Most of the people from the Hongjiang Salt Works were Daqi people, but there were also a few people who could tell at a glance that they were not Daqi people.
When Jiang Zhen saw those people, he was startled, and at this moment he did not hesitate to ask Fang Qi.
"Boss, those people you mentioned should be Dongyang Ronin." Fang Qi immediately said after Jiang Zhen asked.
"Dongyang Ronin?" Jiang Zhen frowned slightly. He could understand what those people said, and it was not much different from one of the three foreign languages he knew, so he didn't know how these people appeared in Daqi.
Fang Qi saw that Jiang Zhen was a little confused, and immediately explained it.
People outside Daqi were all called the barbarians by the people of Daqi, and these ronin were one of the barbarians.
They originally lived on a small island in the East China Sea. Because of the endless wars in their country, many people could not live in their own country, so they crossed the sea and came here to seek a living.
"Boss, those Dongyang ronin work hard and bear no complaints. The Hongjiang Salt Field likes to use them." Fang Qi said again, such oriental ronin are quite common at the seaside.
Jiang Zhen asked Fang Qi some more questions, and after pondering for a while, he understood that the Hongjiang Salt Field was good, so why did he treat the salt farmers under his command badly
It has been 300 years since the founding of Daqi, and more than 200 years have passed since the Hongjiang Saltworks. At the beginning, the number of salt households may not have been many, but with the passage of time, these salt households have become biological sons and reproduced offspring, and the number has increased. .
Originally, the Hongjiang Salt Farm still needed them to boil salt and boil salt. Even if they felt that it was not cost-effective to raise so many people, it was still good for them, but over the years, more and more oriental looners have wandered here.
These Oriental ronin had a bad life on their island before. After they got here, as long as they were given food, they would work very hard, and even willing to work hard with others. That’s all, they still have no family Those who are dragged down - those who are not afraid of dying at sea and cross the sea are basically men.
With such a good labor force, the people in Hongjiang Salt Works naturally began to be dissatisfied with those salt farmers who brought their families and family, and they had no worries when they started to deal with the salt farmers.
They are not short of manpower anyway.
After figuring out the reason, Jiang Zhen didn't know how to evaluate the current mess.
However, this is not the time to think about this, they have to think about how to deal with that group of people.
Such a group of people can never be allowed to continue killing and harming the common people... Thinking of the tragic state of several women who were brought by this group of people, Jiang Zhen's brows couldn't help wrinkling.
In this ancient times, the fate of women and twins is always under their own control, and they will be miserable if they are not careful... His pearl...
Thinking that if there is war in the future, Zhao Mingzhu may also suffer misfortune, Jiang Zhen's mood became extremely bad, and he became more determined on the path he was going to take.
Jiang Zhen discussed the countermeasures with his subordinates, and then found a place to eat and sleep to raise his spirits.
In the middle of the night, Jiang Zhen woke up all his subordinates, and then the group quietly approached the camp of the group.
Obviously, among this group of people, the status of those Dongyang ronin is not high, and it is those Dongyang ronin who are watching the night tonight.
It was early in the morning, and the night watchmen were already drowsy. Jiang Zhen tapped the wood a few times in the dark, and the people under his hand quietly leaned over, and finally covered the guards of the night watchmen. Mouth and nose, slashed their throats with a knife.
The number of people in the Hongjiang Salt Field was similar to Jiang Zhen and others. They used to sneak attack at night to kill all the people in Fang Qi's village, but now, Jiang Zhen led someone to sneak attack on them.
Thoughtfully, the group was quickly wiped out. No one under Jiang Zhen died, only seven or eight people were injured.
Even if the rescued woman Shuang'er was not from Fang Qi's village, it was nearby. Jiang Zhen asked Fang Qi to talk to them, and arranged for someone to clean the battlefield.
"All the injured people come to my side." Jiang Zhendao, after several injured people came over, he took out a skin bag and pulled out the plug on it.
A strong aroma of wine wafted out immediately.
"Boss?" Jiang Ming was also one of the injured people, and looked at Jiang Zhen in surprise at this moment.
He knew that this wine was Qingfeng wine that many people in Fucheng couldn't buy! Jiang Zhen called them over and took out the Qingfeng wine. Is this the intention to drink this wine for the injured people
Jiang Ming didn't actually drink much, and he didn't have much hobby for wine, but as long as he thought that this was the wine that the prefects were thinking about, he especially wanted to taste it.
However…
Jiang Zhen pointed the wine bag at the wound on Jiang Ming's hand, and it fell down...
Jiang Ming suddenly let out a scream, which was no different from the scream of a pig when Jiang Zhen killed pigs before.
The person who was cleaning the battlefield was startled when he heard the words. The one who was talking to Fang Qi, who used to be in the same village as him, who was kidnapped and rescued by them, shrank into a ball subconsciously, shivering. stand up.
