Don't look at the green tea selling very well, the Zheng family is determined to lose money this year.

Although Zhu Guoxiang's side changed production quickly, far exceeding the supply volume agreed by the two, it was too expensive to give gifts to officials for promotion.

Zheng Lan's goal this year is to have a net loss of less than 500 yuan!

"You go to live in Daming Village, don't let the tea merchants of Xingyuan Mansion take advantage of the loopholes." Zheng Lan said to her grandson.

Zheng Hong said: "Weng Weng, Mr. Zhu and Zhu Dalang have kept their promise, they have signed a contract with our family, and they will definitely not sell roasted tea to other families." What's more, this year's roasted tea production is insufficient, and not much is sold to our family, so how can there be tea sold to Xingyuan Mansion? ”

Zheng Lan said: "The heart of defense is indispensable, you go to Daming Village, you don't have to deliberately stare at it, try to be good friends with the Zhu family's father and son." I'm not afraid that they will break the contract, but I am afraid that someone will steal the art of roasting tea. ”

"Yes." Zheng Fatzi understood.

Zheng Lan said: "My family also has a tea mountain, if you remember, you can also record how they roast tea." ”

Zheng Fatzi: "......"

Don't let other people steal from school, and then go to learn by yourself?

Zheng Hong waited for two days, and the family finally arranged a boat.

There was still some grain on the ship, which was transported to Daming Village by the way. Located on the edge of the Hanzhong Basin, Yangzhou is extremely fertile, and grain prices are much lower.

"Second brother!" Zheng Yuanyi chased it out.

Zheng Hong turned around and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Zheng Yuanyi said: "The Dragon Boat Festival is coming, this is a sachet for Ling. ”

Zheng Hong smiled: "It's weird this year, you want to do it for me." ”

Zheng Yuanyi blushed, but took out two sachets: "I heard that the second brother is going out, bring one to Zhu Jialangjun." ”

Zheng Fatzi was a little speechless, it turned out that he was just adding his head by the way.

Bidding farewell to his little sister, Zheng Hong went out with his entourage, and when he came to the dock, there were poor people queuing up to get on the boat.

These are all happy Yangzhou citizens who live in shantytowns outside the city. With the withering of commerce in Yangzhou, in the past few decades, citizens have become beggars or fled to pan for gold.

Zhu Guoxiang asked the Zheng family to recruit people, and Zheng Lan was very cooperative, because he was recruited to develop waste tea mountains and expand the output of green tea next year.

Of course, there was also a reward for helping to recruit people, along with the money to buy food.

The first batch of Yangzhou "immigrants" was only forty-two people, and a batch of autumn tea had to be shipped to the market.

"Little official, there is a Taoist who wants to take a boat."

Zheng Hong turned around when he heard this, but saw a middle-aged Taoist priest bowing to him.

Zheng Hong hurriedly returned the salute and asked, "Daoist is going to Xixiang?" ”

Xue Daoguang said: "It is to go to Xixiang County, the post boat in Yangzhou is a little damaged, and he is reluctant to cross the Golden Gorge, and the poor road has been waiting for the ship here for many days. ”

The two were chatting when a few more people came over.

A young man wearing a Dongpo scarf was followed by a few entourages: "I am Zhang Su, the new chief bookkeeper of Xixiang County, and this boat is going to pass through the Golden Gorge?" ”

Zheng Hong didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly replied: "Exactly, Master Zhang, please get on the boat." ”

After everyone boarded the boat, Zhang Su pointed to the poor people and said, "Where are these dozens of people helping the old and the young, and also carrying a lot of belongings?" ”

Zheng Hong replied: "The former head of Xixiang County was a thief in Zhao'an, colluding with bandits and rebelling. The archers all led Zhu Ming to break the thief village, but there were too many killings, and there was a shortage of people there, so he transported some broken people to farm the land. ”

Zhang Su asked again: "The thief village belongs, can there be a household and a people?" ”

"I'm making it up." Zheng Hong replied.

Zhang Su didn't ask again, but said: "These dozens of people first went to the Xixiang County Ya to report, compiled a household for them, and then sent them to the thief village." ”

Zheng Hong didn't dare to refuse.

