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Hearing the order, the soldiers of the action team immediately took action, and the main members of the Lu family fell to the ground one after another, without even snorting, and they simply lost their lives. The surrounding guests were frightened, and could no longer suppress their fear, and screamed loudly. When many ladies saw this bloody scene, they closed their eyes and fell down in fright.

"Report! Big brother, the officers and soldiers stationed in Yuegang are here, and the speed is very fast, and it is less than five miles away from here! A "masked bandit" ran in at the right time outside, and reported loudly to Captain Qin.

"He. . . Mother. I have long heard that the officers and troops in Fujian are powerful, when can they move so quickly. Inform the brethren to retreat immediately, disperse and run according to the original plan, and the old place will be reconciled! Captain Qin pretended to shout loudly, and he was scolding and scolding at the very end, looking reluctant, it was completely an official army that disturbed his opportunity to loot treasures. Don't just worry about raiding your home, there will be opportunities in the future, get on the horse and retreat now, don't wait for the official army to bite us, we won't be able to leave. Just have money, but you don't have the life to spend! ”

"Yes!" The surrounding "bandits" shouted in a mess. Immediately, a group of people quickly retreated, and Captain Qin stayed at the end, lifted the severed head of the head of the Lu family, and shouted again: "Father, mother, my son has avenged you!" After saying that, he also retreated with the large army. His task has been completed, and the work of sweeping the tail will be handed over to the Mawei army stationed in Yuegang who arrived "in time". All the adult males of the Lu family have been killed at this moment, and the rest are old and weak women and children, and most of them are female dependents. Several grandsons of the head of the Lu family. The eldest is only nine years old. It's not that the team doesn't have time to kill, but that the mission doesn't kill women and children at all.

The Lu family has completely crossed, and as soon as the head of the Lu family and the main members of the Lu family die, the wealth of the Lu family will definitely change hands, and it is estimated that it is only a very small part of the inheritance of the children of the Lu family. The most important salt farm, Geng Jingzhong can completely let his own people take over and operate, like that. The salt field is in the hands of the Mawei Army. With the departure of the squad, the other guests also left. After being frightened for an hour, they all seemed to collapse, and in this hour, it seemed that they had walked away from the ghost gate. What they were most worried about was that before leaving, these "bandits" would go on a killing spree, but fortunately, the "bandits" did not do so. They just got away with it. At the same time, I am also grateful to the Mawei Army who arrived "in time", otherwise. You may really be done with your life. They still shuddered when they remembered what had just happened. The name of the Guo family sounded in Zhangzhou Mansion again after 20 years.

No matter how chaotic the Lu family was, Captain Qin led the team members to divide into three roads, rode quickly in the direction of Guangdong, and sent a separate person back to Fuzhou to report to Geng Jingzhong. Along the way, several teams flew with horses' hooves, and the movement was not small. In order to confuse everyone and make others think that they are the real Guo family living in other provinces, and now they have come to take revenge. According to the established plan, after entering the Guangdong region, the three scattered teams met in Meizhou, Guangdong, and then transferred to Zhenzhou, Jiangxi, and finally broke into pieces and quietly returned to their original posts in the form of squads. It will take about ten days to go around such a big circle, after all, the roads in other provinces are not as easy to walk as Fujian is now.

However, the rest of the matter has nothing to do with the action team, and after completing this mission, I will just wait for the award after I go back. Of the 120 elite members, none of them were killed in battle, and only 10 were slightly injured in the battle, but there was no major incident. Although none of them used muskets, you must know that the squad is equipped with handcuffs, which are more powerful than the so-called Lumi guns, which are only equipped by officers of the rank of squadron leader in the army, while the squad has one for each person.

However, even if they don't use handcuffs, their melee combat ability is also first-class, and the use of crossbow arrows, another long-range weapon, is also superb, and the hit rate is very high, and later more than 200 guards of the Lu family have hundreds of people fallen under the crossbow arrows. For the action team, there is no need to use the handcuff in many cases, after all, they are acting in the dark, and the use of the handcuff is too loud, and it is immediately exposed. Crossbow arrows are different, they can basically be regarded as silent, and they are their first choice many times, so the practice of crossbow arrows is not less than the practice of marksmanship, or even exceeds!

At this moment, the courtyard of the Lu family can be described as a mess, all the guests have scattered, and no one wants to stay in this dangerous place. Most of the Lu family's servants and maidservants were also panicked, and most of them ran out of the Lu Mansion to run back to their homes. Most of them are locals of Haicheng Town, and it is convenient to run home. Some clever ones rolled up some valuable things from Lufu, gold, silver, wine and jewelry, and then ran out.

Liyue Port in Haicheng Town is indeed very close, and it took less than an hour for the horsetail soldiers stationed in Yuegang to run into Haicheng Town. There were only three hundred horsetail troops who came over, but this number was enough. A hundred men were sent to pursue the "bandits", while the rest entered the Lu Mansion and stopped the riots in the Lu Mansion courtyard. Some of the subordinates who didn't have time to run out were also guarded and stopped letting them run around. The whole Lu Mansion was quiet all of a sudden, but in the original banquet hall in the inner courtyard, the ladies and wives of the Lu Mansion were sobbing incessantly, and a dozen or so children were crying. This night, the Lu family can be said to be unable to sleep!

The 300-kilometer journey from Zhangzhou to Fuzhou took only one night to run the messenger soldiers. Fortunately, there were newly set up post offices in the coastal prefectures and counties along the way, so I changed my horse and continued to gallop towards Fuzhou despite my own fatigue. Before noon the next day, Geng Jingzhong received a report.

