Chapter 303: The Tragedy of the Former Dynasty
After the autumn harvest, there was nothing to do, and everyone was in a good mood after completing the task. There are county offices and state governments in the small town of Flashing, and there are no vicious cases. Everything is well organized.
Li Dongsheng is also happy to have nothing to do, and he keeps looking at the case files and the files of each room every day. Try to be aware of it. The weather is getting colder, and autumn has arrived.
On this day, when Li Dongsheng got up in the morning, he found that there was white gas coming out of his mouth, and then he looked at the ground in the yard, there was a layer of light frost. I couldn't help but sigh: "It's going to be cold again." ”
"Hehe, it's time to make money again." Shang Cheng next to him smiled like a chrysanthemum.
"You've got into the eye of money, our task is to protect adults, not to make money." Zhou Ning said loudly.
"What is the danger of adults staying in the county government every day? My idle eggs hurt, and I don't have to find something to do. ”
Li Dongsheng knew that they were talking about honeycomb coal stoves and honeycomb coal. Now these two things have been sold out in Chang'an City. Li Ting thought of a way to sell it, so he burned it to them on the street. Three briquettes can be boiled for a day, and boiling water can be boiled by the way. Such a good thing costs 500 yuan, and the briquettes are also cheap, 30 yuan for 10 yuan, and the place where honeycomb coal is sold is crowded into a ball for a while, and everyone comes to grab it.
In this era when clothes are still made of paper and there are no quilts made of cotton, such a cold artifact is a must-have for every household. Li Ting also learned from Xiaoju, and made a stove into a high, medium and low grade, and the highest-grade one sold five times, that is, a little more pattern, and the iron sheet was a little thicker, but the dignitaries and nobles ate this set very much, money is trivial, we just can't use the same thing as others.
Cheng Chumo showed the heels of a few of their laughing teeth, and he usually didn't see them write letters, but there were letters in the past few days, and he also brought some coats or something to Li Dongsheng intimately. Li Dongsheng couldn't cry or laugh.
Shang Cheng said that making money is also this, and Li Ting also got a few stoves for Li Dongsheng, afraid that he would be cold here. Shang Cheng didn't know how, so he hooked up with Li Ting, and also sent hundreds of stoves to sell to them, but after adding the freight, the price was expensive, but there was still a market in the county seat of Ye County, and the honeycomb coal was expensive, and the price from Chang'an was terrible.
A few stoves Li Dongsheng also sent out, what assassination Shifu, as well as Gao Jian, and their own things were sent. There were also more than a dozen of them in the county office, which won the unanimous cheers of the majority of officials. I also admire Li Dongsheng even more.
Little Lori also sent a fox skin scarf, the whole body is snow-white, it is very soft to the touch, and it is also a superb, it took a lot of thought to see it. However, there was still a reminder in the letter, Li Dongsheng looked at the swollen wrist that was written, and smiled helplessly: The writer has no human rights. Flash Dance
In fact, the ancient yamen officials had nothing to do, except for the ten-day opening of the court to decide the case, all the miscellaneous affairs were handled by the officials, but Li Dongsheng absorbed the losses suffered in the household department, and he carefully looked at the documents handed over by the officials, because he had a good memory, and this year's figures corresponded to the figures of last year and the year before to see if there was any error, whether there were more or fewer errors, what was the reason? After asking a few times, the people below knew that Li Dongsheng was not easy to fool, and he was much more serious about doing things.
After Li Dongsheng was busy with the affairs in the yamen, he wanted to go to the countryside to see it again, because Laizhou was on the Shandong Peninsula, and since he had come, he wanted to go to the beach to see. The first is to survey the terrain, and the second is that since it is by the sea, it is not possible to develop the salt industry, many of the rich people of the Chinese dynasties are salt merchants. I have the salt method of the later generations, and it is not just to create a few rich people casually. However, it is certain that the county government of Ye County must have shares, and at least the officials must be rich, otherwise they will do everything possible to make trouble for you when they see that they can't eat.
An ordinary fishing village suddenly boiled over today, and there was a county magistrate who wanted to come over to take a look. It's so rare, I haven't seen any officials come for decades, and there are a lot of bandits and defeated soldiers.
When Li Dongsheng and his entourage walked into the village, they found that there were not many people in the village at all, originally he thought that they had all gone out to sea to fish, but then he thought that it was wrong, at this time it was cold and there were no fish, and then there were many broken boats in the village, all stranded on the shore, and there were no imaginary fishing nets or anything.
"Villain Liu Yang, meet the adults." A dark-faced middle-aged man came over to greet Li Dongsheng, followed by a few old, weak, sick and disabled, seeing that they were about to kneel, Li Dongsheng couldn't bear it, and hurriedly said: "No need to be polite, I'm just here to see." ”
Others don't care about this, don't blame many people, don't want the county master to just be polite, if you really don't kneel, then it's a big game.
Li Dongsheng, accompanied by Liu Yang, walked around the village and found that the people in the village were all poor and dark, and it was obvious that they were malnourished, and the village was like this.
"Why are all the people in the village so bad? The village can fish by the sea, how can it all live like this? Li Dongsheng asked.
Liu Yang said: "Back to my lord, we are all saline-alkali land by the sea here, we can't grow food, the waves in the sea are big, and fishing can't fill my stomach. ”
Li Dongsheng then remembered that it was the Tang Dynasty, Laizhou was close to the sea, and it was not famous for growing grain since ancient times, and there were no things growing on the seaside, only some reeds. And fishing, which is not an industry at all now. The main reason is that now fishermen are all small wooden boats, and they can't go out to the sea too far, and the little fish they catch is enough for their own families to eat. Another is that the fish can't keep fresh, they die when they come out of the water, and they stink when they die, and they are worthless.
found this problem, Li Dongsheng not only did not worry, but was overjoyed, this is a business opportunity. When you build a salt farm, and then take the sea fish to Chang'an to sell, with the virtue that Chang'an people like freshness, it must also be sold. Maybe the merchants of the Western Regions will see that this salted fish has been preserved for a long time and bring some back to the Western Regions, then it will be a big deal.
Things haven't been done yet, and of course they can't be said first. Li Dongsheng nodded and said, "I think there are so few people in the village?" Is it because the local conditions are too bad to feed? ”
As soon as he mentioned this matter, Liu Yang suddenly shed tears: "My lord, the former Sui Dynasty marched to Goguryeo, and General Laihu'er led the navy to set off from Denglai, and it was only successful for the third time. The villain was also lucky to escape back, and the scene was really miserable. ”
Li Dongsheng looked at the sea in the distance, and on the opposite side was Goguryeo. When 100,000 sailors went on an expedition to Goryeo, how many Han men died in a foreign land, and how many tragedies were caused. Thinking that Li Shimin was also thinking about going to Goguryeo in a few years, and such a thing would happen again, his heart couldn't help but feel heavy.
Liu Yang is still crying: "Then there is the chaotic world, Shandong is the most chaotic, this king, that king, we ordinary people are the most pitiful, everyone who has walked through has come to ask for food and money, but fortunately, it has only been a few days since the establishment of the Tang Dynasty." ”
Li Dongsheng looked at the people behind him who were like big-headed dolls, this is a good day in their hearts? He was speechless for a long time, and fell into silence.