The game is roasted, sprinkled with fine spices, smells meaty, and is accompanied by a gourd of strong liquor, which is definitely a rare delicacy for ordinary fishermen!

Xiao Yi generously invited Liu Laohan's family to eat together, and also specially tore a fattest rabbit hind leg for Liu Yuer, watching the little girl gobble up and eat with a mouth full of oil, you know that they haven't eaten meat for a long time!

In the eyes of outsiders, fishermen make a living by fishing, and it seems that there is no shortage of meat, but in fact, it is not, just like the play says: 'Selling mats sleep in light beds, selling smuggled salt and drinking light soup, but those who fish all day long can't eat fish heads!'" ’

First of all, the fishing technology of this era is very backward, the boat is small and the net is rough, often three, and it is extremely dangerous to drift in the sea, a wave comes, it may be the ship is destroyed and people die, therefore, many people call going out to sea to fish 'exchanging human flesh for fish meat', which is both a person eats a fish, and a fish eats a person, and the two are almost interchangeable!

Secondly, even the fish that are taken at risk are not all owned by the fishermen, and the government is to levy a 'salted fish tax', as for the quantity, it is naturally the official who has the final say, and after the heavy tax, the little harvest left in the end has to be sold in the market and exchanged for iron pots, rice noodles, and cloth...... and other necessities of life, the most hateful thing is that when selling fish, you have to be exploited by those profiteers, and the rest is naturally even less!

"Old man ~ Shengshi!"

"Distinguished guest ~ win drink!"

A few bowls of wine immediately brought the relationship between the two sides closer, and Xiao Yi also took the opportunity to pull up the family routine, "The ancients said: Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the sea to eat the sea, fishing and cooking salt is the duty of the fisherman, I see that the old man has a vicissitudes of life, his hands are calloused, and he is also a hard-working person, why has he lived so hard?" ”

"Hey, it's hard to put it into words!"

The old man drank all the wine in the bowl, sighed, and stretched out his hands, which were not only covered with calluses, but also had deep traces of corrosion, which were the result of being soaked in seawater for many years, and even ten nails fell off and turned into yellow-black sarcomas!

"The old man has been diligent all his life, getting up five watches, climbing in the middle of the night, fishing, boiling salt, chopping wood, weaving nets, farming ......, never slacking off for a day, several children are also good, even the youngest Yuer knows how to help the family, but all year round, it is still difficult to wrap his belly, and in the event of a disaster, he will even starve to death, the old man originally had five sons and three daughters, but now, only half of them are left~~"

"The old man said slowly, the people's suffering, it has always been like this, Guangling County is at least peaceful, the Central Plains is inland, the war is continuous, there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles, and the white bones are exposed in the wild, so it is really miserable!"

Xiao Yi poured another bowl of wine for the old man, and the little black face also showed a sad look, at the end of the Han Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, the population was sharply reduced, there was no one in ten, war, plague, and hunger were the three main reasons, just like the three demons with their mouths open, constantly devouring the vitality of the Huaxia clan!

"It makes sense, when I look at the little brother, he is a person who has traveled from south to north and seen the world!" The old man Liu Xi likes Xiao Yi very much, and he chats with him the most among everyone.

As for the others, Chen Gong looked bookish, and at first glance, he was asked by the university, and he didn't dare to offend easily, Diao Chan was a female streamer, and it was inconvenient to talk, and the rest of Xiaobin and Cao Xing were all fierce, and they still had the smell of iron and blood on their bodies, and they didn't look like good people, so only this little guy with a little black face and a horsewhip was the most down-to-earth and the most talkative!

"The world says that Xuzhou is rich in the world, and Guangling County is rich in Xuzhou, which is not false, but they only know one, but they don't know the other, the rich are those big families, and it is us ordinary people who suffer!"

The old man's eloquence is good, he speaks reasonably, and he seems to know some words, but I saw him stretch out three fingers and say one by one, "There are three hardships in this Guangling County, wasteland, sea breeze, and salt tiger!" ”

"Let's talk about this wasteland first, Guangling is located on the coast, eroded by the sea every year, the land salinization is terrible, almost to the point that there is no grass, when the old man was young, an acre of fertile land here, can also produce five or six buckets of grain, but now, only less than three buckets of yield, is still declining year by year, and the seeds per mu of land are more than one bucket, and ten seedlings and nine deaths, almost to the point of vain farming!

