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Chapter 108: Five Things to Do in the New Year 1

The letter sent by "Come on", was a message from Wei Chengyi: the emperor sent a censor to inspect salt affairs, inspect customs defense, clean up military service, and check the situation of military farms in various places. The first stop might be the salt farm established by Chu Qing in Ganzhou.

Something happened to the canal shipyard in Ganzhou Prefecture, and the foreman Chao Liu died. The thieves came ashore from the sea. The turmoil caused a lot of turmoil. The emperor took this incident as the fuse and the whole country was under strict investigation, and he also began to think about the coastal defense construction matters.

Chu Qing extracted refined salt from sea water not only allowed the emperor to have a more accurate control over salt affairs, but also indirectly played a role in garrisoning. Although it was a strategy of killing two birds with one stone, the emperor needed to have a detailed understanding of this.

Alas, the island exploration here has just made progress, but he has to go back to Ganzhou to receive the inspector and censor. Chu Qing had to end the itinerary immediately.

"Son, I have to leave the next thing to you again. Don't be too hasty, just mobilize people first." Chu Qing said to Xiaobao.

This island is very large, and it is not a matter of exploring the island overnight. You still need to protect your existing territory first and then slowly plan it.

Xiaobao took the "Architecture Battalion" to escort Chu Qing back to the sweet potato base. Before leaving, the local natives were reluctant to leave, especially the dog.

It followed Chu Qing for a few steps, stopped, and took a few more steps. Chu Qing looked down at it, and it was so shocked that it retreated again, but Chu Qing walked again, and it followed again.

After the dog owner got Chu Qing's wormwood, he immediately boiled water for the patient to drink. More than an hour had passed, and the patient's body temperature dropped a lot.

The local natives are very open about the birth, old age, sickness and death of people. Their life proverb is "The death of an elderly person is like bamboo shoots falling out of shells, like vegetable leaves falling off", "There is only the sun and the moon without old age, and only the earth without illness or pain."

But after all, it is always unforgettable for the death of relatives, so when the herbs Chu Qing gave them improved their condition, their attitude towards Chu Qing became more pleasing.

The test was effective in person, so I was very grateful, so I said to give the dog to Chu Qing in a row.

The natives here regard dogs and eagles as totems. They will hang a carving of an eagle on the door, thinking that it can ward off evil spirits.

They do not eat dog meat. After the dog dies, they will take off the dog's teeth, wear them together with red vines, and hang them on their chests as talismans.

In short, whether it is an eagle or a dog, they are all carriers that support the gods.

Chu Qing, the eagle sent her a letter, the dog approached her, and also respected her, and she was able to cure malaria and had the ability to overturn a large group of wild boars at once, which was comparable to a god.

Therefore, giving your own dog to Chu Qing is not only a thank you, but also a bribe to the gods - you can come often and send more wild boars.

The hostess of this family also gave Chu Qing a lot of containers made of white rattan, rattan baskets, waist baskets, and fishing baskets. They contained rolls of brightly colored brocades as their family's thanks for saving their lives. Five of them fell ill in the family.

They don’t have cotton, but there are kapok trees. They spun yarn with kapok, supplemented with twine and silk thread, to weave a cloth as brilliant as clouds.

When the natives gave Chu Qing a gift, some even gave two beautiful tiger-spotted shells, just because Chu Qing looked at it twice.

This kind of shell exists as a currency locally, and they need to use this thing to buy items such as hatchets.

To put it another way, Chu Qing now gives them a bunch of silver ingots, maybe it's useless.

So Chu Qing left a few small ginseng, two iron pots, and some bean cakes for them. Just as they bought it with money.

Chu Qing led everyone to evacuate, and the retreat was as abrupt as they came.

Perhaps, the gods are so undecided? The natives think so.

After Chu Qing returned to his sweet potato base, he packed his luggage and prepared to return. After thinking about it, he asked someone to find a big stone and said he wanted to erect a boundary monument.

No matter what, Chu Qing just wants to occupy this island, so he will first enclose the land.

