Win the Ding 1617

() Shuangwen begins.The arrival of the Li family brothers opened a door for pig feet.Please wait and see.

"Brother Zong, just now you said that you have old grudges with Lianghuai salt merchants?" Li Shouhan began to harbor ill intentions.

"That's right! The Lianghuai salt merchants, as well as the Donglin Jian Party who work hand in hand with them, are incompatible with my family!"

The children of salt merchants went to Donglin Academy to study, and Donglin Academy pointed out the country and rejected people. Gu Xiancheng manipulated the government in Wuxi, so he naturally wanted to seek benefits for himself and the class he represented.This is the same as the US presidential election. The people elected by various consortiums naturally have to work for their owners.

Therefore, the Donglin Party and big merchants such as salt merchants, tea merchants, and porcelain merchants are originally one body with two sides.

However, what he didn't expect was that these salt mice were more vicious than he imagined.

Daming should collect more than 10 million taels of salt tax every year, but the actual income from the national treasury is only more than [-] million taels. In this way, the Li family only asked the salt merchants in Lianghuai and Huaihe Rivers to pay an extra [-] taels of tax silver. So he made such a murderous move? !

"I would like to punish these salt rats a little bit. I also want to express my anger for the two brothers!"

"General, how can you punish the Lianghuai salt merchants?! As far as I know, the salt merchants are rich and powerful, and there are Donglin Jian Party members who cite each other as Austrian aid. What's more, they are thousands of miles away. .”

"Brother Zong, let me ask you, what are the Lianghuai salt merchants relying on?"

"It's the salts and nests in their hands! A piece of salt is three hundred catties, and they can add up to thousands of catties. The amount of smuggling and leakage is appalling!"

"That's right! Several stewards of the Salt Gang said that the biggest private salt dealer is actually a salt merchant! The price of official salt is 75 yuan a catty, but what about them? They sold it for [-] yuan in Yangzhou. If it is shipped to Shandong and Henan, it is [-] Wen, to Nanzhili is [-] Wen, to other places it is [-] Wen, and some are sold for more than [-] Wen, what’s more, [-] Wen per catty! "

"Brother Pei Ting, do you have friendship with the Salt Gang?" Li Shouhan knows what the Salt Gang does. If the Young Master Li in front of him really has friendship with the Salt Gang, or if he is familiar with it, then his plan will be successful. More than half of it.

Hearing this, Li Peiting blushed, "Brother always said that I made friends with knight-errants, but in fact, every time righteousness kills more dogs,..."

"Most people who have a heartless heart are scholars! That's a good statement!" Li Shouhan praised, "Especially Donglin and his gang!"

"Brother Zong, do you want to avenge the salt merchant's framing?"

The fifth day of March.sunny.

A group of native laborers strenuously walked onto the springboard with heavy loads on their backs. Sweat continuously flowed down their skin, and then quickly evaporated, increasing the water vapor content in the air.

"Crack!" A leather whip exploded in the air, and an overseer wearing a straw hat crookedly waved the leather whip in his hand, and the natives wriggled forward with great difficulty, their eyes bursting with flames of hatred.

(Stop, stop! The script is wrong! The one just now was Dongfanghong’s music and dance epic! It’s not our work! Start over!)

At the entrance of the warehouse, the natives took a black and red and two-colored bamboo chip from the hand of the supervisor standing there, and laboriously placed the package on the shelf made of cast iron, turned around and hurried out of the warehouse. They should carry the goods as many times as possible and get more bamboo chips, so that when they leave work, they can receive more wages in the hands of the foreman.

Nowadays, everyone knows that working here with the Han people can make money, and, with the badge of the worker, you can buy all kinds of good things in the shops of the Han people at the price of the Han people, such as cloth, fine salt, etc. , Make exquisite clothes and all kinds of ironware: iron pots, kitchen knives, even knives and axes.

Even if you don’t work here with the Han people, if you get what the Han people want, you can still get good things from the Han people.A month ago, the Han merchants who went to various stockades conveyed the will of the Han general, "Anyone who has suitable timber suitable for building a large ship, the Han master is willing to pay the price of [-] catties of fine salt." Purchase. If it is shipped to the wood factory, add another ten catties!"

