Chapter 47 Surrender
On the third day after Li Meng entered the city to take office, he returned to Lingshan Guard. There were indeed some problems with the news transmission in this era. Those who escaped were just as innocent and followed Chen Liuzi and Wang Hai to train. This really made Li Meng angry, but since he was back, the order was implemented.
These four people were driven out of the salt rod and told them clearly that no one would collect their salt in the future and go home to farm honestly.
Without the wages of the salt rod, there is no place to sell the salt cooked at home. After only a few days of good life, I am afraid that I will soon return to my previous poverty. But these people dare not complain and can only accept this treatment. The ward office was also a soldier.
They were all talking about it, saying that if this was on the battlefield, the deserter would be beheaded by orders. Li Erlang was really kind and righteous.
Although Zhoucheng knew about fighting on the official road and killing more than 80 salt dicks, no one in the generation of Lingshan Guard and Salt Field knew about it. Li Meng transferred the 100 salt poles transferred to Fengmeng Town to the surrounding Lingshan Salt Field, which was called to prevent thieves from invading.
In fact, he firmly controlled the place and had to be monitored for every pound of salt. However, the salt farm was not subject to the jurisdiction of the inspection after all, Li Meng was very disciplined in his work. He sent someone to read it loudly outside and offered conditions. Compared with the stoves working in the salt field of the Xue Family Qianhu, as long as they switch jobs, they would all give this treatment and promise to increase in the future.
The stove owners were exploited by the salt class ambassador in the salt farm and were so poor that they were scattered outside this time. They knew that their colleagues were doing well in the adjacent salt fields, so they agreed to join. As a result, within three days, the official Lingshan Salt Field was already halfway through.
The rest of those are all vague characters, and they are unwilling to run away, and Li Meng is unwilling to ask for it. The salt class ambassador is determined to take charge, but the men under him, when they saw the salt rod guarding outside, they wanted to knock down their heads, and they dared to speak there.
Now Li Meng has placed 100 salt-boiling teams in Lingshan Guard, 100 people in Lingshan Salt Field, 15 people in Fengmeng Town, and 150 people in the city, almost all the people he recruited are used. Li Meng has firmly controlled the location of salt production, and naturally controlled the private salt transactions in the entire Laizhou Prefecture.
Three days before taking office, Li Meng made such a move, which was simply not allowing others to take advantage of loopholes. The two salt merchants in Fengmeng Town complained, and some people who had interests in it were clamoring there. The salt class ambassador even sent someone to send a document to the magistrate of Jiaozhou.
However, on the fifth day, even at the speed of information dissemination in this era, the number of people fighting and deaths in the official road spread, and everyone was silent. He only did whatever Li Meng stipulated, and did not dare to say a single word.
Before March, the first half of the month was over, and the southward part of Jiaozhou City in Laizhou was basically stabilized. Zhao Neng, Ma Gang, Chen Liuzi and Wang Hai each led a group of people to be on duty everywhere, but these people had to rotate every three days and take the school exam every six days.
Regarding the situation where Yan Ding's bow and arrow almost collapsed on the official road, Li Meng's conclusion is very simple, that is, there is not enough training and the training must be strengthened.
In almost half a year, the thirty salt transport team members were familiar with Li Meng's training methods, physical fitness and skills. They trained and supervised, and then when they were rotated to Jiaozhou City, Li Meng checked the results of the training.
After the four salt bars who escaped in the battle were driven out mercilessly by Li Meng, their lives at home soon became miserable and poor. They didn't bother to make trouble every day, but they were rejected when they came back several times.
Invisibly, they gave the other young people a warning that in this salt rod, you can live a good life by working hard, and you must work hard when you should work hard. Their families also sent a message to them. You must cherish such a good place. Look at those boys, they will not only implicate their own cowards, but also cause poverty to their families.
The output of the salt fields of Lingshan Salt Field and Xuejia Qianhushou was sold to salt merchants and salt dealers in Fengmeng Town and Laizhou, which already had a very stable income.
Li Meng roughly calculated that he had an income of nearly 800 taels of silver every month. After deducting the consumption of more than 300 salt poles, he also had all the necessary expenses, and almost 300 taels of silver left.
As soon as inspector Mou died, the inspection position was empty, and the people under his command were suddenly dispersed, and the accounts and documents were left there without anyone paying attention. Li Meng borrowed a shopkeeper from Jinzhou Warehouse to sort out the books and things were not difficult. However, Li Meng was a little strange that when inspector Mou died, his relatives and old friends had at most 2,000 silver. In this way, inspector Mou had been inspecting for seven or eight years, and only more than 3,000 taels of silver were left in his hand. But after a little reorganization, he still had so much salt spending every year, and 4,000 taels of silver a year. Even if the expenses of inspector Mou were luxurious, how much money could he spend in the small Jiaozhou city?
Could it be that there is still money buried underground? Li Meng was very surprised. This question was answered on the eighth day after taking office.
In the small town and the garrison, Li Meng's men can reach the territory between a small state city and a garrison without riding horses and walking alone during the day. Houshan is at the middle point of Fengmeng Town, and various illegal people of all sizes provide information. Everything is under control, and the wind is very calm.
So a few days after taking office, Li Meng did his daily job to go out of the city to train and verify these newcomers of the salt rods, which was also in line with his life. To be honest, Li Meng felt very good when living in Jiaozhou City. In this small city in the late Ming Dynasty, this atmosphere of urban life made him vaguely return to the modern times.
Just as Li Meng was about to go out that day, he heard Chen Liuzi, who was on his turn here, hurried into the house and said with a little confused look on his face:
"Mr. Li, there was someone kneeling at the door of the house. He actually knelt there before dawn. The whistleman who was guarding the gate came to tell me early in the morning."
By the way, the salt ding under Li Meng is completely built, trained, taught, and various rules according to the companies in the modern army, including sentry.
"We are not a yamen here, so what are you doing when you kneel down here!"
Chapter completed!