I just want to make money

Chapter 200 Private Salt Business
In a blink of an eye, it entered the twelfth lunar month.

Lin Yi planned to visit Liangshan in Shuibo, and came to Zhou Tong's room, "Teacher, I have some business out of town. I plan to go out for inspection at the end of the year. I will come back in about ten days and a half."

Zhou Tong nodded.

"Naturally, if you have a business, you have to take care of it. If you have time, don't leave behind your practice."

"I know teacher."

Going back to the house, I talked to the girls of Jinlian again, rode on a horse at home, and rushed to Liangshan County, arrived in Liangshan County in the evening, stayed in the inn in the city for one night, changed my clothes the next day, and set off to By the water.

"Oh, the second master is here!"

Just as Lin Yi arrived at Zhu Gui's hotel by the waterside, Zhu Gui greeted him with two of his little bosses. He already knew that Lin Yi was coming because someone on guard had informed him in advance.

Lin Yi dismounted,
Throw the rein to the buddy, and the buddy catches it quickly, and will take it to the backyard to take care of it without ordering.

Very happy to see Lin Yi and Zhu Gui, he stepped forward and cupped his hands.

"Second leader, you have been here for three or four months. During this time, you have made a name for yourself on our Shandong Road. Many people came to worship the mountain, and they all said that you were subdued by you." Zhu Gui started talking endlessly. Speak up.

"Is it okay on the mountain?"

"Everything is fine. Since we changed robbing to charging, we earn more and have more time to train. Now we practice according to the method you left behind, and our combat power has improved a lot compared to before." Zhu Gui said.

"Okay, take me up the mountain by boat." Lin Yi said.

"okay."

Zhu Gui immediately arranged a boat, and he himself followed, and several people came to the cottage together, the four gates of the cottage, when the leaders saw Lin Yi, they quickly opened the gate to welcome him, and respectfully called out the second master.

Wang Lun, a scholar in white, heard the report from the mountain that Lin Yi was coming, so he hurriedly led people out to greet him, and met Lin Yi at the second gate of the village.

"Ping An Lang, you are here, brothers miss you very much." He said and stepped forward to pull Lin Yi's hand.

Next to him, Du Qian and Song Wan also came to say hello, and another guy came to greet him, but it was Jiang Dali. This guy's original Heifeng Village was destroyed by Lin Yi, and he was homeless. After Lin Yi took him in, let him He came to Shuibo Liangshan, and this guy is now the sixth head of Shuibo Liangshan.

The crowd came to the hall.

After sitting down, I began to describe the situation of the past few months.

After Lin Yi reformed Liangshan, Liangshan now has two incomes, one is tolls, and now the reputation has spread, the number of passing ships has more than doubled than before, and they all pay obediently. The current income is the same as before Lin Yi came More than three times that, and very stable.

This income is more than enough to feed 5000 people.

Another income is selling private salt.

In fact, during this period, the sale of illicit salt in the Song Dynasty was very rampant. Wherever salt was produced, smuggling of salt would be accompanied by smuggling. In addition to gangs of hundreds of people gathering to sell salt, there are often thousands of people in groups, armed with arms, selling smuggling goods.

It was rumored that most of Fang La and his subordinates were from salt smuggling gangs, and his uprising was also funded by smuggling salt gangs.

Shandong Road is near the sea, so there is naturally salt production. This business is now in charge of Du Qian. He has led people to open a channel for buying, transporting and selling salt. Now the monthly income is also very considerable, and it is still increasing.

This sales channel, of course, also includes the few copycats that Lin Yi took over, and now they all participate in private salt trading.

Lin Yi was very happy with their results.

"It's almost the Chinese New Year, and I plan to invite people from other hills to gather here. They are now our Liangshan brothers. How do you feel about it?" Lin Yi asked a few people.

"Okay, of course it's good. We're all brothers, so we should get together during the Chinese New Year." The white-clothed gentleman Wang Lun was the first to agree.

Lin Yi looked at Zhu Gui, "Brother Zhugui, please send someone to Qingfeng Mountain, Wangyue Mountain, Gusongpo, Hutouling, Jiudaogou, and Mopan Mountain to send a letter, saying that Brother Wang Lun and I , and all the masters on the mountain, invite them to spend the New Year together in the cottage.”

Zhu Gui bowed his hand and immediately sent someone to deliver the letter.

at night,

A big seat is placed in the Juyi Hall.

Several chiefs and many small chiefs drank and chatted together.

When it comes to the toll business, people are full of praise for Lin Yi, and a little boss said:
"Second master, don't look at us taking money from them, but those ship owners and merchants are happy instead. There are many more merchant ships now than before. When I heard rumors that we took the money, they shipped the goods with peace of mind and made more money than before. many."

Another little leader answered: "That's natural. In the past, they were afraid of us robbing them, so some detoured, and some didn't dare to buy too much at one time. Now we clearly mark the price, and those who dare not leave will come, and they dare not buy too much." Those who dare to buy more, this time our income has increased a lot.”

"But I heard that the bandits on the other side of the road are having a hard time now. The merchants are all going to our side, and the business there is getting less and less."

When Lin Yi heard this, he immediately had an idea, and said to Wang Lun, Du Qian and others: "Master, brothers, I think this is a good opportunity."

"What good opportunity?" Du Qian asked.

"We can send people over to those cottages where life is difficult. Let them join Shuibo Liangshan. They won't have to worry about making a living in the future. We have also strengthened our strength. Isn't it killing two birds with one stone?"

Wang Lun immediately nodded and said, "Lang Ping'an's idea is good. In this way, there are still some days before the New Year's Eve. Tomorrow, I will send someone to those cottages to deliver a message. Those who are willing to come over will come and celebrate the New Year together."

