Chapter 37 Features of the Ming Dynasty: Forcing a good man to become a Japanese
is just as Su Ze expected. The two guys following Lin Deqing did not want to take action, but wanted to chase Lin Deqing back to find out his origins.
After being reminded by Little Carrot Head, Lin Deqing deliberately took a long detour and quickly got rid of the two following guys.
After the three people gathered together and made sure that no one was following them, they returned to the guardhouse with lingering fear.
Su Ze also broke out in a cold sweat. He was already very cautious, but he didn't expect that he would be targeted for selling refined salt for the first time.
Su Ze was afraid that he would be deeply grateful later, glad that he was in Changningwei when he traveled through time. If he had been elsewhere, even if he had a golden finger, he would probably have his bones ripped apart and his marrow sucked out.
This encounter in the ghost market made Su Ze remind himself again that these are troubled times, not the peaceful and prosperous times of later generations.
As a result, if you want to exchange refined salt into silver, you may have to go through a lot of trouble.
When Su Ze thought about it, he probably violated the interests of some people by selling salt this time.
This was Lin Deqing's first time selling salt, and the transaction went smoothly. The only people who were offended were the people who originally sold salt in the ghost market.
But the ghost market only opens at the end of the Lunar New Year, so how can I find out the background of the salt dealers in the ghost market?
With a sad face on his face, Su Ze returned to his family temple, only to find a familiar face sitting in the family temple.
Frowning, the person coming was none other than Xiong Wu, the leader of Luohanjiao.
After the last fight with the Beishan Chen family, twelve Arhats were knocked unconscious, and they were all carried back to Changning Guard by Su Ze.
I have to say that these people's lives are really hard. The Xiong Wu in front of him was unconscious for half a day, and he was able to stand up and move around after two days.
However, his left arm was broken and is now tied to a wooden board. It is not known whether he will become disabled.
After these Arhats wake up, they will immediately beg Su Ze for mercy.
However, these guys injured everyone in Changning Guard, how could Su Ze let them go so easily.
So Su Ze invited his old grandfather to make an agreement with them to open up wasteland on the mountainside. Only after each of them cleared five acres of wasteland could they be freed.
The other Arhats worked diligently to open up wasteland every day, but Xiong Wu yelled for a rest after doing farm work for a while, and he always hung out in front of Su Ze.
Unexpectedly, Xiong Wu wandered into the family temple early in the morning, but seeing Xiong Wu's scarred face, Su Ze suddenly asked:
"Xiong Wu, do you know about the ghost market?"
"Of course I do."
"Then Do you know that salt seller in the ghost market?"
Xiong Wu rolled his eyes and asked, "What do
you want me to know?" "What do you know?"
"I, Xiong Wu, know all the prominent people in the county. Yes, I can speak."
Su Ze said without changing his expression: "You are now a prisoner of Changning Guard."
Xiong Wu just said with a playful smile: "I only have one request."
Su Ze asked with a frown. : "Tell me about it."
"I just want to follow my young husband."
"Why do you want to follow me? Don't you see that I can't even eat enough?"
Xiong Wu shook his head and said, "Last year, a fortune teller gave me approval. If you are destined to meet the noble person of your life this year, it must be you, my dear husband."
Su Ze is quite confident about his own charm. He doesn't think that he can win over Xiong Wu with just one shake of his body. A great man in the world of martial arts becomes his younger brother.
Xiong Wulai was in Changning Guard, he was afraid that he had some evil intentions. But now Su Ze needed his information, so he pretended to be a snake and said: "First tell me the origin of this salt seller."
Xiong Wu smiled and said:
"The name of the salt seller in this ghost market is Zhu Qi. He used to be A kitchen owner from the nearby Putian Salt Field."
As expected, he was a kitchen owner, so he was able to produce the official salt from the Putian Salt Field.
"You used to be a kitchen household? Are you not a kitchen household now?"
According to the rules of Lao Zhu's family, once a certain household registration is obtained, the children and grandchildren will all have this household registration.
A Zao household is a salt worker who cooks salt. Is it possible that a Zao household can still deregister?
