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Chapter 528 There are three hardships in Guangling County

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    The game is roasted and sprinkled with fine spices. It smells fragrant and paired with a gourd of strong liquor. For ordinary fishermen, it is definitely a rare and delicious meal!

    Xiao Yi generously invited Old Man Liu and his family to have a meal together, and even tore off one of the fattest rabbit hind legs for Liu Yu'er. Seeing the little girl devouring it, her mouth was full of oil, and she knew that they hadn't eaten meat for a long time.  !

    To outsiders, fishermen who make a living by fishing seem to have no shortage of meat. In fact, this is not the case. As the play says: "The mat sellers sleep on bare beds, the private salt sellers drink light soup, but the people who fish all day long  I can¡¯t eat the fish head!  ¡¯

    First of all, the fishing technology of this era was very backward. The boats were small and the nets were rough. It often took three days to fish and two days to mend the nets. Moreover, drifting in the sea was extremely dangerous. If a wave came, the boat might be destroyed and people would be killed.  Therefore, many people refer to going fishing as "exchanging human flesh for fish meat". It means that people eat fish and fish eat people. The two are almost interchangeable!

    Secondly, even the fish caught by the risk are not all owned by the fishermen. The government has to levy a "salted fish tax". As for the quantity, it is naturally the official who has the final say. After the heavy tax is imposed, which one is left in the end?  After harvesting a little bit, you have to sell it at the market in exchange for iron pots, rice noodles, cloth and other necessities of life. The most hateful thing is that when selling fish, you have to be exploited by those profiteers, and the remaining  Of course there are even fewer!

    ¡°Old man, it¡¯s better to drink!¡±

    "Distinguished guest, enjoy the drink!"

    After a few bowls of wine, the relationship between the two parties was immediately brought closer, and Xiao Yi took the opportunity to start a family affair, "The ancients said: Eat from the mountains if you rely on the mountains, and eat from the sea if you rely on the sea. Fishing and boiling salt are the duties of fishermen. I think  The old man has a face full of vicissitudes of life and his hands are calloused. He must be a hard-working person, so why is his life so miserable?"

    ¡°Hey, it¡¯s hard to describe in one word!¡±

    The old man drank all the wine in the bowl, groaned, and stretched out his hands. They were not only covered with calluses, but also had deep corrosion marks, which were the result of being soaked in seawater for ten consecutive years.  All the nails fell off and turned into yellow-black tumors!

    "The old man worked hard all his life. He would wake up at midnight and crawl through the night to fish, boil salt, chop wood, weave nets, and farm He never slacked off for a day. His children were all good, even the youngest Jade  Children all know how to help the family, but all year round, it is still difficult to feed themselves. In bad years, they may even starve to death. The old man originally had five sons and three daughters, but now, only half of them are left~~  "

    "The old man slowly told me that the sufferings of the people have always been like this. At least Guangling County is still peaceful. In the inland of the Central Plains, there are continuous wars and disasters. There is no rooster crow for thousands of miles, and the bones are exposed in the wild. That is really miserable!"

    Xiao Yi poured another bowl of wine for the old man, and Xiao Hei also had a sad look on his face. At the end of the Han Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and the population dropped sharply. There was no one left in ten. War, plague, and hunger were the three main reasons.  Like three demons with their mouths open, they are constantly devouring the vitality of the Chinese clan!

    "It makes sense. When you look at me, I see that this guy has traveled all over the world and seen the big world!" The old man Liu Xi liked Xiao Yi very much, and he chatted with him the most among everyone.

    As for the others, Chen Gong had a bookish look on his face and looked like he had a college education. He did not dare to offend easily. Diao Chan was a girl and was inconvenient to talk to. The remaining Xiao Bin and Cao Xing both looked tough and had  The smell of iron blood doesn't look like a kind person, so only this guy with a black face and a riding crop is the most down-to-earth and the most talkative one!

    "Everyone in the world says that Xuzhou is the richest in the world, and Guangling County is also the richest in Xuzhou. This is true, but they only know one, but they don't know the other. The rich are the wealthy families, and we ordinary people are suffering!  "

    The old man was eloquent and spoke well-reasonedly. He seemed to know some words. He stretched out three fingers and said one by one, "There are three hardships in Guangling County: wasteland, sea breeze, and salt tiger!"

    "Let's talk about this wasteland first. Guangling is located on the coast. It is eroded by the sea every year. The land is so salinized that almost no grass can grow. When the old man was young, one acre of fertile land here could still produce five or six buckets of grain.  But now, the yield is less than three bushels, which is still declining year by year, while the number of seeds per mu of land is more than one bushel, and nine out of ten seedlings die, making farming almost in vain!

