Zhu Yuan still didn't eat much, and after eating half a bowl of mutton with the girls around him, he didn't move anything else.

The table was full of food and there was no waste, and through food guidance, I quickly taught the three around me to call myself 'adult', and the tone was still very standard, and at the same time I got the original names of the three girls, one Anika, one Margaret, and one Felicia.

Once again, it proves that the three daughters come from in Northeast Europe.

So he instructed the identity of the three daughters to combine Chinese and Western, Annika Wutong, Margaret Drizzle, and Felicia Diandian.

The original surname is skipped.

In addition, Drizzle is really able to write, and on the spot she dipped her fingers in water and wrote her name, Margrethe, a long string of letters.

Zhu Yuan's English proficiency was average, and he also knew that the same transliterated name of 'Margaret' was spelled differently in different Western countries and even in different historical periods, and it was even more impossible for him to know which country in Northeast Europe was spelled by his personal level.

Just one thing to confirm, this is the Latin alphabet.

Later, when people saw similar letters, their first reaction was the English alphabet.

Yes and no.

The English alphabet only used the entire 26 Latin alphabets, while the two main writing systems of early Europe, one was Latin, which belonged to the ancient Roman script earlier.

The other, in Greek, is 'alpha', 'beta', 'gama', and so on.

Hundreds of years later, the scripts of major European countries such as Britain, France, German, and Italian evolved from Latin, so it can be seen that many of the letters in their scripts are similar. As for the Greek language, which was once also prevalent, it was gradually marginalized due to the overall decline of the political, economic, and cultural aspects of the ancient Greek cultural area, and its letters were often used as representative symbols in the fields of mathematics, physics and other sciences.

After feeding the three foreign girls, and distributing the rest of the meals, Zhu Yuan did not move his nest, and directly started to write a day's work log here.

At this time, except for a few freehand, other girls of all sizes are going to be sent away.

Let the blank space who returned again accompany his own petty officials to write a diary, and come out to arrange various trivial matters.

First, there were three sycamores, according to the instructions of the little official, and arranged for the maids to bathe them, and then turned to Ling'er and other six girls who were brought over together, so they could only squeeze again, vacate a room here, and arrange the six girls on a bunk.

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Freehand is very entangled in this.

Too unseemly.

Fortunately, it will leave soon, Jinling, the house on the back lake, freehand has seen the pattern, but the mansion is 100 acres in size, many times larger than this small courtyard of more than ten acres, not only that, but the other small islands on the lake, according to the attitude of His Majesty the Emperor, are roughly their own.

When I go back, I don't have to be so crowded anymore.

It's better not to come back here.

Since she came to Mingzhou, the accommodation is crowded, and her petty officials are busy all day long, which really distresses her.

After arranging the six new girls, he thought about it for a while, and asked people to vacate a room, find He Xuan, and ask him to pick a few sturdy mothers-in-law and servants to come in, intending to let them be in charge of the vigil. My own petty officials should stay in this courtyard tonight to rest, and they are not very relieved.

Recently, I have collected so many eccentric and strange bearded girls, all in this yard, not to mention the others, just the sycamore, such a big person, even if it looks tame and obedient on the surface, but in the end, it is the Fanyi woman who came from the sky, and even the freehand heart is not that they are people, cats and dogs, they can't speak, one is not good to go crazy, I am afraid that the small size of the small fish can not be stopped.

If you hurt your own petty officials, you don't want to live.

He Xuan left to pick someone, and came to the bath room in the southwest of the courtyard again, knocked on the door, and the three Wutong had already bathed, and they were learning to brush their teeth under the guidance of the maid, but they were just ...... At a glance, Freehand frowned, criticized the warm lady who was watching here, and said: "After washing, put a robe on them, they look like people, what is it like this?" ”

The maids hurriedly found robes and put them on for the three girls.

Freehand was about to say something more, but noticed that in addition to a few word brand girls, there were two girls who mixed in to help, it was Loulan and Lihua from the courtyard here, and frowned: "Why are you two here?" ”

Lou Lan just found the robe and picked the smallest point to wrap up, and when she heard the words, she hurriedly walked over, and said: "Sister Freehand, I heard that the adult wants to sort out some things from Hu Nu, Lan'er just knows some foreign words, why don't you let the slave try it?" ”

Freehand didn't answer for a while, glanced at Nuan Niang, saw her lower eyebrows and lowered her head, and then turned to the pear blossom behind Loulan who was a little cowering: "You can also speak?" ”

Lihua hurriedly shook her head: "The slave won't ......" said and glanced at Loulan, and added in a small voice: "The slave will help with the work." ”

Listening to Lihua say this, I probably understood that the main thing was Lou Lan Nizi's thoughts, thinking about this house, that girl had no thoughts, and she couldn't stop it, so she nodded: "In this case, I will talk to the little official." ”

Then he motioned to the three bearded girls: "When the washing is finished, help them measure the size and make clothes." ”

After freehand, the scene paused briefly, and Nuan Niang realized that she was talking to herself, and quickly nodded in agreement.

glanced at Nuan Niang with a little dissatisfaction, and turned to leave.

