Chapter 595 Talking counts

At present, the salt shortage in Jiangnan is too big, not to mention that only 10,000 stone has been purchased, even if all the inventory of all salt farms is purchased, I am afraid it will still be a drop in the bucket.

In order to solve this problem once and for all, a large-scale salt farm like Hakukoba must quickly resume normal production and produce salt as soon as possible.

However, now it seems that there are only a few salt people left in this salt village, and the production capacity of the salt farm is already seriously insufficient.

In this regard, Lin Xiao felt deeply troubled.

The only way, of course, is to immediately transfer manpower from the migrant workers to fill the gap among the salt workers and help them to work together.

However, this matter is not so easy to do, because you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry.

Eradicating the bullies is equivalent to helping the salt farmers regain the salt farm, and all the unexplained Hades debts owed will naturally be written off, and they no longer have to be afraid.

At this time, they proposed to lease their salt pans, but they were inevitably suspected of taking advantage of people's danger, and they had to work hard to publicize it.

As for the current direct nationalization of the management rights of the salt works, even if the concept of "state workers" is blown out of the sky, I am afraid it will be even more anachronistic.

The people of this era, under the long-term influence of small-scale peasant economic thinking, regarded land and other private property as more important than their lives, and they also had their own small calculations in other aspects.

It will be very difficult for them to change their minds immediately, to dedicate their private property to the state, and to be willing to be proletarians working for the state.

Lin Xiao was worried, but if he didn't do it, he would complain and do bad things with good intentions.

Not to mention anything else, complaints such as "the front foot just drove away a wolf, but the back foot ushered in a tiger ......", I am afraid that it is inevitable.

It seems that this kind of thing is still in a hurry, so it can only be left to the land reform team to take its time.

In the long run, the only way to completely change the people's concept is to rely on the trick of "industrial power......

But for now, Sha Chengzhe's accusation has worked.

Lin Xiao saw that the atmosphere at the scene had improved greatly - not only Sha Chengzhe's eyes were already red, but the expressions of the family in the house had gradually changed, and the strong man was even so excited that he was short of breath and full of resentment......

The ancients attached the most importance to the ancestral graves, and digging people's ancestral graves can be described as a deep hatred.

Moreover, this neighbor is a scholar, although he has no fame, but the Chinese tradition still respects literate people, and naturally everyone is angry with him when he suffers this great calamity.

"It seems that the personal preaching of the fellow is effective......"

Lin Xiao thought to himself.

The next communication was much smoother.

From Sha Chengzhe's mouth, Lin Xiao learned about the family's situation.

The old man's name is Shi Xiuming, and he and the village chief Shi Xiude are uncles and brothers, one generation, and the strong man is his son, named Shi Wangqing.

This Shi Wangqing can do kung fu with fists and feet, has a strong body and is upright, he is a straight person who dares to speak and do, and he has some prestige among the young people in the village.

Similarly, Sha Chengzhe naturally publicized the captive army, saying that they were a different and brand-new Ming army, and they were the team of the poor all over the world, so how did he voluntarily return to his hometown this time......

After talking for about half an hour, Lin Xiao saw that the heat was almost over, and then brought the conversation back to the topic.

In order to drive away their long-term discouragement and despair, Lin Xiao decided to help them solve some practical difficulties first:

"Fellows, I'm sorry, we are not familiar with the situation when we first arrived, but I didn't expect that this big family would blackmail and threaten in our name......

Now, we found that all the men, women and children in the village are short of food and clothing, so we decided to send food to everyone and find a way to get some clothes, so that everyone can have food and clothing first. ”

"This ...... It's true? ”

The family stared at Lin Xiao in unison, their faces full of surprise.

Is there such a good army under the sky?

"Really!"

Lin Xiao's tone was affirmative, "What we say to the captive army counts!" ”

"Good!"

The strong man Shi Wangqing said excitedly when he heard this, "If this is the case, we are willing to do anything!" ”

"Okay, as long as everyone works hard to dry the salt, with salt, are you afraid that you won't have food and clothes?"

Lin Xiao smiled and nodded, "The salt merchants are all very rich, let's dry the salt bitterly, is it difficult to mix food and clothing?" ”

"Alas! If the world is peaceful, it is true that you can have no worries about food and clothing just by drying salt......"

Shi Xiuming sighed lightly and said, "In the past, the salt produced by our salt factory was far more than more than 1,000 citations, and the salt merchants in the south of the Guangjiang River had to collect hundreds of citations every year...... But since he was occupied by Zhai Dahu, he forced most of Yanding away, and the village has become like this......"

"It's just, don't say that most of the salt pans are deserted now,"

Hearing him say this, Shi Wangqing also turned from joy to disappointment, "Even if the salt is dried, it can't be saved." ”

"With us here, there's no need to be afraid,"

Lin Xiao pointed to the M16 rifle in Situ Zheng's hand, "Do you know this firearm?" With this, are you still afraid of a few bastards who bully the soft and are afraid of the hard? ”

"But what about you? It's even worse......"

Shi Wangqing was obviously worried about the future, "The government says that you are a thief, and you say that you are an official soldier...... Whether it's a thief or an official army, you can't stay here for a lifetime, you just leave, Zhai Dahu can collude with the government......"

Then, he emphatically recounted that the clerks and officials in the yamen had all benefited and helped Zhai Dahu to oppress them, and they couldn't find a place to reason.

"The official mansion you are talking about is the official mansion of the Tartars, right?"

Lin Xiao smiled, "Now that we are here, we are here to drive away the Tartars, and drive out all the original government masters and black-hearted officials." ”

"Is that true?"

"Seriously! I promise, we're not going this time! ”

Lin Xiao waved his hand and accentuated his tone, "We are here to help the people, and we will take care of everyone's suffering to the end." ”

"But ......"

Shi Wangqing looked at a few of them and said suspiciously, "Are you enough people?" ”

"We ......"

Situ on the side was grinning, thinking about stealing words.

"You don't have to worry about that......"

Lin Xiao stretched out his hand to interrupt him, and asked rhetorically, "How many people are in Zhai's family?" ”

"His family ......."

Shi Xiuming was obviously more familiar with the situation than his son, and replied first, "There are more than 100 evil servants in his family alone, and many of them are outlaws who fled from all over the world, and they are very fierce. ”

"More than 100 ......"

Lin Xiao continued to ask, "At the beginning, how many people were there in your village at the most?" ”

"At that time, there were still many people in the village, more than 600 families."

"Of the six hundred households, Ding Zhuang must have seven or eight hundred people, right?"

Lin Xiao narrowed his eyes and said, "You are seven or eight hundred Ding Zhuang, just watching others and dominating your industry?" ”

This made both father and son blush and bow their heads.

Suddenly, a crisp female voice sounded: "It's not everyone's fault! It's all made up by the government. ”