Don't look at the lame young man who has limited legs and feet and is still holding a one-year-old child. He is holding a stick in one hand and beats more than a dozen people behind him without even daring to get close.
He had dark skin and a body of hard bones. Several sticks were thrown at him, as if he was not afraid of pain. He was very fierce, but he was fiercely protecting the child in his arms.
In panic, the man was forced to retreat into the inn, and in desperation he rushed to the second floor of the inn.
The group behind, which Huo Zhongru called the Stick Gang, hesitated at the door of the inn. As young and Dangerous boys of the Han Dynasty, they knew the faces of all the powerful men on this street.
But after thinking for a short time, I still rushed forward.
Everyone fled, and Huo Zhongru stood upright at the stairs and blocked everyone on the other side.
"Zhang Erer, what are you doing? Beating people in the street in broad daylight is just a decoration in the county government office." Huo Zhongru obviously knew the person coming, and he was also stunned.
"Brother Huo, what's going on? Do you know that guy?"
"I don't know."
"I don't know why you care about this matter?" The other party looked helpless.
"You are so brave to commit murder on the street."
Zhang Erer said helplessly: "Brother Huo, that guy with half-grown hair rushed to our salt farm to grab salt, and even injured our gang leader. If I don't take him back now, I won't be able to survive in the future."
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Huo Zhongru looked at the dark-skinned young man holding the child in surprise. Without saying a word, this man was about to jump off the second floor while stepping on the stool and table. Huo Guang stopped him with quick eyes and hands: "You don't want to die, you are still holding a child in your arms."
Woolen cloth."
"There is no way to survive if you don't jump." The man had a strong Lingnan accent and was not a local.
"Just for some salt, is it worth risking your life?"
"Salt can be exchanged for money, but if you don't have money, you can't eat." The man's words are always very simple and simple.
At this time, people from the county magistrate's office came on the street, and official missions arrived. The stick gang members threw their sticks at civilians, pretending that they were the people who came to the inn to eat, and the turmoil subsided instantly.
The leader of the official mission was also Huo Zhongru's leader: "Brother Huo, why are you here?" Although the leader was the leader, he was more than ten years younger than Huo Zhongru.
"Eat noodles."
"I just received a report that there was a fight here. Did you see it?" the team leader asked everyone while looking at the tense sticks.
Zhang Erer looked at the swarthy young man with a fierce look in his eyes and said, "No, we are just here to eat."
"That's a false alarm."
"Yes, yes."
"Why don't you leave quickly? This is the Sang family's inn. How dare you come to make trouble?"
Zhang Erer glared at the dark-skinned young man and threatened, "Just wait for me."
After a few words, the group of people dispersed. It seemed that the Sang family was very intimidating.
The county officials don't want to meddle too much in matters. They just want to go on business when they are gone.
The people from the Stick Gang left the inn, but they were still gathered around. The dark-skinned young man still couldn't leave. He looked around at Huo Zhongru, and stuffed the babbling baby in his arms into Huo Zhongru's hands: "Take care of it for me.
She, if I can survive, I will be a cow and a horse for you from now on."
From Huo Zhongru's behavior just now, maybe he thought Huo Zhongru was the only good person here.
Without waiting for Huo Zhongru and Huo Guang to say anything, the man turned around and left, rushing downstairs. The fight started again, and the swarthy young man led the man away with one enemy against many.
"Hello!"
"Hello!"
After shouting twice, the person had already run away.
The father and son stared blankly at the little doll in their hands. You looked at me and I looked at you. This sudden change made them both stunned.
"Father, this..."
"Aguang, do you have any experience in dealing with children peeing their pants?"
This extremely good-looking girl pooped her pants.
"Father, isn't this something you should be able to do?"
"Yes, yes, but this is a girl. There is no clear distinction between men and women. I have to avoid suspicion. You are also 17 or 18 years old, and it is time for you to marry a wife and have a baby. It is good to learn some lessons and gain some experience first." After finishing speaking,
Huo Zhongru couldn't help but handed the girl into Huo Guang's hands and left in a flash.
