Win the Ding 1617

Chapter 14 One Night Spring Breeze Blows Through Yumen Pass

() That night, countless people toasted Li Shouhan. Of course, not everyone toasted could come to Shouhan's side.Now, brothers Mo Jin and Mo Yu beside Shou Han, their eyes are as wide as Bao Zi's, and they want to protect their own generals.

They have already seen a living role model, Zuo Tianpeng and Xu Huanshan, who have returned home with rich clothes, from poor boys with no shoes in the seaside fishing village, to become the battalion officers of the first battalion, and they are about to take up their posts soon. The upcoming Xuanwu Battalion, oh, the battalion officer of the Navy Battalion,

Even so, Shou Han was still drunk.

In his sleep, Shou Han reluctantly opened his eyes, "I don't know that I am a guest in my dream, so where can I wake up tonight?" Such a poem suddenly popped up in my mind.

"Mei Er, Mei Er!" Shou Han was so thirsty that he was dying of thirst, (all brothers who have experienced drunkenness have this experience?!) He wanted Yan Mei Er to pour him a cup of hot water.

"Master, are you awake?!" Yan Mei'er stood up from the footboard in front of the bed with her clothes on, "You scared me to death!" There was a trace of concern in the corners of her brows and eyes.

"Meil, I want a drink of water!"

"There is warm tea in the pot, I'll pour it."

After taking two cups of tea, Shou Han felt much better with the burning in his throat.By candlelight, he suddenly discovered that Meier was a very beautiful girl.At least, it conforms to his, Li Shouhan's aesthetic standards.

"Okay, master, the night wind is blowing up, you should sleep on the bed! After drinking so much wine, don't be blown by the wind, and the root cause of the disease will be cured if you sit down." Put the teacup on the bedside bamboo On the small table, Yan Meier helped Shou Han to the bed, waited for him to lie down, and was about to turn around to put up the tent, but Shou Han grabbed her right hand.

"Master?!" Yan Mei'er is already a grown girl, and the relationship between men and women has long been drumming in her heart.But today, the young master who was admired by countless people inside and outside the mansion held her hand.

"The night wind is blowing, you should sleep on the bed! You have been tired for a long time, don't be blown by the wind, and the root cause of the disease will be cured if you sit down." It was almost exactly the same as Yan Meier's words.Said Yanmei'er's fair face was flushed.She spat softly, turned around and put the curtain back.

It's not necessary to mention it for one night.

It's just that Yanmei'er has experienced a lot of hardships for the first time, so the joys and sorrows are uneven.

When Li Shouhan woke up contentedly, the window was already full of red sun.

"Congratulations to the young master!" Several women who were in charge of cleaning the inner house came in carrying washbasins, square towels and saponins, with smiles on their faces.Thinking about it, they still knew what happened last night.

After cleaning his face and washing his face, Li Shouhan still didn't see Yan Meier, "Where did Meier go?" He got a little angry.

"Master, Miss Meier went to find Granny Ruan to open her face."

Oh I got it! "Okay, you guys go! Go outside and tell me that there is a happy event in the mansion today, and you all go to get a red envelope! Also, from now on, you should follow Uncle Fu's instructions on matters inside and outside the mansion, and you can go to Mei Er for matters in the house." !"

The women smacked their tongues inwardly, this Yan Meier did not know what kind of seductive kung fu she had used on the young master, so that she flew up a branch overnight and turned into a phoenix? !Don't say that a stable aunt nainai can't run away, and now she has become the housekeeper of the inner house? !Tut tut!

"The first line on the left gives birth to a noble son, the first line on the right gives birth to a delicate boy, and the third line on one side plays steadily, and the girl gives birth to a unicorn. The eyebrows are stretched like a crescent moon, and the number one pick is Tanhualang. I congratulate you today, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations, congratulations on your becoming a bride. "

In a corner of the General's Mansion, Granny Ruan made a face for Yan Meier while muttering words. According to the customs of the Han nationality, when a girl gets married, she has to show her face and change her hairstyle, which marks that she has a husband's family from now on.

After combing her hair, she held a bronze mirror, "Girl, oh, my aunt nainai is getting more and more beautiful."

"Of course, can my woman not be beautiful?!" Li Shouhan spoke behind him.

"Congratulations to the young master!" Granny Ruan hurriedly knelt down to salute.

