Chapter 15: Simple Training Cuts Off People's Wealth

Military households can't participate in the imperial examination, so no one knows how to read, everyone is a rough person, it's rare to have Yu Feng such a scholar to lead, to put it bluntly, it's rare to have such a child of a military family who is a scholar, and the son-in-law of a military household is also a child of a military family.

It's all gossip about old people and people who have started a family, but it's not the same in those young people's rumors, this Mr. Yu Yunwen Yunwu, but he is a great talent in both civil and military affairs, and he will be able to stabilize the country in the future. Let's not talk about this article, everyone doesn't know a single word, and they are more knowledgeable than others, isn't this looking for abuse? However, when it comes to martial arts, everyone is dancing with their eyebrows, I heard that Mr. Yu once killed hundreds of salt rods alone with a flat pole, and the people who followed him can also be contaminated with some martial arts, and the honest young men in Zhaojia Village each killed more than a dozen salt rods, and they used bamboo poles that can be seen everywhere.

Folklore is basically exaggerated, and this fact is profoundly reflected in the false rumors of Yu Feng's deeds.

Although there are more than 5,000 households in the Lingshan Guard, that is, more than 400 households, and the rest have been farmers for several generations, but after all, they are people who have grown up under the military system of the Guard, and perhaps there is still a factor in their bones that likes to fight with knives and guns.

There is another reason, young people are reluctant to mention it, with Yu Feng, they can eat enough every day, and there is meat to eat every few days, it is said that Mr. Yu uses the money he earns to buy food for everyone.

It's just that what makes these young people depressed is that if they want to follow Yu Feng to dry, even if they are boiling sea salt on the beach, there are several conditions to be completed, there must be a person who follows Yu Feng to introduce and guarantee, they must be able to carry a hundred pounds of burden for an hour in a row, and they have to lie on the ground and support their bodies with their hands fifty times, and they can't bend up and down, and there are some strange requirements, if the human body is not strong enough, it really can't hold on.

By the middle of July, Yu Feng's subordinates already had more than 40 salt carriers, and 50 or 60 people were also accepted for boiling salt on the beach. These salt carriers are all young people who have fully met the physical requirements set by Yu Feng, and those who boil salt and collect salt are far from the standard.

These people are buying salt goods in various villages during the day, or drying salt and boiling salt on the seaside, and now the salt goods of the Zhaojia Village family are far from satisfying the materials of Yu Feng's fine salt workshop, but these people are different from ordinary hired workers, in every morning and evening, they are trained by Yu Feng's death, modern training recruit queues, and all kinds of physical training are used by Yu Feng, if there is any difference, it is more rough stick education.

Yu Feng is holding a bamboo stick tied together with a few bamboo pieces in his hand, to see who is not standard is to whip the past, even Zhao Gui, Zhao Lai, Liu Xiaoliu These close people are no exception, these military children are just sturdy farmers, casual and accustomed, at first glance by such strict training, discipline, physical fitness and obedience, are all miserable, but it is difficult to find a place to eat a full meal in these years, plus Yu Feng is already rumored to be a god in the area of Zhaojia Village, although the training is miserable, But seeing the envious eyes of those people who couldn't enter, and seeing the silver money that was sent to their hands after selling salt every time, when they thought of these two things, they endured all the hardships, not to mention, no matter how hard they were, they could still suffer those people in Dengzhou City and Huangxian County, and they were all eaten by Kong Youdedang 'two-legged sheep'.

Now Lingshan Wei Qianhu, and some scattered households here, all by the sea are boiled and boiled salt, now these people almost know, their salt is sold to Zhaojia Village of Qianhu at this time is the most cost-effective, there are three points of silver, no arrears, no deduction.

Yu Feng can send almost 100 quintals of salt to the salt stack in Lingshan Town every month, and the money he earns is four or five hundred taels of silver, which is used to distribute dividends to the people below, as well as to provide various expenses, the cost of collecting salt, and the purchase and sale of grain to provide food for the young men below.

Zhao Zongqi is older, and his mind is more meticulous, he calculated the account for his son-in-law, even if the expenses are huge, the result is that he can still drop nearly a hundred taels of silver per month, of course, this is inseparable from the huge contribution of the fine salt workshop, if it is purely to sell coarse salt, I am afraid of these silver, the left hand in and the right hand out, basically there is nothing left. If it goes on like this, it won't take two years, and the son-in-law of the rich man in one more place in the Zhao family is just around the corner, but the silver flowing out of this white flower still makes Zhao Zongqi feel distressed, this is still a little better this year, and the food is cheap, if it is changed to the bad season of the adult year, it will cost more, spend so much money, and raise dozens of strong men in vain, and it is too wasteful to boil salt.

