Wentang

Chapter 303 Zhao Family Comes to Vote (915)

The progress of the project is fast, thanks to the high efficiency of the hired workers.

Three meals a day and a salary of two cents are already unimaginably high wages for them. They are not willing to be driven away for stealing, raping and slipping, so they work as if they are desperate.

And slowly some old people and children began to appear on the periphery of the construction site. At first, Yue Shan thought they were here to beg or find a job, but after asking, he found out that they were the parents and children of the workers.

The purpose of their visit is simple, to eat.Those workers would share part of their meals with their families.

At the beginning, Yue Shan wondered if the workers would give food to his family from the construction site, after all, he promised that everyone would have enough to eat.What is fullness, and how much is fullness?Too loose and too easy to exploit.

Let people observe quietly, and found that no one eats too much, and everyone distributes their share to their families.

But he knows that this situation is very dangerous. Now people dare not take more because they are afraid of being found out and kicked out. After a long time, some people will not be able to control their greed.What to do then?really kicked out?

It's not that he is reluctant to part with that little food, but that rules are rules, and once they are broken, the whole atmosphere will collapse, and there will be more troublesome things in the future.

And he didn't plan to develop the habit of getting something for nothing for these people, and he had to work hard if he wanted to eat.

If he was really too poor to survive, he wouldn't mind helping out, as was the case with the imperial court helping the victims.

In fact, he had already done this, asking Jia Yizhang to give priority to those people in the county who were so poor that they could not afford to eat to work, and the rest would not starve to death even if they were poor.

Since you have a way, put in the corresponding efforts to earn a living, don't think about eating for nothing.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he made changes to the eating rules, from unlimited eating to limited eating.

Everyone distributed a relatively large clay pot. How big is it? A big-bellied man may not be able to finish a pot of rice. It is good for ordinary people to eat half of the pot.

Each meal, whether thin or dry, was only a single pot of rice.If you are not full after eating, ask the foreman and the workers to jointly apply for a bigger pot for you, but if you find cheating, all of them will be thrown out.

If you can't finish it, you can give it to family members outside.So generally speaking, Yueshan is more benevolent.

In addition, he would also give these people a little bit of small work from time to time, such as picking up firewood, mowing grass and so on.These things can be used in the future whether it is lighting a fire or making a plant ash solution.

Those workers can naturally feel Yue Shan's care for them from the amount of food, and they are more grateful to him and work harder.

On the seventh day, a two-kilometer-long civil embankment was completed, and the salt field started at the same time was repaired for 15 yuan.But at this time, a sudden heavy rain forced them to stop working for three days.

Even so, in No. 13 days, all the 30 yuan salt fields were completed, two days earlier than planned.

Later, someone from Yueshan dug a large puddle upstream of the salt field for the purpose of taking brine.

Yes, he is not going to directly use seawater to dry salt, but chooses to dig a pit to get brine.Brine is cleaner than seawater, and its concentration is generally higher than seawater, making it more suitable for drying salt.

Of course, not so many people were needed to dig the brine pit, only 300 people were left, and the rest were all scattered to build camps, large docks, and ports.

200 people dug the brine pit, and 200 people built a canal from the brine pit to the salt field.After the brine pit is dug, and the treadmills made in advance are installed, it only takes a few workers to keep stepping on them to continuously send the brine into the salt fields.

It takes exactly fifteen days to finish all this work.

In the afternoon of that day, Zhao Jingcheng secretly brought another person outside the camp to ask for an interview.

"Zhao Jingze/Zhao Jingcheng pays respects to Qing Shuihou."

"Get up." Yue Shan looked at Zhao Jingze and asked, "Are you Zhao Jingze, the eldest son of the Zhao family?"

"Yes, I am Jingcheng's big brother Zhao Jingze." Zhao Jingze said with a low eyebrow.

"You two are here, it seems that Zhao Xiong still doesn't like this Marquis." Yue Shan said displeased.

