A lot of fish soup was delivered quickly from the cafeteria, and Jiang Zhen, who came back from outside, received a big bowl each.

In the middle of winter, I feel really good after drinking a bowl of hot fish soup. Unfortunately, there are no chili at this time, otherwise I could have boiled fish and a hot pot could be served.

Jiang Zhen is not a person who doesn’t like spicy food, but he still likes to eat all kinds of spicy dishes. After not eating it for a long time, he missed it even more.

When eating fish, Jiang Zhen picked up the meat from the fish's belly and tasted a small piece of Zhao Mingzhu.

Zhao Mingzhu has been nine months old and has been able to eat complementary foods for a long time, but except for rice paste, Jiang Zhen dared not give her more food, for fear of eating it badly.

Zhao Mingzhu was very supportive of the fish. After tasting a little, she opened her mouth and continued to ask for it, "Ahhhhhhhh". Then Jiang Zhen did not give her any fish, but only gave her a small piece of steamed bun for her to chew.

Zhao Mingzhu took the steamed buns and was a little dissatisfied, but seeing that Jiang Zhen had no intention of continuing to give her food, she could only chew the steamed buns in grievance.

The Chinese New Year is the most important festival for the people. A few days before the Chinese New Year, the Jin Zhen escort agency stopped taking on business. Jiang Zhen gave all his subordinates a holiday, and he himself planned to take a few days off.

When the Zhao family rested and were thinking about what to eat every day, something happened in other places in Daqi.

After Zheng Yi distilled high-altitude wine, he immediately rushed to the capital. Therefore, before the New Year was over, the wine was presented to the palace.

Although the Zheng family gave the wine an ancient name, it cannot be denied that it is a wine that has not been made for a long time and has no reputation at all.

The Queen Mother herself doesn't like drinking.

So, the wine was sent to the imperial kitchen at will, without attracting the attention of the Queen Mother.

As a result, I don’t know if the Zheng family is lucky, but by chance, the wine became famous.

Before the New Year this year, the Rong people in the north sent envoys to Daqi.

The Rong people in the north have always been in constant friction. Fights often occur, and usually Daqi loses. Every time they fight, a lot of things will be taken away, a lot of food and grass will be spent, and many lives will be filled.

It is also because of this that the method of suturing wounds provided by Jiang Zhen has attracted so much attention from military generals.

This year, not only did the Great Qi and the Rong people have another battle, but there was also some civil strife among the Rong people...

The original Khan of the Rong people was a little overwhelmed by the civil strife. Suddenly, they remembered that Daqi had come and found an envoy to come to Daqi and asked for a princess from Daqi to negotiate.

This was nothing at all, but the scholars of Daqi looked down on the Rong people, and the Rong people looked down on the people of Daqi, and finally the two sides had a conflict.

The Rong people finally said that when the Empress Dowager held a banquet to entertain them, they said that the wine in Daqi was as "soft" and boring as the people in Daqi, and they also said that this was something that the women on their side did not drink.

This was because of the reason for drinking, and slapped Da Qi in the face. The Empress Dowager was angry on the spot. At this moment, he suddenly remembered the spirits that Master Zheng Er gave her.

The Queen Mother immediately asked someone to bring the wine.

In fact, at this time, Daqi had already had some methods to purify the wine, but even if it was purified, the degree was still not high. Zheng Yi got the method provided by Jiang Zhen and kept distilling it, but he made high-quality wine.

As soon as the wine was brought up, the rich aroma made the Rong people say nothing. They all said embarrassedly, after they drank it...

The Rong Ren, who had been arrogant and said that he was not drunk for a thousand cups, was so drunk that he couldn't even get up, and he made a big ugly.

That's fine, the next day, the Rong people actually wanted to ask for the wine.

Mr. Zheng Er is one of the confidants of the empress dowager and always works very well with the empress dowager's wishes. The empress dowager has always valued him very much. This time, Mr. Zheng Er made a contribution again, and he immediately rewarded Mr. Zheng Er and made this Qingfeng wine a tribute.

