129. Chaos at the seaside(1/2)
Brother Zhao actually knows that it is best to stay by himself.
My daughter needs someone to watch, Jin Zhen’s escort agency needs someone to take care of, and someone to watch the city even more... It’s okay for Jiang Zhen to leave, but he can’t go with him.
Although he didn't want to separate from Jiang Zhen, Zhao Jin Ge gritted his teeth and agreed, and said, "Jiang Zhen, you must be safe." If something happened to Jiang Zhen... Zhao Jin Ge was shocked and didn't dare to think about this possibility at all.
Jiang Zhen nodded.
This time he was just going to see the situation. He didn't have to complete a certain task like before, so he would definitely put himself in danger.
After talking to Brother Zhao Jin, Jiang Zhen made preparations.
He asked the cafeteria to prepare some jerky and fried rice for dry food, and asked Zheng Yi for a lot of high-alcohol and some medicinal materials. Then he began to ask his subordinates to find someone who was willing to go with him.
"This time, it is very dangerous to follow me out and may lose your life outside. However, if you perform well, you will be the head of the ward after you come back." Jiang Zhen did not say where he was going, but he made the dangerous things very clear.
Follow Jiang Zhen out, you may indeed encounter danger, but you may also get great opportunities...
"Boss, I'll go!" Wang Haisheng, He Chunsheng and others who had followed Jiang Zhen for a few days said almost immediately.
These people were actually quite honest before, but after following Jiang Zhen to the capital, their horizons and experiences a lot of things, and their mentality changed.
They can also make a lot of money by working peacefully at the Jinzhen Escort Agency, but when people are always ambitious, they think it is great to make one or two taels a month when they have no money, but they really want to make two taels. After earning two taels, they want to make five taels...
"I'll go too!" others also expressed.
In the end, there were six or seven out of ten people around Jiang Zhen who wanted to go.
Of course, Jiang Zhen could not bring all these people with him. He left Wang Haisheng and He Chunsheng to help Zhao Jinge manage the Jin Zhen escort agency, and then used the remaining people to select fifty strong people, including Jiang Ming and He Xiasheng and others who followed him to the capital.
He Chunsheng actually wanted to go, but thinking about his big belly wife, and thinking that the escort agency still needed to take care of him, he still gave up this idea and finally helped Jiang Zhen and others to pack up their things.
Jiang Zhen started to help him create some things like iron hook knife some time ago. This time he packed up all of them. In the end, everyone who wanted to set off basically carried a big backpack. In addition, he also taught his subordinates some ways to survive in the wild.
These were all learned in his previous life, and they were all very useful, but just explaining how much his subordinates could not learn. If they wanted them to learn well, they still had to teach them slowly in the next training.
The night before departure, Jiang Zhen picked up the bamboo strips again.
He tied up bamboo strips one by one, pasted them with white paper, and finally made a lantern that didn't know whether it was a rabbit or a mouse, and then lit the lamp inside.
The lamp was hung in the room by Jiang Zhen, and then Zhao Mingzhu stared at the lamp excitedly for a long time. When Jiang Zhen went to kiss her and blocked her vision, she also slapped Jiang Zhen.
"Dad will make you bigger next year!" Jiang Zhen would not be slapped by his daughter, but instead kissed Zhao Mingzhu several times in the face. Zhao Mingzhu was so kissed that she fell on the bed, laughed "giggled", and then she simply lay down and looked at the light.
"This child has a good temper." Jiang Zhen couldn't help but sigh.
Brother Zhao Jin glanced at Jiang Zhen, then continued to lower his head to do needlework.
He sewed some things like rice grains, ginseng slices and other things on a slightly old single garment by Jiang Zhen, and told Jiang Zhen to wear the clothes inside a cotton jacket.
"I must wear it." Jiang Zhen kissed Brother Zhao Jin and hid some weapons in his leggings.
It was the fifteenth day of the first lunar month when Jiang Zhen set out.
Zhao Liu didn't know what Jiang Zhen was going to do, but only knew that Jiang Zhen was going to go out again, so he got up early in the morning and made a pot of dumplings with glutinous rice flour for Jiang Zhen to eat. He also cooked a pot of glutinous rice and pinched rice balls, so that Jiang Zhen could take them away to eat.
