Red House Shoufu

Chapter 15
Lin Shu frowned and didn't speak, Geng Xiangnan wanted to be urged but didn't dare to be urged, the two of them just kept silent, the silence in the room was terrifying.

The tea in Geng Xiangnan's hand had been cold for a long time, but finally he couldn't bear the anxiety in his heart, and broke the silence: "Lin Jieyuan, if there is any way, please tell me. The situation in Yangzhou is critical, and I'm afraid it won't last for a few days."

Lin Shu also has a big head, and with Yang Xueli standing there, the only way is to take down Yang Xueli and restore Lin Ruhai's previous rules.

But he didn't count on this matter. Even Nanzhili's chief envoy and the Xiuyiwei Yangzhou Qianhu Office did not have the power to directly remove Yang Xueli.

Although Yang Xueli is only from the third grade, his official title is imperial envoy, governor of Yangzhou Yanzheng Yushi, except the emperor, who can openly shoot at an imperial envoy?
Geng Xiangnan stared at Lin Shu anxiously. Lin Shu was so annoyed that he asked bluntly: "Master Geng, Geng Qianhu, you are Qianhu of the Embroidered Clothes Guard. The students asked you, can Yang Xueli be taken down? If so, Students have a way to solve this problem. If not, students can't do anything!"

Geng Xiangnan got the answer, sighed, and sat back on the chair: "How is it possible? It's an imperial envoy. There is no order from the palace. Who dares to touch it openly? It's over, the civil uprising is happening. The thousand households in the institute are the first to be unlucky."

Embroidered clothing guards sit in the local area and have the rights and responsibilities to detect, spy, deliver information, and maintain local stability.If there is a civil uprising, just a crime of dereliction of duty is enough to make Geng Xiangnan dismissed pending investigation.

Lin Shu is still very grateful to Geng Xiangnan. When Lin Ruhai was in Yangzhou, he joined hands with Geng Xiangnan many times.Although the two sides used each other, the embroidered guards sent by Geng Xiangnan to the Lin family to protect their father and father, shot a lot of open and hidden arrows for them.

Seeing him so depressed, I felt a little unbearable.Judging by his condition, he probably didn't take a good rest all the way from Yangzhou.

"Master Geng, the matter has come to this point, it's useless to think too much, the students should ask someone to prepare some hot water meals, sir, let's take a good rest first."

Geng Xiangnan could only nod his head, and followed Fuquan to wash and eat.

……

Lin Shu walked to Daiyu's small courtyard with a heavy heart, just in time to see Daiyu holding a small flower hoe and burying the fallen autumn chrysanthemums, while Wang Momo and Xueyan were cleaning the petals on the ground.

cough cough...

Lin Shu coughed lightly twice, alarming the busy three people.When Daiyu saw her brother, she frowned and gave him a big smile.

"What are you doing?"

Daiyu didn't stop her work, she muttered: "Didn't my brother say a few days ago that Luohong is not a ruthless thing that turns into spring mud to protect flowers? I buried all these petals under the roots of autumn chrysanthemums, maybe They'll look better next time."

It turned out that there was an autumn rain a few days ago, and countless petals were knocked down by the wind and rain. Lin Shu couldn't bear Daiyu's sadness, so he brazenly "made" a poem: "The sun is slanting in the vast sorrow of leaving, and the whip is pointing east to the end of the world."Fallen flowers are not heartless things, into Chunni more quadrangle.

Of course, Daiyu would not doubt Xie Yuangong's elder brother's literary talents, and was immediately attracted by the poems, and no longer felt sad because of the petals on the ground.

Seeing the countless petals falling from the ground today, I thought about burying them. Maybe, as my brother said, the autumn chrysanthemum will be even more beautiful when it blooms again.

Lin Shu sat on the stone bench and watched the three of them busy quietly, but he was worried.The stability and prosperity of Yangzhou's salt administration is the result of Lin Ruhai's painstaking efforts.But now that Yang Xueli, an idiot, has messed around, not only will the [-] Yanhu people have no means of living, but even after the civil uprising, blood may flow into rivers.

After Daiyu buried the petals, Mother Wang carefully washed the dirt off her hands and sat on another stone bench.

"Who is the guest that my brother went to see just now? Why did you look depressed when you came back?"

Lin Shu originally didn't want to tell Daiyu about these troubles, but he also wanted to find someone to talk about, so he talked about it in general.

"Since those people can't survive in Yangzhou, why don't they go to other places to live? Our Great Chu has a territory of thousands of miles, and [-] households sounds like a lot, but we can always find a place to resettle."

These days, when Lin Shu was free, he spread the knowledge of human geography to Daiyu, even drew a simplified version of the map, and told her about the exotic scenery.

Although Daiyu is only ten years old, she is extremely intelligent and can always draw inferences from one instance.I saw Daiyu's words were strong: "For example, Jiaozhi, didn't my brother say that we should relocate the Han people to enrich the frontier fortress?"

Lin Shu explained dumbfoundingly: "Salt households are no different than others. If no one is operating the Yangzhou salt farm, where can we get the salt to eat?"

"Then you can find a place with salt and let these salt farmers continue to make salt, as long as you avoid this Yang Xueli?"

As soon as Daiyu's words came out, Lin Shu's mind flashed: these [-] salt households are not the private property of Yangzhou Xunyan Yushifu, and Yang Xueli doesn't treat Yanhu as human beings, so there is no need to continue guarding in Yangzhou The saltworks are gone.

Lin Shu laughed loudly, and rubbed Daiyu's little head with his big hands, messing up her hair.

"Master Military Adviser really gave me a good idea. My brother will go to work first. When this matter is over, I will definitely take you out to have fun!"

Daiyu pursed her lips, and knocked off the palm of her head in dissatisfaction: "Then tell me more stories about the Monkey King!"

……

After signing several treaties, Lin Shu came to the guest house in a hurry. Geng Xiangnan had just taken a shower and was putting rice into his mouth.

"Lin Jieyuan, what are you?"

Lin Shu spread out a booklet, and saw three big characters on it: Sun-salt method!

"With Yang Xueli here, we have no choice but to abandon the Yangzhou Salt Field, find another way, and reopen a new salt field. A few years ago, the students found a method of making salt from an ancient book. Compared with the traditional method of boiling salt, the yield is higher. High, less consumption, shorter cycle."

Lin Shu had told Lin Ruhai about the Sun Salt Method a few years ago, but at that time the capital was in turmoil, and the matter of seizing the heir and establishing the heir was still undecided.

The salt tax was the focus of contention among all parties, and Lin Ruhai dared not mention it, for fear that Lin Shu and even the Lin family would be targeted.

When he ascended the throne today, the Supreme Emperor's health improved again, and under the struggle between father and son, Jiangnan became the focus of the two parties' contention again.

To this day, Daiyu's words reminded Lin Shu of the sun-dried salt method thrown at the bottom of the box.The Supreme Emperor is old, and the emperor's power is getting heavier and heavier. If he uses the method of drying salt to earn a huge amount of money for the emperor, Lin Shu doesn't believe that he can't be reused by the emperor.

Geng Xiangnan didn't swallow a mouthful of rice, and was so shocked by Lin Shu's attention that he almost choked to death.After finally letting out a sigh of relief through the water, he quickly took the booklet and read it.

After a long time, Geng Xiangnan asked incredulously, "How sure are you?"

Lin Shu replied solemnly: "If there is no external force, no natural disaster, [-]%!"

(End of this chapter)