This land was contracted by me [farming]

There is a long queue at the entrance of Huimin Supermarket. Since the first person to buy salt, everyone has been attracted by cheap and plentiful salt.Although there is still some fear in their hearts, cheap salt has overcome their fear, and they want to eat salt!

The coarse salt in the supermarket was sold out in a short time, and everyone who bought it was all smiling, holding the salt jar in their arms like a baby.From time to time, if I take a fancy look, I am afraid that my eyes will be dazzled and I will see it wrong.

Those who didn't grab it patted their legs and regretted it. Why couldn't they move faster and grab a position a little ahead!

Fang Wen is a buddy of Tongxing Restaurant, who is responsible for purchasing this piece.There are two restaurants in Jingyang, one is Zuixian Restaurant and the other is Tongxing Restaurant.The owner of Zuixianlou is the Xu family, and they also have an owner in Tongxing Restaurant, but they don't know who the owner is, usually only the shopkeeper manages the restaurant.

That Zuixianlou has recently obtained unbelievable fine salt. According to diners, the fried dishes are delicious.After eating vegetables fried with fine salt, and then eating coarse salt, it always feels a little strange.The shopkeeper's hair was all bald, but there was nothing he could do.They have no access to fine salt.

Today, the shopkeeper also asked him to come out and hang around, to inquire about the way of Zuixianlou Fine Salt.

When passing by a place, Fang Wen was attracted by the crowd.He remembered that this place used to be a grocery store, but it was sold and turned into a supermarket, which was still opened by the county magistrate.Is it open today?Why are there so many people?

Fang Wen walked towards Huimin Supermarket, and met many people along the way, some were happy and some were sad.Those who are happy hold an earthen jar in their arms, but those who are sad have no earthen jar in their hands.He grabbed a man who was holding an earthen jar and giggling, and asked him, "Big Brother, what are you packing here? Are you so happy?"

The man hugged the crock even tighter, he was afraid that this man would snatch it from him.Someone wanted to snatch the salt shaker before, and the guards in black shorts drove the salt snatcher away, "I warn you, if you want to snatch my salt, you have to ask the county magistrate to agree." Agreed. The county magistrate can say, whoever dares to steal the salt will be arrested and imprisoned!"

Fang Wen is a clever person who can understand words and winks.He didn't feel uncomfortable because of the man's guarded words, but smiled and said: "Brother, this is a misunderstanding! How can I grab your salt? I just saw it and wondered, is this salt different? Why is it so precious? ?”

And he also saw Mo Laosan holding an earthen pot before, walking quickly, he knew how poor Mo Laosan's family was.He sometimes buys Mo Laosan's food, but most of the people who come to the restaurant don't like food, so he can't help much.

Estimated the size of this earthen jar, it would cost forty or fifty renminbi.Those with salt jars in their hands were not the rich people he usually saw.The man in front of him is wearing old clothes with many patches, what's going on?

The man pointed to Huimin Supermarket, "There's a sign over there, go and see for yourself!" After speaking, he ran away with the salt jar in his arms.

Fang Wen muttered softly, who cares.

Because the crude salt was sold out, more than half of the crowd dispersed.The rest are those who can afford fine salt, and the price of fine salt is much cheaper than the previous coarse salt.

The sign was blocked by someone, so Fang Wen didn't see it, but he saw the "fine salt ten cents a catty" in the supermarket at a glance.

God helps me too!

"Shopkeeper, I want all these fine salts!" Fang Wen yelled, and everyone around fell silent.Complaints broke out afterwards, "Why? You say you want everything?" "That's right, you're the only one with money?"

Fang Wen's face has been honed through repeated purchases, and these voices are neither painful nor itchy to him.As long as you can get fine salt, it doesn't matter what.

Zhao Keran went to the Salt Tax Department, and Shumo was staring at the supermarket for a while, and he was also the shopkeeper and part-time accountant of the supermarket.Before leaving, Zhao Keran reminded Shumo that no one can monopolize the sale and purchase of salt.

Fang Wen's question, he will.

Shumo cleared his throat and said, "My little brother, our Huimin Supermarket aims to benefit the people, benefit the people, and facilitate the people. The county magistrate has already ordered that the salt in the supermarket should not be bought and sold in a monopoly manner. The limit is five catties, and registration is required. If it is found that there are people who have hired someone to buy it multiple times, then the county magistrate can only ask the owner behind the scenes and the salt buyer to go to jail."

Fang Wen didn't expect this to happen, but five catties was better than nothing, so he said, "Then give me five catties."

Shumo smiled again: "Okay, please wait in line to buy salt. Our store refuses to catch up with others, and jumps in line to buy."

Discussions came from the crowd, and they intuitively felt for the first time that the new county magistrate in Jingyang was different from the previous ones.

"This county magistrate is a good official."

"If it was before, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to buy it anymore."

"Yes, and this coarse salt and fine salt are so cheap. Especially fine salt, we have never heard of it. Such a treasure is sold so cheaply, it really benefits the people."

"Then we are in trouble now, can we go to the Yamen to report the case and seek justice?"

"This... let's wait. Those who reported the crime before were beaten to death. What if this person just gave us cheap salt and doesn't want anyone to report the crime?"

"makes sense."

……

Fang Wen stood at the back of the line, listening to the discussions of the people around him.I couldn't help sneering in my heart, I felt that I was a good official if I gave a little benefit, hum, I don't know how to die when the time comes!

When Fang Wen was finally discharged, there were only three catties of fine salt left.Fang Wen wanted all of them, and it would be easy to do business when I go back today.Later, the people behind Fang Wen were miserable, complaining in their hearts that Fang Wen bought too much.

Those aristocratic families with salt mines also knew about Huimin Supermarket selling low-priced salt.