Zhang Su and Xue Daoguang lived in the same cabin, and the two reported their names to each other, and they chatted quickly.

First talked about Taoist practice, then talked about Zen and Buddhism, and finally turned to poetry, both of them dabbled in Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.

After crossing the Golden Gorge, Zheng Hong was forced to turn around and go to Xixiang County.

Zhang Su took dozens of "immigrants" straight to the county office, Bai Erlang led the officials to greet him, and after a while, Xiang Zhixian also rushed to hear the news.

After some greetings, he inquired to the magistrate: "What year is Master Zhang's Jinshi?" ”

"On the list." Zhang Su said.

Xiang Zhixian was puzzled: "Since you are a Jinshi, why did you go to Xixiang to be the main bookkeeper?" It's too condescending. ”

Zhang Su said: "My grandfather Zhang Zhen Tang Yinggong, and my uncle Zhang Zhen Shang Yinggong. ”

Grass!

Xiang Zhixian secretly scolded his mother, a bunch of officials had given him a headache, and there was actually another great god.

Zhang Su's grandfather, Zhang Tangying, once recommended Wang Anshi.

Zhang Su's uncle Zhang Shangying is the right prime minister who has just been brought down by Cai Jing.

Zhang Su is an unlucky guy, it is estimated that he was implicated by his uncle, so he was thrown to Xixiang County as a jinshi.

"These poor people are going to go to Nadaming Village," Zhang Su pointed to the people behind him and said, "Quickly arrange households for them, all of them will be arranged as customers, and sent to the names of the Zhu family and their sons." ”

Although it is a customer who has not registered the land, he does not need to pay the second grain payment, but the errand money must be paid, and miscellaneous taxes may also have to be paid.

On the first day of Zhang Su's appointment, he gave great care to the Zhu family's father and son.

When he came to the office, the luggage had not been put down, and the residence had not been arranged, so Zhang Su said: "Bring all the household books and account books of the past years!" ”

Bai Erlang smiled with a smile: "The predecessor wished the master book, corrupted the law, and messed up the household register and accounts. ”

Zhang Su understood that there was no way to check the accounts, all the black pots were detained on the head of the Zhu master's book, and the current county government account books have been modified.

Zhang Su asked again: "How much grain is left?" ”

Bai Erlang replied: "Last year, there was a lot of money to suppress bandits, and the money and food have been exhausted. ”

Zhang Su suppressed the anger in his heart and sneered: "Excellent! ”

In a year or two, he won't be able to do his job, and he has to figure out how to clean up these officials.

No longer paying attention to the affairs of the county government, anyway, Zhang Su went to his residence to rest, and the next day he began to visit the county seat.

I didn't go far before I saw a few archers extorting the shop.

deliberately poured a basket of rotten vegetable leaves at the door of the restaurant, insisting that the store did not clean up the front door, and extorted dozens of dollars before going to the next one.

Zhang Su came to the store and asked the shopkeeper: "Why are these archers so arrogant?" ”

The shopkeeper held back the fire in his belly, and he didn't care about anything, and said resentfully: "Listen to the accent, the guest officer is a foreigner, right?" Last year, Zhu Dutou suppressed thieves and trained 300 archers, most of whom were good men. These archers were pickled by Zhu Dutou. The government doesn't want to be a good man, so they are all dismissed and returned to their hometowns, leaving only these splashes to listen to. ”

Zhang Su said strangely: "Why doesn't the government want a good man, just splash skin?" ”

The shopkeeper sneered: "The heroes all listen to Zhu Dutou, and the government can't control it, so it's better to splash the skin." There were twenty-two of these archers, and when they were short of money, they came to extort the people. Those shops with backers, they don't dare to provoke, they only look for us to start with these bitter haha. ”

Zhang Su is not only the chief bookkeeper, he is also a part-time county lieutenant, and he happens to belong to the top boss of the archers.

At the moment, there was a plan, and it was possible to start with the archers, Zhang Su asked: "How many of the dismissed archers do you know?" ”

"They only know those in the city, but they don't know those in the country." The shopkeeper's answer.

