"Actually, I don't think there's any need to worry about going to the venue."

Slightly on top of the bumpy carriage, Chu Ze successfully got into their thief car under the semi-kidnapping of the two brothers, Zhu Di and Zhu Zhen.

And looking at the two Zhu Di brothers who were in high spirits and even a little too excited, Chu Ze silently reached out and pressed his stomach.

"You two bastards, why don't you wait for me to have a meal?"

Chu Ze, who hadn't eaten dinner yet, had already begun to rumble in his stomach at this time.

However, in this regard, Zhu Di just patted him on the shoulder indifferently.

"It's just one less meal, it's not a big problem, didn't my sixth child and I haven't eaten all afternoon today. Walk around, you are about to reach the city gate, and the road after leaving the city may be a little difficult to walk. ”

Chu Ze, who was already in a somewhat depressed mood, suddenly wanted to kill these two bastards after hearing Zhu Di's words.

You didn't eat it, can't you let me eat it first?

When the carriage left the gate of Nanjing City, Chu Ze really realized that what Zhu Di said was a little difficult to walk, what did he mean.

The road was uneven, and the carriage had to jump at least four or five times for every meter it advanced.

Several times, Chu Ze, who was sitting on the carriage splints, was almost thrown off directly because of the bumps.

When he finally arrived at the place, Chu Ze felt as if his whole person was about to fall apart.

"Next time I won't come out with you again, even if I kill you, I won't come."

As soon as he arrived at the place, Chu Ze got off the carriage and sat directly on the grass.

The muscles in his body were excessively jolted, causing him to move casually, and his whole body was sore.

"You can't do it! You see, we all came in a carriage together. I don't have anything to do with the sixth child. ”

"Otherwise, come with me to the barracks for training tomorrow, at most half a month, your body will definitely be much stronger than now." What's the matter, do you want to go? ”

"Roll"

Looking at Zhu Di, who was gloating after jumping off the carriage, Chu Ze grabbed the clod of soil on the side and threw it directly towards the other party.

However, it was a pity that he was in pain at this time, as if he had run ten kilometers in one go.

The clod of soil thrown out of his hand was completely lethal, and Zhu Di easily dodged it.

"Okay, okay, the place that Lao Liu and I chose is a little bit ahead, and we also asked people to clean up a place over there, and made a roast leg of lamb in advance. Let's go over and eat first. ”

"You still have a little conscience, and you know to give me something to eat."

After being helped up from the ground by Zhu Di, everyone walked forward with a large number of guards, and Chu Ze also observed the surroundings.

The ground was littered with huge bare rocks, and the weeds around them were a little yellow.

Just by looking at it, you can tell that it is malnourished.

This place is indeed not suitable as a land for growing food.

The surrounding terrain is barely level, and it doesn't take much effort to lay a solid foundation.

The terrain is also higher than the surrounding area, and if the river is at high tide, this location is not easy to flood.

After observing the surroundings for a while, Chu Ze couldn't help but nodded.

If you build a bullet manufacturing yard here, it won't be impossible.

After all, only boilers and stamping equipment are needed here.

It is close to the river, and the flow of this river seems to be not small.

It only takes one drainage truck to replace manpower with water.

"Well, the location we chose is still suitable, right? Today, I ran with Lao Liu all over the upstream and downstream of this radius of more than a dozen. Only this place is the most suitable, and do you see the mountain bag next to it? ”

"That mountain is full of poisonous salt ore veins, and where the poisonous salt ore exists, the surrounding area is basically not suitable for growing crops, so if we build an ammunition production field in this place, it will basically not disturb the cultivation of the people!"

"This place is made for us."

After Zhu Di noticed that Chu Ze nodded from time to time, he also began to boast of his great achievements.

Although this guy is a little underwhelmed when he speaks, I have to say that the place he chose is really good.

However, compared to the site they chose, what made Chu Ze more curious was the poisonous salt mine in Zhu Di's mouth.

