In the west of Alan County, the soldiers set up a recruiting platform with wooden squares, and Gao Lin beat the war drum "Dong-Dong-Dong-Dong" with both hands, and the people nearby surrounded him with curiosity

"Do you know what they're up to?"

"I don't know, if there's something you want to tell the big guy?"

"We'll find out after a while."

Gao Yuan glanced around on the recruiting platform, and the black and oppressive area was full of people who came to see the excitement: all the old and young masters have been coming to Alan County for some days, and some of you present are our local old people, and some of you are new people who have recently moved to Alan County, and we are also a family that shares weal and woe

Now the big guys almost have no source of livelihood to be idle at home, in response to the development needs of Alan County, we set up our own coastal defense battalion, ready to recruit 1,000 sailors and people who are good at water to sign up on the stage, and the specific matters will be explained to the big guy by Cheng Han Juzheng of Alan County

After speaking, Gao Yuan invited Han Juzheng to the front, Han Juzheng, who spoke in front of so many people for the first time, was a little embarrassed, and he was stumbling when he spoke, Gao Yuan slapped him violently: You can say whatever Juzheng thinks

Han Juzheng came back to his senses and coughed lightly: Let me briefly tell the big guy, the conditions for conscripting sailors and how much is the monthly salary, this recruitment of sailors is subject to the household, and only one person per household is allowed to apply for sailors, and the monthly salary is tentatively set at 500 copper coins, and after the autumn harvest next year, it will rise to one silver coin per month like the official army

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the most difficult time for Alan County, and it is also a time when we need to share weal and woe, these salaries are indeed a little little, but these are only temporary when we have money in Alan County, and we will raise the salaries to the big guys

Maybe some of you will say that only 500 copper coins want to fool us to be sailors, that is the work of hanging the head on the waist of the trousers, once you go to sea, you may encounter murderous pirates, many of the sailors may not be able to come back, but I hope you can understand a truth, that is, in this world, no one will protect you wholeheartedly, only you can protect you wholeheartedly, in other words, our Alan County is the same, only we Alan County people can protect Alan County

I, Han Juzheng, who am willing to be a sailor, am here to thank the big guy, and I also hope that you can understand Li Yang, the garrison in the north of Taizhou, and the recruitment of sailors is also to let some people have a source of livelihood

After listening to Han Juzheng's impassioned speech, people began to talk about it noisily

"There is some truth in what the county said" "Yes-but it's a soldier, it's the days of licking blood on the tip of the knife."

There were all kinds of people present, but no one came to the stage to enlist the sailors, and at this moment, Li Yang walked out of the crowd with both hands and applause: What he said is right

Yuan Kui, Guanshan and others also walked out of the crowd with their hands applauding

Li Yang walked to the recruiting platform and saluted the big guy: Some of the old and young masters who came today know me, but most of them should not know me, today I take this opportunity to sit down and introduce myself, and guard Li Yang in the north of Xiataizhou

There is a sentence in Ju Zheng just now that makes me feel very emotional, that is, the only person who can protect you wholeheartedly is yourself, Alan County and the Li family have no obligation to feed tens of thousands of people in vain, only you can feed you, only what you have earned from your hard work is the most reassuring thing, being a soldier is not only to earn money to support your family, but also to be able to protect your family from being slaughtered by foreigners

In the crowd, a thin figure shouted: I want to be a sailor

He began to jump high and wave in the distance, and finally squeezed out of the crowd to the front: I want to be a sailor

Li Yang was very surprised when he looked at this thin man: Tie Gui'er is you

Tie Gui'er whispered: Engong, I want to be a soldier, and I want to protect my mother

This sentence really stabbed everyone present in the heart, a child who is even sixteen or seventeen years old can understand the truth, we people are indeed here to be submissive, can we not even be as good as a child?

"I'm going to be a sailor" "I'm going to be a sailor too" "Count me in"

Li Yang looked helpless: Tie Gui'er, you are still too young, being a soldier is an adult's business, go back and take good care of your elderly mother

Tie Gui'er knelt on the ground with a "poof": On the day of Engong's funeral of his father's great kindness, I can't repay Tie Gui'er, thanks to Engong's great grace to take in my mother and Tie Guier, Alan County is Tie Guier's home, I want to protect my home

Listening to Tie Gui'er's words, Li Yang's eyes became a little moist, and in order to no longer lose his temper in front of the big guy, he turned his body and looked up at the sky

Gao Yuan leaned over and patted Li Yang gently: I think you will let him be a sailor, he is also the first person to apply for sailors

Li Yang held back his tears and put his hand on Gao Yuan's shoulder: There is sand in my eyes, you can take up the idea of Gao Yuan, I will go back first

After saying that, the two looked at each other and laughed loudly

"I don't know what conditions are needed for me to enlist as sailors" "Yes - we are all farmers, and we don't know if we have enough qualifications"

