Chapter 600 is fair enough

Lin Xiao walked out of the tent quickly and greeted the guests in person.

"Old man......"

Seeing Lin Xiao with a light face, then at the sentry with loaded guns, and then at the crowd in front of him who couldn't see the end, Shi Xiude was at a loss for a while, and he couldn't speak.

What kind of official is this person?

There are so many people under him, but it doesn't seem to have a fight at all.

"These are your locals,"

Seeing that they seemed to be frightened, Lin Xiao smiled and said, "They couldn't survive, they all fled to Zhejiang, and now, I brought them back." ”

"Huh?"

Shi Xiude looked puzzled.

"We went on a northern expedition against the captive army, and they came back voluntarily,"

Seeing this, Situ Zheng hurriedly stepped forward to explain, "This is our ...... Commander. ”

Seeing Lin Xiao's eyes again and again, Situ Zheng swallowed back the word "Hou Ye" raw.

In fact, Lin Xiao's identity as "Hou Ye", even the migrant workers outside are not very clear, everyone only knows that he is the biggest official in this trip, and he should be called "chief......

"Oops! It turned out ......"

Shi Xiude's face was full of disbelief, and he knelt down as soon as his legs were weak, "The villains don't know Mount Tai with their eyes, villains...... Meet the Great Master! ”

"The old village chief doesn't have to be polite, I'm just a soldier,"

Lin Xiao hurriedly stretched out his hand to help him up, "We don't have this set of false etiquette now, just do it." ”

"Yes, yes, my lord has a lot of ......"

"Everyone, please come in."

Lin Xiao stretched out his hand and welcomed them into the tent, allowing Situ Zheng to make three cups of tea.

"The conditions here are simple, so let's sit casually."

He pointed to a few Maza and laughed.

"The master is above, how dare the villains ......"

Shi Xiude's face was a little stiff.

"Don't call me lord anymore, call the chief,"

Situ Zheng handed over the teacup and couldn't help but interject again, "Sit down." ”

"Yes, yes...... Chief, Chief, Chief......"

Looking at this pretending old man, Lin Xiao secretly laughed in his heart.

This is an old slippery head, don't look at him with a sincere and frightened look, in fact, he looks around, and he can quite observe words and colors.

When they first met during the day, that Zhai Dahu obviously wanted to blackmail the salt people in the name of Wang Shi, but in the face of strangers from unknown sources, he insisted that he was helping the tartars to collect and collect wages, talking and doing things, obviously with caution everywhere......

"Miss Xiaoyun won't drink tea,"

Seeing that the girl was indeed a little scared of life, and she looked silent and breathless, Lin Xiao smiled and said, "There are a few pieces of candy here, can you taste ......?"

As he spoke, he took the initiative to peel off the wrapping paper of one of them and handed it to her.

Xiao Yun timidly took the candy, looked at the exquisite wrapping paper suspiciously, and hesitated again and again before taking a light bite on the brown candy......

Lin Xiao looked at her with a smile, and said in his heart, even in the future life, this thing is perfect for coaxing girls.

Because, only he knows, this is not ordinary fruit candy, but chocolate that girls love to eat.

At the beginning, when cleaning the cabin of the "Longsheng", Zhang Chenfeng found a small box of chocolates, about five kilograms.

This thing must be the private goods carried by some crew, and it is a common thing on an ocean liner.

Because there were too few things, it was really not enough for everyone, so Zhang Chenfeng said to Lin Xiao and simply gave them all to Lu Hua, the only girl on the boat......

"It's delicious, isn't it?"

Seeing that she nodded with a complicated expression, Lin Xiao said gently, "If you like to eat, I still have a few ...... here."

Xiao Yun shook her head shyly, and carefully put away the half-bitten candy.

She had never eaten this thing before, it felt sweet, fragrant, and melted in her mouth, and she was reluctant to eat it all at once......

"Take it all,"

Lin Xiao picked up the other two, stuffed them in her hand together, and looked at Situ Zheng's face, "Take them back and eat them slowly." ”

"Thank you, sir...... Heads. ”

Seeing that his daughter didn't know how to be polite, Shi Xiude hurriedly got up and thanked him.

"What's so polite about this,"

Lin Xiao waved his hand and said with a smile, "Sit, sit down and talk." ”

"I understand your intentions,"

Lin Xiao himself sat down, and said with a smile on his face, "Let's stop going around in circles, I like to go straight." ”

"The chief's command is to listen, and the little ones listen."

"Now, how many people are in the village?"

Lin Xiao decided to get straight to the point, "How many are there in each of the young and strong and the women and children?" ”

"Probably...... There are more than 900 people, mainly women, children, old and young, and most of the young and strong people are hiding outside to reclaim the wasteland, and if they are all recovered, there are more than 400. ”

"Oh......"

Lin Xiao groaned slightly.

Not counting the young and strong outside, there are more than 900 mouths in the village alone.

In this way, even if they only drink gruel, according to the minimum supply standard, at least half a catty of rice per person per day will have to consume nearly 500 catties a day, and the 5,000 catties of grain saved are only enough for them to eat for about ten days.

In addition, it is best to invite all the young people who have fled back, and it is also necessary to rescue the people who have been captured......

It seems that that Zhai Dahu must be destroyed!

Since the only remaining military rations can no longer be moved, there is only the last resort of "fighting local tyrants".

"Fangcai, I promised to send food and clothes to the village,"

Lin Xiao looked at Shi Xiuming's father and son, "It's ready now, let's ...... Check it out first? ”

"Let's go, let's see."

The strong man Shi Wangqing was the most city-less of the several people, and he immediately stood up with a happy face......

"This grain is enough for the whole village to eat for ten days,"

Standing in front of the grain pile, looking at the eager eyes of several people, Lin Xiao wasted no time in saying, "However, I have something to say first......

"But by the command of the chief......"

Looking at the half-human-high grain in front of him, rubbing a half-new dress in his hand, Shi Xiude's hand trembled slightly.

"The salt works must start immediately, and we will buy the boiled salt with cash."

"Cash ......"

Hearing these two words, Shi Xiude's eyes flashed.

"Every half a tael of silver is fair enough, right?"

"Fair and fair,"

Shi Xiude's throat trembled, "Villain...... I'll go back and arrange ......."

"If you persuade all the young people to come back, how much salt can be produced every day?"

"This ......"

The father and son immediately calculated and replied, "I can go out every day...... More than 2,000 catties. ”

Lin Xiao was not in a hurry to show anything, just nodded: "Well, that's good." ”

One ton a day, calculated according to a hundred days of salt drying a year, is equivalent to an annual output of 100 tons, which is indeed not a small amount for manual labor of less than 400 laborers.

Even in later generations, large-scale mechanized production was realized, and salt drying was still a labor-intensive, extremely hard work, far from imagining, as simple as digging some evaporation ponds on the beach to produce salt in batches.

"Old village chief,"

After pondering for a moment, he smiled and said to Shi Xiude, "Then persuade the young and strong to come back, and we will start work as soon as possible?" ”

"Yes, the villain will call someone tomorrow."

"Uncle, I'd better go,"

Seeing this, Shi Wangqing hurriedly stepped forward, "Uncle is old, and the village has to keep people ......."

He didn't dare to intervene in anything else, but he thought that he would be useful in this matter, first, he was fast, and second, most of the young people in the village could sell his face. Please Baidu "Throw Book Network" Thank you for your support!