Chapter 286 Kitchen households are a thing of the past!
"What are you doing?" Lu Cang took a step back and stared at the thin young man with a wary expression.
The skinny young man’s cheeks were slightly red and his body was unnatural.
Lv Cang’s face became more alert.
For a while.
The skinny young man suppressed his blush and said, "I am Zhang Zhicheng. I want to ask, is that steam engine really made by Mr. Xia?"
"Steam engine?" Lu Cang was stunned and looked at him suspiciously. The young man nodded and said: "Of course it is true, but it doesn't count. Brother Xia only provided the drawings. The specific manufacturing process was done by engineers. But why do you ask?"
Zhang Zhicheng was excited. Said: "I'm very interested in this."
"Didn't Yingtian Mansion distribute a lot of steam engine-related brochures before? I even asked someone to get a copy, and now I keep it at home. "Can I wait a few days to see the specific steam engines?"
Hearing this.
Lu Cang's face relaxed.
Turns out to be a steam engine enthusiast.
Lv Cang smiled and said: "Of course it is possible, and this is one of the purposes. I want to let more people in the world know about steam engines through display. If more people can participate in the research and development and design of steam engines, , that’s also a good thing.”
“The steam engine can dig out a lot of things.”
Lu Cang couldn’t help but praise.
Zhang Zhicheng nodded repeatedly and said, "I think so too."
Seeing that Zhang Zhicheng was only interested in steam engines, Lu Cang relaxed completely. He stepped forward, put his hand on it skillfully, and said : "If you ask about the steam engine, you are asking the right person. I have followed Brother Xia for more than two years, and I know the whole process of the research and development of the steam engine."
"And I have also worked on the subsequent applications of the steam engine. I made suggestions.”
“Like”
Two young men of fifteen or sixteen years old, walking forward in the sunlight.
The notice posted in the city soon spread throughout the city.
But what spread more widely was what Lu Cang said, especially his statement that the price of salt would not rise.
This is even more popular among the people in the city.
Only Zaohu had been wondering about the second half of what Lu Cang said. As the sky grew dark, a few people sneaked out of the city and told Deng Muzi the news. .
Hearing the news, Deng Muzi felt happy, but then felt a little uneasy.
He was worried about fraud.
The people in the government are the most untrustworthy.
I always say it sounds good, but I don’t do it at all.
“Brother Deng, what do you think?” asked a middle-aged man of medium build.
Deng Muzi touched his chin and said solemnly: "I'm worried that the government is cheating, and they are deliberately trying to trick me out."
"But this is someone sent by the imperial court." The middle-aged man said.
Deng Muzi said: "What about the imperial court? Officials in the imperial court are also people. Who can guarantee that this imperial envoy did not collude with local officials? Have there been fewer such things in the past? It doesn't matter if I die. , What I’m afraid of is that if something happens to me, my wife, children, and children will also die.”
“The people in the government are so cruel.” I’m afraid I’ve already hated you so much that I’m itchy.”
The middle-aged man nodded and advised: “What you said is true, but I think you can still believe it. After all, they are sent by His Majesty. His Majesty comes from a poor background and knows the sufferings of the people, so he should not embarrass us. "
"And hiding around all the time is not an option after all."
"How many more days can you hide?"
"What if it's true?"
"Don't you? If you go out, you will miss the chance to escape guilt. In the future, the whole family will really be in trouble."
Deng Muzi showed a trace of struggle in his eyes.
He was actually a little moved.
It’s just that I had such a stalemate with the government before, so I felt really nervous. The middle-aged man said again: "We are all ordinary families, how can we defeat the government? Now the government has given us a step up, just accept it when you see it. If you miss it, I'm afraid it will never happen again. After all, this is the imperial court." Even if the people we send are not very good, they won’t go too far.”
“And they said it in public.”
“It won’t embarrass you. ”
"I think I should be able to keep my word."
Deng Muzi was silent, he hesitated, and suddenly gritted his teeth and said: "Didn't you just say that Jin Yiwei is also here? Can you contact Jin Yiwei."
Hearing Deng Muzi’s words, the middle-aged man was also shocked.
Jin Yiwei?
Is this what they can think of? !
And wherever they can get in touch with these people.
The middle-aged man smiled bitterly and said: "Deng Wazi, what are you thinking about here? What can we worry about? Let alone whether we can see the Jinyiwei, even if we do, I'm afraid we will be directly killed by the Jinyiwei. Take it down."
"These people are quick to kill."
"We can't afford to offend you."
"Don't worry about it. , what’s the point of tossing and tossing?”
"Our kitchen households are no longer useful."
"Today's announcement made it clear that from now on, all salt production in the world will be done by machines. This is the attitude of the court. If you want to change it, you What changes are there? You are not here today, otherwise you can see how happy the people around you are when they hear that the price of salt will not drop."
"The salt we make ourselves is not as good as the machine. . ”
“You have to recognize this.”
“Everyone in the world except us stove households recognizes salt produced by machines. What can you, a small stove household, do? Can you really smash the machine? Even if it is smashed, just reassemble it. If you don’t make salt, can you still prevent others from buying salt and eating salt?”
"It's already good that the government is willing to calm things down now."
"And the people in the government have also said so."
"They are willing to give us a chance to sit down and talk."
"Although we can't talk about anything, if you can save your life and find yourself a job, the result is not bad. What's there to refuse?" The middle-aged man persuaded patiently, not wanting Deng to do anything. Muzi sank deeper and deeper.
The era of kitchen households has passed.
If you continue to dwell on the past, you are destined to go further and further away.
And in the future, not only kitchen households, but other industries will also be affected. Just because they are dissatisfied, the government will give in again and again. How is this possible?
How can the arm be twisted past the thigh?
What can they use to compete with the government and the businessmen?
Deng Muzi was silent.
There was a hint of loneliness in his eyes.
Before there were steam engines, the salt produced by their family was famous throughout Yuhang. The government came to collect it, and the price was higher than that of other families. They have always been proud of it, but now, the salt produced by them for hundreds of years has The salt was broken off all at once, and it was still broken in his hand. How could he be willing to do so?
The middle-aged man sighed and said: "Everyone has to look forward."
"Making salt itself is not a good job. It would be better to stop it early. If the government can give a few acres of land, isn’t that better than being a kitchen household? Do you expect your family to continue to be a kitchen household for the rest of your life?”
“I’ve been making salt for most of my life, and I’m already tired.”
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"If it weren't for the fact that I couldn't do other things for a living, I would have stopped doing it a long time ago. You, please clean up yourself and have a better attitude in front of the government. You are not a bad person yourself. They are all forced by their livelihood. I believe that people in the government can also do it. Understood."
"Think about it carefully."
"I've told you this."
"It's up to you. But I should ask, if the government can really give me a resettlement, I can finally get rid of salt production, and there will be no more kitchen households in the future, and the kitchen household system will be abolished. "
“From now on we are all farmers.”
The middle-aged man laughed, looked up at the cold moonlight, and left the way he came.
Deng Muzi stood there, his face changing again and again.
It finally turned into a long sigh.
(End of this chapter)