Chapter 71: Jiangdong Lu Family

With this big killer, Chen Xi is ready to abduct the famous officials from Yingchuan who are picked up as children by Yuan Shao. He is planning to go back to his hometown and bring them to Taishan. His goal is catch it all in one go!

Lu Su talked with Chen Xi all night, and the next day he went to the government affairs office with dark circles under his eyes. Liu Bei handed his seal of Taishan County to Chen Xi with a look of joy, then he remove Chen Xi's seal of Taishan County from Chen Xi and give it to Lu Su. The government affairs were completely settled, and Chen Xi seemed to have no chance to rise up to a higher position.

As the leader of the Taishan bandit were persuaded by Zang Ba to surrender one by one, the remaining idiots who were stubborn and did not know that their days ending were all combed through with the new army led by Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. Taishan was now considered stable, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei also returned to Fenggao with their captives.

"Lu Su, this is the amount of arable land this year. The tax rate is in Zhao Yun hands and there is grain supplied to the central government. You can calculate it and give an amount." Chen Xi planned the things to be done in the autumn and winter seasons, and started to work. Dealing with current government affairs, similar to before, Chen Xi only arranges people and determines the general directions. After all, someone will come up with the plan.

For example, now Lu Su is the person who does things, and Chen Xi basically talks. He is very clear about his strengths, vision and experience, but he is not good at hands-on. Professional things are left to professional people. It's only natural to do so. Besides, don't you see that Lu Su is satisfied that he is being used and wants to show off, so Chen Xi left some things to Lu Su, one of the four heroes of Dongwu, who should be able to hold the burden.

"How can you give a rough number, one is one, and two is two? How can the policy be vague? Isn't this a chance for subordinates to accept bribes?" Lu Su solemnly rejected Chen Xi's kindness.

"Oh, I mean you just need to report the whole number. The rest will be used as subsidies for the elderly, widows, and children of various counties and townships during the New Year. It is not easy for them, and they should enjoy the support." Chen Xi said casually with an excuse.

"After the distribution, the remaining part will be used as a subsidy for our outstanding students in the coming year. It is said that once those teenagers start studying, there will be one less labor force in the family. Even if you don't care, the people will bite their teeth to support a student, but I think this is more humane. "Chen Xi said with a yawn, and then thought of a series of good ideas for prestige.

"This method is very good, but why didn't Chen Xi write a plan?" Lu Su nodded and saw the benefits of these two things. He raised his head and asked curiously.

"It's too simple, don't waste paper to explain it." Chen Xi pulled over another reason, and it was reasonable.

To say that Chen Xi is right, but Mi Zhu has been paying attention to paper since it was first used in the government office. After receiving Chen Xi's promise that he can sell it exclusively in the South, Mi Zhu had a lot of peace, but he still came to the government office from time to time to catch the wind in the government office.

Fortunately, a few days ago, Chen Xi couldn't bear the paper he prepared disappearing inexplicably, so he gave Mi Zhu the license to sell refined salt in the four states of Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Yuzhou, and Xuzhou, and asked him to go to Su Shuang with his paperwork to pick up salt. After more than three months of preparation, Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping had already produced sea salt that was enough to defeat several other big salt merchants.

Chen Xi naturally did not know that Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping only did preliminary purification in pursuit of speed. As for the second purification that Chen Xi wrote in detail, there was no action taken. Anyway, the salt obtained after preliminary purification is far darker than Shuzhongjing salt in their eyes. The yellow lump was too strong, and there was no odor, so the last step was directly abandoned by the two of them.

These things will definitely be pulled out to get the money now, but at the same time, even if Chen Xi saw Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping doing this, he wouldn't say anything. After all, the common people still used salty stones at this time. Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping were really benefiting the society, and they sold so cheaply. According to the prevailing ethics at the time, they were all benevolent merchants comparable to those of Fan Li in the Spring and Autumn Period...

Since Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping both eat the salt themselves. What else can you say about the salt you sell? People who make salt don't worry about their own salt. What else do you want to say about the salt?

So Chen Xi doesn't know how much salt Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping had made. After this opening, even if all of it is sold in Hanzhou County, it is estimated that it will last until March next year, even without the last step of drying salt. Even Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping are now having a headache on how to transport it out.

"Report, Mi Zhu has something important to discuss." Just as Chen Xi continued to assign tasks to Lu Su, a messenger ran over.

"Please come in, Mi Zhu." Chen Xi raised his head and said with a frown

"I don't know why Mi Zhu is coming back at this time." Lu Su said with a smile, "Chen Xi is probably very sad that Mi Zhu is coming back."

"That's not true, I'm just worried that something is wrong with Qingzhou. That will be the basis of my plan for the coming year." Chen Xi shook his head and said.

"Huh, do we have a plan in Qingzhou?" Lu Su looked at Chen Xi in amazement, he didn't even know about this kind of thing.

"Well, this matter is part of my business plan. I had shown it to you." Chen Xi pointed to the pile of Lu Su's documents, indicating that Lu Su had read it before.

"Salt industry?" Lu Su thought for a moment and remembered that Chen Xi had written in his document to let Qingzhou engage in salt industry. Who could understand that something so simple is so big?

"Yes, it is estimated that Mi Zhu also came back because of this. I don't know if the situation is good or bad. I haven't contacted Su Shuang and the others in recent months." Chen Xi said that he did not know what was going on.

"I have seen the county guard, and the county chief." Mi Zhu trot in and it was obcious that the matter was not small. Even the gentleman Mi Zhu had no time to clean himself up and hurried to find Chen Xi and Lu Su.

"Mi Zhu doesn't need to pay much courtesy. It looks like you're in a hurry. Has something happened to Qingzhou?" Chen Xi's expression was a little ugly. At that time, he chose Qingzhou, but now that something happens, it's really bad.

Mi Zhu quickly cleared the ins and outs, and Chen Xi was relieved immediately. As for Lu Su, he was frightened. The salt was too much to be shipped out. He hoped to bring in the Jiangdong Lu family, the shipbuilding family, to transport salt. This is all money. This is the basis for Liu Bei to take off in the coming year. This is really a big deal!

It turned out that after Mi Zhu took Chen Xi's note to Qingzhou, Su Shuang, who was melancholy about transportation, was overjoyed since he couldn't ship it out by themselves. Couldn't Mi Zhu, the five great merchant owner, also be able to ship it out? So Su Shuang patted Mi Zhu who was here to transport salt and said that salt is not a problem.

Mi Zhu looked at the one hundred thousand quintals of refined salt that Su Shuang had given him, and the whole person was stunned. Su Shuang also said that he could pick up the goods first and then pay the money. The brothers are about to be so rich that they don't even want the deposit. After making the money, they will settle the accounts.

Although Mi Zhu is a businessman, who very gentlemanly. Seeing Su Shuang's melancholy on how to transport the salt out, Mi Zhu said that he was willing to bear the transportation. As a result, he was silly after seeing all the salt in Su Shuang's inventory. The salt is shipped out by conventional methods, it is impossible to not alarm others.

After thinking about it, Mi Zhu feels that this can only be done by the sea. Only in this way can we avoid other people's attention. The family with this experience is also the Jiangdong Lu family, the Gongsun family in Youzhou, and two others. Mi Zhu had exchanges with the Jiangdong Lu family, but the question now is whether Chen Xi can allow the Jiangdong Lu family to join them!