Niuzhuang, not a village, is a county seat, it is mainly thanks to the endless salt pans on the coastal bay and unfolded, Niuzhuang's sea salt in the Ming Dynasty, in the northeast has accounted for an absolute share, but also became the Ming Dynasty at that time, Liaodong Governor Yamen one of the most important financial revenues, at that time, Niuzhuang's sea salt has not made the Ming court feel important, and after the establishment of the Houjin, this place has become the money bag of the Houjin, not only that, after the Ming Dynasty imposed economic sanctions and embargo on the Houjin, It has become an important means for Houjin to control the entire northern Mongolian tribe, money can be without, but salt cannot be without, people who don't eat salt for many days will definitely not survive.

For this reason, when Nurhachi was in Nurhachi, a salt administration agency was set up in Niuzhuang to supervise the production and sale of salt, but at that time, the savages had just come out of the mountain, and they were most interested in looting, especially when they faced a fat and powerless Ming Dynasty, and there was no pressure on the finances at all, because as long as the finance was lacking, they immediately used thousands, at most tens of thousands of people and horses, to cut the wool on the fat sheep of the Ming Dynasty, that is, especially later, there were more and more objects of wool cutting, such as Mongolia, Take North Korea, for example.

But everything is changing, and after the new emperor Huang Taiji ascended the throne, he confidently launched a plundering war against the Central Plains, only to return defeated, and everything has changed since then.

Originally, the war was a rich family, a money-making business, from that war, the princes and nobles of Houjin felt that the war was no longer to make money, but to lose money, at this time they appeared in the Niuzhuang salt field, is the basis for continuing to support their war, so the new emperor Huang Taiji, this salt field as his main taboo,

Therefore, the jurisdiction of this salt field was abolished, and the salt administration department was upgraded to a county, and within this year or two, a part of the profits from the original salt was withdrawn and began to be allocated to the local government, so that the local government could build a city wall and improve the defense equipment.

Wu Quan was the first person to be promoted to the county order by Huang Taiji.

Wu Quan is also a very sad person, he was also an official of the Ming Dynasty, born in the south, or a jinshi at the time of the Apocalypse, according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, the officials who were delegated to the local area must be in different places, and as a result, this Wu Quan was arranged to Daling River in western Liaoxi and made a county order, what was the result? Fate made people, I wanted to make a good contribution to the Ming Dynasty, but I didn't want to, Houjin Bingfeng was strong, and directly broke through the Daling River, and Wu Quan was captured.

Wu Quan is a smart man, grasped the essence of Huang Taiji's single-minded sinicization, and immediately surrendered to the fullest allegiance, and at this time, what Huang Taiji needed most was the Wen Chen of the Han people, to help him rule his own world, for him, the level of a county order is quite high, so he gladly accepted, and sent him to Niuzhuang, and made a county order, which can also be said to be a kind of reuse.

Niuzhuang is a good place! Because it produces table salt, and this salt is of good quality, high yield, and low cost, of course, this cost is also on the work of those salt lads who are regarded as pigs and dogs.

Untouchables, this is the case in the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that in this post-Jin land, they are just slaves among slaves.

Under the circumstance that the Ming Dynasty imposed an economic blockade on the Qing Dynasty, with salt comparable to gold in hand, Wu Quan's life was nourishing, as long as enough salt was handed in, the rest could be quietly sold to the wealthy families in the cattle village who had been trafficking illicit salt for generations, and the income would be quite rich.

Of course, he had to take out most of his income and hand it over to the Niuzhuang garrison General Ida, who was an authentic Manchu and his own master.

"Everything is good here, just this cheap and noble can't be compared with Daming." Wu Quan stood up, sorted out his official uniform, and prepared to go to the city guard yamen to order something. "If you are in Daming, you are a dignified seven-grade civil official, at this time you should be in your own hall, waiting for the pickled garrison general to come to visit, you are in a good mood, and say a few words to him, if you are in a bad mood, you will scold him at that time, it will be his cheapness, but here it is just the opposite, you have to run to him early in the morning to answer Mao, and if you go late, you will be whipped, what kind of world is this?"

I complained in my heart, but I didn't dare to stop and walked out of the lobby, but as soon as I came out of the warm room, I was shivered by the wind outside, although it was already spring, the south wind finally came, and it blew all night, but the weather was still the same as winter, the thief was cold and the thief was cold, where was it as warm as spring like his home in the south?

"The south wind is finally here." Wu Quan muttered like this.

The reason why Wu Quan looked forward to the south wind was not out of nostalgia for the south of his homeland, it was related to interests.

When the south wind comes and the sea opens, your salt pan can continue to dry salt, and your pockets can bulge again. My own expenses are big, these five-room concubines, dozens of slaves, and I have to feed three masters, and I have to fight those Jurchen soldiers up and down, all of which cost money.

There are also those wealthy businessmen in the city, who send people to inquire about the news every day, these people are all worth millions of dollars and rival the country, but they definitely can't be offended.

And one more important thing, which is now crammed into the hungry people in the city.

Lu Hanqiang carried out a famine plan, the result was surprisingly tragic, the first to suffer were those Han slaves, they themselves were farming for Allah, not even tenants, the master's family suffered disasters, and they suffered heavy losses, who cares about them? So these Han slaves were completely abandoned, they had no permanent property and they had to leave their hometowns to find a glimmer of life in the larger cities, in the autumn of last year, there began to be a large number of hungry people without food and clothing around the city, the city was full, bringing great pressure to the city, and in the winter it was even more, just this small cow village has more than 100,000 refugees stranded.

At the beginning, Wu Quan was still pitiful to these refugees, and went to the big families to raise some food and open a few porridge farms, but as a result, there were more and more refugees, and most of those rich households were also helpless, Wu Quan's heart was cold and numb, and finally this porridge field was closed, and those refugees were left to fend for themselves.

It was freezing cold, and those homeless people were lying on the street, without food or drink, crying every day and night, which was very terrible and annoying. This is still secondary, the most important thing is to hire people to clean up the dead every morning, which costs money, and as a result, this winter is not able to get out, how can this be done.

Come on the south wind, when the south wind comes, the sea will be opened, and you will be able to make money, and you will be able to drive the hungry people who are stranded in the city out of the city, anyway, when the south wind comes, everything will be better.

(End of chapter)

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