Chapter 4: The Knower Doesn't Say Anything Young People Are Tempted

Yu Feng wanted to nod reservedly, and then said lightly: "I know a little bit about it!" However, now is not the time to pretend to be a big-tailed wolf, so he replied honestly: "I heard Xue Niang mention it!" ”

"I was busy working at the beach, no, you're here, Dad called us back!" Da Lang scratched his head and showed a sincere smile.

"Oh!" Yu Feng looked very interested, "I haven't seen how to boil salt yet, can Da Lang take me to take a look and open my eyes!" ”

Da Lang set his eyes on his father, and when he saw his father nodding, he naturally replied without hesitation: "Of course, it's not far away anyway!" ”

Yu Feng turned his face to his father-in-law, and the old man didn't wait for him to speak, he waved his hand very generously, "Go, go, don't delay coming back for dinner!" ”

In the old man's opinion, it is naturally good for this scholar to read more and learn more, and to gain more knowledge, not to mention that this is still his own thing, and his son-in-law will look at it, so it will naturally be fine. So, I happily promised, besides, if I don't find something to do for my son-in-law, the two of them are sitting here, staring at each other with big eyes, it's really embarrassing, it's not enough to talk about poetry and songs with my son-in-law or something! Then you have to understand it yourself!

On the long beach, dozens of meters apart, there is a big iron pot, the pot is steaming hot, and the firewood is burning brightly below. Next to each pot, there is a person watching the fire, holding a wooden stick from time to time, stirring it in the pot!

This is boiling salt, and it's really boiling seawater in a pot, and this method is too primitive. When Yu Feng saw the scene in front of him, his first reaction was to fall behind, according to this level, how many points could be cooked that day! He even calculated according to the standards of later generations, according to the daily salary of one person, if two people boil salt, then at least two hundred catties of salt must be boiled to recover the cost.

"How much salt can you boil in a day?" Fang Li asked the two brothers-in-law beside him.

"If you don't stop the fire, you can cook ten catties a day!" Zhao Dalang next to him said proudly, "Our pot is big, and sometimes it can cook fourteen or fifteen catties!" ”

It's only fourteen or fifteen pounds, so you have to be like this? If you see the salt wells with a capacity of dozens of tons an hour in modern times, you don't know what to do! Yu Feng despised his complacent brother-in-law, and asked, "What is the price at which the inspection department purchased your salt goods!" ”

"It is said that it is three cents of silver, but after the salt tax, it is only about two cents of silver!"

Yu Feng quickly converted it in his heart, a load of one hundred and eighty catties can be sold for two cents of silver, that is to say, almost a pound of a big penny, that is to say, two green laborers, busy for a day, the income is similar to Xue Niang going up the mountain to cut two loads of firewood and selling, but he clearly remembers that Xue Niang's firewood salary is sold for four big bucks.

Zhao Dalang frowned slightly when he saw him, and he didn't know what he was thinking, so he said to himself, "That is, this year, the inspection department has changed an inspection, and the price of everyone's salt goods has been desperately lowered, and in the past, it could be sold for three or four cents of silver!" ”

"Could it be that the inspection department is collecting salt goods?" Yu Feng asked, if only the inspection department collects it, then where does the salt goods of those smuggling salt dealers come from, they can't cook the salt themselves!

Sure enough, Zhao Dalang hesitated, or he felt that he was not an outsider around him, and said: "I heard that there is a salt farm in Lingshan Town, but there are people who sell salt there, but the road is a little farther, and the salt Ding of the inspection department on the road is strictly investigated, and everyone is unwilling to take this risk!" ”

On the way back, Fang Li had a bottom in his heart, since there was a salt farm, it was naturally a salt goods trade, and if it wasn't good, the salt goods purchased by the Inspection Division were also directly sold to the salt farm, and the price difference earned from it, this Zhaojia Village is far from Lingshan Town, not to mention thirty or forty miles away, if the price difference is not big, but no one is really willing to do this risky business.

Back home, the meal has been prepared, a table of seafood, Yu Fengdeng's index finger moved, this is a pure natural and pollution-free seafood feast, if you put it in front of yourself, there are no thousands of pieces, you can't take it down at all, the funny thing is that the half catty of pork you brought, but it is placed in the middle of the table, obviously, in the eyes of your father-in-law's family, I feel that this pork is much more decent than this seafood, and what is more surprising is that there is a pot of wine on the table, it seems that this old man entertains his son-in-law, and it is really a cost.

During the banquet, Yu Feng asked the old man about the doubts in his heart, obviously, Zhao Zongqi knew a lot more than his two sons, when he learned that the merchants in Lingshan Town, the salt goods received a penny and two taels of silver, Yu Feng couldn't help but ask strangely: "In this case, why don't you gather the salt goods in the village and sell them all over there, it's much better than selling them to the inspection department!" ”

Zhao Zongqi glanced at Yu Feng strangely: "If you are caught by someone from the Inspection Department, you will be beheaded directly!" Between his words, he seemed to be laughing at his son-in-law for being a bit bookish.

