On the second day, at dawn, Su Yonglin and Su Yong got up and prepared to return.
Going down to the first floor, Su Yonglin handed the business voucher issued by the Dinghai County government to the shopkeeper, told the whereabouts, and the shopkeeper began to take notes in detail.
[Two men, Su Yonglin and Su Yong, businessmen from Dinghai County, Qingyuan Prefecture, stayed at No. Jiazi for two nights. They arrived from Dinghai County to Lin'an on the morning of March 7th. They left the hotel early on March 9th and returned to Dinghai County from Lin'an.]
All information about the hotel must be recorded for inspection by the government at any time.
After recording, the shopkeeper settled the rent for Su Yonglin, and this pleasant stay in the hotel ended.
"The next time our guest comes to visit me, the shop will be cleaned and ready for you."
The shopkeeper bowed respectfully and sent the two of them out of the hotel.
After leaving the hotel, the two went straight to the city gate. At this time, the Lin'an City Gate was opened. The two of them passed the inspection of the city gate defenders and left Lin'an City smoothly.
After leaving the city gate and walking eastward, the two entered a forest. After walking in the forest for a while, Su Yong whistled, and after a while, three men appeared in front of Su Yonglin.
One of them is Su Changsheng, who was in charge of the operation yesterday.
The three of them knelt down on one knee in front of Su Yonglin.
"Alang."
Su Yonglin nodded seriously.
"Well, let's leave immediately."
"Here!"
There was a prepared donkey cart in the forest. Su Haisheng and Su Jue, who were in charge of the reception, drove the cart and prepared to go to the port to transfer to a ship. Su Changsheng, Su Yonglin and Su Yong got into the cart together.
"Alang, when I left in the morning, there was no news from the store. I guess Sun Yuanqi's matter has not been discovered yet."
Su Changsheng whispered.
Su Yonglin nodded and said nothing, but Su Yong had some questions.
"Is the medicine really effective? Can it kill people? I saw that Alang didn't have any reaction yesterday."
"Alang eats very little! Even the best medicine has to be taken in a certain dose to be effective. Even if it's something like arsenic, if you just take a little bit, you'll get a stomachache at most, but it won't kill you immediately. .
The thief Sun Yuanqi ate a lot, and the ingredients were mostly meat, so the effect was even better. He was old and obese. If he were a strong man, he might still be alive, but with his obese body, he would have a narrow escape. , even if you are lucky enough to survive, it will be useless, and life will be worse than death. "
Su Changsheng looked at Su Yong with disgust: "You are really a reckless man. Apart from being strong enough to fight and charge, what other strengths do you have?"
"Hey! You want to fight, don't you?"
Su Yong stared with a pair of bull's eyes, full of intimidation, like a Tibetan Mastiff with bursting hair.
Su Changsheng looked disdainful and very calm.
"We can't use it here. It's important to hurry up. Wait until we get back. Let's practice hard after we get back."
"Okay, you said so!"
Su Yong looked unhappy.
Su Yonglin smiled and shook his head but said nothing.
About half an hour later, a group of five people arrived at the port and found the Su family's ship that had been waiting for them for a long time. They boarded the ship and the ship immediately set sail for Dinghai County.
Standing at the stern of the ship, Su Yonglin looked at Lin'an City for the last time.
Leaving this time should be a farewell, and the possibility of coming back again is very slim.
Su Yonglin will take everything he has accumulated and go north to Shandong of the Jin Kingdom. He will join forces with the local powerful Zhao Kaishan to raise an army in an uprising, hoping to overthrow the rule of the Jin Kingdom in the Central Plains, recapture the Central Plains, and achieve his goal.
Of course this is difficult, narrow escape from death, but doing this will make him feel better and not so uncomfortable.
Living in the Southern Song Dynasty was very difficult for him.
Living in the Southern Song Dynasty, which was vassal to the Jin Kingdom, he felt particularly uncomfortable.
There is a saying that is right.
As long as you have some talent and work hard for three to five years, you should have some signs of success.
The blame is always placed on Qin Hui. Qin Hui is indeed a traitor who cannot be washed away. But now it is twenty-eight years in Shaoxing and Qin Hui has been dead for three years. The Southern Song Dynasty is still the Southern Song Dynasty, and there is no hope of changing back to the Northern Song Dynasty.
What else can I say?
There was certainly no hope for the Southern Song Dynasty.
