A lot of fish soup was quickly delivered from the cafeteria, and Jiang Zhen, who came back from outside, got a big bowl each.
In the big winter, a bowl of hot fish soup feels really good, but unfortunately there is no pepper at this time, otherwise you can eat boiled fish and have a hot pot.
Jiang Zhen is not a person who doesn't like spicy food, but he still likes to eat all kinds of spicy dishes. After not eating it for a long time, he misses it even more.
When eating fish, Jiang Zhen gave Zhao Mingzhu a taste of the meat from the belly of the fish.
Zhao Mingzhu has been nine months old and has been able to eat complementary food for a long time, but Jiang Zhen did not dare to give her more than rice cereal, for fear of eating her stomach.
Zhao Mingzhu was very fond of fish. After tasting a little, he opened his mouth and continued to ask for it. Then Jiang Zhen did not give her any more fish, but only gave her a small piece of steamed bun for her to eat.
Zhao Mingzhu took the steamed bun, and was a little dissatisfied, but seeing that Jiang Zhen didn't want to continue to give her to eat, he could only eat the steamed bun in grievance.
The Chinese New Year is the most important festival for the common people. In the first few days of the Chinese New Year, the Jin Zhen Escort Office stopped accepting business. Jiang Zhen gave all his staff a holiday, and he himself planned to take a few days off.
While the Zhao family was resting, thinking about what to eat every day, something happened in other parts of Daqi.
After Zheng Yi distilled the high-quality wine, he immediately sent it to the capital, so, before the Chinese New Year, the wine was presented to the palace.
Although the Zheng family has given this wine an ancient name, it cannot be denied that this is a new wine that has not been around for a long time and has no reputation at all.
The queen mother herself does not like to drink.
So, the wine was sent to the imperial kitchen at will, without attracting the Queen Mother's attention at all.
In the end, I don't know if the Zheng family was lucky, but in the end, this wine became famous.
Before this year, the Rong people in the north sent messengers to Daqi.
Daqi and the Rong people in the north have always been in constant friction. There are often battles, and usually Daqi loses. Every time a battle, a lot of things are taken away, a lot of food and grass are spent, and a lot of stuff has to be filled in. human life.
It is also for this reason that the method of suturing the wound provided by Jiang Zhen before has attracted the attention of the generals.
And this year, Daqi and the Rong people are fighting again, and the Rong people also have some civil strife...
The original Khan of the Rong people was a little overwhelmed by the civil turmoil, and suddenly remembered that Daqi was coming, and asked a messenger to come to Daqi, asking to marry the princess of Daqi for peace talks.
This was nothing at first, but the scholars in Daqi looked down on the Rong people, and the Rong people looked down on the people in Daqi. In the end, there was a conflict between the two sides.
Those Rong people, when the Empress Dowager hosted a banquet for them, said that the drinks in Daqi were as "soft" as the people in Daqi, and they said that it was something that the women on their side didn't drink.
This could be regarded as the pretext of drinking water to slap Da Qi in the face, and the queen mother was angry on the spot. It was at this time that he suddenly remembered the spirits that Mr. Zheng Er gave her.
The queen mother immediately asked someone to bring the wine.
In fact, at this time in Daqi, there are already some ways to purify the wine, but even if it has been purified, the degree is still not high. Zheng Yi got the method provided by Jiang Zhen and kept distilling it, but he came up with a high degree of wine.
When the wine came up, the strong aroma of the wine made those Rong people speechless, and each one of them scorned, after they drank...
The Rong people who had said before that he was not drunk after a thousand cups were so drunk that he couldn't even get up, making him a big ugly.
That's all, the next day, those Rong people even wanted to beg for this wine.
Mr. Zheng Er is one of the Queen Mother's confidants, and his work is always in line with the Queen Mother's heart. The Queen Mother has always valued him very much. This time, Er Ye Zheng made another contribution, and he immediately rewarded Master Zheng Er and brought this Qingfeng wine. Made a tribute.
In the future, the value of this Qingfeng wine will undoubtedly rise again.
Of course, the news hasn't reached Hecheng County yet. At this moment, the officials and businessmen of Hexing House were all attracted by another incident.
Before Zhou Maohe went to the Zheng family to find trouble with Jiang Zhen, in fact, most of the people in Hexing House didn't take it seriously. After all, it had nothing to do with them, and it was just a trivial matter, but this time it was different.
Zhou Maohe is in trouble this time!
He, an imperial envoy who was sent to the south because the queen mother thought it was too annoying, actually challenged the private salt problem that the imperial envoys who were specially sent to rectify the salt affairs did not dare to challenge it!
What's even more shocking is that he was so daring to think and act that he led someone to copy the Hongjiang Salt Field with lightning speed.
The famous Hongjiang Salt Works was copied by Zhou Maohe!