For this reason, Wang Huaiyi called Fan, Qian, and Sun. He dropped his glass angrily, and said angrily, "This little bastard has no hair yet, so he dares to fool me! I said why does he need salt? Wait for us!"

Patriarch Fan squinted his eyes, and said coldly: "Huh, the Zhao family is really a good tutor from a scholarly family. He, Zhao Keran, set the price of salt like this, and we don't want to raise the price of salt too high."

The head of the Qian family said: "It's more than that. Don't forget that there is the Xu family who eats inside and outside. With his family's salt lake, isn't the county magistrate of Zhao suppressing the price of salt in the future? Maybe, we The price has to be lowered.”

Wang Huaiyi glanced at Patriarch Sun who was drinking tea and said nothing, and asked, "Changde, what do you think about this?"

Sun Changde asked back: "What do you care about?" He put down his teacup and continued, "Patriarch Wang, emotions can easily affect people's judgment. The secret letter sent to Jiangnan a few days ago is almost in Mr. Zhang's hands.

Mr. Zhang is the prime minister's confidant, we can't fight this little one.Mr. Prime Minister can't fight the old one?As long as the Zhao family is in trouble, how can he, Zhao Keran, jump around? " Then he mocked: "The Xu family?The Xu family is even worse.The money he earned was not enough to fill his family's second son's military hole, so we waited for the news from Mr. Zhang, and we started to get his Xu family's salt lake. "

After Wang Huaiyi listened, most of the anger in his heart dissipated, "I heard that the Xujia Salt Lake has already started to use the 'beach drying method' to make salt. That's okay, let's pick up the cheap ones that are ready-made. After all, they are foreign, and they don't understand unity. The importance of consistency. The Xu family offended Mr. Zhang last year in paying taxes, and almost made us a big mess. Then the Salt Lake, it should be considered as compensation."

"You can't do it too badly. There are a lot of soldiers under his family's old second-hand." Patriarch Fan was a little scared, "He and the late General Huo were close friends, so he also won the favor of General Huo. In a hurry, he If you really do something against us, Old General Huo may turn a blind eye to it for the sake of his late son."

Sun Changde sneered, and the whole person was arrogant, "Afraid what will he do? Let's sell the grain harvested in autumn this year by ten times. If he has money, he will buy it. If he has no money, he will lead a large group of his men to starve to death."

Except for Wang Huaiyi, the other two were a little scared by Sun Changde.This Sun family is actually a foreign family, and it has not been here for as long as the Xu family, but the Sun family is better at life than the Xu family, and they are good at fawning.Wang Huaiyi was coaxed by Sun Changde so that he didn't know the east, west, north and south, and Sun Changde used Wang Huaiyi to break into the Jingyang family in one fell swoop.

Sun Changde is crazy, but they didn't expect to be so crazy.

That is the army stationed at the border!

But they didn't dare to disobey and refute even more. Even the border army was nothing to him, let alone them.

"By the way, there seems to be some movement in the Xu family recently." Patriarch Fan clenched his fists under his wide sleeves to calm himself down, and told the story reported by his subordinates, "The housekeeper knows a friend who is a jade carving, and his surname is Xu. I'm looking for a master of jade carving in Jingyang, and I heard that the price is very high. His friend also tried it, but the Xu family thought he was heavy handed, so they didn't use him."

Wang Huaiyi stroked his beard, not paying much attention to it, "It's just playing with things and losing one's mind, there can't be any troubles."

A door-to-door visit must be accompanied by a gift, not a bribe, but a courtesy.Especially those like Zhao Keran who came directly to the door without asking for an invitation.

It's not that Zhao Keran didn't want to post the invitation, it's that the Salt Taxation Department took him for nothing.I have posted so many invitations, but every time they have disappeared, and there has been no news.He has recently spent more money on writing cloth than anything else.

In order to solve the matter of the Xu family's salt lake as soon as possible, Zhao Keran came directly to the door with a small bamboo basket in his cheek.

"Who is coming! The salt tax department is important, and idlers are not allowed to enter!" The officers and soldiers guarding the gate were dressed in armor, with one hand on the saber at their waist.As long as Zhao Keran took a step forward, they would immediately draw their swords.

Zhao Keran saw the salt tax envoy returning home from outside on the satellite monitoring activated by 000, and the two would meet in front of the door soon.Zhao Keran stepped back obediently, the sword has no eyes, he had better be careful.

When the two gatekeepers saw Zhao Ke and retreated, they stopped pressing each other, and the other side stood up if they wanted to.

After half a cup of tea, the carriage of the Salt Tax Envoy arrived at the main entrance. Zhao Keran stopped in front of it, and shouted: "Master Salt Tax Envoy, Zhao Keran is the magistrate of Xiajingyang County. It is really necessary to rush to visit today. Let’s talk things over, and I hope the adults will make it happen.”

The carriage opened from the inside, and a handsome young man in a blue official robe jumped out of the carriage.

Zhao Keran applauded silently in his heart, this beauty is also good-looking in jumping a carriage, and her movements are much smoother than him.

"Jingyang Salt Tax Envoy Feng Zhu, I have seen the county magistrate." Feng Zhu bowed his head slightly and made an official salute.

On the contrary, he lived up to his name, with a tall and straight figure, like green pines and green bamboos, extremely elegant.

Zhao Keran returned the salute, "Master Feng is polite."

Feng Zhu glanced at Zhao Keran who was a head shorter than him, and told himself not to be angry.Isn't it just working overtime? Isn't the meaning of work just working overtime!It doesn't matter what this poor place wants or doesn't have, the little county magistrate still sends him invitations every three days, always trying to make trouble for him.If he didn't reply, he was blocked at the door of the house.

He didn't believe it anymore, this little dwarf could really bribe him today to be stern and selfless and seal him as your lord!