{"id":3754,"date":"2021-09-09T09:07:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T07:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/?p=3754"},"modified":"2021-11-16T09:27:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T08:27:37","slug":"tofuh-chapter-131-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/2021\/09\/09\/tofuh-chapter-131-1\/","title":{"rendered":"TOFUH &#8211; Chapter 131.1 &#8211; Collecting People and Tributes"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of the people in Hongjiang Salt Farm were people from Daqi, but few of them at a glance were not from Daqi.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Jiang Zhen saw those people, he was surprised, but\u00a0 did not hesitate to ask Fang Qi about them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBoss, the people you\u2019re talking about are supposed to be Oriental ronins.\u201d When Fang Qi heard Jiang Zhen\u2019s question, he immediately took a shortcut.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOriental ronins?\u201d Jiang Zhen frowned slightly; he could understand what those people said, which was not much different from one of the three foreign languages he knew. But he didn\u2019t expect them to appear in Daqi.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seeing that Jiang Zhen was confused, Fang Qi immediately explained.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People outside Daqi were called barbarians by the people of Daqi, and these ronins were one of these barbarians.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They originally lived on a small island in the eastern part of the sea, but because of the war in their country, many people could not live there anymore, and they crossed the sea to make a living here.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBoss, those Oriental ronins work without complaining, so the Hongjiang Salt Farm likes to use them a lot,\u201d Fang Qi added. Oriental ronins were very common by the sea.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jiang Zhen asked Fang Qi some more questions and pondered this. He understood that Hongjiang Salt Farm was doing well and why they treated salt workers badly. He also estimated that this\u00a0 has something to do with these Oriental ronins.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It had been 300 years since the founding of Daqi, and the Hongjiang Salt Farm had been around for more than 200 years. The number of salt workers might not be large at the beginning, but with the passage of time, these salt workers had their own children and their number increased.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Originally, the Hongjiang Salt Farm still needed them to boil salt, so even if they felt it was not very cost-effective to support so many people, they were still good to them. But over the years, more and more Oriental ronins came here.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These Oriental ronins were used to living very poor lives on their small island, so as long as they got here, they worked very hard so long as they were fed. They were also willing to work harder than others, and they didn\u2019t have any family members. All of them were not afraid of death when they crossed the sea, so most of them were men.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With such a good labor force, the people of the Hongjiang Salt Farm naturally began to be dissatisfied with the original salt workers who dragged along their families, so they laid their hands on the salt workers and their families without worry.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They were not short of workers anyway.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having figured out the reason, Jiang Zhen did not know how to evaluate the current mess. However, this was not the time to think about this; they had to think about how to deal with that group.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Such a group should not be left to continue to harm others . . . thinking about the few women they brought along as well as the gers in this tragic situation, Jiang Zhen couldn\u2019t help but frown.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In ancient times, the fate of women and gers was always out of their control, and they would be miserable if they were not careful . . . His Mingzhu . . .<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When he thought that Zhao Mingzhu might also encounter misfortune if there was war in the future, Jiang Zhen\u2019s mood worsened. Then he became even more determined to take the road he wanted to take.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jiang Zhen discussed some countermeasures with his men, and then found a place to eat and sleep first.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the latter part of the night, Jiang Zhen woke all his men up and quietly approached the group\u2019s camp.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Obviously, among this group, the status of the Oriental ronins was not high, so it was Oriental ronins who kept the watch at night.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was early in the morning, so the people who kept watch at night were drowsy. Jiang Zhen knocked on the wood in the dark, and the men under his hands leaned over quietly, finally covering the mouths and noses of the watchmen and slitting their throats with a knife.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The number of people in that group of Hongjiang Salt Farm workers was about the same as that of Jiang Zhen\u2019s and the others. They used sneak attacks at night to kill all the people in Fang Qi\u2019s village, so this time, Jiang Zhen led a sneak attack on them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under this calculated attack, the group was soon wiped out, and no one under Jiang Zhen\u2019s hands died only seven or eight were injured.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even if the rescued women and gers were not all from Fang Qi\u2019s village, they were still from somewhere nearby, so Jiang Zhen asked Fang Qi to talk to them and arranged for someone to clean up the battlefield.