Du Qian immediately said: "I will send someone to handle this matter tomorrow."

Lin Yi was not idle on the mountain. From the next day, he began to practice the gangsters in the cottage again, taking them to exercise together.

Morning practice is over,

Lin Yi played games with these boss minions, letting them attack him with multiple people, using swords, guns, swords and halberds casually, of course, they are all wooden swords and guns, while he is a wooden gun with a head wrapped, but it is more powerful than ordinary guns. Much thicker and longer.

At the beginning, there were 12 people. These guys practiced three-three tactics. A group of three rushed towards Lin Yi. Lin Yi waved his big gun and knocked down these guys with three or five blows.

"Twice as many."

This time there were 24 opponents, and Lin Yi easily defeated them again, knocking them all down on the ground.

"Double more this time."

This time it became 48 people, Lin Yi was surrounded in the middle, and he still didn't seem to be flustered against the 48 people alone.

Wang Lun, Du Qian, Song Wan, Zhu Gui, and Jiang Dali also watched from the outside, and everyone was amazed at Lin Yi's force and strength.

"Third brother, why do I feel that the second leader is stronger than before?" Song Wan asked Du Qian.

"Maybe it was the second master who didn't show it before. After all, that's already far better than us. Is it necessary to show even better?" Du Qian said.

Song Wan nodded,
That may be true.

The 48 people were still defeated in the end, and they were not Lin Yi's opponent. Lin Yi roared, "One hundred this time!"

bang.

A hundred people besieged Lin Yi.

Lin Yi dashed left and right, sometimes dodging surprise attacks, and sometimes sweeping down a group of people vigorously. Although there were as many minions as tides, Lin Yi was as firm as a rock in the water.

finally,
Lin Yi actually defeated a hundred minions.

They were too scared to go forward.

Wang Lun, Du Qian, Zhu Gui and others watching the play were all shocked, Song Wan and Jiang Dali trembled with excitement, how much they wanted to become an invincible fighter like Lin Yi.

Du Qian exclaimed: "Pingan Lang is really a peerless general. The ancient overlord Xiang Yu, Wen Hou Lu Bu, Datang Yuchi Jingde, and Xue Rengui are nothing more than that."

Wang Lun looked at Du Qian and thought to himself, I am afraid he is stronger than them. He is not only strong in force, but also has spells that you don't know, who can test the magic of ghosts and gods.

Workout is over.

Lin Yi went to the warehouse to look at private salt, accompanied by Du Qian.

Du Qian was in charge of this business. Private salt was brought back from the outside, stopped at Shuibo Liangshan, and then sent to all directions, especially the three prefectures and fifteen counties around Shuibo. Each county has developed a seller.

There is a load of coarse salt in the warehouse. When you lift the tarpaulin to see, it is the most primitive coarse salt, with a yellowish color, and there are mud and grass clippings on it. It is probably fished out of the salt pond and transported directly to the interior. Lu started selling.

Lin Yi knew that the common people in ancient times ate this kind of coarse salt.

Impurities and harmful chemicals are nothing to ordinary people, and some of them are good to eat. The price of such salt is also very expensive in salt shops, and ordinary people should eat sparingly.

The imperial court stipulated that smuggling salt was a felony, and it was also illegal for ordinary people to buy illegal salt, and the price of illegal salt was often only half of the official salt. In order to be able to afford salt, ordinary people had no choice but to take risks to buy illegal salt.

Now on the market, there is a kind of salt that is better than coarse salt, called green salt, which is blue in color and better than sea salt.

Of course, the price is also high. Now the green salt is mainly from Xixia. For the trade of green salt, Xixia and Song Dynasty have fought many times. Green salt is an important trade resource of Xixia. The Song Dynasty did not allow imports, so it started wars.

Holding a large piece of salt in Lin Yi's hand, he was thinking about something, green salt is actually nothing, it's just that there is no good purification technology in this era, but this can't help Lin Yi, in fact, the purification of salt is not complicated.

He can easily make snowflake salt that is better than green salt.

Pour the coarse salt into a wooden barrel to dissolve, and let it stand for about five or six hours to allow the sediment to settle completely, remove the grass clippings, and use a fine water pipe to drain the supernatant into another clean wooden barrel.

Burn limestone with charcoal to make quicklime, add water to make lime milk, pour the lime milk into a brine bucket and stir to remove the bitterness.

Let it stand for several hours to make the milk of lime precipitate, take the supernatant, and distill it to obtain snowflake salt.

But now, don't worry, the consumer group of Snowflake Salt must be those high-ranking officials and nobles, and ordinary people can't afford it, so this technology should be used to make money when you can control it.

As for the sea salt.

In fact, it is not as exaggerated as people say, eating dead people and the like.

Ancient people have eaten coarse salt for thousands of years, and they are alive and kicking. For the common people, they are healthy. They eat coarse salt and care about their health. It is already good to eat it.

Besides, are those modern gadgets with a lot of chemicals added to them really better than these? Not necessarily.

"How about the profit of private salt?" Lin Yi asked Du Qian.

Du Qian said with a smile: "Ten Wen per catty, pure profit."

Don't underestimate 10 Wen coins, with the scale of smuggling in Liangshan, one hundred thousand coins a year is easy, this thing is a necessity of life, and you don't have to worry about selling it.

The only problem is that they are afraid of being investigated by the government, but they are bandits themselves, and they will be punished if they do not sell private salt, so they are afraid of being investigated by the government.

"Other copycats follow suit. How much can they earn a year? Do they buy copycats?" Lin Yi asked.

Du Qian patted his chest and said: "This private salt business is enough for them to support the cottage, and it's just the beginning now. In the future, the channels will become wider and wider, and they will only earn more."

(End of this chapter)