Hearing this, these young people shouted in surprise and asked what was going on? Jiayin could only calm down Tan Mo one by one and let them wait patiently. However, although these people were calmed down, they were still restless!
Because these young people know very well how attractive this price is to the villages in the mountains! A large part of the income in the village is used to buy salt! Official salt is very expensive and is often out of stock! They can only endure the exploitation of private salt dealers!
If, as Jiayin said, they could get a hundred cents per catty of salt, or even two hundred cents per catty of salt, they would be able to become great heroes in the village!
Time passed while everyone was waiting anxiously, and to Cain's disappointment, no ship came in the evening. It looks like it won’t arrive until tomorrow! And the next day he was disappointed again! Because he waited until it was almost evening, but no ship arrived! But this is normal, after all, a sailboat is not as easy to drive as a modern ship!
But just as I was leaving the dock in disappointment tonight, at a fork in the road more than ten miles away from Donglai Town, there were more than a dozen big men with thick bodies and ferocious faces standing or sitting there, as if waiting. who!
Just when they started to get a little impatient, they saw a group of people, about twenty people in total, coming from a fork in the road. These people's clothes are similar to those people, and they are not good people at first glance!
The two teams quickly approached, and a strong man walked out of the waiting crowd and shouted to the other team: "Boss Hu, I finally waited for you to come!"
Boss Hu, the leader of the team, also smiled and greeted loudly: "Zhao Changshan. You came early, didn't you wait too long?"
Zhao Changshan swung his two long legs to meet him, and said as he walked: "Don't worry, we have just arrived!"
As they spoke, the two teams formed one team. The people below greeted each other and each found a place to sit down and rest. They were tired after walking on the mountain road for a while.
After the leaders on both sides met, Zhao Changjiu said: "Boss Hu, thanks to your idea, I can escape this time! Otherwise, I'm afraid my head would have been cut off by now!"
When Boss Hu heard this, he laughed twice proudly, and then said: "That's natural! Those officials, both high and low, are very greedy. As long as they have money, there is nothing they dare not do. thing!"
Zhao Changjiu said with admiration: "Boss Hu is indeed very righteous! By the way, these brothers and I have already discussed that we will work with Boss Hu in the future and follow Boss Hu's ideas!"
Boss Hu was overjoyed when he heard this. He patted Zhao Changshan on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, good brother! As long as we work together, we will definitely be able to monopolize the salt in the mountains! Those mountain people are very stupid and don't know anything! We don’t have any dealings with the government and don’t know anything about the outside world. This is a good opportunity for us brothers to make a fortune! Don’t worry, as long as my brother has a bite to eat in the future, you will definitely be indispensable!”
After hearing the words of the two leaders, the people below also knew that they were about to become a family, and their expressions were obviously much more affectionate than before, and they also began to call each other brothers.
It turns out that Boss Hu, Zhao Changjiu and others are just small salt lords with only three or five people under them. They usually only sell private salt in these remote areas to earn some hard money! Although I can't make a fortune, I can live a very comfortable life!
But not long ago, the official news about the caravan suddenly changed! The officials began to dispatch strong squads of archers and guardsmen to hunt down salt owls, big and small! As long as the salt owl is caught, beheaded first, then the house is ransacked, and then the salt owl's family is sold, ensuring that all the soup, soup, and water are swallowed up!
If those salt owls in the past were not necessarily afraid of these strong archers, then they were not afraid of the guardsmen either! Because these people are not desperadoes, but the salt lords are! No one wants to risk their lives and fight the salt owl! After all, everyone is just making a living, who wants to risk their lives with the salt lords!
But this time it’s different! The superior officials suppressed it step by step, and strictly ordered that the salt lords in various states and counties must be eradicated and illicit salt sales must be completely eliminated! With this order, the people below have to take action!
Usually these salt lords sell private salt in a semi-public manner, so it is not difficult to find them. And it's not difficult to catch them
, the most important thing is not to let them gather together!
After figuring this out, the officials from all over the country strictly kept secrets, made arrangements quietly, and then struck with thunder! The final result is to kill the salt lords with more and less, and kill them all!
As for why the salt owl was hacked to death immediately after catching it, it was naturally for his family property! If there were any living persons, wouldn't the accounts of the family property be incompatible? As long as he is killed and the family is sold, then it is up to the person who handles it to decide how much property is confiscated!
After taking down the first salt owl and tasting the sweetness, the people below spontaneously took action and began to hunt the salt owl! Without him, it’s just because Yan Xiao’s family property is so rich! As the saying goes, wealth moves people's hearts. Officials and soldiers at all levels became extremely powerful because of the Yan Xiao's property. They took advantage of the fact that they had no one to organize and began to take the initiative to attack frequently. The results were extremely fruitful!
So all of a sudden, salt owls all over the world were hit hard! Especially the little salt owl like Hu Boss Zhao Changjiu is easier to deal with. There are only three or five people in their group, and any team can defeat them! Therefore, little salt lords like them are actively targeted by low-level officials in various yamen! As for the big salt owl, the adults above will naturally mobilize a large team of people to deal with it!
The Little Salt Owls are different from the Big Salt Owls in that they rarely have contact with the government. Because their money cannot bribe high-ranking officials, and they cannot get any useful information from lower-level officials, they have become the easiest targets!
However, Boss Hu is a little different from the other little salt lords, because he has a half-brother who was born after his mother remarried after his father died! And his brother actually worked as a clerk in the county government and won the trust of the chief clerk! He became Boss Hu's life-saving straw!
Boss Hu's family was better off after he became a salt owl, so he often sent some money to his mother. So the relationship between the two brothers is not bad! In particular, Boss Hu also knows that his identity as a salt owl cannot be put on the table, so every time he goes to his brother's house, he always goes on his back. No one knows that the two are brothers! Read the book
As a result, just when the government started to hunt down the salt owl, his brother risked his life to send him the news and told him the cause and effect of the whole thing. This scared Boss Hu!
