Wang Rong and the others listened to Zhu Shencone tell the origin of Zhang Xijun and Li You, including the situation on the other side of Sheep's Head Mountain, their expressions were slightly surprised, they never thought that this time they would encounter such a thing on the side of Sheep's Head Mountain.

"Sixth Master, these people in Sheep's Head Mountain ......." Xia Dong frowned, and was about to say something, but before he could say anything, Zhu Shencone waved his hand.

"I have a lot of use for the people of Sheep's Head Mountain, this matter has been decided, in a few days the village will pick two people to go to Sheep's Head Mountain, and next year Sheep's Head Mountain will be our transfer station for salt. By the way, the Tibetan salt on the Wangjia Village side will be divided into a part of the Yangtou Mountain at that time, if everything runs smoothly, the Tibetan salt on the Wangjia Village side will not be too much in the future, and all of it will be transferred to the Yangtou Mountain. ”

"You mean ......?" Wang Rong asked, making a covering gesture with his hands.

Zhu Shencone nodded and said, "Uncle is right, that's what I meant." As you know, Wangjia Village is the foundation of everyone, and it is too risky to keep hiding salt in Wangjia Village. If it is replaced by Sheep's Head Mountain, it will be different, it is more secretive over there, and Li Hu and these people have received our favor, and the location of Sheep's Head Mountain is also extremely favorable, so it is more convenient for the future salt walk. ”

"It's not impossible...... Wang Rong nodded, admitting that Zhu Shencone's consideration was right, but he was still a little uneasy about Li Hu and these people, these people had killed miners and stewards and fled to Sheep's Head Mountain, although they had received Zhu Shencone's favor, but their hearts were separated from their stomachs, after all, they were not their own people.

Zhu Shencone immediately smiled and said, "This is also the reason why I brought Zhang Xijun and Li You to Wangjia Village. Zhang Xijun will not talk about this person for the time being, but Li You is Li Hu's only son, you can rest assured that Li You is in hand. ”

As for the rest, including the news he got from his brother-in-law Zhou Anmin, Zhu Shencone didn't tell them. It's not that he doesn't trust Wang Rong, but that Zhu Shencone has other plans.

In addition, Zhu Shencone had already decided on this matter, and telling Wang Rong and the others was just to say hello, so that they wouldn't think too much.

Speaking of which, Zhu Shencone is the real boss of the house, plus Wang Rong is Zhu Shencone's uncle, not to mention Wang Jinwu, he is obedient to Zhu Shencone, so it is naturally impossible to oppose it.

What's more, Wang Jinwu and Li Hu fought last time, and the two have already cherished each other. Whether it is Wang Jinwu or Li Hu, they are both straightforward and cheerful people, and they have a good relationship with each other with similar tempers. Zhu Shencone accepted Li Hu and others, Wang Jinwu raised his hands in agreement, Wang Chuer and they had no objection to this, only Xia Dong was still a little worried, but seeing that everyone had this attitude, he didn't say anything anymore.

After talking about the incident on the other side of Sheep's Head Mountain, Zhu Shencone then checked the profit account of this salt walk with the big guy.

According to the distribution ratio, excluding the cost and the share of Wang Rong's father and son, the children of Wangjia Village and several leaders, Zhu Shencone can take nearly half.

However, Zhu Shencone proposed that he decided to recruit the side of Sheepshead Mountain, so the money spent was deducted from his share, and Wang Rong objected as soon as the words came out, since taking salt is everyone's business, then there is no reason for Zhu Shencone to bear it alone. What's more, as Zhu Shencone just said, in the future, Sheep's Head Mountain will be used as a foothold for Wangjia Village to hide salt and take salt, which will also be beneficial to everyone.

After some arguments, Zhu Shencone reluctantly agreed to deduct the money from the public, and after recalculating, Zhu Shencone finally took his own share, and Wang Rong distributed the rest according to the proportion.

After dealing with this, this salt walk is completely completed, and this year's work is over, and then after the cold winter has passed, it will continue next year.

After distributing the money, everyone had a smile on their faces, this time the salt harvest was good, with this money, the entire Wangjia Village can also have a good year.

Before leaving, Xia Dong quietly told Zhu Shencone that when they were going to take salt, he took someone to understand the state, and got a batch of salt back according to Zhu Shencone's wishes, and it had been hidden in Wangjia Village.

Zhu Shencone listened to Xia Dong's report and was quite satisfied after asking the amount again, but Xia Dong told Zhu Shencone that he had inquired in Jiezhou, and next year's salt road may be a little difficult.

"What the hell is going on?" Zhu Shencone asked Xia Dong.

