Qiming 1158

Chapter 5 Su Yonglin Doesn't Want to Be One Piece
In the 20th year of Shaoxing, in order to compete for the market, the Su family fleet fought a decisive battle at sea with another large salt smuggling gang.

Although the Su family's fleet finally won, the cheap father was hit by a stray arrow and unfortunately died, the old mother was too sad, and soon passed away, Su Yonglin suddenly became an orphan.

Su Dingguang had only one son, Su Shengren. After this blow, he was greatly saddened and could not manage for a while, so that the Su family's trade share missed the best opportunity to expand.

The trade share grabbed through the battle was quickly occupied by other gangs, and Su Shengren's death failed to return any benefits.

Since then, Su Dingguang has been in a slump and often fell ill. He barely persisted until 24 years ago in Shaoxing, when he died of illness.

As soon as he died of illness, the Su family suddenly lost the official head of the family. Su Yonglin was only 16 years old at the time, and no one thought that he could inherit the family business.

To make matters worse, Sun Yuanqi, Su Dingguang's former helper in the Lin'an court, saw that the Su family was "suspicious of the master and the country", and became concerned.

He secretly provoked Su Dingguang's two important assistants to kill Su Yonglin, divide up the sales share of the Su family, promise to use them as a protective umbrella, and try to obtain greater benefits from it.

But Sun Yuanqi didn't expect that Su Dingguang had been prepared for this.

Su Dingguang's eyeliner secretly placed beside the two important assistants before his death told Su Yonglin of their conspiracy with Sun Yuanqi.

What Sun Yuanqi didn't even think about was that Su Yonglin was not a quiet character either.

He has been involved in the sale of smuggled salt very early. After several years of experience, he has long been familiar with the whole process of selling smuggled salt, and he is not without control over the entire Su Clan's smuggled salt group.

Moreover, he has a clear goal and direction of action. He needs to accumulate enough capital through smuggling salt, so that he can go north to the Jin Kingdom to carry out armed riots at the right time in the future.

Therefore, he absolutely cannot tolerate his own death at the hands of an unprofessional corrupt official.

He even wanted to go directly to Lin'an to kill Sun Yuanqi, and then go directly north.

But he quickly calmed down, knowing that this matter must have the right time and careful preparation.

Sun Yuanqi couldn't kill him, so the traitors in his family were different.

Su Yonglin immediately made up his mind to do it all the time, taking advantage of the fact that the core figures of Su Dingguang's private salt group were having a meeting on the island.

He arranged for his cronies Su Yong, Su Changsheng and others to suddenly attack during the meeting. Those two assistants and their cronies were wiped out and killed on the spot.

When Su Dingguang was alive, Su Yonglin didn't show anything, and there was nothing to stand out, so they relaxed their vigilance.

But they never expected that Su Yonglin was ruthless and decisive in his actions. During a meeting here, he suddenly attacked and slashed without saying a word.

After a chaotic battle, Su Yonglin killed them and their cronies on the island.

After stabilizing the situation, Su Yonglin went to Lin'an to visit Sun Yuanqi.

He cried and told his story of [the Jedi counterattack after encountering danger], sent a large amount of wealth and land deeds to Sun Yuanqi, and asked Sun Yuanqi to look at his grandfather's face and continue to protect the Su family.

Sun Yuanqi was a little embarrassed at the time.

He didn't know whether Su Yonglin knew that this matter was provoked by himself.

But since Su Yonglin came to see him and continued to pay bribes, it means that Su Yonglin intends to maintain this ecology.

Knowing or not knowing is not important, the most important thing is to keep doing business.

Su Yonglin had no choice but to need him.

And he also needs the financial resources of the Su family.

So he could only be annoyed secretly, thinking that those two guys were too rubbish, they couldn't even fight against a hairy boy, but on the surface, he comforted Su Yonglin repeatedly and let him do it with confidence.

So this thrilling "change of dynasty" came to an end.

Su Yonglin continued to sell illicit salt and order it up and down.

Sun Yuanqi continued to be the protector of the Su family in the central government, using the financial resources of the Su family to manage up and down, seeking to advance in his career.

Soon, he was promoted to Langzhong from the original Jinbei clerk, and made a gratifying career progress——

Although the grade is not high, he has the power in his hands, and the oil and water are rich. The big guy who appreciates him is very happy with his management, and his words reveal that he wants to continue to promote him.

After a long time, it was as if nothing had happened before.

Those who sell illicit salt sell illicit salt, those who take rebates take rebates, those who manage the central government, and those who play locally.

Su Dingguang is definitely not the only official who personally operates and sells smuggled salt, and there are definitely more than one official who collects benefits from smuggled salt dealers and acts as a protective umbrella.

It can be said to be a not uncommon phenomenon.

According to Su Yonglin's knowledge, officials in some places explicitly crack down on the sale of illicit salt, but in fact they are deliberately trying to stink the reputation of official salt.

They are very smart. They use inferior goods to subsidize them, and they raise the price easily. While making some honest people lose money and earn money from honest people, they also make more common people can’t bear to buy official salt and buy them. There is a share of private salt.

The same salt, earn money twice, earn blood.

When Su Dingguang started his "entrepreneurship", he also sang a double reed with the local salt officials, deliberately stinking the reputation of the official salt, crowding out the market share of the official salt, making the private salt popular, and everyone made a lot of money together.

