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On the afternoon of the third day after Li Zixiao returned to Guan's house, Chen Hu sent a letter to Li Zixiao again, inviting him to come to Guiyue Tower again in the evening.

Li Zixiao knew that Chen Hu should have received a reply from King De, whether he could cooperate or not, he would know if he went this time.

After Li Zixiao arrived at Guiyue Tower, Chen Hu was already waiting for him in the private room.

Sun Man personally played the pipa for the two of them, playing and singing by himself.

"Last time Lord Li's proposal, our master has considered it and is willing to cooperate with Lord Li, but there are some conditions."

Chen Hu then stated the conditions of King De.

Li Zixiao listened carefully, and King De's conditions were somewhat unexpected to him.

In general, he is willing to cooperate, but he wants Li Zixiao to make a name first, that is, to show King De first, and then people will be willing to pay.

If Li Zixiao's action goes well, they will pay Li Zixiao the negotiated fee as agreed.

At the same time, starting from next year, King De will give him a thousand salt leads, and the treasure of Yangzhou Mansion should be assigned to him to sell alone.

Baoying is not a densely populated county in Yangzhou Prefecture, but it still has a population of 100,000, and Li Zixiao is also satisfied.

He didn't expect that King De would be able to hand over the right to sell official salt in several populous counties around Yangzhou Prefecture to him for sale, which would be a lot of profit.

At the same time, Li Zixiao helped King De to crack down on salt dealers, and King De was willing to buy back the seized illegal salt for every six dollars of silver, which was another benefit to Li Zixiao.

In addition to these, the king also demanded that no matter what accidents arise in the fight against smugglers.

He asked Li Zixiao not to say anything about the deal with them, and there were no other conditions for the rest.

This condition was also expected by Li Zixiao.

On the whole, the conditions set by King De were slightly modified, which was also acceptable to him.

If this business is done well, he can make a lot of profit from it.

Li Zixiao didn't think about it for too long, and replied directly: "Okay, the prince's conditions, I Li accepted it, and I hope we can cooperate happily." ”

After listening to Li Zixiao's words, Chen Hu also breathed a sigh of relief, raised his wine glass with a smile, and replied: "Happy cooperation." ”

When the big thing was done, both of them were very happy, and the atmosphere became lighthearted.

Although the cooperation has just begun, there are many specific things, but neither of them is in a hurry at this time, and these things need to be discussed slowly and in detail.

Moreover, Li Zixiao doesn't plan to worry about these things, he will hand over the next contact with Chen Hu to Guan Daowen to do, which can be regarded as a disguised way for the Guan family to make friends with Chen Hu and even King De.

In this way, it will be conducive to the Guanfu to gain a foothold in Yangzhou in the future, and no one will dare to touch the Guan family at that time.

Sun Man is good at dancing with long sleeves and is very good at adjusting the atmosphere, Li Zixiao and Chen Hu are sitting there, one is a lifter, a military general, a palace steward, and a guerrilla general, it is difficult to talk together.

But with Sun Man gagging in the middle, the atmosphere was extremely warm, and the three of them drank very happily.

Although Li Zixiao is a military general and a general practitioner, he is a later generation after all, and his poetry is naturally inferior to Hu Juren, but when it comes to knowledge, he is not inferior to him.

In particular, Li Zixiao also made use of his strengths and avoided his weaknesses, and when it came to the customs and customs of the Western Regions, Chen Hu admired his knowledge.

At this time in the late Ming Dynasty, many knowledgeable people vaguely understood the concept of the earth, and also knew that the earth was round, not the sky was round.

You must know that many overseas red-haired people came to Daming by sea at this time, and they brought information from the West, and the exchange of Eastern and Western civilizations has risen from this time.

It's just that with the establishment of the Qing Dynasty later, this kind of cultural exchange was cut off.

People like Chen Hu, they also know that there are continents overseas and there are many countries, but no matter how much they know, they don't know as much as Li Zixiao.

All three of them were very happy today, drank a lot of wine, and drank happily.

The conditions for Dewang's cooperation have been opened, and whether he can really get this opportunity depends on Li Zixiao's own strength in the final analysis.

After returning to Guanfu, Li Zixiao told Guan Daowen and Guan Shengjie about the deal with King De.

When Li Zixiao told the Guan family father and son that he would hand it over to them for Baoying's monopoly of official salt, the Guan family father and son were almost stunned.

The father and son of the Guan family patted their chests and assured Li Zixiao that they would take care of these things for him.

Subsequently, Li Zixiao got a lot of useful news from the Guan family father and son.

There are many smugglers, and they are also organized.

