Chapter 47: Surrender
On the third day of Li Meng's entry into the city, he returned to the Lingshan Guard, and there were really some problems with the news transmission in this era, and the few who escaped were actually training with Chen Liuzi and Wang Hai as if nothing had happened, which really made Li Meng angry, but since he came back, the order was implemented.
These four men were kicked out of the salt poles, and they were clearly told that no one would collect their salt in the future, and that they should go home and farm honestly.
Without the wages of the salt poles, and the salt cooked at home and without a place to sell it, it has only been a few days of good life, and I am afraid that I will soon return to my former poverty. But these people didn't dare to complain, so they could only accept this treatment, and the guard was also a soldier.
There was a lot of discussion, saying that if this was on the battlefield, the deserter would be killed by a big order, and Li Erlang was really benevolent and righteous.
Although the state city knew the news of fighting on the official road and killing more than 80 salt workers, no one knew about the Lingshan Guard and the salt farm's generation, and Li Meng transferred the 100 salt poles transferred to Fengmeng Town to the surroundings of the Lingshan salt farm, which was called to prevent thieves from encroaching.
In fact, it is firmly controlled here, and every pound of salt must be monitored, but after all, the salt farm is not within the jurisdiction of inspection, Li Meng is very disciplined in doing things, and sends people to read out loudly outside, and prescribes conditions, compared with those stove households who are now working in the salt fields of the Xue family's thousand households, as long as they change jobs, they will all be given this treatment, and promise that it will rise in the future.
The stove households were deprived of poverty by the ambassador of the salt section in the salt field, and this time someone outside poached, and they did know that those former colleagues had a good life in the adjacent salt field, and they agreed to join, and within three days, the government-run Lingshan salt field was already half of the people.
The rest of them are all characters who are messing around, and they don't want to run, and Li Meng doesn't want to ask for it, the ambassador of the salt class wants to take care of it, but the few people under his command can't wait to knock their heads down when they see the salt poles guarding outside, and they dare to speak there.
Now Li Meng has put 100 salt boiling teams in the Lingshan Guard, 100 in the Lingshan Salt Factory, 15 people in Fengmeng Town, 150 people in the city, and almost all the people he recruited are used, Li Meng firmly controls the place where the salt is produced, and naturally controls the private salt trade in the entire Laizhou Mansion.
Three days before taking office, Li Meng made such a move, it was simply not to let others take advantage of the loopholes, the two salt merchants in Fengmeng Town were full of complaints, and some people with interests in it were clamoring there, and the ambassador of the salt class also asked people to send a document to the governor of Jiaozhou.
However, on the fifth day, even at the speed of information transmission in this era, the number of people who fought and died in the official road was spread, and all the people were silent.
The first half of March has not yet passed, and the southern part of Jiaozhou City in Laizhou has basically stabilized, Zhao Neng, Ma Gang, Chen Liuzi and Wang Hai each led a group of people to guard everywhere, but these people have to rotate every three days, and there is an examination every six days.
Regarding the situation that the bow and arrow in the face of Yan Ding almost collapsed on the official road, Li Meng's conclusion is very simple, that is, the training is not enough, and the training must be strengthened.
In almost half a year, the initial thirty people of the salt transport team were familiar with Li Meng's training methods, physical fitness and skills, and they practiced and supervised them, and then when they rotated to Jiaozhou City, Li Meng checked the results of the training.
After the four salt poles who escaped from the battle were ruthlessly driven out by Li Meng, the life of the family soon became miserable and poor, and the family did not talk about it every day, and they were rejected when they came back to cry and beg several times.
Invisibly, they gave a warning to the rest of the young people, in this salt pole, it is not just hard work to have a good life, when it is time to work hard, they must work hard, their families are also carrying letters, there is such a good place to cherish, you look at those boys, not to mention their own bad seeds, but also affect their own family poverty.
The output of the salt fields of the Lingshan Salt Works and the Xue Family's Thousand Households was sold to salt merchants and salt dealers in Fengmeng Town and various parts of Laizhou, and the salt dealers already had a very stable income.
Li Meng roughly calculated that he had an income of nearly 800 taels of silver every month, and after removing the food and drink expenses of more than 300 salt poles, as well as all necessary expenses, there were almost 300 taels of silver left.
As soon as the inspection of Mu died, the inspection position was vacant, and those people under his hands were suddenly scattered, and those account books and documents were left there and no one paid attention to them, Li Meng borrowed a shopkeeper from the Jinzhou warehouse, and sorted out the account books there, things are not difficult, but Li Meng is a little strange that when the inspection of Mu died, his relatives were old, and at most they took away two thousand silver, so to speak, Mu Patrol Inspection did seven or eight years of inspection, and there were only more than three thousand taels of silver left in his hands, but he could make a little rectification, and there was still so much salt consumption every year, There are also 4,000 taels of silver a year, and even if the cost of Mu inspection is extravagant, how much can it cost in the small Jiaozhou City.
Could it be that there is still silver buried in the ground, Li Meng is very strange, and this question has been answered on the eighth day after taking office.
The territory between a small state city and the guard, Li Meng's subordinates can reach it during the day without riding horses just on foot, there is Hou Mountain in the middle of Fengmeng Town, and there are all kinds of lawbreakers large and small to provide information, everything is under control, and the wind and waves are very calm.
So a few days after taking office, Li Meng's daily work is to go out of the city to train and verify these salt pole Xinding, which is also in line with his living conditions, to be honest, living in Jiaozhou City, Li Meng feels very good, in this small state city at the end of the Ming Dynasty, this breath of urban life makes him vaguely return to the modern era.
As soon as Li Meng was about to go out that day, he heard Chen Liuzi, who was on duty here, hurriedly walked into the house, and said with a little confusion on his face:
"Master Li, there is a person kneeling at the door of the house, and he is actually kneeling there before dawn, and the sentry guarding the door came to tell me in the morning."
Incidentally, Li Meng's Yanding is completely built according to the company in the modern army, and there is no difference between training, lectures, and various rules, including sentinels.
"We're not a yamen here, what are you doing kneeling here!"
"That man claimed to be the master of the former King of Muyan......"