It was already late autumn, the first frost had fallen, the grass on the side of the road was white, the loess road was also very hard, and the occasional leaking stones were held in the hands of children, looking for birds, ready to throw them out to scare them. Flash Dance

At the end of the road came a team of horses, and it was estimated that they had walked a long way, and both men and horses were spewing white gas from their mouths. There was still a faint heat on the horse, and someone was fussing from a distance: "My lord, we haven't been here for a year, and the changes here are too great, right?" ”

The change is really big, last year there were only a few dozen small ponds, this year I stood on a high place and looked at it, in front of me was an endless salt pan, and I could vaguely see a small black dot moving in it, which was a worker working in it.

The reed flowers in the distance are occasionally blown by the wind and fall in the salt pond, so the workers must quickly clear it out, such a cold day, and not like the rubber shoes in later generations, are barefoot walking in the salt pond, very hard.

Li Dongsheng nodded, Liu Kuan is quite dedicated, and he has made the field so big, and he finally has a good start.

At this time, the sound of gongs and drums came over, and a large group of people came over next to the reeds in the distance, some old and some young, and the line was so long, Zhou Ning said in surprise: "Liu Kuan is so hard-working?" Looking for so many people to come? ”

Li Dongsheng knew in his heart: "Lord Gao, how much tax did the salt farm pay with salted fish this year?" ”

Gao Jian said: "Back to my lord, by last month, it was more than 8,000!" ”

"So many?" Li Dongsheng was surprised, he paid so much money in taxes, so what was the profit?

"yes, I didn't expect that many of them?" Gao Jian was very happy: "But they still consciously pay the tax, and now we are the first in the county tax in Henan Province." Ha ha. It's higher than some state capitals, and it's all the changes you bring about. ”

"That's their hard-earned earnings, what does it have to do with me." Li Dongsheng is habitually modest.

"You invented this salt, otherwise who knew there would be such a simple way to produce salt, you look at the surrounding reeds, they are all stored as burning materials in winter, and now there is much less harvest."

"Meet Master Li!" Liu Kuo walked up to them and knelt down in unison.

"What are you doing with such a big fuss? Don't you guys do things? How many times have I said it, just get things done, I don't like such superficial articles. Li Dongsheng said with a straight face.

"My lord, I am wronged." Liu Kuan raised his head and exclaimed: "Everyone heard that your old man is here, and I am grateful that you have brought you a earth-shaking life, and they all came to greet you spontaneously, and it was really not my organization." ”

"Yes, my lord's business is none of Liu's business."

"We came with us."

"My lord, when you heard that you came to see it, they came along, but I didn't expect there to be so many people. You're wrong to blame Liu. ”

"Everybody get up." Li Dongsheng raised his hand and asked them to get up first, and then said: "I'm just here to see if your life has improved, don't welcome me so grandly, you go and do your business." ”

Under Li Dongsheng's persuasion, the crowd gradually dispersed. Liu led the group to the small fishing village that day, and the appearance of this village now is completely different from last year. There are many more earthen houses in the whole village, and they are also very tall, and the originally empty village is now crowded, and there are salted fish everywhere. The nose is filled with the fishy smell of seafood. Wang San and them sneezed several times.

When Li Dongsheng and his entourage came in, everyone stood up and saluted them. Liu Kuan said proudly: "My lord, under your guidance, now the adults from more than a dozen villages around have come to help make salted fish, and the men go out to sea to fish, everyone has income every day, I don't know how happy I am." ”

Li Dongsheng nodded, and opened the curtain of an earthen house on the side of the road. The inside of the house was still empty, but you could see a honeycomb coal stove, and there were several quilts covered on the bed made of wooden planks. In any case, the outside cloth is new, which means that the family has an income and can buy necessities.

I walked to the big vat at the door again, took away the wooden plank on it, and found that there was less than half a jar of grain in it, and seeing Li Dongsheng's brows, the owner of this house hurriedly said: "My lord, this grain was bought last month, and the person who delivered the grain this month has not yet come." ”

"The man who delivered the food?" Gao Jian was curious: "Send it so far?" ”

"Yes, sir." The master didn't know Gao Jian's identity, but he also knew that he was an official when he looked at him, and patiently explained to him: "We have a dense crowd here, and we have money in hand, and we buy food in cash, so it doesn't hurt if it's a little more expensive than the county seat. After a pause, he said, "Besides, they don't lose money when they come, and the stone workshop and the mine also need a lot of grain." ”

"Shang Cheng, you have to learn the spirit and sense of smell of doing business." Li Dongsheng sighed: "Where there is demand, there are business opportunities, and sure enough, there are smart people everywhere." ”

After visiting a few houses and finding that each one was like this, Li Dongsheng was relieved, and he asked about the treatment of the workers in the salt works, whether the wages were paid on time, and so on. Gao Jian also admired him very much: Don't look at his young age, but the questions he asks are the most basic questions in the lives of the people, so you know that he is an official close to the people, not a clear stream who only brags and gossips and does not understand affairs.

Opening the warehouse where the fish was stored, Li Dongsheng went in to take a look, this room was much higher than the one living in the house, it was made of soil and reeds, and the walls and ground were densely filled with all kinds of salted fish. Li Dongsheng said: "You just mix all the fish and sell them? ”

"Yes, sir. There are so many varieties that we can't tell the difference. Liu Kuan was at a loss, is there any other way?

"You're just selling all the good stuff cheaply." Li Dongsheng said: "Hurry up and set a standard for me, such as how much fish under half a foot is sold, how much is a foot of fish sold... And so on. Then each variety is also divided for me, the fish with more meat and delicious fish will be more expensive, and the meat will be cheaper, you know no. If you don't know the fish, you can name them yourself, and the mainlanders don't know them anyway. ”

"Yes, my lord is really far-sighted. The villain admires. Liu Kuan was a little bit pushed by Li Dongsheng, and suddenly realized: "In this way, the bigger the fish we are, the more expensive it will be sold, which is great." ”

"The whimsy of the adults is really ashamed of the subordinates." Gao Jian also sincerely admired: "We can see the key at a glance, but we can't think of it." There is a difference between people and people. ”

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