Red Mansion Taoist

Chapter 85 Private Salt
  General Luo sent three hundred sergeants to help Jia Qiang escort the confiscated property back to the Yanyunshi Yamen. In doing so, he also deliberately made friends with Jia Qiang.

After confirming that Jia Qiang was a powerful archer, General Luo gave up the idea of ​​turning against Jia Qiang. This was not wise.

Since he can't make enemies, he must make friends. This is his attitude towards dealing with things.

When Jia Qiang said goodbye, she cupped her fists at General Luo and thanked him for his kindness.

With so many sergeants escorting them, nothing happened on the way. After arriving at the Salt Transport Envoy's Yamen, all the property was put into the treasury, and Jia Qiang's mission was considered over.

After returning home, Jia Qiang found Lin Ruhai and presented him with 30,000 taels of silver.

"Take it, it's just a small amount of money!" Lin Ruhai waved his hand casually and said.

Jia Qiang listened to Lin Ruhai's grand words and knew that the amount of money involved in the position of Xunyan Yushi was really huge. Even if he was not greedy, the amount of money he could get was an astonishing amount.

The weather in Yangzhou was still very hot a few days ago, but it turned cold in an instant, with the temperature approaching zero degrees.

Jia Qiang's physique is as high as 35.1, so she won't care about the cold.

But this morning, Zhimo maid came to Jia Qiang's place.

"Master Qiang, this is the cotton-padded coat that the lady sewed for you!" Zhimo presented a cotton-padded coat and told the origin of the cotton-padded coat.

Jia Qiang took the cotton coat, but she didn't expect that Yun Fei had such skills. The dense needle corners and soft inner core could feel the heavy mood everywhere.

"Let me express my gratitude to your girl Yunfei. I like it very much!" Jia Qiang took over the cotton-padded coat and said with a smile.

With his eyesight, he could tell from the cotton coat that it was made according to his body shape.

In the time since he left the capital, his height has grown a bit more, and his body, which was originally growing stronger, has stopped expanding its muscles.

Although the muscles on his body are not very big now, they are as streamlined as a cheetah.

If you follow the normal practice of general body training, you will grow into a strong man with huge muscles and maximize the strength of your muscles.

If his body wasn't still growing, maybe he would have become a strong man after practicing the 'Jia's Hundred Turns Refining Technique'. In the process of development and growth, he continued to grow in the direction of a strong man. .

But since he practiced the 'Tai Xu Jing', his body has undergone new changes.

The muscles and body no longer develop in a general direction, but more in line with the natural way.

The cotton coat in Jia Qiang's hand was made based on his recent figure.

"Miss stayed up several nights for this cotton-padded coat, and her eyes were red!" Zhimo tried his best to describe the difficulty for the lady.

Jia Qiang smiled and rewarded Zhimo with a tael of silver and sent Zhimo away.

Although he was not afraid of the severe cold, considering his wife's nagging, he still planned to put on cotton-padded clothes.

Just as he put on his cotton clothes, Jin Tao came again.

Jintao is Zhujun's personal maid. She also brought cotton-padded clothes, which were also made by staying up late for many days.

Jia Qiang suddenly realized that this was a competition for favor. Before anything happened, the two famous prostitutes started competing.

He also rewarded Jin Tao with one tael of silver and sent Jin Tao away.

As for the two famous prostitutes, he currently has no thoughts about them. This body is only fourteen years old.

In her free days, Jia Qiang spent all her time studying, and Lin Ruhai was as busy as ever. Since it was getting closer and closer to the time for handing out salt quotations, Lin Ruhai didn't even have time to give advice to Jia Qiang.

There were still ten days left before the Yanyin was distributed, and Lin Ruhai recruited Jia Qiang to his side.

"Teacher!" Jia Qiang bowed and saluted.

"Brother Qiang, I have to use your force again!" Lin Ruhai rubbed his temples vigorously and said while relieving fatigue.

Jia Qiang frowned slightly, Lin Ruhai had worked too hard recently and was obviously weak.

"Teacher, let's not talk about business for now. I'll give you a massage!" He came up behind Lin Ruhai and said.

Lin Ruhai did not refuse, smiled, relaxed and let Jia Qiang operate.

Jia Qiang is not an ordinary massage. He performs the 'Healing Technique [Advanced]', using a slow method to exert the therapeutic effect, dividing the healing energy into seven days to work slowly.

When he used the 'Healing Technique [Advanced]', Lin Ruhai's health bar appeared. At this moment, the health bar was reduced by one-sixth.

This is already a state of being sick. If you don't pay attention, your body will become weaker and weaker, and eventually you will fall ill from overwork.

