Chapter 130: Miserable Appearance

Everyone followed Li Laohan and walked back, came to a small valley between Wulongjing and Dahongjing, turned the mountain pass, and the scene in front of them was shocking.

On the leeward slope, a pit of earth was dug up, and a small piece of flat land was barely obtained, on which was covered with dry firewood and weeds, and a small shed was built on the top, which was a place to live.

Many old women in ragged clothes, in the shape of skeletons, and children, looked demented, and their faces and hands were as filthy as a walking corpse.

Some of them don't know what kind of wild vegetables and grains are cooking in the crockpots around them, and the smell is extremely unpleasant.

Cheng Wenying's face was miserable: "I thought that my Meishan was rich in products, but I didn't expect such a miserable situation, this ...... This...... This is worse than the Land Temple! ”

Su You said in a low voice: "They are fleeing from the government, and they have to hide and hide even begging, and they dare not approach the town." ”

Shi Dongxiu couldn't bear to look at it any longer, and turned his horse's head: "I'll wait for you outside...... If Twenty-Seven Niang saw such a scene, she would be afraid to cry. ”

Li Laohan said: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the reason why we secretly mine illegal salt...... In the past six months, the Meishan Snow Salt Market, the sales of private salt have become more and more urgent, and it is more and more difficult to feed more than 30 fugitives...... This year's tax will be increased by 30%, and the day the system comes down, more than 100 people here will already be dead......"

After that, he stopped talking, knelt down and kowtowed.

Cheng Wenying hurriedly dismounted, ignoring the dirtiness of Li Laohan, helped him up and said: "Brother, since we are here, we will not let this situation continue to happen, let's go back to the mausoleum and think about it in the long run." ”

Su You turned his head to Shi Tong and said, "Big stone, go to Meishan City first, pull two carts of grain over, and then tell Kelongli that the well location has been found and the equipment can be set off." ”

Shi Tong responded: "Yes! He turned and turned his horse and galloped away.

The well supervisor turned pale: "Cheng Lao, villain, villain is really guilty of negligence." ”

Cheng Wenying's temper came up: "It's better if you don't know about this matter, and you can get a top exam in Meizhou!" Such a miserable appearance is simply a discredit to my Meizhou! The old man is a squire of Jiangqing, and he will definitely go to the Wenchuan Gorge Fourth Road Transfer Division to accuse the Shujing Supervisor of the crime of corruption and abuse of the people! ”

Su You hurriedly stopped: "It's okay to do this thing, this is harmful and not beneficial to the fugitive salt households, it is better to use this threat, and spend some more money, so that the supervisor of Shujing can transfer the household registration of these salt households to Meizhou, first solve the worries of the salt households, and avoid the identity of fugitives." ”

Cheng Wenying said angrily: "Little oil! Don't know the way of a gentleman?! Are you going to compromise with the dirty officials?! ”

Su You bowed his hand again and said sincerely: "Uncle in-law, as a squire of Meizhou, do you think it will be useful to accuse Yizhou officials in your article?" Two cousins, both in officialdom, will it have an adverse effect on them? There is also venting his momentary righteous indignation, and saving more than 30 families in fire and water, what should a gentleman do? ”

Cheng Wenying was speechless for a while, and his anger grew, and he whipped his horse whip fiercely and ran towards the mausoleum.

The people behind him, you look at me, I look at you, and quickly followed.

When he got off the horse, Cheng Wenying's anger had already disappeared for the most part, and he said to Su You: "You are justified this time, but the old man has lost his mind, so let's do as you say." ”

Li Laohan felt that his legs were weak, and he couldn't stand anymore, so he couldn't help kneeling down and crying: "The old man thanked the big officials for the virtue of rebirth for the thirty-three families who fled to the salt household!" ”

The salt workers looked at each other, not knowing what was going on, how could the foreman go out and come back to be grateful to these outsiders?

Cheng Wenying helped each other for the first time out of excitement, but now he can't do it, and he only looks at Su You.

Su You stepped forward and helped Li Laohan up: "Hurry up, uncle, everything is to be discussed, let's go to the greenhouse to talk." ”

Helping Li Laohan to take two steps and then turned back: "The pork belly is cut into thumb-sized pieces first, and soaked in water to ......."

Then he hit Cheng Wenying on the head: "No light and no heavy guy!" At this time, I still want to eat! ”

Everyone sat down in the greenhouse, and Cheng Wen asked Li Laohan, "Supervisor Shujing, is it really dry?" ”

Li Laohan is now answering all questions: "It has not completely dried up, but the output has been decreasing year by year, and the annual lesson of salt farmers cannot be completed, for us, it is no different from completely drying up......