That eating, tsk tsk tsk, simply.

Of course, Su Yonglin was embarrassed to say that his grandfather was not, because he was doing similar things now.

The same is the "national moth", which squeezes official salt out of the circulation market and allows ordinary people to buy their private salt to eat.

But it should be said that the reputation of official salt is really not something that one or two officials can toss out. It is impossible for good goods to appear in this model of strong buying and strong selling.

The salt work in the Southern Song Dynasty was rotten from top to bottom, from the inside to the outside, and it stinks and rots from the beginning of the production process.

In some places, the official salt can actually make you sick if you eat it.

Their private salts are good salts with white and fine particles. They are purified by technology and are much safer than official salts, and their prices are much cheaper than official salts.

After Su Yonglin took charge of the private salt group, he often engaged in activities that benefited the people and the people, such as buy two get one free, buy five get two free, etc., of course they were welcomed by the common people.

In these years, the average daily income of the people in Lin'an was only about [-] cents, and the daily living needs were about the same price. The people at the bottom were basically the moonlight people, and they couldn't save a lot of money.

In this way, official salt can be sold at high prices.

So let alone Dinghai County, almost the entire Qingyuan Prefecture is eating the private salt of his Su family, and there are not a few people who eat the private salt of the Su family in the rest of the area, and they are very grateful to the Su family for their private salt and automatically help Su. The furniture salt dealers hide their tracks and evade the investigation and pursuit of officials.

The people are like this, and so are the bureaucrats.

In order to further gain their support, Su Yonglin not only sent money for payment, but also provided them with free [refined salt].

In this way, although Su Dingguang passed away and the Su family had no official person for the time being, the official relationship at this level was maintained by Su Yonglin, who helped to cover it up.

Every "rapid thunder" strike by the imperial court failed to fall on the Su family.

Su Yonglin also knew that Jin Guo was more conscientious than the Southern Song Dynasty in terms of salt, the price was relatively cheap, and the quality was better, so almost all the people at the junction of Song and Jin ate gold salt instead of Song salt.

This gave birth to the private salt trade group on the border of Song and Jin.

There are too many people doing this, and he, Su Yonglin, is not the best one anyway.

Of course, Su Yonglin's ideal in life is not to be a pirate king who sells smuggled salt, it's just a means for him to achieve his goal.

And now, it's time for him to achieve his goals.

Soon, Su Yonglin returned to the base camp in Dinghai County, and raced against time to start the operation.

First of all, he called Su Yin, the person in charge of the intelligence department of the Su family and his cronie, to him and asked about the latest developments in the north.

"How are the preparations at Zhao Kaishan? Is there any latest news?"

"Yes, Zhao Kaishan sent someone to tell me to wait. He is going to hold a formal event in April. The specific time has not yet been determined. He is currently making the final preparations. Please wait for me to go to the rendezvous as soon as possible."

Su Yonglin nodded.

"How many men can he gather?"

"About ten thousand people."

"[-] people? That many?"

Su Yonglin was a little surprised: "Someone wants to join him again?"

Su Yin nodded.

"Yes, a few months ago, Ginting moved a few more Jurchens to the land of Shandong. Two of them decided to be placed in Juzhou and Mizhou. According to the past practice, some people are going to be unlucky. So Zhao Kaishan lobbied secretly, and several landlords in Juzhou and Mizhou decided to join Zhao Kaishan, and with a rough calculation, they could gather thousands of troops."

When Su Yin said this, Su Yonglin suddenly felt that the Jinren were about to hand over the land of Shandong to them.

He was more certain.

Of course, this doesn't mean that the Jin people are at fault. A small family is in a big country, so don't you feel guilty?

Although the Song government was driven away, and the Han people who originally lived in the Central Plains did not leave, they still lived there, and their ancestors took root here.

Fight for fight, rule for rule, these are two different things.

He has served hundreds of thousands of Song troops, but can he rule tens of millions of Han people?

They were inexperienced, so at the beginning they successively established two grandson regimes, the pseudo-Chu and the pseudo-Qi, to manage the Central Plains. Su Yonglin felt that the nature of these two grandson regimes was similar to the Manchukuo supported by the Japanese.

During this period, the capital of the Jin Kingdom did not even dare to be placed in the Central Plains, and the Huining House in Shangjing, which was far away in the land of Liaodong, was enough to show that the Jin people were guilty of ruling the Han people in the Central Plains.

In order to prove this judgment, Su Yonglin dispatched Su Yin several times in the four years after Su Dingguang's death to sneak north into the Jin Kingdom to spy on news, and conduct field inspections in Shandong, Henan, and Hebei.

The results of the inspection proved that Su Yonglin's judgment was not wrong.

Su Yin's on-the-spot investigation provided Su Yonglin with a lot of first-hand information about the living standards and political status of the people in Jintong District.

Su Yonglin did a detailed study and analysis on this, and various signs proved that Su Yonglin's judgment was correct.

The Jin Man nominally ruled the Central Plains, but in fact this rule is full of loopholes, like a sieve, without poking, it will break holes everywhere.

So Su Yonglin sorted out all the materials on hand and started teaching his core team.

(End of this chapter)