Liu Laocai and Mu Steward's negotiation is very simple, Yunnan's salt wells are under the management of the Daming Royal Trading Bank, the two sides formed the Yunnan branch of the Daming Royal Trading Bank, each accounting for half of the shares, the profits are also equally shared, as for the funds for road repair, Liu Laocai's Daming Royal Trading Bank is responsible, and the two sides signed a cooperation agreement. From this bright side, Mu Wangfu took a big advantage, because these salt wells were originally state, but Li Xin's purpose is to be able to revitalize this stagnant water, let it flow, and facilitate the construction of Yunnan.

Next, the joint notice of the Yunnan Governor's Mansion and the Mu Wangfu was posted, not only announcing that the serfs had a free status, but also announcing that the Governor's Mansion was recruiting workers to repair the official roads in Yunnan. Those toasts heard that they wanted to release the personal freedom of the serfs, many people found Mu Qiyuan and asked him what was going on, Mu Qiyuan said what does it matter, it is the slack season, you still have to take care of these serfs to eat, anyway, when the farm is busy, these people don't work for you to earn food, they drink the northwest wind, they don't have land, and in the end they are still your slaves, don't worry about this. When the toasts heard Mu Qiyuan's explanation, they also felt that it made sense, so they no longer worried about the work in the future.

Without the constraints of Mu Qiyuan and the toasts, Li Xin and Liu Laocai's road construction and recruitment work quickly stood up. Liu Laocai adopted the method of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle, and he pulled hundreds of thousands of young and strong men to the junction with Sichuan and Yunnan to start repairing the official road, which was to facilitate the transportation of goods from outside into Yunnan, and then it was necessary to manage the rice, close to Sichuan to facilitate the transportation of grain, which could save costs.

However, Li Xin didn't think that things were so simple, because Li Xin found that not only did these young men who built roads go to build roads, but also many of them have moved their entire families. It turned out that Liu Laocai's promise was like this, as long as the young and middle-aged people who built the road worked for two years, he could give them enough land for them to cultivate, and the family members who followed the family could also get a certain amount of land, and it was possible to be exempt from taxes. When the news quietly spread among the migrant workers, there was no need to post recruitment notices, and more and more people with their families flocked to Liu Laocai's road construction army.

Where did Liu Laocai get so much land for him to distribute? He doesn't have to worry about this, it turns out that Niu Jinxing's Daming Royal Trading Company is the most important way to transport immigrants, whether it is to the border areas or to Luzon, the process in the middle is Niu Jinxing's operation, and there is enough land in those places to arrange these people to farm. Not only did Mu Wangfu not know about this matter, but Li Xin didn't know either, but Liu Laocai was clear in his heart, and he was waiting for Niu Jinxing's reward.

Liu Laocai's movement is getting bigger and bigger, attracting more and more people, Li Xin felt that this was a little wrong, because he found that the population of road construction did not increase too much, and the progress of the project was not too fast, so he asked Liu Laocai to ask, Liu Laocai then told him that all the whole family came over, and each family gave fifty taels of silver to settle down, and they all went to the new place to immigrate and settle down, and when the farm was busy, he organized these young and middle-aged people who built roads to help Tusimen farm the land, and then negotiated with them the cost of labor to ensure that the fields would not be barren, Li Xin doesn't care what Liu Laocai does when the time comes, let's see what method this guy uses when the time comes.

The road construction work was carried out unhurriedly, and it was finally time to build an official road from Chengdu to Yunnan Province, although it was not too flat, but it was also convenient for merchants and cars to pass. The goods of Yunnan Province can be easily transported out, and the goods from other places can also be transported here, and Tusimen can also squander their silver to buy luxury furniture and daily necessities. But then they were dumbfounded, the busy farming season began, and the serfs who were supposed to come back to farm did not come back to farm as Mu Qiyuan said, and they couldn't find enough people to work at all, so they panicked, if there was no one to farm, where would next year's food come from.

Just when they were worried that no one was farming, Liu Laocai led the young and middle-aged road builders back, not only did the people come back, but also brought hundreds of pot camel machines, this is Liu Laocai's confidence not to let the land be barren, it doesn't matter if there are fewer people, the matter of arable land is done by these pot camel machines, it is much faster than the serfs ploughing the land, but the work needs to be paid, and there is no money to work.

When the toasts saw these strange pot camel machines, they didn't know what was going on with these things, so Liu Laocai's subordinates drove the pot camel machines around the street, and then ploughed the fields for a whole morning, so that these toasts opened their minds, but when they asked about the wages of the work, their faces turned green, why?