    The second is the sea breeze. The sea is like a king, moody and moody. Now it seems calm and peaceful, but when the wind blows, the waves surge into the sky. All along the coast are suffering from it, inundating countless houses and fields. Especially wherever the strong winds hit, houses are destroyed.  If it collapses, people and animals will be destroyed, so the people along the coast are not willing to build houses, and the repairs will be in vain, so they might as well live in thatched huts~~"

    The old man kept talking, and Xiao Yi listened quietly without nodding.The railway is a monopoly Secondly, the common people do not have the ability to transport goods over long distances. There are many checkpoints along the way. If you don't have any power and background, you won't be able to bear the heavy taxes. You won't even get to the destination.  , the goods will be completely lost, and even the underwear will not be left!

    Sea salt cannot be sold at a high price. Because of the war, the price of food has skyrocketed. Take Guanzhong as an example. When Dong Zhuo was in chaos, there was even a sky-high price of "ten thousand yuan per bucket of rice". The price here in Xuzhou is not much better, so  The fishermen have been struggling on the line of life and death, and countless people have died of starvation!

    "If it's just a lack of money, the old man can grit his teeth and still persist. The most hateful thing is that he won't even leave us this little life-saving money. There are many salt lords along the coast. These people are armed with sharp knives and open fire, and they specialize in robbing fishermen.  The sea salt cooked at home often kills people, and everyone calls them 'salt tigers' in fear!"

    As Liu Xi opened his clothes, a long dark black scar appeared on his chest, like a big centipede crawling there. It was ferocious and terrifying. It can be seen from the traces how deep the wound was.  , "This is the good thing those salt owl did. If the old man hadn't been lucky, he would have died long ago!"

    "Salt Owl is so rampant, don't the local officials care about it? As far as I know, Chen Deng, the governor of Guangling County, is a talented person!" Xiao Yi still had a smile on his face, as if he was having a family affair, but he mentioned that '  When the word "Chen Deng" came out, I touched my nose!

    No one else reacted to this action, but Xiao Bin and Cao Xing, who were standing by, touched the hilt of the sword at their waists as if on conditioned reflex. All the soldiers in the Xuanjia Army knew that their commander-in-chief would kill someone if he touched his nose.  , if you touch your nose while smiling, it will definitely lead to a killing spree and blood will flow like a river!

    ¡°It¡¯s true that Governor Chen is a talented official, but isn¡¯t it~~~Hey!¡± The old man Liu Xi hesitated, obviously because he had some scruples in his heart.

    "What about Governor Chen? Isn't it possible that he can't control these 'salt tigers'?"

    "It's not that he can't control it, but he won't, because the Chen family is the biggest 'salt tiger' in Guangling County!" The old man Liu Xi was silent, but his son Liu Hu, who had never said a word, suddenly stood up.  , came limping in front of Xiao Yi, his eyes were filled with brilliance, fear, respect, and a trace of expectation!

    "Dahu, be careful what you say, be careful of the trouble that comes from your mouth!" Liu Xi did not expect that his usually taciturn son would suddenly appear and quickly reprimanded him, which shows how afraid he is of the Chen family in his heart!

    There is a proverb in Guangling County, "The Chen family is made of iron, and the Zhou Mu is made of flowing water." Xuzhou Mu has changed several times over the years, including Tao Qian, Liu Bei, Lu Bu, and recently a "ghost-faced Xiao Lang", but it doesn't matter  No matter how the state animal husbandry was changed, the Chen family still persevered. As for the state animal husbandry's political orders, they never had any control over Guangling County. The Chen family was the local emperor here, and it could be said that they could cover the sky with one hand!

    "It doesn't matter, we came to Guangling County this time just to get some sea salt and find out the way to get started!" Xiao Yi liked this wounded soldier named Liu Hu very much, and even handed him a bowl of wine with his own hands.  The other party quickly bowed to take it and drank it all in one gulp!

    "You're here to collect sea salt, what's the price?" Liu Xi was stunned at first, and then looked happy. The caravan is a savior for fishermen like them, because the stingiest caravan is cheaper than the salt in vain.  Tiger's a hundred times stronger!

    "According to the official price, 800 yuan per stone of sea salt is definitely a good five-bead coin of high quality, how about it?"

    "800 Wen" Liu Xi was no longer surprised, but ecstatic, and even his voice trembled, "Then how much sea salt can you collect?"

    "Haha, the more the merrier, I can take as much as you have in Guangling County!" Xiao Yi's eyes flashed coldly, this time he wanted the lion to open his mouth and eat them all!

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