Liang Tingfang felt that this Zhou Gongzi was really a very magical character.

I heard that he was teaching his entourage what the principle of leverage was, which Liang Tingfang originally thought was very mysterious, but he took playing with a big gun as an example, explaining that one hand is the fulcrum and the other hand is the force point, and the thing picked by the big gun is the force point, and Liang Tingfang nodded again and again.

In particular, Zhou Quan's sentence "If you want to save effort, the force point needs to be long from the fulcrum, and if you want to save distance, the force point needs to be short from the fulcrum, and the two cannot be both", Liang Tingfang combined his own martial arts experience, and only felt that although the words were simple, they were the most reasonable.

"As long as the force point is long enough from the fulcrum, wouldn't it be possible to pry up a 10,000-pound boulder?" He couldn't help but ask.

Then he saw Zhou Quan looking at him with a strange expression, and said something that he will never forget: "Give me a fulcrum, I can pry the ground...... Well, Da Song. ”

Liang Tingfang was stunned at first, then laughed, and then stunned again.

After a while, he said to Zhou Quan: "Although I don't believe what you say, but ...... Why do I find this so imposing? ”

Zhou Quan ignored him, but walked around the salt farm, watching the production of the salt farmers by himself.

"Sun Zhizhou once said that the salt farm will eventually bring disaster to the people."

Zhou Quan was watching when he suddenly heard the woman's uncle who took him to see speak.

"What do you mean?"

"During the Renzong Dynasty, Sun Mian served as the governor here, and sent an envoy to set up a salt farm here, he said that although the salt field can be profitable today, it will definitely bring disaster to the people in the future...... If the court had listened to him earlier, how could we have today's suffering? ”

The old man's words made Zhou Quan shake his head: "This may not be all right. ”

The old man did not dare to argue with him, and immediately fell silent.

Liang Tingfang next to him paused and said: "Why not be all right, if the imperial court doesn't set up a salt farm here, don't say anything else, why is this family miserable?" ”

"If there is no salt business, how can these salt households make a living?"

"They can farm and farm......"

"If you don't farm and farm, you won't encounter famine and disease?" Zhou Quan asked again.

This time, Liang Tingfang couldn't answer.

After a while, he said, "So what do you think the problem is?" ”

"I took a look, the salt field here is also boiled into salt, so the cost is high, the salt quality is poor, not as good as the salt in Hedong, or even as good as Liao salt. The price is high and the quality is inferior, and it can't compete with others, so naturally there is only a backlog of bankruptcy. ”

Zhou Quan said a few words, and the old man's eyes were originally cloudy, but at this time, he suddenly opened his eyes, and then knelt down and kowtowed to Zhou Quan: "Childe, what Childe said is true, and the little old man is just talking nonsense...... As Childe said, we can't fight for the salt, and we can't fight for the green salt, the son has a word, he must have an idea, and ask the son to give him a way out for the salt households in Haizhou! ”

Zhou Quan waved his hand, and Wang Qinian and Li Bao helped the old man up.

"If you can find a problem, you may not be able to solve it, you are an old salt farmer, is there no solution?"

When the old man heard this, he whined and wept, but shook his head, but there was no other way.

Zhou Quan silently looked at the distance, where the backlog of unsellable salt was piled up, he shook his head, there were many impurities in these salts, and the taste was not pure, and even the color was not as good as the Hedong Qi salt he was used to.

"Since the furrow salt is good, why not use the furrow salt method to make the salt?" Liang Tingfang next to him racked his brains and came up with a plan.

The old man was a little disappointed: "I don't know that the salt is the salt of the pond, and this place is the salt of the sea, so I can't use it." ”

They looked around the salt works, and naturally fell into the eyes of some people.

After Wei Debiao got the report, he gritted his teeth: "The old head of Ren still owes me a debt, so he dares to collude with outsiders...... Kill people to pay off debts and pay back, you go to the old boss's house to urge, as long as you don't mess with that puppy, for me to vent this evil breath! ”

In Wei Debiao's view, today's events are his great shame. In the past, near this salt farm, he was the king and hegemon, even in Haizhou City, except for a very few people he couldn't provoke, everyone else was the target of his bullying.

But today, the little boy who called himself Zhou Quan not only shouted at him, but also instructed the slave to slap him and make him lose face in Haizhou.

At this time, he also sent someone to inquire who Zhou Quan was this time, and he actually put on the appearance of a fierce dragon crossing the river, and forcibly suppressed him so much.

It's just that for a while, the person who inquired about the news can't come, so he can only take the Ren family out of anger.

Liang Tingfang followed Zhou Quan around a few times, he was already bored, he said goodbye to Zhou Quan with a smile: "Zhou Gongzi, I don't think there's anything interesting here, if Gongzi has no other instructions, I will leave first." ”

"Why not, there are still things that need to be done for you, you are in trouble, don't sweep the tail and leave?" Zhou Quan said with a smile.

"Got me in trouble?" Liang Tingfang was inexplicable.

"It's almost time, Uncle Ren, go back to your house, I'm afraid that your house will be in trouble again."

As soon as Zhou Quan's words came out, the old man's body trembled, and he limped towards Yanhu Village, and only halfway through the walk, he saw a flame rising on the roof of his house.

"Ahh Old man Ren panicked, but there was nothing he could do but shout.

Liang Tingfang opened his eyes angrily, strode over, and in the blink of an eye, he left everyone behind.