Yu Feng sighed slightly in his heart, sure enough, this military household that was bound to the land, the blood in his bones, has been almost polished, the so-called poor people of the inspection department are at best just local paramilitary forces, a mixture of some government servants and local ruffians and hooligans, this military household, but professional soldiers, a group of professional soldiers, are still afraid of these halfway monks, it is a joke to say it. He remembered that in the early days of reform and opening up, those military vehicles were smuggled, but they were very strong, and if you dared to stop the car in your place, the soldiers on the car dared to point a gun at you.

He stumbled, but he didn't notice that the two brothers-in-law beside him had a light in their eyes, thanks to Yu Feng's blessing, they knew for the first time that the price of salt in Lingshan Town was so high, and when the two of them were eating, they were constantly spinning, thinking about how much silver they could sell for a month's worth of salt in Lingshan Town.

This situation was a bit unexpected by Yu Feng, it turned out that not all people were unwilling to earn more money, but those who knew about the situation did not dare to go, and those who had a little courage did not know the news. In ancient times, the transportation was underdeveloped, and there were many people who never left their hometowns all their lives, and the living range of most people, that is, the appearance of a radius of one or twenty miles from their own place of residence, if the deputy village chief like Zhao Zongqi did not convey similar information, it was impossible to rely on these people to inquire about this information themselves.

Needless to say, how other people reacted, that's another matter, it's obvious that these two brothers-in-law are tempted. Yu Feng knew that the reason why the two of them were tempted was very simple, after dinner, when they were strolling around the neighborhood under the pretext of eating, the two brothers-in-law took the initiative to find the door.

"Brother-in-law, did you say that the salt goods over there in Lingshan Town can really receive a penny and a load of silver?" The ancients were precocious, although this man was only fifteen years old, he looked no different from an adult, except that his body was a little thin because of long-term malnutrition, and he was a good man without looking at his childish face. At the very least, Yu Feng can't compare to him.

"My father-in-law must be right when he says that!" Yu Feng replied slowly, seemingly not caring at all.

"We still have more than two loads of salt in our family, isn't this more than two taels of silver?" Next to him, Jiro interjected. This Da Lang Erlang is the name of the family, the two still have big names, just like what people are named Husheng now, Hong Kong or something, the names of the two also have a reason, Da Lang is called Zhao Deng, Erlang is called Zhao Lai, the reason is very simple, in the two years they were born, Zhao Zongqi ran in two places in the old to Denglai, Ping Bailian!

"Yes, brother-in-law, you see, if we hide from our father and sell this salt for silver, my father doesn't know how happy he will be?" Zhao Deng is a military household who has made up for his registration, and his courage is obviously a little bigger than ordinary people, it stands to reason that Zhao Lai is more appropriate to say this, after all, one household and one ding, Zhao Lai is just a military surplus, no matter how many years the military salary of the guard is down, there is no Zhao Lai's name on the roster. Generally speaking, if they are not willing to eat and wait for death, they often go to extremes and like to take risks.

"No, didn't you listen to your father-in-law? Caught and going to be killed? Yu Feng threatened, even if he really has this thought, it is absolutely impossible to hide it from Zhao Zongqi, if he abducts other people's sons to do this murderous deed, even if it is half a son, I am afraid that Zhao Zongqi will have to turn his face with himself.

"Actually, Dad has long been tempted, but he can't pull off that face, Dad has fought a hundred battles in the south, a few poor people, where will he put it in his eyes, but for the selfish interests of his own family, he is afraid of affecting everyone!" Or Zhao Deng knows his father better, in fact, anyone can calculate this account, cook a month's worth of salt, send it to Lingshan Town, earn more than the previous year, the life of the family is hard haha, who doesn't want to do it with this way.

"And what do you mean?" Yu Feng asked deliberately.

"Brother-in-law, tell your father, even if it's not your own family, who doesn't have a few relatives and friends, this is a good thing for everyone! Dad values you so much, he will never refute your face! Zhao Deng said his plan, in his opinion, Yu Feng is a rather weighty lobbyist.

Yu Feng couldn't help but glance at Zhao Deng, only to see that Zhao Deng's slightly childish face showed a shrewdness that was extremely incommensurate with his age, which made Yu Feng Deng look up to him a few points higher, yes, and he also knew that he had kidnapped other relatives and friends to change his old man's opinion with righteousness, and by the way, he also wrapped himself in.

However, this is also an excuse for Yu Feng, if he discusses it with his father-in-law so directly, the father-in-law will inevitably wonder if he has any intentions, but if he knows that it was his son who picked up his uncle, even if it happens in the future, he can't blame Yu Feng's head.