"Liang Tizhi, you are from Chizhou, why did you come to this Haizhou?"

"It was a business trip, and I came to Haizhou to see the sea!"

The young officer drank all the glass of wine in front of him, put down the wine glass, and then bowed to Zhou Quan in a deep voice and thanked him: "Today's matter is thanks to the guidance of the junior official. ”

This person's name is Liang Tingfang, a subordinate of the Chizhou Xiang Army, a junior military attache in charge of the 30th person, and his father is just an ordinary military attaché.

If it weren't for his father, he would not be able to stay in the army for long.

Zhou Quan heard that the other party was from Chizhou, and his heart moved, and he said with a smile: "I heard that the Manichaeans are making a lot of trouble in Chizhou, I don't know if Liang Tizhi knows about it?" ”

"There's no such thing, Manichaeism is just coaxing some stupid men and crazy women in the ravines and ravines, and extorting some money, what kind of fame can it make!" Liang Tingfang said indifferently.

Zhou Quan smiled and didn't say anything more.

His power has not yet extended to Jiangnan, so he does not know much about the situation of Manichaeism in Jiangnan, and he originally wanted to get some news from Liang Tingfang.

The two sides talked about it, although Liang Tingfang was simple-minded, he still knew some things, especially things in the south, Zhou Quan was very interested, and the two sides chatted quite speculatively.

But halfway through the conversation, he heard the voices of the people below, Liang Tingfang stretched out his head to look, but saw the two splashes who had been driven away just now, rushing over with a group of soldiers.

"What's going on?" Liang Tingfang said in surprise.

"Naturally, I'm looking for trouble." Zhou Quan smiled.

Liang Tingfang took a breath: "The government actually stood up for these scoundrels...... You expected this to happen? ”

"I've been in Haizhou for nearly ten days, and I already know what's going on with this Haizhou salt farm, and I didn't want to take care of it originally, but since it has provoked me...... I'll just stretch out my hand. Zhou Quan said.

Liang Tingfang looked at Zhou Quan in confusion, and saw Wu Yang next to Zhou Quan standing at the head of the stairs, and then he heard a loud noise, someone rolling down the stairs.

"Bold, you pretend to be an official and dare to resist arrest!" Someone shouted.

"Pretending to be an official? Blind your dog's eyes, it seems that my son-in-law's guess is correct, the Haizhou thieves are hidden in the salt field, and in the Haizhou Yamen, there are also their internal responses! ”

Wang Qinian walked to the staircase, his voice was not loud, but a word made most of the arrogance of the people below disappear.

The two pouts glanced at each other, they were beaten, they did not cheat money, after going back was very unconvinced, so they asked acquaintances in the yamen, and confirmed that this group of people was not from the Haizhou yamen, so they found the person behind them, added oil and vinegar and said something, the person behind was furious, and immediately rushed over.

originally thought that even if these people were out-of-state errands, they would not be angry in the face of these local snakes, but they never thought that the other party would not say a word and do it directly!

"You...... How dare you attack the officials? ”

"We hunted down Haizhou thieves from Xuzhou Mansion, and killed people in Xuzhou, and there were no less than 100 Haizhou thieves and Lashan thieves slaughtered by this Uncle Wu next to me, if he really wants to attack you, do you still have living people here? Who is your leader, obediently come to meet my son-in-law, if you dare to have any excuses, hehehehe! ”

Wang Qinian laughed lightly a few times, and then shrank back from the staircase, while the soldiers and servants below looked at each other.

After a while, a fat man walked up, and although the weather was getting cooler, the fat man was still sweating profusely.

"Which son summoned me, I Wei Debiao is polite here." The fat man smiled and said, but in the depths of his eyes, there was a trace of coldness.

Zhou Quan glanced at him and waved his hand in disgust: "Let him go, I originally wanted to find someone who can look pleasing to the eye, but I can't look down on this fat man......"

Hearing these words in Wei Debiao's ears, his forehead jumped, but there was no change on his face, and he was still smiling: "It turned out to be this son, I Wei Mou, you can't look down on it, I don't know the two Huai Shipping Division Yamen, do you have a good eye, but I don't know that Suzhou should be in the bureau, can you enter the eyes of the son?" ”

As soon as the words Suzhou Yingfeng Bureau came out, Liang Tingfang suddenly frowned, and looked at Zhou Quan with some concern.

Suzhou Yingfeng Bureau itself is not terrible, but after Yingfeng Bureau, it is Zhu Mian!

This person is also a legend in the Great Song Dynasty, his father became rich by practicing medicine, and was appreciated by Cai Jing and Tong Guan, so Zhu Mian was also recommended to Zhao Ji. At this time, Zhu Mian was serving as the Suzhou Ying Bureau, and he was here for Zhao Ji to search for strange stones and flowers in the south of the Yangtze River for Zhao Ji to enjoy.

In Liang Tingfang's opinion, this is a great big man, although the son in front of him, although he has some power, he is facing Zhu Mian head-on......

Without waiting for him to think of the result, he saw Zhou Quan wave his hand, and the soft-spoken young man immediately pushed his companion next to him, so the strong and stocky young man stepped forward, slapped him and slapped him.

The eight yin and yang slaps on the front and back made Wei Debiao's face red and swollen, especially his lips, which were swollen like a pig's intestine.

"You want to use Zhu Mian to press me? My name is Zhou Quan, you go back and ask Zhu Mian if he wants to come to me to settle accounts. Zhou Quan tapped lightly on the table and said.

Wei Debiao had never heard of this name.

Zhou Quan is already well-known in Beijing and everyone in Xuzhou, but in Haizhou, he still has no influence.

