He Daye's inquiry really made it difficult for Zhao Bufan to ride a tiger!

If he doesn't do it, then he won't have enough money to feed the army! If he does, then he will be practicing martial arts on the tip of a knife, and if he is not careful, he will be cut into a thousand holes! If someone is caught, let alone him, even the Zhu family will not be able to hold it, and many people will die!

There are many people who sell illicit salt in the Great Song Dynasty, but most of them are green forest heroes who kill people without blinking, or they are people who are forced to live, the so-called wine today and drunk today, naturally he has no worries, but he is not, he is burdened with the lives of many people, he controls an army of tens of thousands of people, and there may be countless pairs of eyes staring at him!

This may be the first time in Zhao Bufan's life that it is so difficult to make a decision.

He Daye saw his hesitation, but instead of expressing his opinion, he continued to emphasize the seriousness of trafficking in illicit salt. "Extraordinary, you'd better think carefully before making a decision, the ancients once said that the salt tax occupies one-third of the treasury revenue, although this sentence is too exaggerated, in fact it is not so outrageous, but you, as an important minister of the imperial court, vainly shake the important source of income of the treasury, which is equivalent to openly robbing money with the imperial court, it is robbing money with the emperor, you have moved the foundation of the source of the treasury, but if it is discovered, how can it not kill you?"

"Do!" As soon as He Daye's words fell, Zhao Bufan spit out the word firmly.

He Daye's pupils dilated rapidly, staring straight at him.

"Are you sure?"

"Sure!" Zhao Bufan took a deep breath and said resolutely: "Extraordinary times can only use extraordinary methods, my master told me when I was a child, if you want to fight traitors, you can only be more traitorous than traitors, and you can't do anything if you look ahead!"

He Daye looked at him deeply.

"I feel terrible that you go on like this, I'm afraid that you will go on the road of no return, and I'm afraid that you will become a more terrible traitor than Cai Jing and Liang Shicheng!"

In fact, Zhao Bufan didn't know what the future would be, but he had no choice, in order to stabilize He Dayi's heart, he could only resolutely say: "As long as the ultimate goal is for the country and the people, then a short period of evil deeds is not a problem!"

He Daye looked at his eyes, as if he wanted to understand his heart, but after a long time, he couldn't see anything, closed his eyes and thought for a long time, and finally said leisurely: "Okay, I believe that you are still the same Zhao Bufan as before, and I will go to recruit you in a few days to recruit a lifeless green forest hero, but I also have a few conditions!"

"You say!" Zhao Bufan immediately responded.

He Daye thought for a moment and said softly: "First, I will divorce my wife, she and my children can no longer stay in Juxianzhuang, you have to be responsible for arranging everything, even if the incident happens, only I will be killed! Second, illegal salt is not allowed to be sold in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, not only is it too risky, but we cannot do anything that shakes the economy of the Great Song Dynasty! Third, Qingzhou, which is located between Cangzhou and Bazhou, and Xin'an, which you have recovered from the Liao State, must try to eliminate it! Fourth, try to replace Liu Xi, the governor of Cangzhou!"

"I agree with the first two, but why do you want to try to eliminate two innocuous small states?" and why do you want to replace Liu Xi?" Zhao Bufan asked strangely.

He Daye's eyes were scorching, and he said affirmatively: "If you want to make a lot of money by selling illicit salt, unlike those green forest heroes, then you must first have a huge salt-producing area, the reason why I put forward this idea is precisely because Cangzhou has been an important source of sea salt since ancient times, if you want to sell a large amount of illicit salt, then you must control Cangzhou, otherwise you do it secretly, when year and month can you make a lot of money?"

Secondly, when you make a large number of salt pans in Cangzhou, and the output is huge, you will inevitably need to trade in large quantities, so if you don't sell it to the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, it can obviously only be sold to the merchants of Liao, Jin and Dongying, in order to make their money, if Qingzhou and Xin'an Prefecture are not controlled, our road to the north trade will face the threat of censorship at any time, and the small amount can be hidden, but in the case of a huge number and the need for continuous and stable transportation, then we can only control these two places in our hands.

But if you try to control the three prefectures at the same time, it means that you need three trustworthy governors, where do you find such people? How can you find the people who are qualified to be appointed by Your Majesty as governors? Therefore, the best way is to play Your Majesty, and merge these two small prefectures into Cangzhou on the grounds that Xin'an Prefecture and Qingzhou are too small and at the same time it is not conducive to the unification and coordination of northern Xinjiang in wartime, then you only need to find a suitable Cangzhou governor!"

