In winter, the water is exhausted, the weather is cold, and it is not suitable for travel. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info However, the old man is in wait, his heart is not dead, and he is not afraid of the sassy wind.

After more than a month, the imperial court appointed Yu Tan as the Taishou of Wuxing County to reach Huiji, so Yu Tan, who had been trapped at home for nearly a year, decided to leave for Wuxing immediately, regardless of the approaching New Year.

A few days earlier, the Yu family feasted guests at Yuyao's house and celebrated the day. This is tantamount to announcing to the world that the Yu family's power has not declined, and it has always been respected by the imperial court.

For a time, the Yu family manor was full of guests, and the local friends of the scholars came to congratulate one after another, so as to strengthen the momentum. At the same time, these visitors also hope to take the opportunity to recommend their children to Yutan, so that they can enter the official career. Nowadays, the big families are involved in each other, and there are those who are in charge, and it is also a very important way to deepen friendship by recruiting talented children of good families as subordinate officials.

This kind of atmosphere is most prevalent among overseas Chinese, Nandu Bai clan may not be able to occupy a high position in the temple, and the family business is not extant, if you want to gain a foothold in Jiangdong, it is particularly important to help each other. Therefore, often a minister of 2,000 stone feudal territory, there are hundreds of subordinates under his command.

Wuxing County, the essence of Jiangdong, and one hundred and ten subordinate officials can still be settled. Nowadays, the scholars are weak in the court, and there are few prominent people. Therefore, Yu Tan's appointment as the Taishou of Wuxing County touched the heartstrings of many local clans, hoping to seek a rise through this.

Therefore, when Shen Chong led a cadre of county officials to the outside of Yuyao Yu's manor, he saw the busy scene of traffic and the city, and he couldn't help but feel a little surprised in his heart: "In the past, the county government was cold, but today I know that there are many people." ”

"It's just the gathering of black flies, disturbing the quiet."

He Yu, who was traveling with him, sneered, looking a little disdainful. If it weren't for the catastrophe a few decades ago and the uprooting of his family, his reputation might not be weaker than that of the Yu family. Even when his father was alive, the He clan was more powerful than the Yu clan. It's just that in his own generation, it's a little difficult to maintain.

Regarding Shen Chong's recommendation of Yu Tan to win over the Hui Ji scholars, although He Yu was a little apprehensive in his heart, he also knew that it should be so. He is now Shen Chong's long history, in addition to taking care of his own family, he should also consider problems from the perspective of the county government. Only by gaining the approval of the local clan can the county government decree be more powerful, and he, the county governor, will be more prestigious.

Especially this time, in order to alleviate the contradictions, the Shen family made efforts to win the position of Wu Xing Taishou for Yutan, which also made He Yu look at the energy of the Shen family with admiration, and at the same time strengthened his position to move closer to the Shen family. Originally, the idea of marriage was only a slight intention, but it gradually became strong in his mind, and then he subconsciously glanced at Shen Zhezi next to him, and couldn't help but secretly say pity in his heart.

There is no doubt that if you want to marry the Shen family, Shen Chong, the eldest son, is undoubtedly the best choice. Although he is a little young, this is not the focus of the marriage of the big clan. If each other has an intention to need, it is the norm for couples to marry each other and even to get married.

However, He Yu regrets that he himself has no daughters, and other brothers or girls of the right age, but in terms of the current situation of the Shen family, it is not suitable for Shen Chong's son-in-law.

If you can't get the first choice, you can only settle for the next best. So He Yu decided in his heart that he would find a chance to meet Shen Mu, the Jiangdong native of the Shen family, after the year, if it was as handsome and resolute as rumored, then finalize the marriage as soon as possible.

When the group arrived at the door of Yu's house, Yu Tan, who was full of spring breeze, went out to greet him in person. Many levels are not enough, and the family that does not know the inside story is extremely shocked when they see this scene, and then they feel worried in their hearts.

In the past, these families used the momentum of Yu Kong Gaomen to isolate the Shen family, and they often turned a deaf ear to the county government's decrees, only saying that the Huiji would soon change hands, and did not take Shen Chong, the internal history of the Huiji, in their eyes. But I didn't expect that the Yu family, who had been the target of the Huiji in the past, had already thrown themselves into the Shen family, and in addition to being shocked, I was even more terrified in my heart, I don't know if Shen Chong would blame them with old grievances after the Huiji gained a stable foothold.

Shen Zhezi took these people's worried expressions into his eyes, these people may be strong in their respective townships, but if they are seen at the level of states and counties, they are much inferior. Daddy may not do anything to everyone, but then there will definitely be some unlucky people who will be brought out to make an example of the monkeys.

The poor people may not be poor, but some of them are rich and rich in Jiazhou County, but if they are not prepared and do not enter the Shi clan, they are just local heroes after all. Once involved in the struggle at the political level, there is no need to hesitate to cut with a knife.

Compared with this time, the Shen family wants to take the Yan family to establish authority, the Yan family is entrenched in the sea, the salt lord family, and the family assets can be described as rich, compared to the Shen family. But whether it is Shen Zhezi or his father Shen Chong, when they think about dealing with the Yan family, they don't have too many scruples in their hearts.

But if you step into the ranks of the scholars, it is completely different. Chen Liuruan's clan is well-known in the world, although most of his people do not govern the industry, fall into extreme poverty, indulge arbitrarily, and do not obey the law, but if they are not guilty and punished, the world will be in an uproar.

The reason for this has nothing to do with family assets, but more importantly the size of influence.