Generally speaking, there are two types of smuggler salt dealers in Yangzhou, one is those powerful business groups, and some are local gentry and wealthy merchants.

In short, they were rich and powerful people, who sold salt, in large quantities, and brought it directly from the coastal areas by boat.

Then, they already had a distribution network in various places, and they were only responsible for transporting the salt, and then disembarking the salt at the well-developed land and water terminals, and distributing it directly to the next level of private salt traders.

Among them, the head of the largest smuggler of salt in Yangzhou is, needless to say, a merchant group headed by Wan Jia.

There are also a group of younger brothers below, such as the Yujia firm, which is the closest to Wanjia.

The low-level private salt merchants are generally local small landlords and gentry, not local clans.

After they get the illicit salt, they distribute it downwards and eventually distribute it layer by layer.

This not only speeds up the sale of illicit salt, but also reduces the share of insurance.

After all, those big salt merchants sell the private salt at the first level, although the profit is not as much as their direct sales.

But through such a network, sales are faster and risk is passed on, just like reinsurance in the modern insurance industry.

Compared with this relatively tight network, there is another type of salt seller, which is much simpler, these people are some single gangs, small in scale, shoulder-to-shoulder, and belong to bulk sellers.

Since they wanted to cooperate, and at the same time, they also wanted to show their strength to King De, Li Zixiao was voluntarily unwilling to waste his first attack on some retail vendors.

Li Zixiao asked Chen Hu to find a big smuggler for him as his first target.

Soon, Chen Hu sent Li Zixiao a piece of information.

They discovered the largest private salt distribution point in Shaobo Town, north of Yangzhou.

"According to the information we got from Steward Chen, Luojiazhuang in Shaobo Town is a salt distribution place under Wanjia near Yangzhou."

Guan Shengjie pointed to Shao Bo Town in the north of Yangzhou on the map and said to Li Zixiao.

"This place is close to the canal, the boats come and go closely, and the Luo family in Shao Bo Town is a wealthy local landlord and a smuggler of salt under the Wanjia family.

He went to Wanjia Commercial Bank to get salt and transported it back to Shaobo Town by ship, and on the first and fifteenth days of each month, they would distribute salt to the small smuggled salt dealers below in Luojiazhuang.

Their private salt is mainly sold to Gaoyou, Yizhen and other places, and even out of Yangzhou Mansion, it is sold to Fengyang Tianchang and other places. ”

"What's the specific situation of this Luo family?" Li Zixiao asked.

"The Luo family is the strong man of Shao Bo Town, and the current head of the family is called Luo Youwei, who has thousands of acres of fertile land and operates a lot of shops.

Luo Youwei is in his forties this year, and it is said that his family was not wealthy in his early years, and later went south to run a businessman, and heard that he had been a seafarer in Fujian, and had been to Dongying and North Korea.

Later, he returned from abroad, returned to Shaobo Town with his wife and children, bought a house, bought land, opened a shop, and made friends with Haoqiang.

The Luo family also prospered as a result, and now they are the richest people in Shao Bo Town.

This Luo Youwei is shrewd, good at business, and has a close relationship with Wanjia, and he also has a fleet on the canal, and they also use the Luo family fleet to transport illegal salt. ”

"How many families are there under the Luo family?"

Li Zixiao doesn't care about what the Luo family did before, nor does he care about how Luo Youwei behaves, Li Zixiao only cares about how many people there are under the Luo family now.

"There are not many people in Luojiazhuang, that is, twenty or thirty people. But he still has several shops in Shao Bo Town, and even a dart board.

In addition, the Luo family also controls a fleet of boats on the canal, with dozens of crew members.

In addition, there are several Zhuangzi in Shao Bo Town, all of whom sell salt for the Luo family, and breathe out of the Luo family's nostrils. ”

Hearing this news, Li Zixiao was not surprised, people like the Luo family, unlike ordinary big salt lords, they are only the lowest level of smuggler salt dealers, and they pay the most attention to local forces and networks.

The strength of the Luo family is not weak, if Luo Youwei wants to gather manpower, he can gather two or three hundred people from his own mansion, those shops, fleets, etc., to say the least.

"This time, let's take the Luo family." Li Zixiao said in a cold tone.

"Is Tianba's 'Tiger Camp' camped outside the city?" Li Zixiao turned to the quartz behind him and asked.

"General, Li Tianba's 'Tiger Camp' has all been put in place, and now he is camping fifteen miles northeast of Yangzhou City.

In accordance with the general's request, Battalion Commander Li has withdrawn all the brothers who were sent out to encircle and suppress the Japanese invaders, and now they have been standing by in the camp and are ready to listen to the general's orders at any time. ”

Quartz detailed back report.

