Hand over the jade seal first [Infrastructure]

Chapter 266

Xiao Zirong was also shocked after hearing this: "What? Dozens of people died? What's going on? Did you find out?"

His first reaction after hearing this was poisoning. The salt factory is not exposed to many toxic substances, but heavy metal substances will be precipitated when the refined salt is extracted, but as long as these things are not eaten, it should be fine.

Unless someone has eaten unprocessed salt, this is not surprising.

There is a certain amount of loss from coarse salt to refined salt, and Xiao Zirong also stipulated the range of loss. Outside this range, he turned a blind eye to the rest, as long as it was not excessive.

Can't even this refined salt satisfy them now?

Chai Shuren shook his head: "The causes of their deaths are not the same. Some accidentally fell into the sea and drowned, some slipped their feet and fell into the brine pool, and some even encountered accidents on the way back and forth."

Xiao Zirong frowned: "Is this... an issue of law and order? Is it related to those barbarians?"

Chai Shuren still shook his head, Xiao Zirong felt that his fist was about to harden: "If you find out the result, just tell me, if you talk nonsense, I will let you talk to the wall for a day!"

Chai Shu endured a wry smile and said, "I'm just afraid that you will be angry. These little ladies were actually murdered by their family members."

Xiao Zirong was shocked: "What? What do you mean being harmed by family members?"

Chai Shuren sighed and said, "It's all the fault of those houses. These little ladies are qualified to buy houses. You also know that the houses in the industrial zone are better than their homes, so the parents and brothers of these little ladies began to plan to buy houses. If you want a house, the little lady naturally doesn't want to give it, and there are also regulations that you can't transfer it, unless it's for sale, but the family just wants it, so someone took other people's money, killed their own daughter, and recommended someone else's daughter to enter the factory work, so you can get not only a house but also a good amount of money."

Xiao Zirong heard him say that he was stupid, he was stunned for a while before he said: "Are... are you sure? Do you have evidence?"

Chai Shuren lowered his head and said, "This incident has happened for several days. I have asked people to investigate the results. The confession is also there. Those people have all admitted it."

Xiao Zirong couldn't come to his senses for a while, he could be regarded as a person with shallow kinship, but no matter in the previous life or now, all the people who are related to him by blood are very kind to him.

He really couldn't imagine, how could there be such a cruel person in the world?

Even disregarding his own daughter for the house and money?

Perhaps it was because his expression was too ugly, Chai Shuren persuaded: "Your Highness, this is a common occurrence among the people, and there are still many baby girls who simply cannot survive."

So what about your own?So what if I was born?If you are not a boy, you will be deprived of the right to life.

Because only boys can divide the land, and girls will lose money when they are born.

Xiao Zirong knew about patriarchy, and even knew about the low survival rate of baby girls, but he just didn't expect that the little lady who had grown up was actually very dangerous.

Just for a house and a little money, a life is gone.

Xiao Zirong said with some difficulty: "These female workers can take money home."

These little ladies work in the salt factory, not to mention those who are married, and most of the money that is not married must be handed over to the family.

This kind of situation will definitely be scolded in later generations for being unclear, helping younger brothers and demons, but Xiao Zirong didn't care.

He didn't expect that the little ladies of this era would want to fight for the right to speak. In fact, Xie Lianyun was the weird one.

And being able to bring more income to the family can also make these little ladies tougher and live a better life.

On this basis, he also wanted to give these little ladies something to live with, otherwise he would not leave any money after working for half a day, just for his natal family to work as a cow and a horse. things.

I just didn't expect these houses to become a reminder.

Xiao Zirong took a deep breath, calmed down and asked, "How did you deal with it?"

"All the people have been taken down, and they haven't been sentenced yet."

As for those parents who were not as good as beasts when they were arrested, they still shouted that they were their children, and that they would not break the law if they were killed, so don't say it to make His Highness feel sad.

Xiao Zirong was silent for a while and said, "Kill, all participants will be killed."

He was very calm when he said this. He knew that the sentence was too heavy, but fortunately, it is not a society ruled by law these days. The law is very flexible, and most of them rely on a word from the superior.

Xiao Zirong is now going to use thunderous means to curb this trend, to avoid such a thing from happening again, and then study how to ensure the safety of these little ladies.

Chai Shuren thought that Xiao Zirong might be punished more harshly because of anger, but he didn't expect it to be so harsh, and couldn't help being stunned for a moment: "This...that...the party that bought the quota."

Xiao Zirong said: "Depending on the seriousness of the plot, those who participated in the murder will be killed, and those who did not participate will be confiscated half of their family's land property, and members of the nine clans will not be allowed to work in any factory in the industrial zone."

