Qiming 1158

Chapter 4 The Southern Song Dynasty can't do it, then I'll try it
The next day, just as it was dawn, Su Yonglin and Su Yong got up and prepared to return.

Going down to the first floor, Su Yonglin handed the outbound traveler's certificate issued by the Dinghai County government to the shopkeeper, and explained where he was going, and the shopkeeper began to make detailed records.

[Su Yonglin and Su Yong, two men from Dinghai County, Qingyuan Prefecture, who lived in Jiazi for two nights, went from Dinghai County to Lin'an on the [-]th of March, left the store early on the [-]th of March, and returned to Dinghai County from Lin'an]

All information about staying in the hotel must be recorded for inspection by the government at any time.

After the record was completed, the shopkeeper settled the rent for Su Yonglin, and this pleasant stay at the hotel came to an end.

"The guest officer will come to An'an next time, and the shop will be ready to wait."

The shopkeeper saluted respectfully and sent the two out of the hotel.

Leaving the hotel, the two went straight to the city gate. At this time, the Lin'an city gate was open. The two of them passed the inspection of the city gate guards, and left Lin'an city smoothly.

After leaving the city gate and heading east, the two entered a forest. After walking in the forest for a while, Su Yong whistled, and after a while, three men appeared in front of Su Yonglin.

One of them was Su Changsheng, who was in charge of the operation yesterday.

The three knelt down on one knee in front of Su Yonglin.

"Aron."

Su Yonglin nodded solemnly.

"Well, let's go now."

"Here!"

There was a prepared donkey cart in the woods. Su Haisheng and Su Jue, who were in charge of the response, drove the car, preparing to go to the port to transfer to a boat, while Su Changsheng entered the car with Su Yonglin and Su Yong.

"Alang, when I left in the morning, there was no news in the store. I guess Sun Yuanqi's matter has not been discovered yet."

Su Changsheng said in a low voice.

Su Yonglin nodded and said nothing, but Su Yong had some doubts.

"Does that medicine really work? It can kill people? I don't think Alang had any reaction yesterday."

"Alang eats very little! Even the best medicine has to be taken in a certain dose to be useful. Even if it is something like arsenic, you can take a little bit of it, at most a stomach ache, and it won't make you die immediately. .

Sun Yuanqi's dog thief eats a lot, and his ingredients are meat and the like, so the effect is even better. He is old and obese. If he is a strong man, he might still be alive. , even if you are lucky enough to live, it is also abolished, and life is better than death. "

Su Changsheng looked at Su Yong with a look of disgust: "You are really a reckless man, apart from your strength and daring to fight, what are your strengths?"

"Hey! You want to fight, don't you?"

Su Yong glared at his bull's eyes, full of intimidation, like a big Tibetan mastiff with blown-out hair all over his body.

Su Changsheng looked disdainful and very calm.

"It can't be used here. It's important to hurry. When we go back, let's practice hard after we go back."

"Okay, what you said!"

Su Yong's face was full of dissatisfaction.

Su Yonglin smiled and shook his head, but said nothing.

About half an hour later, a group of five people arrived at the port, found the Su family's ship that had been ready to pick up, and boarded the ship. The ship immediately set sail for Dinghai County.

Standing at the stern, Su Yonglin looked at Lin'an City for the last time.

Leaving this time should be a farewell, and the possibility of coming back again is very small.

Su Yonglin will take everything he has accumulated, go north to Shandong Jin Kingdom, join forces with the local tycoon Zhao Kaishan, raise an army to revolt, in order to overthrow the Jin Kingdom's rule in the Central Plains, regain the Central Plains, and achieve his goals.

Of course, it's hard, and it's a long way to go, but doing this will make him feel better, not so uncomfortable.

Living in the Southern Song Dynasty, he was very uncomfortable.

Living in a Southern Song Dynasty that was a vassal to the Jin Kingdom, he was particularly uncomfortable.

There is a saying that is good.

As long as you have a little talent and work hard for three or five years, there should be some signs of success.

Always blame Qin Hui, Qin Hui is indeed a traitor who cannot be washed away, but now it has been 28 years in Shaoxing, Qin Hui has been dead for three years, the Southern Song Dynasty is still the Southern Song Dynasty, and there is no hope of turning back to the Northern Song Dynasty.

What else can I say?

The Southern Song Dynasty certainly had no hope.

