Lin Xianyang and Lin Liangjun were greatly surprised when they saw that Su Ze just gave the young commander a fortune and the commander hurriedly withdrew the checkpoint.
Lin Liangjun recalled that when Su Ze had just arrived at Changning Guard, he had unraveled the Holy Grail that he had thrown at him. Could it be that Brother Aze really descended to earth?
The little carrot head immediately said: "Brother Aze, are you really a god descending to earth? Can you tell me what kind of wife I will get?"
Su Ze deliberately frowned, paused for a while and then said: "How can I count this thing that doesn't exist?"
Hearing what Su Ze said, Lin Liangjun was about to burst into tears. Will he be alone for the rest of his life?
Su Ze then said with a smile: "Man can conquer nature. Divination and fortune telling are just for psychological comfort. Don't believe this at such a young age."
Lin Liangjun still frowned and asked, "Then how did you convince the young commander to believe you?"
Su Ze shook his head and said, "I didn't calculate it, I reasoned it out."
"reasoning?"
Su Ze nodded and said: "The imperial court has an official document and wants to dispatch the imperial censors to the Qing army. The Yanping Guards have been passed down for six generations. There are too many dirty things done by our ancestors. It is too late to take care of the censors. What I am most afraid of is that my subordinates will cause trouble."
"In addition, the arrival of the new magistrate of Yanping Prefecture is the time when the new official takes office. If I were the commander of the Yanping Guards, I would definitely not let my own son come out to set up a trap and rob, so this young commander must be lying.
He stole his father's tiger skin and secretly set up a trap to force donations."
"If everything goes well on normal days, maybe the commander would have given his acquiescence. Doing something like this at this juncture will definitely involve physical and mental suffering."
Lin Xianyang was a little confused, but the eccentric Lin Liangjun heard what Su Ze meant. He patted his thigh and said:
"So this is the magical plan in the storybook! Brother Aze, you are really the reincarnation of Sima Yi!"
Luo Guanzhong was born in the late Yuan Dynasty. Nowadays, "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has already become popular all over the country. The bookshop in Jianyang even specially printed a small book of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms with pictures.
Su Ze patted his head and said, "It's Zhuge Liang who is reincarnated!"
Lin Liangjun said: "This is good! Brother Aze, I want to learn this reasoning technique from you! If my brother wants to hit me in the future, I will know in advance!"
Su Ze was stunned for a moment and said: "Everything has its own rationale. You must first understand the rationale of everything before you can deduce its rationale. You haven't learned all the characters yet. You need to learn how to read first!"
During the fight, the group finally returned to Changning Guard.
After sending Lin Liangjun back to Baihu Mansion, Su Ze led the donkey back to his family temple in the sunset.
"Brother is back!"
Lin Cainiang, the little carrot-headed girl standing guard at the door, finally saw Su Ze walking in the dusk. She shouted to the family temple and rushed towards Su Ze.
Su Ze touched her head, took out a red string and a piece of brown sugar wrapped in lotus leaves from his sleeve, and finally comforted the little carrot head.
Su Ze saw Aunt Ninth holding a cane behind the door, and couldn't help but feel warm in her heart.
Although the county is good, my peaceful place is still Changningwei.
This trip made Su Ze feel more at home with Changningwei. Compared with the chaotic county town, the isolated Changningwei felt like a paradise.
Just like when he had just settled down in the temple, Su Ze ate cold vegetable porridge and told Aunt Jiu and Lin Cainiang what was happening in the county.
Hearing the little carrot head cry out that he regretted it, he said that he would go to the city with Su Ze next time.
After dinner, Su Ze tested Lin Cainiang's homework over the past few days, and after gaining two more points of experience for her "Enlightenment" skill, Su Ze asked Lin Cainiang to go back to rest and found Ninth Auntie who was sitting cross-legged in the family temple.
"Auntie, do you know Xu Shisheng, the county clerk?"
Aunt Ninth's eyes widened and she asked: "You said it's Xu Hu, the clerk in the county government office? Is he causing trouble for you?"
Su Ze shook his head quickly, and then Aunt Ninth breathed a sigh of relief and said:
"This Xu Shisheng is as cunning as a fox. Don't provoke him when you go to the county government in the future."
Aunt Ninth sighed and said, "This Xu Shisheng has a grudge against Changning Wei."
Su Ze quickly asked: "Xu Shisheng is a county clerk, so why does he have a grudge against our Chang Ning Guard?"
Su Ze also found out from Hai Rui that Xu Shisheng was the head tax collector of the county government, but the Changning Guards were military guards and did not need to pay taxes to the county government. How could they have anything to do with Xu Shisheng?
Aunt Jiu said: "That was when the old family was still here. Xu Shisheng once approached the old family and asked for some 'goods' from Changning Guard."
Su Ze immediately understood that Xu Shisheng was asking Changning Wei to help him smuggle.
However, this kind of thing is not uncommon in coastal guards. It is better to just borrow the dock of the guard. Some guards simply end up doing it themselves and use the imperial warships to smuggle goods.
