Chapter 182: The Well-being of the People

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The Ding family is at a loss, but Lu Peng is at a loss here, he is now fully engaged in the things of the salt field, and he has no time to take care of it.

The news that Liu Yan has been appointed as the Yizhou pastor, Guan Yu has already sent someone to send it, but the new state pastor Liu Yu has not yet taken office, this is a node of rights.

Lu Peng must use this short period of time to strive for the greatest interests for himself and do many things directly, such as the most important salt reform.

The power of the Ding family has withdrawn, the salt farm has been completely in his own hands, the salt farmers have been liberated, and now what Lu Peng has to do is how to resume production and obtain benefits as soon as possible.

In the original Ding Li's mansion, Lu Peng summoned the elders of Yanhu and Yanhu in various places to announce his methods.

This time, more than 300 Yancun villagers from all over the country were invited, of course, when these villagers came, they were all with the heart of death, whether it was the Ding family or the government, let everyone go, not to apportion the amount of salt, and assign conscripts, and each time it was higher than the previous time, each time it was heavier than the last time, if everyone didn't agree, it would be a station and torture, how many people could come back alive?

But if you don't go, you can't do it, first, you can try to fight for the township, hoping to give everyone a way to live, and second, look at the soldiers who are smiling, but definitely like wolves and tigers, who dares not to come? This is really death, and not going is death.

Slowly gathered to the luxurious mansion of the original King Ding Yan, but the villagers did not see the torture tools that must be laid out in the past, but saw a cauldron in the courtyard, and the cauldron was not the tumbling tung oil, but the meat porridge that people whirred, and the air was not filled with the bloody smell of death, but a strange aroma that everyone had never smelled.

The villagers were not escorted to kneel, but politely invited everyone to stand in the courtyard, and then one by one the soldiers served everyone in the cauldron and served a bowl of fragrant white porridge that was life-threatening.

Lu Peng stood on the Ming Hall, trying to show his eight-toothed smile, and said to the villagers with big bowls: "Today, please come over, I want to hold a pragmatic conference, I will not give you those empty tea soup, directly give you the old villagers meat porridge, everyone can drink with confidence, and manage enough." ”

This is a pragmatic conference, of course, it must be pragmatic, meat porridge, is the first sign of pragmatism.

Porridge with meat? This is the taste of legendary meat? Those villagers looked left and right in disbelief, and then they really couldn't stop the taste of the so-called meat, gritted their teeth and drank it, no matter what happened in the future, they first ate this delicious food that they had never eaten before, and even if they were beaten to death after a while, they could be satisfied.

Sitting on it, looking at the snoring Yanhu villagers who were trembling and drinking below, Lu Peng smiled as much as he could show his eight teeth, and said to the Yanhu below: "Fathers, now, the forces of the Ding family have been expelled from the salt farm, and the era of their power on your heads has passed, and the Lu County government has officially regained all the rights to the salt farm, and everyone's good days have arrived." ”

Hearing Lu Peng say this, all the representatives of the salt households showed Lu Peng that they were still numb and miserable.

The crows in the world are dark, and the Ding family has been driven away by you, but you will not be a good bird if you are replaced, just look at your grinning mouth, full of eight teeth, just like a hungry wolf who chooses people to eat, it is even more alarming, the meat porridge is delicious, but who knows if there is arsenic here? There is no hope for everyone's good days, and there is no end to the days of suffering.

Seeing such an expression and result, Lu Peng lamented in his heart, the people have suffered for too long, so long that they have become accustomed to being oppressed and enslaved, if he can't give them hope, then he can't collect their dead hearts.

I grinned again, hoping to show the ninth tooth to the people and show my most sincere smile, but it didn't work, and my mouth hurt.

"On behalf of the Lu County Government, I now announce that from today onwards, there will be no limit to the amount of salt you cook, and it will be purchased by the government at a price of 150 yuan per stone."

This price is 50 wen more than the original government regulations, so that the salt boiled by the salt households can earn 50 wen per stone, the reason why Lu Peng stipulates this is because he sees that the salt households are really poor, and the vitality needs to be restored, so it is imperative to quickly let them get profits and restore the most basic living conditions.

Of course, these fifty wen will come out of those salt dealers in the future, have you ever seen the wool come out of the dogs?

The amount of salt output can not be increased by pressing, and the real way to increase the output is profit, and with appropriate benefits, salt farmers will work hard to produce, and the output will go up, and the profit will naturally come out.

