Lin Chong and the others were caught off guard, and they were immediately shocked, and they rushed to ask what was going on.

The minions knelt down in the hall, and wanted to report them one by one, but Zou Run opened his mouth to drink everyone and calm down. First of all, he ordered someone to bring warm wine, so that this good man who came from Dengyun Mountain thousands of miles away drank it to warm his body first.

As the master, since when Mount Tai collapsed in front of the face does not change, the wind does not rise suddenly and calmly, even if the incident is sudden, do not mess up, just a year of effort, Zou Run has done this very well.

With this unfazed bearing, everyone nodded secretly and admired it, and he was worthy of being the co-owner of the two villages.

The minions drank the wine, activated the qi and blood, rubbed the purple begonia skin a few times, and the face gradually became bloody, so he hurriedly put down the wine bowl and talked about the reason.

It turned out that after Zou Run left Dengzhou, Zou Yuan and others rectified the Dengyun Mountain cottage, recruited troops, and trained soldiers. On the one hand, he and Yang Lin and Deng Fei built the base of Dangji Island more and more prosperous, the output of dried salt became more and more stable, and gradually the salt goods accumulated, at this time Zou Yuan and the others thought of what Zou Run explained before he set off.

So I prepared a cattle and sheep wine ceremony, and on a midwinter night, I quietly touched a lively market town not far from Dengzhou City.

This is the hotel run by Sun Erniang, the mother and the little lieutenant, Chi Sun Xin, who are in this crowded and prosperous place, running a hotel on the surface, but secretly doing what they are actually doing is killing cattle, opening casinos, and selling private wine.

These three businesses, in addition to opening casinos, the other two are prohibited by the imperial court. Sun Xin's family is engaged in this business, and naturally it is indispensable to deal with the characters in the green forest, so in the face of Zou Yuan, who came to visit late at night with gifts, although the couple was not panicked, they had already heard of the famous heroes of Dengyun Mountain.

It is necessary to wake up the guys, light the lamps and candles, sift the wine in a large bowl, cut the meat in large pieces, and sit down to talk. After three rounds of wine and five flavors, Zou Yuan said that he wanted to cooperate in selling illicit salt.

In the Song Dynasty, in addition to the fixed agricultural tax, the country's tax field was the first to pay taxes on salt, tea, and wine. Dengzhou is close to the sea, and the salt class distributed by the imperial court is extremely heavy, so it gives birth to a flood of private salt, and civil and military officials of all sizes want to share this wealth road if they have some rights and ways. Even over time, according to the strength of their respective strengths, these people have a certain share behind them, which can be regarded as an unwritten rule on the private salt road.

As the Dengzhou Soldiers and Horses (Note 1) Sun Li, his own rank is from the nine grades of Cheng Xinlang, is already a Zheng'er Bajing into the official body, in terms of identity, than a servant Wang Kongmu and the rich man Mao Taigong is much stronger, and Dengzhou several grass Kou Lincheng were repelled by him with troops, and he has made great contributions, it stands to reason that he has to have a share of the income in this gray industry.

But Sun Li was originally from Qiongzhou, and he had been in the army for generations, and he was only transferred to Dengzhou to be stationed in his generation, although he was promoted to officer, but to put it bluntly, he was still a foreigner in the eyes of the local faction, and his foundation was unstable.

As Sun Li's younger brother Sun Xin, although he did not set foot in the officialdom, he was also familiar with the inside story, so he didn't say yes or no, but only made an appointment to discuss it again in a few days, and he didn't mention it that night.

Zou Yuan returned to Dengyun Mountain with his front foot, and Sun Xin went to his brother's residence with his back foot.

The previous governor found a way to be promoted, but now the new governor has not taken office, only the general judge is presiding over government affairs, but including this general judge, they all know that the opportunity cannot be lost, and the officials in the city are trying to take advantage of this gap to expand their financial routes, and the original order has been disrupted.

There is a way to send pillows when he is sleepy, Sun Li has long been greedy for private salt trading, he has always been enthusiastic about his career, otherwise he would not have stayed away from his homeland in order to seek promotion, dragged his family with his mouth, and ran all the way from Hainan to Shandong.

As the saying goes: Thousands of miles of officials are only for money, and now that he has successfully changed from an ordinary soldier to an official with an official body, and has made all kinds of contributions, Sun Li thinks that it is time to enjoy the fruits of his labor. Not to mention that his eyes kept looking up, and he wanted to go further in his lifetime, and if he wanted to break the bottleneck of officialdom promotion, he would have to spend a sea of gold and silver, so Sun Li immediately agreed, signaling that Sun Xin's business could be done.