As for what to write on the boundary marker?

"my   word!" Chu Qing replied.

Everyone: "What are you burying?"

Chu Qing: "..."

Chu Qing wrote "my     word" on paper, and Xiaobao was happy holding his stomach.

Chu Yuan pointed to the string of letters and asked, "Boss, what is this? What is it buried?"

"Sell me! It's not burying, it's selling!" Xiaobao said: "Sell our things!"

my     Worid, sell me, that's nonsense!

It’s better to call it “nonsense monument” and engrave it on the back: Don’t let down the three lights and don’t let down the people, don’t let down the gods and don’t let down the poor.

The voyage back to Ganzhou Prefecture was not smooth, and I encountered a thunderstorm on the way.

When encountering thunderstorms at sea is different from on land, it gives people a more terrible feeling, because it is impossible to avoid it. Humans are not fish, and they will feel like rootless duckweed when they leave the land.

The boys said this was light and told Chu Qing not to worry, they could handle it.

It took eleven days to return.

Therefore, when Chu Qing arrived at the Haiyan Field in Ganzhou Prefecture, the inspector and the censor had been here for three days.

The inspector and the censor are very impatient.

When northerners ran to the south, they were not suitable for the local environment and came to a difficult place like the beach. Although they lived in a place provided by the local county government, their diet did not meet his requirements at all.

He thought of finishing the matter quickly and left. He had already seen the salt farm, and had already been constructed and put into production. But what he saw was that the process of drying salt was drying salt, and people would not let him see how it turned into refined salt.

He is just seeing this for the Emperor!

When Chu Qing was not here, even if he put on Guan Wei, the foreman of the salt farm would not buy it: "Sir, why don't you just arrest the villain to jail?"

Otherwise, even if you beat the boy to death, the boy would not dare to disobey what Lin Yanghou ordered;

Linyang Hou said that salt is related to people's livelihood plans, is an important weapon for the country, and is one of the things the emperor attaches most importance to. The emperor has always asked Linyang Hou to prepare fine salt recipes and not allow it to leak;

Linyang Hou also demands the villains in this way, so don’t make things difficult for the villains!”

The inspector and the censor were angry and didn't fight.

What is the inspector's censor? That is, the inspector's censor has to look at the production process of fine salt, which is for the emperor.

The inspector and censor said this bluntly, but the foreman said: "Sir, you tell the villain this, but the villain doesn't understand it either;

The villain knows that everyone must be guarded by the emperor except for being unaware of the emperor, and you are no exception;

The villain said something very disrespectful. The villain really let you enter the workshop. You looked at it, and then someone immediately imitated it and made salt. If you don’t admit that it was you who leaked the secret, the villain would not be punished by Linyang Hou?

Anyway, let’s say that. If the villain lets you see it, the villain will definitely chop off the villain’s head when he turns back;

If the villain is not allowed to see you, you may not have cut off the villain. At most, the villain is allowed to go to prison, so the villain would rather let you arrest the villain;

Otherwise, you might as well take the emperor's imperial edict and read it here. If anyone doesn't let you see it, then the emperor can cut off anyone's head. Lin Yanghou is no exception, and villains don't have to take responsibility!"

The Chu family is all about hob meat.

The inspector and the censor were so angry that he had nothing to say.

The emperor just made this request obscurely and did not say that he had to understand the recipe and process of making salt by Linyanghou, so of course there was no imperial edict.

But if you can't do anything, isn't it equivalent to reporting to the emperor that you are incompetent?

Then Linyang Hou was not here yet, and no one could tell where he went. He only said that Linyang Hou would patrol the coast and find a place suitable for salt drying.

The inspector censor was depressed and felt that his heart was blasted out of a big hole by the "conscienceless cannon".

What's even more annoying is that the inspector and the Censor wanted to use good food and accommodation to fill the mental trauma, but former Minister of Works Huang Zhong was also patrolling and visiting various counties here.

If Huang Zhong wrote a book and said that he was using the foreign affairs to make a big splash and extravagant style, wouldn’t this trip be even worse?
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