"Mom, the dumplings you make look good." Jiang Zhen actually doesn't like sweet and soft dumplings very much, but this is Zhao Liu's wish, so he certainly won't refuse.
After taking a bite... Jiang Zhen was even more moved.
The dumplings are not covered with bean paste or sesame powder, but they are actually wrapped with meat.
Zhao Liu probably knew that he didn't like sweets, so he specially wrapped the meat filling in the dumplings. Such dumplings were quite delicious.
Jiang Zhen quickly finished a pot of dumplings, and at this time, Zhao Liu had already pinched dozens of rice balls - she planned to give Jiang Zhen and the people who followed Jiang Zhen one to let them take them to cushion when they were hungry on the road.
The rice ball has white glutinous rice on the outside, and pickles are wrapped in it, fried peanuts and repeated fried food. The fried dough sticks are very fragrant and easy to carry.
This time, Jiang Zhen equipped each subordinate with a lot of things, but he did not let his subordinates wear uniform clothes - he wanted to see the situation in Hongjiang Salt Field and train his subordinates by the way, and did not want to face the army of Daqi. Since this is the case, of course he could not wear uniform clothes.
After taking the rice ball given by Zhao Liu, Jiang Zhen took his men onto the boat and headed to the beach.
Hongjiang Salt Farm is located between Hexing Prefecture and Wuzhong Prefecture, which is quite far from Hecheng County, but it is not far from Hecheng County to the beach. It is not as tightly guarded as near Hongjiang Salt Farm.
There are many fifty people, but in fact, they are easy to hide when they go out in the wild, especially in the forest. At this moment, there are not many people living on the beach because of the existence of Hongjiang Salt Field, which is almost the same as in the wilderness.
Jiang Zhen took the compass and a simple map and bypassed the Hongjiang Salt Field guarding near some river main roads. He took his men quietly into a forest and headed to the beach...
Although the old nest of Hongjiang Salt Field was raided, many of their subordinates were still there. Although these people who were originally guarding various intersections were a little messy, they still kept it very tightly and did not allow those small merchants to go to the beach to purchase goods.
Jiang Zhen brought people to the beach, and at this time, Zhou Maohe was surrounded by others, but he was staying in a cave near Hongjiang Salt Field.
The cave is very big and a little wet, and centipedes and various small insects crawl over from time to time... All this looks terrible, but the young men crowded in the cave don't care about it at all.
"You'd better let me go. If something happens to me, the court will definitely not let you go..." Zhou Maohe said to the men with weak strength.
One of the men slapped the stone wall of the cave with a "slap". When he let go of his hand, a very thick red-headed centipede fell off the wall and died on the ground.
Zhou Maohe's breathing stagnated and cold sweat broke out from behind.
Although Zhou Maohe was born in a poor family, he could afford a poor family that could afford a scholar. I think he could not be so poor. At least he has always been a food and clothing since he was a child and has never been displaced.
But now...
"If you yell again, I will throw you out." The man who slapped a centipede to death said to Zhou Maohe.
Although this person spoke in dialect, Zhou Maohe still understood. Thinking of the situation outside, he immediately did not dare to say anything else.
In fact, Zhou Maohe copied the Hongjiang Salt Field, which was a little different from the news Zheng Yi found out, and what people outside thought.
Zhou Maohe is not Jiang Zhen. Even if he saw the scene of Hongjiang Salt Field, he thought that he would have to interrogate the people from Hongjiang Salt Field carefully, and would not have led people to copy Hongjiang Salt Field directly.
At that time... he was actually forced to go to Liangshan.
After approaching Hongjiang Salt Field, he knew that the people near Hongjiang Salt Field were not living well. After he saved the woman who fell into the water and met these salt households in front of him, he was even more angry with Hongjiang Salt Field.
Then, he took these people to Hongjiang Salt Field to ask for an explanation.
As a result, when they went there, they actually saw an extremely unbearable scene.
In Hongjiang Salt Field, a group of soldiers were having fun with the group of women, and even threw a few corpses outside...