"Okay mother-in-law, you also go to the cashier to get a red envelope, and then tell them, as I said, this month, you will get double the money."

Granny Ruan thanked her and left, leaving Li Shouhan and Yan Meier sitting alone.

"Open your face, do you want to pay respects in front of your ancestors? You will be a member of my Li family from now on!"

"Master! Do you really want to worship in front of your ancestors? Tell them?!" Yan Mei'er was a little surprised, but there was more joy in it.

"Of course, I have already told them that in the future, you will be in charge of the affairs of the inner house in the mansion. Uncle Fu is getting older and will take care of the outside affairs, so you will be in charge of the inner house."

"That's good." Yan Mei'er is also a strange woman in this era, and she does her part.

"By the way, why did you pull my skirt last night? Don't let me talk?!"

"Good, my young master! Don't waste your money anymore, okay?! You said yesterday that you will pay for other people's food, and you will also give them mulberry saplings and silkworms. Not to mention, the people in the mansion are now There are a lot of places where money and food are used, so just say a word, you haven’t heard of it?”

Damn it!Li Shouhan punched himself, forgot!This era has the characteristics of this era!

"Okay, you hit yourself just after someone said a few words, how can this make them dare to speak to you again?" Yan Mei'er coquettishly said.

"Okay, Meier, let's go to eat, and after we eat, we will worship in front of the ancestors. Tell the ancestors what their grandson has done now, and what kind of woman they have. Then, you also go back and tell your parents One sound." Li Shouhan's voice was low, he knew that Yan Mei'er's parents had passed away, and he was her only relative in this world.

"That's right. You changed this dress!" Shou Han pointed to the maid's attire on Yan Meier, "Change to a red dress!"

"Don't! Young master, red skirt, I'm afraid! I'm afraid, I'm ruining my life!"

The red dress, only the wife who is married to the media has the right to wear it. Others, even if you are favored again, you will have to suffer some grievances here.

"First, don't call him Young Master from now on, call him Xianggong." Li Shouhan cursed in his heart, "That bastard used this word in mahjong!"

"Secondly, here is my world, so naturally the rules are up to me. Are you afraid of him being a thief?!"

Two mountains slanting into the sea form a small bay, and the gentle coastline of the bay kisses the silver-white sandy beach.As the sun set in the distance, several small fishing boats put away their fishing nets and headed towards home.A few cheerful urchins were jumping on the beach, chasing the waves, and waving their little hands towards the fishing boat.They are the children of the sea.

Yando Village is located on the seashore. As the name suggests, all the people living here are kitchen households who rely on frying salt for a living.This is the birthplace of Yanmeier. According to him, her mother was still frying salt before she was born, and she was next to the stove where she was fried, so she was named Yanmeizi.Later, because he owed the salt tax to the garrison mansion, his father had no choice but to send Yanmei Zi to the garrison mansion. (Oh! Li Shouhan wiped his sweat, it turns out that I am also Huang Shiren!)

My parents boiled their gray hair, dazzled their eyes, and hunched over in front of the salt stove.I didn't enjoy the day when I had enough food and clothing.In order to fulfill a daughter's wish, Yan Meier placed three animal sacrifices in front of her parents' tomb, burned countless ghost papers, and told her parents, "You must bless me and your son-in-law. He is a son-in-law. If you are alive, just look at the red dress on me."

Li Shouhan respectfully saluted Yanmeier's parents, got up and watched the stove householders in Yanhu Village carry seawater in large buckets and go home to fry salt.

From the Garrison Mansion to Yanhu Village, apart from sweeping the grave of Yan Meier's parents, Li Shouhan came out to relax.

On the day when Yan Meier and Yan Meier achieved good things, Yan Meier and Fuber completed the division of labor and handover of work.Uncle Fu is in charge of the daily administrative work and expenditure of money and food in the Garrison Mansion, while Yan Meier is the housekeeper for the daily affairs of the inner house.The rest of the characters also perform their duties.

However, Uncle Fu and Meier Yan taught Li Shouhan a serious lesson.

"Master, that's right. We won the battle this time. We captured a lot. However, your great reward, even though it made the soldiers return to their hearts, they are willing to die for you. However, in this way, our money and food are insufficient." Uncle Fu held out Account book, "Master, our source of income is to collect people's silver, land tax, and land rent. Tax collection and our merchants' purchase of local products. However, you announced that the head tax will be exempted, the land tax will be one-tenth, and the land rent will be gone. This Although many were captured this time, will there be such a capture in the future? It’s hard to say. Even if there is, you will kill [-] enemies and lose [-]. Soldiers who died in battle will also be compensated. We don’t have this money.”

