Poor family mother and son

Chapter 420 The Flying "Torn Clothes"

When Xiaobao pushed the seasoning jar towards Jia Yanyao, Jia Yanyao's eyes were suddenly attracted by these small jars, not the chili powder, but the salt jar.

The salt in the jar was white and fine, exactly the kind of refined salt brought back by the head of the inspection last time.

"This salt... the young master has spent a lot of money!" Jia Yanyao said.

No matter how good the salt is, it will not be as expensive as mutton. Pointing to the fine salt and saying that it is expensive, this means to lead the topic to the salt.

"You're welcome!" Xiao Bao said, "If Chief Jia thinks it's good, he can take an altar with him later."

In the countryside, a jar of salt can be given to other people's family weddings.

"Young master, the salt, no, can the young master get salt at home?" Jia Yanyao asked directly, he was not good at deviousness.

The reason for asking this is not only because they eat salt on board, but also iron pots and carbon stoves.

He carefully looked at the charcoal stove, it wasn't charcoal, it was stone charcoal.

For travelers, food is what they can, and what they can deal with. Regardless of rich or poor, even those big businessmen, they often have a mouthful of dry pancakes and a mouthful of cold water during the journey. Pickles, even a delicacy.

But Xiaobao here, the pot is made of iron, with two ears, it is not big, and the iron is fine.

Carbon, not charcoal, but rock carbon, a rock carbon he had never seen before, not as lustrous as rock carbon, nor so dark, but durable to burn.

There are even sheep on board...

Are you saying that this child is a dandy with a lot of money, or that he lives a delicate life?

Thinking of the words reported by the head of the inspection at the beginning: Knock to the bottom—Wherever the salt gang sells their coarse salt, they will sell their refined salt. Jia Yanyao felt that the profit from the salt journey was not small, and it should be the latter.

Yanyin can probably be understood as a business license issued by the government to salt merchants.

The government does not need to set up special institutions and officials, nor does it need to participate in the whole process of salt from production to sale, it only needs to collect and attract money.

Xiaobao's salt is better than all the salt he has ever seen, and the salt in their hands is probably not ordinary.

Salt quotations are not available to just anyone, so the stricter the government's control over salt, the higher the profit of private salt, and only people like Jia Yanyao can survive.

There are also many types of private households in Daxuan. In addition to the agricultural population, industrial and commercial groups such as tea households, salt households, pit households, sugar frost households, litchi households, and boat households are generally referred to as "miscellaneous households".

Most of the members of the Salt Gang are salt households.

Shioto is the producer of table salt.

The production and labor methods of salt households are very simple. The fixed amount of salt handed over every year and the little salt capital left after being exploited by layers of officials make life extremely difficult for salt households.

Those who cultivate the land have no food to eat, and those who make salt cannot afford salt. Forced by life, salt households with capital seek profit, and those without capital sell private salt.

The people under Jia Yanyao are basically bankrupt salt households who can't survive, and their footprints of selling private salt are all over several nearby state capitals.

But not just selling private salt.

They can't make much money by only selling some salt of varying quality. They often become bandits, and the most robbed are salt merchants to reduce their cost of making private salt.

Because robbery is a side job, and they don't kill for money, they are rarely caught, but they also draw out the ugly part of people's hearts - bullying the good and fearing the evil.

Jia Yanyao also knew that going on like this would lead to nothing sooner or later, so she went against all opinions and used most of the gang's accumulated wealth to buy the management rights of Pujindu. This is called "whitewashing" in modern times.

However, those who can participate in the buying are all located in Jindu, which is relatively remote and has few personnel exchanges. There are strict laws and regulations, and unauthorized increases in fees are not allowed, so they have to use various means to increase their income.

For example, "overloading" one's own chartered boat, extorting tips from passing ships, selling small commodities at the ferry, and so on.

Right now, Jia Yanyao wants to know where Xiaobao and his salt come from, and whether there are "formal channels".

Xiaobao picked up the hawthorn and wolfberry water and signaled to him that he can't drink alcohol, and he will replace it with stomach-nourishing tea, and doesn't take his words.

Asking if the young master's family can get Yanyin, this is not only asking about the family's financial resources, but also inquiring about the family background, which is too much.

After the conversation was shallow and deep, Jia Yanyao realized that he had acted too hastily and was presumptuous, so he quickly raised his glass and took a sip of wine: "Jia has no malicious intentions, young master forgive me."

"Hey! You didn't call me for drinking!" Suddenly a slightly hoarse voice came, and Xiao Bao looked back, and a man with a rag wrapped around his head was leaping towards him from a nearby ship.

The faces of the escort boys behind him were full of surprise and joy: If they didn't see clearly that it was you, they would have thrown you into the water with a single oar!

Little Treasure didn't expect to see Shui Maomao here.I never thought that Shui Maomao's appearance would be like this...

How should I put it, let's say he is handsome, really handsome: alone, he jumps onto his own boat with a few taps of footsteps on several boats, which shows that he is super light-hearted.

It’s ridiculous, it’s really ridiculous, just imagine: the linen wrapping on his head is half loose and not tight, flying in the air with his movements, trembling, and the jacket on his body seems to be stolen, very fat , with the sound of whirring in the wind—it felt like someone had thrown a piece of ragged clothes over.

Xiao Bao was about to get up to say hello, Shui Maomao was an elder, Xiao Bao had to know etiquette, but Shui Maomao landed next to Xiao Bao, and put his hand on Xiao Bao's shoulder, preventing him from standing up.

Shui Maomao took Xiaobao's empty bowl by himself, poured a bowl of "Yuye Qiongye", drank it in one gulp, smashed it and said, "If you have wine, give me some, I will make me greedy for days! "

"The one I gave you last time is gone?" Xiaobao asked.He remembered that he gave them two jars of wine when they parted last time.

"That little wine is not even enough to moisten the throat!" Shui Maomao said dissatisfied, grabbed the jar and poured the second bowl.

"Water monkey?!" Jia Yanyao recovered from her astonishment.

Although the two had never met, they knew each other well, and the people under both of them had dealt with each other.

The salt gang smuggled them in various ways, and they often followed the way of the Shui Mao Mao Chuan Gang.

Unlike the Maipu Ferry contracted by Jia Yanyao, Shui Maomao's subordinates are in charge of many private ferries on the river.

Private immigration is prohibited in Daxuan, but it is also acquiesced.

On some small rivers, due to the manpower and material resources at that time, it was impossible to build bridges, or because of the dangerous terrain, Guandu could not take care of them, so this part of private ferry was reserved.

Shui Maomao has mastered some of these ferries, as well as many illegal ones. After all, private ferries that are tacitly approved by the government need to pay taxes.

Private ferry boats are provided by private individuals, and the ferryman either acts as himself or hires someone to preside over the ferry, and his wages are extracted from the transition fee.

It is more flexible to charge more or less for this "transition fee".But no matter how high it is, it cannot be higher than Guandu.

Shui Maomao's smuggled ferry is a common ferry used by the salt gang to sell smuggled salt. The people below have contacts with each other, and there have been many frictions.

They are not serious gangs. If you want to cross the river without paying, or if you want to cross the river, you have to pay more. People from the two gangs often fight for a few pennies, but neither of them has reached the level of the gang leader.

Therefore, Shui Maomao and Jia Yanyao have heard about each other but have no contact with each other, but they know each other quite well.

Just like right now, although he has never met, Jia Yanyao can tell who it is based on his appearance, which is as white as a blistered corpse.

"Hmph, I've heard the name for a long time, Lord Stove!" Shui Maomao drank the second bowl of wine and responded.

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