In fact, had it not been for Jia Qiang's arrival, Jia Min would have died of poisoning, and then Lin Ruhai would have become seriously ill, until he exhausted his last energy in office.

Lin Ruhai felt that her body was getting more and more comfortable, as if her whole body felt refreshed after a long sleep.

"If you are a doctor, you must be a miracle doctor!" Lin Ruhai sighed.

"It's just some small tricks to practice martial arts for a long time!" Jia Qiang said modestly.

Lin Ruhai smiled. How could he not know about martial arts training? The books handed down from his ancestors contained relevant content. Where could such methods be used in martial arts training?

"I got information that a private dock has recently stocked up a large amount of private salt!" Lin Ruhai talked about calling Jia Qiang again.

It turns out that the transportation of private salt is generally from the salt field to Yangzhou. The supervision during this distance is not strict. Most of the private salt will be transported to Yangzhou via waterways.

Then it will be transported by land from Yangzhou to various places, during which some cover-ups will be done.

Many transportation processes are broken down into parts, and the private salt is transported through a large number of private salt dealers. The private salt dealers gain a level of profit from this process.

Therefore, it is not easy to find a large amount of illegal salt on land at once.

This kind of place where private salt is hoarded is the task of the salt transport yamen to clean up.

But the problem is that the combat power of the salt cubs is insufficient. In the past, a small amount of salt cubs could not even defeat the private salt dealers. Once too many people are used, it will be known there.

The hoarded private salt will be transferred there in a short period of time. Often even if a large army is sent there, only a small amount of private salt that is too late to be transferred will be found, and the largest part will be transferred away.

Lin Ruhai also thought of many ways to completely block the news, but it was completely impossible.

From the Yanyunshi Yamen to the inside of Yanding, there are salt merchants' eyes.

The huge amount of silver in the hands of the salt merchants, no one can stop it from being corroded.

In other words, Lin Ruhai had been in Yangzhou for many years and had laid a lot of secrets. Otherwise, even this kind of information would not be available from the official sources.

"Can you let go and kill someone?" Jia Qiang asked in a deep voice.

"This is an official document. Even private salt dealers can be killed!" Lin Ruhai didn't know why Jia Qiang was so murderous, but at this time he would not persuade too much.

If you want to appease Jia Qiang's murderous nature, you still have to read the sages' books. This will have to wait until Lin Ruhai has free time to teach Jia Qiang.

Jia Qiang took the official document, which had the seal of Lin Ruhai's Salt Patrol Censor. The dock was a private dock, and everyone was designated as a private salt dealer.

In other words, anyone within the scope of that private dock can be killed. This is the power of the Salt Patrol Censor, a small official of the seventh rank, who controls the ownership of a large amount of silver, an army of salt soldiers, and the life and death of many people.

Jia Qiang took away a hundred salt men. He did not tell the salt men what their mission was. Each of the hundred salt men rode horses. This was regarded as requisitioning all the horses of the salt transportation envoy's Yamen.

Of course, these horses are not all war horses. Even if the Yanyun Envoy Yamen has money, it is not qualified to equip a hundred war horses.

Not to mention the Yanding army, even the number of war horses in the Yangzhou camp was not too many.

There are too many waters in Yangzhou, which is not an environment where war horses are good at, so Daqian will not put a large number of war horses here.

Although there are few war horses among a hundred horses, the speed of a hundred saltmen riding a horse is naturally much faster.

These saltmen didn't dare to say much, and some of them, some of whom were petty, didn't dare to make the slightest move.

Because the person leading the team this time was the terrifying god of death who was wearing armor and had no face to face.

There are rumors about Jia Qiang among Yanding, and as time goes by, these rumors become more and more outrageous.

At first, it was truthfully reported that Jia Qiang had killed nearly five hundred people. However, at some point, it became known that Jia Qiang had killed thousands of people. With a wave of his hand, the sky and the earth shattered, and thousands of people were buried.

Regardless of the rumors, in Yan Ding's mind, Jia Qiang, who was wearing armor, was a god of death.

This kind of awe made no one among the hundred saltmen dare to say another word.

The discipline of the salt cubs is not good, which is related to the source and treatment of the salt cubs.

The salt soldiers were selected from the salt people and were considered to perform corvee service, and their treatment was the lowest among all the armies.

In other words, Lin Ruhai still had some military abilities, which gave Yan Ding some fighting power.

This time Jia Qiang led the team, and a hundred salt men obeyed orders and followed silently along the way.

Jia Qiang didn't need to look at the map. He remembered the Yangzhou map and the private dock he was going to this time.

