My life skills in Daming Liver

Sure enough, as Su Ze expected, the two guys who followed Lin Deqing did not intend to fight, but to chase Lin Deqing back to find out his origin.

Receiving the reminder from Little Luobotou, Lin Deqing purposely took a long detour, and quickly threw off the two following guys.

After the three met, they made sure that no one was following them, and then returned to the guard with lingering fear.

Su Ze also broke out in a cold sweat. He was already very cautious, but he didn't expect to be targeted by someone when he sold refined salt for the first time.

Su Ze was afraid that he would be deeply lucky in the future, glad that he traveled in Changningwei. If he was in other places, even if he had a golden finger, he would probably be ripped apart.

What happened to the ghost market this time made Su Ze remind himself again that this is a chaotic world, not the peaceful and prosperous world of later generations.

In this way, if you want to exchange refined salt into silver, I am afraid that you will have to go through a lot of trouble.

Su Ze thought about it, and it should be that he sold the salt this time, which violated the interests of some people.

It was Lin Deqing's first time selling salt, and the transaction went smoothly, so the one who offended could only be the salt seller in the ghost market.

But the ghost market only opens at the end of the ten-day period, so how can I find out the background of the salt dealers in the ghost market?

Su Ze returned to the family temple with a sad face, only to find a familiar face sitting in the family temple.

Frowning, it was Xiong Wu, the leader of Arhat Foot, who came here.

After the last fight with the Beishan Chen family, the twelve arhats were knocked out, and all of them were carried back to Changningwei by Su Ze.

I have to say that these people's lives are really hard. The Xiong Wu in front of him was in a coma for half a day, and he was able to stand up and move around after two days.

However, his left arm was broken, and now it is tied to a plank, and it is not known whether it will be disabled.

After these arhats woke up, they would immediately beg Su Ze for mercy.

But these guys injured everyone in Changningwei, how could Su Ze let them go so easily.

So Su Ze invited his old grandfather and agreed with them to reclaim the wasteland by the side of the mountain, and they would be freed only after one person reclaimed five acres of wasteland.

The other Arhats are serious about opening up wasteland every day, but this Xiong Wu clamors for a rest after doing farm work for a while, and always hangs around in front of Su Ze.

Unexpectedly, Xiong Wu came to the family temple early in the morning, but seeing Xiong Wu's scarred face, Su Ze suddenly asked:

"Xiong Wu, do you know about ghost markets?"

"of course I know."

"Then do you know the salt seller in the ghost market?"

Xiong Wu turned his eyes and asked, "What does the young man want to know?"

"what do you know?"

"There are famous people in the county, and I, Xiong Wu, know them all. I can talk to anyone who is a low-ranking person."

Su Ze said without changing his face: "You are now a prisoner of Changning Guard."

Xiong Wu just said with a playful smile, "I only have one request."

Su Ze frowned and asked, "Tell me about it."

"I just want to follow the young man."

"Why do you follow me? Don't you see that I can't even eat enough?"

Xiong Wu shook his head and said: "Last year, a fortune teller gave me a fortune telling me that this year I will meet a noble person for a lifetime, and it must be due to you, my husband."

Su Ze still has his own charm. He doesn't think that he can accept a big man like Xiong Wu as his younger brother with a shock.

Xiong Wulai was in Changningwei, so he might have some ulterior motives.

But now Su Ze needs his information, so he pretended to be a snake and said, "Let's talk about the origin of this salt sale first."

Xiong Wu smiled and said:

"The salt seller in this ghost market is named Zhu Qi, and he used to be a kitchen owner in the nearby Putian Salt Field."

Sure enough, it is a kitchen household, so it can take out the official salt from Putian Salt Field.

"It used to be a kitchen household? Isn't it a kitchen household now?"

According to the rules of the old Zhu's family, once a certain household registration is established, all the children and grandchildren will have this household registration.

Zaohu is a salt worker who cooks salt. Could it be possible that he can still get out of the family by himself?

