[Red House] Big Salt Merchant

It's actually quite normal to encounter this kind of thing on a boat on the river, but the Lu family was powerful in the past, and they rarely encountered Jiang Pirates who dared to stop their boat on the river.

Jiang Pirates are sometimes Jiang Pirates, and sometimes they are played by the Caofu of the Cao Gang.

Lin Yu only glanced at the shadows in the distance, and said to Jia Yucun who was beside him: "These river bandits only rob merchant ships on the river, and ordinary boats going to and fro will usually have no accidents."

It was just ordinary, Jia Yucun had heard a little about the situation of Jiang Pirates, and when he looked up at this time, torches were lit all around, and the nearby ships were brightly illuminated.

"All the boats in front of me have stopped, whoever moves forward, don't blame our knives for not having eyes!"

The caller made it very clear, Lin Yu looked back at the panicked people on the boat, and said, "Don't move, if we are found after a while, no one will dare to touch us."

Everyone just felt strange, why didn't they announce their identities immediately so that they could pass through this section of the road?Do you have to wait until the Jiang Pirates find out about this boat before speaking?

Lin Yu naturally had his own plans - Jiang Pirate's influence was relatively deep, so there was no need to directly avenge Lin Ruhai, the robbery here must involve a relationship of interest.If he reported his identity early and blocked Jiang Pirate's way, and rescued all the people here with great fanfare, but violated the interests of these people, and they were secretly hated, that would be the most terrible thing.Lin Ruhai actually made quite a few enemies here in Yangzhou, and Lin Yu couldn't add any more trouble to him.

After all, Lin Ruhai is only in charge of the salt administration, and the governor of Caohe is not within his direct jurisdiction, so Lin Ruhai has no way to prevent anything from happening.

Caohe Caohe, the word "cao" is related to the lifeline of the country.

Cao, the water turns to the valley.The water transportation is a kind of transportation activity for the dynasties to transport grain from all over the country to the capital to meet the official salary, military salary and consumption of the royals and nobles.

Taking the Grand Canal as an example, Beijing and Hangzhou pass through, and the imperial court collects grain from various places and transports it to the capital by water, maintaining the stability of the capital and ensuring that its needs are met.The benefits of the Caohe River have always been valued by Kangxi. He inspected the river works and dredged the river many times.

However, since this waterway has been developed, it cannot be fully used for official transportation of grain, and merchant ships and civilian ships have also begun.

By the Qing Dynasty, the convenience of water transportation had already connected the north and the south in economics and trade, and merchant ships had frequent exchanges.

The tank boats that originally transported food for the court were not allowed to carry anything other than food with them.

After a trip on the boat, the scullers loaded them with grain, traveling from south to north.When the food was rested, the boat was empty when returning to the boat. It was stipulated that no other soil should be carried, so the boat could only return empty.Cao Fu lived a hard life, and he only earned income from Weibo for a trip. Gradually, he began to violate the regulations, and secretly brought some soil to the south to sell.

In this way, the water transportation of the Caohe River, on the contrary, promoted the circulation of commodities and made the north-south economy more prosperous.

Lin Yu already knew what was going on here, not to mention that this kind of development is the general trend.

In the 22nd year of Kangxi, the imperial court stipulated that each tank boat was allowed to carry sixty stones of soil, which was finally admitted to such a behavior.

At this time, in the faint light of the torch, he looked back and asked Jia Yucun, "Is there a boat from the Cao Gang behind us?"

If there is a salt gang, there will naturally be a Cao gang.

Water transportation is divided into different river sections, and different river sections have different water gang leaders, but I don't know which one belongs to them behind this section.

Jia Yucun didn't pay attention. Hearing Lin Yu's question, he was stunned for a moment. Looking back, he saw a large fleet of ships following him. "Cao Gang?"

Lin Yu only pulled Jia Yucun away, and told the people around, "Go into the cabin, and send someone to watch at the door, don't go out."

Just look at the situation and it's interesting.

The Cao Gang sailed on the river with great influence and controlled many merchant ships. Generally speaking, the Jiang bandits would not dare to rob them easily.The Cao Gang helped the imperial court to transport food, and whoever dared to rob them would be against the imperial court.Of course, this gang of Zijiang pirates robbed the passing merchants themselves, which is also considered to be against the common people.It's just that those who dare to rob the Cao Gang have the ability.

Lin Yu's premonition was correct this time. He had just walked in and sat across from the suspicious Daiyu when he heard something happened outside.

"Small Xiao Xiao dares to block the boat of the grandpas, do you know who is escorting the boat this time?!"

"I don't care who you are, you want to cross this river, unload the tea and salt from your boat!"