Zhao Bufan understood, secretly weighed it for a moment in his heart, and made a decision immediately.

"Okay, I'll solve this matter, you only need to be responsible for recruiting the heroes of the green forest, and then set up a stronghold on the remote coast in the north of Cangzhou, and force the residents there to open up salt pans to dry salt, the faster the action, the better, and you don't face those green forest heroes or people with your true face, get some terrible masks, you must wear masks when dealing with affairs over there, and give me another one, this organization is called ...... Well...... It's called the Heavenly Demon Palace!

At the same time, this Heavenly Demon Hall must be managed according to the practices of those evil gangs in the rivers and lakes, and I can use any vicious means, I am the Demon Lord, you are the Left Demon Venerable, and you will let Wei Chengfeng be a protector later, your martial arts are not very high, but whenever you go there, you will appear at the same time as Wei Chengfeng to avoid accidents, if you need me to deter, then you can also notify me in advance, and if necessary, you can also tell Shi Wengong secretly, let him wear your mask to suppress them!"

He Daye was also from a gang after all when he was young, he knew very well what Zhao Bufan meant, understood that the risk of doing so was the least, and he could try to cut off contact at a critical moment, so he nodded immediately: "Okay, I'll believe you once, I'll treat this old bone as a villain!"

Everyone understands people, so Zhao Bufan didn't talk nonsense anymore and got up immediately.

"Then let's do this well as soon as possible! Remember, don't let anyone who has nothing to do with it know for the time being, even Wu Song and Yang Zhi can't do it, Wu Song is too upright, heavy on righteousness, and after getting along with the people over there for a long time, he will be emotional, and it is easy to show his stuffing, Yang Zhi is too forward-looking, indecisive in doing things, and easy to have accidents, so they can't let them know about selling illicit salt, but Shi Wengong is not only trustworthy, but also brave and resourceful, informal, and ruthless enough!

However, you still have to find someone who is really high enough in martial arts and extremely reliable to assist you in this, after all, Shi Wengong will be transferred to the army by me sooner or later, and I also plan to let him serve as the deputy commander of the Liangshan Army, but he didn't carry it out because he didn't find an excuse or reason for the time being, so he can't help do this for a long time!"

He Daye squinted his eyes and listened, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Owner, compared to back then, you are really too mature, I still remember the first time I went to the bitter cold outpost with you to deliver supplies, your martial arts are average, your tone is not small, and you don't think about it carefully, I heard you say so much today, but I really found that you can see everything clearly!"

Thinking of the pure enthusiasm and impulse back then, Zhao Bufan also couldn't help laughing.

"This is also forced by this world, if I am still so impulsive, I am afraid that I have already become nourishment under the big tree!"

As he spoke, he looked at He Daye deeply, and said leisurely: "Uncle Daye, I am very glad to have met you back then, along the way, you have taught me a lot, and you have taught me a lot, in my heart, I treat you as an uncle and elder who treats you as a parent, and let you go to form the Heavenly Demon Palace, the danger is definitely not small, but I really have no way, now besides you, who else can I rely on to do this kind of thing?"

This time, the money drawn out of Juxian Village at one time, you will personally take 50,000 yuan, let the eldest mother take the children to Nanjing Yingtianfu to buy some land, get a Zhuangzi, change the name and surname, and live a comfortable life, if you can't easily settle down because of the armor protection system of the Great Song Dynasty, then tell me, I'll find a way! If you miss them in the future, then go quietly to see, don't drag down your family!"

"I can save it!" He Daye did not refuse, he deeply understood the serious consequences of making and selling illicit salt in large quantities, and then said loudly: "The matter of settling down, the owner of the village does not have to worry about it, the Great Song Dynasty government does everything is difficult, but if you have money, everything is easy to do, it is not a trivial matter to settle a household, I will arrange everything, but the person who assists me is more important, you had better decide as soon as possible, and I do have an ideal candidate!"

Zhao Bufan suddenly became interested: "Who? How about martial arts? Can you trust it? This person's main task is to help you convince everyone, but martial arts must be good enough!"

"His martial arts are not under the five tiger cavalry generals of the Liangshan Army, it should be between the two of them, no matter who is strong and who is weak, the gap between them is definitely not big!" Although He Daye's own martial arts are not high, he has a wide range of knowledge and a very vicious vision, and Zhao Bufan is very surprised that person can get such praise from him.