"I said it was a demand in the army before, but I inquired carefully in the past this time, where is the demand in the army, it is clearly the reason why someone bribed the mine supervisor to find it."

"Who?"

"The Liu family of Pingyang Mansion!"

"The Liu family?"

Zhu Shencone frowned suddenly, the Liu family knew that the Liu family was a well-known big merchant in Pingyang Mansion, although it was a businessman, but the Liu family also privately traded private salt, but compared to Zhu Shencone's small fights, the Liu family's private salt was much larger.

For a long time, Liu had been privately selling illicit salt while transporting salt for the imperial court, and the amount was huge.

Compared with Zhu Shencone and Wangjia Village, the Liu family is not comparable to them in terms of financial resources or the scale of salt walking. It stands to reason that everyone's well water does not interfere with river water, and the Liu family's salt is to use the Kaizhong method to take salt to privately hoard salt and sell smuggling, and Zhu Shencheng and they are just making some "unplanned" surplus salt through the relationship on the Yanjing side to make a little money.

Everyone's path is different, the sales channels are also different, and they have not dealt with each other.

But this time, the Liu family actually bribed the mine supervisor and directly monopolized the amount of surplus salt in Jiezhou next year, which is equivalent to cutting off Zhu Shencone and their supply at once. If all the remaining salt over there is taken away by the Liu family, then where does Zhu Shencone's salt come from?

Without the supply of goods, it is impossible for this salt trade to continue in the future, which is a big deal.

There are so many places where salt is produced in Shanxi, among which Jiezhou is the largest and most stable in production, and it is not far from Pingyang Mansion and Wangjia Village, so it is very convenient to buy salt and transport goods.

If the salt road in Jiezhou is cut off, then their private salt trade will not be able to do anything.

You must know that it is a long way to get salt from other places, and secondly, this relationship channel has to be reopened, and there is a great risk of taking salt, and there is no guarantee that it can be as stable as it is now after changing the channel. Not to mention the cost and transportation reasons, which are simply unrealistic.

But now, the Liu family suddenly monopolized the salt road in the state, which is not a trivial matter. What does the Liu family want to do here? Zhu Shencone doesn't know for the time being, but cutting off people's financial routes is tantamount to killing his parents, and Zhu Shencone is absolutely impossible to watch his salt road being cut off.

After carefully inquiring about the news that Xia Dong inquired about in Jiezhou, Zhu Shencone secretly pondered how to solve this problem. But for a while, Zhu Shencone didn't have any good way, not to mention that this matter was not a trivial matter, he had to think about it.

However, what is gratifying is that this time Xia Dong took people to Jiezhou to transport a batch of salt back, at least this batch of salt is enough to wait until next year's spring to make two or three trips. So in terms of time, it is not urgent, and he plans to wait until he returns to Pingyang Mansion to find someone to inquire carefully before making a decision.

Putting this matter aside for the time being, Zhu Shencone and his uncles Wang Rong and Wang Jinwu had a good meal of wine that night, and the uncle, nephew and cousin talked a lot.

When he woke up the next day, Zhu Shencone washed up and prepared to leave Wangjia Village, he didn't go to see Zhang Xijun and Li You, who had settled down yesterday, how did these two people settle, and what happened next, he had communicated with Wang Rong last night, Wang Rong would do it properly according to his wishes, and Zhu Shencone didn't have to worry about it at all.

As when he came, Zhu Shencone carried his jujube stick in his hand, a burden on his shoulder, and the musket and silver obtained from salt in his arms, and after bidding farewell to Wang Rong, he returned to Pingyang Mansion alone.

In the afternoon, Zhu Shencone returned to Pingyang Mansion safely, and it had been nearly a month since he left Pingyang Mansion, and he entered the city to look at the familiar streets in the city, and then thought about his sister-in-law Zhang and niece Qiao'er, who he hadn't seen for a long time, Zhu Shencone quickened his pace.

After a while, he finally arrived home and pushed the door, and the deadbolt inside was locked, which made Zhu Shencone breathe a sigh of relief. It seems that sister-in-law Zhang and niece should be at home, every time Zhu Shencone goes out of the house carefully explained to Zhang, remember to bolt the door when he is not at home, so as not to have any accidents without a man at home.

slapped twice, and after a while, there was footsteps inside, and soon Zhang's vigilant voice came.

"Who?"

"Sister-in-law, it's me back!" Zhu Shencone hurriedly responded.

"Uncle?" Zhang's voice of surprise came, and then the deadbolt was removed, and the door creaked open from the inside.

"It's really my uncle back!" When he opened the door, when he saw Zhu Shencone just outside the door, looking at him with a smile on his face, Zhang's face was full of joy.