Chapter 927 Refugees
"Master Jiang, Li Tieniu, let's be frank. It was my fault that I, Lin Dawang, had poor vision in the past, but the villagers of Linjia Village were not at fault. Let's not talk about the past. I just hope that Master Jiang and Li Tieniu can lead us to do business together in the future.
We can all make money together. Master Jiang, I know you are very capable, but we are just ordinary people, so I ask you to give us some advice. In the future, our two villages will help each other and become real brothers.
We make money together and face difficulties together."
Lin Dawang was straightforward and frank.
All of it poured out.
Instead, Li Tieniu was speechless.
Just now it seemed that Lin Dawang was coming to call for an explanation, but in an instant he became humble.
It’s a very powerful method.
Jiang Xiaoxiao looked at Lin Dawang with great interest. Lin Dawang was indeed a talented person.
Completely different from Li Tieniu.
If such a person is used well, it is like a knife, and it is not certain who the blade will be pointed at.
They are still very weak now, so it is better to have less trouble than more.
Of course! Jiang Xiaoxiao thinks further ahead.
If there really were a large group of bandits or foreigners looting, Li Tieniu and his men alone would not be invincible.
Eighteen people are still too few.
I've never heard of a village being massacred by hundreds of bandits.
Survival is not achieved by fighting alone.
It might not be a bad thing that Lin Dawang wanted to tie them together.
"Brother Lin, I can give you advice, but that means you have to listen to me. I wonder if you think this is possible, Brother Lin? If you don't listen to my instructions, you won't make any money, and you might even get killed. I'm not trying to trick you."
It’s not that Jiang Xiaoxiao is unwilling to help.
I just don’t know if Lin Dawang can listen to me.
No one can make all the money at once.
Lin Dawang became excited when he heard this. Since Mr. Jiang agreed, it would be easy.
"Master Jiang, don't worry. We in Linjia Village will listen to you. We will do whatever you say."
He was just thinking about the white snowflake salt, and for the sake of money, it was no big deal to ask him to be obedient.
Even asking him to call Young Master Jiang "ancestor" would be fine.
Jiang Xiaoxiao smiled and said, "Brother Lin, if you have any private salt left, keep it and don't sell it."
Lin Dawang is stupid and doesn't want to sell it! ?
"Master Jiang, we still have 2,000 kilograms of private salt. You know that the last time we brought back a lot of private salt, we only sold more than 2,000 kilograms in the past few days. The remaining 2,000 kilograms are like firecrackers.
It's not safe to keep it at home. If something goes wrong, someone will report it and the whole village will lose their heads. Even if no one reports it, we will have to pay taxes immediately. We really can't keep this salt."
Lin Dawang was so anxious that he got angry.
Whoever keeps this contraband salt at home will not be afraid of losing his head.
"Li Tieniu, take two people with you to teach them how to make snowflake salt, and then send it to the Wu family to exchange for silver, and then build the city wall like us."
Li Tieniu agreed readily and didn't feel uncomfortable at all because of Jiang Xiaoxiao's words.
"Okay, Brother Lin, let's go."
Lin Dawang asked stupidly, "Can you make snowflake salt?"
Who are you kidding!
If someone in Lijia Village knew how to make snowflake salt, would Lijia Village have declined to its current state?
Li Tieniu pulled him and went away, "Come with me, find two smart, patient and meticulous guys, I will teach you how to make snowflake salt. This snowflake salt was the idea of Mr. Jiang.
It is said that it is recorded in ancient books. We are illiterate, so it is no wonder we don't know it. People say that scholars are powerful. Now I know that Mr. Jiang is a good scholar, so it is really easy for him to get some money casually.
Follow Master Jiang in the future, and you will have a good life. It is right to listen to Master Jiang."
Lin Dawang felt dizzy and his head was like thunder.
Mr. Jiang is so amazing! ?
A day later, seeing the white snowflake salt really coming out of his hands, like frost and snow, as white as jade, Lin Dawang clapped his thigh excitedly.
"Master Jiang, a god!"
Jiang Xiaoxiao specifically told Lin Dawang not to reveal his identity when delivering the salt.
Lin Dawang agreed readily.
Two thousand kilograms of smuggled salt turned into one thousand eight hundred kilograms of snowflake salt, because their people did not believe in it and poured out a tank of brine, otherwise there would be more.
But it's exciting enough now.
Ten taels of silver per catty, the math is enough to drive people crazy.
Lin Dawang and Li Tieniu delivered salt, and Jiang Xiaoxiao followed them to the city and went to the East Market.
It is now the refugee base camp, surrounded by a dilapidated City God Temple, and is full of ragged refugees.
Jiang Xiaoxiao was accompanied by five boys from her own Lijia Village, all of whom were picked up strong young men of about seventeen or eighteen years old.
As soon as they were told that they needed work and that they would be provided with meals, they were immediately surrounded by people, all of whom stretched out their hands, wishing they could go with Jiang Xiaoxiao right away.
Jiang Xiaoxiao still picked some people. Among the refugees there were some lazy and slick people, as well as some grown men who wanted to cheat and take advantage of what was ready. Jiang Xiaoxiao picked those families with children to take back.
Such people will also work hard for their families.
Eighty households were selected at once, with a total of four hundred people.
When they were told to follow Jiang Xiaoxiao, no one hesitated.
They don't worry about being cheated. Even if they are cheated, what can deceive them?
People are almost starving to death. If they can be tricked into giving them something to eat, they will accept being cheated.
Jiang Xiaoxiao really didn't want to pick people like picking animals, but unfortunately other people didn't have this idea. They wanted to send people back to work, not to take them back to be treated as grandfathers.
The other five people were picking and choosing. There were also families selling children and women in their village. Although they had not learned how to choose people, they had seen how to buy people.
You can still do it by copying others.
Jiang Xiaoxiao and her group took their people back. The carriage was carrying salt. Even though someone looked like he was about to faint on the road, Jiang Xiaoxiao hardened her heart and didn't let him get on.
A horse-drawn carriage will not solve the problem.
When we got back to the village, someone had already been driving a horse-drawn carriage back.
Several aunts in the village had already cooked rice porridge, which was neither too thin nor too thick. Several large pots were set up on the threshing floor. Everyone who arrived was first taken to take a hot bath.
Then, after drinking a bowl of hot porridge, they immediately held the bowl and cried, wishing they could kneel down and kowtow to the whole village.
But make it clear that each person has one bowl and children have half a bowl.
The aunt who served the porridge made it clear that it was not that they were not allowed to eat, but they had been hungry for so long and could not eat too much.
In fact, every aunt felt sorry for the grain, because the grain was new grain that Li Tieniu collected from other villages.
They didn't dare to eat it like this, so now they were feeding it to the refugees, but they looked so pitiful.
They didn't say anything, as their family had also experienced similar famine.
It's not the same if you flee.
That night, the refugees settled down in the uninhabited houses in the village.
There is definitely no bedding, but I'll just make do with what I brought with me.
It's not winter yet, so you won't be cold.
(End of this chapter)
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