"Boss, what are you doing?" Jiang Ming was speechless. His boss poured wine on his wound. Was this deliberately tossing him
Also, how could such a precious wine be poured on his wound casually, this is too wasteful!
"This is for your own good." Jiang Zhen glanced at him and asked him to bandage himself, and then let the next one come over.
Jiang Ming also knew that this must be for his own good, so he didn't say anything at the moment.
However, seeing that the people behind him all clenched their teeth and did not say a word because of his demonstration in front of him, and no one called out, only he lost a big face, Jiang Ming was really depressed.
When the battlefield is cleaned and the wounds are bandaged, the sun will rise.
These people from the Hongjiang Salt Works are all at the bottom, and they don't actually have much money on them, but for Jiang Zhen, killing them would be of great benefit.
The people in the Hongjiang Salt Works all have waist badges to prove their identity. Now that he has obtained some waist badges, he can pretend to be his own when he encounters people from the salt field in the future, and can avoid some unnecessary disputes.
Burying the body on the spot, Jiang Zhen packed up and continued on his way.
He didn't drive away the women they rescued, but he didn't indulge the other party to slow down.
These women and Shuang’er were both from the seaside fishing village. They probably worked all the time. Although it was difficult, they still followed. When Jiang Zhen talked about the knowledge of survival in the wild, they still listened very seriously.
As long as you are human, you always want to live.
a few days later.
Yabian Village is a very small village by the sea, with a total of about ten families in the village.
There is a cliff where they live, from which the name of the cliffside village comes from.
Relying on the sea to eat the sea, the people of Yabian Village rely on fishing for a living. They are very poor, and there are no fishing boats that can go out to sea in the village. Everyone stays on the cliff to fish, pick up fish and shrimps on the beach, and they also grow some vegetables on the sandy beach by the sea, so they can live on.
On this day, Qing Zhuang from Yabian Village caught some fish, picked up some shrimps and crabs from the crevices of the rocks by the sea, and went home together.
The top of the cliff is relatively high, and they can overlook the village where they live, and when they look down, they are startled—there is a group of people running towards their village!
Are the people from Hongjiang Salt Works here again? When these people come, it's definitely not good!
These young men hurriedly ran to the village. As soon as they ran into the village, they saw those people have also entered their village.
"How many masters? You..." An old man from Yabian Village stepped forward, wanting to talk to those people, but he didn't want those people to slash the old man's neck with a wave of their knives.
Donated blood spewed out from the neck of the old man, which surprised the people of Yabian Village.
In the past, these people asked them for things, how could this time... kill someone
"Master!" Several people cried.
Every family in this cliffside village is related to each other, and this old man is the elder of most people in the village. Now that those people suddenly killed him, the villagers couldn't help crying.
"What on earth are you trying to do?" asked one of the young men, looking angrily at the people in the Hongjiang Salt Field, then clenched the sticks in their hands, and some people went to get other weapons - they had already seen it, The visitor is not good.
"Hit!" said the leading man who killed the old man with a knife, and then the people behind him fought with the villagers of Yabian Village.
There are thirty or forty people from outside, and there are only twenty adult men in Yabian Village. They have no fighting experience, so they are naturally at a disadvantage.
"Dad..." A child cried, but his whimpering stopped quickly, apparently someone covered his mouth.
"Run away!"
"Everyone run away!"
"Go!"
…
The young warriors who were fighting with others shouted, the women in the village wiped away tears and were about to run away with their children, but those who attacked Yabian Village, how could they allow the villagers to run away
"Catch them!" The leader chopped down a villager in a cliffside village: "Not one of them can run away!"
There were about ten of these people, shouting and chasing after them. At this moment, another group of people appeared on the other side of the village, blocking the way for the women and children to escape.
The woman who was running at the front swayed and fell to the ground in fear. Behind her, an elderly woman was waving a sickle and rushed towards those people, in a desperate posture.
Those blocking the road all carried knives and sticks, and the leader took out the sticks and knocked off the sickle in the old woman's hand.
When the people of Yabian Village saw this, they were suddenly desperate. They were ready to be caught, humiliated, or killed by these people, but they didn't want the leader to knock off the sickle on the old woman's hand. After that, instead of hitting them, he rushed forward with a wooden stick and rushed into the middle of those who were chasing them.
The wooden stick in this man's hand swung so fast that it hit the neck of a bandit who had previously entered the village to kill, and it hit the man's neck crookedly, causing the man to fall to the ground and lose his breath.
Aren't these two people the same group
The people in Yabian Village were very excited, and then they saw the group of people rushing forward. It didn't take long before they killed several people who had rushed into the village and wanted to kill.
Those who originally aggressively entered the village to kill people were suddenly frightened and fled in all directions. At this time, the latter group chased after them...
"They are here to save us!"
"Who are these people?"
"Dad! You wake up..."
…
There were various cries and shouts in the village, and when Fang Qi saw these people, it was as if he had seen himself before.
