Chapter 2874

Bai Shan was obviously very excited. He described the sea with Zhou man. When he got home and washed, he talked about business with Zhou man. "The sea is very beautiful, but people living on the beach are very bitter."

He said, "I walked by the sea for three days, and every village I passed was poorer than Zhaojiagou."

He lowered his voice and said, "the houses are low and crude, and the doctors don't wrap their bodies. I asked. They fish all year round. At the best harvest, some merchants are lucky enough to buy salted fish. Their annual income is only about 200 Wen per capita. You know, fishermen on the beach basically have no land, and they rely on fishing and cutting firewood and cooking sea salt for the salt farm, So we have to buy food. "

Man Bao was surprised, "that's when they don't have enough food for ten Wen a bucket."

Bai Shan nodded, "yes, so they are hungry for half a year. They can't eat enough at all."

"Isn't there a salt farm?" Man Bao frowned, "how much is the salt farm a day?"

Bai Shan looked at her and said, "nine to twelve Wen a day, but they still have a small family. This is my average income."

"It's too low from nine Wen to twelve Wen," man Bao said. "When your family built a house, they gave you twenty Wen a day, and 25 Wen with good workmanship."

Bai Shan: "... How old were you then? How could you remember?"

Man Bao said proudly, "I have an account book. At that time, my fourth brother lost money in gambling and there was no money at home, so I remember every penny I made at home during that time."

Her memory doesn't remember this, but her account book remembers it. Indeed, her memory is better than a bad pen.

Man Bao asked him, "what are you going to do? Since they can't earn anything from the land, they can only earn it from the sea. "

Bai Shan nodded. "I think so too, but in the sea... I can only think of fish at present. I have to meet with those merchants who buy salted fish and decide."

Man Bao asked excitedly, "when will you go to the beach again? I'm going too. "

Bai shanxiao: "don't you stay in the medical department?"

Man Bao's shoulder collapsed. "The medical department has no patients."

She sighed: "I don't know why. I've been notified by the gongs and drums in the county, and asked the county magistrate Fang to send a document to each Li Zheng and ask them to notify them in their respective villages, but no one came to see a doctor."

Bai Shan hesitated and said, "are you going out for free clinic?"

He lowered his voice and whispered, "I don't think the fishermen on the beach are in good health."

Man Bao sat up straight in an instant, nodded repeatedly, and looked deeply convinced, "yes, I'm going to a free clinic!"

Bai Shan smiled in an instant. He rolled up his legs comfortably and sat cross on the couch. He said with a smile, "then you're ready. When I handle the official business in the county government, I'll go with you."

Man Bao nods happily.

Bai Shan is not in the county government. There are not many affairs accumulated recently, but there are also many.

Most of Fang County Cheng can handle it for him, and the rest are waiting for him to come back and make up his mind.

Bai Shan spends half a day dealing with these official affairs, and then takes an hour every day to go to court to deal with the accumulated cases. The rest of the time is to meet all kinds of people.

There are several merchants in Beihai County, including the Song family and the Li family, which are relatively large gentry in Beihai county.

Three days later, Bai Shan packed up his things and took master Song Shu and county magistrate Dong to the countryside.

Dong Xianwei, who has only been back for three days and doesn't feel hot in his ass:

Master song was also in a trance. He touched his face before Bai Shan could go back. Before Bai Shan arrived, he went to the countryside for nearly ten days. Even in spring, people almost peeled.

Bai county magistrate loves going to the countryside too much, doesn't he?

What's good in the country?

Just arrived, shouldn't we argue with Fang Xiancheng about the power of the county government?

I go to the countryside all day and leave most of my affairs to the county magistrate. Who are you two?

Bai Shanzheng spoke to Fang Xiancheng, "I saw that there is only one salt farm in Beihai County, but the amount of salt is not high, so that the salary for cooking salt is also very low."

Fang Xiancheng seemed to have been waiting for Bai Shan to ask and said, "the salt farm is under the control of master song. When Lu county magistrate was there, he reported that there are few trees in the mountains, so the scale of salt cooking is limited, so the salt production is not high."

After a pause, Fang County Cheng said, "my Lord, the salt production of the salt farm has indeed been low. Since the previous dynasty, after the efforts of the county magistrate in recent years, it has actually increased. Now 60% of the finance of Beihai county depends on selling official salt, and the remaining 40% depends on various taxes."

It can be said that the proportion is very unhealthy.

Bai Shan raised his eyebrows and asked, "how much has it grown? Why is it long? "

He smiled and said, "we have found a way to grow. Maybe we can make him grow longer."

Fang Xiancheng lowered his eyes and said, "if the cooking pot increases, it will naturally increase."

Bai Shan:

This kind of growth without any technical content is the last thing Bai Shan wants to see.

He reached out his fingers and rubbed his forehead. "Just check the accounts of the salt farm first," he said

Bai Shan said, "during the period when I took Dong county lieutenant and song master book out, the labor county magistrate worked hard to find out the accounts of the salt farm and report them to me."

Fang Xian Cheng was stunned. Seeing Bai Shan getting up to go, he couldn't help standing up, "sir -"

Fang Xiancheng stopped him, frowned and thought for a while, but he couldn't help but hint: "Your Excellency means to check the accounts of the salt farm? But the accounts of the salt farm have always been managed by master song...... "

"But master song will go to the seaside with me tomorrow. We can't come back for at least ten days. Since Fang Xiancheng stays in the county government, please do as much as you can and check the accounts of the salt farm." Bai Shan looked back at him and said, "I've seen that the coastline of Beihai county is very long. You can set up more salt farms. Why stick to one?"

Fang Xiancheng lowered his eyes and said, "county magistrate Lu thought so before he left. He has sent someone to set up a salt farm in the area of Dawa. Unfortunately, it was only half built, and the mountains near Dawa caught fire."

He said: "the mountain fire burned a lot of trees. Even if the salt farm in Dawa was built, there was not enough firewood to cook salt, so the matter was put on hold."

Bai Shan's face sank. He didn't know about it. He asked, "when did this happen?"

"Two years ago," said Fang Xiancheng, "the salt farm stopped for more than a year, and Lu county magistrate saw a lot of new trees growing on the mountain and wanted to restart the salt farm. Who knows that great changes have taken place in Qingzhou, and Lu county magistrate has been promoted to Yidu County."

Although they are all county magistrates, Yidu county is Qingzhou Guo county. It is still a county. The official grade is half higher. This is an unexpected promotion. Otherwise, according to the qualifications of Lu county magistrate, he will have to work in Beihai County for another three years before he will be promoted and leave.

In three years' time, he may really compete with the local gentry.