangshan.

As for how to sell, Jiang Hongfei is not worried at all.

Not to mention anything else, the territory controlled by Shuibo Liangshan alone is enough for Jiang Hongfei to earn all the current expenses of Shuibo Liangshan.

Jiang Hongfei can also gather those salt merchants who want to make a fortune on the rivers and lakes.

By the way, isn't Li Jun, the mixed river dragon, a salt merchant? I don't know, I can catch him.

Moreover, Jiang Hongfei can also provide salt introduction to partners.

——Just borrow Xiao Rang and Jin Dajian from Chao Gai to make a batch.

In short, Jiang Hongfei's salt here has a very low cost, excellent quality, and can be delivered to the door in the area controlled by Shuibo Liangshan.

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Hujiazhuang.

A long and beautiful eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl, neatly dressed, riding on a green-maned horse, wheeling two sun and moon double knives, dragon flying snake dance on the school field, she has double knives in her palm, the cold light is shining, dancing straight to the wind and jade shaving, snow sprinkled Qionghua.

After a while, the girl flew down and turned into a blue-maned horse that was running with all her might, and without seeing her make any movement, a rope flew out of her body, and was firmly and accurately attached to the green-maned horse that was still running rapidly.

Then, the girl's waist competed, as if the blue-maned horse with endless momentum, was stopped on the spot by her!

The cicada sideburns and golden hairpins are double-pressed, and the phoenix shoes and stirrups are obliquely stepped on. The chain armor is lined with red yarn, and the embroidered willow waist is crossed. The frost knife slashed the male soldiers, and the jade fiber took the fierce generals. The natural beauty of begonia flowers, a zhang of green is the first to go out.

This woman is one of the three female generals of Liangshan in "Water Margin", nicknamed "Yizhang Qing", when Liangshan gathered righteousness, she ranked fifty-nine, and Hu Sanniang of the asterisk Earth Huixing.

At this moment, Hu Sanniang is in the arena, practicing her martial arts and supernatural powers.

Hu Sanniang's elder brother, the son of Hu Rong, the owner of Hujiazhuang, and Hu Cheng, nicknamed "Flying Tiger", came back from outside in a hurry.

Although Hu Cheng looked very busy, when passing by the school field, Hu Cheng still stopped and praised without hesitation: "Okay, good, my little sister's strength is really getting more and more profound." ”

Hearing this, Hu Sanniang put away her double swords, looked at Hu Cheng with her eyes in Jianshui, and asked, "Brother, look at my martial arts and supernatural powers, can I fight with that Liangshan thief in the future?" ”

At this time, Hu Rong happened to come out of the room, and when he heard Hu Sanniang's arrogant words, he couldn't help but educate Hu Sanniang: "You are a girl's family, don't always think about fighting and killing, that Shuibo Liangshan is now in the limelight in the rivers and lakes for a while, even Taishi Cai doesn't dare to provoke, how can you provoke?" ”

Hu Rong and Zhu Chaofeng, the owner of Zhujiazhuang, and Li Ying, the owner of Li Jiazhuang, are sworn brothers.

Although he is known as "Taigong", Hu Rong is actually only forty years old, five or six years younger than Zhu Chaofeng, and only a few years older than Li Ying.

Hu Sanniang was a little unconvinced and said: "I materialize the attribute spirit root nine, strengthen the attribute spirit root eight, and the other three attribute spirit roots are a total of ten, and the martial arts are also exquisite, Zhu Jia Sanjie, take it out alone, which one is my opponent, he Zhu Jiazhuang, except for Teacher Luan, I am not afraid, why can't you teach me to capture Jiang Yan's thief head?" ”

Hu Rong shook his head: "You, you are too much of a frog at the bottom of the well, if Jiang Yan is a good match, how can we people be worried all day long, for fear that if one is not careful, he will be defeated by Dulonggang, all of us men will be killed, and all of our women will be taken to Liangshan by him?" ”

Although Hu Sanniang also felt that his father was reasonable, but the newborn calf was not afraid of tigers, Hu Sanniang would inevitably think: "If I can catch Jiang Yan, then the danger of my Sanzhuang will be solved?" ”

Recently, there has been a kind of refined salt near Liangshanbo that is both good and cheap.

Hu Rong keenly smelled a business opportunity to make a fortune, so he asked Hu Cheng to investigate the source of this batch of refined salt.

At this time, seeing Hu Cheng returning from the investigation, Hu Rong really didn't have time to waste words with Hu Sanniang, who was still a child's idea.

gave Hu Cheng a look, and Hu Rongren turned around and went back to the house.

Hu Cheng saw it and immediately followed.

"How's it going?" After sitting down on the Taishi chair, Hu Rong asked Hu Cheng, who was standing in front of him.

"I heard it, as my father guessed, this refined salt is indeed released by Shuibo Liangshan, Shuibo Liangshan is now looking for bulk traders on the rivers and lakes, giving the price, the profit margin is very large, if you can get a batch, as long as you turn it over, you will definitely be able to make a lot of money, if you can cooperate for a long time, it is difficult to make a fortune." Hu Cheng said excitedly.

"What? Intrigued? Hu Rong looked at his son and asked.

"It's so profitable, it's a rare opportunity." Hu Cheng rubbed his hands and said.

"Then you do it." Hu Rong said with a smile.

"But this refined salt is the ...... of Shuibo Liangshan" Hu Cheng was very moved, but he still couldn't help but hesitate.

"Business is business, think about what you do on the side, don't get entangled in it." Hu Rong educates.

Although Hu Rong said so, Hu Cheng still hesitated a little: "If Zhujiazhuang knows about this......"

Hu Rong hated that iron could not become steel and said: "Do you think that the two of them will let go of this low-hanging fruit?" ”

"Father is saying that his two families will also buy this refined salt from Shuibo Liangshan?" Hu Cheng was surprised.

"If you buy it, you will buy it, who can see a large piece of fat passing in front of their house and not go up and take a bite?" Hu Rong said conclusively.

"However, if I guess correctly, the Zhu family will most likely be secretive, and the Li family will most likely be high-profile." Hu Rong said.

Hu Cheng thought for a while, and asked with some uncertainty: "What does my father mean is that the Zhu family will only earn this money, and the Li family will take advantage of this matter to get in touch with Shuibo Liangshan and befriend Shuibo Liangshan?" ”

Hu Rong nodded appreciatively: "My family's purpose is to protect itself, which is different from the Zhu family, who is bent on exchanging Liangshan thieves for fame." ”

Hu Rong further explained: "The reason why my family formed an alliance with the Zhu family is not to be attacked by Shuibo Liangshan, if there is another way to avoid being attacked by Shuibo Liangshan, why not do it?" ”

Hu Cheng understood: "Eggs can't be put in one basket. ”

Hu Rong smiled: "The children can be taught. ”

Hu Cheng said very simply: "My son will personally go to Shuibo Liangshan to see if there is a chance to see this great sage......

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(End of chapter)