Chapter 262 The Surprising Liu Bei

Once this matter was confirmed, Zhang Yu couldn't wait, and immediately wrote a letter overnight to let Xi Zhicai and the others get ready.

But Zhang Yu didn't plan to go anywhere, and went directly to Jiangxia County, and prepared to coordinate by the Yangtze River to fully confirm the matter.

"My lord, these are our fleet, our goods." A steward stationed in Jiangxia County said a little excitedly as a dozen large ships sailed up the Yangtze River.

Not to mention that they were excited, Zhang Yu was also excited.

More than a dozen large ships docked, carrying a full load of goods.

There was an army on the shore, who took over the goods directly, and carried them away when the goods were unloaded from the ships.

These soldiers were sent by Cai Mao, and Zhang Yu directly presided over them here, and started to cooperate immediately.

With Zhang Yu present, everything went smoothly, and the fleet from Kuaiji County delivered the goods directly to Cai Mao.

Some of them were to be transported to Luoyang, and Cai Mao would arrange for others to transport them to Luoyang, while some Zhang Yu did not intend to be transported to Luoyang, and were sold directly to Cai Mao at the agreed price.

There was also a boatload of table salt, which was smuggled by Zhang Yu and the others, and then handed over to some local people as illegal salt for disposal.

It doesn't have to be like this now, it's directly given to Cai Mao.

Cai Mao is also very concerned these days. Although he is in Jingzhou, he has been paying attention to Jiangxia's situation.

A fleet of ships continued to arrive in Jiangxia, and when the ships arrived, they directly handed over the goods to the Cai family.

Zhang Yu is not afraid of the other party's cheating, he has the power to counter it.

A few days later, Cai Mao received the goods.

In one of the yards of Cai's house, goods are piled high.

"Immortal brewing, tea leaves, there is still so much, haha."

Cai Mao was very excited when he saw a lot of goods.

"Is this all table salt?" Cai Mao said when he saw the table salt piled up in sacks again.

"Yes, Master, these are table salt."

Cai Mao waved someone to open the bag.

A servant of the Cai family immediately brought a sack over and cut it open with a knife.

Immediately, snow-white salt was exposed inside.

"Wow~"

"This, this, is this table salt?"

"Why so white?"

"And without impurities."

A group of people were amazed.

When Cai Mao saw the table salt, he rushed up and grabbed a handful of salt.

"How is this possible? How can there be such pure white table salt without any impurities." Cai Mao said in disbelief.

Cai Mao thought he had read it wrong, so he grabbed some salt and put it in his mouth.

After confirming that it was table salt, Cai Mao was extremely shocked, followed by ecstasy.

"Quick, quick, take a few more bags and open them."

Hearing Cai Mao's words, several people hurriedly opened a few more sacks.

The salt in the sack is of the same quality.

These Cai Mao were completely shocked.

The reason is simple. In the entire ancient history of China, table salt was almost always full of impurities, even a lot of sand in it.

But Zhang Yu's table salt has no impurities.

In fact, the method is very simple, that is, to redissolve the produced table salt, and then make it into table salt again, and do it several times to remove the impurities.

But this simple technology will not be used for hundreds of years.

Cai Mao was extremely excited.

"Haha, the quality of this table salt is actually 30% lower than the market price, even if it's 30% higher."

Cai Mao could imagine that he took out the salt and swept the entire market in Jingzhou. No one could compete with him.

At that time, he can completely dominate the entire salt industry in Jingzhou.

The benefits of this are too great to imagine.

I am afraid that the money earned in a year can be compared with the money sold by the emperor.

Just imagine a little bit, even if you use this to raise 100,000 soldiers and horses, it will not be a problem.

At that time, Cai Mao will be the local emperor of Jingzhou.

"Go quickly, send people to blockade the pier of Jiangxia City, where it will be directly controlled by the military in the future, let Huang Zu handle things properly."

Cai Mao already had great ambitions at this time, so he asked people to strengthen cooperation with Zhang Yu.

The intention of cooperation has been very clear.

The cooperation between the two parties can be further strengthened.

Zhang Yu's letter has been quickly sent to Kuaiji County, and Kuaiji County has also mobilized many large ships to carry a large amount of goods westward and enter Jingzhou.

A month later, it was still at Jiangxiakou in Jingzhou.

On the pier, there was no one idler to be seen, and the surrounding area was surrounded by troops for several miles.

Huang Zu of Jiangxiakou was on the list, the difference was that, as the prefect of Jiangxia, Huang Zu could only stand behind the two of them.

In front of him are Zhang Yu and Cai Mao.

Cai Mao sold the first batch of goods, and they sold out within a few days, earning a lot of money.

Today is the day when dozens of large ships arrive from Kuaiji County, and both Cai Mao and Zhang Yu will witness this moment in person.

A huge fleet appeared on the broad river.

Cai Mao was very excited. With such a large amount of goods, he could completely support an empire.

Cai Mao is already planning to buy a large number of officials like Zhang Yu, and replace all the officials in Jingzhou with his own people.

At that time, he will be the local emperor of Jingzhou.

In fact, this is also what Zhang Yu hinted to him, that he wants Cai Mao to control Jingzhou.

Cai Mao's control of Jingzhou will inevitably turn history, but Zhang Yu doesn't care. As long as Cai Mao keeps cooperating with him, he will have many ways to infiltrate the entire Jingzhou in a few years, or even ten years.

The short-term history will not be changed. In the long-term history, Zhang Yu believes that he has full wings and can control the whole situation.

The big ship docked, and the ship was full of goods.

When the cargo on the ship was unloaded little by little, Cai Mao's face almost burst into laughter.

These are the goods that are in short supply at the moment. As long as they are shipped to the store, they can be sold quickly, and they can be turned into real money soon.

And this time Zhang Yu's fleet will also ship back part of the proceeds.

Cai Mao received huge benefits and was very straightforward, paying several million for the goods.

"There is money to equip the army, but there is no extra money." Zhang Yu said looking at the goods.

Why is there no extra money?

Because Zhang Yu was building a large ship, it was too expensive to build a ship, but Zhang Yu had to build a large ship, no matter how much money he spent.

On the same day, Cai Mao happily invited Zhang Yu to a banquet in Jiangxia, and invited several companions to give Zhang Yu face.

This time, there was no hostility between the two of them at all, and they were both very enthusiastic.

Zhang Yu happily accepted the banquet.

When he went back, Zhang Yu was still excited. With money, he had a lot of weapons.

Back at the residence, Zhang Ning waited for Zhang Yu there.

"Brother Zhang Yu, there is news from Luoyang that there is a candidate for the Eighth Captain of Xiyuan."

Hearing the eight captains of Xiyuan, Zhang Yu immediately accepted the encrypted letter.

"What? Liu Bei."

Seeing the letter, Zhang Yu cried out in surprise.

"Brother Zhang Yu, is there something wrong with this Liu Bei? Are you familiar with him?" Zhang Ning asked when he saw Zhang Yu's surprised look.

There are problems, there are too many problems, how did Liu Bei become the candidate for the eighth captain of Xiyuan.