When Freehand went out, the atmosphere here was a little more relaxed, Loulan turned around, glared at Nuan Niang, who had not helped for so long and could only fight for herself, and turned to the three Hu girls who were still clumsily brushing their teeth, and took the initiative to cover them to speak.

Nuan Niang knew that Loulan didn't know anything at all, and even if she could, she probably only learned it in recent days, but she didn't dare to expose it, so she could only acquiesce.

Returning to the West House of Minglun Hall, his own junior official had already finished writing his diary, and was flipping through a new book that had recently been ordered out by the girls in the inner house, called "Records of Clearing Grievances", which was written by an official named Song Ci in the Song Dynasty. Freehand also pays a lot of attention to this book, because, the various murders and prison sentences in it are really impressive, a group of girls are very patient to complete the school, and some people have nightmares because of this.

Thinking like this, Freehand couldn't help but remind: "Little official, don't read this book too much, it's too ...... It's ......"

I stumbled twice, and I couldn't think of a suitable adjective.

I can't say it's disgusting.

Zhu Yuan glanced at his freehand expression, shook his head with a smile: "You don't understand, this is a university question, it's just this book, when you return to Jinling, it is enough to open a single major in Jinling University, which is called forensic science." ”

Freehand actually didn't want to understand, nodded in agreement, and deliberately interrupted to talk about Loulan.

Zhu Yuan casually agreed: "Originally, this was the plan, the girls in the two courtyards, as long as they are interested, they can contact them, and whoever can better master a foreign language will be rewarded in the future." ”

Anyone can do it, so isn't that going to be messy?

Freehand didn't want a good group of girls to get in touch with that group of barbarian women, and took the initiative to quietly shrink the arrangement of their little officials in their hearts, and then asked: "Little officials, are you going to rest here tonight?" ”

"Hmm."

After receiving the confirmation answer, Freehand went to the east room to clean up the bed.

At the end of the day, not wanting He Xuan and them to urge him again, Zhu Yuan took the initiative to get up and go to wash, and then came to the bedroom.

It's cool in autumn, and there's no earth dragon here, freehand shouted in advance that the hairpin and Caisang who happened to talk at dinner warmed the bed, Zhu Yuan wanted to sleep alone, comfortable, freehand was not allowed, afraid of freezing, so he simply pulled the two little girls and left them directly, other ...... Too big only, take up space.

Serving his own petty officials to sleep, he blew out the lamp and came outside.

Qing Niang, Luo Shui and Nuan Niang and others have returned to the back yard, and they have personally gone to see it, locked the door in person, and then returned here, in addition to the two warm beds around their own little officials, freehand and blank, and a certain sack girl, who will sleep outside the bedroom.

Mostly sack girls.

The strength is great, and it is reassuring to look at.

Then he looked around, and then locked the small door of the courtyard here, and checked the various houses, especially the mother-in-law and servant who He Xuan picked to keep vigil, and explained carefully, before going to wash, returned to the main house, and also locked the door, looked at the time, it was almost Haizheng, and finally fell asleep.

The next day was the sixth day of September.

Freehand knows that there are a lot of things to do with his own petty officials today, so he gets up early as usual.

Leaving only the small fish in the outer room, freehand and blank space to start the busy day, until the daylight, with the young lady who made breakfast they returned here, told them to go to the West House, freehand with blank space to the east room bedroom, just opened some curtains, faintly heard a coquettish voice that seemed to be somewhat familiar: "...... Dad, the slave has a sister ......"

Is it a repeat of yesterday?

Freehand didn't speak, and the blank space that came over this time had already whispered: "Wave hooves......"

Turning his head and glaring blank, he waited for a small passage in the room to finish, and then deliberately opened the curtain to enter the door with some movement, and did not drive away Cai Sang and the hairpin next to him who happened to be entangled in his own petty official, pretending not to know anything and serving his petty official to get dressed and get up.

