Chapter 6 Chen Hui treats guests

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There is no county in Lushan County, and in addition to a county magistrate, the county government has only one master and a history. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info Yes, there is only a horizontal difference between the canon and the pawn, and without this horizontal, people are dignified court officials.

In charge of the county border arrest and prison, it belongs to the civilian foreign officials who have not entered the stream (below the nine grades), and when the positions of county officials and directors in the county are incomplete, their responsibilities are concurrently held by the canon. Therefore, the positions of the canonical history are all selected by the officials and appointed by the emperor, and they belong to the "imperial court officials". In the 'I Qing Dynasty', the classic history of the year is 31 taels of silver, 5 coins and 2 cents, and 80 taels of incorruptible silver.

The classic history of Lushan County is not a native of Lushan, he is a native of Ruzhou, and a person who governs Ruzhou Prefecture. It is said that he has gone through the path of the state and Lord Li, and the state is the same knowledge in the state, just like the state judgment is the general judgment in the state, which is equivalent to the same knowledge and general judgment in the government, and the rank is the first. There are only four counties in Ruzhou, and there are states but no state judgments.

Li Dianshi is a person who can really be an official, he has been in Lushan County for two years, although he has also feasted, but he only reaches out to take his own share, and he will never stretch out his hand if it is not his own. Such a person is a person who is a real official, and he is angry and makes money. No one will reject this kind of person, there is a backstage - he himself is surnamed Li, I don't know how deep he has to do with Li Zhoutong, then Li Zhoutong is a native of Xuzhou on the edge of Ruzhou.

Xuzhou is also Zhili Prefecture, which is the Xuchang of later generations.

The Chen family has a 'serious' understanding of Li Dianshi, and this Dianshi and Li Zhoutong are not related to each other on the surface. But Li Zhou also recommended him to come to Lushan as a pawn history, not others, so there must be a reason. It's just that the level of the Chen family can't hook that level, and there is no way to inquire about the details.

Anyway, Li Dianshi is a person of rules, and he does not pose a threat to the Chen family after coming to Lushan, and Chen Hui is also very respectful to this person on weekdays. There is no shortage of etiquette to go.

Today, Chen Hui is in for a treat. The Chen family didn't have any happy events, just said that they were happy, the summer harvest was over, and everyone was relaxed. Of course, the coverage of this 'everyone' is actually very small, except for a few genuine officials in the household, that is, the wardens of the other five rooms, the head of the third class, etc. Chen Hui opened three tables at home, two tables of officials, one table of wardens, squad leaders, and Mr. Lu, the money and grain master of Li Dianshi and the county magistrate. Li Dianshi was the leader, and Mr. Lu and Chen Hui sat on the left and right.

Chen Hui, as a household warden, can only climb to this point. The ultimate boss of Lushan County, Yue Wenhai, Yue Zhi County, Chen Hui can't be invited, he doesn't have enough face. And for Yue Wenhailai, as a dignified official from Jinshi, who is friendly with the county officials, it is an absolute shame! Even if this person is the humerus he can use in his work.

In the officialdom of the Manchu Dynasty, the left and right of officials could only be officials. There is a world of difference between officials, and it is not comparable to the gap between county magistrates and bureau chiefs in the 21st century.

The dishes are nothing new, they are still the same. Chickens, ducks and geese, pigs, cattle and sheep, fresh carp and pheasants and hares are these perennial mountain goods. But did Chen Hui's banquet really have no other intentions?

As early as when a group of people came to Chen's house to drink tea and chat, waiting for the banquet to be prepared, many people had already noticed. The Chen family has changed their utensils, tea cups, fruit plates, and the color is absolutely different from before. It's a deep white!

Lushan County is not Inner Mongolia, and this kind of white cannot be associated with milk white for a while, but can only be said to be thick white.

When a group of people drink tea, it is inevitable that the tea lid will touch the tea bowl, and the crisp sound of many people will of course ignore the past, but there are always a few people who have a heart, and even the family itself is running a kiln factory, and how many people who understand porcelain immediately know that these utensils of the Chen family are ......, which is not ordinary.

There were even people among them who were frowning and thinking, thinking about all the porcelain they had heard of in the past.

They looked at the tea cup and the fruit plate with serious eyes. These bone china utensils that were transported to the city from the earth gate before yesterday have a moist color and a white tread, which can be lined with the outline on it more eye-catching, and the quality is lighter than that of porcelain. And unlike traditional white porcelain, this kind of porcelain is more colorful under the light.