He was able to do this, even Zheng Yi was shocked.
"I asked someone to remind him a few words about this, and he didn't have time to do anything at all..." After Zheng Yi got the news, he came to Hexi Village to find Jiang Zhen, and when he spoke, his expression was very strange.
He prepared some evidence of the crime of the Hongjiang Saltworks, but before it was given to Zhou Maohe, Zhou Maohe did something he couldn't think of at all.
"What's going on?" Jiang Zhen couldn't help asking.
Wasn't Zhou Qinchao always under Zheng Yi's surveillance? He suddenly copied the Hongjiang Salt Field. Did Zheng Yi know nothing about it
"I really didn't expect that he could be so... decisive." Zheng Yi sighed, and then said again, "But if it's him, it's actually normal to do this."
Zhou Maohe copied the Hongjiang Salt Field, not because he found out about the private salt.
After he made trouble in Hecheng County, there were a lot of people staring at him. It was very inconvenient for him to check something. Although he felt that the salt service was very messy, he wanted to check it carefully, but in fact it was not at all. Can't find anything.
He copied the Hongjiang Salt Works, but there are other reasons... And this, we have to start with the Hongjiang Salt Works covering the sky with one hand.
Back then, when Jiang Zhen followed people into the sea, the people in the Hongjiang Salt Field had to charge a lot of money, and they were even more rude to those who lived by the sea.
They sell illicit salt by themselves, but they don't allow others to touch it. If someone in a seaside village boils salt and sells it privately, they often don't even give them a chance to defend themselves, and just kill them.
Sometimes it is even possible to kill the entire village.
Hongjiang Salt Farm has raised many people, specially helping them catch people who can't pass them to sell illicit salt, and also help them control a large area of the seaside, and these people, under their deliberate connivance, are actually no different from bandits and pirates.
Not only will they kill the people who sell illicit salt, but later on, even the ordinary people in the village will go to harm them.
Of course, they didn't kill for no reason, but toyed with the women in the village.
When Zhou Maohe learned that illicit salt was rampant and repeatedly banned, he did not doubt the Shanghongjiang Salt Field—who would have thought that the salt field built by the imperial court would sell illicit salt
But he decided to go to the beach to see.
After Zhou Maohe went, he actually picked up a woman who committed suicide by throwing herself into the river.
The woman was about to get married, but she was taken care of by the people who were raised by the Hongjiang Salt Farm, and she was taken back and locked up for others to play.
And she would fall into the water, but it was because she was chased after she finally found an opportunity to escape.
After Zhou Maohe learned about this, he was very angry. At this time, he met a group of people who had escaped from the Hongjiang Salt Field.
These people are the salt households of the Hongjiang Salt Works.
Salt households, as the name suggests, are people who specialize in salt-related work.
In Daqi, artisans are craftsmen, and those who specialize in boiling salt are called salt households.
The Hongjiang Salt Works needs a lot of salt, and they all let the salt farmers in the salt work cook the salt. But the life of these salt farmers was even more difficult than that of the people living by the sea.
Those people are free and can go into the sea to fish and feed themselves. If An An lived a peaceful life, he would not necessarily be caught and killed, and his food and clothing would be guaranteed. These salt households were different.
The household registration of these salt farmers is in the Hongjiang Salt Works. They can only live on the salt works. The people of the Hongjiang Salt Works treat them like slaves. Shuanger, basically can't keep it.
This group of Yan households who escaped is really unable to live, and they want to go outside to fight.
Those who dared to escape were young and strong. When Zhou Maohe met them, he learned that the Hongjiang Salt Field had acted so recklessly and wanted to kill people, so he took them to the place where the Hongjiang Salt Field was located and wanted to talk. In the end, by accident, for some unknown reason, they even took them to copy the Hongjiang Salt Field.
It stands to reason that a group of literati who have never fought against others in the salt field will not be able to enter the Hongjiang Salt Field, but... Zhou Maohe's luck is not bad.
He can participate in this and that all day long, and in the end he is fine, so he knows that his luck is definitely not bad, and this time, his luck is still very good.
When he brought a group of angry people to Hongjiang Salt Works, it happened to be New Year's Eve. Many people from Hongjiang Salt Works went home to reunite with their families. The rest were still drinking and having fun, and were not alert.
It was because of the Chinese New Year that the woman who jumped into the river could find an opportunity to escape, and it was also because of the New Year that those salt households could take advantage of the slack defense to flee collectively. In the end, it was also because of the Chinese New Year that they even copied the Hongjiang Salt Field.
After copying this, Zhou Maohe discovered that the Hongjiang Salt Field had done so many appalling things, and that they had also made the private salt!
Zhou Maohe immediately became angry, and while sending people to the capital to report, he contacted the nearby civil and military officials.
