time travel system

Chapter 106
Jiang Xiaobai was very surprised: "Have you heard of my name?"

After shouting a few words, Zhuang Chusi realized that he had lost his composure, curled up on the seat in fright, and begged: "Master Dao, calm down, Master Dao, calm down, the little old man is talking nonsense, that person... must not be Master Dao! "

"Which person?" Jiang Xiaobai was even more surprised.

"Yes..." Zhuang Chusi was tightly restrained on the car seat by the seat belt when he jumped up just now. He thought he was suppressed by Jiang Xiaobai's spell, so he believed in Jiang Xiaobai's ability even more. I was terrified in my heart, but I didn't dare to disobey, and stammered: "Yesterday, the magistrate of the county posted a notice saying that he would arrest a gangster named Jiang Xiaobai..."

Jiang Xiaobai finally understood that it was the trouble he wrote in Wei Qiuyue's boudoir the day before yesterday.

At that time, Jiang Xiaobai killed Wan Yanliang. In order to avoid bringing disaster to Wei Qiuyue's family, he wrote "Jiang Xiaobai is the murderer" on the floor of the boudoir.

It seems that the effect is obvious. The government of Yizhou City not only believed it, but also issued a sea arrest notice.

According to Zhuang Chusi's description, the sea arrest notice appeared at the gate of the city yesterday, and the yamen servant in charge of pasting the notice read it aloud, claiming that Jiang Xiaobai had killed an important figure in the Kingdom of Jin. , as long as you provide any information about the thief Jiang Xiaobai, once verified, you will be rewarded with ten taels of silver; if you can assist the government in capturing or beheading Jiang Xiaobai, you will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver.

Jiang Xiaobai couldn't help smiling wryly, my head is only worth 100 taels of silver, how ignorant it is!
After Zhuang Chusi finished speaking, he looked at Jiang Xiaobai in horror and held his breath.

Jiang Xiaobai asked with a smile: "Do you think I'm that thief Jiang Xiaobai?"

"No, absolutely not! The Taoist master is immortal and kind-hearted, how can he be the kind of robber who kills and steals goods!" Zhuang Chusi's head shook like a rattle.

Jiang Xiaobai laughed loudly: "You are mistaken, I am really that Jiang Xiaobai!"

"Ah!" Zhuang Chusi almost lost his breath.

"The night before yesterday, that Wan Yanliang broke into Wei's mansion and sent soldiers to surround the boudoir of Miss Wei Qiuyue, trying to ruin Miss Wei's family. I just happened to pass by and killed that prostitute." Jiang Xiaobai laughed. "Uncle Zhuang, do you think that Wanyan Liang should be killed? Is a gangster like me good?"

Zhuang Chusi was silent, he was just a low class person, he didn't understand the inside story at all, and he didn't dare to comment on such things.

However, Jiang Xiaobai's "Uncle Zhuang" somewhat dispelled his worries, and felt that since the other party was so polite, his own safety should be guaranteed.

In the next few minutes, Jiang Xiaobai simply asked Zhuang Chusi a few questions.

It turned out that there was really a carpentry workshop near the exit of the sixth gate of time and space. There were seven carpenters, fourteen apprentices, and four handymen.

Moreover, this woodworking workshop is affiliated to the Yizhou government, and it mainly makes various furniture for the government. The daily management is in charge of the county magistrate.

Jiang Xiaobai asked: "Since it is the government's business, why is it located in the outskirts of the city? Could it be that the city is already overcrowded?"

"Overcrowded?" Zhuang Chusi smiled wryly, and said, "Since the Liao people retreated and set fire to it, the city has been desolate, houses have collapsed, and few people can be seen in the market during the daytime. The overcrowded scene has long since disappeared. .”

This is basically consistent with Jiang Xiaobai's estimate. When the Liao people notified Yizhou City, there were an estimated 4 to [-] people in the city.

After successive wars, Liao, Jin, and Song came in turn, and the population was at most four or five thousand left.

Zhuang Chusi continued: "The reason why the carpentry workshop is built in the suburbs is really for convenience."

"Is convenience more important than safety?" Jiang Xiaobai asked, "It's only a few hundred steps away, and there are empty spaces everywhere in the city. Isn't your carpentry workshop missing?"

"It's... for the convenience of getting materials." Although Zhuang Chusi was afraid of the government, he was even more afraid of Jiang Xiaobai, so he hesitated for a while, and then told the truth.

It turned out that although this carpentry workshop was called government-run, it was actually the private property of the county magistrate Hu Gongdao.

Furniture is naturally inseparable from wood. In this era of dense forests and no "Forest Protection Law", it is reasonable to build the workshop in the northern suburbs, closer to the mountains, so that it is convenient to use local materials.

However, the real reason is not the case.

Now that Yizhou's people's livelihood is in decline, there are only a few thousand people in a county, and it's not bad if everyone can eat enough. How can they afford to buy new furniture?

Therefore, the sales targets of the wood workshop are not people in Yizhou at all, but Baozhou, Hejian, and even some of them are transported to Bianjing.

Going to a big city and selling it to wealthy families, ordinary furniture is naturally not cost-effective, only furniture made of high-grade wood can have enough profit to support this workshop.

Such as sandalwood, rosewood, rosewood.

However, Yizhou is only rich in tendon wood, Mandshurica mandshurica and birch, and there are no such precious woods.

However, there are none on the mountain, but there are rich families.

After years of military disasters, there are already ten villages and nine empty villages nearby, and the rich families fled to death.

But people are gone, but their house furniture is still there, especially in some old houses, almost the whole building is made of precious wood, beams, columns, rafters, even windows and door panels are all very valuable.

The county magistrate Hu Gongdao took a fancy to this, so he picked up a carpentry workshop on the outskirts of the city. Under the name of government-run, it was actually doing house demolition.

Hu Gongdao sent many people to go deep into the countryside, and as long as they saw good wood, they would buy it if they could, and steal it if they couldn't.

In just a few months, a large amount of precious wood has been hoarded in the wood workshop, among which there are tens of thousands of catties of rosewood alone.

This kind of activity can't be seen in the light, so the wood workshop is set up outside the city.

"You mean, the huanghuali wood alone weighs tens of thousands of catties?" Jiang Xiaobai's eyes narrowed instantly.

As a modern person, I don't know how precious huanghuali wood is, and the good materials can be sold for tens of thousands of yuan a catty.

If it is really [-] catties, it will be hundreds of millions of dollars, making a fortune!

Zhuang Chusi calculated in his mind, and said: "The big ingredients alone are more than 1 catties. If the small ingredients are also counted, [-] catties are not lost."

Jiang Xiaobai asked: "If these woods are made into furniture, how much silver can they be sold for?"

"I don't know how much the furniture sells for, I don't know." Zhuang Chusi thought for a while and said, "However, last month, Mr. Xiancheng brought people to see the goods, and a rosewood Eight Immortals table less than 20 catties sold for [-] yuan. Two silver coins!"

"Squeak!" Jiang Xiaobai braked and asked in amazement, "What, only 20 taels of silver?"

"Ah!" Zhuang Chusi's body jumped forward suddenly, his face was flushed instantly, and his mouth was desperately trying to close, but it seemed that there was always a powerful force trying to pry his teeth open.

"Pfft!" Finally, a foul smell sprayed out!
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