Mei Liren said: "I have thought of this, so what I want to tell you is that this time you should send out some of your own servants, especially the archers, and send them out as much as possible! "
The Ming Dynasty allowed private individuals to own weapons, but not armor or bows and arrows! Because bows and arrows are long-range weapons, they are hard to guard against! Once someone shoots a cold arrow, those political dignitaries will easily die! Therefore, bows and arrows must be banned among the people!
As for the reason for prohibiting civilians from hiding armor, it is even simpler! Officers and soldiers have armor, but bandits don’t! In a war between those with armor and those without armor, the one with armor will definitely win! Therefore, once the government discovers that someone is secretly hiding armor, bows and arrows, it will basically be a crime of confiscation of the house, and they will not be able to escape!
Qiu He also said: "That's a good thing! Also, let's work together this time and give more money to the salt lords so that they can recruit more desperadoes. This way, we will be more certain of success!"
He Yunshan nodded and said, "I agree with this! What is silver? It's like dirt! You can earn back your money at any time!"
In this way, several people successfully reached an agreement, that is, to stop Liu Haojia with all their strength! Then they made plans. That is to divide into two parts to snipe Liu Haojia!
The first step is to contact familiar water bandits and gather them into a large group to attack the fleet transporting salt cargo! It would be best if we could sink them all! Of course, this is definitely impossible, so the rest is on land!
As soon as the team transporting salt cargo on land sets off, they will be targeted. After all, there are only a few places where you can land on the Yangtze River. At that time, the salt owl will also be gathered into a large team to rob and kill the caravan! And they also awarded a silver reward, ten taels of silver for killing a person! It seems that they are planning to kill the people who helped Liu Haojia all at once, so that no one will dare to take his business in the future!
The reason why they were able to grasp Liu Haojia's information so quickly was because he did not hide the information about the salt transport team at all, and openly showed it to the world. On the other hand, it’s because of the existence of Salt Owl!
As the main force in selling salt, salt owls are large and small! And just like the distribution teams of later generations, they have strict classifications and regions!
After the salt merchants obtain the private salt, they will distribute it to big salt lords in various places, and these big salt lords can often control a dozen or even dozens of offline people! Therefore, they do not participate in retailing themselves, but distribute private salt according to the ability of the offline.
These mid-level salt lords are basically characters who can occupy at least one county seat. Since the county and its nearby villages are densely populated and have high incomes, the price of salt here is relatively high and the profits are huge!
Moreover, such salt lords often have relatively fixed shops in the city, and they basically use grocery stores to cover up their illegal salt sales. But in fact, this behavior is actually a secret that everyone knows. You can sell private salt semi-publicly by just paying local officials or policemen!
As for the ones that ran to other villages, it was the little salt owl, but these little salt owl were often the most ferocious! Their numbers are small, each person can only occupy one or two or several villages, and the price is not high! And you have to carry a load or push a cart to the village. ap.
Under such circumstances, they are most vulnerable to attack, so these little salt owls are likely to be replaced at any time due to failure in the fight, or lose their own market! So once they fight, they are extremely fierce!
So such a classification system actually forms a dense intelligence network! As long as a salt owl at the bottom gets a certain message and passes it to the salt owl at the upper level, the news will soon appear in the hands of the person at the top! It can be said that this network throughout the Ming Dynasty is much more powerful than Jin Yiwei's surveillance network!
The only regret is that this network is unstable and often causes temporary interruptions due to mutual annexation and fighting. However, this interruption is very short-lived. In just ten days, a disconnected node will be replenished!
The five censors easily sketched out a rough plan, and the goals they set were very practical. They did not require killing all the transport ships, as long as they could sink more than 60% of them! The salt owls on land will take care of the rest.
After they set the tone, Qiu He gave instructions
Then a middle-aged scribe in green shirt was passed outside the pavilion by the maid. Qiu He briefly stated the plan and then sent him away.
After leaving the garden, the scribe walked directly into a cross-courtyard. There were more than a dozen scribes enjoying the cool air in the courtyard. Seeing him coming back, these people stood up one after another to greet the scribe, asking if he had given any orders or if the superiors had made up their minds.
The middle-aged scribe nodded to indicate that he had been informed, and then repeated what he had just heard. His memory is also pretty good, and he said almost every word of what Qiu He said. Then he coughed and said: "Since the above has given orders, let's make a plan to see which people will be used and how much silver it will cost? Please note that the master's family also has many servants to be sent out this time. A list will be sent to you later, and you can make arrangements accordingly."
As soon as he finished speaking, a servant walked into the courtyard quickly and said loudly: "Mr. Zhang, the master of the house asked me to send you a list for your consideration."
The middle-aged scribe known as Mr. Zhang reached out and took the order and nodded casually. The servant hurriedly returned the gift and quietly left. It seems that this person has a very high status in Qiu He's family!
In fact, the status of these people in the yard is not low in each family, because they are the staff hired by these five major salt merchants! Perhaps it is difficult for them to pass the Jinshi examination, but these people are familiar with history and geography, understand the world, and are resourceful. They are completely the brains of major families! Whatever ideas the heads of each family have are turned into plans and then arranged through them! This shows the ability and importance of these people!
And these people did indeed live up to the salary given to them by their masters. The dozen or so people cooperated very well! Some people took the map, some took the roster, and some were responsible for recording. At the same time, everyone discussed quickly. The entire plan was completed in less than an hour, and the envoys and people who escorted the money were selected! Even the lists of water bandits and salt owl are ready.
When everything was done, Mr. Zhang threw the pen on the table and said cheerfully: "If the matter is completed this time, I can guarantee that there will be no worries for ten years!"
