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The blue silk merchant Jia said, "I wonder what relation does Brother Silent have with this high-grade green salt?"

The person with a mole on the left side of his face mocked, "Could it be that there is a salt mine here, that's why you want to do business with us?"

Wen Shou thought to himself: You're half right, but it's not a mine. It's not much different from a mine. Then, he said, "Brother Zheng, you're laughing at me. How can there be a green salt mine here?" With that, he said to the crowd, "How is my Sky Valve green salt?"

Wen Kun replied, "Not only high quality, little brother has never seen such a high quality green salt since the days of the Shang Yan Dao. Wen Kun replied," It is not only high quality, little brother has never seen such high quality green salt since the days of the Shang Yan Dao.

The white-haired old man continued, "Using such a high quality green salt with just a gunny sack is truly a heavenly treasure. Isn't this just showing how wealthy you are? To think that we would even help you deal with a county tiger. So extravagant." As he spoke, he shook his long, white beard.

Wen Shousi bowed to the crowd and replied: "Firstly, this green salt did not pass from hand to hand, and it was still carried here by my Heavenly Valve through connections with Qinghai and other places. In order to thank all of you for your care over these years, the price is absolutely fair. Fellow brothers, please cool down. " He thought to himself: This method of producing green salt must not be made known to you, in case something goes wrong.

When everyone heard this, they were shocked. They all wanted to know what kind of relationship would there be between a bandit from a small village in Chengxiang County and the place where Qing Hai made his salt.

Everyone put down their inquiries about the location of the green salt, they knew that this business channel would not easily be revealed, and some of them even wanted to find out more from the members of the Heavenly Valve Army.

The blue silk merchant Jia said, "How should this green salt be priced?"

Wen Kun interrupted and said, "Brother Wise, please don't set that sky-high price. Otherwise, this business will be very difficult to handle."

Wen Shou said: "Everyone, rest assured, we will definitely not be without profits. In order to thank everyone for their care over the past few days, I, Tian Zhen, offer everyone this price." As he spoke, he made a gesture of 'Thirteen' with his fingers.

When the crowd saw this, they sucked in a cold breath and thought to themselves: If ordinary green salt was transferred into our hands, it would be worth 60 taels of silver each. Although this top quality green salt is good, the price of 130 taels of silver is hard to bear.

After a long while, when everyone was looking at each other, Wen Kun, who was the most furious, said, "Brother Wen, you even said that you will take care of us. No matter how good the quality of the green salt is, it can only be priced at 90 to 120 units. As they spoke, they snorted. Everyone's faces were full of anger.

Wen Shousi smiled and waved his hand, saying, "My bad, it was thirteen silver taels a load, not one hundred and thirty."

They were even more surprised when they heard the price of 130 taels of silver each and 13 taels of silver each. Their hearts almost jumped out of their chests as they wondered if they had misheard and if Old Man Wen had recently lost his daughter. One must know that in Qinghai and other places, one had to be familiar with the way to get 15 taels of silver a load. Furthermore, it was ordinary green salt, but this was top-grade green salt! Although the price was low at 130 taels, in reality, if they transferred it to a large official family, it would be able to be doubled. For merchants, doubling the price was also considered a small profit and if the price was too high, the sales would be reduced.

The person with a mole on the left side of his face said, "Brother Wise is joking. This joke is even more serious than playing around with us!"

Wen Shou said: "Absolutely fair, thirteen silver taels each. This is my Heavenly Valve Commander's price, in order to thank all of you for taking care of us for so long, it depends on the fact that we are all on the same side. If we are outsiders, how can it be so equal?"

When everyone heard this, they all said that the leader of the Heaven Valve Army was indeed a righteous and benevolent person, and the white-haired Elder said: "Why don't you pull up the price a little, we can't let the leader take care of us like this, or else we can't let the Sky Valve take care of us like this." But some people thought to themselves: Isn't it true that the Sky Valve Army is so good, they will definitely earn more, if we help you, we can use your local authority to fight with the imperial court's local authority, and we can profit from this, so that Old Wen will not know about it, but it seems that we have to start early, and look at the channel where the highest quality green salt is produced, we have to take it from there, raise the price, and it will actually paralyze Old Wen, and give him a chance to strike.

Wen Shouxin made some excuses. It seemed to be a harmonious relationship, but those who didn't know it would think that their relationship was extremely good. However, they didn't know that each of them had their own ulterior motives. After you push me around, you will finally get 15 taels of silver each, and then deliver them to the warehouse. Some of these items are for the banquet, and since you don't have much money, you can't help but quickly return to your homes or to the shops a thousand miles away to collect your banknotes. Some of them even took out large amounts of money from other businesses to cash out their banknotes, as they were afraid that if they were late, they would run out of money. Some even thought, "When you break this salt channel, I will sell it back to you for 250 yuan. That would depend on the customer who bought this salt to pay a high price."