Su Yonglin didn't want to be a romantic talent and gain fame, nor did he want to be famous in history with a group of patriotic poets such as Lu You, Fan Chengda, Yang Wanli, etc., to be a war minister for a lifetime, and then be admired by future generations.
That's ironic.
Because from beginning to end, they couldn't change anything.
Thousands of poems have been written, and tears have been shed hundreds of times. The Southern Song Dynasty is still the Southern Song Dynasty.
No matter how hard we fight, no matter how persistent we are, no matter how patriotic we are, the Southern Song Dynasty will still be the Southern Song Dynasty.
It never changed back to the Northern Song Dynasty.
Su Yonglin knew what would happen to the Southern Song Dynasty after giving up, so he wanted to fight and use his own life to fight for a future with a slim future.
This era no longer needs another patriotic poet who is a war-fighting patriotic poet who speaks out loudly and bitterly.
What it needs is one more warrior who is willing to fight and die in the Central Plains with a three-foot sword.
The Southern Song Dynasty couldn't do it, so let me try.
Of course, Su Yonglin is not an iron-headed boy who wants to single-handedly kill people in the Central Plains when his blood rushes to his head.
He had such an idea, naturally because he had the foundation to do so - Su Yonglin was the leader of a smuggling salt gang and was quite powerful.
He manages more than 300 well-trained full-time core members, as well as thousands of part-time peripheral members as assistants, and more than 30 ships that appear to be merchant ships but are actually armed at any time to gallop across the sea and fight with competitors. Small warship.
This is naturally not the fortune he has saved.
In fact, starting from his grandfather Su Dingguang, the Su family has been engaged in smuggling salt for three consecutive generations. This family business was also saved with painstaking efforts by his grandfather Su Dingguang.
Su Yonglin's grandfather, Su Dingguang, was not a great master.
He is an official on the surface, but secretly uses his authority to sell private salt and profit from it.
He has done everything from killing, stealing goods, and annexing other private salt gangs by force. He can be said to be ruthless and ruthless, and he has single-handedly built a large-scale private salt trading group.
Of course, he wasn't like this from the beginning.
The Su family is from the north, originally from Shandong. During the Jingkang crisis, Su Dingguang, who was still young at the time, did not want to be a slave of the Jin people, so he resolutely crossed south and moved to Dinghai County.
At the beginning of the southern crossing, Su Dingguang still had the ideal of the Northern Expedition. He was really unwilling to be humiliated and really wanted the Northern Expedition. He spoke out and actively participated in the Northern Expedition.
He once did logistical support work for Yue Fei's Northern Expedition, and even once personally participated in a battle to defend the city, killing three Jin soldiers with his own hands, working hard and hoping for the success of the Northern Expedition.
In the twelfth year of Shaoxing, Yue Fei died unjustly. The peace-promoting faction presided over the government, actively negotiated peace, and vigorously rejected the war-promoting officials. The great cause of the Northern Expedition came to nothing.
Su Dingguang, as the most staunch main combatant, was naturally transferred away from the front line of the war. After a period of operations, he became a complete civilian official who did not participate in the military.
After his ideal was shattered, Su Dingguang saw that returning fallen leaves to his roots had become an extravagant hope. He was in great pain and fell into depression for a time.
As for how he embarked on the road of selling illegal salt and how he completed this mental journey, Su Yonglin didn't know.
Su Yonglin only knew that the sale of illegal salt was not a rare thing in the local official circles of the Southern Song Dynasty. There were also many officials who secretly manipulated the illegal salt sales gangs to manufacture illegal salt and profit from illegal salt sales.
Almost all officials with some power will privately buy cheap and high-quality private salt for consumption instead of expensive and low-quality official salt.
Su Dingguang is just one of them.
Dinghai County is located on the seaside and has the advantage of sea salt. Su Dingguang used his authority to provide shelter and convenience to the first batch of Dinghai County residents who sold illegal salt, and collected huge benefits from them.
In the Song Dynasty, the salt tax was extremely heavy. After the southern migration, inflation made the salt tax even heavier. Almost 90% of the price of a pound of salt was tax.
Common people suffer from the poor quality of official salt, which is moist, yellow, bitter, and unpalatable to eat. They even use half a catty as a pound, and sometimes even run out of stock and cannot supply it.
Even if the quality is poor, the price is also expensive. In the early days of the Southern Song Dynasty war in Shaoxing, the price of salt even soared to one to two guans.
In ordinary years, the cost of making salt is about fifteen cents, and the selling price can be between one hundred and two hundred cents. There are also higher and astonishing profits, which makes the people miserable.
