Water Margin people

Chapter 198 Smuggling Business
"Xiao has little unruly behavior, and has no reputation for hometown songs. He is an ignorant person. Nowadays, slanderous people are high-minded, wise men are unknown, and although they are easy-going and easy-going, they will not be able to reach the ninth level. See Xiao Some aspiring heroes, regardless of life and death, who go to the public house for disaster, if they act improperly, those who protect their wives with their whole body will be the matchmaker, and their wealth and life are all in the hands of others. Like Xiao The wild cranes in the clouds, why can't they fly?"

Xiao Jiasui stared at Sun Lei and said, these words have already explained his thoughts, if Sun Lei has Zhao'an's thoughts, he and Sun Lei are not the same.

"Mr. Xiao is very similar to me. I don't like to entrust my life to other people's hands. I am a loose character and I am not very good at observing words and expressions. But fortunately, I still have a little self-knowledge. The official life is ups and downs. If I go to the officialdom, I will be afraid. It's a sheep entering the tiger's mouth!"

Sun Lei laughed at himself and expressed his attitude that he is not suitable for being in the officialdom, and this makes it impossible for him to Zhao'an.

Xiao Jiasui just looked at Sun Lei, and he did see these faults in Sun Lei during the short time he got along with him. Seemingly minor faults are fatal in the officialdom.

"One more thing, I am the same as Mr. Xiao, I want to build an ideal world! Mr. Xiao is willing to follow me to see!"

Sun Lei pointed to the Liangshan town road outside the water park.

"Xiao is willing to meet my brother!"

Xiao Jiasui clasped his fists and bowed to Sun Lei. Sun Lei's last words spoke to his heart. He also has the same ambition. He only has a little hope in Liangshanbo when he travels all over the world. Although it is slim, he wants to grasp it.

"Brother, I'm going to town!"

San Ruan was training his water skills by the beach, Ruan Xiaoqi had sharp eyes, and when he saw Sun Lei coming, he hurried forward.

"Go to town with Mr. Xiao!"

Sun Lei nodded with a smile.

"Brother, wait a minute, I'm going to go boating now!"

Ruan Xiaoqi immediately ran to the pier to prepare the boat.

"Mr. Xiao, how about this navy?"

Sun Lei pointed to the navy that Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaowu were training and asked with a smile.

"Brother, this navy is enough to stop tens of thousands of enemies!"

Xiao Jiasui smiled and said that the navy is different from other types of troops, water skills are the hard requirement, good water skills are enough to deal with dozens of times the number of enemies on the water.

"It's just that there are fewer boats!"

Sun Lei said, this time the Jeju Xiangbing sent dozens of decent big boats, and the rest of the small boats were not enough to look at, and they were about the same as fishing boats.

After getting on the boat, Ruan Xiaoqi quickly rowed out of the water.

"Xiaoqi, don't you follow to train the navy?"

Sun Lei looked at Ruan Xiaoqi who was following and asked.

"Brother, it's enough to have the second brother and the fifth brother. I'm not very good at training soldiers."

Ruan Xiaoqi chuckled, Sun Lei just shook his head and didn't say anything when he saw it, everyone is different, Ruan Xiaoqi is the best of the three brothers, but he is also the most out-of-the-ordinary.

The morning market in Liangshan Town has not yet dispersed, and there is an endless stream of villagers selling and buying goods.

"Brother, why is this market town so lively? Are the villagers by the water so rich?"

Xiao Jiasui looked suspiciously at the crowded streets and was very puzzled. Last night, he thought it was a celebration, but today's sight is even more extraordinary. I'm afraid it wasn't that the villagers from tens of miles around came to the market.

"Rich? Xiao Qi is a native, tell me."

Sun Lei smiled and pointed at Ruan Xiaoqi.

"Brother Xiao, how can there be any money? This pond is flooded all the year round, and the good land will be flooded whenever it is flooded. There is no food to grow, and the dry land in the high place has low yield. We can only guard the water pond to fish and just make ends meet. "

Ruan Xiaoqi said, besides looking at the sky and eating at the waterside, he also depends on the face of the water. He has never been rich, let alone rich.

