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Liu Ziqiu frowned and said, "What's wrong?"

Wei Zheng said: "With this letter, it makes sense for the Yang family to hand over the operation of the saltworks to Changshan Village. But have you ever thought about why Yang Xuangan wrote this letter?"

Liu Ziqiu laughed and said, "Never mind him, as long as he can get it back to the saltworks!"

Wei Zheng shook his head and said, "Is there anyone in the village who understands the operation of the saltworks? Does Li Xian, the steward of the saltworks, listen to the Yang family or you? Who controls the sale of salt?"

This last question is the most deadly.Table salt has been a monopoly since ancient times. No matter how much salt is produced, if there is no sales certificate from the imperial court, it can only be private salt.

Liu Ziqiu nodded and said, "That's right! Changshan Village doesn't have the ability to control the salt field, and the salt field actually belongs to the Yang family. But so what? Our purpose is to get what we should, and that's enough."

Wei Zheng said, "No way! If what happened a few days ago hadn't happened, such a result would be fine. Even if you kill Yang Heihu, if you don't intimidate Yang Jishan anymore, there is still room for negotiation in the end. But now, the situation is different The Yang family can drive Changshan Village out of the salt field at any time, can you really kill Yang Jishan then?"

"Liu has already paid attention to what Brother Wei said. That's why he didn't directly hurt Yang Jishan, but he still didn't think carefully. The responsibility really lies with Liu."

Liu Ziqiu's voice dropped.He was indeed a little impulsive last night. The energy possessed by a behemoth like the Yang family is beyond his ability to resist. Impulsiveness may bring disaster to Changshan Village.

Wei Zheng was very satisfied with Liu Ziqiu's attitude of taking responsibility bravely, his expression eased, and he said, "So, we need to find out the reason why Yang Xuangan did this."

Liu Ziqiu was overjoyed, and said, "Mister, have you already made up your mind?"

Wei Zheng said with a smile: "Yang Xuangan's purpose of doing this is to make outsiders think that Changshan Village is the owner of the salt field, at least in name."

"That's right! He wants to use Changshan Village as a shield."

Wei Zheng continued: "According to the status of the Yang family, running a salt farm is not a big deal. So what is Yang Xuangan afraid of? Who else would make him afraid?"

"Hehe, at least he's not afraid of me." Liu Ziqiu laughed at himself, then suddenly came to his senses and said, "He's afraid of the emperor!"

"That's right! With the status of the Yang family, if there is anyone who can scare them, it must be the current emperor. Which rich man doesn't have a few properties? Don't do anything wrong, and don't be afraid of ghosts. Why is Yang Xuangan afraid that the emperor will know? Explain He has an unspeakable secret about running this saltworks!"

Wei Zheng's stripped-down analysis has gradually approached the truth of the matter.

Liu Ziqiu murmured: "As long as you master this secret, you may force the Yang family to hand over the saltworks completely..."

"No, you are wrong!" Wei Zheng interrupted Liu Ziqiu and said, "The power of Changshan Village will never be able to fight against the Yang family, so the wisest choice for you now is to show favor to the Yang family!"

"Show kindness to the Yang family?"

"Yes, Changshan Village only needs [-]% of the dividends, and the rest will be given to the Yang family!"

Liu Ziqiu suddenly understood why Xiao Xin agreed to share the dividend at [-]%.For the people in Changshan Village, being able to live a stable and prosperous life is the most important thing.Liu Ziqiu couldn't help hesitating: "But this secret..."

"Didn't he say it at the end of the letter? It's a big deal." Wei Zheng laughed, "What's a big deal, and I'm worried that the emperor will know? Only treason!"

……

Yang Xuangan, who was far away in Luoyang, sneezed suddenly.

A scribe sitting opposite him smiled and said, "The weather is getting colder, brother Xuangan should add more clothes."

"This bit of coldness is nothing." Yang Xuangan pondered, "It's just that Yang is still undecided about that matter, so I want to invite Pu Shangong to discuss it."

It turned out that this young scribe was Li Mi, one of Yang Guang's servants. He had inherited his father's title and was Duke of Pushan County, and he had always been good friends with Yang Xuangan.

Li Mi stroked his beard and said, "Brother Xuangan thinks that those muddy legs can make things happen?"

Yang Xuangan frowned and said: "But Lu Mingyue sent someone to bring a message, saying that both the Xie family and the Wang family in the south of the Yangtze River agreed to raise their flags to support them. The Xie and Wang families are big families in the south of the Yangtze River, and they are quite popular. If there is chaos in Shandong and Jiangnan at the same time, the court will Difficult to care about, we must mobilize heavy troops to wipe out, but the opportunity is great!"

Li Mi said disdainfully: "There will be more opportunities like this in the future. Brother Xuangan's plan is less than a year old, so why rush it."

Yang Xuangan said: "If we rule today, if we don't take advantage of the civil unrest, the court soldiers and horses will not be easily mobilized, so where is the opportunity?"

"Yang Guang is very happy, and there is no civil strife, so you can persuade him to use troops abroad!"

"For foreign use?" Yang Xuangan shook his head and said, "Pu Shangong followed Yang Guang on his northern tour, didn't he see Qimin Khan weeding His Majesty himself?"