Zhou Maohe was immediately angry, and the group of salt households behind him exploded directly. Then, these people rushed up and fought with the people from Hongjiang Salt Field without caring about Zhou Maohe.
Zhou Maohe couldn't stop him, so he could only watch them pick up Hongjiang Salt Field and kill many people in Hongjiang Salt Field.
At that time, he was very dissatisfied with these salt households, but these salt households placed many evidence of crimes in Hongjiang Salt Field in front of him, and said that he was forced to do so. He saw that they were really pitiful and did not pursue them. Then he wrote a memorial to the court and contacted nearby officials, saying that he would definitely give these salt households justice.
However, he failed to give these people justice, and the officials actually came to quell the rebellion!
He felt a little sorry for these salt farmers, but he didn't expect that at this time, these salt farmers even changed their faces.
It turned out that when these salt farmers met Zhou Maohe, they planned to go to Hongjiang Salt Farm to rescue their robbed relatives. After meeting Zhou Maohe, the imperial envoy, they thought that Zhou Maohe might be able to help them, so they took Zhou Maohe to Hongjiang Salt Farm.
As a result, Zhou Maohe was unable to help them at all.
When the imperial army arrived, they had no choice but to die... Seeing that Zhou Maohe was planning to have a good talk with the people in the imperial court, these people thought he was crazy, and then took him away - with an imperial envoy in his hands, they could be safer.
These days, they have been hiding and are worried all day long. Zhou Maohe is still muttering all day long to prevent them from going against the court, so they become more and more impatient with Zhou Maohe.
"Brother Zhu, what should we do next?" A young man who was only fourteen or fifteen years old looked at the man who slapped a centipede to death.
The man's name is Zhu Erlin. Although his family is a salt household, he was originally a bit shameful. His father still managed dozens of salt households. Because of this, Zhu Erlin knew a few words.
But even so, in the eyes of some people, they can still be ruined at will.
On the day Zhu Erlin's elder brother Zhu Daqiang got married, his new wife was snatched away and it took several days to be released. So his eldest nephew was thrown to death as soon as he was born.
Zhu Erlin grew up to the age of seventeen or eighteen and secretly fell in love with Shuang'er, a salt household, but the Shuang'er disappeared.
But this time, he finally couldn't stand it anymore, but it was because of two things.
First, the food distributed from the above was getting less and less. In the end, many elderly people were unwilling to eat and starved to death. Second, as the Chinese New Year approached, the people from Hongjiang Salt Farm planned to recruit some women Shuang'er and go back to Lele, but they forced many people to be captured.
They had been enduring for a long time, and finally couldn't bear it anymore. In the end, they simply ignored the amount of salt they had to hand over. Instead, they went to the beach to pick up some crabs and clams, cooked them with the remaining grain, and then ate them all, and planned to fight to the death with the people in Hongjiang Salt Field with weapons.
As for the results...
The Hongjiang Salt Field was copied by them, and they had to hide from each other.
"We hide first, we must not be discovered." Zhu Erlin said. In fact, he didn't know what to do next. Since this is the case, it would be better to hide first.
Anyway, they have copied a lot of food, so there is no need to worry about being hungry.
Hearing Zhu Erlin say this, the salt households who followed him nodded, and then began to discuss how to hide: "Brother Zhu Er, should we hide in another place?"
"What should we do in the future?"
"I can't stand it all the time, the child can't stand it..."
...
When these salt farmers went to find trouble for Hongjiang Salt Farm, they did not bring the old and weak, but later they returned to the village and brought all the old and weak with them, while those who were weak were settled in another dry cave.
"Let's go south." Zhu Erlin said.
At this time, Jiang Zhen came to the village where he had bought seafood.
At the beginning, the village was very poor and dilapidated, but there were still many people living there, but now...
Looking at the corpse in front of him, Jiang Zhen's expression became extremely ugly.
"Boss..." Jiang Ming trembled and called out to Jiang Zhen.
Although he had fought with the water bandits and many people died at that time, all of them were adult men, and there were children who had their heads cut off in this place.
To be continued...