Chapter 93
News that Xu Shisheng was intercepted and killed by Japanese pirates, and his life and death were unknown, quickly spread to the Nanping County Government.

In Nanping county government office, Baizhi county felt uncomfortable when they saw the subordinates who had their own concerns.

Qian Xiancheng is raising people to be an official, and he is about to touch the ceiling of raising people to be an official. He is also 50 years old, and he only wants to be able to make meritorious deeds.

Master Li is a Juren from Shandong. At the age of 35, he stopped taking the imperial examinations. He wanted to make money. He was the closest to Xu Shisheng. At this time, he was the one who yelled the most.

"The Japanese pirates are thirty miles away from the county seat! Hurry up and inform the government, and ask the Yanping Guards to go out of the city to sweep them up!"

The magistrate of Bai County is about to roll his eyes, this Master Li is getting more and more arrogant, do you think he is a rookie in the officialdom?Dig a hole in front of you and let yourself jump?

Japanese pirates appeared in the thirty miles of the county seat, so what is the official letter to report safety every month?
Should it be reported that the Japanese pirates have invaded Nanping County and that half of the county is festering?

The next day Baizhi County will be dismissed and investigated!
Qian Xiancheng, who always pretends to be confused on weekdays, can't stand it any longer. The county magistrate and the county magistrate are responsible for the safety of the whole county. Master Li is going to hurt himself.

Qian Xiancheng coughed and said, "I don't think it's Japanese pirates, Li Hu, did Xu Shisheng die suddenly?"

There was a bandage on Li Hu's shoulder, and when he heard Qian Xiancheng's words, he immediately said:

"Second master is wise, it is true that Xu Shisheng suddenly fell ill and died."

Director Li became anxious all of a sudden, he pointed to the wound on Li Hu's shoulder and said:

"Li Hu was injured by the lead bullets from the bird gun!"

Li Hu knew that he was involved in the battle of the county government, but the Qian county magistrate was helping the magistrate of Bai County, so it would be hopeless for him to seek refuge with Master Li. .”

Master Li still wanted to entangle, and Bai Zhixian said with a final word:

"Li Hu, you take the injured subordinates to collect the pension money, and the minzhuang who are on business trips have one person and one tael, but if there is any gossip in Nanping County, I will ask you for it!"

"As ordered!"

Li Hu immediately backed away.

Bai Zhixian looked at Qian Xiancheng and Li Zhubo and said, "There are no Japanese pirates thirty miles outside the city."

"Xu Shisheng died of illness. I personally told his family about this."

"Find an experienced scribe from the household house to replace Xu Shisheng to Fuzhou City. This time, I ask the magistrate to send Yanping Wei to guard him."

"Starting today, we will strengthen the night-time ban in the county and recruit more people."

After the four sentences were finished, Qian Xiancheng immediately agreed, and Master Li couldn't refute. The news that Xu Shisheng died of a sudden illness spread in the county government.

However, this incident did not cause much disturbance. The clerks of the household were busy fighting for the power left by Xu Shisheng, and even Xu Shisheng's relatives were busy taking the property of his widow and minor son.

As a jackal, you will also encounter jackals when you die of old age.

However, Xu Shisheng's death still has some aftermath.

What is most anxious is Yanping Wei Yu's family. After finally getting through Xu Shisheng, now that he is dead, he has to be reassigned.

The clerk of the household department of the new sect, surnamed Huang, did not deal with Xu Shisheng and had no friendship with Yu's family.

And after Xu Shisheng's death, Baizhi County asked Huang Shuli to leave immediately.

Commander Yu could only send his second son, Yu Zongyuan, to Fuzhou City to catch up with the yellow scribe.

The county government blocked the news like a sieve, and the news of the Japanese pirates outside the city quickly reached the ears of the big households in Nanping County.

These big households brought their families to live in the county town one after another, and the caravans would hire more boxers and arhat feet to protect them when they went out of the city.

But all of this has nothing to do with Chang Ningwei.

The sea monkey came for the last time and handed over the agreed black cotton sugar and fifty bird guns to Chang Ningwei.

Su Ze then sold Xu Shisheng's unidentifiable goods to Hai Hou'er for a price, and he settled the payment.

The sea monkey brought the last news that the King Deer has reached the open sea, and Nanpi Island has begun to evacuate.

"What is Master Tiger planning to come back?"

Hai Hou'er said with a mournful face, "Master Tiger said, maybe he won't come back this time."

"Why is this?"

"Master Hu said that the imperial court's attitude towards suppressing the Japanese has become more and more tough these years, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to do maritime trade in the future."

"Then what is Lord Tiger going to do?"

"Master Hu said he was going to go to Nanyang for a while."

"Going to Nanyang?"

"Hey, Nanyang is not easy to mix. Now that Xiyi is powerful, it is not easy for us Chinese businessmen to do business."

Now that he has gone to Nanyang, Zhang Haihu doesn't intend to put on the skin of Japanese pirates anymore, and simply calls himself a Chinese businessman.