The second is the sea breeze, the sea is like a king, moody, now it looks calm, peaceful, but the wind together, the waves are monstrous, the coastal parts suffer from it, flooding houses, acres of countless acres, especially where the wind goes, the house collapses, people and animals are destroyed, so the people along the coast are not willing to repair the house, repair is also in vain, simply live in the grass hut ~~"

The old man kept saying, Xiao Yi listened quietly, neither nodding nor shaking his head, in fact, the wasteland and the sea breeze were in his expectation, from ancient times to the present, these are the two major disasters that infringe on the coastal people, that is, after two thousand years, the meteorological station always issues a forecast of the landing of the hurricane, and everyone has nothing to do except hide in the house and don't go out!

However, the Taizu of the Red Dynasty said, 'Fighting with the sky is endless, fighting with the earth is endlessly fun'......, if you want to control the wasteland and the sea breeze, it is not impossible to do nothing.

If you want to control the saline-alkali land, the best way is to attract a large amount of river water to wash the fields, take away all those saline-alkali minerals, brush once a year, three years into a small success, ten years into a large success, when the seaside wasteland can become a mu yield of more than one stone of fertile land, so that the people have a full stomach, absolutely not a problem.

However, this needs to dig several large channels in Guangling County to attract Yi and Bianzhishui, which requires the investment of manpower, material resources, and financial resources, which are astronomical, I am afraid that the entire Xuzhou must be mobilized, and there is only one person in Xuzhou who has this power and courage!

As for the sea breeze, half of the natural disaster, half of the man-made, Guangling County in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty belonged to the jurisdiction of the Wu State, the then Wu King Liu Biao was quite a means of the figure, he recruited a large number of displaced people, boiled the sea and boiled salt, and obtained huge profits from it, its financial strength was strong, even more than the central government of the Western Han Dynasty at that time, which was also an important basis for him to launch a rebellion later, rich, is capricious!

Later, although the king of Wu Liu Bi was defeated, but the production method of "boiling sea and boiling salt" was preserved, and the scale was expanding day by day, and in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the monopoly of salt and iron was implemented, and the official subordinates who managed the sea salt were also set up, and its importance can be seen in general!

However, boiling salt requires fire, and it also needs fuel, for hundreds of years, the trees in Guangling County have almost been cut down, countless mountains have all been shaved bald, and even the grass has been cut down, dried, and used for fire, without the shelter of these trees, after the hurricane landfalls, it is naturally rampant, if you want to go, then go there, not only a Guangling County, all parts of Xuzhou have suffered from it, and it is strange that the people's houses do not collapse!

"It seems that in the future, the people of Xuzhou will have to have more children and more trees!"

Xiao Yi quickly set himself a goal of governance, if you want to restore the population, you need to have more children, this is not difficult, the Chinese are famous for their strong reproductive ability, as long as they are full of food and drink, and then reduce some entertainment items, after dark there is nothing to do, naturally they will have children, but planting trees will be a lot more troublesome, when the time comes, you must not pretend to be a ghost, play some extraordinary means!

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"Dare to ask the old man, what is the explanation of this 'salt tiger'?" 'Salt and iron monopoly' is the national policy of Emperor Xiaowu, and there are also special salt and iron officials in the imperial court. Xiao Yi knows that boiling salt and iron smelting are the two major economic lifelines of this era, and to put it mildly, whoever controls salt and iron will hold half of the country!

"The monopoly of salt and iron is true, and the country has laws and regulations, a stone of sea salt is discounted by 800 Wen, which is eight times the price of corn, if this is the case, we fishermen are living in wasteland, against the wind, it is enough to worry about food and clothing, but unfortunately, the sky of Guangling County is not the heaven of the Han Dynasty!

The businessmen exploit layer by layer, a stone of sea salt is not 800 yuan, even 200 yuan is difficult to get, and you see, what kind of money do they pay the old man? ”

While speaking, the old man Liu Xi took out a cloth bag from his arms and poured out more than a dozen five-bead coins commonly used in the Han Dynasty, but these money, some of them lack heart, some of them lack edges, and some of them are simply split in half, all of which are inferior money!

Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the world's common is the five-bead money, this kind of copper coin is of good quality, the weight is also appropriate, the outer circle is square, the inner square, easy to carry, so it is popular with the people, and the currency system of the two Han Dynasty has been relatively stable!

In the period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, relatives and eunuchs were in power, desperately exploiting the people, buying and selling, not to mention, I don't know the idea given by the master, the copper money was dug out of the heart, divided into two, and became the 'lack of heart money' and 'lack of edge money', and then one was used as two, and the people were afraid of power, and they could only pinch their noses and admit it!

