Those with lustful eyes did not dare to shoot arrows, so they drew their swords and urged their horses forward.

The leader of Semu ran into them immediately.

Yang Feng threw out the flails in his hands at the same time, flying toward them with a roar.

In their confusion, Yang Feng pulled one of the men off his horse, got on his horse, urged the horse to gallop forward, and soon disappeared into the dense forest on the roadside...

Of course, it doesn't really disappear.

There's something wrong with these eyes, it's obviously from the army.

There are still a lot of dirty tricks in the Ming army.

These semu are usually compiled separately, such as semu in thousands of households, and they are found in the east, west, north and south. For example, in every guard in Guangzhou, there is a whole guard with semu. Although they and the suede boots are both semu, but later

"Zhe" is just a lowly status among the sexes. In fact, there are many other sexes including Wei status and Minzhi, including officials.

Including civil servants.

There were also lustful eyes among the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty.

But their presence here as civilians is highly questionable.

Yang Feng then changed his clothes...

Anyway, he had been wearing a nine-tube mask before, so he just needs to take off the mask now.

He immediately went south until he reached Shengze and found a teahouse by the roadside. He drank tea and waited. In the evening, these lustful eyes appeared, but the leader and the one he had injured were gone. They did not recognize him.

After leaving Yang Feng, he went directly to a hotel in Shengze to stay. Yang Feng watched them go in, then walked up to the inspector inspecting the business hotel, and took out a counterfeit waistband and waved it in front of him.

The inspector's expression changed when he looked at the words "Jinyiwei" above.

Yang Feng shook his head.

The inspection is very smart.

"Brother, why are you here? I haven't seen you for many days."

he said.

The archer next to him moved the chair.

"Who are those people?"

Yang Feng sat down and asked.

As for the Jin Yiwei waist badge, he carved it according to the original one.

Carved by myself.

Just a wooden sign.

His guards are the Jin Yiwei. Just follow their sign, so you don't have to find a way out. No one dares to forge this, and generally no one will suspect it is a fake...

The consequences of counterfeiting are too serious.

Even if there is no way to lead out the door and you are caught, it is nothing more than a ban or exile.

Fake this whole family's head falls to the ground.

The inspector had no suspicion at all. He just thought he was a spy from the Jin Yiwei. He looked at the clerk next to him, and the latter immediately got up and walked into the inn. He then came back with the store calendar, where he flipped through...

"The inspection was carried out by a salt merchant from Shanxi who is registered in Yangzhou. This time he went to the salt farm to sell salt. He was led by the road opened by Yangzhou Prefecture. There were 56 people in total. Four people were injured in the robbery at Pingwangyi. At present,

They stayed in Pingwangyi, so there were only fifty-two people left. The list was all on it. In addition to self-defense weapons, the items they carried were salt and money, but it was a bit questionable. After all, they were all for sex, and they looked

Not like a salt merchant either.

Salt merchants laugh at everyone, but they don't understand any of the rules.

Besides, there is no carrying team.

Zhejiang salt is from the province and Guangxin, so even if you go into the mountains, you still need a pack team."

The scribe said.

"Find someone to deliver a letter to Nanhui Station, quickly!"

Yang Feng said.

After speaking, he took out a marker, tore a piece of paper from the clerk, and quickly wrote a letter to Yang Wen.

The identities of these people are wrong. Tachibana had said before that there was another group of people. Maybe these were the ones. Let Yang Wen keep an eye on the injured ones first and control them if necessary. However, it is best to just keep an eye on them.

Shanxi Salt Merchant.

Originally from Yangzhou.

It's still hard to guess the identity.

At this time, salt merchants were basically from Shanxi.

A small number of Shaanxi people.

After all, it was most convenient for them to send grain to Jiubian in exchange for salt. It was not until the Wanli period when the currency was completely changed that Huizhou merchants were on an equal footing with Shanxi merchants. Then after Yangzhou was massacred in the late Ming Dynasty, the old salt merchant structure was completely cleaned up and started again.

In selling salt, Huizhou merchants had an absolute advantage.

Moreover, those who work in the Lianghuai Salt Fields are all from Yangzhou and Huai'an, and the scope of their salt sales also includes the Hangzhou Bay Salt Fields.

However, the sales scope is Zhejiang and part of Jiangxi.

"The sooner the better!"

Yang Feng handed the letter to the patrol inspector.

Then he took out a handful of bills...

"This, this, how to do this?"

The inspector said with a cheerful smile.

"Take it as long as it's given to you, the emperor still needs hungry soldiers!"

Yang Feng said.

"Then should we arrest these? As long as we suspect that there is something wrong with them, brothers can order them to be arrested first."

The inspector grabbed the banknotes and said.

He is on patrol and specializes in catching thieves. He has the right to arrest anyone suspicious first.

"No, don't alert the enemy!"

Yang Feng said.

He still has to wait for these people to make peace with the Japanese pirates!

He then went to Jiaxing, and then waited for these people in Jiaxing the next day, and then went to Haining and waited for these people again. In this way, with him in front and the people behind, he stopped at the Xucun Salt Field. Those lustful eyes came here

Afterwards, they waited for the receptionist, and then they went straight into a nearby mansion and never showed up again. It was obvious that they were waiting to meet with the Japanese pirates.

Of course, the premise is that they are really the next group of people Tachibana mentioned.

But it should be about the same.

After all, such a group of elite and lustful people came here inexplicably. They are obviously not salt traders.

He hung around waiting.

This area is full of salt fields. At this time, the Qiantang River Estuary was somewhat different from modern times, and Xu Village was already an important salt field.

However, the Liangzhe salt field was no longer as good as the Lianghuai salt field. After all, the latter had a vast enough coastal alluvial plain.

But this is still not pure sun salt.

It is still necessary to pour ashes to get brine, and then fry the salt. Because of this, making salt requires a lot of cooperation. These kitchen households are all militarized, that is, regiments. A regiment is a group of kitchen households, relying on the vast reeds along the coast for fuel.

, in addition, it is also used as a brine shop, using plant ash to absorb impurities.

However, the life of Zao households at this time was completely different from that in the late Ming Dynasty.

Now they are similar to state-owned factories.

There is a fixed quota for each ding per year. Once you have made enough salt and hand it over to the salt factory, you will also receive grain from the salt factory as a reward based on the fixed quota.

Once you've done enough, you'll be free.

You can farm or fish as you like, and you can continue to make salt if you want. The same is true of using salt and the salt farm in exchange for food. The salt farm must always have enough food in exchange, so that they will have enough food to eat. Zhu Yuanzhang will sometimes reward them.

Baochao. When the Ming Dynasty was monetized, salt merchants would buy it from them, and grain merchants would buy grain from them. Then wouldn’t this drain all their value?

When a salt merchant buys their salt, one tael of silver can buy one or two thousand jins.

Their one tael of silver may not be able to buy one stone of rice from the grain merchants. If there is a famine, it can be more than one tael of silver per stone. But at this time, the saltworks has a special disaster relief warehouse, and food relief will be given to them in times of famine.

The salt merchants made huge profits.

If you sell salt from Tianjin to Beijing, the price will increase five times.

From the Lianghuai Salt Fields to the Huguang Mountains, the price can rise up to sixty times.

Therefore, in the era of monetization, bottom-level producers have to be squeezed out of their last bit of blood and sweat. The kitchen households of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be a perfect example of this.
Chapter completed!