After being able to bring some soil, things are usually carried on the tank boat. Tea is considered relatively good, but the word behind it is interesting-salt.

This tank boat carries salt, but what it brings is private salt!

Lin Yu's eyes flickered, but he turned around to comfort Daiyu and said: "There are just some rough people outside, just have a dispute on the river."

Daiyu glanced out of the curtain, but saw a dark scene with some flickering flames, and before she could reply, she suddenly heard the killing outside.

I don't know which side made the first move. The people on the boat went down into the water, or drove the boat over, jumped onto someone else's boat, and slashed with their knives.

These people are all reckless men on the water, and they never show mercy when killing generals. After a while, there is a fishy smell floating on the river at night.

Lin Yu and the others on this boat were trembling with fear. Even though it was already late at night, they still couldn't sleep, and they just kept their ears open to listen to the movement outside.

The bright moon hangs high, the river wind blows away the summer heat, and the waves on the river float and break, and the noise gradually stops.

As the matter came to an end, Lin Yu stood up, and only gently opened the curtain. The wind came in with a fishy smell, and Daiyu covered her mouth.

Lin Yu said: "Sister Dai, go in and sit inside."

Daiyu nodded and avoided it a little, and then Lin Yu completely opened the curtain, and the river was extremely quiet.

The previous gang of Jiang robbers had almost disappeared at this moment, and the men who got off the tank boat were questioning each boat one by one, for fear that those Jiang robbers would get mixed into the ordinary boat.

On the largest of the tank boats, the lights were hanging brightly, and there was only a man wearing a bat-patterned black satin robe standing there, talking to someone, and his face could not be seen clearly.

Lin Yu understood in his heart that this should be what the person said this time, "the one who is in custody".

Seeing that those individuals were about to find them here, Lin Yu let go of his hand and went outside to call Jia Yucun. He didn't expect that he had just stood near Jia Yucun when he saw a small boat coming, and a man with a knife in his hand The man wore short brown, glanced at the regulations of their ship, and asked, "What are your identities? Where are you going? Is there any suspicious person on board?"

Jia Yucun hesitated for a moment, but did not speak, and looked at Lin Yu.

Although this journey has only passed for a short time, but with a few words to Lin Yu, Jia Yucun has already felt that Lin Yu is definitely not the thing in the pond.Judging from his reaction after encountering such a big event, Lin Yu was calm and handled it well, not at all like an immature teenager in his teens.After all, Lin Yu was still the heir of the Lin family and Lin Ruhai's only son. Jia Yucun only let Lin Yu handle the matter, so as not to make any mistakes or make him unhappy.

Jia Yucun's official career is still in the hands of brother Lin Ruhai.

Lin Yu glanced at the ferocious Caofu, but knew that things should be almost over.

Fighting on the river is common, but how many people's bones are buried at the bottom of the Grand Canal, so what is this encounter?

He smiled: "We are the family of Mr. Lin, the censor's mansion who patrols salt in the Lianghuai River. This is the husband of our mansion. In Xialin Yu, my father is Mr. Yushi. This time, I took the boat to Beijing to see off my sister-in-law. Everyone killed Jiang Pirates, rescued everyone from danger, and solved our crisis, I am very grateful."

The coachman didn't expect to get such a compliment, he was stunned for a moment, but he couldn't help laughing, and said: "It turns out that he is the son of Master Yu Shilin's family, but just now he is a big boss. I offended you, you have flattered me. But the situation was chaotic just now, there is no one on your boat, right?"

Lin Yu only called Zhang Baoer, "Go and search around, and find some people."

After hearing this, the coachman was also waiting there.

After a while Zhang Bao'er came back and said that there were not too many people or too few people. This time, the coachman felt relieved and went back to report.

The small boat sailed away again, and approached the big boat in the row of tank boats.

"Master Xia, I asked that on the boat to the north, there are people from Master Lin's family who are inspecting salt in the Lianghuai River. They seem to be the son and the lady... Do you think?"

"Lin Ruhai?" Or the young master and young lady?

This man in a black robe stood beside the torch with his hands behind his back, his handsome face half hidden in the shadows.After hearing this, the figure that hadn't moved for a long time finally shook.

The boatman said: "The goods on our ship...these must not be known to the inspectors of the salt censor. If something goes wrong...the boss, or we should—"

He made a "kill" gesture.

The man surnamed Xia only turned around, looked at Lin Yu who was standing at the bow of the boat and looked at him from a distance, and laughed: "This Mr. Lin is really a smart man. And Ask him to go over the boat and talk about it."

Cao Fu was dumbfounded, how smart is that young man?The boss always looks at people so strangely...