Cheng Wenying took out a set of drawings: "You are an old salt worker, see if this law can be implemented?" ”

This is just a simplified version of the process, and the tools and costs in it are not something that ordinary salt farmers can afford, and Cheng Wenying is not afraid of Li Laohan.

Li Laohan saw it, turned his head and said to his son: "Big bolt, take my burden." ”

The sturdy middle-aged man couldn't help but hurriedly say, "Dad! ”

Li Laohan glared: "Take it!" Just that little thing, it's a joke in front of the masters! ”

After a while, Li Dazhuan took a blue cloth bag, which was probably the cleanest thing in the entire Lingjing Prison.

Li Laohan carefully opened the cloth bag, and inside was a stack of yellowed papyrus: "Look at the big official." ”

Cheng Wenying picked up one and read it, the handwriting on it was rude, and there were sketches, and then he took Su You's writing, and compared the two, he couldn't help nodding secretly.

Li Laohan said to Cheng Wenying: "Big official, I don't know who made this plan you gave me?" ”

Cheng Wenying glanced at Su You and pushed the straw paper in front of him.

Li Laohan hurriedly surrendered his hand: "The little official is a family of salt officials? This well skill can be called the pinnacle, and I also ask the petty officials to advise. ”

Su You was still pondering the pork, and only then did he come back to his senses when he heard the words: "Ah...... Yes! My little well technique is actually blind......"

In addition to Li Laohan's eyes or admiration, everyone around him was full of disdain, pretending to be too much, everyone was embarrassed, okay? !

Su You waved his hand: "The craftsmanship on this paper is all what you think?" ”

Li Laohan said: "Don't dare to show off in front of petty officials, this is a method that three generations of my family came up with, and I would have opened it with sufficient funds and permission from the imperial court......

Cheng Wenying said: "You can dedicate this law to the powerful ...... the government."

After thinking about it, Li Laohan was forced to ruin his family by these two, and if he really knew that there was such a way, I was afraid that things would be snatched away, and it would be more likely that people would be wiped out. Hurriedly waved his hand and said, "When I didn't say it." ”

Li Laohan said: "I thought this was my family's secret method, it turned out that there were already masters in the world, especially this last pouring stove and printing stove and pouring brine, which is simply wonderful, which greatly saves firework." ”

Su You said: "Actually, it's not unusual, this is the ancient method of the Ba people, the salt brine over there is a mountain spring, very light, otherwise you can't get salt." ”

Li Laohan sighed and said: "It's better to read, it's the old man who is lonely and unheard." ”

Cheng Wenying said: "Now that the two sides have confirmed, the methods of the two of you are quite similar, which seems to be feasible." I just don't know how deep this well can produce brine? ”

"Sixty zhang!" "Two hundred meters!"

Su You couldn't help but admire Li Laohan, he had data to copy in later generations, but this old man estimated it with his eyesight.

Li Laohan is still quite worried about 30,000 pieces of classwork, Sichuan salt is 70 iron dollars a pound of salt, which is also the output of 400,000 catties of salt!

Su You is not too worried about this, is it a lot of eighty times a day? He knew that in the later generations, a few deep wells would make a profit of up to six hundred taels of silver a day!

However, he strongly disagreed with this kind of harsh salt class, the imperial court only took care of taxes, and the salt wells were handed over to the merchants to be responsible for their own profits and losses, and it was their nature to pursue profits and increase production!

Cheng Wenying said: "Otherwise, Lao Li, you come out of prison, we won't wait!" Come and do it with us in Inoue! The old man still said the same sentence, enshrine the position, ten times a month! ”

The well supervisor's face turned white with fright: "Cheng Lao, you can bypass me when you are old, you can't help it......"

Su You also said: "Uncle in-law, this matter is indeed unacceptable, this year's officialdom changes, whether Lingjing can be closed or not, we have to wait for Xinzhizhou to arrive before we can discuss." ”

"We have our own technology, and we are not greedy for this well, but we are against the government to seize the salt of the well. It is better to wait until our well is well laid, the difference between the output and the official well is reflected, and the situation forces the government to further deepen cooperation with us. When Guan pounces on the Lingjing, Mr. Li and they will naturally become our salt households. Before that, add a snow salt refining process to increase the price of Lingjing salt and help salt households complete their schoolwork. ”

After speaking, he turned to Li Laohan and said: "Boss, we are here this time, and we have the task of teaching you to refine snow salt, which has been negotiated with the state government, and this thirty percent premium can be solved in this way, so I don't have to worry." ”

Li Laohan was surprised: "Snow salt is also the family heirloom of the little boy?" ”