He decided to join the mountain and look for a way out. One morning, he saw that the number of bandits on the streets had increased from a jog to more than 450, and he felt a little apprehensive, not knowing whether or not Tian Zhen wanted him to become a beggar or not. In his heart, he thought: Fine, anyway, I'm only teaching literacy, so I can only come back and become the leader of the Beggar Gang, didn't San'er say that there is some gang like the Beggar Gang?

Chen Ziwen looked at the orderly movements of the Heavenly Valve Mountain bandits, giving off an indescribable sense of beauty. Just as expected, the bandits would rest here, the one leading the group would be the leader of the Sky Valve Mountain, and recently they had heard that the Sky Valve Mountain was selling green salt, their business was good, and looking at their figures, they were truly the most powerful person in the world.

A few energetic soldiers were still fighting on the ground beside the river, watching as a beggar came to beg for money (this was already the best clothes Chen Ziwen could take when he chased him out of the house). A soldier jogged to Chen Ziwen's side and took out a copper coin, extending his hand towards Chen Ziwen.

Chen Ziwen didn't accept it, instead, he looked at the bandit dressed in khaki, which made him look very weird. He waved his hand and said: "Brother, little brother wants to meet your King, please introduce himself, little brother is very grateful." As he said this, he secretly took out half a silver tael and placed it in the hands of the bandit who was holding onto the coin. The bandit looked at the copper coin which was not only in his hands, but also the other half of the silver tael and secretly glanced behind him. No one noticed him and kept the silver taels.

Chen Ziwen heard the bandit's accent, so he repeated it in official language and pointed to the bear like burly man who was sitting on a rock by the river.

The bandit understood, and said: "That is not my King, it is my Company Commander, the second in command of the mountain. Why have you called my Company Commander?"

Chen Ziwen then realized that this bear shaped burly man was the second one to be handed over, and said, "I am an Elementary Scholar here, with my name and achievements, I am in dire straits. I have heard of recruiting Elementary Scholars and other wise men."

When the bandit heard that this beggar was an Elementary Scholar, he was already annoyed by the teacher on the mountain. He could only excuse himself and said, "You can go up the mountain by yourself, or go to the Treasure Shop at the foot of the mountain. Someone will take you up the mountain, you don't have to come here."

Hearing this, Chen Ziwen was about to leave when he saw a figure walking towards them from behind. It was the bear-shaped burly man, shaped like a bear, with a beard spread wide open.

Wearing an orange uniform and a cylindrical hat with an iron moon embedded in it, the bear-shaped man grabbed the bandit's hand and said, "Hand over the silver and go receive your 100 push-ups."

Chen Ziwen took the silver from the bandit, and the bear-shaped burly man said: "Brother, what do you want?"

Chen Ziwen observed their style and felt that calling them king was inappropriate, so he said vaguely, "Elder brother, I am still a poor scholar. I heard that you are recruiting talents in the mountains, so I came to offer them my services."

The bear-shaped man said, "Oh, then I'll find someone to send you up the mountain." He turned around and said to the other soldier that was supervising the soldier that had been punished, "Platoon Leader, second platoon leader, listen up."

The supervising soldier handed over the supervising task and immediately trotted forward. "Here," he said, rubbing his hands together.

"Send this gentleman back to the mountain and tell him to be nice to the guests. Master Elementary Scholar will still be sent to the Hall of Geniuses for the test."

Halfway up the mountain, there seemed to be an extremely strange gray staircase. It was not stone, but brick, and from what he had never seen, many people (including soldiers) were working on the black soil. Chen Ziwen and the platoon leader walked around them on the grass path, which extended all the way to the hard gray staircase, and then walked up again. Chen Ziwen found that this grey soil was very strange.

When he arrived at the mountain, he saw the houses that were already being built with grey mud, and the main road on the ground was mostly grey ground. Some of the houses were blocked off by wooden planks, and on the ground, a large group of children were playing a game that he had never seen before. When he arrived at the mountain, he saw the houses that were already being built with gray mud, and the main road was mostly grey land, and some of the houses that were not yet dry were blocked off by wooden planks, and on the ground, he saw a large group of children playing a game that he had never seen before.

When he arrived at the Hall of Excellence, he saw that the hall was still made of wood and yellow bricks, but there was no gray mud to be seen on them. He thought that Chen Ziwen must have had some time to practice and see the examiners, but he did not take the eight exams, he only had to read and recite poems, so it was not too difficult for him to read or memorize Chen Ziwen. The examiners saw his clothes, asked him about his family, issued him a greeting card, and asked him to bring his platoon leader to collect his clothes and a separate room.

The platoon leader took him to familiarize himself with the dining hall, the rooms and the latrine before leaving.

Sometimes in the morning, sometimes in the evening, when he was teaching his children, sometimes in the middle of the night, he would switch classes with a few Elementary Scholars, and the food would be good to his liking. He had already figured out the gray wall of the place he lived on, it was called cement, the factory on the mountain, the square, the farmland, the cafeteria, the classroom, the house, and the people's house had all been demolished and rebuilt.

Chen Ziwen could only occasionally go down the mountain and bring some delicious food to his brothers in the gang.