Therefore, the natives set off a climax of going up the mountain to find suitable trees.

Soon there were mountains of trees suitable for building ships.The natives grinned, holding heavy salt bags, and continued to search up the mountain happily.

The large amount of timber piled up in his own shipyard, after three years of drying, can already be used to make ships. Although the navy doesn't have enough skilled sailors, Li Shouhan doesn't care about it either.

The four docks have been expanded in one go, and the production capacity can simultaneously operate four navy sailboats or schooner trawlers, or refurbish and renovate eight blessing boats.

"My lord, the five new boats are already full."

Li Shouhan grumbled, and casually walked along the springboard to a newly launched warship. However, the suitable role of this ship now should be a smuggling ship, a fine salt smuggling ship!

The scissor sailboat has finally found its proper historical role!

Looking around, in addition to gun positions, gunpowder, and various living supplies, the warehouse is full of fine cotton bags of uniform specifications, "My lord, except for the Frangji cannon, there are ten cannons on each ship." , loaded with [-] tons of salt. I tested it yesterday, and the fully loaded ship can travel at a speed of [-] knots! Although it is slower, ordinary ships can’t catch up.” Zuo Tianpeng showed off proudly.

"If I am your enemy and intercept you at sea, what should you do?" Li Shouhan asked his admiral a question.

"Reload all the artillery and rush over at full speed. If the enemy has the intention to fire, I will fire at the enemy first with the firepower of nearly a hundred artillery pieces the size of the entire fleet. If the enemy ships are small, I will either sink them or capture them. If there are too many boats, I will sail far away, and he can't catch up with me anyway!"

"Where did you meet the sailor's ship?"

"Hmph! Those Cangshan boats, lucky boats, centipede boats, Haicang boats, and three-masted gunboats, they'd better pray to gods and Buddhas to bless them, and don't meet me! Otherwise, with the firepower, gun positions, and speed of their ships , which one is my opponent?!"

Since that day, after Shou Han said that he wanted to teach the Yangzhou salt merchants a lesson, the Li family brothers were frightened out of their wits.It is unavoidable for Shou Han to explain his plan to the two in detail.

This amazing plan is for Shouhan to use his own fine salt production and processing capabilities and the jaw-dropping speed of a scissor sailboat to traffic illegal salt to the hinterland of Yangzhou salt merchants, Shandong, Nanzhili and other places.The price is about the same as private salt in the mainland today, about forty to fifty yuan per catty.However, the gap in quality is heaven and earth.

When Li Peilin and Li Peiting saw the Jing salt piled up in the warehouse, their tongues almost fell out.

"This is, is this sea salt?" In their impression, the salt produced by seawater is bitter, and the taste is far inferior to that produced by decoction.Not only is the taste inferior, but the salt from the seawater has many impurities.But the salt in front of me, in terms of appearance, is as crystal clear as snowflakes, and in terms of taste, it is almost the same as the green salt produced in Shanxi's Jiechi salt and Northwest Huamachi.

When Shou Han proudly told the two that they could dump at least [-] shi of fine salt to the mainland every month, the Li brothers immediately fell into a moment of contemplation.Immediately, Li Peilin said something, which made Li Shouhan look at him with admiration.

"This kind of salt sells for forty or fifty renminbi, which is too cheap. On the contrary, it is not easy to sell. If it is 160 renminbi per catty, it is easier to sell in various places in Jiangnan and Jiangbei. The price of green salt on the market is about [-] renminbi. Above, now, the road is not stable, and Qingyan’s source is unstable, which is the opportunity for Jingyan to show its talents.”

"Each ship is loaded with 800 tons of fine salt, a total of 64 tons, which is 64 million catties. Each catty of salt is sold at 30 Wen per catty, [-]. Now the market price of silver and copper coins is one tael of silver for one." Qianwen, my dear! This trip is worth [-] silver!" Li Peiting reported a figure that surprised him and Li Peilin.Even if there is some wear and tear on the road, Li Peilin, who is familiar with the economy and people's livelihood, knows that the cost and consumption of sea transportation are insignificant compared with land transportation and river transportation.After deducting costs and losses, he estimated that Li Shouhan's trip had at least [-] silver in his account.As it turned out later, he was wrong.