As a result, those people not only did not help him catch the people from the Hongjiang Salt Field, but also defined the incident of taking the Yan households to copy the Hongjiang Salt Field as a rebellion of Yan households, and sent troops to suppress them.
"He's also stupid. Those officials are all related to the Hongjiang Salt Works." Zheng Yi sighed: "Now the Hongjiang Salt Works is in complete chaos, not even a grain of salt can be shipped out, and I don't know what happened inside. "The person he sent to follow Zhou Maohe was very clever, and when he realized that the situation was not right, he ran out.
Because of this, he knew a lot of news, but it was impossible to know the follow-up news.
Jiang Zhen felt a little helpless after hearing Zheng Yi tell the story.
He wanted Zhou Maohe to investigate the private salt, and then to the Hongjiang Salt Works, but he didn't expect that Zhou Maohe wanted to seek justice for a group of salt farmers, and then he found the Hongjiang Salt Works.
Because of this, things are progressing very fast, which is unexpected.
"Now the entire Hexing Mansion, including the Wuzhong Mansion in the north, is in chaos. Fortunately, our Hecheng County is fine... I have sent a letter to my second uncle, and I don't know how the imperial court will deal with this matter." Zheng Yi said.
The magistrate of Hecheng County followed the Zheng family. At most, when the boat loaded with smuggled salt came over, he did not see it and did not intervene in it. Now Hecheng County is not involved.
But in other places... I don't know what it will look like when this matter gets bigger, and Zhou Maohe, he can be said to be stuck there at the moment, and I don't know what will happen.
Jiang Zhen didn't say a word, he just cut the bamboo with a knife and cut the bamboo into strips.
"What are you doing?" Zheng Yi asked.
"It's going to be the Lantern Festival, I want to make a lantern." Jiang Zhen said, but after he finished speaking, he threw all the bamboo and knives in his hands on the ground.
He also had nothing to do these days, and suddenly remembered to make a few lanterns. Now that he has something to do, naturally he has no time to toss about it.
"You do have elegance." Zheng Yi said, once, he was also a lantern paper kite, but later, when he got older, he didn't have this skill.
"It's gone now." Jiang Zhen said.
Zheng Yi looked at Jiang Zhen curiously, but Jiang Zhen suddenly said, "I want to take someone to the Hongjiang Salt Field to see."
Zheng Yi was startled and suspected that he had heard it wrong.
But Jiang Zhen's face was full of affirmation.
If it was still in modern times, when he already had a wife and a child, it would be impossible for him to run to a place where there were two people fighting each other, and it was very dangerous. After all, if he accidentally ate a bullet at that time, he would There is only one dead end.
But there are no weapons that are too dangerous at the moment.
What's more, he has been staying in Hexi Village without going out, and he can't guarantee his 100% safety.
Jiang Zhen made a decision, but if he wants to leave, he still needs to make some preparations. It will be two days later.
After Zheng Yi left, Jiang Zhen went to find Brother Zhao Jin.
Zhao Jinge was talking to a few people from Hexi Village and asked them to follow him to Fucheng to help him manage the duck farm and chicken farm there.
They have almost talked about it. Seeing Jiang Zhen, Zhao Jinge stopped talking, let them go back first, and then looked at Jiang Zhen: "Zheng Shao went back?"
"Well." Jiang Zhen nodded, and suddenly said, "Am I going to go out in two days?"
"Go to Fucheng? I'll go with you."
"I'm not going to Fucheng, this time you can't follow." Jiang Zhen said.
"Where are you going?" Zhao Jinge felt that something was wrong when he saw Jiang Zhen's serious expression.
Jiang Zhen thought about it, but decided not to hide it from Zhao Jinge: "I'm going to the beach."
"What are you going to do at the beach?" Zhao Jinge asked inexplicably. Jiang Zhen used to go to the beach to buy goods before, but now... they don't care about that business anymore.
Brother Zhao Jin suddenly became a little uneasy.
"There's an accident at the Hongjiang Salt Field. I'm going to see it." Jiang Zhen sighed and told Zhao Jinge everything that Zheng Yi said.
"It's so dangerous there, what are you going to do?" Brother Zhao Jin said without thinking.
"Although it is dangerous over there, there are also great opportunities waiting. There are also those bodyguards under my command... These people have never seen blood and need to exercise." Jiang Zhendao.
"I'm going too!" Zhao Jinge's brows furrowed tightly: "I fight very hard, much better than He Chunsheng and the others!"
"Brother Jin, you may be pregnant with a child in your stomach." Jiang Zhen said. Jiang Zhen didn't know if there was a child in Brother Zhao Jin's belly, but he didn't want to let Brother Zhao Jin go to a dangerous place, that's for sure.
When Zhao Jinge thought about what happened when he went to the capital, he was speechless.