Abnormal Three Kingdoms

Chapter 40 The Bane
It is a very ordinary seaside fishing village. It has just rained. The dirt roads in the village are extremely muddy. The one I'm living in is only a slightly larger courtyard dominated by wooden houses, with a little style.

The most complete building in the entire fishing village is probably the fence that was seen when entering the village to defend against the attack of wild animals.

On both sides of the winding muddy path, you can occasionally see the women of the fishing village drying fish or frying salt. Under the long-term ravages of sea breeze and sunlight, their skin is rough and dark, without any sense of beauty. It seemed that there was no curiosity in the eyes, but only numbness.

The four or five-year-old children on the street are still running around with their buttocks bare, looking into the eyes of the crowd, full of curiosity and fear, and only in the eyes of these children can they see a little light beyond numbness.

Walking on the muddy road, Chu Nan found that apart from women and children with numb eyes, there were very few old people and men in the fishing village.

"Most of the men in the village are fishing at this time, so most of the women they see are women from the fishing village." The leader who followed Chu Nan explained.

Chu Nan nodded. Men make a living outside, and women add fried salt. This is probably the way of life in most fishing villages, and the living standard here is obviously not rich, so there is no reason to refuse his recruitment.

"Is this also the case in the other fishing villages I visited before?" Chu Nan asked suddenly.

"Almost." The team leader nodded.

There is an inexplicable depression in my heart, which makes people a little breathless. Excessive taxes are really heavy in troubled times. The princes have to raise soldiers to fight wars, and they need higher taxes. Naturally, the lives of the people are not much better. But Lu Bu can't collect taxes now, and has no money to expand his military power, but the life of the people at the bottom has not improved because of the lack of taxes, but has worsened.

Not to mention that he is just a little Jincao now, even if he sat in Lu Bu's position, it would be very difficult to change the current situation.

But what really puzzles Chu Nan is that this is not a place controlled by big clans, which is why Chu Nan chose Ganyu, but the people here live a harder life than those in places controlled by big clans, and the local small wealthy clans should not have this. Ability?
"Go ask Lizheng to come here." After walking around, Chu Nan sighed. Although he felt pity, he knew that he was not capable of being a savior, so he should think about himself first.

"Here!" The captain agreed, and summoned two people to invite Lizheng here.

After a while, Chu Nan found Li Zheng in the only passable courtyard in the village, and he was also the only old man in the fishing village so far.

The old man's hair was full of silver, and his wrinkled face was full of signs of wind and sun, full of vicissitudes and exhaustion. When he saw Chu Nan, his old face could barely squeeze a smile: "I'm here, I'm Meng Zhuo, I met the general."

"I don't need to be formal." Chu Nan asked the old man to sit down, looked at Meng Zhuo and said with a smile, "I don't know how old this year is?"

"This old man is forty-eight years old." Meng Zhuo was a little cautious, it wasn't just pretending.

48?
Chu Nan looked at the old man's wrinkled face in astonishment. With such an appearance... he would believe even 84.

Meng Zhuo was obviously not very good at words. Chu Nan said a few polite words, but he answered them very cautiously. After the answer, he stopped talking.

"Ah Weng, I sent people here to recruit the villagers to make salt. This is not corvée, but employment. The wages are not low. I see that the people in the village are not well-off. Accepting the recruitment is only for making salt, not for nothing. It’s dangerous, but it can also improve their livelihood, but I don’t know why they don’t want to?” Chu Nan decided to go straight to the point, looked at Meng Zhuo and said, “Of course, if you feel that the salary is not enough, you can also discuss it.”

The most important thing now is to produce the first batch of salt to prove your worth, otherwise your career will end here.

Now that he is gradually getting a feel for how to use the method, Chu Nan is very clear that if he wants to survive in this era and live a personal life, he must enter an official career or build his own power. It's just a joke, he can strengthen a group of subordinates, but only if he has enough luck.

At present, becoming an official is the fastest way to earn luck.

"Ah~" Meng Zhuo sighed, "If you don't want to, you really can't."

"Oh?" Chu Nan looked at Meng Zhuo, but he was determined in his heart. The other party's answer was similar to what he had guessed before: "You might as well talk about it, maybe I can solve it later."

"General, have you ever heard of pirates?" Meng Zhuo said with a bitter face.

"Sea pirates?" Chu Nan looked at Meng Zhuo in surprise. The navigation skills of this era should not be able to form pirates.

But it can't be said absolutely, if someone with the power to control water is among them, it is possible to ignore the technical problem, but any prince is willing to accept someone with this ability, right?No matter how bad it is to be an official, it is better than being a pirate, right?
"It's common to hear bandits and grass bandits, but this is the first time I've heard of pirates." Chu Nan looked at Meng Zhuo and said.

"About more than ten years ago, when the Yellow Turbans were rampant, because of our remote location, the Yellow Turbans didn't come. I thought we had escaped a catastrophe. There was a wave of pirates..." Meng Zhuo's eyes flashed a look of reminiscence: "I was in my prime at the time, and pirates were rampant at that time, and almost none of the fishing boats that went out to sea could return."

What does this have to do with not working now?
Looking at Meng Zhuo, Chu Nan suddenly asked, "These pirates are still there?"

"Yes, but I won't attack fishing boats again." Meng Zhuo nodded.

The team leader on the side whispered in Chu Nan's ear: "Chu Lie Cao, when Tao Shijun was still there, he ordered people to clear up the pirates, but they returned in vain. Since then, the pirates don't seem to be If you attack and kill fishermen again, the state will no longer care about it.”

"Your reluctance to accept recruitment has something to do with it?" Chu Nan asked.

"Well, these fishermen like me have no arable land, so we live by fishing and making salt. If we can't go to sea all year round, even if the pirates don't kill us, we will starve to death. Fortunately, at this time, a A virtuous man, it was he who came forward and settled this matter." Speaking of this, Meng Zhuo was in awe.

"Great virtue?" Chu Nan was stunned. He is also a native of Xuzhou. He can count most of the celebrities in Xuzhou. The attitude of scholars is not to provoke. If there are famous scholars in Ganyu, it is impossible for him not to know...

　I visit the book review area every day, but what do you want me to say, is it to admit that I am short?or water?In other words, the content expressed in two thousand words is not too small.
　　
　
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