"I see!"

Xiao Jiasui suddenly looked at the shops queuing up to buy salt and immediately understood everything.

"Brother really has unique eyesight!"

Xiao Jiasui sighed a little, he was so smart that he didn't think of the commercial tax. The reason why the Song Dynasty was so prosperous was the commercial and monopoly tax such as salt, iron, wine and tea. Since the court can rely on these to live well, why can't Liangshanbo?
"Haha, I'm just following the gourd, but I don't know if I don't do it, I don't know if I do it. The profit is terribly huge. Selling salt on the east and west roads of Beijing is far more efficient than looting everywhere."

Sun Lei nodded. Although the robbery comes quickly, it is not sustainable, and it will even cause backlash over time.Smuggling is different, it is tantamount to printing unlimited money, and you can get a good reputation.

"Brother is right, Da Song earns 6000 million yuan a year, and nearly half of it is salt tax. Bitter salt in the world has been expensive for a long time!"

Xiao Jiasui lamented that salt is the biggest expense of ordinary households, and this thing is monopolized by the imperial court, and there is no way to get it except to buy it.The current prosperity of Liangshan Town must be due to the low prices of these monopoly items.

"It's a pity that the salt factories along the coast are still under the government's control, and the salt that can be smuggled out is limited. This brings more and more villagers every day, and the salt is always not enough to sell."

Sun Lei sighed again, there was a lot of money waiting, but he had nothing to sell, which was really a headache.

"Brother, if this kind of business gets bigger, the court will not sit idly by. Large-scale salt smuggling is far more serious than rebellion."

Xiao Jiasui said, although this kind of business is easy to do, it is extremely risky. The imperial court may not care about the rebellion of ordinary peasants, but it certainly cares about taxation. In the Song Dynasty, there were too many officials and soldiers, and the imperial court had a lot of taxes. But it costs more, and the most powerful people in various places are all kinds of transshipment envoys.

"I know this too, but the villagers come from afar just to save some money. If I can't satisfy, it won't save me face."

Sun Lei shook his head. The idea of ​​the villagers is very simple. Liangshan Town is prosperous and lively. If you sell the food and vegetables produced by your family or the harvested fishing and hunting, you can exchange for some cheap salt and cloth to go home. How good it is But if it is not satisfied, it will become a bad thing.

"Brother, do you want to take down the saltworks? This... Liangshanbo is thousands of miles away from the coast, this is probably..."

Xiao Jiasui frowned and said, the salt field is guarded by soldiers and horses, and it is not far from the state capital, so it would be extremely risky for the teachers to go on an expedition.

"No, I want to grab it on the spot!"

Sun Lei shook his head slightly.

"Grab it on the spot? Brother, how do you grab it?"

Ruan Xiaoqi became interested, he couldn't get involved in matters involving brains, but he was good at matters involving effort.

"It's really Xiao Qi's job!"

Sun Lei looked at Ruan Xiaoqi with a smile.

"Brother, follow orders!"

Ruan Xiaoqi said excitedly.

"Let's go to the hotel and have a drink and talk."

Sun Lei pointed at the Backbone Hotel and said with a smile, this matter needs to be well planned.

"elder brother!"

Seeing Sun Lei coming, Zhu Gui hurried out to greet him.

"It's so lively on the street today!"

Sun Lei said.

"The story of my brother's victory over the Jeju army has spread throughout the eight hundred miles of water. The more famous Liangshan is, the more people trust us."

Zhu Gui smiled and said that Liangshanbo can defeat the Jeju government army, which gave the surrounding villagers a reassurance that Liangshan Town will still exist for a while, and everyone can trade here and buy cheap goods.

The hotel business is also good, the two floors are full of seats, and Sun Lei still leads people to drink in the waterside pavilion in the backyard.

(End of this chapter)