It's just a small episode, the girls are so coquettish, Zhu Yuan had breakfast, so he casually ordered someone to pick up Sister Caisang.

Then start the day's work.

The first thing is the idea made yesterday, Zhu Yuan recruited Liu Lian, Yao Feng and Fang Li, the three camp sea officials, and directly announced their decision, Yao Feng and Fang Li have no opinion, what the adults say, they will do it, Liu Lian does not agree, and also refutes Zhu Yuan's previous arguments, if it is all official arrests, without civilian arrests as supplements, it will lead to the rigidity of the industrial system, balabala.

Zhu Yuan directly dismissed it.

Liu Lian was asked to prepare the document and promulgate it this morning.

After arranging this matter, he casually talked to Yao Feng about the movable mold of the tile maker and asked him to deal with it, and then there was another meeting to discuss the establishment of a fish distribution channel.

In the past few months, the fish caught in Mingzhou was mainly supplied to the front army in addition to its own consumption.

However, Zhu Yuan understood from the beginning that this matter could not last.

Forget it this year, by next year, the army will not be able to eat so much, so while continuing to supply himself and the army, Zhu Yuan must distribute the excess fish.

Speaking of which, during the discussion, it was found that the biggest difficulty in this matter was not the establishment of the distribution channel itself, but the ...... Salt!

According to the standard set before, the finished fish catch processed by Yinghai Division basically contains one-tenth of the weight of salt, that is to say, 10 catties of salted and grilled fish will probably have 1 catty of salt in it.

At present, the retail price of salt is 30 wen a catty, in comparison, according to the consistent price of a stone of grain, Yinghai Division basically defaults to a load of fish is equal to a stone of grain, and a load of fish is 100 catties, which is equivalent to 10 wen yuan a catty, of which 1 catty has nearly 2 taels of salt.

Don't forget, a pound is 16 taels in this era.

Counting 2 taels of salt, the price is 6 yuan, and the rest of the fish catch, according to 10 yuan a catty, the value can only be counted as 4 yuan.

Definitely not.

All in all, it's a big question.

Yinghai Division distributes retail fish to the private sector, and the price is set high, which affects the sales volume, and if it is set too low, it will interfere with the salt price and even affect the salt tax.

Therefore, the specific terminal retail price in the future, 10 Wen a catty is definitely impossible.

After some discussion, Zhu Yuan made a final decision, directly doubled, 20 Wen a catty, try to see it first, and then adjust it according to the situation in the future.

As for the possible impact on the salt business......

Zhu Yuan felt that the salt and iron monopoly system, which had been tried for more than 1,000 years since the Han Dynasty, should also be changed.

Zhu Yuan believed that after returning to Jinling, he would explain the reason to Lao Zhu, and his ancestors would not insist, after all, he could not affect the entire grand strategy of operating the ocean for the sake of a salt tax of only one or two million taels a year.

Of course, just like banning private sea fishing, doing so will definitely offend a group of people.

From the salt transportation system to the large number of salt merchants along the coast.

Zhu Yuan actually considered pushing the country into a new era without touching the existing interest structure system. It is precisely because of this that the land has not paid attention to the ocean for thousands of years.

Unexpectedly, there are still some things that can't be escaped.

It's just that in response to that sentence again, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

Can't hide.

After this meeting and some other affairs were handled, Zhu Yuan hurried to the east wharf of Dinghai City.

Southerly wind today.

This year's eighth batch of seaborne grain ships will officially go to sea in the afternoon.

This is basically the last batch of the year.

Next, the north wind gradually increased, it was not suitable to send grain to the north, otherwise, the fleet was likely to be blown in the opposite direction, in fact, the previous seventh batch encountered a similar situation, the north wind blew on the sixth day of the sea, and the fleet had to lower the sails and fall on the anchor, waiting at sea for four days.

It took 26 days for the seventh batch of grain ships to arrive in Zhigu.

That's right.

The seventh batch did not go to Jiaozhou again, but went straight to the sale.

At the moment, the Battalion Sea Division was ready to arrive at its destination for at least a month, and even, if the wind was not in the right direction for a long time, the captain of the fleet could act cheaply and turn west and land directly.

In any case, counting this batch, throughout this year, the Yinghai Division and the Navy Governor's Office sent a total of 2.2 million stone of grain to the north, including 1.6 million quintals of grain and 600,000 quintals of fish. These grains not only ensured the ration supply of the army at the front, but also allowed Lao Zhu to provide relief to the victims very generously, and then more quickly stabilized the turbulent situation in the northern provinces after the military disaster.