Su Ze also has regrets. Zhang Haihu is considered a good trading partner. Now that they are gone, it will be troublesome to sell goods in the future.

Sea Monkey took out a wooden sign from his bosom, handed it to Su Ze and said:

"This is what Lord Tiger gave you."

I only saw a round and a half moon engraved on this wooden sign, and a red "moon" character on the reverse.

"This is the guide for Moon Harbor. This is not the boat guide issued by the Moon Harbor Chamber of Commerce. If you cannot sail into Moon Harbor, it will be bombarded and sunk by the coastal defense. This guide is the certificate for entering and leaving Moon Harbor by land. Master Hu said it was useless, so he made a good relationship with Changning Wei."

Hearing the word Yuegang, Su Ze's eyes lit up. This is the largest smuggling port in the southeast region, and Zhang Haihu actually gave this to himself.

Hai Hou'er said: "This is not a boat guide, nor is it something expensive. Master Tiger is not going to come back, this is considered a stop."

The sea monkey sighed: "I was born here and grew up here, but there is no place for us to stand here."

After saying this, Hai Hou'er stood on the boat, cupped his hands with Su Ze, and said, "Brother Su, Mr. Tiger said that we are parting now. I wish we could get to know each other soon. The sky is high and the water is long, and there will be no future!"

Sea Monkey's boat left the pier, Su Ze looked at the distant sea and said, "Maybe there will be a period later?"

The owner of the ghost market was well-informed, and the news of Japanese pirates appearing outside Nanping County had already spread, and the ghost market did not open at the end of May [-]th.

But in the past, it was okay to make small troubles. When the spinning and weaving industry is established, Changningwei also needs to consider serious shipping and purchasing channels.

Fujian also produces cotton, but the cotton production in Fujian is not on a large scale, and most of them weave homespun cloth by themselves.

The business of the Ming Dynasty was indeed very developed, but behind the development was an indescribable backwardness.

Obviously there are many types of commodities on the market, but a large number of transactions are still bartered.

On the one hand, there is strong market demand, and on the other hand, unstable production and supply. This is the economy with the characteristics of Ming Dynasty.

Next, Su Ze resumed his daily life and developed life skills.

The first is the "Imperial Examination" and "Calligraphy" skills related to the Imperial Examination. After studying for two hours a day, I finally brought the "Imperial Examination" skill to Lv4, 20/400, and the "Calligraphy" skill to Lv3, 135/300.

Ten points of experience a day, plus going to the county school to study in the middle and end of each month, Su Ze estimates that the imperial examination skills will reach Lv5 next month.

In addition to imperial examination skills, the results of shooting skills are gratifying.

Shooting skill is the best skill that Su Ze found, bar none.

You only need to fire the blunderbuss once, and the shooting skill can be +1. The only pity is that the firing and reloading speed of the blunderbuss is too slow, and you can only fire it twice in about 1 minute.

Su Ze has brushed up his shooting skills to Shooting: Lv3, 100/300. According to this progress, he will be able to brush up to Lv5 before the end of the month.

The last time I led someone to hunt down Xu Shisheng, the art of war skill increased by 30 points, and now it has reached Lv3, 31/300. Su Ze judged that the increase in art of war skill was related to the strength of the enemy.

The last time I participated in the fighting and defeated Zhu Qi, the skill experience I gained was far less than this time. It should be that the stronger the enemy, the more I gained.

Now these four skills are most likely to break through to Lv5. Among them, the imperial examination and the art of war are also skills that Su Ze plans to master for a long time.

After dealing with the system, Su Ze started to assemble the textile machine.

Lin Xianzong's craftsmanship is quite good, and Su Ze made the core components of the loom by hand. This is how the first Jenny loom of this era was born in Changningwei.

This machine will be called "Su Ze Loom" in the future.

After three days of busy work, Su Ze finally assembled ten looms, and he found his old grandpa again.

"You want to set up a weaving workshop in Changningwei?"

Su Ze nodded, and the old man said suspiciously, "But many people in Changningwei know how to weave. Why do you want to set up a weaving workshop?"

Fujian is not Songjiang Prefecture, and large-scale weaving workshops have not yet formed. Fujian homespun cloth is basically woven on a family basis.

It was also difficult for Su Ze to explain to his old grandfather what a leap in productivity was. He just said, "I invented a new loom, and I want to find someone to try it out."

Hearing that Su Ze had invented a new loom, the old man was no stranger to it.

These days, Su Ze brought too many surprises to Chang Ningwei.

It's as if there is nothing in this world that he doesn't know.

The old man has also met many scholars, but it is the first time that the old man has seen a person like Su Ze who is proficient in everything and can learn everything quickly.

The last time Lin Xianzong saw Su Ze doing carpentry, he was amazed. Su Ze was only at the level of an ordinary apprentice at the beginning, but he was promoted to the level of a master in just one month. The speed of progress made Lin Xianzong wish to accept Su Ze as his personal disciple. .