After getting this news, Lu Peng still didn't get the cheers of the representatives of the salt households, because they didn't listen to it numbly, or they didn't believe it when they heard it, and added fifty wen, who knows what method you will use to search it back? The government's commitment and credibility are no longer as good as a fart at this time.

At this time, Zhang Qiang, who was sitting in the front row, looked left and right, and then asked loudly: "General, are you really no longer forcing us to pay a fixed amount?" Do you really increase the price of salt per stone to 150 wen? ”

The voice that came out of the crowd was abrupt and loud, and immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding villagers, and some people's eyes began to roll, and their breathing seemed to be heavy—this was the role of To.

It seems that the general said not to fix the output, but also to buy salt at a high price, so he began to slowly stretch his neck, and his face also changed his expression, waiting for Lu Peng's reaffirmation and assurance.

Lu Peng nodded solemnly: "I solemnly promise with my official status as the governor of Youzhou, I will absolutely fulfill what I said, in order to prove the sincerity of Weiwei, I have decided not only to buy the salt in the hands of my father and elder for one hundred and fifty yuan, but also to pay a deposit of two stone of salt in advance for each salt household, that is, three hundred yuan, in order to have a stable life first." ”

If you don't give them the capital to make a comeback in advance, it is absolutely difficult for the production of salt to recover in the shortest possible time, and now, you must use all means to implement the policy of liberalizing the salt policy set by yourself and Liu Yan before Liu Yu takes office, and then Liu Yu takes office, and he can give him his achievements and obtain his support, which is very critical.

As for the money in advance, this is not a problem at all, Ding Li directly killed his subordinates in order to save his life, bribed the heart of the salt household so that Lu Peng could not attack him, and only drove a carriage and went back naked, all the money he had accumulated was lost to Lu Peng, and with this money, it was more than enough to pay those deposits in advance.

As soon as this decision was announced, the ears of the three hundred villagers were no less than a thunderclap, which completely activated their already frozen hearts and completely excited them.

Originally, the Ding family not only forced the salt households to hand over a large amount of salt, but also the price of salt was set at only fifty yuan, even if it was a loss of fifty yuan, it was still delayed in every way, so that the salt households were worse off than dead, and now as soon as the captain came, he reduced the amount of everyone's surrender, and also increased the price of salt, and even paid the capital of three hundred yuan in advance, how could this not make everyone cheer and surprise?

Now that the villager has put down the meat porridge that he has not eaten in his life, and has begun to look forward to the fact that this matter is true.

Zhang Qiang took the lead and fell to his knees: "Lord Duwei sympathizes with the suffering of our small people, it is really the little people who are waiting for us to recreate our parents, Lord Duwei and the Marquis of Wandai." ”

With the lead, all the representatives knelt down and kowtowed together this time, whimpering and thanking together, this time from the bottom of their hearts.

After everyone sang the praises and expressed their gratitude, Lu Peng looked at Zhang Qiang.

Zhang Qiang immediately stepped forward and asked Lu Peng: "If I can hand over three stones in January, can my lord pay the three stones in advance?" ”

Lu Peng nodded: "Yes, if you can hand over three stones a month, I can pay you three stones and four hundred and fifty yuan now." As he spoke, he nodded to an entourage behind him, who immediately wrote down the number on a piece of paper, and then asked Zhang Qiang to press his handprint on the spot, and then an entourage counted out four hundred and fifty yuan from behind, and Lu Peng personally handed it to Zhang Qiang.

The power of the example is huge, when the three hundred villagers saw that Zhang Qiang really got the four hundred and fifty heavy copper coins in advance, this time they completely believed in the general's promise, so they silently calculated their family's ability in their hearts.

If you have a genuine copper coin in your hands first, and then you can make a profit in the meantime, you can buy firewood and grass and concentrate on boiling salt, so that you can not count three stones a month?

After carefully calculating his ability, he began to report to Lu Peng the amount he could produce in a month, the lowest was three stones, and those with a large population simply received an advance payment of five stones, and the enthusiasm for production was outrageous for a while.

Originally, everyone couldn't complete the task of two and a half stones of the Ding family, that was because everyone was poor, the body was weak and weak, and there was no money and no capital in their hands.

After carefully calculating his ability, he began to report to Lu Peng the amount he could produce in a month, the lowest was three stones, and those with a large population simply received an advance payment of five stones, and the enthusiasm for production was outrageous for a while.

In fact, as long as it is linked to the economy, everything is very well solved.

So, after the villagers brought the good news back to their villages, all the salt farmers rushed to receive the advance payment, so that the villages of the salt field began to have vitality, the salt farmers had food in their pots, and the necessary winter clothes were added to their homes.