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After receiving the letter from the Grand Duke, Fang Pingzhi's mood must be complicated, he hated the barbaric ignorance of the local villagers: beating the miners and listening to rumors, but in any case it was unjustifiable. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info This matter is certain, I don't know where it went wrong, and it aroused the resentment of the villagers.

"The wrath of the Son of Heaven, millions of floating corpses, thousands of miles of blood!"

For no reason, looking at the content of the letter, Fang Pingzhi, the former cloth cloth showman, and the current Yingcheng Zhixian, immediately came up with the sentence "Tang Sui does not disgrace his mission" in his mind, for him, what made him even more annoyed was that if this matter was not handled well, it would have a great impact on his future.

For Fang Pingzhi, who was born in Xiucai, the reason why he joined the "Righteous Army" was to seek a background, and that was because of the unavoidable choice under the hopelessness of promotion.

From the reverse, according to the "Great Qing Law", this is an unforgivable sin, but for Fang Pingzhi, who has no choice, this is his only choice, since he has embarked on this road, he must go down one road.

Now what?

"My lord, what did the Metropolitan Governor say in the letter?"

The county official asked softly on the side, compared to Fang Pingzhi, who was an official, Zhang Lichen, as his county official, was a more sensible choice - this position, like an ant, was not noticed, even if the city was taken away by the imperial court in the future, he, a sesame official, did not pay attention to it, at most it was a punishment.

"Never let anyone go, according to the law!"

Looking at the letter on the table, Fang Pingzhi sighed.

"The situation was so chaotic at that time, how could you not let go of one person!"

"My lord, since the governor of the capital has ordered so, then the governor must not be disappointed, in the opinion of the lower officials, the lord can immediately send officials to the Pan family to collect and arrest people, first arrest a few people, and then identify each other, naturally, they can all be arrested......"

"......"

Moaning, Fang Pingzhi said worriedly.

"Zhang Xiancheng, if this is severely punished, it is inevitable that he will bite, and under the bite, it is inevitable that someone will be wronged, what should you and I do then?"

"Your Excellency,"

Zhang Lichen smiled slightly and said with a smile.

"Why don't you know that the reason why the Metropolitan Governor wants to handle this matter strictly this time is not to kill chickens and show monkeys! After all, now that these prefectures are newly paid, although there are thousands of heads hanging in Wuchang, after all, the one who was killed was only Keyong in Hunan Province, and the governor of Dadu has always been magnanimous. After all, seeing that in a few months, the summer tax will have to be paid, and if the people don't pay it at that time, the head of this Pan family collection will be a lesson from the past! ”

If Zhu Yifeng heard Zhang Lichen's words, he would definitely praise him for being a confidant, but this confidant is only a confidant to some extent, compared to Zhang Lichen's "killing chickens to show monkeys" is used to suppress the people and supervise the upcoming summer tax, but what Zhu Yifeng values is the future, and what he values is whether the future governance in Hubei can be smooth.

"In the future, we will set up iron mines, coal mines, silk factories, shipyards, machine factories, and arsenals in Hubei, these things are unprecedented affairs in Henggu, and when the time comes, we will inevitably encounter opposition from the gentry and the common people, and often contradict them on the grounds of bad feng shui.

What is a rainy plan, for Zhu Yifeng, this is exactly the rainy plan, because he knows better than anyone how the ignorant people in the late Qing Dynasty resisted new things, they once burned factories and railways with feng shui, and also used telegraphs to burn ancestral tablets to transmit letters, cut telegraph poles, cut telegraph wires, and even together with foreign cloth, some people said that they were bleached with the ashes of dead people, in short, they resisted almost any new thing.

Zhu Yifeng did not have the energy to lobby one by one like those big officials in the late Qing Dynasty, or wait for them to accept new things, and for him, he had only one choice, that is, to force these ignorant rural villagers to accept the reality by killing chickens and showing monkeys -- as for the instigators, they should naturally be severely punished.

"But the Grand Duke, under such severe punishment, it is inevitable that there will be a bite at that time!"

Li Ziyuan reminded softly on the side, this is what worries him.

"Climbing?"

With a sneer, Zhu Yifeng slowly picked up the teacup and said.

"To be honest, I'm really scared that they won't bite, and even if they do, what if they do? They want to try my sword, so why let them try it! ”

This cold remark, if it had been left a few months ago, Zhu Yifeng would definitely not have thought that it would be what he said, but now, he easily said such a sentence, for him, everything is so simple, after all.

"If the governor is bent on this, I am afraid that it will be ...... in the future."

"Things in the future, let's talk about the future, right now, we don't have time to consume, and we can't afford to spend it!"

Categorically stopping Li Ziyuan's lobbying, Zhu Yifeng smiled coldly and said with a cold face.

"This time, I'll have to borrow a few more of them!"

