The Beast King's Harem (Bisexual/NP)
Chapter 20 Your Majesty has a salt mine
Yi Jin (MC /Emperor)
*What the soldiers said was far less real than what I saw myself, and it felt even more miserable. It is almost June now, and the fields should be full of greenery and lush crops.*
But in the suburbs of Chen County, the wheat is sparse and weeds are overgrown. They are planted, but no one cares.
Some fields are not even planted at all, and are all weeds, directly abandoned.
Passing by a village, nine out of ten houses in the village are empty, with only a few elderly people and children, with numb and empty expressions on their faces. Adult males and females have been captured and taken to the salt mines. The males mine and boil salt, and the females make fires, cook and do chores.
At the gate, ragged slaves were tied with ropes, and the supervisors raised their whips high and hit the slaves, urging them to move faster.
On the stone road on the other side of the gate, there were ox carts full of salt, and the strong men driving the carts were big and strong, with their bodies spread out.
The salt mine is located in the western suburbs of Chen County. A corner of the huge salt mountain has been dug. The foot of the salt mountain is white, and low sheds extend outward. Outside the sheds are large stoves, and each stove has a huge pot boiling brine
The beastmen carried wooden barrels andwent to the salt wells to transport brine to the salt field and poured it into a large pot. They had to go back and forth more than 200 times a day. Others chopped wood in the mountains, pulled the wood to the salt field, and then buried their heads in chopping wood, day after day and year after year
The food that the salt slaves received every day was just enough to fill their stomachs. They were often whipped by the supervisors for not working fast enough.
Most of the salt slaves had no expression on their faces, like zombies, and only mechanically performed the movements in their hands.
Occasionally, there were a few newcomers who were beaten and turned into beasts to resist, but they would be surrounded and beaten more viciously by a group of supervisors until they were obedient.
Those who were too stubborn were beaten to death, dragged away and thrown into a mass grave . This place was hell on earth.
Chen Shilang (Villain)
:The county magistrate of Chen County was named Chen Shilang, and his animal form was a leopard.:
Chen Shilang (Villain)
:Chen Shilang was a native of Chen County. His family had been operating in Chen County for several generations, and had intermarried with other merchants and nobles. There were many people in the family, and the sphere of influence was vast. The network of relationships was entangled. In this small county town, the Chen family had absolute power, and the entire Chen County was ruled by Chen Shilang. The family with the largest house, the highest courtyard wall, and the most imposing facade in this county town was the Chen family.:
Chen Shilang (Villain)
*:Chen Shilang knew what the situation was like in the imperial court. The imperial court had no time to care about the small city below. He had connections in the imperial court and paid tens of thousands of taels of silver to the emperor every year. This money was not given for nothing.*
Chen Shilang (Villain)
*That adult said that the new Beast Emperor was not in the palace at all, and he ignored all the male concubines in the palace. He was as unreliable as the previous emperor. When Chen Shilang first learned that the new emperor had arrived, he was a little nervous, fearing that the higher-ups would find out about him. He restrained himself for a while, but later, after hearing the words from the higher-ups, he relaxed. The salt field started working day and night again, sending out batches of refined salt in exchange for boxes of silver.*
This silver was enough for their whole family to live comfortably for several generations
Chen Shilang (Villain)
:In Chen Shilang's study, the floor is covered with a whole piece of tiger skin, and the bookshelves around are filled with bamboo slips. There is a coral tree as tall as a person next to the desk. The table is made of top-grade sandalwood, and the pen holder on the table is made of gold and jade. Even the pen wash is covered with gold.:
Chen Shilang (Villain)
:Chen Shilang is over 40 years old this year. He is not very educated, but he likes to show off. He has only read about ten books on the bookshelf, and he has only skimmed through them.:
Chen Shilang (Villain)