Xiong Wu continued: "That's right, now Zhu Qi leads a group of kitchen households to become Japanese pirates at sea."

Sure enough, it was a Japanese pirate, Su Ze sighed, he had been traveling for so long, it was time to meet a Japanese pirate.

"Then Zhu Qi was coerced by Japanese pirates, or did he do it himself?"

Xiong Wu laughed and said: "This Xiong can't tell for sure, please ask the young man to tell after listening."

Xiong Wu didn't hold back, and said directly:

"This Zhu Qi was originally a kitchen household in Putian Saltworks. Although he said that his life was very tight, he didn't want to be a Japanese pirate."

"But Putian Saltworks suffered a disaster last year and was robbed by a group of Japanese pirates."

Su Ze asked suspiciously: "Isn't it normal for the southeastern provinces to be robbed by Japanese pirates? Just because of the robbery by Japanese pirates, they went to become bandits?"

Xiong Wu chuckled and said, "Little Xianggong, let me tell you slowly that it is common for this salt farm to be robbed, but it's a pity that the Putian Salt Farm was robbed at an inopportune time."

"Last year, Eunuch Cao, the eunuch guarding the Bosi Department in Fujian, just arrived in office. He took two thousand salt citations from the imperial court in his hand and wanted to go to Putian Salt Farm to pick up salt. salt, but a month later the Putian Salt Farm was robbed of a thousand citations of salt."

Now Su Ze understood immediately.

Please quote, many eunuchs and ministers of the emperor in the Ming Dynasty would ask for salt from the emperor before they were released to other places.

The stagnation of salt quotations means that in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, because too much salt quotations were issued indiscriminately, it was impossible to pick up salt with salt quotations.

This Yanyin stagnation can be regarded as a common rhetoric used by the saltworks to prevaricate. The eunuchs in other towns often rotated during the Jiajing year. Maybe one day this Eunuch Cao was transferred, and the matter of Yanyin would be delayed.

Eunuch Cao is a popular person in front of the emperor. Before he is transferred, someone will naturally pay to take over his Yanyin.

But the bad thing is that just now he used "salt lead to stagnation" to prevaricate Eunuch Cao, and in a blink of an eye he was robbed of a thousand salt by Japanese pirates. Isn't this just slapping Eunuch Cao in the face?

Although the eunuchs in foreign towns in the Ming Dynasty were not as arrogant and domineering as Zhengde years under the suppression of civil servants, the eunuchs in charge of Fujian Bosi were also high-ranking eunuchs, so naturally this matter cannot be prevaricated like this.

Seeing Su Ze's expression, Xiong Wu immediately said:

"Little Xianggong is really smart, and Xiong has saved a lot of talking. In short, the eunuch Cao has been humiliated, and the salt transfer envoy can no longer do nothing, so he ordered the Putian Salt Farm to collect the 2,000 imported salt from Cao Gonggong within two months. It must be refined salt.”

A large yin is four hundred catties, and two thousand yin is 800,000 catties of refined salt!

This is a huge sum, and the Putian Salt Farm has suffered a lot.

Xiong Wu's tone gradually became cold and said:

"Eunuch Cao is still relentless, and sent people to supervise the workers in the salt field. It is said that he ordered the salt workers to work in the kitchen day and night. Thirty salt workers died of exhaustion, and several people were too tired to fall into the pot while cooking salt. Cook to death."

"Eunuch Cao put down his words. If he can't pay the 2,000 dayin of fine salt in two months, then he will be accused of being a Japanese in the Putian Salt Field."

"Zhu Qi was well-known among the salt workers. Seeing that he couldn't pay the two thousand dollars worth of fine salt, he simply killed the little eunuch who supervised the work and went to sea to become a Japanese pirate."

"Little Master, do you think Zhu Qi is a Japanese pirate, did he follow the thief voluntarily, or did he coerce him to follow the Japanese?"