Chai Shu couldn't help but be dumbfounded, this punishment is to cut the flesh with a blunt knife, which is only a little bit worse than killing him directly.

But his Highnesses spoke up and he didn't persuade him, not to mention that Xiao Zirong had a reason, even if there was no reason, no one would find it strange that he wanted to kill some common people.

After giving the order, Xiao Zirong turned his head and went back to the study. He needed to look up the legal clauses of the later generations, and try his best to protect the lives of these little ladies.

Before leaving, he also warned: "Check again to see if this kind of thing happened before."

No matter when an accidental death doesn't attract much attention, the level of investigation is just like that these days, and many police officers can get by.

Now this is due to the occurrence of a very intensive death situation. Who dares to say that it has not happened before?

Chai Shu reluctantly responded, and Xiao Zirong let him go.

After returning to the study, Xiao Zirong read a lot, but found that the terms of later generations are really not suitable for the present.

Because there is no law in later generations that stipulates that disobedience is a crime, but there is now.

In future generations, even parents who beat and kill their children will be arrested and sentenced, but there is no problem these days.

To put it bluntly, children in this era are the property of their parents.

Xiao Zirong rubbed his forehead with some headaches. He pondered for a while and finally decided to guarantee it from two aspects. The first one is the factory quota, which can only be admitted if it meets the requirements. Of course, this may not be able to stop things like buying quotas.

But at least it can be restricted. Even a place like a salt factory can set up a training class. The training class teaches reading and literacy.

This will also allow some illiterates to weigh whether it is worth the money and whether it is worth killing a person because of this matter. After all, even if there is a place, she may not be able to go.

Then there is the house. Because the subscribed house itself is considered a benefit from the imperial court, it is simply stipulated that it cannot be bought or sold within ten years, nor can it be transferred as a gift, and if the owner of the house has an accident within ten years, the county government will take back the house .

After he wrote these two points, he always felt that something was missing, but he still couldn't remember it.

In the end, I could only sigh, put down the pen and wanted to take a break to find ideas.

However, after putting down the pen, his mood immediately became depressed.

He could calmly face the death toll after the war, but he couldn't calmly look at this serial murder case.

He has tried his best to think of some people as selfish and dark, but he found that his bottom line is not the bottom line of this group of people at all, they can always do more inhuman things.

Everyone knows that women have a difficult life, but they didn't expect it to be so difficult.

Now it seems that those families who are suppressing marriage are already considered conscientious.

Xiao Zirong didn't appear particularly sad, but anyone could tell that his mood had been low for several days in a row.

He himself also felt a little depressed. He originally thought it was time to write a letter to Xiao Xuexing, but he was afraid that the other party would find out if he wrote the letter, so he simply planned to wait two days for himself to adjust before speaking.

Anyway, when Xiao Xuexing asked, he said that he had too many things on hand and didn't have time.

Mu Lin had already gone out to live independently. Xiao Zirong sent someone to observe and found that this man was doing well. He bought a few slaves to take care of him. He occasionally sold some calligraphy or paintings by himself.

Xiao Xuexing shouldn't have any reason to be jealous, right?

Xiao Zirong wanted to laugh when he thought that Xiao Xuexing was silently jealous before and still acted nonchalantly in front of him.

It's just that his mentality has not been adjusted. It's okay during the day, there are a lot of things to do, and it doesn't matter if he is always surrounded by people.

At night, he seemed a bit lonely when he was alone in the dormitory.

In the past few days, he likes to embrace the knees on the small couch by the window to watch the moon, and occasionally drinks some wine to help him sleep.

As a result, today seems to be a bit different, when it was already time to sleep, Ah Yin stood outside the door and said softly: "Your Highness, the Regent is here to visit."

Ok?

At that moment, Xiao Zirong almost suspected that there was something wrong with his ears.

Before he could react, the door of the dormitory was pushed open, and then he saw that handsome face that looked extraordinarily gentle under the light.

Xiao Zirong's eyes widened: "Brother? Why are you here?"

Xiao Xuexing was wearing a black cloak at this time. After entering, he took off the hood, glanced at Xiao Zirong and frowned, and said, "It's still a bit cold at night, why are you sitting by the bed with the window open?"

Xiao Zirong blinked, watching Xiao Xue take off the cloak on her body, and then walked in front of him.

Only when the familiar cold fragrance from the other party penetrated into his nostrils did Xiao Zirong feel a little real.

He didn't speak but stretched out his hands to Xiao Xuexing.