Su Yonglin didn't want to be a romantic and talented person to gain fame, and he didn't want to be famous in history with a group of patriotic poets such as Lu You, Fan Chengda, Yang Wanli, and be a lifelong minister of the main war faction, and then be admired by future generations.

That's ironic.

Because from start to finish, they haven't been able to change anything.

Thousands of poems have been written, and tears have been shed a thousand times. The Southern Song Dynasty is still the Southern Song Dynasty.

No matter how the main battle, no matter how persistent, no matter how patriotic, the Southern Song Dynasty is still the Southern Song Dynasty.

It never changed back to the Northern Song Dynasty.

Su Yonglin knew the ending of the Southern Song Dynasty after Liping gave up, so he wanted to fight, and he wanted to use his life to fight for a future with a bleak future.

This era no longer needs another patriotic poet who is grieved and screamed.

What it needs is one more soldier who is willing to carry a three-footed sword and die in the Central Plains.

If the Southern Song Dynasty can't do it, then I'll try it.

Of course, Su Yonglin wasn't an iron-headed boy who would single-handedly kill the Central Plains as soon as his brain was pumping blood.

He had such an idea, of course, because he had the foundation to do it - Su Yonglin was the head of a smuggling salt gang, and his power was not small.

He is in charge of more than 300 well-trained full-time core members, thousands of peripheral part-time members as assistants, and more than 30 small and medium-sized battleships that appear to be merchant ships but can be armed at any time to gallop across the sea and fight with competitors. ferry.

This is of course not the wealth he has saved.

In fact, starting from his grandfather Su Dingguang, the Su family has been engaged in the business of selling private salt for three consecutive generations. This family business was also saved by grandfather Su Dingguang.

Su Yonglin's grandfather, Su Dingguang, was not a great master.

He is a smuggler who acts as an official on the surface and secretly uses his power to sell smuggled salt and profit from it.

Murdering, merging goods, merging other smuggling gangs by force, they have done everything, and they can be called ruthless.

Of course, he wasn't like that in the first place.

The Su family is from the north, originally from Shandong. In the midst of the Jingkang crisis, the young and fashionable Su Dingguang did not want to be a slave of the Jin people, so he resolutely crossed south and moved to Dinghai County.

At the beginning of the southern crossing, Su Dingguang still had the ideal of the northern expedition. He was really unwilling to be humiliated, he really wanted the northern expedition, and he shouted loudly to actively participate in the great cause of the northern expedition.

He had done logistical support for Yue Fei's Northern Expedition, and even once participated in the battle of defending the city himself, killing three Jin Bings with his own hands, working hard and looking forward to the success of the Northern Expedition.

In the 12th year of Shaoxing, Yue Fei died unjustly, and the Peacemaker faction presided over the government, actively negotiated peace, and vigorously rejected the officials of the Main War faction, and the great cause of the Northern Expedition came to naught.

Su Dingguang, as the most staunch main fighting faction, was naturally transferred from the front line of the war. After a while, he became a thorough civilian who did not participate in the military.

After his ideal was shattered, Su Dingguang saw that the fallen leaves had become a luxury, and he was in so much pain that he fell into depression for a time.

As for how he embarked on the road of selling illicit salt, and how he completed this mental journey, Su Yonglin didn't know either.

Su Yonglin only knew that this matter of selling illicit salt was not uncommon in the local officialdom of the Southern Song Dynasty, and there were not a few officials who secretly manipulated illicit salt gangs to manufacture illicit salt and profit from smuggling salt.

And almost all officials with a bit of power in their hands will buy cheap and high-quality private salt privately, instead of buying expensive and low-quality official salt.

Su Dingguang is just one of them.

Dinghai County is located on the seaside and has the benefits of sea salt. Su Dingguang used his power to provide shelter to the first batch of Dinghai County residents who sold illicit salt, giving them convenience and collecting huge benefits.

In the Song Dynasty, the salt tax was very heavy, and after the southward inflation, the salt tax was even heavier, and almost 90.00% of the price of a catty of salt was tax.

The common people suffer from the poor quality of official salt, which is damp, yellowish, bitter and unbearable to eat.

Even if the quality is poor, the price is also expensive. In the early days of Shaoxing, the Southern Song Dynasty was chaotic, and the price of salt even soared from one to two yuan.