Xiong Wu continued: "Yes, now Zhu Qi is leading a group of kitchen households to become Japanese pirates on the sea."
It turned out to be Japanese pirates. Su Ze sighed. He had traveled through time for so long, and it was time to meet Japanese pirates.
"Then Zhu Qi was kidnapped by the Japanese pirates, or did he become a Japanese pirate himself?"
Xiong Wu laughed and said, "I can't say for sure. Please tell me after listening to my husband."
Xiong Wu didn't show off and said directly. :
"This Zhu Qi was originally the kitchen owner of the Putian Salt Farm. Although he said that his life was very tight, he did not want to be a Japanese pirate." "But the
Putian Salt Farm was in trouble last year and was robbed by a group of Japanese pirates."
Su Ze was confused. asked: "Isn't it normal for the southeastern provinces to be robbed by Japanese pirates? Just because the Japanese pirates robbed them, they turned into bandits?"
Xiong Wu chuckled lightly and said: "Little Xianggong, listen to me slowly, this salt farm was also robbed. It's a common thing, but it's a pity that the Putian Salt Field was robbed at the wrong time." "
Last year, Eunuch Cao, the eunuch guarding the Fujian Shipping Company, had just arrived. He took two thousand salt quotations from the imperial court and wanted to go to the Putian Salt Field to collect salt. At that time, The Putian Saltworks claimed that the salt supply was stagnant and could not produce two thousand units of salt, but a month later the Putian Saltworks was robbed of a thousand units of salt."
Su Ze understood immediately.
Please quote, many eunuchs and the emperor's favored ministers in the Ming Dynasty would ask the emperor for a salt guide before they were sent to other places. This salt guide was the bill of lading for carrying salt. After these eunuchs and favored ministers took office, they would go to the salt field to pick up salt.
The Yan Yin stagnation was the situation in the middle of the Ming Dynasty when too much salt was distributed indiscriminately, resulting in the inability to lift salt with the Yan Yin.
The Yanyin stagnation was a common excuse used in the salt field. During the Jiajing years, the eunuchs from other towns were often rotated. Maybe one day Eunuch Cao would be transferred, and the Yanyin matter would be postponed.
For Eunuch Cao, a popular figure in front of the emperor, someone would naturally pay to take over his job before he was transferred.
But the bad thing is that just after using "salt to induce stagnation" to frustrate Eunuch Cao, the Japanese pirates robbed Eunuch Cao of a thousand salt in the blink of an eye. Isn't this a slap in Eunuch Cao's face?
Although the eunuchs from other towns in the Ming Dynasty were not as arrogant and domineering as in the Zhengde years under the suppression of civil servants, the eunuch guarding Bosi in Fujian City was also a high-ranking eunuch, so naturally this matter could not be prevaricated like this.
When Xiong Wu saw Su Ze's face, he immediately said:
"My young husband is really smart. He saved Xiong a lot of words. In short, Eunuch Cao was humiliated, and the Salt Transport Department could no longer do nothing, so he ordered the two men of Putian Salt Field to be forced to If we collect Eunuch Cao’s two thousand jins of salt within a month, it will all be refined salt.”
One yin is 400 jins, and two thousand jins is 800,000 jins of refined salt!
This is a huge amount, and Putian Saltworks has suffered a lot.
Xiong Wu's tone gradually became colder and he said:
"Eunuch Cao still refused to give up and sent people to supervise the work in the salt field. It is said that he ordered the salt workers to work in the kitchen day and night. Thirty salt workers died of exhaustion, and several people were too tired when boiling salt and fell into the pot alive. Cooked to death."
"Eunuch Cao also said that if he cannot pay two thousand tons of refined salt in two months, he will charge Putian Saltworks with Japanese pirates." "
Zhu Qi has always been prestigious among the salt workers. Seeing that he couldn't pay the two thousand dollars worth of refined salt, he simply killed the little eunuch who
oversaw the work and went to sea to become a Japanese pirate." "Xiao Xianggong, do you think Zhu Qi became a Japanese pirate voluntarily or coerced into doing so? Japanese?"
(End of chapter)