That's right, the group of people that followed were Jiang Zhen and his party.
At this moment, Jiang Zhen led people to pursue him, but Fang Qi stayed behind with the two women he had rescued before to appease the people in the village.
"Everyone cheer up, it will be fine, it will be fine in the future!" Fang Qi said.
Fang Qi's accent is exactly the same as the people in Yabian Village. The villagers in Yabian Village relaxed a lot when they saw him, and some people asked, "Are you..."
"I'm from Xiaotang Village." Fang Qi talked about his origins, and then explained the identities of Jiang Zhen and others.
Jiang Zhen didn't tell Fang Qi the truth, he only said that he was nearby, but he didn't come here until he saw people killing people at will, Fang Qi said the same at this moment, and said: "Our boss is a good person, you can rest assured. , he will definitely help you."
The people of Yabian Village were immediately grateful.
Those who escaped scattered and fled, and Jiang Zhen still failed to catch them all.
These people are all from the Hongjiang Salt Field. After they run away, they may bring people over and attack Yabian Village. However, it is impossible for Jiang Zhen and his party to stay in Yabian Village to protect these villagers. Not much. If more people from the Hongjiang Salt Field were sent over, they would not be able to defend the village.
Jiang Zhen and others rested in Yabian Village for one night. When they left, there were more people from Yabian Village behind him.
After another two days, Jiang Zhen and others encountered a group of Yanhu who were chased by officers and soldiers who came to suppress the rebellion.
On the Hongjiang Salt Works side, there are a lot of salt households. In fact, only a small number of people entered the Hongjiang Salt Works before.
But the officers and soldiers who came to suppress the rebellion did not care about this.
When something like this happened in Hongjiang Salt Works, they must give an explanation to the above. If they can't catch the culprit, they can only go to trouble those innocent salt farmers.
Of course, they went to catch those salt farmers, and there were other considerations.
There are no wars in these years, but if a military attache wants to be promoted, he must have military exploits and kill the enemy...
In such a situation, the more enemies the better, after all, they need to get more heads to get promoted.
At the request of the officers, the soldiers slaughtered the salt households in the Hongjiang Salt Works. All men, women and children were defined as traitors.
These generations have boiled salt in the salt field, and even the salt farmers who have faced a lot of injustice in recent years and have tried to endure it, can only run away in panic.
If they don't escape, they will die.
Jiang Zhen's team grew a little bigger.
And it is impossible for them to never meet others again.
With the passage of time, more and more people around Jiang Zhen, if most of them were men, Jiang Zhen would definitely not be able to take care of them.
But even so, so many people are a bit cumbersome.
Always send these people to a safe place first, and then think about other things... Jiang Zhen chatted with people who are relatively knowledgeable among these people, and learned that there is a nearby mountain forest, which is very good for hiding people.
That being the case, let's send these people there first...
With people, Jiang Zhen walked towards the mountain forest.
It is very dangerous to bring so many people, so Jiang Zhen sent a lot of people out to inquire about the news. On this day, when the people who went out to inquire about the news came back, he worried about the tunnel: "Boss, there are traces of activities nearby, and the number of those people is not small. !"
At the same time, they took people to copy the Hongjiang Salt Field, and they have been hiding in Tibet these days. They also attracted a lot of salt households to go to Zhu Erlin, and some people came to report: "Zhu Er, it seems that someone is here, we saw the smoke from the cooking. !"
"Go and find out!" Jiang Zhen said.
"Go check it out!" Zhu Erlin also said.
Many people have died on the coast of Hexing Mansion, but this does not have much impact on Hexing Mansion.
No, the impact is still there. Because some big families who knew the news began to hoard salt, the price of salt in Hexing House became more and more expensive, and it doubled several times.
However, if you eat less salt, you won't die for a while... This increase in the price of salt will not affect the people as much as the increase in the price of food.
As for the upper-level people in Hexing House, they don't care about that.
They will never be short of salt, except for those who were involved in this incident and were concerned with the Hongjiang Salt Works all day long, the rest of the people lived through their days, and they were still singing and dancing.
There are only so many salt households in the Hongjiang Salt Works, so it is certain that there will be no major troubles.
Compared to Hongjiang Saltworks, they care more about Qingfeng wine at this moment—the imperial decree came from the capital, and they even listed Qingfeng wine as a tribute, and they praised the wine!
What is the taste of wine that even the royal family praises
The wealthy businessmen in Hexing House are all interested in Qingfeng wine, but since the Zheng family sent some wine out at the beginning, they refused to take out a drop.
Rare things are precious, and everyone was looking forward to Qingfeng wine for a while, but they didn't know that Zheng Yi was actually a little depressed at this moment.
He finally saved up a batch of wine, and the result... Jiang Zhen sent someone to leave!
Such expensive wine, Jiang Zhen actually used it to wash people's wounds!