"You mean that the mountains over there are all salt mines?"

After seeing Chu Ze pointing to a mountain not far from the site they chose, Zhu Di also looked in the direction of his finger.

Then he turned around and nodded affirmatively.

"We've had people do a rough survey, and there's only a few shrubs like fern nettles and ducks growing around the mountain, and they're sick, so you know it's a poisonous salt mine."

But after hearing Zhu Di's affirmative words, Chu Ze's eyes couldn't help but narrow slightly.

Salt veins!

How did he forget about it?

"When you buy the venue, take down the mountain bag as well."

"It's not. You don't mean to tell me that you want to sell those poisoned salts as table salt! ”

"No, this thing is absolutely impossible. If my father and eldest brother knew, my fourth brother and I wouldn't be able to eat and walk around. ”

When he heard that Chu Ze was going to let them take down the poisonous salt vein, Zhu Di looked at Chu Ze with some horror, frowning to make sure if he had said the wrong thing.

And Zhu Zhen on the side shook his head directly and frantically at this time.

He privately formed a caravan, and if his father knew about it, he would be beaten at best.

But if he dared to sell this life-threatening poisoned salt as table salt.

If his father knew, maybe he might be beaten to death in a fit of rage!

So this thing is absolutely not to be done.

In particular, if the poisonous salt is sold as salt, the people are not stupid.

Just taste it and you can taste the difference.

To do this kind of thing is a thankless stupid thing.

He didn't do it.

"This thing is Baoshan, the reason why you call it poisonous salt is because you don't know how to operate it."

"This salt mine is a good thing, there can be such a small salt mine here that is almost open-pit... It's simply a mountain of gold. ”

"Ask someone to get some pieces and bring them back. I'll show you how to get it later. ”

"If I had known there was a salt mine here."

Chu Ze originally wanted to say that if he had known that there was a salt mine here, Zhu Di would not have to worry about money before, he would directly take down this salt mine, and then directly mine the salt mine to exchange for money.

Not to mention an ammunition field, even ten can be built!

But halfway through this, he found that it seemed that it was a little inappropriate to say such things at this time.

After all, everyone Zhu Zhen has already entered the game, so at this time, isn't it pure disgusting to him?

So after Chu Ze said something halfway, he hurriedly forcibly reversed his words.

"If I had known that there was a salt mine here, I would have asked your eldest brother to get me some back in advance, so that I could get the salt out."

"When the time comes, there will be mineral salt as economic income, and the funds on my test site will not be gradually tightened!"

After the conversation changed, Chu Ze didn't forget to glance at Zhu Di and Zhu Zhen on the side.

"Isn't the Ming Dynasty resuming production all the time? Why is your eldest brother's finances still tight? I've been spending a lot of money these days, though. But it's not like you can't afford to feed me, right? ”

After hearing Chu Ze ask about these tax matters, Zhu Di directly spread his hands.

Asking him about this kind of thing is simply asking in vain.

He wasn't interested in these things himself, so he seldom cared about them.

And Zhu Zhen on the side, compared to Zhu Di, who is full of wars, is a little more reliable.

He hesitated slightly before speaking.

"The main thing is that my father wants to encourage scholars to gain fame and fame, so that students all over the world can be used by my Ming Dynasty. Therefore, a rule was set that anyone who had meritorious service on his body was exempt from paying taxes and without having to serve as a servant. ”

"Originally, it was nothing at first, but in recent years, there has been a clear downward trend in the taxes of the imperial court, although it is very small, but it is obvious."

"In recent years, there have been many disasters in various places, and the national treasury has basically been busy providing money for disaster relief. This caused the eldest brother to be slightly nervous. ”

“.”

When Chu Ze listened to Zhu Zhen's words, he was a little speechless for a while.

Those who have meritorious service on their bodies are exempt from taxes and forced labor.

He actually forgot about it!

After being mentioned by Zhu Zhen like this, he remembered the rules of Lao Zhu's another pit of dead people.

