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Zhanjiatun is one of the large towns, with more than 130 military households, and the total population is over 1,000. Their land is also gone. Zhanjiatun is not by the sea, and he has to travel twenty or thirty miles to catch a fish. He can only make a living by relying on the wild vegetables and grass roots of Laoshan. His life is even worse than Yangjiatun. No wonder they are most active in launching riots.

Zhan Yingwei is a rising star in Zhanjiatun. He has good health and can fight. He has a group of brothers around him. The poorest family in the family is very natural. In fact, all the poor military households in Fushan Institute want to resist Wang Shixin. The key is whether they have this ability and whether anyone organizes them. Just now, Zhang Zhun showed some skills, and Yang Qianqiang and others immediately leaned over. Li Jiaxi and others clearly stated that their purpose was to kill Wang Shixin.

"Pay attention to their movements." Zhang Zhun said calmly.

It is naturally good for someone to take the lead. Even if he cannot win, he can greatly impact Wang Shixin and consume some of his strength. At the same time, he can also test the reactions of all parties to facilitate Zhang Zhun to make a judgment.

After all, killing Wang Shixin is not just about physically eliminating a person, but also challenging the entire ruling class. Aoshanwei, Laizhou Prefecture, Laizhou Guard, Denglai Governor, Denglai General, Shandong Governor, Shandong General and other bureaucrats cannot sit idly by and watch a thousand households be killed in vain, right? They must be going crazy to counterattack.

"Okay!" The mouse agreed and went sneakily.

In the following days, Zhang Zhun continued to train his fish-breaking team and taught all the key points of assassination so that when others launch a rebellion, he could quickly join the battlefield and get a share of the pie. He believed that his fish-breaking team would never lose to any opponent when they really fought.

However, the news of the riot quickly became silent, and there was no news about Zhan Yingwei.

There was no news of any disturbance in the entire Fushan District, and it was terrible.

Such silence is very abnormal, and there must be some changes in some aspects.

Sure enough, a few days later, the mouse came to report and said that he had found out the exact news and Zhan Yingwei was "missed".

"Missing? Was he assassinated?" Zhang Zhun's lips showed a hint of sneer.

"I don't know. Anyway, my family can't find the body." said mouse.

He found out that on the eighth day of the second month, Zhan Yingwei went to Maojiatun, probably to contact the people from Maojiatun. When he went there, he also brought two brothers with him, both of whom were skilled and had short swords to defend himself. However, the three of them went out in the morning and had not arrived in Maojiatun at night. The next day, the people from Zhanjiatun heard the news and hurried out to search, but they couldn't find it.

There was a place called Zhangshugou halfway through the way and found traces of fighting, and there were vague bloodstains under the soil. It was very likely that Zhan Yingwei was ambushed. However, Zhan Yingwei's body was never found, and there were no witnesses around. Although the people in Zhanjiatun were full of anger, they could not find a way to vent. The people in Zhanjiatun all suspected that it was Wang Shixin's move, but there was no evidence.

"The corpse must have been thrown into the sea, and there is no simpler way to deal with it."

Zhang Zhun said indifferently.

You can imagine that Wang Shixin sent someone to plot against Zhan Yingwei. Others have no motive to kill, nor have the strength to kill. Wang Shixin, a Qianhu family in Fushan, was originally a very insidious person. Everyone in the institute called him King of Yama behind his back. It is not surprising that he used such a means to solve hidden dangers. The reason why he used despicable means such as assassination was because he was worried about causing greater unrest.

The situation in all parts of the country is very tense. Except for the rebels in the northwest, other places are also brewing uprisings. Especially in the Shandong region, it has not stopped in the past ten years. It is really a disaster that has caused trouble and people are living in poverty. The long-term drought has made the riots here very high. As long as there is a little bit of Mars, a fire that will surge into the sky will be immediately ignited.

First, in the second year of Tianqi, Wang Haoxian of the White Lotus Sect, Xu Hongru launched an uprising and occupied all parts of Yanzhou Prefecture. Even the descendants of Mencius were killed, and the world was shocked. The Hanlin people wrote blood letters, and the court was furious. Emperor Tianqi ordered a severe order to suppress him and mobilized heavy troops to enter Shandong. However, so far, Wang Haoxian and Xu Hongru have never been caught.

Then in the fourth year of Chongzhen, Kong Youde occupied Dengzhou Prefecture to cause rebellion and fed with people. The Ming army officers and soldiers who suppressed were also bandits in uniform, burning, killing, looting, and doing all kinds of evil, even more cruel than the rebels. This civil strife made Dengzhou Prefecture a thousand miles of barren land, with white bones exposed in the wild, and no rooster crowing thousands of miles away. The situation in Laizhou Prefecture was slightly better, but it was not much better.

Immediately afterwards, in the sixth year of Chongzhen, the White Lotus Sect, Wang Yilun, launched an uprising in Jinxiang. The rebel army had as many as 60,000 to 70,000 people, which affected several nearby counties. Yanzhou Prefecture was frightened again, and the King of Lu Zhu Yishou was so scared that his hair turned white. Although the rebel army was quickly suppressed and Wang Yilun was missing, it had exposed many weaknesses of Shandong officers and soldiers.

