Journey to the West: Swallowed the Transformation Pill at the beginning

Chapter 170: Everyone discusses abortion

"Don't be in such a hurry!"

Liu Bei opened his mouth to persuade, "Right now, Pingyuan County is full of waste and needs to be revitalized. Let's just take it step by step and don't rush it!"

Liu Ming nodded and said, "In that case, I'll go deal with the grain depot first."

Liu Bei knew his plan, and after thinking about it carefully, he nodded and let him leave.

After Liu Ming left, he turned and walked towards the grain depot.

Half a month later, Guan Yu returned to Pingyuan City with a pair of troops, and his team increased from 1000 people at the beginning to more than 500 people.

"Four of the six cottages in Pingyuan County were bandits that harmed the villagers. They have been wiped out. Part of the property and food obtained has been distributed to the victims who were caught up the mountain or the servants and handymen in the mountain. It’s been put into the treasury!”

Guan Yu stroked his long beard and said, "The remaining two are villagers from several surrounding villages. In order to resist the Yellow Turban disaster, the men, women, and children from the two villages combined totaled 500 people, including young and middle-aged people. There are about 300 people, and now the village has been disbanded, and they have moved to Pingyuan City with our army, temporarily living in the resettlement camp as refugees."

"There are nearly five hundred more mouths all of a sudden, and Pingyuan City is going to be in trouble again!"

A scholar named Li Dan who was in charge of serving as the Shaofu couldn't help but secretly said.

But his words did not go unnoticed by Zhang Fei, who had both ears and eyes. Zhang Fei grabbed Li Dan and said fiercely, "Boy, what are you talking about!"

"I'm telling the truth!"

Li Dan said forcefully, "Although the treasury is rich in food now, we can't waste it like this!"

"All right!"

Liu Bei stopped Zhang Fei and said, "Let's put this aside for now. Xianhe, how are the preparations for repairing the city wall?"

"The materials are almost ready, and a lot of refugees have been recruited recently. We are ready to start work at any time!"

Jian Yong stood up and said respectfully, "But Xianhe has something to ask Prime Minister Liu County?"

"Mr. Xianhe, please speak!"

Liu Ming's tone was normal and he was not worried at all about Jian Yong's questions. "There are currently 500 refugees recruited, plus the [-] young people brought back by Yunchang and their [-] family members. How should you resettle them according to the notice?"

"Isn't it necessary for them to build their own residences?"

Liu Ming stood up and pointed to the residential area to be built in the south of the city on the map and said, "This area is big enough to build homes for them!"

"In this case, did the county government pay for the materials purchased not long ago?"

Li Dan couldn't help but said, "My lord, the county magistrate used to pay out of his own pocket to fill the treasury, you can't..."

"I didn't say it was for free!"

Liu Ming turned to look at Li Dan and said, "The housing prices in the south of the city should have been recorded before, so it won't be long before we sell them to them at a low price!"

Jian Yong frowned immediately after hearing this, "If the refugees have money to buy a house, why would they apply for a construction job? Wait, are you planning to..."

"We will use work-for-relief to recruit refugees to repair the damaged city walls and build houses in the southern district. Once completed, we can give them priority to buy houses!"

Liu Ming stretched and said, "If you don't have enough money in hand, you can also pay a deposit first, and pay part of the rest every month, and then pay it all in slowly!"

Having said this, Liu Ming looked at Li Dan and said, "If Li Shaofu is not satisfied, it is not impossible to add a small amount of interest every month when paying in installments!"

Listening to Liu Ming's words, Liu Bei and others thought of two words in their hearts, "Profiteer!"

"Second thing!"

Seeing that the question was passed, Jian Yong raised a second question, "No matter building a city wall, it is a large-scale physical work. How to keep the physical strength of the people from being overly exhausted and losing their lives!"

Liu Ming clapped his hands after hearing this, and Huangfu Ying and several maids came to the house carrying trays. There were three white buns and a bowl of hot water on the trays!
"Guys, let's have a taste first!"

Liu Bei looked at the things on the plate and couldn't help but said, "Dead buns, although they are a bit larger than ordinary dead noodles, but this is the way you want!"

"If you have anything to say, let's talk about it after you finish eating!"

Liu Ming looked mysterious, and everyone picked up the white-flour buns on the tray and took a bite.

As soon as they entered the mouth, several people were so surprised by the fluffy and soft texture of the white flour steamed bun that they started to eat it with big mouthfuls.

After taking the second bite, everyone's mouth was salty, only to find that there were some pickles in the steamed buns.

In a short time, all the white-flour buns the size of a fist were wiped out.

"good to eat"

Liu Bei was the first to speak, "Such a big dead-faced steamed bun must have two or two sides each!"

Liu Ming shook his head and said, "One steamed bun only uses about one or two halves of white flour!"

"what"

Zhang Fei couldn't help but said, "Fourth brother, don't joke with me. One or two halves of white flour can make two ounces of steamed buns, and these steamed buns are more resistant to hunger than ordinary dead-faced steamed buns!"

“It’s true that only one or two halves of the noodles were used!”

Huangfu Ying replied from the side, and then looked at Liu Ming with an evil look.Liu Ming coughed dryly, seeming to recall some bad memories, and then said, "When I was practicing in the south, I rescued an unknown doctor. When chatting with him, I heard her say that after a person is overworked, The salt in the body will disappear with sweat. As long as you replenish salt in time, you can quickly restore your strength!"

After finishing speaking, Liu Ming signaled them to take a sip of the white water in the bowl!

Several people were unambiguous. As soon as they drank it, their expressions changed slightly and they spit it out.

"cough cough"

Liu Bei couldn't help but said, "Fourth brother, what are you doing with so much salt in the water, are you killing us first?"

The rest of the people also accused Liu Ming one after another, but Jian Yong was the first to react and said, "The words of Liu County Chancellor intend to add salt to the drinking water of the civilian husbands to replenish the lost salt in their bodies!"

"Not bad!"

Liu Ming yawned and said, "There happen to be two official salt mines on the outskirts of Pingyuan County. I have asked the old people in the county and the entire family of the contractors of those two salt mines has died in the Yellow Turban Disaster. According to the rules, The salt fields should be taken back and redistributed by the government! So, I sent 100 people to occupy one of the salt fields, extracted some salt from it, and conducted a secondary refinement!"

After Liu Ming finished speaking, he took out a small gourd from his arms and poured out some snow-white salt.

"It's salt!"

Liu Bei looked at the thing in Liu Ming's hand and stepped forward to take a little and try it.

"Um"

Liu Bei's eyes suddenly changed and he couldn't help but say, "There is no bitter taste, Fourth Brother, after you refined it twice, all the bitter taste in the salt was removed!"

Liu Ming nodded and said, "That's right! It took the doctor several years to find the method of secondary refining. In order to repay my life-saving grace, he gave me the formula."

After everyone listened to Liu Ming's words, they felt that they were lying if they said they were not jealous.

Liu Bei coughed lightly and said, "Brother, are you sure you can expand production using this method?"

"difficult"

Liu Ming immediately refused, "The difficult part of refining this step is the technique. Even I can't guarantee success every time. Moreover, once production is expanded, I can't guarantee that the refining technique will not be leaked."

Upon hearing this, Liu Bei and others stopped talking about expanding production.

After all, if this technique was known to other princes, it would be difficult for them to defend it!

(End of this chapter)