The Only Favorite Ugly Husband

Chapter 128 Something Happened in the Salt Field

A lot of fish soup was quickly delivered from the cafeteria, and people like Jiang Zhen who came back from outside got a big bowl each.

In winter, a bowl of hot fish soup feels really good, but unfortunately there is no chili at this time, otherwise you can eat boiled fish and have a hot pot.

Jiang Zhen is not a person who likes spicy food, but he still likes to eat all kinds of spicy dishes, and after a long time without eating, he misses it very much.

When eating fish, Jiang Zhen picked up the meat from the belly of the fish, and Jiang Zhen gave Zhao Mingzhu a small piece.

Zhao Mingzhu is already nine months old, and she has been able to eat complementary food for a long time, but apart from rice cereal, Jiang Zhen dare not give her more food for fear of spoiling her stomach.

Zhao Mingzhu was very flattering about the fish, and after tasting a little bit, she opened her mouth and continued to beg for it, "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh", then Jiang Zhen didn't give her any more fish, but only gave her a small piece of steamed bun for her to eat.

Zhao Mingzhu took the steamed buns and was a little dissatisfied, but seeing that Jiang Zhen didn't intend to continue feeding her, she could only gnaw on the steamed buns aggrievedly.

The Chinese New Year is the most important festival for the common people. A few days before the Chinese New Year, the Jin Zhen Escort Bureau stopped accepting business. Jiang Zhen gave all his subordinates a holiday, and he himself planned to take a few days off.

While the Zhao family was resting and thinking about what to eat every day, something happened in other places in Daqi.

After Zheng Yi distilled the high-quality wine, he immediately sent it to the capital, so before the Chinese New Year, the wine was offered to the palace.

Although the Zheng family gave this wine an ancient name, it cannot be denied that this is a new wine that has not been made for a long time and has no reputation at all.

The queen mother herself doesn't like drinking.

Therefore, the wine was randomly sent to the imperial dining room in the end, without attracting the Queen Mother's attention at all.

In the end, I don't know if it was the Zheng family's luck, but in the end, by accident, the wine became famous.

Before this year, the Rong people in the north sent envoys to Daqi.

Daqi and the Rong people in the north have always been at odds with each other. There are often battles, and Daqi usually loses. In every battle, a lot of things will be robbed, a lot of food and grass will be spent, and a lot of food will be filled in. human life.

It is also for this reason that the method of suturing the wound provided by Jiang Zhen before has attracted so much attention from the generals.

And this year, Da Qi and the Rong people fought again, and the Rong people also had some civil strife...

The original profuse Khan of the Rong people was overwhelmed by the civil strife, and suddenly remembered that Daqi was coming, and sent envoys to Daqi, begging to marry Daqi's princess while talking about peace.

It was nothing at all, but the scholars of Da Qi looked down on the Rong people, and the Rong people looked down on the people of Da Qi, and finally the two sides had conflicts.

In the end, when the Empress Dowager hosted a banquet for them, those Rong people said that Daqi's wine was as "soft" and boring as the people of Daqi, and said that it was something that women in their side didn't drink.

This could be regarded as a slap in the face of Da Qi with the help of the drink, and the queen mother was furious on the spot. At this time, he suddenly remembered the strong wine that Master Zheng Er gave her.

The queen mother immediately asked someone to bring the wine.

In fact, at this time, Daqi already had some methods to purify the wine, but even if it was purified, the degree was still not high. Zheng Yi got the method provided by Jiang Zhen and continued to distill, but he produced high-quality wine.

As soon as the wine was served, the rich aroma of the wine made those Rong people speechless, and they all expressed embarrassment, after they drank it...

Rong Ren, who had previously boasted that he would never get drunk after a thousand cups, became so drunk that he couldn't even get up, making a big fool of himself.

That's all, the next day, those Rong people even wanted to ask for the wine.

Master Zheng Er is one of the Empress Dowager's confidantes, and he always does things according to the Empress Dowager's wishes. The Empress Dowager always valued him very much. It became a tribute.

In the future, the price of Qingfeng Wine will undoubtedly rise even further.

Of course, this news has not reached Hecheng County yet. At this moment, officials and businessmen in Hexing Mansion are all attracted by another matter.

Before Zhou Maohe went to Zheng's family and Jiang Zhen's troubles, in fact, most of the people in Hexing Mansion didn't take it seriously. After all, they had nothing to do with them, and it was just a trivial matter, but this time it was different.

This time, Zhou Maohe got into a big trouble!

He, an imperial envoy sent to the south because the empress dowager found it too intrusive, actually challenged the issue of private salt that even the imperial envoys specially sent to rectify the salt affairs dared not challenge!

What's even more astonishing is that he was so daring to think and act, that he led people to copy the Hongjiang Salt Works with lightning speed.

The famous Hongjiang Salt Field was copied by Zhou Maohe!