"Do you know why, I didn't let you talk that day?!" Yan Meier gave Li Shouhan a white look, hehe, the beauty's white eyes are also blue eyes.

"Also, young master, you encouraged the land reclamation, and the Miao people and refugees from Fujian and Guangdong provinces all fled to Laos and Quang Binh. However, farm tools, seeds, initial rations, and buffaloes were all spent from the mansion. There will be no return within a few years." Fu Bo also had a very serious expression. "Others, such as mining, iron smelting, steelmaking, casting soldiers, and shipbuilding, need a lot of money and food everywhere, young master, after I store the goods seized this time, I will deduct the rewards you gave everywhere. , The gold, silver, silk and other things we left behind are barely enough for us to support us until the next public grain collection. Of course, we must ensure that there are no natural disasters or wars in the past two months. Otherwise, we will be ugly! "

At this time, there are no such words as money crunch, otherwise, the Uncle Fu and the housekeeper Yan Meier will definitely say it.

Thinking of this, Shou Han couldn't help but feel a headache. He originally thought that he could use the time, manpower, material and financial resources he gained after solving the power of He Fuqianhu to develop himself, but he didn't want to, it was still a dream.

Therefore, Li Shouhan left Hejing as if he had escaped, and went to Yanhu Village to relax, using the reason of accompanying Yanmeier to go back to his hometown to worship his parents.

"Mei'er, why do you use a bucket to pick up the seawater? Isn't it good to have a few springs near here!" Li Shouhan suddenly felt that there seemed to be some problems somewhere, and one was a little vague, but excited thoughts were running in his mind. , he was eager to grab it.

"Good, my young master! You really don't know how hard farming is! Our stove households take back the sea water, put it in a big iron pot, and cook it in the middle of the night with smoke and fire, but we can only cook a handful of salt. You don't Do you see piles of firewood everywhere in the village? There are raging fires in the stoves of every household regardless of day and night? Do you think it is iron smelting? My villagers are frying salt!"

"Hahaha!" Li Shouhan picked up Yan Meier violently, and kissed her on the cheek, "My dear Meier! You are really my lucky star!"

Is this salt boiled and processed by seawater? !Coarse salt grains are in the most primitive crystalline state and contain a lot of impurities. The surface of the grains has a yellowish-yellow color, and the grains are large and uneven.In Li Shouhan's memory, it seems that the large grains of salt used to pickle pickles in winter are not so ugly.It seems that in the winter, the industrial salt bought by the boiler room of the prison for the softening water treatment of the boiler looks like this?

"This, can this be eaten?!" He was very puzzled.

"Of course I can eat it! In Annan, there are Laos, Chenla, and Siam farther away. I don't know how many people want to eat this kind of salt, but they still can't get it!" A young man in Yanhu Village was a little unconvinced .

"How much does this salt sell for a catty?"

"Salt merchants charge fifteen yuan a catty. I heard that they can be sold for fifty yuan. If it is shipped to Laos or Siam, it is said to be more expensive!"

Hearing these words, Li Shouhan felt confident.Hehe, one of my big gold mines!A steady stream of cash flow!

He remembered a lecture he had once heard, where a wild scholar said that Lin Daiyu was actually not poor, even richer than Xue Baochai's family!Aside from the fact that the Lin family is also a marquis, her father Lin Ruhai is the official, Yangzhou inspector salt censor!What is the equivalent of this job?It is equivalent to the current middle-level committee, the working group leader stationed in East China to supervise various companies such as PetroChina, Sinopec, China Mobile, and China Unicom.Think about it, can the Lin family be poor?If you want to be poor, you can't afford to be poor!

The wealth of Yangzhou salt merchants seems to have nothing special other than monopoly operation.However, salt is a necessity for human life!

hum!Salt mice in Yangzhou!You are waiting for me!From now on, the good days of wrapping water in the morning and evening water in the evening are gone!

"Meil! Let's go back home!"

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Spoiler alert: those earthy and dark technical systems of pig's feet will show their ugly fangs in the next chapter.Stay tuned!

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