"Laobaihu didn't want to offend him. At that time, Laobaihu also opened the door for Qianhu, so it wasn't a big deal."
Su Ze did not comment on the behavior of the old people, but the Changning Guard was indeed the cleanest one.
"The cooperation was good at first. After Xu Shisheng took a few boxes of goods from Changningwei, he asked for more goods. At first, hundreds of households were willing to agree, but they accidentally discovered the goods smuggled by Xu Shisheng."
"What is it?"
"Bow and arrow."
Su Ze fell silent for a moment.
In ancient times, bows and arrows were considered strategic materials.
When ordinary people go out on the street to defend themselves with a short blade, the government usually won't say anything, but if they swagger through the city with a bow and arrow, they will definitely be arrested.
If it is just smuggling ordinary goods, ordinary households can turn a blind eye.
But for smuggling bows and arrows, those who rely on smuggling to buy bows and arrows are the only Japanese pirates in the southeast region.
"The Changning Guards and the Japanese pirates are mortal enemies. How can ordinary households tolerate collaborating with the enemy to send bows and arrows to the Japanese pirates? The ordinary households have seized Xu Shisheng's goods and are going to the county government to report him."
"and after?"
"Later? Then Xu Shisheng falsely accused the hundred households of smuggling the bows and arrows to the Japanese pirates, and turned the lawsuit into a muddled lawsuit. This matter was originally going to be handed over to the Yanping Prefecture for retrial, but the old hundred households were suddenly ordered to go to sea to fight, and then died at sea.
, this matter has no further consequences.”
Su Ze thought about it, Xu Shisheng was just a scribe in a county, and bows and arrows were contraband. With Xu Shisheng's energy, he couldn't afford such a business.
There must be someone behind Xu Shisheng, and the person who can smuggle a large number of bows and arrows must be a key figure in the Fujian military attaché system.
If a hundred people died in battle at sea, could there be some secret behind it?
Su Ze now understood why Xu Shisheng wanted to kill Chang Ning Wei. It was indeed an undying hatred.
Xu Shisheng had his goods confiscated and was worried that Changning Guard had other evidence, so he took advantage of the imperial censor Qing's army to completely destroy Changning Guard.
Su Ze sighed, and Aunt Ninth said:
"These are all matters of the health center and have nothing to do with you. You just need to study hard."
The people of the Changning Guard naturally knew that there might be some secret behind the death of the Hundred Households in the battle, but the Changning Guard was just a small Hundred Household Military Guard and had no ability to pursue this matter.
Seeing Aunt Ninth's worried look, Su Ze forced out a smile and said:
"Auntie, I'm just asking out of curiosity. Hundreds of households killed in battle are rewarded by the government."
Aunt Ninth said quickly: "Yes, yes, the plaque of the banner is still in Baihu Mansion."
Lying on the wooden bed, this trip to the county town completely shattered Su Zegou's idea of taking the imperial examination skills in Changning Weigan and passing the imperial examination to jump to the dragon gate.
Nowadays, the Southeast is not a peaceful and prosperous time. Under the prosperous scene of Jiajing Dynasty, it is the beginning of chaos and disorder.
The southeastern region was a war-torn area that suffered from the Japanese invasion, so there was no future for anyone who just immersed himself in studying.
After understanding this, Su Ze naturally set a goal, which was naturally - to make money!
Nowadays, the salt fields on the beach have been opened up, and the dry reeds in the reed fields have been burned. If you want to continue refining salt, you need fuel.
Although salt is profitable, once the rainy season enters the southeastern region, there will be no way to dry salt on the beach, and more stable ways of making money are needed.
The sweet potatoes have been planted for almost a month, but it is still early to harvest. Potatoes mature faster than sweet potatoes. Su Ze plans to promote planting in Changningwei after this batch of potatoes matures.
However, potatoes will rapidly degenerate after one or two generations of cultivation, causing infection and toxicity. Moreover, this degradation will also reduce potato yields. If you want to promote cultivation, these problems must be solved.
Su Ze recalled the knowledge about Level 5 "farming" in his mind. The modern agriculture technique for detoxifying potatoes is "peeling off the stem tips", but this technique requires the use of a microscope and culture medium. Changning Wei is afraid that there is no way to do this under the current conditions.
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The only thing left is breeding. You can select large potatoes with buds and cut them quickly for breeding. This can slow down the rate of degeneration and screen out non-toxic offspring.
If that doesn't work, we can use sexual reproduction to pollinate potatoes for breeding, but this will make it impossible to quickly expand the potato planting area.
Hey, it would be great if I could get the "biology" skill. The microscope needed to peel off the stem tips is just an ordinary optical microscope. How about getting the "physics" skill first?
It seems that it is unrealistic to start planting potatoes all at once. Sweet potatoes are also faced with the problem of detoxification technology. However, sweet potatoes have a long planting cycle and high yields. You can choose healthier cuttings and breed them, and you can safely plant them for several years.
Why didn’t you choose agriculture as your major back then?