He was able to achieve this step, even Zheng Yi was shocked.

"I just asked someone to remind him of this matter, and I haven't had time to do anything at all..." After Zheng Yi got the news, he came to Hexi Village to find Jiang Zhen. When he spoke, his expression was extremely weird.

He had prepared some incriminating evidence from Hongjiang Saltworks, but Zhou Maohe did something completely unexpected before sending it to Zhou Maohe.

"What's going on?" Jiang Zhen couldn't help asking.

Wasn't the imperial envoy under Zheng Yi's surveillance all the time?He suddenly copied the Hongjiang Salt Farm, did Zheng Yi know nothing about it?

"I really didn't expect that he could be so...decisive." Zheng Yi sighed, and then said: "But if it's him, it's actually normal to do so."

Zhou Maohe copied the Hongjiang Salt Farm, not because he found out about the private salt.

After he had an incident in Hecheng County, there were so many people staring at him, it was very inconvenient for him to check anything. Although he felt that the salt affairs area was messy and wanted to check it out, in fact it was not I didn't have time to check anything.

There are actually other reasons why he copied the Hongjiang Salt Farm... And this starts with the fact that the Hongjiang Salt Farm is covering the sky with one hand by the sea.

When Jiang Zhen followed others to buy seafood, the people in Hongjiang Saltworks had to charge a lot of money, and they were even more rude to people who lived by the sea.

They sell private salt by themselves, but they don't allow other people to touch it. People in seaside villages, if someone sells salt by boiling salt without permission, they often don't even give a chance to defend themselves, and they kill the person directly.

It is even possible to kill the whole village sometimes.

The Hongjiang Salt Farm has raised many people, who are dedicated to helping them catch people who cannot sell illegal salt through them, and also help them control a large area by the sea. These people, under their deliberate connivance, are actually no different from bandits and pirates.

Not only will they kill those who sell illegal salt, but later, even ordinary people in the village will go to harm them.

Of course, they didn't kill people for no reason, but played with the women in the village, Shuang'er or something.

When Zhou Maohe learned that private salt was rampant and repeatedly banned, he didn't suspect Shanghongjiang Salt Farm—who would have thought that the salt farm built by the imperial court would actually sell private salt?

But he decided to go to the seaside to have a look.

After Zhou Maohe went there, he actually picked up a woman who committed suicide by throwing herself into the river.

The woman was about to get married, but she was taken by the people raised by the Hongjiang Salt Farm, and she was taken back and locked up for fun.

But she fell into the water because she finally found a chance to escape and was chased by others. She was desperate and angry and anxious, so she simply jumped into the river.

After Zhou Maohe learned of this, he was very angry. Just at this time, he met a group of people who escaped from the Hongjiang Saltworks.

This group of people are salt households in the Hongjiang Salt Field.

Salt households, as the name suggests, are people who specialize in salt-related work.

In Daqi, craftsmen are artisan households, and those who specialize in boiling salt are salt households.

The Hongjiang Saltworks needs a lot of salt, and they let the salt farmers in the saltworks cook the salt.But the lives of these salt households are even more miserable than those of the people living by the sea.

Those people are free and can go to sea to fish and feed themselves.If you live in peace and contentment, you may not be caught and killed, and your food and clothing can be guaranteed. These salt households are different.

The household registration of these salt households is in Hongjiang Saltworks. They can only live in the saltworks. However, the people in Hongjiang Saltworks treat them like slaves. Not only will they beat and scold them at will, and they will not be given food. Shuang'er, basically can't keep it.

This group of salt households who escaped couldn't live on anymore and wanted to go outside to fight.

Those who dared to escape were all young and strong. When Zhou Maohe met them, he learned that the Hongjiang Salt Farm had acted so recklessly and killed people wantonly, so he took them to the place where the Hongjiang Salt Farm was located to ask for a word. In the end, by mistake, for some reason, they took them to copy the Hongjiang Saltworks.

It stands to reason that a group of Yan outdoors who had never fought against anyone plus a literati would not be able to enter the Hongjiang Salt Field, but... Zhou Maohe's luck was not bad.

He can participate in this and that all day long, and in the end he is fine, so he knows that his luck must not be bad, and this time, his luck is still very good.

When he brought a group of angry people to Hongjiang Saltworks, it happened to be New Year's Eve. Many people in Hongjiang Saltworks went home to reunite with their families. The rest of them were still drinking and having fun, without vigilance.

It was because of the Chinese New Year that the woman who jumped into the river was able to find a chance to escape, and it was also because of the Chinese New Year that those salt households were able to take advantage of the lax defenses to flee collectively. In the end, it was because of the Chinese New Year that they even took advantage of the Hongjiang Salt Farm.

After copying this, Zhou Maohe discovered that the Hongjiang Salt Farm had done so many appalling things, and they were the ones who made the private salt!

