There are quite a lot of people in the river, the water surface is still a little warm, and it is cool at the bottom, after all, the water in the river is flowing, and the bamboo pole hometown is here, taking everyone to the depths, saying, in previous years, this time was not too daring to come here, this year's drought, the water is a lot shallow.

The local children are all stripped naked, rolling and playing in the water naked, and the three dogs who watched it were envious to death, thinking that when they were young, they were the same as them, carefree and soaking in the water with their friends.

Little girls will wear some clothes to soak in the water, and men will of course wear a pair of pants, because there are still some female housekeepers (women's houses) on the shore who are washing clothes and vegetables, and some women's families can't help but jump into the water with their clothes on, and wash their clothes while soaking in the water.

When the men saw it, they coaxed and said, "Take off your clothes, it's uncomfortable to hang on your body, like how comfortable we are, how can we wear so many clothes in the bath?" also deliberately showed off their sturdy upper body, and some of the women blushed and couldn't raise their heads.

Some women with strong mouths scolded men, you brutes, brutes don't wear a single piece of clothing, why do you still wear pants, the men laughed and said, then we will all strip naked, are you afraid? To see or not to watch?

"If you dare to strip naked, we will dare to look at it, what are you afraid of?" The women showed no signs of weakness.

There was a man who really took off his pants in the water, held them high in his hands, and everyone coaxed loudly, making some women so ashamed that they didn't dare to look at them, and those strong women didn't give up:

"What's so interesting about a pair of pants, you have the ability to come ashore"

The men grabbed the man who had taken off his pants, and no matter how much he struggled, he lifted him up and sent him ashore, and the frightened woman screamed and lost her work and fled in all directions.

Hahaha! The men shamelessly won, everyone went back to the water to play, and the women came back in twos and threes, and some kept cursing these shameless men in their mouths, and the men won anyway, so they didn't care what they said, and went swimming by themselves.

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Unlike the road to Fenglin, this road to the thirteen capitals has a lot more soldiers, and there will be a little more patrol cards, although they climbed the dock around the mountain, they still stripped a lot of money, and waited until the evening of the next day to Jiangshan County Twenty-eight to hand over the goods, only a little money.

Originally, Niu Gu was reluctant to take this road at first, because after inquiring about the news, this road has not been easy to walk for the past two years; In the past few years, most of the "red bandits" (Red Army) in Guangfeng County were concentrated in the fifteenth capital (Lingdi and Tongyi Mountain).

In fact, when there are "red bandits", the local order is better, there are basically no bandits, and there is no card, all the way through; These porters are all willing to take this peaceful road.

But in the past two years (1932-1934), the government has sent troops to attack the "red bandits" here, and I heard that the "red bandits" are about to be defeated.

In the so-called "bandit area", if you don't like it, you may be said to be a gangster, and you will be locked up and interrogated.

To put it bluntly, it is a kidnapping that wears the dog skin of the government to fight in open fire, and if the family does not pay enough money, you will be sentenced to be a bandit or a "red bandit", and you can also receive a reward for killing your head, which is really terrifying.

Niu Gu, these porters are all low-level ordinary people, and they can only dare to be angry but dare not speak; The dogleg's house is in the fifteenth capital, and they have not dared to go home for many years, and the bandits are not very afraid, but they are afraid of these government people wearing dog skins.

If it weren't for the high bid of the shipper this time, Niu Gu would not have planned to take this road, but it is fortunate that he did not lose the goods, and he can make a little money.

Of course, his adventure was not just to make this small amount of money, but had other plans. The less people know about this kind of thing, the better, and it is impossible to tell everyone.

After dinner, Niu Huang suddenly called everyone to load the goods, saying that the goods had just arrived, and the owner was in a hurry, and he wanted to walk at night, and he was in a hurry to deliver the goods.

We don't know why, it's not easy to say anything, because I've seen this situation before, of course, I rush to the night, the owner will pay more, everyone comes out to do coolies is to make money, there is money to make, just go, hard work for a day or two, you can have a good rest for a few days.

Niu Gu did not take everyone to the freight yard to load, but went around to a backyard, everyone knew as soon as they moved the goods, the dog's day, is salt, pick private salt, this time to make a lot of money, everyone is inexplicably excited, full of energy.

Why are you so happy? Because the salt trade in that era was controlled by the government, the profits in it were extremely high, several times the profit of the principal, and the price of a catty of salt in the market at that time was the price of eight catties of rice.

At that time, the price of rice per catty was more than a dozen copper plates, and eight catties of rice cost almost four small oceans, that is, each catty of salt was almost more than 100 copper plates, totaling three or four small oceans; I heard that in the salt field on the coast of Fujian in Zhejiang, the price difference is only about ten copper plates per catty of salt, and the price difference has reached ten times.

At that time, the salt law system of the Republic of China stipulated that it could not be mined without the permission of the government; The government built a salt storage in the salt factory, and all the salt produced in the salt factory must be stored in the designated salt warehouse, and the government will inspect the quality, pay the scale, and collect taxes on the spot in units of 100 quintals.

Merchants who buy salt must first pay taxes, and then go to the salt warehouse to buy salt after obtaining the tax certificate; The field tax and central surcharge paid by salt merchants in the producing area are called positive tax, and the shore tax and central surcharge paid by the sales area are called sales tax. The salt tax rate, according to the statistics of the 30s, accounted for about three-quarters of the price of salt.

Therefore, if you can sell illicit salt, even if you remove the freight and dotting fees along the way, a pound of salt can earn a difference of four or five times, and a bag of fifty catties of illicit salt can earn more than ten oceans; This kind of earning is extremely salivating, regardless of the killing head and taking risks to go forward and sell illicit salt.

Bandits do not have such a big profit, so many bandits and robbers have changed careers or part-time to do private salt business, while pulling their own illegal salt, while robbing other people's private salt, or black eating black, for a bag of dozens of catties of private salt, sometimes fighting to kill several people.

The rivers and lakes are the things of the rivers and lakes; After several rounds of reshuffling and big waves, some powerful ones slowly surfaced, and in the end, only a few major groups combining officials, businessmen and bandits were left to monopolize and control this financial route.

For example, the Salt Bureau, which inspects illegal salt, also cooperates with these bandits; What's even more powerful is the army, the whole army (such as the whole division and the whole regiment) trafficking in illicit salt, if the local salt bureau dares to investigate, people will put guns on your head, and you can only let it go with your eyes.