"Brother Cui, in this way, can we give the salt merchant a small punishment?" Li Shouhan smiled.

"Each ship is fully loaded with a speed of 140 knots. It is only [-] nautical miles to the North Sea of ​​Guangxi. The fleet can reach it in a day and night. From Beihai to Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture, it is more than [-] miles. Converted into sea miles, it is only [-] nautical miles. More than one hundred nautical miles. Calculated, within ten days at the slowest, we will reach the Yangtze River. We will start our grand salt sales plan."

"My lord, you seem to have forgotten, this night flight?" Li Peilin cautiously reminded Shou Han.

"Brother Zong, it's okay!"

Shou Han didn't care, "You forgot, our calcium carbide lamp?"

That day, after Shouhan calcined the coke and limestone, he demonstrated it to the Li family brothers, the navy, the workshop, and the craftsman association, "Add water and light it."

Even in the daytime, people still feel the dazzling and eye-catching light.

"Think about it, if this light is hung on the mast and side of the ship, will it be difficult to sail at night?!"

Li Peilin tapped his forehead lightly with the folding fan in his hand, "Damn it! How can I forget such a sharp weapon?! In this way, after more than ten days, our goods will suddenly appear in the The hinterland of Jiangnan."

Li Peilin can imagine with his fingers what kind of adverse effects it will have on the sales of salt merchants when 800 million catties of high-quality fine salt suddenly rush into the market at an extremely low price; Salt people, when they look at the salt sold by those salt merchants, they will immediately lose their appetite.This will also have an extremely huge impact on the future business of salt merchants.

What's more, Shou Han said that in the future, at least 150 shi of fine salt will be sold to the mainland every month.Well, according to the weights and measures of the Li family, each stone equals 450 catties, and [-] stones equals [-] million catties.Calculated at [-] catties per litter, it is equivalent to adding another salt merchant with a sales volume of [-] nests.

Salt rats of dog ri!You made a fortune from salt, smuggled and evaded taxes to make a fortune, and then relied on your money to drive out my Li family. Now, let you have a bad luck with this salt!

"Brother Pei Ting, the ship has passed Ningbo and arrived at Jinshanwei Ocean, and I will have to work hard for you!"

Shou Han held Li Peiting's hand, his face was full of concern.

According to the results of the three people's discussions that day, Li Peiting and Zuo Tianpeng led the fleet northward to traffic in smuggled salt, Zuo Tianpeng was in charge of commanding the ship and possible military operations at sea; The stewards of the Salt Gang used the private salt transportation and sales network of the Salt Gang to quickly sell the salt in Jiangnan and Jiangbei.

"What's the word of hard work?! Isn't this all our own business?"

According to Shou Han's wishes, the Li brothers got 1% of the bonus for every catty of fine salt, but Li Peilin resolutely refused, and in the end, the two parties settled the deal at a price of two cents per catty.However, even so, the Li family earned more than [-] taels of silver during this trip.

"Xiaopeng, remember, if you really can't get away, you can leave the goods behind. As long as you are here and the boat is here, we can have as many goods as you want!"

Li Shouhan was a little worried about his naval fleet commander, let's call it that!This guy dares to fight and fight hard, and he will not be timid when encountering enemies. The only shortcoming is that he attaches more importance to goods.He was worried that such a guy would not be able to make a decisive decision once the enemy had many people and ships, and the artillery fire was fierce. Instead, he would risk his life and money.

"My lord, please rest assured that we won't encounter any opponents, but we will encounter opponents. Our ship has so many cannons, and you guys are about to practice at sea! Besides, there are still guns on board." My old department, the boys from Qilin Zuoying, these guys just got the firecrackers, and they are also eager to fight."

"Having said that, there are red-haired barbarians at sea, so be careful!"

"My subordinates understand!"

While agreeing, Zuo Tianpeng turned his head and yelled at the ships, "Raise the sails! Lift the anchor! Raise the flag!"

An iron-blooded [-]-star military flag designed by Li Shouhan was hoisted up on the main mast. In the soft sail like a white cloud, the fiery red military flag was particularly dazzling.

"Boom! Boom!" The five ships fired their cannons one by one, leaving the port one by one.

This is the prelude to the smuggling of fine salt, which was hated by the salt merchants in Yangzhou.