And a lot of work, it seems that even if it is the original dozen people to do it, what do you do to feed so many people, what do you do every day, in addition to boiling salt and drying salt, that is, boiling the body, holding a bamboo pole flat, even if it is a military training, this method is unheard of.

We sell private salt, some skills are right for self-defense, but there is no need to train so desperately, the military households in the guard house know more or less about the affairs of the army, when Qi Jiguang Qi Marshal trained elite soldiers, it was just five days of reading and ten exercises, Yu Feng, you practice every day!

The officials of the inspection department, I am afraid that they have heard some rumors, but they don't dare to come to the door when they are free, after all, Zhaojia Village, which can gather nearly 100 young and strong, has to weigh it up. In that case, don't be so nervous!

Zhao Zongqi also persuaded Yu Feng, but Yu Feng smiled and did not answer, or insisted on his own approach, Zhao Zongqi did not persuade, firstly, he believed that Yu Feng must be more complete than himself when considering things, and secondly, after all, this own business is still making money, not only did he not lose money, but his life became more popular day by day.

As for the other military families, they are too lazy to care about them, only the eldest son of a military family can inherit the family business, the second son and the third son, as military surplus, often have no place to settle, the fields are barren and do not produce much, and they always cause trouble when they eat idle meals at home, and it is a good thing to make a little money outside and eat a few meals. Moreover, following Mr. Yu to sell salt, from time to time he can get back some money to supplement the family, which is already a very happy thing for these families.

The practice there every day is in full swing, and Yu Feng has no other tricks, that is, every day he uses the training intensity of the troops to reduce the training intensity a little, and the salt transporters get more money and eat better, and those who cook salt get less money and eat less food. This, contribution and treatment are obviously proportional.

The two brothers of the Zhao family are also competitive, and they have not fallen behind among those who have been transporting salt, but these young people are very puzzled, thinking that we are just trafficking in illicit salt, why do we have to practice so hard, every day with a bamboo pole stupidly poked forward, and the bamboo pole must be flattened, not deviated. Is Mr. Yu a nerd, and he tosses us so much every day when he is idle.

Speaking of this training, there is another interesting thing, this Wu Ting, that is, Wu Yanran's brother, after his health is better, he will also participate in Yu Feng's training, but Wu Yanran is now Yu Feng's God of Wealth, how dare he put Wu Ting into his own team, in case there is a bad pool, who is it? It's good to say that Wu Ting persuaded him to go back, but Liu Xiaoliu was depressed in the workshop, envious of the movement outside, and after obtaining Yu Feng's consent, he simply changed positions with Wu Ting, that is to say, now, Wu Ting, who is the elder brother, is doing it to his sister.

However, as soon as he was a little free, Wu Ting ran out, mixed in the training team, and trained with everyone, seeing that he insisted on doing so, Yu Feng let him go, anyway, he would never take Wu Ting to transport salt goods. After all, it is also good for this businessman's son to boil his body.

The seaside of Shandong in the tenth month of the lunar calendar is already quite cold, especially at this time it is still almost dark, these young men are naked, some are standing in line there, some are running there, and some are holding bamboo poles and stabbing forward, Yu Feng sits in the middle, he is staring at the people around him to practice, who has something wrong immediately corrected it. No one knew, but there was something else on his mind right now.

Illicit salt has huge profits, so there are teams selling illicit salt everywhere, but there are not many salt farms, originally where to eat salt in Changyi and Ye County in the north of Laizhou Prefecture, they all go to Fushan Salt Farm to buy by sea, after Kong Youde's rebellion, Huangxian County and Dengzhou Mansion happened to block this section of the coastal road.

The imperial court mobilized a large army to blockade Dengzhou, and naturally blocked the coastal line, so the salt dealers all came to the Lingshan salt field to buy, and it is a little strange to say that several salt merchants in Lingshan Town did not sell to these places, and after hoarding enough salt, it was transported away by water.

In this era, it is not a trivial matter to cross the county and Yuefu, and the salt dealers in Changyi, Yexian, Pingdu, and Gaomi are all in a team of forty or fifty people, who come to buy and sell. However, in addition to the authentic official salt, the trade of private salt still mostly relies on those retail investors, Yu Feng bought salt goods in this Lingshan Wei Village, obviously cut off the root of these people, just at the beginning Yu Feng did not feel that there was anything wrong, but, yesterday the team transporting salt was attacked by a group of people, according to the people who came back, this group of people is obviously not an official errand, but the same illegal salt dealers as them, although the bamboo pole stabbed the other party to death, he did not suffer any casualties, but this incident, still let Yu Feng wake up.