Chapter 43: Peeling Back the Thread
Liu Ziqiu frowned and said, "What's wrong?" ”
Wei Zheng said: "With this letter, it makes sense for the Yang family to hand over the operation of the salt farm to Changshan Village. But have you thought about it, why did Yang Xuangan write this letter? ”
Liu Ziqiu laughed and said, "Whatever, as long as you can get back the salt farm!" ”
Wei Zheng shook his head and said, "Who in the village understands the operation of the salt farm?" Does Li Xian, the salt farm manager, listen to the Yang family or you? Who is in the hands of the salt market? ”
This last question is the most fatal. Since ancient times, salt has been monopolized, and no matter how much salt is produced, if there is no sales certificate from the imperial court, it can only be private salt.
Liu Ziqiu nodded and said, "Not bad!" Changshan Village does not have the ability to control the salt farm, which actually belongs to the Yang family. But so what? Our goal is only to take what we deserve, and that's enough. ”
Wei Zheng said: "No! If it hadn't happened the other day, this would have been a good result. Even if you kill Yang Heihu, if you don't intimidate Yang Jishan anymore, there is still room for negotiation in the end. But now, it's a different story. The Yang family can drive Changshan Village out of the salt field at any time, can you really kill Yang Jishan then? ”
Liu listened to Brother Wei's words and paid attention. That's why he didn't directly hurt Yang Jishan, but he still didn't think it through, and the responsibility did lie with Liu. ”
Liu Ziqiu's voice lowered. He was indeed a little arrogant last night, the energy possessed by a behemoth like the Yang family was not something he could compete with, and if he was impulsive, it was likely to bring ruin to Changshan Village.
Wei Zheng was very satisfied with Liu Ziqiu's courageous attitude of taking responsibility, his expression eased, and said: "So, we have to find out why Yang Xuangan did this." ”
Liu Ziqiu was overjoyed and said, "Mr. has a plan? ”
Wei Zheng said with a smile: "Yang Xuangan's purpose in doing this is to make outsiders think that Changshan Village is the owner of the salt farm, at least in name. ”
"Not bad! He is going to use Changshan Village as a shield. ”
Wei Zheng said again: "It is said that with the status of the Yang family, running a salt farm is not a big deal. So what is Yang Xuan afraid of? And who would make him afraid? ”
"Hehe, at least it's not that you're afraid of me." Liu Ziqiu smiled self-deprecatingly, suddenly woke up, and said, "He's afraid of the emperor!" ”
"Not bad! With the status of the Yang family, if there is anyone who can make them afraid, it must be the current saint. Which powerful person doesn't have a few industries? Don't do bad things, don't be afraid of ghosts calling the door. Why is Yang Xuangan afraid that the emperor will know? It shows that he has an ulterior secret in running this salt factory! ”
Wei Zheng's analysis has gradually approached the truth of the matter.
Liu Ziqiu groaned: "As long as you master this secret, you may be forced to force the Yang family to completely hand over the salt farm......"
"No, you're wrong!" Wei Zheng interrupted Liu Ziqiu's words and said, "The power of Changshan Village will never be able to confront the Yang family, so the wisest choice for you now should be to show favor to the Yang family!" ”
"Showing favor to the Yang family?"
"Yes, Changshan Village only needs to receive 20% of the dividends, and the rest will be given to the Yang family!"
Liu Ziqiu suddenly understood why Xiao Xin agreed to pay dividends at the rate of three to five. For the people of Changshan Village, the most important thing is to be able to live a stable and prosperous life. Liu Ziqiu couldn't help but hesitate: "But this secret ......"
Didn't he say it at the end of his letter? It's a big deal. Wei Zheng smiled, "What is the big deal, and I'm worried that the emperor will know?" The only way to rebel! ”
……
Yang Xuangan, who was far away in Luoyang, suddenly sneezed.
A scribe sitting across from him smiled, "The weather is getting cooler, Brother Xuangan should also add more clothes." ”
"It's nothing." Yang Xuangan groaned: "It's just that Yang has never been able to make up his mind about that matter, so I want to ask Pushan Gong to discuss it." ”
It turned out that this young scribe was Li Mi, one of Yang Guang's waiting officials, who took his father's title and was the Duke of Pushan County, and he had always been good friends with Yang Xuangan.
Li Mi brushed his beard and said: "Brother Xuangan, do you think those mud legs can succeed?" ”
Yang Xuangan frowned and said: "But Lu Mingyue asked someone to bring a message, saying that the Xie family and the Wang family in Jiangnan agreed to raise the flag to respond. The two families of King Xie are big families in the south of the Yangtze River and are quite popular. If Shandong and Jiangnan are in chaos at the same time, and the imperial court is difficult to take care of, it must be redeployed to clear it, but the opportunity is very good! ”
Li Mi said disdainfully: "There will be more opportunities like this in the future." Brother Xuangan's plan has been less than a year, so why rush it. ”
Yang Xuangan said: "If we are unified today, if we don't take advantage of the civil turmoil, the soldiers and horses of the imperial court will not be mobilized easily, where is the opportunity?" ”
"Yang Guang is so happy, there is no civil strife, you can persuade him to use troops abroad!"