"Now we can clean up the smugglers, sir?" Geng Jingzhong listened to the report and found Yao Qisheng. Said with a smile.

Yao Qisheng also knew what happened. It is best to get rid of the Lu family. If the Lu family is scattered and can't get rid of it all at once, the plan will have to be postponed a little later. "Indeed, but my lord, we still have to do it on both sides at the same time. The salt production of the two salt farms in Lujiakong zhì has reached about one-third of our Fujian province. The subordinates have calculated that these two salt farms can produce 23,000 stone of salt per month, which can basically supply the people of Fujian for consumption. Therefore. We immediately took over the salt works, first controlled a large amount of salt, and then distributed it to the prefectures and counties. As for those smuggler salt dealers, exterminate them at the same time, presumably they should have at least a lot of existing salt in their hands, and to solve the problem of salt in the people's homes at this stage, it is estimated that the salt dealers will have almost enough in their hands. If it's not enough, let's transport it at the same time just as a supplement! ”

"That's a good point." Geng Jingzhong nodded after listening, he also remembered that the intelligence said that the two salt farms of Lu Jiakong could produce more than 23,000 stones of salt per month. That's a lot of table salt, but it's all coarse salt. Twenty-three thousand stones. That's about 1,400 tons, 2.8 million catties of salt. It may sound like a lot, but it's actually not much. According to the density of salt, it is about 1,200 kilograms per cubic meter, so it is only about 1,000 cubic meters when stacked together. Is a thousand cubic meters huge? Twenty meters long, twenty meters wide, and 2.5 meters high, an ordinary sand pile by the river in many places in later generations was so large.

"The salt works in several other places, let's recruit people to contact them, and take a tougher attitude. I think that after we crack down on the smugglers in various places, they will be able to react. The New Year is less than a month away, and within ten days, I will lower the price of salt in Fujian so that the people can have a good New Year. A sneer appeared at the corner of Geng Jingzhong's mouth, if those salt merchants didn't know the current affairs, they couldn't complain about him.

Yao Qisheng admires Geng Jingzhong, and Geng Jingzhong's actions are all for the consideration of ordinary people, which is also the fundamental reason why he is now desperate to serve Geng Jingzhong. "Lord Wang, my subordinates have one more thing to ask you."

"Sir, please!"

"During this time, there are many reports related to the salt works. Each of these saltworks basically has a large number of salt farmers, who cook salt for the salt works full-time, they work hard but are exploited by the salt works and salt merchants, and their income is low. When the typhoon passed through before, they were a large part of the victims. They have no land, so they can only live by drying salt and frying salt, but the price of salt collected by salt merchants is very low, so their subordinates are wondering, since we now control the two salt farms, can we increase the price of salt, so as not to let the salt farmers work in vain! Yao Qisheng can be regarded as asking for the people's life, according to his estimate, Geng Jingzhong should agree to his proposal.

"Wait, you said these salt people are frying salt?" Geng Jingzhong asked.

"Yes!" Yao Qisheng is a little strange, is there anything wrong with this, it has been like this since ancient times.

I don't know much about this Geng Jingzhong. Take the brine from sea and land, fry it in the sun, boil it in the sea, and turn the brine into salt. This salt frying requires a lot of firewood and grass, which is labor-intensive and labor-intensive. Since the Northern Song Dynasty, sea salt has been dried, but due to technical reasons, the effect is not very good, so there are still more fried salt than dried salt. Historically, it was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty that most of the Haiyan producing areas switched to the drying method, and the technology was gradually improved. It's hard to wonder why this method has been used throughout history, when frying salt is so laborious. In the southwest salt area, the surrounding trees were cut down due to salt frying, which not only caused environmental damage, but also caused the salt well to stop production due to lack of fuel. Of course, that is also a last resort, the southwest well salt production area has little sunlight, and it is impossible for the salt workers to think of letting the sun dry the salt. However, there is no shortage of light in the eastern sea salt producing areas, but the salt drying started very late, and it seems that it is not entirely a technical problem. However, the salt-drying technology of pool salt appeared very early and developed very maturely.

Before the Song Dynasty, the manufacture of sea salt was all from concoction. Sea salt is to scrape the soil and pour brine, and take the brine to burn the salt. The method and utensils of sea salt pan frying have been replaced by the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, but there is no obvious difference. According to historical records, Laoshan green salt arrived late in the 27th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, that is, in 1901, and the salt people used the method of ditch beach to change frying to drying, thus ending the history of frying salt. Therefore, as soon as Geng Jingzhong heard the word fried salt, he felt that something was wrong, what year was this technology, it was too backward, and the productivity was extremely low. No wonder looking at the pictures of the salt works in later generations, the sea salt produced by the salt works are piled up into small mountains, each of which is more than 2,000 tons, and it takes dozens of trucks to pull it several times.

"Most of this salt farm is still frying salt, isn't it drying salt?" Geng Jingzhong continued to ask.

"There is also salt drying, and the yield is not low, but it is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and there are many impurities!" Yao Qisheng followed what was said in the report and directly reported the past. As for salt production, he didn't know what was going on.

"Oh!" Geng Jingzhong responded, he probably understood that the current salt drying technology is very low, and the technology is not up to par. Salt is related to people's livelihood and is also a major source of finance in the future, which is extremely important, and we must think of ways to improve it. However, this is not difficult for Geng Jingzhong.

Even junior high school students know that the main step of drying salt in seawater is to evaporate seawater and precipitate salt grains, and that's it. As for the detailed operation in the middle, how to purify and remove impurities, etc., you need to study it slowly. But it should be easier to combine the existing technology and improve it on this basis, otherwise Geng Jingzhong's seventeen or eighteen years of books will be in vain! (To be continued......)