Maybe this is a genius, the old grandfather has become numb to Su Ze's frequent inventions, he nodded and said:
"My daughter-in-law Lu's weaving is very good, how about asking her to find some people to weave with your machine?"

Su Ze said: "Grandpa, I don't charge money for this loom. I remove the cost of cotton from the woven cloth and buy it at the market purchase price. What do you think?"

The old man of the family said directly: "Your chief executive, Ning Wei, can rest assured that everyone knows that you will not cheat everyone."

Now Su Ze, the seaside salt farm, is handed over to the children, and Su Ze accepts all the rough salt that the children dry out according to the price of coarse salt in the market.

Many families have found that letting their children go to the seaside salt farm to dry salt can earn more money than helping with farming at home.

Moreover, Su Ze will also give lectures to the children who are farming, and teach the children how to read on the beach. Now Changning Wei is willing to let the children go to the seaside salt farm to dry the salt.

However, the income from sun-drying salt gradually became unstable. In May, the storms at sea gradually increased, and the weather suitable for sun-drying salt began to decrease.

Salt and sugar are also facing a shortage of soybeans. The ghost market is not open at the end of the ten-day period, and large-scale purchases of soybeans are likely to arouse suspicion, allowing interested people to crack the secret recipe of salt and sugar. Encountered the problem of insufficient raw materials, Su Ze planned to plant the last season of soybeans in Changningwei.

It happened that the barren land reclaimed by Luo Hanjiao and Zhu Qi could be planted with soybean nitrogen-fixing fertilizer in the first year. Su Ze picked out the best beans from the previous soybeans for breeding, and then handed them over to Zhu Qi and Luo Hanjiao for planting, and promised them The soybeans planted are purchased according to the market purchase price.

These Arhat feet and Yan Ding originally thought that Su Ze would use them as slaves until they died, but they didn't expect Su Ze to give them the reclaimed wasteland to plant and distribute the seeds to them.

On weekdays, they often listened to Su Ze's lectures, and now they are even more grateful to Su Ze. Several people even volunteered to sign a contract with Su Ze and become Su Ze's servants.

After finishing the work in the wasteland, Su Ze came to his sweet potato field again.

At this time, the fields are full of green leaves, and Lin Cainiang, the little radish head, is looking after the sweet potato field.

Since eating sweet potato porridge last time, Lin Cainiang has never forgotten this sweet food. Every day after reading, she would go to the field to weed.

When Lin Cainiang saw Su Ze, she excitedly came over and pointed to the sweet potato field and said, "Brother, this sweet potato grows really well! Uncle Qi praised how well the field is taken care of!"

Su Ze's farming skills have reached Lv5, he nodded and praised: "You have worked hard these days."

"It's not hard!"

Su Ze said again: "However, for sweet potatoes, if the leaves grow too well, they will crowd out the nutrients of the roots. Come, let me teach you how to control the growth."

After saying this, Su Ze found a weaving basket, then walked into the field and began to pinch the leaf seedlings growing at the top.

Lin Cainiang also followed into the field. Although she didn't understand what Su Ze meant by "nutrition", when talking about farming in Changningwei, Uncle Lin Qi also said that Su Ze's knowledge in farming was no match for him. Up and down, the little carrot head had some unconditional trust in Su Ze, and followed him and began to pinch Ye Miao.

After working for half a day, when Lin Xianyang came to the sweet potato field and called Su Ze to the weaving workshop, the weaving baskets were already full of tender sweet potato leaves.

Su Ze handed the weaving basket to Lin Cainiang and said, "Take these leaves back, and fry sweet potato leaves for you to eat at night."

Lin Cainiang happily returned to the family temple with a basket, while Lin Xianyang took Su Ze to the wing behind the family temple.

"Those Luo Hanjiao and Zhu Qi have already lived in the empty house of Changning Guard, only Xiong Wu is still closed in the penalty hall, my father told you to put the weaving workshop in the back of the ancestral hall, so that the guard No one here will gossip."

Su Ze quickly lamented that the old man was still thorough in his affairs. After all, it is the Ming Dynasty now, and the etiquette is very strict. Even for a military guard like Chang Ningwei, the defense of men and women is also very strict.

Su Ze knew that changing customs would not happen overnight, and to change this trend, working women had to make money.

Lin Xianyang said again: "My sister-in-law has been helping the family since my brother died for the country with an ordinary family. She is a good worker with quick hands and feet. Brother Aze, as long as you teach her, she will naturally lead other people to weave. .”

As they spoke, Su Ze and Lin Xianyang came to the ancestral hall. A middle-aged woman in a cross-collared blouse was already standing behind the old grandfather, waiting for Su Ze.

"Sister-in-law." Lin Xianyang bowed to his sister-in-law, Lu Shi, and then said to Su Ze: "My sister-in-law is a chaste woman bestowed by the county government. The weavers you want, Brother Ze, are all summoned by my sister-in-law."

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