:He usually likes to write a few big characters, and after writing, he will show them off at the banquet. Other merchants who rely on him for meals will compete to flatter him, and finally pay money to buy Mr. Chen's "calligraphy treasures". The highest bidder wins.:
Chen Shilang (Villain)
:Chen Shilang stood in front of the desk with his hands behind his back, put down the pen in his hand, looked at the words just written on the paper, and nodded with satisfaction.:
Chen Shilang (Villain)
:He took the handkerchief handed to him by the concubine standing next to him to wipe his hands, picked up a small tomato from the plate held by the servant and put it in his mouth. After taking a sip of tea, he sighed with comfort.:
Unimportant peraon
:The housekeeper came in with the account book and reported the income of the past few days to Chen Shilang.:
Chen Shilang (Villain)
:After hearing the numbers said by the housekeeper, Chen Shilang laughed a few times, grabbed the concubine and bit her neck, and pressed her on the tiger skin blanket.:
Chen Shilang (Villain)
*:The concubine's clothes were torn off with screams. Chen Shilang touched her all over, thinking, money is a good thing, this female is his 48th concubine.*
Chen Shilang (Villain)
*So what if females are rare and precious? As long as he has money, he can have as many as he wants.*
Chen Shilang (Villain)
:Chen Shilang was entangled with his concubine and was about to hit a hole in one when the roof above his head suddenly made a shattering sound. A figure jumped down and transformed into a white tiger in mid-air, rushing towards Chen Shilang!:
Chen Shilang (Villain)
:In shock, Chen Shilang grabbed his concubine and threw her at the white tiger, but the white tiger did not hurt the female. It blocked the attack with its body and turned around to rush towards Chen Shilang again.:
Chen Shilang (Villain)
Chen Shilang also transformed into a beast and shouted, "Guards! Where are the servants?! Where are all the dead people? Come and save me!"
Unimportant peraon
At this moment, he heard the sound of fighting outside the study. The housekeeper shouted miserably, "Master! There are thieves! Someone come! Someone come quickly! Save me!"
All this happened too suddenly. The servants and guards were caught off guard. From the moment this group of thieves broke into the Chen family, they had been unprepared
Except for the servants and guards, the rest of the Chen family were ordinary beastmen with no resistance. Chen Shilang's parents, brothers, sons and daughters were killed in an instant, leaving a group of females that he had snatched away, huddled together and trembling.
Chen Shilang (Villain)
:In the study, Chen Shilang was frozen into an ice sculpture of a leopard by Su Hao. Su Hao lightly lifted his leg, and the ice sculpture broke into pieces and shattered all over the floor.:
Chen Shilang (Villain)
:Chen Shilang's head was hung on the city wall for public display.:
At the city gate, the common people threw vegetable leaves and rotten eggs at Chen Shilang's leopard head, cursing and crying. If it hadn't been frozen, it would have been smashed to pieces.
The other wealthy merchants in the city were in a panic, and they kept their doors closed all day long, afraid that the thieves who slaughtered the entire Chen family would come to their homes.
Some people wanted to run away with their families at night, but were stopped by the "thieves".
The so-called "thieves" were naturally the 1,000 government soldiers led by Yi Jin and Lian Zhen.
Yi Jin (MC /Emperor)
*It was also because Chen Shilang had been used to a stable life in Chen County these years, and he had taken care of his superiors. He was the only one in the nearby area. He knew that the empire was now without the White Tiger King, and the emperor's palace was full of weaklings. He couldn't even send a messenger, and the court couldn't do anything to him. Naturally, he was careless. How could he have thought that there would be thieves coming to kill?*
After Yi Jin knew the situation in Chen County that day, he asked the 1,000 palace soldiers to disperse and dress up. Some pretended to be small salt merchants, and most pretended to be refugees from other counties. They sneaked into the city one after another, and when everyone arrived, they pretended to be bandits and killed the entire Chen family.
Now that Chen County has been taken, there is such a large salt mine there, and there are a group of homeless people. Someone should be in charge and appoint a new county magistrate
It is not easy to find a new county magistrate.
There is no imperial examination in the Holy Beast Empire, and officials are appointed by recommendations from their superiors.So many people take advantage of the situation and buy official positions with silver.