"Father, I'm sixteen!!" Huo Guang shouted, but Huo Zhongru disappeared in a flash, looking in the direction of the widow Wang's house in the east gate.
Huo Guang returned home speechlessly with the baby girl. He took out a piece of clothing and tore it into strips to use as a diaper. He changed the baby girl and actually tied two knots into two knots to use as pants. Fortunately, it was summer and he didn't have to worry about catching cold.
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The little girl didn't cry or fuss, and she was very white, tender and cute. The swarthy man and the little girl looked completely different from each other in comparison. I looked at the girl's clothes and pants, and the fabric looked expensive. She looked like
She is the daughter of a wealthy family.
Could this be the little girl that boy stole somewhere?
Then I am no longer an accomplice?
What the hell is this expansion?
A Guang felt that this magical day was a bit unreal, so he lay on the bed and wondered if he could go back in time after a short sleep.
At this time, the little baby crawled to A Guang and sat down, grabbed a wooden stick and started playing with it.
"Your child is quite cute." Aguang looked at her cuteness and started to play with her. His silver bell-like laughter made her feel happy.
At this time, the door creaked, and Huo Zhongru, who had just abandoned Huo Guang and ran away, came back.
He looked at his father angrily: "Father, you are so unloyal."
"What kind of loyalty is there between father and son?"
The speechless Huo Guang couldn't find a reason to argue, so he said: "Father, I think that person may have snatched the girl away. Send her to your county captain's house to find her parents."
"It's getting late, so I don't want to bother the county captain."
"Father, you can put her to sleep yourself that night."
"I see that you and the girl are quite compatible, please coax her."
Aguang gave the girl two wooden sticks to play with, and then said to herself: "That person is really serious. Is it worth working so hard for two bags of salt?"
"What you say is so easy. What do you mean for two bags of salt? That's salt, silly son. It can be sold for a lot of money. Don't talk about him. I am envious every time I pass by the salt shop and look at the bags of salt.
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While talking, Huo Zhongru snatched two wooden sticks from the female doll's hands: "Why are you giving these things to her to play with? Are they dirty?"
Huo Zhongru's words immediately awakened Huo Guang. This was an era of poor material resources. Although there were mechanical creatures that he could not understand at all, except for the disharmonious magical products, everything else was the same as the normal Han Dynasty.
In this time of scarcity, salt, as a condiment and daily necessity that everyone needs, can be said to be the only hard currency besides food and money.
In ancient times, salt was a very important material in all dynasties. Even in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, salt was still a very important part of the economy.
Salt equals money.
Aguang suddenly thought of the famous salt and iron government-run system in history.
The rulers of the early Han Dynasty advocated rule by inaction, implemented a recuperation policy, opened up private businesses, and adopted a laissez-faire policy on salt and iron, making the merchants who dealt in salt and iron richer than the princes.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty began to be forced by financial pressure and his aversion to businessmen who "could not meet public needs". In order to crack down on local tyrants and increase the fiscal revenue of the central government, under the auspices of Sang Hongyang, he "caged salt and iron" and implemented the salt and iron system.
The national monopoly management system of wine and liquor brought the management of salt and iron under the government's control and implemented a monopoly to facilitate tax management.
The official system of salt and iron was not proposed by this dynasty. It started from the "official mountain and sea" policy proposed by Guan Zhong of Qi State during the Spring and Autumn Period, that is, a monopoly on salt and iron was implemented.
Guan Zhong not only proposed the official camp of salt and iron, but also the official camp of brothel, which became the ancestor of the worship of women who had fallen into disgrace in later generations.
Therefore, there is indeed no problem in understanding it from all angles.
The official operation of salt and iron has not started yet, so the big salt merchants can be said to be extremely wealthy.
This makes it understandable why the dark-skinned young man risked his life to grab the salt. It was all money.
Huo Guang's mind suddenly came alive. Although he was waiting for Huo Qubing to take him to Chang'an and had nothing to do, it was always right to make money first. To make money, he had to make the biggest money possible.