The crossing starts from the Datang Shuanglong

Chapter 29
The current situation is very good.

It's not a small good, it's not a medium good, but a real big good.

As time went by, not only Hu Douzhou's side had achieved sufficient development, but even Jiangyin's Bamboo Flower Gang had the same.

With Chu Tianxiu's permission, the gang power at the nearest Jiangyin sub-helm has actually been greatly expanded.

Gui Xiliang made an opening, wantonly recruited people among those refugees, and expanded the influence of the Bamboo Flower Gang, which made the Bamboo Flower Gang suffer a wave of purges a few days ago, but after being supplemented, not only the strength quickly recovered Come here, and it will become stronger day by day.

Especially because of the war in the Jiangbei area, after some small gangs and factions were exterminated, many warriors with certain strength were also scattered to the rivers and lakes, and the strength of the Bamboo Flower Gang was further strengthened. In addition, the power of the gang has more than doubled.

It has to be said that in troubled times, it is not only a time of despair for ordinary people, but also a day of carnival for careerists.

When Chu Tianxiu's foundation was first established and began to take root in the two corners of Jiangyin County and Hudouzhou, Li Mi from Wagangzhai, Du Fuwei from Jianghuai, and Li Zitong from Hailing also used their own methods, In the wanton expansion of power, eagles and wolves spy on the great rivers and mountains of the Great Sui Dynasty.

Anyone with a little foresight can see that the world of Sui Dynasty is dying. No matter how Sui Yang Emperor Yang Guang struggles and officials try hard, they can't curb the decline and demise of the Sui Dynasty. It's time.

This feeling of building a city from scratch and establishing your own business can really be described in words.

That sense of satisfaction and the thrill of mastering power are even more exciting than going to a brothel.

Even though Chu Tianxiu knew that now was the time for him to start building his foundation and really exert his strength, he still regretted that he hadn't come out earlier and created a big career in time.

Chu Tianxiu could imagine that even if he just developed step by step, two years would be enough for Hu Douzhou to develop into a feudal town with a population of 6 to [-] and an elite army of [-] to [-].

With the current level of development of the Jiangyin sub-helm, as long as they can defeat the Iron Cavalry Club in Wuxi County, which is entrenched in Jinling, and take down the entire Piling County, it may be easy to spread their influence throughout the counties under the jurisdiction of Wu County, as well as The surrounding Kuaiji County, Hailing County, Yuhang County, Xin'an County, Dongyang County and other counties.

If it comes to that time, as long as he exerts his strength for a while, at least he can sweep the whole state and become the hero of the whole life like Shen Faxing and Xiao Xian in the future.

If there is anything bad about Chu Tianxiu's plan, there is probably only one:
Too expensive.

Even though Chu Tianxiu has reduced the expenses to the minimum, he still spends money like water. Whether it is the ships used for sailing, the food needed by the refugees, or even the most basic coal, bricks and tiles, they all require a lot of money. Take a lot of money as a supplement.

In a sense, being able to buy what you need with money is actually a good thing.

If it wasn't for Chu Tianxiu's relationship with the Song Clan when he was in Yangzhou, otherwise there are some things that money can't buy. It is not something ordinary people can buy with money.

But such an expense, which was like throwing away gold mountains and silver seas, could not be borne by the money Chu Tianxiu seized from the Yangtze River bandits and the savings of a mere sub-rudder of the Bamboo Flower Gang.If she just went in and out, Chu Tianxiu would probably go bankrupt within three to five months.

Fortunately, Hu Douzhou is not only rich in fishery, but also has great benefits.

That is: salt!
Salt and iron have been beneficial since ancient times, especially now that the world is in turmoil, and many salt production areas have been destroyed, causing the price of cheap salt to increase sharply every day.Doing private salt business at this time is simply more profitable than mining.

Interestingly and fortunately, in Chu Tianxiu's memory, there happens to be a process superior to the "salt boiling method" of this era-the drying salt method, which can help him easily obtain a large amount of table salt.

The method of drying salt is actually very simple. It is to choose a favorable terrain, build a salt field, and then introduce seawater into the first-level salt field. It will become a saturated solution of table salt, and then it will gradually precipitate table salt.

The crystals obtained at this time are the coarse salt eaten by the common people at this time.

This method is simple and easy to do, and the slightly more difficult technical problem is only to make cement.

But he remembered correctly, the early cement should be a mixture of clay and limestone, nothing difficult to make.

A few days ago, Chu Tianxiu fired lime in small batches in order to build brick houses in the future, and it happened to be available at this time.

At Chu Tianxiu's request, seven or eight hundred refugees and thirty or fifty artisans worked together, and soon found a place suitable for drying salt on the coastal side of Hudouzhou, where they dug several The [-]-acre salt field relies on natural forces to dry the salt.

This kind of thing is actually not difficult. After the salt pond was dug out, it only took more than ten days to condense a large amount of table salt in the crystallization pond. Judging from their quality, it is completely better than those official salts on the market. Salt is even better.

Although the Zhuhua Gang does not specialize in selling salt like the Haisha Gang, the various gangs in the coastal area, except for the notorious Baling Gang that specializes in human trafficking, other gangs, whether it is the Water Dragon Gang Whether it's the Jukun Gang or their Bamboo Flower Gang, in fact they will more or less do private salt business.

Therefore, there is no need to worry about the sale of these exposed salt. It just so happens that there are too many new recruits in the Bamboo Flower Gang recently, and there are a lot of manpower, so they can be sent out to expand the private salt business.

Just since ancient times, selling illegal salt has been both a huge profit and a felony. If the illegal salt sales exceed a certain amount, it must be the crime of beheading.

But now that the road is not stable, water bandits and grassroots will inevitably be encountered on the road of selling salt, which is full of crises.From a certain point of view, the process of selling salt by a private salt dealer is actually a process of training soldiers. It just happened to give the Bamboo Flower Gang a little puffiness because they absorbed most of the refugees.

In recent days, Chu Tianxiu has completely shifted the focus of his career to Hu Douzhou, and the Jiangyin sub-rudder naturally let go first, and everything was taken care of by Gui Xiliang, while he It's not bad, so in the future, Chu Tianxiu will hand over the private salt business to Gui Xiliang, so there is no need to pay more attention.

In fact, the current Chu Tianxiu doesn't even have the energy to take care of those private salt business anymore.Now he has set his sights on another business.

A few days ago, for some unknown reason, a whale more than ten meters long accidentally rushed to the coast of Hudouzhou, where it ran aground on the shore, and was discovered by passing fishermen.

Needless to say, it was a blast.Under Chu Tianxiu's order, after the whale was dismembered and divided into meat, more than [-] catties of meat were released, and the town's navy and refugees on the island all opened their bellies to eat. Most of the meat was left, so I had to marinate those pieces of meat for later consumption.

This incident reminded Chu Tianxiu that there is an ultimate human hunting activity in this world that is a hundred times more dangerous and a hundred times beneficial than hunting tigers.

Whale hunting!

(End of this chapter)