Chapter Twenty-Five: The Salt Pole
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The current Xue family's thousand households, or including the surrounding thirty miles or so, the current public security is very good, some time ago, the scoundrels and ruffians who were traitors and criminals, the most heinous crimes are dead and dead, and they are okay, they are all honestly boiling sea and salt at home, or desperate activities, hoping to have the opportunity to work with Li Meng.
Li Meng in the Xue family's thousand households is already famous, this young man is said to have been a fool in the past, and then suddenly became smarter, this person has been seen by many people in the vicinity, a very kind young man, he treats people and things very kindly, and he speaks very methodically.
Military households can't participate in the imperial examination, so no one knows how to read, everyone is a rough person, it's rare to have a clear brain like Li Meng, a gentle temper, to put it bluntly, it's rare to have such a child of a military household who looks like a scholar, and this person was a fool in the past.
This is all the gossip of some old people and people who have started a family and started a business talk about each other, it is not the same in the rumors of those young people, this Li Meng is the reincarnation of Erlang Zhenjun, brave and unparalleled, once killed hundreds of salt Ding alone with a flat pole, and the people who followed him can also be contaminated with some martial arts, I heard that the honest young men in the West Village each killed more than a dozen salt Ding, and they used bamboo poles.
Folklore is basically exaggerated, and this fact is profoundly reflected in the false rumors of Li Meng's deeds.
Although more than 5,000 households in the Lingshan Guard, that is, more than 400 households, still have military training, and the rest have been farmers for several generations, but after all, they are people who grew up under the military system of the Guard, and perhaps there is still a factor in their bones that they like to fight with knives and guns.
There is another reason, young people are reluctant to mention, with Li Meng, you can eat enough every day, and there is meat to eat every few days, it is said that "Erlang God" uses the money earned to buy food for everyone, with such a righteous and brave person, who would not yearn for it.
It's just that what makes these young people depressed is that if they want to follow Li Menggan, even if they are boiling sea salt by the sea, there are several conditions to be completed, there must be a person who follows Li Meng to introduce and guarantee, they must be able to carry an eighty-pound burden to Fengmeng Town and then walk back, and they have to lie on the ground and support their bodies with their hands for twenty times, and they can't bend up and down, and there are some strange requirements.
If the human body is not strong enough, it really can't hold on.
Because of the harsh conditions, Li Meng only has 32 salt transport teams up to now, 75 people who boil salt and collect salt, these salt transporters are all young people who have fully met the physical requirements set by Li Meng, and the original seventeen people, those young people who boil salt and collect salt are far from the standard.
These people buy salt goods in various villages during the day, or dry salt and cook salt on the seaside, but in the morning and evening, they are all trained by Li Meng's death, modern training recruit queues, and all kinds of physical training are used by Li Meng, if there is any difference, it is more rough stick education.
Li Meng is holding a bamboo stick tied together with a few bamboo pieces in his hands, to see who moves non-standard is to whip the past, even Zhao Neng, Chen Liuzi, Wang Hai These close people are no exception, these military children are just sturdy farmers, casual and accustomed, at first glance by such strict training, discipline, physical fitness and obedience, are all miserable, but it is really difficult to find a place to eat a full meal this year, plus Li Meng is already rumored to be a god in the Lingshanwei area, although the training is miserable, But seeing the envious eyes of those people who couldn't enter, and seeing the silver money that was sent to their hands after selling salt every time, when they thought of these two things, they endured all the hardships, not to mention, no matter how hard they were, they could still suffer those people in Dengzhou City and Huangxian County, and they were all eaten by Kong Youdedang 'two-legged sheep'.
Now there are two thousand households in Lingshanwei, and there are some households scattered here, all those who rely on the sea boil the sea to boil salt, and these people's salt does not dare to sell elsewhere at this time, and they all sell it to the West Village of the Xue family's thousand households, where they will give four dollars of silver, no arrears, and no deductions.
Li Meng can almost send fifty quintals of salt to Fengmeng Town every month, and the money he earns is forty or fifty taels of silver, which is used to distribute dividends to the people below, as well as to provide various expenses, the cost of collecting salt, and the purchase and sale of grain to provide food for the young men below.
Zhao Neng is older, and his mind is more detailed, so he calculated the accounts for Li Meng, and the result is that it is good to save three or four taels of silver every month, which is still a slightly better year, and the food is cheap. Spending so much money, raising more than 100 strong men in vain, it is too wasteful to use it to boil salt.
And a lot of work, it seems that even the original dozen people to do it is enough, what to do to feed so many people, what to do every day, in addition to boiling salt and drying salt, that is, to boil the body, holding a bamboo pole flat.
We sell private salt, some skills are right to defend ourselves, but there is no need to train so desperately, the military households in the guard house know more or less about the affairs of the army, when Qi Jiguang and Qi Marshal trained elite soldiers, it was just a military parade once every five days, Li Meng, you practice every day!
Zhao Neng also persuaded Li Meng, but Li Meng smiled and did not answer, or insisted on his own approach, Zhao Neng did not persuade him, firstly, because he believed that Li Meng must be more complete than himself when considering things, and secondly, after all, he still made some money, did not lose money, and lived a much better life than before.
As for the other military families, they are too lazy to care about them, only the eldest son of a military family can inherit the family business, the second and third sons often have no place to settle, the fields are barren and do not produce much, and they always cause trouble when they eat idle meals at home, and it is a good thing to make a little money outside and eat a few meals.
Li Meng's seaside where they dried salt and boiled salt is a road away from the village, and there is a bit of a slope, it is easy to stand in the village and want to see the sea, but it is difficult to see Li Meng, and it is also a little hidden.
The practice there every day was in full swing, and Li Meng used a little reduction in training in the army on these young people every day, and the salt transport team got more money and ate good food, while the salt boilers got less money and ate less, and all the salt transporters who did not practice well were sent to the salt boiling team.
Zhao Neng, Chen Liuzi, and Wang Hai are considered to be competitive, and they have not fallen behind in those people who have been transporting salt, but these young people are very puzzled, thinking that we are just trafficking in illicit salt, why do we have to practice so hard, every day with a bamboo pole stupidly poked forward, and the bamboo pole has to be flattened, not deflected, I didn't hear those people outside call us "salt poles"!!