Finally coaxing little Bai Jingxing to sleep, Bai Shan took Zhou Man's hand back to the house, and kept peeping at her along the way.
Zhou Man pinched him, "What are you secretly looking at?"
Bai Shan grabbed her hand, held it firmly in his palm, leaned close to her ear and whispered: "Do you want to have another child?"
Zhou Man's cheeks were slightly red, and after a long silence, he whispered, "I'm not very busy these days."
Bai Shan understood immediately, and hurried back to the room after pulling her away.
Zhou Man's face became more and more red, he pulled him back and asked, "Aren't you planning to suppress the bandits with Governor Liu?"
Bai Shan: "No delay."
Inspector Liu has a navy in his hands, and there are many soldiers, horses and warships. He has long been displeased with the bandits on the sea, especially his son who is escorting the official salt for the salt transport department. The official ship has to go back and forth eight times a year. Pirates wandering past.
After becoming the governor of Qingzhou, merchant ships entering and leaving Longchi Wharf were occasionally harassed because of the pirates.
So Bai Shan talked to him instead of Tang He, and he immediately agreed.
Tang He helped him link up with the governors of Pingzhou and Dengzhou to apply to the imperial court for joint suppression of bandits, and Governor Liu promised to capture the group of pirates who cooperated with Laizhou and hand them over to him.
Things went fairly smoothly, when little boy Bai Jingxing finally came out of his grief and had temporarily forgotten little boy Bai Ruoyu, Bai Shan came back from the sea exhausted, and said with bright eyes: "We won, the bandits in Pingzhou and Dengzhou The bandits were wiped out and scattered, and the Baekje bandits and Japanese pirates nesting in the sea islands were also dispersed."
It was the middle of the night at this time, Zhou Man was startled awake, and was sitting on the bed looking at him in a daze, seeing him talking non-stop, he stretched out his hand and pinched his face.
It feels very real, "It's a real person."
Bai Shan stopped talking, "...of course it's a real person."
He hurriedly got up, pressed her into the quilt, and covered her up, "It's my fault, I'm too excited, you continue to sleep."
How could Zhou Man still be able to sleep, she was completely awake, and was about to pull Bai Shan to ask the details, but he had already gone to take a shower and wash his hair.
During this period of time, he has been staying in Longchi, and even went out to sea. It is normal for him not to take a bath for ten days and a half months on the boat, and he is very dirty at this time.
When he entered the room lightly with his wet hair covered, he saw Zhou Man sitting cross-legged on the couch in the outer room.
He straightened up instantly and walked in, "Are you awake?"
Zhou Man nodded, picked up a large towel, and beckoned, "Come here, wipe your hair for you."
Bai Shan stepped forward and sat directly on the footrest.
Zhou Man felt that it was a bit cold, so he handed him a mat, and then helped him to wipe his hair, "Have you caught the person Xuexiong Tang wants?"
"Well," Bai Shan said, "the people have been sent to Laizhou, do you know where they stole the salt and sold it?"
"where?"
Bai Shandao: "Baekje, Silla, and Liaodong."
Zhou Man was taken aback, "Didn't the salt in Liaodong come from here?"
Bai Shan shook his head, "The imperial government's salt transportation department can't control that side now, the salt over there is now self-sufficient, and the price of salt is even higher than before the reform of the salt administration. Ji and Silla are also about the same price."
Although their coins are different, you can know the value of the items by converting them.
Transactions between the two countries generally use gold and silver as currency, but it is not difficult to convert.
Zhou Man: "Dare to smuggle salt to Fanbang, they are really brave."
Bai Shan nodded, "It's very big. Originally, they had the idea of moistening things silently. Every time, they transported a part of the salt directly from the salt field, and lost part of it during transportation, and sent it to the sea every month through merchant ships going out to sea. Kou sent."
"The sea bandits sent the salt to various places to sell privately, and the money they got was shared between the two parties. It can be regarded as a seamless cooperation," Bai Shan said: "But the governor of Laizhou noticed something unusual, and began to let people keep an eye on the salt factory and the salt transportation department."
"The Laizhou Salt Farm was presided over by the Governor of Laizhou from the very beginning. Even if the Salt Transport Department took over, he would have his own staff in it. When he sensed something was wrong, he sent people to guard against it. As a result, they failed to transport the illegal salt for three consecutive months. The buyer was in such a hurry that they scuttled the official ship carrying the official salt as soon as they lost their minds."
"There is also a waterproof oilcloth bag inside the salt bag. If it is tied tightly, it will be waterproof even if it falls into the sea. Afterwards, when the people leave, they find someone with good water skills to dive in, tie the salt bag and pull it up."
Zhou Man was amazed, "For money, they are really very thoughtful, and they will do everything they can."
She was very puzzled, "You're so smart, isn't it good to use it on the right path? Isn't the money earned on the right path good?"
Bai Shan thought for a while and said, "The money coming up on the right way is less."
Zhou Man shook his head, "It takes more mental effort to commit a crime, and it's frightening, plus the consequences of breaking the law, the gain outweighs the loss."
"Putting these ingenuity on the right path can also earn a lot of money. Money, enough is enough, why bother to be obsessed with it?"
Bai Shan looked back at her with a smile, stretched out his hand to touch her cheek and said, "That means you are upright and easy to satisfy, but the most difficult thing to satisfy is greed."
Zhou Man reached out and pushed his head back, told him to sit upright, and continued to wipe his hair, "If you catch Haikou, brother Tang's case will be over, right? I don't know if he would like to live in Beihai County How long?"
Bai Shandao: "Go back and ask him, but he has already come to inspect once, and if he comes again, it will either appear that he is lazy, or that there is something wrong with Beihai County."
Zhou Man thought about it too. With his identity, although he could choose where to inspect, he couldn't do whatever he wanted.
Zhou Man dried his hair, touched his soft long hair, became happy, turned around and crawled over to get a comb, eager to comb his hair.
As soon as Bai Shan grasped her hand, the tips of his ears turned red, "I'll do it myself."
"No, I'll comb it for you."
Bai Shan squeezed her hand and said emphatically, "I'll do it myself."
"You combed it for me, but I haven't combed it for you yet." After saying that, he raised his hand towards his head.
Bai Shan hurriedly grabbed her hand, blushing, "No, I will do it myself!"
Zhou Man just looked at him quietly.
Bai Shan's neck was all red. He was already white, so the red was particularly conspicuous. Zhou Man glanced at him, thoughtfully, "So you're shy~"
Bai Shan looked at her silently, let go of his hand after a while, and sat back on the footrest again, with an appearance of letting the king do whatever he wants.
Zhou Man instantly became happy, stroked his hair and combed it carefully.
The tips of Bai Shan's ears turned red.
Xibing yawned and went back to the room, and said to the troubled Jiuyue, "Aren't you sleeping?"
Jiuyue tried hard to open her eyes, "The Lord and the lady are not asleep yet."
Xibing also sat by the bed with her, and said after a long time: "Let's go to bed first, the master and the lady don't like us serving in front of you, so they probably won't call anyone tonight."
There was no movement in Jiuyue, so Xibing turned to look at her, and saw that she had fallen asleep with her head down, she poked her head with her hand, and she turned to the other side, and fell onto the bed with a snap.
Xibing yawned and fell on the other side of the bed.