"Uncle Ohno, who is this person, where is he now, how can you be sure that he is trustworthy?"

He Daye said with a smile: "This person is the hall master of our Juxian Zhuang Snake Hall!"

"What is it?" Zhao Bufan was very puzzled, he hadn't been in charge of Juxianzhuang's affairs for a long time, and the affairs here had always been handed over to He Daye, and he only remembered Wu Song, Yang Zhi, Cao Zheng, Zhang Jiaotou and Shi Wengong and other early Juxianzhuang teams in his mind, and he didn't know what Juxianzhuang was like now.

He Daye saw that he didn't even care about these, and immediately said reproachfully: "You often let the people of Juxianzhuang go out to do errands, why don't you ask, our original tenants of Juxianzhuang no longer undertake the task of guarding, only responsible for production and labor, so Zhuangzi's guards are all martial arts experts recruited from everywhere, and as early as the end of last year, the establishment has been changed to six halls, each hall has more than 100 people, in addition to guarding Zhuangzi, they are also responsible for escorting goods on weekdays, In order to save trouble, I named it after the 12 zodiac signs, and planned to slowly develop into 12 halls, but there are only 6 halls at present, that is, Zirat Hall, Ugly Niu Hall, Yinhu Hall, Mao Rabbit Hall, Chenlong Hall and Si Snake Hall, each with its own division of labor!"

"I see!" Zhao Bufan was relieved, but when he thought of the names of these halls, he felt a little awkward in his heart, and couldn't help but smile and said: "Of course it's good to divide it like this, but can you consider this name more? Won't there be a dog hall and a pig hall in the future?" These names sound really indecent!"

Hearing this, He Daye suddenly glanced at him, and said angrily: "You should be a shopkeeper, don't care about anything, now it's easy to gossip, how can I have the leisure to think about the name, how convenient and how to get it, this Juxianzhuang is not a gang that really wants to dominate, but it is just a business to hide people's eyes and ears to make money, and making money is the right thing!"

"Okay!

Zhao Bufan spread his hands indifferently, and pulled the topic back in time: "Then who is the master of the Snake Hall that you are talking about?"

He Daye replied: "He is Tang Bin, nicknamed Bashan Lux, who was originally an officer in Pudong, and a friend of Guan Sheng, the commander of the Western Tiger General under your command, and Hao Siwen, the commander of the Guards Battalion, and is also quite famous in the rivers and lakes, but according to Guan Sheng's description, Tang Bin's previous personality was strong and upright, and he offended many people, and his ancestors accumulated a lot of good land and wealth for him, so he was hated by the local heroes. After Guan Sheng and Hao Siwen were recruited, the arrogant Tang Bin had no intimate person to help him, and was finally framed by gangsters who colluded with Shangguan, not only taking his family wealth, but also killing his wife and children.

In a fit of rage, he killed the enemy, fled his hometown, and came to the northern frontier to seek refuge with Guan Sheng and Hao Siwen. I sympathized with him after learning about what happened to him, and I saw that he was also a person who valued righteousness, and because of the face of Guan Sheng and Hao Siwen, I stayed in Zhuangzi to help. After that incident, although this person is still very righteous and kind, he is silent after all, and he is very cautious, which is just right for me to go to Cangzhou to take care of the private salt business!"

After hearing these words, Zhao Bufan was embarrassed, and sighed: "I have also heard of the name of the Pudong Three Heroes, but I didn't think that I transferred Guan Sheng and Hao Siwen, but I forgot Tang Bin, one of the Pudong Three Heroes, if I could think of this person and transfer the three of them together, it would not have made him suffer so much!"

He Daye sighed and shook his head slightly. "In life, how can fate be clearly explained, do you know who will suffer when? Even if you are a god in the sky, you know who will suffer when, but the world is so big, can you manage it? There is a poem that describes it well, Zhumen wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road, there are so many people suffering in the world of the Great Song Dynasty, who can manage it? Lord Yama is still too busy every day, let alone mortals like you and me!"

Zhao Bufan shook his head, didn't explain anything, and walked straight to the door, and it wasn't until the moment he was about to walk out that he looked back at He Daye, who was following behind him.

"Uncle Daye, after you arrive in Cangzhou, you must be kind to those households who were forced by us to open up salt fields, give them the best treatment, if there is really an accident one day, do your best to protect them, and even secretly ask Wei Chengfeng to send ships to send them to escape overseas!"

As soon as these words came out, He Daye immediately laughed happily.

"I don't know why, when you say this, my heart is really much more comfortable!"