For two days in a row, Bai Shan didn't mention the matter of building the stove. Instead, he asked the village chief to lead the villagers to open three or four salt fields by the sea, and directly drove them into the sea to dry.
Director Song followed him for two days, thinking that Bai Shan's tossing was in vain, but seeing him hitting the south wall without looking back, it was rare for him to express any objection.
But the seaside is too hot, Master Song said to Bai Shan: "My lord, there are still many things to deal with in the county office, why don't I go back to the county office first?"
"No need," Bai Shan said, "there is Fang Xian Cheng at the county government. The village head will handle the new saltworks. Let's go to inspect the next village."
Master Song: "...My lord, leave this salt field to them? What if they cook salt secretly?"
Bai Shan didn't take it seriously, "Sealing salt is a serious crime, their family is here, and I've opened a salt farm here, how could they be so hard on it?"
"I haven't figured out who will manage the salt farm yet. I'll talk about it when I think about it. Anyway, the sun won't be able to dry out the salt for a while, so let's keep it for now."
Master Song: ...
The village chief on the side was very sad when he heard this.
But Bai Shan found him privately, circled several places for him and said, "I have visited these two days, and these places have the highest salt content, and some of them even have brine in the ground, so your salt fields have to be dug from here to all the way. Here, if there is brine, it will be melted and dried in the salt field.”
The village chief was startled, and quickly asked: "There is brine, you can use it after stirring it with water and then boil it again, why do you need to melt it in the salt field?"
Up to now, the village head does not believe that the sun can produce salt.
But Bai Shan insisted, "Listen to me, you are right, now you dig the salt fields to dry the salt first, and I will come back after a while."
Although the village chief was worried about the future of the village, Bai Shan paid the wages, and he already knew about the secret cooking of salt in the village, so the village chief dared not listen to him.
He could only sigh in response,
Seeing that he obeyed, Bai Shan took people to other villages and began to inspect it with confidence. At present, it is mainly about spring planting. Bai Shan also took a look at the situation of wheat by the way.
Man Bao followed him all the way to the free clinic with a cart of medicinal materials, and they went back to the county when she finally consumed all the medicinal materials in the cart.
Dong Xianwei and Song Zhubo, who were already dark, were even darker, but Bai Shan and Zhou Man were wearing hats all the time, and they may have been born with hats.
As soon as they entered the city, Master Song subconsciously wanted to follow them back to the county government office, but a servant from his family ran over and said, "Master, the old lady is not feeling well."
Upon hearing this, Master Song immediately said: "Magistrate Bai, I will go home to see my old mother first, the county government..."
Bai Shan immediately nodded and said: "Go, we are here at the county government office. Say hello to the old lady for me and ask her to take care of herself."
Master Song responded, and immediately picked up his robe and rushed home with his servants.
Watching him run away, Man Bao said, "I wanted to be polite, but if I'm not well, I can go out for a doctor."
Bai Shan said: "Don't scare him now, let's go back too."
Man Bao nodded.
The county office was very quiet, and it looked very peaceful on the surface. When the two entered the county office, Fang Xiancheng greeted them immediately, and the three went to the office to talk.
Dong Xianwei looked around and went to find his subordinates.
When the subordinates saw him, they said in horror: "Lieutenant Dong, you are finally back. Do you know what happened these few days?"
County Captain Dong asked calmly, "How big is it?"
The other party lowered his voice and said: "Fang County Prime Minister went to check the accounts of the salt farm while the county magistrate and you and Chief Secretary Song were away, but found something wrong, and immediately took the steward Song from the salt farm. The two clerks on the other side of the room have also been taken down, and they are all locked in prison at this time."
He wanted to cry but said without tears: "It would be great if you came back half a day earlier. This morning, the county magistrate took us to search the three people's homes."
Dong Xianwei asked curiously: "Did you copy anything?"
"Copied it out, there are a lot of expensive silks, satins and silks, and there are several sacks of copper coins. Not to mention that Song Guanshi is only in his early thirties, even if he works for another thirty years, he will not be able to earn money with his little salary and the family's land. There are so many things, and now he can't tell the origin of the things, and there are mistakes in the accounts, unless the county magistrate shows mercy, he will die."
Lieutenant Dong said: "Magistrate Bai won't be merciful, you can let them die."
Most of the matter was discussed by County Magistrate Bai and County Chancellor Fang.
Although Bai Shan now uses Fang Xiancheng more than him, Dong Xianwei is the person who has been with him the most since Bai Shan came to the county.
He has been watching how the county magistrate handles local affairs and relations.
To be honest, although he was a little aggressive, he had to say that the speed at which he did this was much faster than that of the county magistrate Lu who slowly laid out his plans and then took power.
Of course, the result must be clear. If Bai Shan wins, he will be the leader of the Beihai County Government from now on; The county magistrate's operations over the years will be ruined.
But County Captain Dong was not in a hurry at all, he said to his subordinates: "Stop talking about these gossips in the future, we just follow orders and do what our superiors tell us to do, you understand?"
The subordinate nodded in a daze, and asked, "Shouldn't Master Song be reminded of this?"
He remembered that their boss had a very good relationship with Master Song.
As soon as the thought flashed through, their head was slapped by their boss, County Captain Dong said angrily: "Do we need to remind? He has gone home early, we are a group of government officials in charge of law and order, protect and rule The common people, protect your lord, don’t make troubles, just don’t worry about the rest.”
Subordinate: "Oh."
County Lieutenant Dong dismissed his subordinates, turned his head to glance at the office over there, and couldn't help sighing. It seemed that the county was going to be in chaos again, and he didn't know who would suffer this time, or both sides would suffer.
It's a pity that he doesn't have the ability to be a fisherman, otherwise being a fisherman at this time would be very profitable.
In the office, Bai Shan flipped through the ledgers, Fang Xiancheng was very considerate, he specially marked the ledgers with problems in red, and marked them on the side, so he could understand them at a glance.
He handed the brochure to Zhou Man and asked, "Only one manager was arrested?"
Fang County Prime Minister said: "My lord, Beihai County has to pay a certain amount of salt to Qingzhou Governor's Mansion every season. If too many people are arrested and the sea salt can't be boiled out, then they will be punished."
Bai Shandao: "If you don't catch them, will they be able to cook the salt on time?"
"this… "
Bai Shan said straightforwardly: "Arrest all the people who can find out the problem now, and then interrogate, and arrest all the people who can find out the problem, and then investigate again."