Zhang Su had already made up his mind to replace the archers and summon the people who Zhu Ming had trained seriously back to be his first batch of henchmen. He didn't ask about it again, but changed the topic: "That Zhu Dutou, but Zhu Chenggong, the son of the Eight Elements?" ”

"There is such a saying as the Eight Elements Scholar." The shopkeeper nodded.

Zhang Su asked again: "Does he have a very good reputation?" ”

The shopkeeper smiled: "It's good." In the past, there was a Zhu Er in this county, who was originally a thief, but later became the main bookkeeper, and all the archers were replaced by thieves. We, the residents in the county, were made miserable, and it was Zhu Dutou who led people to destroy Zhu Er. When he was in the county seat, the archers were all well-behaved, never extorted merchants, and never saw anyone bullying the people. The neighbors said that it would be good if Zhu Dutou stayed in the city all the time. ”

"It's a pity." Zhang Su said.

"What's not a pity?" The shopkeeper's echo.

The pity of the two is different, Zhang Su regrets that Zhu Ming is a scholar of the Eight Elements, otherwise he would definitely attract the county government to listen to it.

……

However, it was said that after the dozens of "immigrants" were all registered, the Zheng family's ship set off again.

Seeing that Xue Daoguang was still on the boat, Zheng Hong couldn't help but ask, "Isn't the Taoist chief getting off the boat in the county seat?" ”

Xue Daoguang said: "You and I are all going to Daming Village. ”

"What are you doing in Daming Village?" Zheng Hong asked.

"Looking for old friends," Xue Daoguang replied ambiguously, and asked Zheng Hong instead, "Do you know that there is immortal food in Daming Village?" ”

Zheng Hong frowned: "Immortal food? ”

Xue Daoguang said: "It's corn and sweet potatoes." ”

Zheng Hong suddenly laughed: "Yes, yes, yes, it's the immortal food, which Zhu Xianggong brought back from the overseas immortal island." I heard that the yield is very high, and after the autumn harvest, my family will also buy some seeds. ”

Xue Daoguang asked: "Is it really from overseas?" ”

"I don't know," Zheng Hong said, "but Zhu Xianggong did go to sea, driving a giant boat across the ocean, and it takes several months to go to sea at a time." Zhu Dalang also told me many stories about the sea, and all of them were very strange. There are also many strange things on the sea, and the eggs laid by big birds as tall as people weigh several pounds. A giant rat as tall as a man has a pocket on its belly, and puts its young son in its pocket to drink milk......"

When he lived in Shangbai Village, Zheng Hong listened to a lot of stories, and now he tells them to Xue Daoguang.

The more Xue Daoguang listened, the more convinced he became, that Zhu Xianggong had probably met immortals overseas.

Xue Daoguang really believed in immortals, and the immortals in his mind were cultivated by humans, ghosts, and elves.

When he annotated the "Enlightenment Chapter", he pioneered the classification of immortals:

The yin god is the spiritual and the invisible is the ghost and the immortal;

Those who live forever without disease and disaster are immortals;

Flying through the air and fog, not hungry or thirsty, cold and heat not invading, wandering the island, immortal, for the earth immortals;

The form and spirit are wonderful, and the Tao is true, the changes are endless, and the ghosts and gods are unpredictable, and they are immortals.

In the later generations of Internet immortals, many settings came from Jindan Nanzong, including what true yuan, refining gods is still empty, and a lot of them are from Xue Daoguang's hands.

After listening to Zheng Hong's overseas story, Xue Daoguang guessed that Zhu Guoxiang should have met the earth immortal on the island......

Well, definitely.

Maybe his own ancestor, Ziyang Zhenren, has also cultivated into an earth immortal, and is now traveling to the island.

Otherwise, how could the father and son of the Zhu family know about the Taoist poems of the ancestral master, and also compiled these Taoist poems into "Journey to the West"?

Most of the Bodhi patriarchs in "Journey to the West" are the real people of their own ancestors, Ziyang!

(I wish Captain Iron Blood Banner a happy birthday, the captain sets an alarm clock every day to grab the chapter and say the first, in the future, I will wake up and write the chapter again, the body is important.) ）

(Ask for a monthly pass at the end of the month.) ）

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