"Foreign troops?" Yang Xuangan shook his head and said, "Pushan Gong followed Yang Guang's northern tour, didn't he see Qimin Khan personally weeding His Majesty?" ”
"The Turks can't use soldiers, so what about Tuyuhun? What about Tiele and Goguryeo? ”
Yang Xuan felt a sense of enlightenment and said: "Chao Chinese Wuduo is a general under his father, and there are many people who are good friends with a certain person, so he should try his best to say it and persuade His Majesty to go on an expedition." ”
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Liu Ziqiu knew that Yang Xuangan did rebel in history, but it should have been when Yang Guanger conquered Goguryeo. Unexpectedly, Wei Zheng deduced that Yang Xuangan had an objection based on just a letter from his family, and Liu Ziqiu couldn't help but be impressed by this most prestigious minister in history, it turned out that he was not only an upright person, but also a wise and resourceful person.
"People respect me, I respect people. I have no opinion on reconciliation with the Yang family. Liu Ziqiu hesitated, "But, the Yang family's Gaomen compound, can my people enter?" ”
Wei Zheng smiled: "You can't get in, someone can get in." ”
Liu Ziqiu suddenly said: "You mean Li Xian!" ”
When Li Xian got the news, he was overjoyed, and immediately repaired a letter and ordered Pegasus to send it to Luoyang, which arrived a day earlier than Yang Jishan. It was precisely because of Li Xian's letter that Yang Xuangan scolded Yang Jishan. Yang Jishan had no choice but to temporarily press the idea of revenge, and Changshan Village could finally live a stable life for a few days.
But since then, Liu Ziqiu has never arranged for villagers to work in the salt works. Since the actual control of the salt works was still in the hands of the Yang family, why did he let the villagers do coolies? It is enough to get a dividend of 20% every month, which is also negotiated in the new agreement.
Li Xian is also very happy, he is a very dedicated person and has many ideas of his own for the salt farm. Now, there is no one above to dictate him, and he can carry out the construction of the salt works in a big way according to his own ideas, and the salt works have been further developed.
Dongyue's dividends were returned, although it was only 20%, it was a full 1,200 taels, much more than in the past. Liu Ziqiu still continued the rules set by Xiao Xin, each household was divided into three taels, and the rest was used as the village for public use.
It is easy to do things with money, and within a few days, the primary school hall in Changshan Village was built. Liu Ziqiu also asked Uncle Li and the third aunt to go around the city and buy the rest of the money into paddy fields. A good paddy field is 20 taels per mu, and 50 acres can be bought. Liu Ziqiu knows that after all, it is an agrarian society, and only by saving more money and buying hundreds of acres of land can the villagers have a stable source of livelihood.
After the school was built, Liu Ziqiu immediately announced that all boys and girls under the age of 12 in the village must go to the school. The young men and teenagers in the village were divided into two groups. The young men were in charge of the daily guards of the village, and the forty-eight teenagers were organized by Liu Ziqiu to train during the day and read at night.
Except for a steel knife that Liu Ziqiu took from Yang Heihu, there was not a single real weapon in the village. However, Liu Ziqiu is not in a hurry, he is now mainly engaged in queue and physical training, and the other is the three items of grappling boxing, military physical boxing and bamboo gun assassination. But Liu Ziqiu pays special attention to actual combat, and every afternoon he will spare an hour for the teenagers to either catch and fight, or fight in groups. The actual combat training is very realistic, and teenagers are injured almost every day, but Liu Ziqiu refuses to relax for a moment.
Another piece of training is riding. Liu Ziqiu brought back five horses from Jiangdu and asked everyone to take turns to practice. The teenagers were most interested in horseback riding, and now it was hard for the five horses, and the people could rest, but the horses did not rest. These five horses were not good horses, and one of them died of exhaustion in only two days. Liu Ziqiu had no choice but to reduce the time for riding training.
Not only was Ma tired and fell, but Liu Ziqiu found that the teenagers were also starting to be listless. After asking, I learned that these teenagers only eat green vegetable porridge at home every day. Teenagers are growing up, and if they don't have enough nutrition, how can they afford high-intensity training? Liu Ziqiu immediately decided to gather the teenagers together to eat, ensure that there is meat for each meal, and add an egg every morning.
The silver taels that are common in the village have already been put to use, and they can only use the money that Liu Ziqiu received from Xu Tingfu. The daily food of the forty-eight teenagers is a huge expense, and the money is spent like water, which can make Gao Xiu'er feel distressed.
However, in this way, the effect was also immediate, only five or six days of hard work, the mental condition of the teenagers has changed greatly, one by one they are alive and vigorous, boxing, assassination, all of which have been done impressively.
Everything seemed to be gradually becoming more formal, except for one thing, when it was time to read at night, the teenagers were all yawning, far worse than the children of the day. Wei Zheng's voice was hoarse, and the teenagers didn't listen much.
After suffering for half a month, Wei Zheng finally couldn't bear it anymore and found Liu Ziqiu to complain: "I really can't teach them, and the evening classes will stop in the future." ”
Liu Ziqiu's grades were average when he was in school, but he knew the importance of reading, and unceremoniously refused: "That's not good, you have to teach." ”
"Why?" Wei Zheng was puzzled, "Aren't you already in contact with buying land?" They will be farming anyway in the future, and not all of them will be the same if they are illiterate or not. ”
Liu Ziqiu waved his hand and said, "I think they are my brothers and family, they can't farm for the rest of their lives!" ”
Wei Zheng suddenly laughed and said, "I knew you weren't that simple, now you can tell me what your plans are!" ”
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