A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 123
Concubine Lu set off for Tianshui, Qinzhou early the next morning, somewhat reluctant to leave this gentle town and cornucopia.

"My son-in-law helped me find out what's going on in Xiaguan. If there is a need for war, those of us who crawled out of the sea of ​​corpses and blood can't just sit idle here." Cheng Chumo said boldly.

Huaiyu brought a lot of special products from Yanjingzhai to Consort Lu, some pickled fish, bacon and ham from Zhang County, and the salt baby here, Yanguagua.This time, I also brought the Baoyu brand fire salt bricks that Huaiyu trial-produced, as well as snow grain salt, and some stewed dried beans.

"I'm here at the Governor's Mansion this time, and I will definitely ask everyone about the reward. If the reward is not overdue, I can't keep silent." Lu Huairang directly expressed the expectations in everyone's hearts.

Everyone is looking forward to the battle meritorious service reward.

"gone."

Lao Lu waved his hand, mounted his horse and led his steps down the Zhang River, followed by Wang Sima and a team of salt merchants.

Cheng Chumo and the others could only stand there and wave goodbye. They all have duties now, and they are not allowed to leave the country without official business, and they are not allowed to go to Qinzhou.

Returning to Yanjing Village, Huaiyu continued to work on his refined salt workshop. This refined salt workshop has ten salt pots, and each pot can only produce two pots of salt and thirty catties of salt a day, and it can only produce three hundred catties of salt a day. but refined salt.

Unlike other kitchens that only have a thatched roof and are transparent on all sides, Huaiyu’s refined salt workshop was purposely built next to the Zhensi Yamen, away from other kitchens, and built high walls on all sides.

Now there are no other burners in the kitchen. They are a few slaves trained by Huaiyu himself. They were also slaves from the official salt workshop. They knew how to cook salt. Huaiyu bought them, signed a contract with him, They specially bought slaves and maidservants to marry them.

He taught several slave burners to be responsible for several processes such as extracting pulp, and each was responsible for a process.And among them, such as the mixing ratio, he is personally responsible, and when he is not free, he will let Fan Xuanfu take the place.

"Concubine Lu is gone?"

"Ah."

Fan Xuanfu didn't have a good impression of Lu Huairang, he felt that this guy was just a dude who had no ambitions and only knew how to make money by eating, drinking and having fun.

"You give him fire salt and snow salt to sell, aren't you afraid that he will covet your secret technique?"

"Now he only thinks that I am refining and refining for the second time, and he doesn't know that there is a secret method. Besides, Concubine Lu is actually not bad. Although he is a bit greedy, he still has a bottom line and a sense of loyalty. I will cooperate with him now. , can also win and benefit each other, each takes what he needs, even if he knows that I have a secret method in the future, but he is not stupid, he will not do the thing of directly throwing the table and smashing the bowl."

Huaiyu's confidence comes from the fact that he is not an ordinary peddler, not to mention that he is now considered a person who has made meritorious service and is famous in the prince's place, but the Wu family is also a family of three, not to mention Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin and Li Jing's family. He also has a good relationship.

"When the next batch of new salt comes out, the Fan family you went to Xinzhao should also come. Let them get a batch to sell, as well as soap, soap, noodles, and so on."

Fan Xuanfu is now Huaiyu's wife in charge, although most of the time she has to wear men's clothes to show others, but she enjoys the current state quite a bit, and even went to ask Rong Guogong to send someone over there, not only summoning her sword maidservant, He also asked the mansion to send a clever manager to come over, which means that he will develop here for a long time.

"It's so smoky in the kitchen, I'm so impatient, why don't you find two more suitable girls to be concubines, and let them go to the kitchen to master the secret art of refined salt."

Fan Xuanfu is very aware of the secret value of this precious jade salt. Others need to refine it twice, but they can produce refined salt at one time. This saves a lot of time, manpower, firewood and other costs, and the benefits are huge.In particular, Huaiyu's fire-salt bricks are unique, and they have a great competitive advantage in long-distance sales.

