My lady, I'm going to rebel.

In the next two days, Mu Zheng went to find Li Zidu whenever he had nothing to do. They tried all kinds of positions together, and Li Zidu was so happy that he lost his mind.

Finally, Li Lian couldn't bear it anymore.

"Big Brother, free lunch is delicious, right?"

Li Zidu held up the painting he had just finished and nodded frequently: "It has nothing to do with being free, the main thing is to do it well."

Mu Zheng frowned and pulled up his shirt. "If I'm a good model, then I'm a good model. If I'm a good painter, then I'm a good painter. Why are you talking about a good job?"

Li Zidu spread the painting flat on the table, waiting for it to dry. "What's wrong with what I said? Look at you. You explained something in fourteen words, but I expressed it clearly in two. Isn't it easy to tell which is good and which is bad?"

Mu Zheng chose to keep his mouth shut. He found that for the first time he was no match for an ancient person.

"Stop changing the subject and tell me, how much did those two paintings sell for last time? Or how much rice did they exchange for?" Li Lian didn't give Li Zidu any room to escape.

"What are you selling for?"

Mu Zheng looked puzzled. Li Lian ignored him, staring at Li Zidu. Li Zidu felt uncomfortable being stared at, rubbing his nose awkwardly. "Oh, this is such a mess, how can I possibly sell it for that much? Besides, this painting was only completed a day or two ago, there's no way a buyer would come."

"Buyer?" Mu Zheng finally understood this time. "Who did you sell it to?"

Mu Zheng felt a vague sense of unease in his heart.

"No one... No, they haven't been sold yet." Li Zidu looked out the window and said, "It's getting late. We're short of food lately. Let's have two cakes, no, one cake each before we go."

Li Lian tutted his tongue twice, his eyes full of contempt, "Mu Zheng, do you know? He used the painting containing you to exchange for money, silver, rice and grain."

Mu Zheng blinked. What's the big deal? Selling paintings is perfectly normal. Otherwise, where would the money come from?

"Hey hey..." Li Zi wanted to say something.

Li Lian said directly: "Sell it to those resentful women in the boudoir, to brothels, to men's elegant houses..."

"What?" Mu Zheng lost his composure!

Li Zidu rolled up his drawing paper and was about to leave: "I'll put a few more drops of oil in your pancakes later."

Mu Zheng stopped him and asked, "Just one cake?"

No wonder this man let him expose his breasts, sell his paintings to lonely women, and put them in the name of brothels, not to mention men's brothels?

"Those two?" Li Zidu held the painting in his arms, fearing that someone would tear it up irrationally.

"Rice is more expensive than jewelry now. I don't believe you can exchange it for food." Mu Zheng laughed: "Gold, silver, jewelry, pearl hairpins, jewelry, etc., give me a set."

ha?

Li Zi was dumbfounded.

I thought Mu Zheng would scold him, but I didn't expect him to talk about money directly.

"What? You don't want to? I still have many new postures to unlock." Mu Zheng continued to seduce.

You know, in ten years at most, the entire social economy will recover, and fifteen years later, China will usher in the Guangwu Restoration.

Because of the baptism of war, the amount of pearl hairpin jewelry circulating in the market decreased significantly, resulting in these items being very valuable ten years later.

So, if you stock up now, you will make a profit.

Speaking of making money, Mu Zheng remembered the letter he left for Gong Wen before leaving. Now that the weather is warming up, he wondered if he had started to make any moves.

"What are you thinking about?" Li Zidu bumped into Mu Zheng's arm.

"Ah? Oh, nothing. What were the conditions just now?" Mu Zheng asked.

"Deal!" Li Zi didn't hesitate. "Money is worthless now anyway."

"I don't want coins and coins. I only accept gold and silver jewelry and red hairpins and gemstones." Mu Zheng made his charging standards clear. After all, coins and coins will be scrap metal in ten years, while gold and silver jewelry will be forever valuable.

"I know!" Li Zi waved his hand impatiently, "Pull up your pants and lie down over there. It's still early, let's get another one."

Ok?

Li Lian was stunned.

No?

He made a fuss for a long time but got nothing?

Where's the cake?

And Mu Zheng, where is your integrity?

……

Gong Wen, who was far away on Kongtong Island, looked at the sun in the sky. Although it was not very strong, it was still a bit hot.

I looked at the wild flowers on the roadside again. This should be what Brother Mu meant by spring flowers blooming, right?

"Sister Yuxiu!" Gong Wen saw Qi Yuxiu coming down from a small sampan, her skirt fluttering in the sea breeze. "How is it? Is this place okay?"

"It's okay. There is a large open space on Island No. 2, which is flat and sunny. The terrain of Islands No. 3, 4 and 5 is open, but there is a slight slope, but it does not affect water storage." Qi Yuxiu said.

"What about islands 7, 8 and 9?" Mu Zheng asked.

"Island No. 8 has almost no flat land. There are one or two areas on Island No. 7 and Island No. 9, but they're not in the sun." Qi Yuxiu pointed to a small black dot in the farthest distance. "Island No. 10 and Island No. 11 are good, but they're a bit far away, making it inconvenient to get there and back."

"Hmm!" Gong Wen took out the letter Mu Zheng left for him and read it. "Then let's make use of the small islands ahead. After all, we've never done what Brother Mu asked us to do, so let's just treat it as an experiment."

"Okay! I'll send someone to help you tomorrow!" Qi Yuxiu said without hesitation.

"Yeah." Gong Wen nodded, then thought of something else: "Oh right, I have to find someone I trust 100% and who keeps their mouths shut. This could cost me my life, so I have to be careful about everything."

Qi Yuxiu rolled her eyes, as if asking you to teach her.

"Hehe!" Gong Wen was embarrassed by the look on his face and had to change the subject abruptly: "Tell me, will the method Brother Mu taught you work? Can this sea salt really be dried in the sun?"

Qi Yuxiu chuckled, "I believe in him. There's nothing he can't accomplish. If you can't show it, it means you're not capable enough."

Uh!

Gong Wen was upset. Qi Yuxiu was too blind to Brother Mu.

However, he is also blind.

Anyway, Brother Mu is the best!

It turned out that since the day Mu Zheng moved all the people from Kuishan to the island, he had been thinking about how to make a lot of money.

After all, as the old saying goes, live by the mountain and eat by the mountain, live by the sea and eat by the sea. With such a large sea area around them, as long as they put in a little effort, they can definitely make money.

So Mu Zheng thought of drying salt.

This method of drying sea salt has existed since ancient times and is not uncommon. However, the sea salt dried in ancient times contained a lot of impurities, which were harmful to the human body.

If you eat too much, your eyes will go blind.

Therefore, every dynasty has banned crude salt, prohibiting people from drying and selling it privately. The reason for this was to protect the health of the people, but the real purpose was to collect salt taxes.

During the Wang Mang Xin Dynasty, he turned industries such as "salt, iron, and wine" into state-owned enterprises. The government monopoly was a policy implemented to increase court tax revenue and control market prices.

If you don’t understand, just imagine salt as tobacco in later generations. It is the financial pillar of the country.

However, people can not smoke, but they cannot not eat salt.

Therefore, doing salt business can only make profits and never losses, and it is a huge profit.

Of course, in order to prevent being caught by the government, Mu Zheng asked Gong Wen and others to work on the nearby uninhabited islands, and repeatedly warned them not to sell the dried sea salt before this winter.

As to why, I don’t understand.

Does this mean that selling salt will no longer be investigated by the government after this winter?

impossible!