But since he dares to say this, it proves that he is not afraid of Zhu Mian, the favorite minister of the Son of Heaven!

"Zhou ...... Zhou Quan ...... "Wei Debiao repeated Zhou Quan's name.

turned out to be another slap in the face, Li Bao pumped and shouted at the same time: "The name of my son-in-law is also what you dirty can call!" ”

Wei Debiao was smacked, and after he smoked it directly, Zhou Quan got up and said with a smile: "Liang Tizhi, you might as well go with me to see the liveliness of the salt farm." ”

Liang Tingfang couldn't figure it out, and she really couldn't understand why Zhou Quan would teach Wei Debiao a lesson, and might even provoke Zhu Mian, the favorite minister of the Son of Heaven.

He didn't know that Zhou Quan had provoked Li Bangyan in the Beijing Division, and even drove this Li Prodigal Son out of the Beijing Division. Although Zhu Mian was favored by Zhao Ji, Zhou Quan himself estimated that his role in Zhao Ji was stronger than Zhu Mian.

He was about to stretch out his hand to Haizhou next, but Zhu Mian was already here, and even grabbed the Haizhou Salt Farm from the Jianghuai Shipping Envoy, and this salt farm was also of some use to Zhou Quan, and it was impossible for the two sides to cooperate, so they could only fight.

Anyway, during the period before waiting for Su Mai to take office, he was also a little bored, and he had to find something to do.

"Zhou Gongzi...... Are you really not afraid of Zhu Mian? Swallowing his saliva, Liang Tingfang followed behind him.

"It's just a small salt farm owner, can you really catch up with Zhu Mian? It is already remarkable that he can show his face in front of Zhu Mian's housekeeper. Zhou Quan said disdainfully.

Out of the restaurant, Zhou Quan did not rush to leave, but sent Wang Qinian to the begging woman, I don't know what to say to the begging woman, and then borrowed a big car from the inn, which was driven by Li Bao.

The woman sat on the cart with the children, with a few more sheets of bread in her hands, and the three yellow-skinned children devoured them, while Wang Qinian next to them kept persuading them to eat slowly, and handed them a scoop of water from time to time.

All this was done in a short period of time, and Liang Tingfang had a feeling that this Zhou Gongzi's subordinates seemed to be familiar with doing this kind of thing, and they used to do it often.

The woman was a little worried, thinking that she was afraid of Wei Debiao and his gang.

Following Zhou Quan, he went straight out of Haizhou City, and walked in the northeast direction, about ten miles, and saw a sparse village by the sea.

Under the woman's guidance, they entered the village, where a group of children, who had no clothes, followed them and watched the commotion. When Li Bao saw their appearance, he couldn't bear it, and he touched it around his body, but he couldn't touch anything.

It was still Wang Qinian, smiling and taking out some colorful paper candy from his pocket.

This is a candy made of brown sugar, similar to toffee in another life, which is a new product developed by Zhou Quan on the basis of snow sugar, and it is also the key to Liang Shicheng's support for Zhou Quan after the Pengcheng Rebellion - the messenger sent by Zhou Quan to Beijing carried a pound of this sugar with him.

Wang Qinian peeled a grain of candy himself, and then distributed it to the children one by one, and the woman's three children also had it.

The children learned to peel off the candy wrapper, put the sugar in their mouths, and suddenly took a long saliva, their eyes lit up, and their originally somewhat wooden expressions became vivid.

It was Liang Tingfang, who also got a grain of sugar, he peeled the sugar, immediately smelled a sweet fragrance, and was about to stuff it into his mouth, but saw a three or four-year-old child coming out of nowhere. The child came late, and when he didn't get it, he could only hold a finger in his mouth and watch the other children eat candy with envy.

Liang Tingfang muttered something, and then gave the candy to the child.

Zhou Quan saw this scene, smiled slightly, and then said loudly: "Do you still want to eat sugar?" ”

"Yes!" A few older children screamed.

"Well, there will be later." Zhou Quan said.

Liang Tingfang felt incomprehensible again, and the children followed them with a look of longing.

"This is the slave family." The woman timidly pointed to a low, tattered earthen house.

Zhou Quan pursed his lips: "Please ask your aunt to come out." ”

The so-called aunt is actually her in-laws, and after a while, an old man who was limping and limping came to Zhou Quan with a cane.

The old man was also patched and patched, with a yellow face and thin eyes.

"Take me to see the salt farm, your daughter-in-law is a woman, it's inconvenient." Zhou Quan ordered.

The old man was speechless, and he didn't dare to refuse at all.

Not far from the village, there is a large tidal flat.

Beside these large tidal flats, huge stoves were built, and bundles of red grass and soaphorn were piled up beside them, and ox carts pulled the ashes of plants and trees that had absorbed the seawater, and were piled up in the brick ponds next to the stoves. The salt brine from the ashes of the plants and trees filtered out and flowed into a huge iron pot through the gap left by the brick pool.

When they arrived, it was time to boil salt, and they saw the flames rising from the bottom of the pot by the force of the sea breeze, and the salt farmers were bare-chested, and with a long fork more than a foot long, they stuffed bundles of red grass and saponaria branches into the stove, which was too heavy, and the salt farmers came up with an idea, and set up a thick wooden pole by the stove, and drilled a hole in the upper end of the thick wooden pole, and through the hole a horizontal branch, and the long iron fork was hung on this horizontal branch with a rope.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Quan nodded slightly: "Yanhu is still very smart, he knows the principle of using leverage, Qi Nian, do you remember what the principle of leverage is?" ”