It is a very ordinary seaside fishing village. It has just rained. The dirt roads in the village are muddy. There are puddles in many places. You will not know the depth if you step into them. The houses on both sides are mostly wooden. It is difficult to see clean, even the interior here.
The one I live in is just a slightly larger courtyard made up of mostly wooden houses, which is a bit more stylish.
The most complete building in the entire fishing village is probably the fence used to defend against wild beasts that you saw when you entered the village.
On both sides of the winding muddy path, you can occasionally see women from the fishing village drying fish or frying salt. Their skin has been roughened and darkened by the sea breeze and sunshine for a long time, without any aesthetic feeling. Occasionally, they look this way.
There was no curiosity in his eyes, just numbness.
Children as young as four or five years old were running around naked on the street, looking at everyone with eyes full of curiosity and fear. Only in the eyes of these children could one see some light beyond numbness.
Walking on the muddy road, Chu Nan found that except for women and children with numb eyes, there were very few old people and men in the fishing village.
"Most of the men in the village are out fishing at this time, so what they see are mostly women from the fishing village." explained the team leader who was following Chu Nan.
Chu Nan nodded. The men took care of the livelihood outside, while the women added salt. This was probably the life style of most fishing villages. Moreover, the living standard here was obviously not rich, so there was no reason to refuse his recruitment.
"Are the other fishing villages we visited before also like this?" Chu Nan suddenly asked.
"Absolutely." Team Leader nodded.
There is an inexplicable depression in my heart, which makes people feel breathless. The heavy taxes in troubled times are really heavy. The princes want to raise soldiers and fight, so they need higher taxes. Naturally, the lives of the people are not much better.
But now Lu Bu cannot collect taxes and has no money to expand his military strength. However, the lives of the people at the bottom have not become better because of the lack of taxes, but have become worse. Chu Nan is very clear about this, but he is unable to change it.
Not to mention that he is just a small Jincao now, even if he sits in Lu Bu's position, it will be difficult to change the current situation.
But what really puzzles Chu Nan is that this is not a place controlled by a big family, which is why Chu Nan chose Ganyu. However, the people here live a more miserable life than those in places controlled by a big family. The local small wealthy families should not have this
That's right, right?
"Go and ask Li Zheng to come over." After walking around, Chu Nan sighed. Although he felt pity, he knew that he didn't have the ability to be the savior, so he should consider himself first.
"Here!" the team leader agreed and called two people to invite the local leader.
After a while, Chu Nan found Li Zheng, the only old man in this fishing village so far, in the only decent courtyard in the village.
The old man's hair was covered with silver hair, and his wrinkled face was full of traces of wind and sun, vicissitudes of life and fatigue. When he saw Chu Nan, his old face managed to squeeze out a smile: "I'm sitting here with Meng Zhuo,
I’ve met the general.”
"There's no need to be polite, O Weng." Chu Nan asked the old man to sit down, looked at Meng Zhuo and said with a smile, "I wonder, O Weng, what is your age this year?"
"I am 48 years old this year." Meng Zhuo was a little reserved, but he was not pretending.
Forty eight?
Chu Nan looked at the old man's wrinkled face in astonishment. With such an appearance...he would believe that he was eighty-four.
Meng Zhuo was obviously not very good at words. Chu Nan made a few polite remarks and answered very reservedly. After answering, he stopped talking. Chu Nan raised his head several times, but could not last more than two sentences.
"Ah, before I leave, I sent someone here to recruit villagers to make salt. This is not corvee work, but recruitment, and the wages are not low. I see that the people in the village are not well off. Accepting the recruitment, it is just to make salt, and there is no need to do anything.
Even if it is dangerous, it can also improve their livelihood, but I don't know why they don't want to?" Chu Nan decided to go straight to the point, looked at Meng Zhuo and said: "Of course, if you feel that the salary is not enough, you can also discuss it."
The most important thing now is to make the first batch of salt and prove your worth, otherwise your career will end here.
Now that he is gradually getting familiar with how to use it, Chu Nan is very clear that if he wants to survive in this era and live his own life, he must enter an official career or build his own power. The idea of building his own power is a bit far-fetched, and he does not have any accumulation of self-built power.
It's just a joke. He can strengthen a group of subordinates, but only if he has enough luck.
Currently, joining an official position is the fastest way to earn luck.
"Alas~" Meng Zhuo sighed: "If you don't want to, you really can't."
"Oh?" Chu Nan looked at Meng Zhuo, but he was sure in his heart. The other party's answer was similar to his previous guess: "You might as well talk about it, maybe I can solve it."
"General, have you ever heard of pirates?" Meng Zhuo said with a grimace on his face.
"Pirates?" Chu Nan looked at Meng Zhuo in surprise. The navigation skills of this era should not have reached the point where they could form pirates.
However, it cannot be said absolutely. If there are people with the power of water control, it is possible to ignore the technical issues, but any prince will be willing to accept people with such abilities, right? No matter how unfavorable it is to be an official,
Better than being a pirate, right?
"I've often heard of mountain bandits and grass bandits, but this is the first time I've heard of this sea bandit." Chu Nan looked at Meng Zhuo and said.
"About ten years ago, when the Yellow Turban Thieves were rampant, because our place was located in a remote location, the Yellow Turban Thieves did not come, so we thought we had escaped disaster. Who knew that although we did not suffer from the Yellow Turban Thieves, there were many more
There was a wave of pirates..." A trace of reminiscence flashed in Meng Zhuo's eyes: "I was in my prime at that time, and pirates were rampant at that time. Almost no fishing boats that went out to sea for fishing could come back."
What does this have to do with not going to work now?
Looking at Meng Zhuo, Chu Nan suddenly asked: "These pirates are still there today?"
"Yes, but I won't attack the fishing boats again." Meng Zhuo nodded.
The team leader on the side whispered in Chu Nan's ear: "Chu Liecao, when Tao Shijun was still there, he ordered people to clear out the pirates, but they returned without success. Since then, the pirates seem to have disappeared.
If we continue to attack and kill fishermen, the state will stop taking care of them."
"Is your unwillingness to accept recruitment related to this matter?" Chu Nan asked.
"Well, these fishermen like us have no farmland, so we live by fishing and making salt. If we can't go to sea all year round, even if the pirates don't kill us, we will starve to death. Fortunately, at this time, a man appeared in the county
A man of great virtue, it was he who came forward to resolve the matter." Meng Zhuo said with a look of awe on his face.
"Dade?" Chu Nan was stunned. He is also a native of Xuzhou. He can count most of the famous people in Xuzhou. If there are famous people in Ganyu, there must be nobles, so he will not choose Ganyu. At this stage, Chu Nan is
The attitude of scholars is not to provoke them. If there are famous scholars in Ganyu, it is impossible for him not to know...