Those who have meritorious service are exempt from paying taxes.

This privilege of the reader can be said to be a completely related matter.

Especially during the Ming Dynasty

The imperial court vigorously encouraged the folk scholars to take the imperial examination.

Then after these people have achieved fame, the first major life event they need to experience is to be robbed of their son-in-law!

That's right, it's a robbery.

Literal grab.

Many wealthy businessmen and gentry will arrange for people to wait at the place where the list is released, and once they know who has won the fame, they will snatch this person home as soon as possible, and then worship the church to get married.

The fundamental reason for this phenomenon is not how favored and sought after by the rich people who have gained fame.

Rather, if there is a son-in-law who has a meritorious name in the family, a large amount of land can be attributed to him.

In this way, these lands are legally and reasonably exempt from taxes.

So this also caused two problems.

The first is because of the value and snatching of these rich businessmen and tycoons, resulting in the identity and status of people who use their fame and fame gradually being touted higher and higher.

It's almost completely above the rest of the professions, too much.

The second problem is that as time goes by, more and more land is incorporated into the names of these meritorious people.

The more taxes are exempted, the fewer taxes the court can collect.

And once there is an emptiness in the imperial treasury, then the most likely thing to happen is to increase taxes.

And these increased taxes were also distributed among those who had paid their taxes honestly.

Once these people find out that a year of farming is not even enough to pay taxes.

They will sell the land at a low price and become tenants.

And these lands, naturally, eventually fell into the hands of those who did not have to pay taxes themselves.

In this way, the tax revenue that the court can collect is getting less and less, and the real people are getting poorer and poorer.

This is one of the reasons why, in the end, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty even needed to kneel down to the ministers and beg them to pay to support the Ming army.

Because the land and the money eventually fell into the hands of these people.

"Chu Ze, do you remember anything again?"

Looking at Chu Ze's increasingly frowning brows, Zhu Di seemed to have noticed something.

Hurriedly asked.

And when he asked this, it could be regarded as interrupting Chu Ze's train of thought.

"It's nothing, let's eat, then look around, and I'll see how I'm going to design the hydraulic system here. Then let's go back first. ”

Seeing that Chu Ze didn't say anything, Zhu Di had no interest in continuing to ask.

Because he knew that even if he was told something, it would be useless, but only to add to his troubles.

Since Chu Ze didn't say it, it also means that he can't handle this matter.

Today's Zhu Di can be said to have directly let himself go.

He doesn't worry about the affairs in the Ming Dynasty.

Anyway, his father is staring at him, and his eldest brother and Chu Ze are worried.

He didn't get along at all.

The only thing Zhu Di needs to consider at this time is that after he arrives at the fiefdom, how to fight, how to make his fiefdom improve as quickly as possible.

Let those brothers who have not yet been divided envy and jealousy.

After eating briefly, the two Zhu Di brothers and Chu Ze carefully observed the surrounding environment.

And Chu Ze also took out the drawing board and the pencil he carried with him directly from the carriage.

While looking at it, I didn't forget to draw a sketch.

The whole process is still quite fast.

Before it gets completely dark, all the work is basically finished.

Of course, this is the original sketch.

After that, it will take some effort to set up the waterwheel and convert the water power into controllable power.

After the survey was basically completed, Chu Ze also stepped on the carriage that he regarded as a nightmare again.

Two bumps back and forth, almost killed him

Originally, he said that after returning home, he would teach Zhu Di how to make mineral salt into an edible state, as well as how to distill and refine plant essential oils.

As soon as you get off the carriage, you will directly change your hexagram.

After driving away the two brothers who still wanted to rely on them with a black face.

Chu Ze dragged his tired body back home.

I wanted to take a hot bath to relieve his fatigue, but while soaking, he fell asleep directly in the tub.

This night, Chu Ze always felt very tired.

It was as if something had been pressing him down.

However, in a drowsy state, he didn't bother to care about this.

It's just that he had a pretty good dream.

(End of chapter)