Farmer’s Blessed Girl

When the children Bai Jingxing and Bai Ruoyu were forcibly brought to the restaurant, they happened to meet Bai Shan and Bai Erlang downstairs.

Bai Shan was used to seeing his dirty daughter, he just took out a handkerchief and wiped the sand and tears from her face, asking her, "Why do you cry like this?"

Bai Jingxing immediately complained, "Aunt Wuyue doesn't allow me to play with sand."

May hurriedly replied: "My lady sent someone to say that it's time to eat."

Bai Shan said to her, "Isn't it just playing with sand, it's worth your crying like this?"

"You must have played a lot in the past two days, and you should have some degree of fun. You always play with sand. If you get bored later, don't you have one less pleasure?"

"I won't be bored."

"That's as unbelievable as you said before that you wouldn't get tired of eating fat."

Bai Jingxing stopped talking immediately.

When she was just one year old, she liked to eat fatty meat. It lasted until half a year ago. Her favorite food was 70% fat and 30% lean.

But half a year ago, she suddenly didn't like to eat fatty meat. She couldn't see any fat, she had to be completely thin.

Bai Jingxing sighed like little adults.

Bai Erlang had already ordered the palace servants to take his son down for cleaning with a look of disgust.

This restaurant is not small, and some of the large private rooms have bathrooms. Coincidentally, today's full-booked deluxe private room.

So the two were taken to the cubicle to be cleaned.

Tang He was stunned, "These two children are so naughty?"

Is this too dirty?

He felt that his son was naughty enough, but it was rare that he got so dirty.

Bai Shan said indifferently, "How can a child not be naughty?"

Zhou Man nodded in agreement, "Just follow the rules."

Tang He: "...Can naughty and obeying the rules still go together?"

"Of course," the two said. "It's not against the rules to have fun."

"Okay," Tang He waved his hand and decided to skip the matter and talk about business, "Brother Yin, when are you going back to Beijing?"

Yin He said: "I have calculated that the first day of the eighth lunar month is a good day."

Tang He raised his eyebrows, "It's really a good day, you all walk slowly on the road, and it's just the Mid-Autumn Festival when you return to the capital."

Bai Shan asked, "The case in Laizhou has been solved? Is Brother Tang staying with me for a while, or..."

"I still have to go back to Laizhou," Tang He said, "the case hasn't been solved yet."

He turned the teacup and glanced around the room.

Bai Shan asked all the servants and guards who were serving in the room to withdraw, except for May and the palace maid who looked after the children in the compartment.

Both of them are absolutely trustworthy.

Only then did Tang He say, "Zhi Shan, have you ever seen a pirate?"

Bai Shan: "Does the corpse count?"

Tang He looked at him.

Bai Shan explained, "Last year, there was a pirate attack on a merchant ship, and the news came back to Beihai County, so I asked General Liu to send troops to attack the pirates and bring the merchant ship back. At that time, in addition to the merchant ship and the people on board, General Liu also brought back two ships. There are some tattered ships and a dozen corpses, all of them are pirates."

Tang He sat up straight and asked, "Have you checked who they are?"

"The refugees from Baekje," said Baek Sun after a pause, "but the thieves at sea are not only from Baekje, but also from Japanese, and even fishermen from Silla."

"Of course, as far as I know, the most powerful are actually the pirates who went out from Pingzhou and Dengzhou. Most of them are islanders."

Tang He was surprised, "Jin people?"

Bai Shan nodded helplessly, "Yes, quite a few of these people are exiled sinners or descendants of sinners. They go to sea with the local fishermen as bandits for various reasons, but the most primitive purpose is for profit."

He said: "General Liu and I have a headache, because neither place is under the rule of Qingzhou. We can only fight back when they appear, and we can't control their old nest."

Tang He tapped the table with his fingers, "This is very interesting."

"Why, the sinking of the official ship has something to do with them?"

"More than that," Tang He smiled slightly: "But at this time, I can't tell you the details of the case."

Tang He thought for a long time, then approached Bai Shan and asked, "Zhi Shan, you know a lot about salt administration, and you figured out this method of drying salt. Tell me, what is the income of a single stone of salt now?"

Bai Shandao: "The salt is now sold exclusively by the Salt Transport Division. The price has dropped by nearly half compared to three years ago. The profit is not really big. After all the costs are removed, one stone will earn between five cents to ten cents."

After all, selling salt is now considered a national public welfare.

Tang He touched his chin and thought, "It doesn't sound like a lot."

Bai Shan poured himself a cup of tea, took a sip, and said, "Brother, you must ask this question when salt has a cost, or in other words, when there is a complete cost procedure."

Tang He raised his eyebrows, "What do you mean?"

Bai Shandao: "The official salt was robbed, that is to say, they got the salt for nothing, without the cost of time, labor and materials, only part of the transportation cost, which is extremely cheap, and then sell it at the normal salt price, then They earn more than five cents a stone and ten cents."

Tang He patted the table lightly, "Yes, if they ship it to another place, the price of salt is more than that, and they will make more money."

After Zhou Mangang and Mingda finished talking about Baekje Silla, he heard the words and asked sensitively, "What is another place?"

Yin He said, "Fanbang?"

Tang He nodded, "Yes, I checked it out. The sunken official ship is not simple at all. It is said that sea ships are difficult to build and are very precious. Even if they want to grab salt, they will not sink the ship."

This is also the reason why no one thought it was robbery at first, but the reason why pirates ran rampant and robbed official ships.

After all, an official ship is not cheaper than the salt on board.

"Before the official ship sank, the loss of official salt in the Laizhou Salt Works was very serious. You may not have noticed it, but I have compared the accounts of your Beihai County Salt Transport Department. Their loss, from production to disembarkation, is your tenth. times over."

Bai Shan clicked his tongue when he heard the words, "Laizhou's Inspector Liu seems to be quite shrewd, why is he so obsessed?"

Tang He said with a strange expression: "I only came to Laizhou to find out that the person who secretly told His Majesty that the Laizhou Salt Works was different is the Inspector Liu."

This time everyone opened their mouths wide. Bai Shan was the first to react and asked, "Laizhou Salt Transport Department?"

Tang He nodded, glanced at Bai Shanhou and said, "At that time, Beihai County's salt field was too much attention. Although the official position of the salt transportation director was not high, it involved great interests, so the Beihai County salt transportation department was carefully selected by His Majesty's prince and courtiers. The carefully selected candidates are upright and strong, and the salt transportation department in other places is inferior."

Bai Shan rubbed his forehead, a little annoyed, "Yanyun Division has only been established for three years, right?"

Why did this happen so quickly?

Yin Or understands it very well, "Even if the salt monopoly is sold and the price is reduced by half, it is still one of the most profitable industries. After all, people in this world can avoid tea and iron, but they cannot avoid salt. "

Mingda suddenly said: "Cutting people's money is like killing one's parents, Master Tang, you have to be more careful."

Make up tomorrow, good night