Because of the continuous withdrawal of troops to suppress Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai's rebellion, the troops in Shandong were much empty than before. Now those who stayed in Shandong are all old, weak, sick and disabled. For example, the war soldiers who were originally stationed in Jimo Camp have been transferred to the Henan front line. For example, the entire Aoshanwei, including Xiongyasu and Fushansu, all the combat-capable soldiers will definitely not exceed 300. If someone launches an uprising, Shandong officers and soldiers may not be able to resist. Therefore, although Wang Shixin is very taboo to Zhan Yingwei, he dare not take action publicly.

A cold smile appeared at the corner of Zhang Zhun's mouth.

It seems that Wang Shixin is also afraid of arousing public anger!

But how long can he suppress the anger of the people?

Zhan Yingwei's death will only make the anger in the Zhanjiatun army's hearts become more intense, and once it explodes, it will have greater destructive power.

The more crazy Wang Shixin is, the faster he will be destroyed.

This is a truth that history has proven.

Stimulated by this news, Zhang Zhun once again strengthened his training for the fish-zai team.

A violent storm is coming again. Strengthen your own strength and be prepared for any trouble!

In February, another group of young and middle-aged people joined the team, all of whom were in front of and behind the houses. After repeated consideration, they decided to train and assassinate with Zhang Zhun. Their purpose was the same as that of Li Jiaxi and others, not just to slaughter fish, but to slaughter people. They were very dissatisfied with the current situation, but actually they remembered to resist very early, but they did not have that kind of strength. Now, with Zhang Zhun taking the lead, they were no longer willing to endure it.

By mid-February, Zhang Zhun's fish-breaking team had increased to 42, all of which were young military families in Yangjiatun. The oldest was 29 years old and the youngest was 14 years old. Due to the increase in the number of people, Zhang Zhun abolished the title of master and asked the team members to call him captain.

The success rate of Yang Zhiyuan and Hao Linyong's fishing stalk has been 50%, and the level of fishing stalks of Zou Mingjia and others has also been significantly improved, almost 30%. During the training intervals, these old players generally perform fishing stalks, which not only satisfy the performance desire of the old players, but also greatly encourages the training enthusiasm of other players.

The standard for passing the assessment is still to prick fish. As long as you prick fish, even if you pass the exam, you can learn more skills. After all, prick fish is much more difficult than pricking people. Having the level of prick fish means pricking people is easy.

On February 19th, Zhang Zhun and others were training, and the mouse rushed to report: "Yu Lin, it's not good, the salt owl is here!"

Everyone's faces changed slightly.

The so-called salt owl is actually a private salt seller. The salt tax in the Ming Dynasty was always very high, with a cost of only a few cents per kilogram of salt, and retail sales of more than 100 cents, with dozens of times huge profits in the middle. Stimulated by such huge profits, private salt elements emerged. They walked all over Shandong, collected the sea salt cooked by the people themselves, and then sold it to big cities at a lower price to make huge profits.

The salt administration in Shandong is extremely chaotic. Anyone with some tricks is engaged in private salt business, and there is no need to look at the face of the Salt Inspection Office. In fact, the Salt Inspection Office itself is the largest salt owl, engaged in the largest private salt sales business. Salt owls of all sizes are rampant and control the entire Shandong private salt business, and the figure of official salt is almost no longer visible.

Emperor Chongzhen said he had no money all day long, but in fact he was earned away by bureaucrats at all levels below. They didn’t care whether your emperor had money or not, as long as he had money to spend money on his own. In the past, when Wei Zhongxian was still alive, the country could still receive a little salt tax. After Wei Zhongxian was taken down, the salt tax was less than 30% of the original ones, and there was a trend of continuing to decline. This is really a great irony.

The sea salt cooked in Yangjiatun is sold to various salt owls in Jimo County. After receiving the private salt at a low price, they transported it to Jimoying or Jiaozhou for sale, or they were concentrated and handed over to their superiors, or sold to larger salt owls.

Originally, the price of the salt owl to the military households was very low, and each pound of sea salt was only three or four cents, which was almost unsuccessful. However, sometimes, the salt owl was not even willing to give it to the price, so he simply robbed it directly, and snatched it to the people's homes and snatched away the private salt, so that there was no need to pay any cost.

Yangjiatun is located in the southernmost part of Fushan District and the farthest from Jimo County. It has not been robbed before, but Houbeitun, Hounantun, and Renjiatun were all visited by Yan Xiao. Speaking of Yan Xiao, everyone’s hatred for him is not inferior to Wang Shixin. Because there are rumors that Wang Shixin himself is one of the leaders of Yan Xiao, and many Yan Xiaos are engaged in the ground activities of Fushan District, and they have to pay "protection fees" to Wang Shixin.

Now, the salt owls' idea of ​​looting finally hit Yangjiatun's head.

A tiger doesn’t show its power, thinks I’m a sick cat?

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