Usually, the cost of making salt is about fifteen cents per year, and the price can be between one hundred and two hundred cents. There are also higher, astonishing profits, and the tossing people are miserable.

The private salt is white in color, high in purity and not bitter. In order to gain market share, it is often sold at a price of one and a half kilograms per kilogram, and the price is generally more than double that of official salt.

So the market is huge.

Where there is a market, there will be brave men. A large number of "courageous and knowledgeable" illicit salt dealers have organized to sell illicit salt in arms. The farther away from Lin'an and the coast, the more rampant the sale of illicit salt.

Su Dingguang keenly seized the business opportunities, and gradually he was no longer satisfied with being an umbrella, so he shot and killed the original leader, acted as the new leader, and personally ended up integrating a private salt sales gang, earning high profits and making a lot of money Full.

He is also very aware of crisis and risk. After making money, he knows how to manage up and down, not just force confrontation.

The entire Qingyuan Mansion and Dinghai County's relevant government organizations, the local promotion tea and salt department, and the central government's gold department, all of which are in charge of the salt are clearly managed by him.

In fact, the local officials are not willing to fight against the armed smugglers. The smugglers are really ruthless.

Regardless of the officials, the smuggled salt dealers will not disturb the public order too much, and there is nothing to do with each other. Therefore, when going out of Lin'an, local officials are basically reluctant to get involved in matters related to the smuggled salt dealers.

So based in Dinghai County, Qingyuan Prefecture, he even expanded his private salt business outside of Qingyuan Prefecture and set out to the south to compete with other private salt traders for the market.

In order to compete for the market, he raised thugs, organized armed forces, owned ordnance privately, and armed his thugs with the military knowledge and logistical knowledge he had learned from Yue Fei's work in the Northern Expedition.

Not just on land, but also at sea.

He used the money he earned to build and buy ships, set up businesses in the names of relatives and friends, and found people to be white gloves to build a merchant fleet in a legitimate name.

In name, it is a merchant fleet engaged in regular trade, but in fact it is an armed smuggling salt fleet that travels between Dinghai and the southern states and counties.

Around the 16th year of Shaoxing, the news became more and more serious, and the sale of private salt on land gradually became more dangerous. Thanks to Su Dingguang's management, someone in the court disclosed the news to him in advance, giving Su Dingguang time to prepare in advance.

Su Dingguang thought hard, and at the suggestion of his son, Su Shengren, Su Yonglin's cheap father, changed his mind and moved the private salt manufacturing base from the land to the island.

He moved his entire salt-making factory to an undeveloped island in the large archipelago in the northeastern part of Dinghai County, and rebuilt the salt-making factory in a cave on the island.

Manufactured on the island and shipped to various places along the coast for sale by sea, it not only plays a concealed role, but also prevents private informants and government patrols.

All workers and family members in the salt factory must live on the island, and all supplies are transported by sea boats to increase confidentiality and organization.

In this way, around 16 years ago, a large number of illegal salt sales organizations in Shaoxing were attacked by the Linan Forbidden Army, and the illegal salt operation was once severely damaged, but the Sujia Private Salt Group was not hit, and quickly seized share and expanded its market share.

The Su family's "merchant fleet" had 37 ships at its peak, turning the coastal area into its own cornucopia, with a wealth of wealth.

Su Yonglin grew up in such a family. Since childhood, he not only read books, but also secretly participated in the operation of smuggling salt, euphemistically called it - inheriting the family business.

He practiced martial arts at the age of seven and learned some military knowledge, but also to prepare for inheriting the family business.

Like Su Shengren, Su Dingguang also arranged for Su Yonglin some cronies to follow him, so that they could cultivate their relationship since childhood. In the future, they can be the core team to control the private salt group.

Since Su Dingguang was the only one who brought his wife and son to the south when the Su family traveled south, and after much effort, there were no other children, and Su Shengren also gave birth to Su Yonglin, so the Su family was thin.

Without blood relatives, you can only accept outsiders, and then give them the surname Su to make them your own. These people are mainly family children, and there are some orphans bought from outside.

Su Yong, Su Changsheng, Su Haisheng and others around Su Yonglin were carefully selected and sent by Su Dingguang during this period.

Seeing that the Su Family Salt Sales Group is thriving, a better tomorrow is beckoning.

Unfortunately, it is not always smooth sailing.

(End of this chapter)