Zhou Maohe immediately became angry, and while sending people to report to the capital, he contacted the nearby civil and military officials.

As a result, not only did those people not help him arrest the people in the Hongjiang Salt Farm, they also defined the fact that he took Yanhu to copy the Hongjiang Salt Farm as the Yanhu rebellion, and sent troops to suppress it.

"He is also stupid, those officials are all related to the Hongjiang Salt Farm." Zheng Yi sighed: "Now the Hongjiang Salt Farm is in complete chaos, not even a grain of salt can be shipped out, and I don't know what happened inside. "The person he sent to follow Zhou Maohe was very clever. After finding out that something was wrong, he ran out.

Because of this, he knew a lot of news, but it was impossible to know the follow-up news.

After Jiang Zhen heard Zheng Yi explain the ins and outs, he felt a little helpless.

He wanted Zhou Maohe to investigate the private salt, and then found Hongjiang Salt Farm, but he didn't expect that Zhou Maohe finally found Hongjiang Salt Farm because he wanted to seek justice for a group of salt households.

Because of this, things are progressing very fast, which is unexpected.

"Right now the entire Hexing Mansion, including the Wuzhong Mansion in the north, is in chaos. Fortunately, Hecheng County is fine...I have already written to my second uncle, and I don't know how the court will handle this matter. " Zheng Yi said.

The county magistrate of Hecheng County followed the Zheng family, at most, he pretended not to see the boat carrying the illegal salt when it came over, and did not intervene in it, and now Hecheng County is not involved.

But other places... I don't know what will happen if this incident gets serious, and Zhou Maohe, he can be said to be stuck there at the moment, and I don't know what will happen.

Jiang Zhen didn't say anything, just cut the bamboo with a small knife, cutting the bamboo into strips.

"What are you doing?" Zheng Yi asked.

"The Lantern Festival is coming, I want to make a lantern." Jiang Zhen said, but after finishing speaking, he threw all the bamboo and knife in his hand on the ground.

He also had nothing to do these days, so he suddenly thought of making some lanterns. Now that he has something to do, he naturally has no time to toss about it.

"You do have a sense of elegance." Zheng Yi said, he used to make lanterns and paper kites, but later on he got older and lost his skills.

"It's gone now." Jiang Zhen said.

Zheng Yi looked at Jiang Zhen curiously, but Jiang Zhen suddenly said, "I want to take someone to visit the Hongjiang Salt Field."

Zheng Yi was startled, suspecting that he had heard wrong.

But Jiang Zhen was full of affirmation.

If he had already had a wife and son in modern times, it would be impossible for him to go to a place where two parties were fighting each other and it was very dangerous. After all, if he accidentally took a bullet at that time, he would die There is only one dead end.

But there are no too dangerous weapons at the moment.

What's more, he has been staying in Hexi Village and never going out, so he can't guarantee his 100% safety.

Jiang Zhen made a decision, but he still needs to make some preparations before leaving. It will take another two days.

After Zheng Yi left, Jiang Zhen went to Zhao Jinge.

Zhao Jinge was talking to some people from Hexi Village, and asked them to follow him to Fucheng and help him manage the duck farm and chicken farm over there.

They were almost done talking, seeing Jiang Zhen, Brother Zhao Jing stopped talking, told them to go back first, and then looked at Jiang Zhen: "Young Master Zheng went back?"

"Yeah." Jiang Zhen nodded, and suddenly said, "I'm going out in two days?"

"Going to Fucheng? I'll go with you."

"It's not going to Fucheng, and you can't follow this time either." Jiang Zhen said.

"Where are you going?" Brother Zhao Jin felt something was wrong when he saw Jiang Zhen's serious expression.

Jiang Zhen thought about it, but decided not to hide it from Brother Zhao Jin: "I'm going to the beach."

"What are you doing at the beach?" Zhao Jinge asked puzzled. Jiang Zhen used to go to the beach to buy goods, but now...they don't care about that business anymore.

Brother Zhao Jin suddenly became uneasy.

"There's an accident at the Hongjiang saltworks, I'm going to take a look." Jiang Zhen sighed, and told Brother Zhao Jin everything that Zheng Yi said.

"It's so dangerous there, what are you going to do?" Brother Zhao Jin asked without thinking.

"Although it's dangerous over there, there are great opportunities waiting, and there are those escorts under me...these people have never seen blood and need to be trained." Jiang Zhen said.

"I'll go too!" Brother Zhao Jin frowned tightly: "I fight very hard, much better than He Chunsheng and the others!"

"Brother Jin, you may be pregnant with a child in your stomach." Jiang Zhen said.Jiang Zhen didn't know if Brother Zhao Jin had a child in his stomach, but he didn't want Brother Zhao Jin to go to a dangerous place, that's for sure.

Brother Zhao Jin thought of what happened when he went to the capital, and was speechless.