Yu Tan and Shen Chong marched into the manor together, followed by He Yu, and Kong Tanshang of the Confucian clan followed. The Shen family and the Kong family also have a lot of feuds, and Kong Yu, the uncle of the Kong Tan clan, is the last county Zhongzheng who was expelled from Wuxing by Shen Chong.

Originally, the Kong family and the Yu family joined forces to resist Shen Chong, but now the Yu family has changed their position, and the Kong family is no longer alone. If his family wants to maliciously target the Shen family, they will be besieged by other families who have changed their positions.

The banquet of the Yu family made the local families of Huiji realize that the wind direction had changed, and they all thought about how to deal with themselves in the future. If you ignore the authority of the county government as before, you are afraid that there will be unforeseen disasters. But if you bow your head to the Shen family immediately, many people can't accept it in their hearts. Hundreds of people have thousands of thoughts, and their minds are different.

In addition to announcing that he had united with the Yu family, Shen Chong also agreed with Yu Tan that on the day of his departure, Shen Zhezi would return to Wuxing with him. After the intention was achieved, he left in a hurry with a cadre of subordinate officials and did not stay for long.

One day in the winter moon, the weather was clear, and the Yu family sent a message saying that they were about to set off. So Shen Zhezi packed up, took the children of the youth battalion and Longxi, and rushed to the Qiantang River ferry to meet.

When he came, he was a light car, but when he left, it was a huge team. Many trucks were loaded with goods, there were thousands of silk silk alone, and there were other weapons of various kinds, all of which were directly extracted from the county government's arsenal and brought back to Wukang to equip the Shen family.

After the two teams converged, Shen Zhezi saw that Yu Tan was also accompanied by a lot, in addition to the protégés of the department, there were still dozens of subordinates, and it seemed that they planned to exert their residual heat and show their strength in Wu Xing's appointment. This is exactly in line with Shen Zhezi's intentions, he is really worried about Yu Tan's old body, willing to do nothing, and the corpse is vegetarian.

There were many people who came to see them off, and after the two teams merged, they went to the Qiantang River ferry, but not long after, the front suddenly stopped. It turned out that someone used a bamboo fence as a wall to encroach on part of the ferry passage.

How could anyone present be rich or noble, and that such a trivial matter would delay their journey, even if a servant was asked to tear down the wall to make way for it. However, Shen Chong, who was in the center of the team, stopped these behaviors: "There are many wooden planks placed in this fence, which are in order, and it seems to be the work of painstaking labor. There is no master in this place, so why should you be in trouble on the road. It is better to call the person who decorates it to come close and ask about the intention. If it is only to occupy the road and disturb the people, it is not too late to blame it. ”

Hearing Shen Chong's statement, even if the others were dissatisfied, they could only press it down and echo it to make Jun Gaoyi.

Soon, someone brought an old man with a purple face and a white body to the approach. Seeing so many dignitaries gathered here, the old man trembled, was extremely restrained, and accused him again and again.

"Regardless of your crimes, what is in that fence?"

Shen Chong looked at the old farmer with a smile and asked, and the others looked into the fence again, only to see a wooden stake wedged on the ground, and each of them supported a piece of wooden planks several feet square, and the wooden planks contained turbid soup for some reason, and the tide was blowing, shining like fish scales in the sun.

The old peasant didn't seem to want to talk more, he was hesitant, he talked about him left and right, and listened to his accent, not Wu. This inevitably made everyone more curious, especially when they found that this old peasant was the most annoying of the people, and they were even more unkind, even when someone shouted angrily: "The envoy asks questions, but he dares not to answer!" Come quickly and tell the truth, if you are perfunctory, you will be punished immediately! ”

The old peasant was forced to do so, so he said with a bitter face: "The thing inside the fence is a technique unique to my hometown, called the salt plate. On the brine board, the wind blows and the sun is exposed, the salt is self-precipitated, and there is no waste wood stove. The small people of the Bohai Sea, the whole family fled here, the family was exhausted and could not afford to go south, so they implemented this law by the river, and made plate salt in exchange for some goods to go south, and they really did not dare to deliberately disturb the envoys. ”

Hearing this, the faces of everyone in the field changed, and there was no shortage of boiling salt around the sea, and they knew that boiling salt consumed firewood, and the manpower consumption was extremely high, so the price was high. But when I heard the old farmer say that as long as the brine was poured into the wooden plank, the wind and sun could get salt, and he was extremely shocked.

When Yu Tan heard this, his eyes also lit up, and when he ordered someone to bring a salt plate, he looked at it carefully. Seeing that the brine in the salt board was gradually drying, and there were already tiny salt flowers condensed at the bottom, he ignored the turbidity of the brine, picked off a piece of salt on the edge of the wooden board with his fingernails, and threw it into his mouth, his face was even more solemn.

"Shiju, please look!"

asked someone to hand the salt plate to Shen Chong, Yu Tan stared at the old farmer with burning eyes, and said in a condensed voice: "Old gentleman, don't panic, we don't mean to blame." Can you explain this method of salt production in your township carefully? If it can be extended to Jiangdong and benefit all the people, the old man is willing to perform a miracle for you, and it is not impossible to tear the soil and be knighted! ”

When everyone heard this, they all gathered around, wanting to hear the unique salt making method of this northern land for the first time. The salt industry is profitable, people are difficult to be confused, and it is the right time to meet it, listen to this secret, how can you miss it!

Shen Zhezi smiled at his father, forcing him with force, how could he lure him with profit. The method of drying salt benefits all people, and the huge profits among them can not be enjoyed by one family exclusively. Instead of dying in a famine year, how can you build miracles by taking advantage of the trend!