"Turks cannot use soldiers, what about Tuyuhun? What about Tiele and Goguryeo?"

If Yang Xuangan realized something, he said: "Many Chinese and military officials in the court were generals under my father's command, and there are many people who have good friends with me. I should try my best to tell your Majesty to go on an expedition."

……

Liu Ziqiu knew that Yang Xuangan did rebel in history, but it should have been during Yang Guang's second conquest of Goguryeo.Unexpectedly, Wei Zheng deduced that Yang Xuangan had turned against him just based on a letter from his family. Liu Ziqiu couldn't help but look at this most famous admonisher in history with admiration. It turned out that he was not only upright, but also a resourceful man.

"People respect me one foot, and I respect others ten feet. I have no objection to reconciling with the Yang family." Liu Ziqiu hesitated, "But, can my people enter the Yang family's grand courtyard?"

Wei Zheng laughed and said, "If you can't get in, someone else can."

Liu Ziqiu suddenly said: "You mean Li Xian!"

When Li Xian got the news, he was overjoyed. He immediately wrote a letter and ordered someone to send it to Luoyang on a flying horse. He arrived a day earlier than Yang Jishan.Because of Li Xian's letter, Yang Xuangan scolded Yang Jishan.Yang Jishan had no choice but to temporarily suppress the idea of ​​revenge, and Changshan Village could finally live a stable life for a few days.

But since then, Liu Ziqiu has never arranged for the villagers to work in the salt field.Since the actual control of the saltworks is still in the hands of the Yang family, why did he let the villagers do coolies?It is enough to get [-]% of the dividends every month, which is also negotiated in the new agreement.

Li Xian is also very happy. He is a very dedicated person and has many ideas about the saltworks.Now, there is no one on the top to tell him what to do, so he can drastically build the saltworks according to his own ideas, and the saltworks have been further developed instead.

Dongyue's dividend was brought back, although it was only 200%, it was a full [-] taels, much more than before.Liu Ziqiu still continued the rules set by Xiao Xin, each household was divided into three and two, and the rest was used for the public use of the village.

It is easy to do things with money, and within a few days, the primary school in Changshan Village was built.Liu Ziqiu also asked Uncle Li and Third Aunt to go around the city and buy the remaining money into paddy fields.A good paddy field is 20 taels per mu, and you can buy [-] mu.Liu Ziqiu knows very well that the present is a farming society after all, and only by saving more money and buying hundreds of acres of land can the villagers have a stable source of income.

After the school was built, Liu Ziqiu immediately announced that all boys and girls under the age of 12 and girls under the age of 48 in the village must attend the school.The young adults and teenagers in the village were divided into two groups.The young men were responsible for the daily guards of the village, and Liu Ziqiu organized [-] teenagers to train during the day and learn to read at night.

Except for the steel knife that Liu Ziqiu took from Yang Heihu, there is not a single real weapon in the village.However, Liu Ziqiu is not in a hurry, he is mainly doing queue and physical training now, and the other three are the enemy boxing, military boxing and bamboo spear assassination.But Liu Ziqiu paid special attention to actual combat, and would set aside an hour every afternoon for the teenagers to fight each other or fight in groups.The actual combat training was very realistic, and teenagers were injured almost every day, but Liu Ziqiu refused to relax for a moment.

Another training is riding.Liu Ziqiu brought back five horses from Jiangdu and let everyone take turns to practice.The teenagers are most interested in riding horses, but the five horses suffered a lot. People can rest, but the horses have no time to rest.These five horses were not good horses, and one of them died of exhaustion in just two days.Liu Ziqiu had no choice but to reduce the time for riding training.

Not only was Ma tired, but Liu Ziqiu noticed that the teenagers were also listless.After asking, I found out that these teenagers only ate vegetables and porridge at home every day.Teenagers are just growing up, without enough nutrition, how can they survive high-intensity training?Liu Ziqiu immediately decided to gather the teenagers to eat, to ensure that every meal would have meat, and an egg would be added every morning.

The public silver taels in the village have already been used, so they can only use the money that Liu Ziqiu got from Xu Tingfu. The daily food for the 48 teenagers was a huge expense, and the money was spent like running water, which made Gao Xiuer feel distressed.

However, in this way, the effect is also immediate. In only five or six days, the mental state of the teenagers has changed a lot, and each of them is alive again.

Everything seemed to be gradually becoming normal, except for one thing, every night when it was time to read and write, those teenagers were all yawning, far worse than the children in the daytime.Wei Zheng's voice became hoarse, and the teenagers didn't listen much in a daze.

After half a month, Wei Zheng finally couldn't bear it anymore, and went to Liu Ziqiu to complain: "I really can't teach them, and the evening classes will be suspended from now on."

Liu Ziqiu's grades were mediocre when he was in school, but he knew the importance of reading, so he refused politely: "That won't work, you have to keep teaching."

"Why?" Wei Zheng was puzzled. "Aren't you already in contact to buy land? They will be farming anyway in the future, so it's the same whether they can read or not."

Liu Ziqiu waved his hand and said, "I regard them as my brothers and family members. They cannot farm the land all their lives!"

Wei Zheng laughed suddenly, and said, "I knew you were not that simple, so you can tell me now, what are your plans!"