Naturally, this kind of secret method must be kept secret. In order not to leak it, it is best to use domestic slaves, or maidservants and concubines. It is more reliable, and everyone is their own, completely dependent on the master.

"It's good that we are doing this now." Huaiyu smiled.

"Erlang just needs to choose the right mistress. I'm serious. You won't be able to keep staring at the salt workshop in the future. I'm impatient. I'll leave it to those salt slaves. It's better to pick a few mistresses to be concubines. Then let them help with the delivery of pulp, account management, etc., and they can also serve tea and water to make the bed and make the bed." Fan Xuanfu said it very grandly, or based on the education she received since she was a child, and the feudal environment she lived in, she felt that this was all It is a matter of course.

Who is a man with power, power and wealth, who does not have three wives and four concubines, and who is not a group of servants and servants.

Anyway, there is only one wife, and the rest are concubines, maidservants, or prostitutes. Their status is completely different, and it will not affect the status of the main wife.

"Consort Lu, Cheng Dalang and even your elder brother have already taken concubines and bought maidservants in a short period of time, but there is no one in your house. What I did was wrong and I need to change it." Fan Xuanfu said seriously.

Huaiyu held her hand, "Actually, it's good for us to be like this now. It would be great if we could spend more time together."

"Why don't I go pick some for you, and we have to have someone in our courtyard to order, and then you can use whoever you think you like."

Her attitude put Huaiyu under a lot of pressure. There is still a big difference in the concept of people in the two eras. It is only natural for a wife to buy a concubine for her husband Zhang Luo in this era.

"Let's talk about it later." Huaiyu felt guilty talking about it with her.

"Our salt workshop now only cooks two stoves a day. Do you want to be like other houses, with two shifts day and night, so that you can cook four stoves a day, and you can make an extra three hundred catties of salt a day?" Fan Xuanfu saw that her husband didn't want to After talking, I decided to go back and choose first, and then buy it.

Double that, and it's only [-] catties of salt a day, which is actually not much.

However, this kind of salt is refined salt, and they must be taking the high-end route. "Then I will meet with salt merchants from various places in the past few days and give them some samples of fire salt bricks and snow grain salt."

The relationship between Concubine Lu and the Wu family can allow fine salt to enter the Chang'an market in Guanzhong, but in the south of Bashu Mountain, Longyou, Hexi, and even Dangxiang Xiqiang, we must rely on traditional salt merchants to give them samples and let them carry some. to sell.

There is no need to worry about selling good salt, but word of mouth has to be obtained, and we also have to rely on channel vendors. When word of mouth rises in the future, we really don’t have to worry about it.

"Recently, more and more people have come to Yanjingzhai. There are many people who are hungry after the disaster. Don't you have [-] mu of Yongye farmland in Qinzhou? It can’t be left unused. Coincidentally, I have recently bought a thousand acres of land one after another, and I have to arrange it.” Fan Xuanfu is really like the head of the house now, and she never cared about the money and grain of these manor fields in the past. , but now he is actively thinking about Huaiyu.

Even if she hasn't proposed a marriage or passed the door, she has already regarded herself as the hostess.

"Well, thank you for your hard work."

Wu Huaiyu was busy making refined salt, and was also busy building a furnace to make alkali. He was also busy building a soap factory to prepare for the official production of soap.

He met many salt merchants, and when samples of fire salt bricks and snow salt were brought out, the eyeballs of these salt merchants were fixed, and their eyes were red with such good salt.

When Huaiyu offered to bring them some samples, they almost fought on the spot, wanting to get more.

"Erlang, Concubine Lu is back, and he brought back the angel from Chang'an, I want you to go to the county government office quickly." Hou San broke in and hurriedly reported in Huaiyu's ear.

"Do you know what's going on?"

"It's probably a good thing."