Sun Xin no longer has any scruples now, he already dislikes the business of killing cattle and selling illicit wine, which is not as decent as selling illicit salt, and it is not as good as selling illicit salt to make money, so he took the initiative to prepare a generous gift and went to Dengyun Mountain with his daughter-in-law to explore.

When they went up the mountain, the two of them were shocked, and they saw that there were thousands of strong minions on Dengyun Mountain, practicing every day, and they were also strict and well-armed. In the warehouse of the back mountain, the grain and bags of coarse salt were piled up, and the two of them stared at each other's big eyes, but they didn't expect Dengyun Mountain to grow so badly in Zou Run's hands, so they were immediately convinced and reached a cooperation on the spot.

In this way, the sea salt of Dengyun Mountain opened up a market.

The salt from the salt drying field is of better quality and lower cost, and at the beginning of the sale, it was deliberately one or two pennies lower than the market price, and the business can be called hot. Bags of sea salt went out, bundles of copper coins came back, and Zou Run, Yang Lin, and Deng Fei couldn't stop smiling, and they all praised Zou Runding behind their backs for meeting the God of Wealth in a dream.

When Ruan Xiaowu and Ruan Xiaoqi arrived in Dengzhou, Zou Run and his gang added two more big ships early, and they couldn't wait to lie on the boat until these two boat-loving men slept happily.

But the good times didn't last long, and with the big sales of salt goods in Dengyun Mountain, they were soon targeted by people with hearts.

This person with a heart is not another person, it is the two people who have been planning for a long time and harboring evil intentions, Wang Zheng of Confucius in Dengzhou, and Taigong Mao, who is sitting on the ground.

These two people were really patient, and secretly probed, knowing that Sun Xingu's sister-in-law had Sun Li's support behind her, and Sun Li had made a lot of contributions recently, and she was in the limelight, so they chose to endure it. But when the new Zhizhou took office after the year, this Wang Zheng immediately took a large amount of money from Mao Taigong to take this line. After showing his loyalty, the new governor was not good at stubble, and immediately decided to reorganize the order of Dengzhou City, especially the underground private salt market.

The struggle in officialdom has never been open, straight and straight, and there is not even a trace of fireworks. Wang Zhizhou wanted to get oil and water from the cauldron of illegal salt, so naturally it was not good to start in the name of arresting illegal salt.

So the task of how to knock on the ghosts, snakes, and gods of all walks of life in the Dengzhou private salt market was handed over to Wang Zheng, and it can be regarded as the test of Wang Zheng by this Zhizhou.

Wang Zheng, as a state Confucius, has a perfect ability to flatter Shangyi, and he is very handy in doing this kind of thing, and he is very clear about proportion, he made a move.

But the target of the shot was not directly aimed at Sun Li, who had an official body, nor Sun Li's younger brother Sun Xin and sister-in-law Gu, but the two-headed snake Xie Zhen and the two-tailed scorpion Xie Bao, who had the name of relatives with Sun Li, but had no relatives.

Sun Li and Sun Xin are brothers, and Sun Li and Sun Xin's aunts are the mothers of Xie Zhen and Xie Bao, that is to say, Sun Li and Xie Zhen Xie Bao are their aunts and real relatives. But Sun Li has always been enthusiastic about his career, thinking about how to rise, and those who look at him with his eyes naturally don't care about the scenery in front of him.

Sun Xin just can't get used to his brother's weak family virtue, and he has always complained about the fact that he abandoned the old house and ancestral tomb in Hainan in order to be promoted, not to mention that Sun Li only cares about promotion and wealth on weekdays, and has always been unapologetic about family and friendship, so he doesn't live in the existing house in the city, and he has to go to do business outside the city.

Even his own brother is still like this, and Xie Zhen Jiebao, who is his aunt's cousin, naturally doesn't want to pinch his nose to deal with this cousin Sun Li, who is full of official shelves.

Poor Xie Zhen Xie Bao is honest in nature, hunting all day long for a living, although he has a good ability, but he is not good at socializing, he has a simple heart, and he has never had the idea of climbing relatives and attaching nobles, but bad luck is coming.

On this day, Mao Taigong, who is famous in the countryside, instructed his son Mao Zhongyi to come to the door to find the two brothers, saying that there were tigers in their mountains and forests, and they heard that the two brothers were the heads of the hunters in Dengzhou.

It is indispensable to solve treasures and treasures, and the two of them have hunted tigers and have rich experience, so they immediately agreed.

So, the story in the original book happened again.