Li Zixiao nodded and said, "Send someone to tell Li Tianba, let him order all the people, wait for my order, and be ready to attack at any time." ”

"This time, we might as well be high-profile, sweep away Luojiazhuang in one fell swoop, take down the Luo family, let King De see our strength, and let our customers rest assured."

Li Zixiao said coldly.

Li Zixiao transferred a battalion of soldiers and horses outside the city, and he had already been impeached by Yangzhou officials, after all, it is said that Li Zixiao was not qualified to appear in Yangzhou with a battalion of 800 officers and soldiers from other places.

However, at this time, Li Zixiao used the slogan of sweeping away the Japanese and defending Yangzhou, and also got Lin Yongnian's report to intercede.

Surprisingly, until now, the imperial court has not warned Li Zixiao about such an act of arson and smuggling into the outside world.

In this, in addition to Lin Yongnian, of course, there is also the credit of King De.

In general, at this time, Li Zixiao led his men and violated the laws of the Ming Dynasty to appear outside Yangzhou City, so no one cared about it.

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Outside the city of Yangzhou, in a hidden camp fifteen miles away.

At this time, the soldiers of the White Dragon Army's 'Tiger Camp' had just finished their day's training.

Soon after the team was disbanded, the team members lined up to take a shower in the bathhouse, and then lined up to have dinner in the cafeteria.

As soon as I returned to the dormitory to prepare for the rest meeting and start the evening cultural class, the horn of the emergency assembly sounded in a hurry.

"Tight set."

Wang Dagou quickly rushed to the wall, picked up the bird gun that belonged to him from the neatly arranged bird guns, and then quickly ran to the outside of the dormitory to gather.

He was followed by a roommate who slept in the same dormitory as him.

According to the usual training, these white dragon soldiers quickly armed themselves, put on cotton armor, picked up knives and guns, and went to the warehouse to receive gunpowder, lead bullets, etc.

At this time, Li Zixiao was also wearing a general's iron armor and standing on the school field in the twilight.

Looking at the soldiers of the 'Tiger Battalion' who came to gather quickly, their faces were cold and they didn't say a word.

Behind him stood on either side of the guard commander Quartz, and the battalion commander of the 'Tiger Ben Battalion', Li Tianba.

In a quarter of an hour, all the 800 soldiers of the 'Tiger Camp' had already assembled in their own queues on the school grounds of the camp.

At this time, many White Dragon sergeants had already seen Li Zixiao, straightened their waists even more, and puffed up their chests.

"Today Ben will personally lead you in an operation to crack down on a gang of smugglers, this time quickly, accurately, and ruthlessly.

After the operation begins, the teams will act according to my orders, and no one will be allowed to drop the chain for me, otherwise military law will be involved.

In addition, after the success of this operation, each soldier can receive three taels of silver for his hard work, and the captain and the team will be doubled.

Now, everyone checks weapons, firearms and prepares to go. ”

Li Zixiao stood at the front of the team and shouted to all the soldiers of the 'Tiger Camp'.

"Obey the general's orders."

All the soldiers of the 'Tiger Battalion' shouted in unison.

Then, under the supervision of their respective commanders and team generals, they began to inspect the weapons and equipment of their subordinates, and they were very serious.

"Okay, let's go."

Subsequently, Li Zixiao waved his hand, the sentry took the lead in getting on the horse to open the way, and the soldiers of the 'Tiger Camp' followed suit.

"Captain, where are we going?"

Wang Dagou was lined up in the outermost position of a team of bird-bearers, followed by a team general on horseback, at this time, Wang Dagou asked in a low voice while running to his captain on the side.

"Don't talk, Wang Dagou, you talk a lot, be careful that Lao Tzu goes back and confines you, you shouldn't know, don't ask more, Lao Tzu doesn't know.

Didn't the general say, this time we are going to crack down on smugglers, you don't care where you go, we will kill whoever the general asks you to kill, and we will arrest whoever the general asks. ”

"Yes, Captain, I know. Obey orders, listen to commands, and don't ask around. ”

Wang Dagou was very conscious, and immediately shouted.

"Well, yes, you didn't take the thought class in vain. You're a little conscious, that's right. ”

The white dragon army general riding on the side, looking at Wang Dagou's appearance, also said with a smile.

This time, in addition to the more than 20 wounded who were wounded in the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese in the previous few days, the 'Tiger Camp' also added 200 soldiers who stayed behind in the camp.

At this time, under the cover of twilight, nearly six hundred people quietly moved towards Shao Bo Town.