These officials and aristocrats never looked at the common people in their eyes, never looked down on people, and the salt workers and salt slaves, who were inferior to the ordinary people, were even worse than pigs and dogs in their eyes. But Wang Junlin naturally didn't think so, and even his thoughts were the opposite, these officials, masters and salt diners in the salt field were bullshit compared to these tens of thousands of salt workers and salt slaves.

"After two days, if the salt workers and salt slaves don't get their fair share of the money." Wang Junlin said with a smile: "Don't doubt the ability of this official, no matter what means you use, as long as you don't do what this official says, this official will always know." Again, this official hates others to lie to me the most, and if the person who cheats on this official does not overpower the ability and status of this official, he will be cut off by this official. ”

When Wang Junlin said these words, although his face was light, and even with a smile, everyone felt a chill, and the five master craftsmen in charge were even more pale, and one of them accompanied him with a smile and said, "My lord, the lower official has something to report." ”

"Oh! Go ahead. Wang Jun glanced at the master craftsman with interest.

"There may be arrears of wages, but the amount is not large, and there is another internal reason for this, the adults have just arrived, and they don't know the temperament of these salt farm pariahs, each of them drags their families with their families, obviously one person is working in the salt factory, but he has to report several people. It's not that we're in arrears, it's that they want to cheat the government out of money, and this is not equivalent to reducing the tax revenue of the county. ”

"Oh?" Wang Junlin looked surprised: "There are still such things? ”

"yes." The master craftsman obviously didn't see the irony in Wang Junlin's words, and when he saw that Lord Taishou believed his words, he said happily in his heart: "My lord, those untouchables and cheap slaves are cunning and cunning, relying on Lord Dong to show mercy to them, they dare to deceive us, and once we can't satisfy them, we will be passive and slack off, and even those bold people will take the lead in making trouble, so that the output of the salt field will be reduced as a whole, and the tax revenue of the county government will be greatly reduced!" ”

The master craftsman knew that under normal circumstances, the most important thing for Lord Taishou was the tax revenue of the county, so he turned the dirty water into salt

At the same time, the workers and the salt slaves poured on them, and they also leaned the taxes in the county, and I didn't think that you Wang Junlin was a good official, and most of the trouble today was because the gift of the second master last night had not been fed to Lord Taishou, and he just wanted to use an excuse to extort another sum of silver, in this case, as long as he found an excuse and satisfied the silver that Lord Taishou wanted, this matter would be over, and it would be a big deal to get it back from the salt workers and salt slaves later.

In fact, up to now, except for the people brought by Wang Junlin, Qian Zhengkuo and the people on the salt farm side did not believe that Wang Junlin was trying to give the salt workers and salt slaves, but thought that Wang Junlin's appetite was too great, and the two carts of silver and thousands of acres of fertile land of the Lu family last night failed to satisfy Lord Taishou, so he found an excuse to get it back from these masters who represented the Lu family in the salt field, and as long as these masters took out a lot of silver to satisfy Lord Taishou.

Therefore, the master craftsman in charge stood up and found an excuse that could be used, which seemed to everyone in the salt field to be witty, and under normal circumstances, Lord Taishou would say something along with this meaning, and then wait for the master craftsmen to gather the silver and bring it to Lord Taishou within two days.

Wang Junlin's face remained unchanged, but he just sighed: "I see! It's just been talking for a long time, who is this adult? ”

Dong Kang hurriedly introduced on the side: "Returning to Lord Taishou, this is Lord Lu, the chief officer of the first branch of the five major branches of the salt field. ”

"Officer-in-charge, Lord Lu?" Wang Junlin looked puzzled, "Isn't the master of the sub-field the master of the sub-field?" Or the main thing is the main thing, when is there still the official position of the chief officer in the salt field, how many officials is this? How did the official not know? ”

Everyone was stunned, Dong Kang was stunned for a moment, and he didn't know what to say, because Lord Taishou was not wrong, although these five master craftsmen have a good name called the master of the sub-field, but in fact, they are the head of the master craftsman, and there is no grade, to be honest, in the salt fields of other counties, although the master craftsman such as the head of the branch field also has some status, it is far from being compared with Fanyang County, and the reason why Fanyang County is special is naturally because these five master craftsmen represent the Lu family.

Ignoring the five master craftsmen of the sub-field, their faces turned extremely pale, and Wang Junlin suddenly froze

He said: "As a common person, this official inspected today, and you are not waiting outside the hall for questioning, but you dare to enter the hall arrogantly, and you dare to sit among the officials of the court." Is...... What a daring! Lord Dong, are you all such ignorant things in the salt farm? ”

Dong Kang saw that Lord Taishou was angry, his face suddenly changed, he got up and said, "The lower official is guilty." ”

After the confession, Dong Kang didn't say anything, he still dared to say anything, not to mention the prestige of Lord Taishou, he didn't dare to disobey in person, not to mention that Lord Taishou was reasonable, even if he wanted to say a word for these five master craftsmen, he didn't know how to say it.

The master craftsman surnamed Lu was even more red and white, even if Lu Youwei, the number two person in their Lu clan, gave this new Taishou a gift last night, he still dared to say anything, and as soon as he gave his hand, he was about to sit down.

Zhang Tiangang suddenly burst into a shout: "Boldly Diao Min, when I saw Lord Taishou, I didn't kneel, but dared to sit." ”

Everyone was startled, and the five master craftsmen stood up with ugly faces, but they didn't know if they felt that they couldn't get over their faces in front of everyone, and they didn't even know whether they were alive or dead, Dong Kang scolded secretly, and knelt down on the ground first, and said: "My lord, the lower officials are not disciplined, please forgive me." ”

After speaking, he shouted at the five master craftsmen: "You still don't kneel, don't you want to find death?" ”

Seeing that Dong Kang, the five masters, all knelt down, they quickly knelt down.

Wang Junlin first asked Dong Kang to get up, then looked at the five master craftsmen in charge, and shouted: "You are so bold, dare to be disrespectful to this official, come to someone, and slap each of them ten times in front of the official." ”

"Yes! My lord. Zhang Tiangang agreed, and with a wave of his hand, the five guards walked out with a cruel smile and walked towards the five master craftsmen.

The five master craftsmen in charge were completely panicked, and the master surnamed Lu, who spoke just now, gritted his teeth and said, "My lord, I don't know what happened to the five of us?" ”

Wang Junlin sneered and said: "You five untouchables exploit wages, bully men and women, and disrespect the official, if it weren't for the five of you to make up for the wages deducted before, the official would have ordered your heads to be cut off." ”

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