Privileges are always exclusive to the aristocracy, it is easy for the people to accept these bad money, but it is difficult to spend it again, even if two coins are used as one, those businessmen will also put a few more discounts, or even simply refuse to accept bad money, in the long run, the nobles are rich, the people are bitter, and the world will be chaotic!

Someone said, can't I not collect these bad money? …… The answer is, not really!

Take these fishermen as an example, they work hard to cook salt out of the sea, can only sit and wait for those big businessmen to buy, if they sell themselves, a national law does not allow, because salt and iron is a monopoly ......, second, the people do not have the ability to traffic long-distance, there are many checkpoints along the way, if there is no little power, background, you can't stand those heavy taxes alone, before you get to the destination, the goods will be clean, even the underwear can not be left!

Sea salt can't be sold for money, because of the war, the price of grain is soaring, take Guanzhong as an example, when Dong Zhuo was in chaos, there was even a sky-high price of 'fighting rice', and Xuzhou is not much better here, so the fishermen have been struggling on the line of life and death, and countless people have died of starvation!

"If it's just a lack of money, less money, the old man gritted his teeth and can still insist, the most hateful thing is that he doesn't even leave us this life-saving money, there are a lot of salt lords along the coast, these people are armed with sharp blades, open fire, and they specialize in robbing the sea salt cooked in the fishermen's homes, and they have repeatedly killed and injured people, and everyone is afraid to call them 'salt tigers!' ”

Saying that, Liu Xi lifted his shirt, and a long dark black scar appeared on his chest, like a big centipede crawling there, hideous and terrifying, it can be seen from the traces how deep this wound was at the beginning, "This is the good thing that those salt lords did, if it weren't for the old man's big life, he would have returned to the west a long time ago!" ”

"The salt barons are so rampant, doesn't the local government care? As far as the kid knows, Guangling County Taishou-Chen Deng is a talented person! Xiao Yi still smiled, just like a family routine, but when he mentioned the word 'Chen Deng', he touched his nose!

This action, no one else reacted, Xiao Bin and Cao Xing, who were standing on the side, reflexively touched the hilt of the sword on their waists, and the soldiers in the Xuanjia Army knew that most of their own governors were going to kill people when they touched their noses, if they were smiling and touching their noses, it would definitely be a killing spree, and the blood would flow like a river!

"It's true that Chen Taishou is a cadre, but is it~~~!" The old man Liu was happy to speak and stopped, obviously because he had scruples in his heart.

"What about Chen Taishou, could it be that he can't control these 'salt tigers'?"

"It's not that he can't manage it, but he can't manage it, because the Chen family is the biggest 'salt tiger' in Guangling County!" The old man Liu Xi was silent, but his son Liu Hu, who had never said a word, suddenly stood up and came to Xiao Yi with a limp, his eyes were full of brilliance, fear, respect, and a trace of expectation!

"Big Tiger, be cautious, be careful of the trouble coming out of your mouth!" Liu Xi didn't expect that his son, who had always been taciturn, would suddenly come out, and hurriedly reprimanded, which shows how afraid he is of the Chen family in his heart!

There is a proverb in Guangling County, 'the Chen family of iron, the state pastor of flowing water', over the years Xuzhou Mu has changed several times, Tao Qian, Liu Bei, Lu Bu, and recently changed a 'ghost face Xiao Lang', but no matter how the state pastor is changed, the Chen family still has perseverance, as for the state pastor's decree, it has never been able to control Guangling County here, the Chen family is the emperor of the soil here, it can be said that one hand covers the sky!

"It's okay, we came to Guangling County this time, just to get some sea salt and find out the way, it's better to start!" Xiao Yi liked this wounded soldier named Liu Hu very much, and handed over a bowl of wine with his own hands, and the other party hurriedly bowed down to take it and drank it all!

"You're here to collect sea salt, what's the price?" Liu Xi was stunned for a moment, and then his face was happy, the caravan was a savior for them fishermen, because the most stingy caravan was a hundred times stronger than those 'salt tigers' who were cheap in vain!

"According to the official price, 800 Wen and one stone of sea salt, how about a good five-bead coin with full color?"

"800 Wen ......" Liu Xi was no longer surprised, but ecstatic, and even his voice trembled, "Then how much sea salt can you collect?" ”

"Hehe, the more the merrier, I can collect as much as you have in Guangling County!" Xiao Yi's eyes showed a cold light, this time he asked the lion to open his mouth and eat it all!

"Today my cousin got married, I'm going to send my relatives, I really don't have time to code words, so I can only add one more chapter, dear readers, forgive me, I will make up for it as soon as possible......"