Gao Yuan raised his hands and waved them up and down to signal everyone to be quiet: as long as you can pick up the hundred catties of stones in front of you, and your arms can pull away this longbow and people who are good at water, you will receive uniform training at that time

The crowd of onlookers stepped forward one after another, "I'll try it", only to see him lift his trousers with both hands, walk to the stone, take a deep breath, hold the stone with both hands, and pick up the stone weighing 100 catties with a fierce effort, and the onlookers gave a thumbs up, "Good-good"

Panting, he threw the stone in his hand to the ground, grabbed the longbow on the ground with his hand, and saw that his face was flushed, gritted his teeth, sweat dripped down his face, and he shouted "Drink", the muscles of his arms burst out, and he pulled the longbow with all his might

Gao Yuan clapped his hands: Okay - as long as you are good at water, you can be a sailor

"I grew up by the river when I was a child, and I naturally didn't say anything about water."

The people watching around see that this is not difficult, anyway, there is nothing to do at home, to be a sailor no matter what, you can earn hundreds of copper coins every month, although it is not much, but you can also make up for the family, thinking of this, everyone rushed up like a tide

"I'm going to be a sailor", "Me too", "Count me in"

Gao Lin shouted softly: Don't squeeze one by one

Li Long and Li Hu were on the side to supervise whether the conscripts could lift the stones and whether they could draw the longbows, and Gao Yuan kept beckoning to the next one, and Han Ju was recording the names of the sailors on the recruiting platform

And in the Li family manor, the soldiers drove hundreds of carriages full of snow-white refined salt, stretching for miles one after another back to the manor, the residents saw so many carriages on the side of the road all full of loads, they were full of curiosity about what was in the carriage, and the residents of good faith leaned on the wooden fence and poked their heads into the manor, wanting to see what was pulled in these carriages

Wang Ruofang was sitting in front of her noodle shop and was busy picking vegetables, when she saw one carriage after another, passing by her noodle shop and walking towards the Li family's manor, she quickly stood up from the chair, wiped her hands on her clothes, and hurriedly ran into the store: Old man, come out quickly

Song Jiaping responded in the house: What's the matter, madam

Wang Ruofang pointed outside: Old man, hurry up and take a look, more than 80 carriages have entered my uncle's house, and there are more than 100 cars lined up behind

Song Jiaping came to the store and stretched out his head to look back and forth: It seems that these carriages should all go to my uncle's house, what is this kid Li Yang

Wang Ruofang raised her hand and patted Song Jiaping hard: Old man, have you forgotten, my uncle ate noodles at our house a few days ago, and you said that the current salt has risen to 100 copper coins per catty, didn't my uncle say that they wanted to make their own salt

Song Jiaping was surprised when he heard this, raised his trembling hand and pointed at the carriage: Madam, your consciousness is to say that all the salt in these carriages is there

Wang Ruofang's eyes frowned: If you go and see if it is salt, you will know, if the price of salt is so high this year, if these carriages really pull salt, then more than 2,000 people in Luolun Village will have a place to eat salt

Song Jiaping nodded slightly, a little reluctantly: Okay-then I'll go to my uncle's house to have a look

Li Song had already asked the house where the refined salt was to be stored to be cleaned, and the family members and soldiers stepped forward to carry bags of refined salt on their shoulders and put them in the house in a pile and placed them neatly

Yuan Kui shouted to the soldiers who were carrying the refined salt on their shoulders: Brothers, watch your feet and be careful not to fall

Hearing the noise coming from the manor, Heng Yan finally walked out of his room, saw that the soldiers were carrying things into the house, and there were quite a few of them, and came to Li Yang's side and asked curiously: What are these soldiers carrying on their shoulders?

Li Yang was a little surprised when he saw Heng Yan: You are finally willing to come out of the room, and they are carrying refined salt on their shoulders

Song Shiting and Xiaozhuang Xiaozhou, the two sisters, were also full of curiosity about what the soldiers were carrying, and the three of them came to Li Yang's side and played like children, and Song Jiaping walked in silently with his hands behind his back

Song Shiting shouted softly: Dad, you are here

Li Yang turned around and bowed when he heard this: Father-in-law

Song Jiaping nodded "um": Today's manor is really lively, the carriages are coming into your manor one after another, what are they carrying, it seems to be quite heavy

Li Yang looked respectful: Father-in-law doesn't hide from you that these are refined salts

Song Jiaping was surprised when he heard this: What are these refined salts, Li Yang's salt is different from refined salt, and it is impossible for you to dry so much refined salt in just a few days