When the banquet began, when those who were interested saw the large plates, small plates, large bowls and small bowls, soup spoons, and wine utensils on the table, all of which were such porcelain, many people understood that Chen Hui's family must have purchased a large number of such porcelain. But I didn't hear the wind, many people here knew that Tumen had just sent a batch of things to the Chen family two days ago, but this is normal, no one really realized that this novel porcelain in front of them would be fired by the Chen family themselves.

The wine is still open. As soon as the man drank the wine, it was not a moment or a half to get up. The banquet began at the end of the unitary hour, and the whole hour passed, and I was still drinking. It's just that this banquet is drinking, and the topic of everyone's chat has changed from the previous officialdom anecdotes and gossip news to the Chen family's thatched house.

The flush toilet made its debut in the hall for the first time, and the Chen family repaired the toilet many days in advance, and as soon as the batch of toilets arrived, it took only half an hour for everything to be done. Very earthy soil and cement, but it is enough.

Chen Ming had been in Tumen for two months, and in the past two months, he did not immediately start iron smelting, but only surrounded Xiaonangou inside and out, and in addition, he threw out earth cement and flush toilets. Both of these things are very simple, and for the Chen family, it can be said that the experiment was successful without much effort. However, if an item is to be transformed from a special production to a popular product, it cannot be done in a moment and a half.

In two months, the Chen family burned good bone china, burned 600 flush toilets, and burned thousands of bags of cement, the latter all used in the construction of Tumen and Xiaonangou, especially the latter, the Chen family replaced the wooden fence of Xiaonangou with a three-foot-high wall, and began to pave the road from the entrance of the village, but it is still far from complete.

During the two months in the countryside, Chen Ming received a letter from Chen Gang, went to Lushan County to send a few letters, and then saw the salt distribution of Tumenji twice. From thirteen to seventeen or eighteen every month, during these four or five days, the entire villages in the middle and upper reaches of the Yinma River sent young men to buy salt. Of course, these mountain people don't sell it all for money, they barter for it. With air-dried mountain delicacies, furs, medicinal materials, and iron smelted in their own villages, they are exchanged for yellowed private salt from generation to generation in Tumen. Chen Ming dared to bet with his eyes that the private salt was definitely mixed with soil.

After two salt divisions, Chen Ming finally had a direct understanding of the most downstream of the Chen family's interest system, and there were at least forty villages. These mountain people are really miserable, and they exchange all their income for the salt and food they need for life. These are the two things that every village needs to buy, and the land in the mountains is difficult to feed all the people.

Poor villages can only sell salt and grain, and wider villages can sell some cloth. In addition to these trade teams represented by the villages, there are also the mountain people themselves, who are also one of the customers of the Tumen trade circle, but their purchasing power is quite sufficient.

Chen Ming didn't interfere when he divided the salt for the first time, and he followed Chen Erbao as a small follower when he divided the salt for the second time. The benefits of this private salt can be regarded as giving him a rough estimate.

In more than 40 villages, most of them use 2 or 300 catties of salt a month, and as few as 100 catties, because the mountain people can be regarded as heavy manual laborers. In those villages, there are five or six hundred people with more people, and two or three hundred people with fewer people, these salts they not only have to eat that month, but also save some for winter to eat, once the heavy snow closes the mountains in winter, the traffic in and out of the mountains is cut off, Xiaonangou is like this, and other places are no exception. And the mountain people had to use salt to pickle wild animals and bacon.

As for a pound of salt, Lushan's official salt is 18 copper pounds a pound [In the article "Checking and Discussing the Price of Salt" compiled by Gong Songlin, the magistrate of Luoyang County in the tenth year of Qianlong, it is said that during the Kangxi period, the price of salt in Luoyang was 15 copper coins per catty; During the Yongzheng period, Wu Gong of Luoyang Zhixian County ordered that each catty be reduced to 13 copper coins. The price of private salt is only one-third of that of official salt, and the quality is better than that of official salt.

Tumenji divides salt at a time at eight or nine thousand catties, because the salt eaten by Tumenji's own family is also private salt. However, the benefits of eight or nine thousand catties of private salt are really not worth mentioning for the entire Chen family, and what really accumulates wealth for the Chen family is the mountain furs and iron materials that the Chen family got from these mountain people, which is the fundamental reason why the Chen family's private salt team has as many as fifty or sixty people.