It was late July at this time, half a month had passed since Huaiyu's hospital's Junwuchuan and Xinxingchuan battles.

Huaiyu left those merchants fighting there, and hurried across the river to the county government.

Huaiyi, Chumo and others had arrived earlier, and even Ma Zhou and Wu Junwei arrived before him.

As soon as they saw him, Ma Zhou and others came forward with a smile, "Congratulations Erlang."

Chen Xing came over with a smile, "Master Wu!"

Huai Yi came up and hugged him, and slapped him hard on the back a few times, "Good thing." This Wu Dalang seems to have been led badly by Lu Huairang, Cheng Chumo, Wu Junwei, and Wang Da in Zhang County recently. Unexpectedly, several concubines and maidservants have been accepted in a row, and the main wife has not yet been found. As a result, this place can't wait to open up branches and leaves for the old Wu family.

Huaiyu was a little confused by them, "Has the reward come down?"

"Well, go in and meet the angel."

The angel from Chang'an was supposed to go to Longyou to proclaim the reward, but when he was practicing martial arts in the west of Beijing, he encountered a Turkic ranger, was unlucky and got shot, and then recuperated in Qizhou for a few days. Came to Longyou to declare the decree, but he was injured and the speed was not fast.

When he was in Qizhou, he originally asked his deputy to come to Longyou first with the order. As a result, the deputy was in Longzhou and met a Turkic ranger from Jingzhou. That guy was even more unlucky. He was directly surrounded and became a prisoner .

Huaiyu was also very surprised when he heard the green-robed angel finish speaking in the hall, "Is the situation in Guanzhong already so tense?"

"Well, although General Fan has already led an army into Binzhou, took over the military power of Zhang Jin's Tianji Army, and blocked the way of the Turks, but the Turks are heading towards Huating of Longzhou along the Ne River west in Jingzhou, and entered Longzhou's Qin Water Valley..."

Huaiyu has also studied the topography of Guanlong now, and upon hearing this, he knew that something was wrong. Even though Fan Xing had entered Binzhou, Yu Chigong was behind, blocking their way to enter Guanzhong along the Jing River valley.But the Turkic people have all passed Longshan Mountain and entered Jingzhou, especially Li Yi did not defend or fight, which made the Jinglong defense line full of loopholes.

The Turks entered Jingzhou from Yuanzhou along the Tanzheng Gorge. Although they did not take the two cities of Jingzhou and Binzhou, they followed the valley channel and went directly to Longzhou.

Huating has always been an important place for Guan defense, not far to the northeast of Longguan, in the eighth year of Wude, the imperial court asked Li Yi to send troops to garrison Danzheng Gorge and Huating.

The Turkic soldiers passed through Huating, which is the river valley of Longzhou, and along the river valley, they can enter the Weihe Plain of Qizhou, which is already the Guanzhong Great Plain.

Longzhou Qizhou, martial arts Xianyang Changan, eight hundred miles of Pingchuan, how to stop a hundred thousand Turkic cavalry?

Chai Shao was still a step late.

"Everyone, please accept the prince's order."

The belated angel took out the crown prince's decree a little apologetically, and all the generals in Longyou were rewarded for their meritorious service. Xue Wanche and Wu Huaiyu, who beheaded and captured the flag, were the Duke of Jin County and the founding man of the country.

Huaiyu received a great reward, he was promoted to a noble rank, and he was awarded the founding baron of the eighth rank and the seventh rank, but what he did not expect was that although the imperial court did not change the sixth rank hospital town general that Chai Shao awarded him However, he was called to the north gate of Beijing to be the leader.

The head of the North Gate means that he will be on duty at the Xuanwu Gate of the capital for a long time. Is this equivalent to secondment?

"Master Wu, Cheng Tongjun, General Wubie, Ma Canjun, all of you who have received the order from the head of the North Gate, are ordered to enter Beijing immediately!"

(End of this chapter)