Seeing that Song Jiaping was a little unconvinced, Li Yang carried a bag of salt from the carriage, put it on the ground, opened the salt bag and leaked out the sea salt as white as snow, Song Jiaping couldn't help but dip his hand into the salt bag, and then put the salt in his hand into his mouth and sipped it, "Well, it's not bad - this salt has an umami taste, it is indeed refined salt"

Li Song held a book in his hand: The boss has finished counting these refined salts, a total of 2,200 bags with a total of 220,000 catties of refined salt

Song Jiaping was stunned when he heard this number, now the coarse salt on the market grows to 100 copper coins per catty, and the refined salt is naturally more expensive, 220,000 catties, how much does it have to be sold for, watching the bags of refined salt being resisted into the house one after another, Song Jiaping wanted to be a little embarrassed to speak

In desperation, he looked at Song Shiting: Ting'er, although you are married to the Li family now, you must not forget the Luolun Village that gave birth to you and raised you

After hearing this, Song Shiting said: Dad, look at what you said

Song Shiting naturally heard the consciousness of this sentence, reached out and gently grabbed Li Yang's sleeve and dragged it, in fact, the moment my father-in-law came to the manor, I had already guessed the purpose of his coming, I didn't open my mouth just to see how Song Jiaping opened this mouth with himself, but before he actually pushed Song Shiting out, Song Jiaping actually saw through Li Yang's thoughts, which responded to the old saying Jiang is still old and spicy

Li Yang Shili: As soon as my father-in-law returned, I asked people to send 20,000 catties of refined salt to Luolun Village, father-in-law, don't think that my uncle is stingy, the remaining 200,000 catties of refined salt and 50,000 catties are kept in Alan County for their own use, and there are more than 30,000 people in Alan County who consume more than 30,000 catties of grain every day, so I am going to take 50,000 catties of refined salt to other villages to exchange for rice to alleviate it, and the remaining 100,000 catties will be sold in Taizhou City

Song Jiaping nodded with satisfaction after hearing this, Li Yang, this kid is also aware enough of Luolun Village, it's really embarrassing for him Tens of thousands of mouths in Alan County want to eat, and thousands of people up and down are still waiting for him to pay, leaking a smile: I'm just curious to come and see, you see how much you see

Li Yang: Father-in-law, this is a little bit of my heart with Shiting

Song Jiaping was a little unconscious: Then I will thank the villagers of Luolun Village, okay, you guys are busy, I'll go back

Li Yang responded: Father-in-law, then I'll send you

Song Jiaping shook his hand: No need, go get busy

In the evening, the big guys gathered in the hall with smiles on their faces, and Gao Yuan sat on a chair and crossed Erlang's legs: I didn't think that 1,000 sailors would be recruited in one day

Li Long replied from the sidelines: Yes - if it weren't for the limited quota, more soldiers could be recruited

Li Yang leaned back in his chair: Gao Yuan-Gaolin, these sailors, you first train according to the foot soldiers, starting from the basic queue-fighting technique-and how to use various weapons, and in the past few days, I will go to Master Sun and ask him to send a general who is familiar with water warfare to train these sailors

Li Song was delighted: The boss has now shipped all the refined salt that has been shipped, as long as the blacksmith shop in Taizhou City is cleaned up, we can open the shop

Li Yang nodded: The second thing has to be done quickly and cannot be delayed, Li Long-Li Hu-Da Niu-Er Niu, the four of you will take 50,000 catties of refined salt from the headquarters to the villages to exchange for rice, and 1 catty of refined salt for 10 catties of rice

Li Long-Li Hu and others responded: Young master, you can rest assured

Li Yang: Ju Zheng gave you 50,000 catties of refined salt and distributed it to the residents of Alan County by household

Han Juzheng responded: Brother Li, I will take the officials to distribute these refined salts tomorrow

Li Yang thought for a moment: Uncle brother bothered you to send some brothers to Yantian to garrison to prevent someone from secretly causing harm behind our backs

Hengqi slapped the table and slammed: If anyone dares to make us bad behind our backs, let Lao Tzu catch him and chop him alive, Kangze-Zeno will leave this matter to the two of you

Kang Ze and Zeno got up after hearing this: "You can leave the matter of the big boss to us."

Li Yang saw that everyone was a little tired: If there is nothing else, let's disperse today and go back to rest early

At dawn, Li Yang and Li Song-Song Shiting and others took more than 30 family members to the blacksmith shop in Taizhou City with a number of carriages, and 6 family members smashed down the iron-making stove with a hammer in their hands, and the family members took shovels to poke the broken bricks and clods of soil into the carriage and transported them away, Song Shiting and Heng Yan and others held linen cloth in their hands to wipe the dust and tables and chairs in the store

Li Song gave the wooden windows a new look of wax paper, Li Yang used red paint to paint the wooden windows and wooden doors, after cleaning the store was empty and looked a little deserted, everyone went to the furniture store to pick up a few decent pieces of furniture, this time the store looked much more pleasing to the eye