Zhou Quan was unhurried, and when he arrived, there were five or six big men on the ground, and the two upside-down friezes were among them.

"Damn it!"

Looking at the half-burned house, Liang Tingfang stepped on a splashed foot and stomped down again.

The splash screamed, but what was the use, it didn't help.

"Alas, Uncle Ren, it seems that your house can't be lived." Zhou Quan sighed.

The old man knelt in front of his house, already wanting to cry without tears.

"Zhou Gongzi, you are a smart person, I am a stupid person, I already know that I am wrong...... Reach out and help them. Liang Tingfang said at this time.

"I don't have any problem helping them, but how to help the Fa, have you thought about it, do you want to pay off their debts now?"

Liang Tingfang's face flushed, he just came to the first choice, it was indeed to repay the debts for the Ren family, but when he asked, he knew that it was not only the Ren family who owed Wei Debiao debts, but also with the little entanglement on his body, he really wanted to repay the debts for the Ren family, but he was afraid that he would beg to go back to Chizhou.

"Moreover, why do I want to help their family, can I help for a while, can I help for a lifetime, do you understand the truth that emergency is not poor?"

Zhou Quan's words were very cold, but they were the truth.

These words made Liang Tingfang's face full of embarrassment.

"Uncle Ren, I see that your family is in a sad situation now, your three grandchildren, if they are not starved to death, they will be slaves and maids, if you want, I will bring them back as apprentices, and they can come back to see you once a year, how about it?" After teaching Liang Tingfang a lesson, Zhou Quan said slowly.

An apprentice, not a slave, that's a nice way to put it. But at least the old man doesn't have to worry about his grandson changing his surname, and the family will cut off the incense in the future.

At this time, the Ren family was already desperate, in fact, the woman of the Ren family went to the street to beg, so she also had the intention of selling her children.

After all, his grandchildren can still live, this is his greatest wish.

"You should have a chief security officer here, call him to testify, and ask a few older people to testify." Zhou Quan said.

Old man Ren suddenly became embarrassed: "The chief is Wei Debiao." ”

"Then choose someone else...... Well, Liang Tishi, you are a military attaché, but you can also act as a witness, so you can still act as this guarantor. ”

Liang Tingfang's face was full of shame at this time, and he didn't say anything about Zhou Quan's robbery by fire.

Since he wanted to make a contract, the old man invited a literate Xiucai, and invited a few old men in the salt household, Wang Qinian and him had a few dollars, and went to buy some wine and meat to entertain these witnesses.

When everything was ready, the three children knelt down and kowtowed to Zhou Quan, Zhou Quan motioned to Wang Qinian to take them, and then said slowly: "Since your three grandchildren are working in my family, what should your daughter-in-law do?" ”

"When the two of us are old, we will not drag down the bride, but choose a good family and let her remarry." The old man said miserably.

His daughter-in-law hurriedly knelt down: "Why did Uncle Weng say this, the slave should be filial piety for her husband and serve her aunt...... Slaves wash and sew for people, go to the street to beg, and they don't dare to shorten their aunts......"

This family still has some affection, Liang Tingfang couldn't bear it, he looked at Zhou Quan desperately.

Zhou Quan didn't give much to the Ren family, and it wasn't even enough for them to repay their debts, if Zhou Quan was willing to give more money, maybe the family wouldn't have to be so miserable.

Zhou Quan didn't rush to speak, and after a while, he said: "The sister-in-law of the Ren family is still young, and whether to remarry or not can be considered, but Uncle Ren, I have one thing I want to bother you to do." ”

"What's the matter, the little old man can only boil salt, and now his body is no longer a ......"

"The matter of boiling salt is managed by the Jianghuai Shipping Division, and I don't want to interfere for the time being." Zhou Quan said: "I want to build a shipyard here, you have been in Haizhou for many years, you know where you can use it as a shipyard, I want to build not a small fishing boat, but a big boat!" ”

The salt farmers in Haizhou have naturally seen big ships, but they don't know that the big ships Zhou Quan said are bigger than the biggest big ships they want.

"Little Lao'er knows a few places suitable for shipbuilding." Old man Ren said.

"In addition, I want to build a shipyard, which must be done manually...... You can recruit people for me in the salt households, 35 to 50 wen a day, what do you think? ”

Old man Ren's cloudy eyes lit up.

In Beijing, it is impossible to recruit people to do things with 50 wen a day, but in Xuzhou, 50 wen a day is envied by many people, and in Haizhou, 35 wen is enough to make these salt farmers flock to it.

"I'm afraid that the salt farm won't let people go, and the government will ...... It's not good to make a difference. ”

"Don't worry, this salt farm can't go on, naturally there is only bankruptcy, as long as the salt farmers can have a livelihood, the court is happy to see it, the only one who is unhappy...... It just so happens that I don't care if he's upset. Zhou Quan smiled, and then looked at Liang Tingfang: "Liang Tishi, remember I said, give me a fulcrum, I can pry up the Great Song Dynasty, this boat yard is one of my fulcrums, even if you can't pry the Great Song Dynasty, there is no problem in priing Haizhou!" ”

Liang Tingfang scratched his head with his hand, and he really didn't know how to take this stubble, because what Zhou Quan said and did was completely incomprehensible in his heart.

The only thing he can be sure of is that Zhou Quan poached people from the salt field like this, and Wei Debiao, who was in charge of the salt field, would definitely not give up, there was a Suzhou Yingfeng Bureau behind this person, and with Zhu Mian's momentum, how would he deal with it?