In the future, the value of this Qingfeng wine will undoubtedly rise again.

Of course, the news has not reached Hecheng County yet. At this moment, the officials and businessmen of Hexing Prefecture have been attracted by another thing.

Before, Zhou Maohe went to the Zheng family and asked Jiang Zhen for trouble. In fact, most of the people in Hexing Mansion did not take it seriously. After all, they had nothing to do with them and it was just a trivial matter, but this time it was different.

Zhou Maohe has caused a big deal this time!

He, an imperial envoy who was sent to the south because the empress dowager felt it was too annoying, actually challenged the private salt issue that the imperial envoy who had previously sent to rectify the salt affairs did not dare to challenge!

What is even more shocking is that he was so brave that he dared to think and do it, and he led people to copy the Hongjiang Salt Field with lightning speed.

The famous Hongjiang Salt Field was actually copied by Zhou Maohe!

Even Zheng Yi was shocked when he could do this.

"I asked someone to remind you about this matter, and before I could do anything at all..." After Zheng Yi received the news, he came to Hexi Village to find Jiang Zhen. When he spoke, his expression was very strange.

He prepared some evidence of the crimes from Hongjiang Salt Field, but before he could give it to Zhou Maohe, Zhou Maohe did something he could not have imagined.

"What the hell is going on?" Jiang Zhen couldn't help asking.

Hasn’t the envoy Zhou Qin always been under Zheng Yi’s surveillance? He suddenly raided the Hongjiang Salt Field. Did Zheng Yi know nothing?

"I really didn't expect that he could be so decisive." Zheng Yi sighed, and then said: "It's just that he would do this."

Zhou Maohe copied the Hongjiang Salt Field, but it was not because he found out about the private salt.

After he had a trouble in Hecheng County, there were a lot of people watching him, so it was very inconvenient for him to check what matters. Although he felt that the salt business was very messy and wanted to check it carefully, there was actually no time to check anything.

He would copy Hongjiang Salt Field, but there were other reasons... and this started with the fact that Hongjiang Salt Field was covering the sky by the sea.

When Jiang Zhen followed people to buy sea goods, the people in Hongjiang Salt Field had to charge a lot of money, so they were even more rude to those who lived by the sea.

They sell private salt themselves, but they do not allow others to get involved in this. If someone in the seaside village boils salt privately, they often don’t even give a chance to defend themselves and kill people directly.

Sometimes, it is possible to kill people in the entire village.

Hongjiang Salt Farm has raised many people, and specially helped them catch people who cannot sell private salt through them, and also helped them control large areas of the beach. These people, under their deliberate indulgence, are actually no different from bandits and pirates.

Not only will they kill those who sell private salt, but later on, even ordinary people in the village will have to harm them.

Of course, they didn't go to kill people for no reason, but played with Shuang'er, the woman in the village.

When Zhou Maohe learned that private salt was rampant and was banned repeatedly, he did not doubt that going to Hongjiang Salt Farm - who would have thought that the salt farm built by the imperial court would actually sell private salt?

But he decided to go to the beach to check it out.

After Zhou Maohe went, he actually caught a woman in the river and committed suicide by jumping into the river.

The woman was about to get married, but she was attracted by the people raised by Hongjiang Salt Field, and was captured and locked up for people to have fun.

But she would fall into the water because she finally found an opportunity to escape and was chased by someone. She was desperate and angry and anxious, so she simply jumped into the river.

After Zhou Maohe learned about this, he was so angry that he happened to meet a group of people who fled from the beach to the inland.

This group of people are salt households in Hongjiang Salt Field.

As the name suggests, salt households are people who specialize in salt-related work.

In Daqi, craftsmen are craftsmen, and those who specialize in boiling salt are salt farmers.

Hongjiang Salt Farm needs a lot of salt, and they let the salt farmers in the salt farm cook. However, the lives of these salt farmers are even harder than those of the people living by the sea.

Those people were born since childhood and could go to sea to fish and support themselves. If they lived a peaceful life, food and clothing would be guaranteed, and these salt households would be different.