Borrowing people's heads to stand up, if you say what Zhu Yifeng's biggest experience is now, that is, using people's heads to stand up for power, its effect is far better than others, just like the current rebels, although they use muskets, but their military law team is still equipped with big knives, and the deterrent power of cutting off heads in public with a big knife is far better than shooting in a gun line.

If there is a regret medicine in the world, Chen Yishun will definitely regret his choice. At this time, he was in a cage and finally knew what would be "the county order that broke the family and destroyed the mansion", but it was only a few days of hard work, and the government not only arrested dozens of ordinary people who participated in the beating of the officials of the mining bureau, but also arrested him as the mastermind.

"Tell the adults that the villain is willing to donate, and the villain is willing to donate......"

Again, Chen Yishun shouted loudly outside the prison, trying to save his net worth and life by donating money.

But when he shouted out his throat, it was only in exchange for a sigh from the cell boss.

"Hey, you kid is eating the heart of a bear and a leopard, and you dare to cause chaos to the Metropolitan Governor, if you don't kill you, you can calm the anger of the Metropolitan Governor!"

The cell leader's words made Chen Yishun's face turn pale in an instant, and he was already sitting in the prison in despair, muttering.

"Small, villain, sin, sin does not lead to death......"

It is sin that does not lead to death!

But when someone wants to borrow a human head, even if the crime does not lead to death, it will become a mortal person, when several masterminds involved in the civil unrest were beheaded, and dozens of people who participated in the civil unrest were sentenced to three to ten years of hard labor, the gypsum mine near this Yingcheng was still complaining about the "openness" of the government at the beginning, and the complaints suddenly stopped, just watching the plaster hole being sealed.

For the people near the gypsum cave, sealing the hole does not mean that it is a bad thing, that is, Liu Xinxin, a mining engineer, designed the Laowuwan salt mine with reference to the European coal mine, and learned from the mining experience of gypsum and coalfields to use dry mining in the mine, and planned to directly mine underground rock salt at the same time, the old paste cave sealed hole water storage and the blue plate discarded by mining paste also adopted the method of immersion in water to make brine, built a government-run salt factory, built a simple salt boiling furnace, and boiled salt in a pan to make salt, but it was only a few days of work. Thanks to the mountains of "blue plate" raw materials in the area of the old gypsum mine, the salt factory employing thousands of nearby villagers has produced tens of thousands of quintals of refined salt, and the establishment of the salt factory has made the first real workers in Hubei, which is not a bad thing for the villagers, and for the Dadu Governor's Mansion in Wuchang, the completion of the salt factory has finally saved it from the edge of "light food".

"This is the salt made by the Yingcheng Salt Factory?"

Looking at the slightly yellowed salt grains in his hand, Zhu Yifeng's expression looked a little proud, this salt mine was discovered under his guidance, in fact, he didn't know that Yingcheng had a salt mine in Hubei, but when making chalk in school, he used gypsum from Yingcheng, and rock salt is often associated with gypsum mines, so there must be rock salt with gypsum, if it wasn't for the previous salt shortage, he really couldn't remember this most basic mining knowledge.

"It's the salt from the Yingcheng Salt Factory!"

Chen Duan, who personally escorted 10,000 quintals of salt back to Wuchang, also looked quite proud when he faced the marshal, and it only took less than a month for him to run a salt mine, build a salt factory, and produce 10,000 quintals of salt.

"What is our production now?"

Holding the coarse grains of salt, Zhu Yifeng looked thoughtful.

"Back to Dadudu, there are 105 pairs of gypsum holes in the mining area at present, although there are 55 pairs of salt holes, but it is necessary to seal the hole and store water, soak for more than a year, before you can draw brine salt, now the salt factory mainly uses the abandoned blue plate on the mine as raw materials, and then soaks and bubbles to make brine, and can produce 10,000 quintals of salt per month......

If it was said that ten days ago, Chen Duan was still a layman in salt making, then now he can even be said to be the best official in the entire Dadu Governor's Mansion who is best at salt making.

"10,000 quintals...... That's a million pounds ......."

Thinking about this output, Zhu Yifeng's brows furrowed slightly, and it seemed that there was still some shortcoming.

"The governor of the capital, the salt of the city, in order to look down, its quality is not inferior to the salt out of the well in Sichuan, far from the bitter Huai salt can be compared, the people naturally like to eat, in the view of the post, although the current salt price is as high as tens of Wen a catty, the salt quality of the city is excellent, there is no need to reduce the price, so, the governor can get salt every month will not be less than tens of thousands of taels......"

To put it bluntly, the salt administration is silver, and from ancient times to the present, the government has run salt in order to collect money, which is also the same in Chen Duan's opinion, but what he didn't expect was that the governor in front of him thought of more than just silver.

"Shao Hall, salt profit is important, but have you ever thought about it, in addition to earning silver, this salt is ......?"

Throwing the salt in his hand back into the bag, Zhu Yifeng said with a smile.

"Sometimes, it's not just silver!" (To be continued.) )