Li Song grinned: The boss store will open tomorrow, let's give the store a name

Li Yang looked at everyone and thought for a while: As the old saying goes, home and everything is prosperous, I think it is called home and grocery stores

Li Song clapped his hands: This name is good, I will ask the carpenter to carve the plaque overnight when I go back

The next day, with the sound of firecrackers, the home and the grocery store officially opened, and the carriages full of goods stopped in front of the store one after another, and the guys hurriedly moved the goods to the store, and there were many pedestrians who passed back and forth, but no one came to the grocery store, until the guys put bags of snow-white refined salt in front of the store

The crowd of onlookers gradually increased, but when they took a closer look at all these salts were refined salt, no one dared to take the initiative to ask about the price of salt, because now the coarse salt sold on the market costs 100 copper coins a catty, and a better job in Zhejiang can only earn 1 silver coin a month, that is to say, you can only buy 10 catties of salt a month, and this year it has caught up with the drought and the price of grain has skyrocketed

Li Song inserted a wooden card into the refined salt, and the crowd of onlookers were all surprised when they saw the wooden card, some of them pumped hard on their faces to see if they were in a dream, and some of them looked at the wooden card several times close to it, and this wooden card said "40 copper coins of refined salt a catty"

There were still some people who couldn't believe it, and finally couldn't help asking: The shopkeeper really only costs 40 copper coins per catty of salt

Li Song responded: That's right - these refined salts are indeed 40 copper coins per catty

When the onlookers heard about it, they stepped forward to grab the refined salt, for fear that they would not be able to buy such a good refined salt if they started late

"Weigh me 2 catties", "Give me 3 catties", "I want 4 catties"

Because there are too many people who buy salt, the guys can't take care of it at all, and the people who buy salt turn around and run for fear that Li Song and them will change their hexagrams, and the people who buy salt will tell them when they meet acquaintances that there is a shop over there that only 40 copper coins per catty of refined salt, and if you hurry up to buy it, you may not be able to buy it if it is late

Hearing the news is more and more people, it can be said that the whole shop is surrounded by water, the more people around to watch the excitement, some people are impatient to simply fill their own salt, weigh a pound and throw down enough copper coins to run, at this time the guys have no time to count the money, can only stand on a high place one by one to watch to prevent someone from buying salt and not giving money, Li Song threw a handful of copper coins into the store and piled up into a copper money mountain

In less than an hour, 10,000 catties of refined salt were sold, Li Song looked outside the store and saw that the onlookers were still crowded, and said to a man: You hurry back to the manor, let the people at home bring all the salt, and look at the plateau They asked them to send some troops over

When the man heard this, he hurried out, and hurried back to the manor in a hurry, and saw that there was an endless stream of people buying things in the store, Li Song and the guys were all excited and couldn't close their mouths, but this made some people unhappy

At night, everyone gathered in the hall to discuss, Li Yang leaned on the chair: The second brother opened on the first day of the shop today, how is the business, are there many people who buy salt

Li Song stood up: I said it, you may not believe it, everyone here, today we sold 50,000 catties of refined salt and a lot of ironware, just the copper coins, we pulled back 10 carts, and the housekeepers and maids in the manor are counting the copper coins in the silver treasury

Gao Yuan looked surprised: What 10 carts of copper coins, did you send someone to watch Li Song's silver treasury, if someone takes a thousand eight hundred coins, you can't see it

Li Song responded: Li Long, Li Hu, Da Niu, and Erniu took people to watch in the silver vault

The big guy chatted until late at night, and Li Long hurriedly ran in, panting and out of breath: A total of 2.5 million copper coins were sold today, totaling 2,500 silver coins

Hearing this number, Gao Yuan got up excitedly and shouted: "Okay - this money is really timely."

Yuan Kui responded: Yes, this is really a send-off

Li Yang raised his hand and scratched his head: It seems that we have to expand the salt field with Zhang Le, I will go to Taizhou Mansion tomorrow to report this matter to Lord Sun, and everyone should go back to rest early

The morning of this day was exceptionally sunny, and after a few "cluck-cluck" rooster crows, Li Yang lay on the bed and hugged Song Shiting and wanted to lie down

There was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and Li Song cried and cried "woo-woo"

"Knock Knock"

Li Yang opened the door: What's wrong with the second child, something happened to you crying early in the morning

Li Song raised his hand to wipe his tears and twitched and said: Boss, our shop in Taizhou City is gone

Li Yang's eyes wrinkled when he heard this: What the hell is going on, second brother, don't be in a hurry to say it slowly

Li Song responded: Boss, our shop was set on fire, and there were still 50,000 catties of refined salt in it, and 50,000 catties were gone

After speaking, Li Song sat down on the ground, and the corners of his mouth cried together