Niu Jinxing is such a cunning person, so he has no weak soldiers under his command, this Liu Laocai is too smart, it is more accurate than the calculations of modern actuaries, he calculates the cost of one family and one person used by the toasts thoroughly, and the price he asks for is just a little more expensive than the toasts use slaves, but in the eyes of the toasts, using such a small number of people, asking for such a high salary is simply blackmail, absolutely not. If you can't do it, Liu Laocai will resolutely not do it, and you have to ask for such a salary.

The toasts went to Mu Wangfu in a fit of anger, Mu Qiyuan is also worried about the cultivated land now, thinking about it, this is all Li Xin's conspiracy, and now he is fooled, what should he do? The toasts didn't dare to complain about Mu Qiyuan, but it was okay for him to come out and settle accounts with Li Xin. So these toasters gave Mu Qiyuan ideas in a gossiping manner, in fact, they also wanted to find a way for themselves, but are Li Xin and Liu Laocai such easy people to find trouble? In the end, the toasts instigated Mu Qiyuan and Liu Laocai to terminate the cooperation agreement and drive Liu Laocai out, as for those young and middle-aged people, Liu Laocai is gone, who will hire them, only obediently go home to work.

When the autumn ploughing could no longer be delayed, there were still not enough serfs, Mu Qiyuan couldn't hold back his anger anymore, so he led his generals and soldiers to surround the salt wells and salt mines, stop the production of cloud salt, and let the workers go to the fields to plough the fields. Liu Laocai happened to check on the salt mine, but he was also surrounded inside, and Mu Qiyuan's family tied up all the people at once, regardless of 3721, and was about to send them to the ground.

The red lady who got the news was taken aback, she didn't expect Mu Wangfu to dare to go directly to the salt field to arrest people, when she heard that Liu Laocai was also arrested, the red lady was eager to save people, and directly called a thousand people to the salt mine to save people. How can the people of Muwangfu be as powerful as the elite soldiers of the Red Lady. Of course, the red lady didn't dare to really hurt the people in Mu Wangfu, but just rushed through the crowd, snatched Liu Laocai and the workers out, and rushed to the governor's mansion to protect them, and led these people into the governor's mansion to protect them from being robbed.

Mu Qiyuan, the angry Duke of Mu Guo, desperately mobilized the soldiers and horses of Yunnan, and even surrounded the governor's mansion and sent someone to send a letter to Li Xin, claiming that if these salt miners were not released, he would set up a cannon to blow up the governor's mansion, and the atmosphere immediately became tense.

Li Xin, who was thinking about how long it would take to complete the cultivation if he used the pot camel machine, heard that there was a big noise outside, and then he knew that something big had happened, so he called the red lady who was arming outside, and Liu Laocai came with him.

As soon as Liu Laocai entered the door, he said: "Don't panic, don't panic, don't panic, they don't dare to come in." ”

Li Xin asked what happened, "What's going on?" Lady, who is shouting and screaming is noisy outside. ”

Before the red lady could answer, a personal soldier ran in and handed over a letter, Li Xin took it and unfolded it, only to see that it was written: Li Xin, hurry up and release those salt miners, otherwise you will bombard the governor's palace. Mu Qiyuan.

Li Xin looked at the red lady, and the red lady said: "Xianggong, that's the case, today Mu Wangfu suddenly tore up the agreement, sent the family to surround the salt well, and led all the people away to the field to cultivate the fields, and even Liu Laocai was arrested, so I robbed them." ”

Liu Laocai walked up to Li Xin at this time and said mysteriously: "Don't worry about adults, the small ones guarantee that there will be no big loopholes, and Mu Qiyuan will go back in a while." ”

Sure enough, there was no two hours of trouble here in the Governor's Palace, and I saw someone come to report, the old woman Mu from Mu Wang's Mansion came to see, Li Xin hurriedly led people to the gate, only to see the old woman Mu holding a two or three-year-old boy, the boy was still wearing heavy filial piety, and the old woman Mu asked the little boy to kowtow to Li Xin, and then said: "The child unfortunately suffered from a certificate and died, and the old man and his grandson asked Li Dudu for guilt, hoping that Li Dudu would not be strange." ”

Li Xin was so frightened that he knelt down for the old woman Mu, and said in a loud voice: "I don't know that the grandfather of the country is driving, and the minister Li Xin is guilty, so the letter immediately sent someone to Beijing to pay tribute to the emperor and ask the prince of the small country to succeed to the throne of the prince." ”

Li Xin is too smart, first Liu Laocai said that Mu Qiyuan would go back in a while, and now the old woman Mu suddenly said that her son was suffering from a certificate and died, and there must be something strange in this, but she didn't know it, but she had to show her innocence, and this matter had nothing to do with her.