Anxian has always been a salt-producing area, and there was an official post directly connected to the capital a hundred years ago. A pavilion is set up every ten miles and a pavilion is set up every hundred miles along the Qingzhou post road to provide transportation.
The amount of salt produced by the Blind Mountain Salt Farm far exceeded the transportation capacity of the Salt Administration Department. Several major civilian escorts took advantage of the situation to do business with the imperial court, and opened branches in Jinzhou to receive escorts and transport salt. Among them, Yufeng Escort Bureau and Nanbang Escort Bureau have the strongest transport capacity, with more than 20 escort cars passing through the post every day.
As the number of people traveling as escorts increased, the business of making a living from escort bureaus and escort masters on the post roads followed. On the road from Anxian to the capital, the most complicated things he saw were inns and horse shops besides posthouses and pavilions.
The soldiers of the Zhengsi Yamen often went to the posthouse to rest when they were away from home. This was to facilitate their official duties, and secondly, the Yamen could know their whereabouts. Civil escorts were not allowed to enter the inn, so they stayed at the inns along the way. With these fixed sources of tourists, the number of inns on several busy official posts is no less than that in the urban areas of ordinary state capitals. Escort walking is a hard and dangerous business. It is common for escorts to wear out several pairs of shoes during a long dart trip. Fortunately, the labor and wages provided by the escort agency are not low, and becoming a bodyguard is a very good way out for those who practice martial arts. At least it is easy to support a family of young and old.
He Zan is only considered a second-rate master in the arena, but the Southern Gang has more than 3,000 members. In addition, the Yuanxi Escort Agency has just been established, and his prestige in the arena is not weaker than that of first-rate masters such as Jin Shenfeng.
Xia Muren did not give up control of the salt source, and secretly ordered He Zan to set up Yuanxi, a salt escort bureau in Jinzhou. For more than a year, the Yuanxi Escort Bureau has transported high-quality pink salt from the salt field. When the escort truck arrived in Qingzhou, they quietly replaced the pink salt on the truck with lower-grade sand salt. The sand salt is sent to various state governments, while the pink salt is sold privately to salt merchants in various places to make huge profits.
The strategy of substituting bad salt for pink salt was not Xia Muren's idea, but it was his decision. This trick of substituting a pillar and substituting the sky for the sun cannot be hidden from the public. The state governments in various places have already noticed something fishy, but because the Yiwang Mansion mediates it, no one dares to report it to Tian Ting.
He Zan made a lot of money from this business of reselling pink salt. People cherish their lives when they have money, especially He Zan: a lot of money, a lot of people, and a good reputation.
The escort agency travels all over the country and is the most well-informed. Moreover, the Salt Gang is the number one gang in the world that dominates the Southern Gang, so He Zan is naturally particularly concerned about its movements. He has placed dozens of people in the Salt Gang. This time, almost half of the salt gang masters were dispatched, and it was impossible not to let any news leak out. He Zan had already discovered that they had gone to Pingzhou, and also knew that Xia Muren was in Pingzhou.
However, he concealed this extremely important news.
He Zan had his own plan, "If I tell King Yi the news, he will definitely ask me to come to my rescue. Jiudian and the Salt Gang are so powerful, how can I defeat him? No matter whether King Yi succeeds or fails, I will escape death. Why not just take it easy?" Pretending not to know at all, it is best for King Yi to survive this calamity safely. Even if King Yi dies, I have the Nanbang and Yuanxi Escort Agency in my hands, as well as a lot of money. Naturally, I can stand firm in the world. It may not be possible. I want the protection of Prince Yi's Mansion."
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" There was a knock on the door of the third room of the house.
"Who?" a man asked inside, with a hint of weariness in his voice.
The person who knocked on the door was the stable boy of the "Ping'an Inn". Hearing the guest's response, he hurriedly replied: "Dear guest, excuse me. I just went to feed your horse and found that it was dead. It’s better to go and take a look at the guests in the stable! I...I really don’t know!”
Being a waiter in an inn is a low-level job, and anyone who is more diligent can do it. Therefore, the labor and wages are not generous, and the monthly salary is only three to four hundred cash. Horses have hard-to-find legs and are expensive. The average breed is worth seven or eight taels. The horse that died in the stable was strong and tall. It was obviously a good breed. He couldn't afford to pay for it. Just after dawn, he took straw and yellow leaves to feed the horse. When he arrived at the stable, he saw the best horse vomiting blood and died in the manger. He was so frightened that he rushed over to report the matter, fearing that he would be blackmailed by the owner. .
There was a rustling sound in the guest room, and soon the door opened from the inside. The owner of the horse was a tall and strong man with a bearded face: "I won't go to see you anymore. I can't blame you for this. I have thirty taels of silver here. Go and give it to me." I'll find a horse with strong legs. Once you've found the horse, knock on the door and call me!" After saying this, he yawned and handed over the money bag in his hand. This bearded man was a soldier of Prince Jia's palace and was sent by Du Chong to deliver a message to Xia Muchao. He received a death order and had to travel day and night, with little rest along the way. The man could still endure it, but the horse was exhausted to death.
What about the horse? "Seeing that the horse owner was not surprised, the boy finally relaxed his tense heart and couldn't help but smile on his face as he asked.
"Just slaughter it! Leave me a few kilograms of tenderloin, cook it and wrap it up. You can eat the rest at the inn yourself!" The bearded man said impatiently, "Hurry up and get the money to buy me a horse. I'll Hurry on your way!"
How could the boy have imagined that instead of blaming the horse owner, he would give away hundreds of kilograms of beef for free? The money bag is heavy in my hand. I think I might have some left over to buy a horse, maybe even one or two taels. "To have such a good thing happen, I am really a blessing in disguise today!" The boy was overjoyed, he went to the money bag with a smile, and went downstairs.
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"Mr. Ping, let's hold them back while you wait for an opportunity to protect the prince and break out from the back door!" A Tong took advantage of the opportunity to retreat from the Salt Gang elder Gu Qingfeng and retreated to Xia Muren, calling the brothers Ping Bufan and Ping Buyong who were guarding him.
At this time, people from Jiudian, Prince Yun's Mansion, and the Yan Gang had all entered the courtyard, but only these twenty people were left around Xia Muren.
Twenty versus two hundred, Xia Muren's side had no chance of winning.
After Ah Tong said this, he fought with Yuan Changsheng and Gu Qingfeng who came up. The Northern Style Demon Subduing Palm he had practiced had reached the advanced level, and a pair of fleshy palms attacked Yuan and Gu like chopping knives, firmly gaining the upper hand with one against two.
"This hermaphrodite is extremely skilled in martial arts. We don't have much time. Let's go up together!" There are still thousands of disaster relief soldiers at the foot of the mountain. They can't say when they will come up. Bodhicitta does not want to delay, so he fights to destroy the demon and several Prince Yun's palaces. The master's way.
"That's right!" Bodhicitta is the leader of the Nine Halls, so everyone naturally follows him and agrees in unison.
"Let's do it together and fight quickly!" Bodhicitta turned around and roared at the men in black guarding the exits, then took the lead and hooked his claws at Ah Tong, who was fighting with Qian Changsheng and Gu Qingfeng. Seeing this, the others clenched the ice blades in their hands and rushed into the battle circle.
"Poof!" Ah Man was cut into two pieces by Wu Zuhui's Dapu knife...
"Ah!" Ahui let out a scream when his face was caught by a ghost hand while avoiding the long sword. At the moment when he was distracted, four or five ghost hands fell on him and cut him into pieces in the blink of an eye.
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Blood flowed into rivers, corpses piled up into mountains, and the ancestral hall was like a Shura field.
