Chapter 75: Start iron smelting as soon as possible

"No need to ask, it must be the new army. Look at his clothes, although they are dirty, they are also in official clothes. Unexpectedly, the officers and soldiers dare to attack the salt ship. You are so brave!" He Zhaoyi said, lighting the oil lamp in the cabin.

"Destroy it quickly!" Zhang Yang said sternly.

Shi Xin was already by his side and turned off the oil lamp.

He Zhaoyi was angry: "What's wrong with lighting the oil lamp? If you don't light the lamp, how can I tell that he is a new army?" As he said that, he returned to the cabin angrily and pulled up his curtain just now.

The lights will expose themselves. Since they are the new affiliated army, they are naturally considered regular troops. If there is an archer among the people who escaped just now, if the archer comes back quietly, he will die inexplicably.

"Say! Are you a new army?" Zhang Yang asked.

Hearing that he saw his origin, the man finally lowered his head.

"We are the New Army."

"Say, why did you come here and attack us?" Shi Xin grabbed a handful of salt in his hand. "If you don't say it, let you taste the taste of pouring this handful of salt into your mouth."

"We went to besiege Haozhou City, and it was not captured for a month. Later, we retreated. However, on the way back, we were ambushed by the Red Turban Army. Daruhuachi died. According to the military rules, we all had to be executed. Everyone dispersed as deserters. Some of them said to join the Red Turban Army. We ran here and saw that your ship was parked here, and wanted to make a fortune. As a result..."

"As a result, I was beaten to death with one move!" Shi Xin said proudly, but he didn't care at all. In fact, he didn't help anything except a hit.

Haozhou City? Zhang Yang suddenly thought of the mirage I saw last time. Who was the majestic man inside?

"Who are there in Haozhou City?"

"There are Guo Zixing, Sun Deya, and a more brave man named Zhu Chongba, but later he changed his name to Zhu Yuanzhang."

Zhu Yuanzhang? These three big words are like a bolt from the blue, exploding in Zhang Yang's mind.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Yuanzhang have already joined the Red Turban Army and have begun to conquer the world. They have to speed up their pace and do their own careers. They must speed up their iron and build weapons. The troubled times have begun!

"Brother, brother, what's wrong with you?" Shiyi asked when he found something was wrong with Zhang Yang.

"It's okay, I'm fine." Zhang Yang said.

"Then what should we do with this person?" Shiyi asked.

Before Zhang Yang could speak, the man had already found that everyone was paying attention to Zhang Yang and ignored his attention. He turned his head, bypassed the blade, and suddenly rolled down the water, "Puu!"

"Shoot the arrow!" Zhang Yang shouted.

No matter how good everyone said, they picked up the combo crossbow and shot arrows at the place where he had just dived.

"Draw the anchor, raise the sail, and start the boat!" Zhang Yang said.

"Brother..." Everyone was puzzled.

"We have exposed our target and ran a few of them just now. If they go back and call some people, we might suffer a loss. We should go forward for a while, change the place, and stop. Send two people to watch and then rest." Zhang Yang said.

"Yes, my brother is more thoughtful." Everyone started working one after another, preparing for the boat.

After this trouble, many people couldn't sleep all night.

At noon the next day, when he arrived in Hezhou, He Zhaoyi contacted the buyer. Due to the Red Turban Army Uprising, many places were in war. Many large households had no fine salt at home and the merchants had no inventory. The fine salt was quickly distributed to major merchants, and they sold out all the sales and sold at a good price of 350 cents per tael. Some merchants did not get the goods and were unwilling to give them a deposit in advance, and prepared for them next time when they sent the salt.

After getting the money, He Zhaoyi was as happy as a child. She sold more than 30 taels of silver with a load of salt. After removing the cost, she had ten taels of each load of salt that was replaced with fifteen taels. For these hundred tracts of salt, she made more than 1,500 taels of salt!

Her face suddenly turned red and she jumped up and kissed Zhang Yang, which made everyone beside her stunned.

Zhang Yang was shocked: What's going on with this little girl? Moreover, she is still dressed as a young man now, so she won't think that there is something wrong with her sexual orientation, right?

According to the prior agreement, He Zhaoyi had already given 1,000 taels of silver to Zhang Yang.

Zhang Yang was not very happy when he got the money. He couldn't stay by his side for long.

The workers' wages are twenty cents a day, and now there are about fifty people. The wages are more than forty taels a month, and they plan to give each household one tael of silver to settle down, so that people will be willing to work for themselves. The brothers under their command will also be divided into two taels of silver, which will be regarded as the money they follow these days. What makes them most painful is that the coal needed for iron smelting has not been found yet. In order to start work immediately after returning, they have to buy a ship of coal to transport it to the base. This ship of coal costs about five hundred taels of silver!

In the end, I could only have about one hundred taels left, so I kept my pocket!

These are not the most important things. The most important thing is how Li Bosheng made his arrangements? Has the blast furnace been built? Can his iron smelting plan be carried out smoothly?

Only with iron can we make weapons.

After returning, he passed by Yangzhou. He Zhaoyi did not ask to follow him again, but instead led the salt to Zhang Yang and went home by himself.

Needless to say, Zhang Yang could guess and prove that he had this ability. Of course, he had to go home to show off. This daughter-in-law was able to calm down and not go home until now, so she was indeed patient. From this point of view, she still had some advantages, much better than those vulgar women who only knew rouge and water powder. However, she ran out secretly for so long, and I wonder what Mr. He should feel?

He Zhaoyi gave the salt ray to Zhang Yang so generously, and asked Zhang Yang to keep it for him. He said that he would come to the salt farm to pick up the salt again after a while. If it didn't arrive within ten days, he would let Zhang Yang transport the salt directly to Yangzhou City to find her. She was too relieved that Zhang Yang was flattered. These salt rays were a lot of money!

In order to cover up, Zhang Yang did not buy coal directly back to the base. It was too ostentatious. It would probably take a few days for the small fish at the bottom of the river to clamor.

"Look, the salt ship is not filled with salt, but coal!"

"Why is he transporting coal? Isn't this fake public service for personal gain?"

"This is still secondary. It's not cold now, so what are you doing with coal?"

"I heard that coal can smelify iron and build weapons. Come on, let me tell you some tips. This is what the lobster I saw last time..."

He drove the official boat back to the salt field and explained it to the commander of the salt field for a long time. The salt spiral was the last time the rich young master. He encountered something on the road and couldn't get out, so he asked himself to help him with it. He used all his skills to make his immediate boss believe it.

The salt field is not enough, so it will take a few days to transport it away.

Taking advantage of these days, Zhang Yang took a few brothers to Gaoyou Mansion to buy coal from the Port of Killing.

Gaoyou is a relatively large city with many large households, while rich big households all like to burn coal.

The boat was parked near Gaoyou, and several people carried shoulder poles and entered Gaoyou Mansion in batches and came out in batches.

Salt and iron are officially operated, but coal is not. There are not so many soldiers who check these black things. Zhang Yang successfully bought coal from a coal yard in Gaoyou and picked it up on the boat.

Although the coal was bought, Zhang Yang felt so distressed: such a large amount of money was simply a robbery!

In addition to buying coal, Zhang Yang also bought two pigs. He still remembered his promise: to let people on the island eat meat.

Everything is ready, Zhang Yang directs everyone to board the boat and set off! Return to the base.
Chapter completed!