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThose who are injured come to me,\u201d Jiang Zhen said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After several injured people came over, he took out a wineskin and unplugged it. A strong aroma of wine suddenly drifted over.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBoss?\u201c Jiang Ming, who was also one of the injured, looked at Jiang Zhen in some surprise.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He knew this wine; it was Qingfeng wine that many people wanted to buy but couldn\u2019t, in Fucheng! Jiang Zhen called them over and took out the Qingfeng wine. Is he going to give these injured people some wine to drink?<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a matter of fact, Jiang Ming did not drink much wine, nor did he have much interest in wine, but as long as he thought that this was the wine that even the country magistrate was thinking about, he really wanted to taste it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However . . . Jiang Zhen pointed the wine bag at the wound on Jiang Ming\u2019s hand . . .\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jiang Ming immediately let out a scream, which was no different from the pig\u2019s cry when Jiang Zhen killed the pigs before.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The people who were originally cleaning the battlefield were startled when they heard the scream. The gers, who were from the same village as Fang Qi and had just been rescued by them, subconsciously huddled together and trembled.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBoss, what are you doing?\u201c Jiang Ming was speechless. His boss poured wine on his wound. Was he deliberately messing with him? Moreover, how can such precious wine be casually poured on his wound? It was too wasteful!<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s for your own good.\u201c Jiang Zhen glanced at him and then told him to bandage it himself before letting the next person come over.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jiang Ming also knew that this must be for his own good, so he didn\u2019t say anything more. However, Jiang Ming was a little depressed when he saw that the people behind him clenched their teeth and didn\u2019t yell, making him lose a lot of face.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the battlefield was cleaned up and the wound bandaged, it was almost dawn.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The people of Hongjiang Salt Farm were the poorest, so they didn\u2019t have much money, but for Jiang Zhen, just killing them was beneficial.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The people of Hongjiang Salt Farm had their own badges to prove their identity, and he had obtained these during their encounter. So this time, they could pretend to be Hongjiang Salt Farm people and avoid some unnecessary disputes.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Burying the bodies on the spot, Jiang Zhen packed up his things and continued on his way.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He didn\u2019t drive away the women and gers they saved, but he also didn\u2019t allow them to slow them down.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These women and gers were all from fishing villages along this shoreline, so it was estimated that they\u2019ve worked there all their lives. Although it was difficult to walk, they still kept up, and when Jiang Zhen talked about his knowledge of survival in the wild, they listened very attentively.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As long as they were human, they always wanted to live.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few days later.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yabian Village was a small village by the sea with no more than ten families in the village.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There was a cliff where they lived, from which Yabian Village\u2019s name came from.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The people in Yabian Village rely on fishing for their livelihood, and they were very poor. There were no fishing boats to go to the sea, so they fished from the cliff and picked up fish and shrimps on the beach. They also grew their own vegetables on the sand by the sea.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That day, the young people of Yabian Village caught some fishes and picked up some shrimps and crabs from the crevices of the rocks by the sea and walked home together.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Edited by: Faro<\/p>\r\n<p>Proofreader: Xiao Hua<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Support translation:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=25191841\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"217\" height=\"51\" class=\"wp-image-338 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ontimestory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/become_a_patron_button.png?resize=217%2C51\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 217px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 217\/51;\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/lajnaa\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ontimestory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/kofi3-3.png?resize=185%2C47\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is kofi3-3.png\" width=\"185\" height=\"47\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 185px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 185\/47;\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\r\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the people in Hongjiang Salt Farm were people from Daqi, but few of them at a glance were not from Daqi. When Jiang Zhen saw those people, he was surprised, but\u00a0 did not hesitate to ask Fang Qi about them. \u201cBoss, the people you\u2019re talking about are supposed to be Oriental ronins.\u201d When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tofuh","entry","has-media"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ontimestory.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/14193s.jpg?fit=200%2C280&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3999,"href":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions\/3999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}