As mentioned earlier, Yangzhou's waters are extremely developed. The entire Yangzhou is surrounded by rivers, and the waters are extremely complex. It is this complexity that allows salt merchants to dare to send private salt to Yangzhou.

The place Jia Qiang is going to this time is called Juchengtang, which is the Juchengtang mentioned in Song Chao Buzhi's poem.

'Leipi's newly created wheat field is deserted, and he once said that the wind is booming and there is no room for improvement.

Who is like Li Cishi back then? Chunbo still quoted sentences in Chengtang. '

When she was still five miles away from Jucheng Pond, Jia Qiang stopped the white horse under her and waved her hand upward.

All one hundred salt men stopped their horses and jumped off their horses along with Jia Qiang.

"All saltmen supervise each other and no one is allowed to leave alone. Wait here for my order!" Jia Qiang issued the order in a deep voice.

His eyes swept through the slits in his visor across the hundred salt men present, and a terrifying aura pressed down on them.

After a moment, he withdrew his gaze. In fact, when he got here, it was too late even if a salt clerk wanted to notify the salt merchant. He just hated trouble.

From the beginning to the end, he had no intention of using these one hundred salt soldiers to fight. The battle only required him alone.

The game board needs to be upgraded, which means he must embark on the path of massacre.

He would not kill kind people or ordinary people, but he would not be lenient at all in killing these private salt dealers.

After Jia Qiang threatened Yanding, she jumped on the white horse again and walked in one direction towards Juchengtang.

This time he let go of the white horse's speed, and the white horse was like a white lightning, moving at high speed on the ground.

The private pier is behind a temple. The pier cannot be seen from the official road. The high wall of the temple blocks everything.

When Jia Qiang approached the temple on a white horse, bells rang from the temple's bell tower.

He could vaguely see someone on the bell tower looking at him with a monocular. This unknown temple was also equipped with a monocular, which was a rarity in Daqian. From this point alone, we could tell that there was something wrong.

Of course, this was because Jia Qiang's eyesight was so good that she could clearly see the situation on the bell tower from a distance.

If ordinary people came here, they would not be able to clearly see the people on the bell tower, let alone know that the bell was ringing because of outsiders approaching.

As if seeing the armor on Jia Qiang's body, the bell changed from a slow beating to a rapid beating.

There were faint voices in the temple, and then someone climbed onto the wall of the temple. These people held bows and arrows without firing, waiting for Jia Qiang to approach.

"Yan Yun made the Yamen do business, put down your weapons!" Jia Qiang shouted loudly.

His voice was so loud that even though he was still a hundred meters away from the temple, the sound reached their ears.

"The Salt Gang is here, leave immediately if you don't want to die!" Unexpectedly, a response came from the temple wall.

Jia Qiang looked around and saw that it was a tall old man.

The Salt Gang was a gang formed by salt transport coolies. It was somewhat similar to the Cao Gang, but its scope of activities was only around Yangzhou.

These Jianghu forces also have strong hands, and the techniques practiced by Jianghu people have good effects in one-on-one battles.

Jia Qiang had no fear of the Jianghu people. Over a thousand Jianghu people died in his hands, especially the group of Jianghu people from the White Lotus Sect who attacked the palace. When the corpses were counted afterwards, many Jianghu tycoons were found.

The status of the Salt Gang can at best be regarded as that of a moderately powerful member of the White Lotus Sect.

The other party's answer showed confrontation, and Jia Qiang no longer hesitated.

He took off his treasured bow and started speeding towards the temple from a hundred meters on his white horse.

In the process, he drew his bow and nocked an arrow, and shot the old man through the head with one arrow.

"The three gang leaders are dead, take revenge!" The young man standing next to the old man roared when he saw that the old man was shot dead.

Unfortunately, the bows and arrows in their hands were too weak, and they had no training, so they couldn't keep up with the speed of the white horse.

After Jia Qiang shot the first arrow, his hand turned into an afterimage. I wonder if it was because he had practiced the 'Taixu Jing' for a long time, but his shooting speed per second increased from three arrows per second to five arrows per second. arrow.

This is not just shooting arrows randomly, but shooting five targets in one second.

When the white horse reached the temple, he shot down all the archers on the wall.

He ignored the situation inside the temple and ran along the road next to the temple towards the pier blocked by the temple.

Just when they reached the turn, the white horse's feet were empty, and the gang actually laid a trap here.

Just as Jia Qiang was about to make a move, the white horse stepped on all fours in the air and miraculously jumped over the trap.

Only then did he realize that a good third-level war horse had such abilities. This kind of short-term force in the air was completely accomplished by the war horse using its own strong self-control.

(End of this chapter)