Refined Salt and Household Registration ()
Master Lu's family was already waiting at the dining table. Fang Tianfeng was the last to arrive.
There were only four people in total. The servants were not qualified to eat with them, but even eating their leftovers was enough for the servants to be grateful.
In fact, the diet of each era was very monotonous.
There was a pot of fruit wine, two hot dishes, and a few pieces of roasted meat. The main course was soup cakes.
Although the soup cake was called a cake, it was actually a noodle. In this era, noodles were called 'cake', and boiled noodles were called' soup cake'. It wasn't until the Song Dynasty that the term noodles was used to replace the noodles.
There was salt in the Qin Dynasty, but it was all coarse salt, the kind of coarse salt with especially large crystals.
The coarse salt was the crystallization of seawater or salt water from salt wells, salt ponds, and salt springs. It was also called natural salt. It was a large, unprocessed salt. The main component of the salt was NaCl3, but it also contained other impurities.
Therefore, although coarse salt had a salty taste, it also had a bitter taste.
All in all, the taste was not that good.
However, as a modern person who grew up under the red flag, Fang Tianfeng could not tolerate this.
Therefore, he gave Lu Gongjia refined salt.
Of course, this was the difference between refined salt and coarse salt for modern people.
However, you didn't have refined salt in ancient times. Salt was salt. If there was an ancient person who said that it was coarse salt, it would be like 'The arduous war of resistance has already entered its seventh year. It will end in a year. Everyone, hold on'. It would be a complete joke.
Fang Tianfeng didn't know when refined salt first appeared, but it was certain that there was no refined salt in the Qin Dynasty.
However, although there was refined salt, neither Lu Gong nor Lu Zhi had ever thought of selling salt to make money. As for the refined salt in Fang Tian Feng's hands, they only treated it as the latest product of the imperial court.
This was because the salt and iron industry in ancient times was state-owned. Moreover, the main basic industries of the Qin Dynasty were the mining and trading of salt and iron. The Qin Dynasty even explicitly prohibited private merchants from engaging in such industries. They were all managed by the state's administrative bureaucrats and were responsible for the mining and sale of salt and iron throughout the country.
Because since ancient times, those who held both things had always rebelled!
On the other hand, if one wanted to rebel, one had to have two things in hand.
Not only did Lu Gong not have the guts to earn this money, but no one else in the world had the guts.
Fang Tianfeng didn't care. He was happy to be idle.
Just making paper was already a huge profit. It was enough for the Lu family to eat and wear. This was enough.
"Good son-in-law."
After the meal, everyone sat around the table. Lu Gong hesitated for a long time before saying," I heard that you want to let Zhi 'er go to the front desk and show his face. Have you really decided?”
"Of course."
Fang Tianfeng glanced at him indifferently." Zhi 'er is very smart. She is completely capable of taking on this important task. Moreover, there are only a few people in the Lu family. Can you find anyone else to take responsibility?”
Lu Gong sighed helplessly.
Servants couldn't be counted. Even if they had the ability, they couldn't be trusted. Then there were only the four of them left. Duke Lu was not capable. He knew his limits. If he were to do business, he would probably be sold without knowing.
As for Lu Su, Duke Lu directly ignored her and did not consider her.
Fang Tianfeng had the ability to do so, but Duke Lu could tell that his heart was elsewhere. Therefore, Duke Lu definitely wouldn't ask Fang Tianfeng to take charge of it personally, so only Lu Zhi was left.
However, not to mention that Lu Gong was a scholar, even farmers knew that women should not show their faces in public.
The Qin Dynasty was still in the transition from slavery to feudalism, and the social status of women was terrifyingly low. Not to mention showing his face, even if he showed his wrist, he would be scolded to death.
'Indecent' was already considered nice.
Showing their faces in public did not mean that women could not go out on the streets, but that women could not be allowed to do men's work. The man's job was all-encompassing and included almost everything.
In other words, women did not need to do anything. It was their destiny to take care of their husbands and raise their children at home.
However, this was not absolute.
As long as there was money to be made, who cared who was in charge?
This was Pei County, not Xianyang.
Not only would those squires and celebrities not object, they would even strongly support Lu Zhi because they knew that he was a woman, because women were always looked down upon. Therefore, it was easier for them to take advantage of women.
Of course, they would still pay the price in the end.
"Husband."
Lu Zhi's eyes were filled with affection as he looked at Fang Tian Feng. Crystal-like tears hung in his eyes, and he was so moved that he cried.
In the Qin Dynasty, no one had ever respected a woman so much, and Fang Tian Feng's respect and trust caused Lu Zhi's favorable impression of Fang Tian Feng to soar. If he had the system now, he might be able to see the notification of 'Favorability 1' flashing above Lu Zhi's head.
"Then that's it."
Fang Tianfeng nodded and looked at the sky outside the window. It was still early, so there was no hurry.
"Father-in-law, you just stay at home and study. You don't have to worry about these things.”
"Hey."
Duke Lu sighed, but he was a little disappointed." I'm getting old. It's time to worry less.”
"Boss."
The few of them chatted for a while before a dozen men suddenly appeared at the door.
Lu Gong looked at the dozen or so people and let out a long sigh. How did he accept these bandits at that time? These were all illegal households!
In fact, Fang Tianfeng was also an illegal citizen.
However, Lu Gong's family had migrated from Shan County to Pei County, so they needed to apply for a new identity card. Therefore, Fang Tianfeng picked up a bargain and followed Lu Gong's family to register for an identity card.
Without an identity card, it was difficult to move in the State of Qin. If one did not make a sound, they would be sent to the government.
Moreover, there were more than a dozen illegal households hidden in his house. Although he, Duke Lu, was quite famous, no one would be bored enough to come to his house to find someone to spread the news. However, if they were discovered, the entire Lu family would be implicated!
This was akin to a rebellion!
"Father-in-law, don't worry."
Fang Tianfeng could see the worry in Lu Gong's eyes." Which noble family doesn't have a few illegal immigrants?" he asked calmly. These are all common sense, but Father-in-law, you only cared about reading and didn't understand these things in the past.”
Duke Lu nodded because he believed it.
The moment Fang Tian Feng took out the refined salt, he believed it because the price of salt was very expensive. This kind of refined salt that he had never heard of before was even more expensive. Therefore, he felt that Fang Tianfeng was most likely a noble from Xianyang who came out to experience life and then stole his daughter.
In this way, it was actually him, Duke Lu, who had climbed up a high branch. He did not suffer a loss.
Naturally, Duke Lu believed the words of a noble.
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