These salt households have registered in Hongjiang Salt Farm, and they can only live with the salt farm. However, the people in Hongjiang Salt Farm treat them like slaves. Not only will they beat and scold them at will, but they can basically not keep the beautiful woman Shuang'er in their family.

These salt farmers who escaped were unable to live their lives and wanted to go out to compete.

Those who dared to escape were all young and strong. Zhou Maohe met them and learned that Hongjiang Salt Field was doing such a tyrant and killed people wantonly, he took them to the place where Hongjiang Salt Field was located to ask for something. In the end, by accident, somehow, he even took them to copy Hongjiang Salt Field.

Logically, a group of salt outdoors and a literati who had never fought with others could not enter the Hongjiang Salt Field, but... Zhou Mao and him were lucky.

He can ginseng and that all day long, and in the end he is fine, he knows that his luck will definitely not be bad, and this time, his luck is still very good.

When he brought a group of angry people to Hongjiang Salt Farm, it happened to be the big day. Many people from Hongjiang Salt Farm went home to reunite with their families. The rest were still drinking and having fun, without any alertness.

It was because of the New Year that the woman jumped into the river could find an opportunity to escape. It was because of the New Year that the salt households took advantage of the slackness to escape together. In the end, it was because of the New Year that they actually copied the Hongjiang Salt Field.

After copying this, Zhou Maohe realized that Hongjiang Salt Field had done so many horrifying things, and they actually made the private salt!

Zhou Maohe was immediately angry. While asking someone to go to the capital to report, he contacted nearby civil and military officials.

As a result, those people not only did not help him capture the Hongjiang Salt Farm, but also defined the fact that he took the salt household to raid the Hongjiang Salt Farm as the salt household rebellion and sent troops to suppress it.

"He is also stupid. Those officials are all related to Hongjiang Salt Field." Zheng Yi sighed: "Now the Hongjiang Salt Field is completely in chaos. You can't transport a piece of salt, and you don't know what happened inside." The people he sent to follow Zhou Maohe were very clever. After finding that the situation was not right, he ran out.

Because of this, he learned a lot of news, but it was impossible to know the subsequent news.

After hearing Zheng Yi talk about the whole story, Jiang Zhen was a little helpless.

He wanted Zhou Maohe to check the private salt and then find the head of Hongjiang Salt Field, but he didn't expect that Zhou Maohe finally wanted to seek justice for a group of salt farmers, so he found Hongjiang Salt Field.

Because of this, things are progressing very quickly, which is unexpected.

"Now the entire Hexing Prefecture, as well as the Wuzhong Prefecture in the north, has become in chaos. Fortunately, our Hecheng County is fine... I have already sent a letter to my second uncle, and I don't know what the court will do about this matter." Zheng Yi said.

The county magistrate of Hecheng County followed the Zheng family. At most, when the boat loaded with private salt came, he pretended that he didn't see it and did not intervene. Now Hecheng County is not involved.

But elsewhere... I don’t know what it will turn out when this matter is big, and Zhou Maohe, now he can be said to be trapped there, and I don’t know what it is going on.

Jiang Zhen didn't say anything, but just used a small knife to cut the bamboo into pieces.

"What are you doing?" Zheng Yi asked.

"It's time for Lantern Festival, I want to make a lantern." Jiang Zhen said, but after saying that, he threw all the bamboo and knife in his hand to the ground.

It was also the past few days that he had nothing to do, but suddenly remembered that he wanted to make a few lanterns. Now that he had something to do, he naturally had no time to do this.

"You are so happy." Zheng Yi said. He used to make lantern kites, but later he was old and didn't have the time to do so.

"It's gone now." Jiang Zhen said.

Zheng Yi looked at Jiang Zhen curiously, but Jiang Zhen suddenly said, "I want to take people to Hongjiang Salt Field to take a look."

Zheng Yi was shocked and suspected that he had heard it wrong.

But Jiang Zhen's face was full of affirmation.
To be continued...