"Qingshui Hou misunderstood. My father has admired you for a long time. It's just that he is old and weak and feels cold and inconvenient to travel recently. That's why my two brothers brought him to see you." Zhang Jingze explained calmly.

"Hehe... that's fine, we all know the reason in our hearts, and I won't pursue it for the sake of the two of you. What about the things I want, how are you preparing?" Yue Shan sneered.

"It's ready, please have a look." Zhao Jingcheng, who had been silent all this time, took out a thick stack of paper and handed it over.

Xi Junmai took it and sent it to Yue Shan. He casually flipped through it a few times and combined it with the information he found to judge the authenticity.Found that there are indeed differences, but overall it is not a big problem.

It shows that the credibility of this information is relatively high, but he did not make a decision easily, and a special person is needed to investigate it.

After putting the materials aside, he said approvingly: "Good job, you have passed the test."

The two brothers knelt down at the same time with surprise on their faces and said, "I would like to do the work of a dog and a horse for Qingshuihou."

"Get up, I don't have so many red tapes here." Yue Shan waved his hand and said, "Now I have one thing for you to do. If this thing is done, all the nasty things your family did before will be wiped out."

"Please clear the water and wait for your orders." Repressing his excitement, Zhao Jingze said.

"There's a group of river pirates at the mouth of the Yellow River. I'll give you five days to figure out their situation," Yue Shan said.

"Here." Zhao Jingze said.

After chatting for a few more words, Yue Shan let the two of them leave, and he himself immediately called Liu Rengui and other think tanks over to verify the authenticity of this information.

Liu Rengui is both civil and military, and he has done black-bellied things in history.Yue Shan also consciously trained him in this direction, and usually let him come over as a staff member when he has nothing to do.It really helped Yue Yue Shan a lot.

It is said that after leaving the camp, the two brothers looked at each other and laughed at the same time.

Didn't they do so much to clean up the black background before, and then hug their thighs?

The two of them were still hesitant to think about the extent to which this exposing material was written.They were not sure if this Qing Shuihou had the courage to clean up all these people.If they were held up high and put down gently, their family would be miserable.

After they inquired that Yue Shan had killed a county magistrate and installed a new county magistrate with only a few words, all worries were put down.Then he wrote down all the information he could gather.

"This Qingshui Houguo is very personable, and his extraordinary bearing at such a young age is impressive." After laughing, Zhao Jingze sighed.

"Hehe...Brother finally knows how I felt back then. To tell you the truth, when he wanted to chop off my hand, I was so scared that I almost peed my pants." Zhao Jingcheng laughed.

"When I heard what you said, I always felt that it was a bit exaggerated. Only when you meet a real person will you know. It's better to be famous when you meet." Zhao Jingze said.

The two brothers sighed for a while, and then Zhao Jingcheng said: "Leave the river robbers to me. I know who's behind the scenes, so it's easier to get information."

Zhao Jingze thought about it and said, "Okay, but we must pay attention to safety. Those people are different from us, they are all desperadoes."

After the discussion, the two brothers quietly returned home and began their respective preparations.

Here, Yue Shan could easily distinguish the authenticity of the material. Generally speaking, it was true, and it was much more detailed than the information he had collected himself.The problem is that several of them have been charged with relatively light crimes, or they deliberately turned major incidents into minor incidents.

Yue Shan was not surprised at all, these families were all in-laws of the Zhao family, and like theirs, they were serious landlords.At most, it is more ruthless to exploit tenants, and they have never done murder and extortion.

If they are sensible, it is not impossible to let them go.If you don't know a person, you're just hugging grass and beating rabbits.

After confirming the authenticity of the materials, several people began to make detailed plans.After discussing until midnight, the plan was successfully formulated.

Now we are waiting for the exact news of the river pirates.

Early the next morning, Yue Shan put down everything and came to the side of the Yantian early in the morning. Today is the day when the Yantian is filled with water for the first time.

　Fourth, ask for a recommendation ticket, a monthly ticket.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)