The private salt is white in color, has high purity and is not bitter. In order to gain market share, it is often sold at one and a half pounds per pound, and the price is generally more than twice as cheap as official salt.
So the market is extremely huge.
Where there is a market, there are brave men. A large number of "courageous and knowledgeable" private salt dealers organized themselves and sold private salt with arms. The farther along the coast and farther away from Lin'an, the more rampant the private salt sales activities became.
Su Dingguang keenly seized the business opportunities, and gradually became no longer satisfied with being a protective umbrella, so he killed the original leader and acted as the new leader. He personally integrated a private salt sales gang, obtained high profits, and made a lot of money. Full.
He is also very aware of crises and risks. After making money, he knows how to manage things from top to bottom, not just to fight with force.
The entire relevant government organizations in Qingyuan Prefecture and Dinghai County, the local tea and salt department, and the central government's Ministry of Finance, all those in charge of salt were clearly managed by him.
In fact, local officials are unwilling to really confront armed private salt dealers. The private salt dealers are really ruthless, and the officials are really going to be ruthless. They use some dark tricks in private, and local officials and their families are not protected.
If the officials don't care, private salt dealers will not disturb social security too much and they will live in peace. Therefore, outside Lin'an, local officials are basically reluctant to get involved in matters related to private salt dealers.
So using Dinghai County in Qingyuan Prefecture as his base, he even expanded his private salt business outside Qingyuan Prefecture and headed south to compete with other private salt dealers for the market.
In order to compete for the market, he raised thugs, organized armed forces, privately owned ordnance, and armed his own thug group with the military knowledge and logistics knowledge he learned from Yue Fei's Northern Expedition.
Not only on land, but also on sea.
He used the money he earned to build and buy ships, set up a trading firm in the name of his relatives and friends, and find people to do white gloves to build a merchant fleet in a legitimate name.
In name, it is a merchant fleet engaged in regular trade, but in fact it is an armed smuggling salt fleet that plies between Dinghai and the southern states and counties. It is a well-known fleet in the field of smuggling salt.
Around the 16th year of Shaoxing, the situation became more and more serious, and the illegal sale of salt on land gradually became dangerous. Thanks to Su Dingguang's management, someone in the court revealed the news to him in advance, giving Su Dingguang time to prepare in advance.
Su Dingguang thought hard, and at the suggestion of his son, Su Yonglin's cheap dad Su Shengren, he changed his mind and moved the private salt manufacturing base from land to the island.
He moved his entire salt-making factory to an undeveloped island among the large archipelago in the northeast of Dinghai County, and rebuilt the salt-making factory in a cave on the island.
Made on the island and transported by sea ship to various places along the coast for sale, it not only plays a concealing role, but also prevents people from reporting secretly and being patrolled by the government.
All workers and families in the salt factory must live on the island, and all supplies are transported by sea ships to increase confidentiality and organization.
In this way, around the 16th year of Shaoxing, a large number of private salt selling organizations were cracked down by the Lin'an Forbidden Army. The private salt operation suffered a heavy blow, but the Sujia Private Salt Group was not attacked, and quickly seized share and expanded its market share.
The Su family's "merchant fleet" had a maximum of thirty-seven ships, turning the coastal areas into their own cornucopia, and the family was extremely wealthy.
Su Yonglin grew up in such a family. Not only did he study since childhood, but he also secretly participated in the smuggling of salt, which was euphemistically called - inheriting the family business.
He practiced martial arts at the age of seven and learned some military knowledge in preparation for inheriting the family business.
Like Su Shengren, Su Dingguang also arranged for Su Yonglin to have some cronies by his side so that they could develop a relationship from an early age and serve as a core team to control the private salt group in the future.
Since Su Dingguang was the only one who brought his wife and children south when the Su family traveled south, and later even after much effort, he had no other children, Su Shengren gave birth to only Su Yonglin, so the Su family was thin.
Without blood relatives, we can only accept outsiders, and then give them the surname Su and make them our own. These people are mainly children born in the family, and there are also some orphans bought from outside. They have a clean family background, know their roots, and are easy to use.
Su Yonglin, Su Changsheng, Su Haisheng and others around Su Yonglin were all carefully selected and sent by Su Dingguang during this period.
Seeing that the Sujia Private Salt Sales Group is prospering, a better tomorrow is beckoning.
Unfortunately, things can't always be smooth sailing.