For example, Liu Haiyue, the governor of Jingzhou, bought an official position.
The wealthy families in Chen County are basically related to Chen Shilang's Chen family, so it is not easy to choose people.
It is not impossible to choose from the common people, but the person selected must be literate regardless of his identity
Yi Jin (MC /Emperor)
:The first day Yi Jin entered Chen County.:
:First, the work of boiling salt on the salt mine stopped.
All the ordinary people who were forcibly captured as slaves were released.But these people had basically no food at home. The spring plowing season had long passed, and there were no crops in the fields. They would be hungry if they returned home.
Yi Jin (MC /Emperor)
:Yi Jin had people open the Chen family's granary and release the food.:
Each of the people was given a bag of food and went home with many thanks. But releasing the food was only temporary. When they finished eating the food they brought home, they would be hungry again.
The salt mine could not be abandoned.
In a few days, the people would still have to go to the salt mine to work. It happened that the large amount of silver paid by the Chen family was used to buy food and pay wages. The method of boiling salt also had to be changed to drying salt, which required building a salt pond, which also required people to do
Yi Jin (MC /Emperor)
:Yi Jin sat at the desk in the guest inn at night, feeling worried.:
Yi Jin (MC /Emperor)
*He needed someone to do all these ideas, but now there was no one on hand, and he couldn't rely on himself, otherwise he would be too busy*
Lian Zhen (Ml2/Concubine)
:After taking a shower, Lian Zhen dried Yi Jin's hair:
Yi Jin (MC /Emperor)
:Yi Jin sighed, hugged Lian Zhen's waist, buried his head in his chest, and rubbed his chest muscles.:
Lian Zhen (Ml2/Concubine)
Lian Zhen said, "Your Majesty, don't worry, have a good sleep, and I will find someone for you tomorrow."
Yi Jin (MC /Emperor)
:Yi Jin pulled open Lian Zhen's clothes and licked his chest muscles.:
Lian Zhen (Ml2/Concubine)
:Lian Zhen resisted the desire, turned around and took a wooden box and handed it to Yi Jin.:
Lian Zhen (Ml2/Concubine)
"Your Majesty, it was sent by Lord Qinglong. I have been busy these days and haven't had time to give it to you. Lord Qinglong said you should be able to use it."
Yi Jin (MC /Emperor)
:Yi Jin curiously opened the box, which contained two books:
The two military books had yellowed pages and rough paper, and they looked very old.They were hand-copied.After all, there was no printing technology yet.
Yi Jin (MC /Emperor)
:Yi Jin immediately thought of Su Hao.:
Yi Jin (MC /Emperor)
*He was planning to teach Su Hao to read, and he did have the idea of cultivating Su Hao, so these two military books were sent at the right time.*
Yi Jin (MC /Emperor)
*Xie Mengzhang... was anxious for the little white tiger to grow up quickly so that he could take the position of the White Tiger Lord? He really never forgot the empire.*
Yi Jin (MC /Emperor)
*From this point of view, Yi Jin had to admit that Xie Mengzhang was a competent ruler.*
Yi Jin (MC /Emperor)
*Although the military books were well sent, Yi Jin felt offended.Everything he did was under Xie Mengzhang's nose, and he had no privacy.*
Yi Jin (MC /Emperor)
:The culprit was naturally Lian Zhen.:
Yi Jin (MC /Emperor)
Yi Jin put away the military book and said to Lian Zhen unhappily, "You little traitor."
Lian Zhen (Ml2/Concubine)
Lian Zhen: "Your Majesty..."
Yi Jin (MC /Emperor)
Yi Jin interrupted him, "If you have the guts, ask him to send a few men to me tomorrow."😡😡
Lian Zhen (Ml2/Concubine)
:Lian Zhen realized that Yi Jin was angry and didn't dare to say anything.:
Yi Jin (MC /Emperor)
Yi Jin said, "Go and call Su Hao over for me."
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