Liu Chan was not surprised by Zhuge Qiao's surprised expression. It would have been the same for him.
"Bosong," Liu Chan said with a smile, "try it and see how the refined salt tastes."
"No!"
Zhuge Qiao responded, stretched out a finger, dipped a little salt on the bottom of the pot and put it in his mouth.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"
Zhuge Qiao opened his eyes and said excitedly: "Your Majesty, I never thought that a salt block could be turned into such perfect refined salt."
"This refined salt has a pure taste."
"No bitter taste of salt."
"It's perfect!"
"It's perfect!"
Zhuge Qiao kept praising the refined salt in the pot. Suddenly he was stunned and said: "Your Majesty, if I, a big man, refine this kind of refined salt in large quantities, and then sell it to Wei and Wu at a high price."
The more he talked, the more excited he became: "This will bring me a lot of benefits."
Liu Chan couldn't help but be surprised by Zhuge Qiao's words.
This guy has quite a business acumen.
It seems that this matter has to be left to him.
"Bosong, what you said is true." Liu Chan nodded, and then said, "Then I will leave the matter of refining salt to Bosong."
"Your Majesty!" Zhuge Qiao said: "This technique of refining refined salt, I feel that it must not be leaked to anyone."
"Of course!"
"So I will only teach you this refining method, Bosong;" Liu Chan lowered his voice while squinting around.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty!" Zhuge Qiao said: "I will never reveal the method of refining refined salt to a third person even to my death."
"That's not necessary!" Liu Chan smiled: "Your father can still leak it, haha!"
Liu Chan trusts Zhuge Qiao. They have spent a lot of time together in the past two years, and he is the adopted son of Prime Minister Zhuge Liang.
If it is true as he said.
Zhuge Liang must also know about this matter, because Zhuge Liang knows better how to operate and manage these refined salts.
The Han Dynasty now has a poor and weak country. If it wants to compete with the two great powers of Wei and Wu, it is imperative to improve its national power.
In the past two years, Prime Minister Zhuge Liang has been vigorously developing Shu brocade and increasing Shu brocade production. The best Shu brocade has been sold to Wei and Wu, as well as surrounding areas.
Now Liu Chan has produced refined salt again, which is unique in this era.
The salt industry has always been an important resource in the past dynasties, and can even be regarded as a strategic material. Now that the Han Dynasty has mastered this technology, the money from Wei and Wu cannot continue to enter the Han treasury.
Liu Chan knew this technology, but he was the emperor of the Han Dynasty. He couldn't boil salt in the palace every day when he had nothing to do. Someone had to do it, and it had to be done by someone trustworthy.
Zhuge Qiao is the most suitable candidate.
As Zhuge Liang's adopted son, he must know the heavy responsibility on his father Zhuge Liang's shoulders.
Restore the Han Dynasty and return it to the old capital.
If you want to revive the Han Dynasty, the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains is inevitable.
When fighting, we fight for national power and money.
So I leave this matter to Zhuge Qiao.
Liu Chan thinks this is the best choice.
In the next few days, Liu Chan and Zhuge Qiao will still train the soldiers every day. After training, the two of them will study the method of refining refined salt in the room.
The method for refining refined salt is right there.
The so-called research between the two means that Liu Chan started to operate, Zhuge Qiao watched, and then overly helped Zhuge Qiao follow suit. In the end, the entire process was completed by Zhuge Qiao.
As for the training of soldiers, endurance training is a must-do subject every day.
At the beginning, it was mainly about climbing mountains with heavy loads.
As time went by, the soldiers gradually adapted to carrying heavy loads through the mountains and forests.
In the early days, it took them nearly five hours to climb from the foot of the mountain to halfway up the mountain and then back to the camp, which was almost ten hours.
There are only twenty-four hours in a day, twelve hours.
Practicing mountain climbing every day is definitely not what Liu Chan wants, so he is very strict with his training.
After ten days of assault training, the mountain climbing was compressed into two hours.
It takes two hours to climb from the camp at the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, and then back to the camp from the top of the mountain.
In the afternoon, their main training content was marksmanship training and archery training.
The marksmanship was taught by Liu Chan himself. Although he is a time traveler, his memory of the original body has not disappeared. He has merged with the memory of the original body.
Liu Chan has learned marksmanship from Zhao Yun since he was a child. After more than ten years of study, although his marksmanship is not as good as that of his master Zhao Yun, his current marksmanship is actually not bad either.
Teaching these imperial guards is more than enough.
When it comes to archery, Liu Chan's level is relatively average, but these soldiers have often practiced in the Imperial Guard Camp before, so there is no need for Liu Chan to teach them how to shoot.
Liu Chan remembers a sentence.
Sharpshooters are all fed with bullets.
Bows and arrows are not like bullets. The cost of bullets is high. Once fired, there will be one less bullet.
Bows and arrows are different. Bows and arrows can be recycled.
Liu Chan arranged the soldiers' daily training very tightly.
Two hours in the morning were spent zipping in the wild, mainly training endurance and climbing Qingcheng Mountain with heavy loads.
Take an hour's rest at noon.
At three hours in the afternoon, we trained in the camp. There were three training items in total, namely marksmanship practice, archery practice, and obstacle crossing.
Obstacle crossing, this is something Liu Chan copied from movies and TV shows, as well as the military training he participated in when he was in school, to the Three Kingdoms era.
In the first ten days after arriving, when the soldiers were climbing Qingcheng Mountain, the guards left behind in the camp were building obstacle training facilities according to the drawings Liu Chan drew for them.
These three events will not be practiced every day. They are divided into a three-day cycle. The first day is to practice marksmanship, the second day is to practice archery, and the third day is to practice obstacle crossing.
In the blink of an eye, Liu Chan and this group of soldiers have been training here for more than twenty days.
Over the past twenty days, Liu Chan was very satisfied.
The soldiers have mastered every training subject skillfully, and their personal strength has also been significantly improved.
During the endurance training in the morning, the soldiers' weights were also increased to 100 kilograms.
Their cloth bags became larger and contained more stones.
The soldiers couldn't understand it at first and thought to themselves that this unlucky emperor asked us to carry stones to climb the mountain. Isn't this sick?
But after more than ten days of training, they discovered their changes.
That day, Liu Chan deliberately asked them to remove their cloth bags and climb Qingcheng Mountain with light equipment. It originally took two hours to complete the round trip. After removing the weight, they took less than an hour to complete the round trip.
This is still climbing a mountain, if it were replaced by flat ground.
The effect will inevitably be better.
Seeing the results of the training, the soldiers later consciously added weight to their cloth bags.
More than twenty days have passed.
Liu Chan has nothing left to give them. As for training, as long as they are conscious enough, Liu Chan can stay in the small courtyard with his eyes closed to rest, or he can go with Queen Zhang Yuan to see the nearby scenery.
One evening.
Liu Chan's personal eunuch Fu'an suddenly came to the training camp, making Liu Chan a little nervous.
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This chapter has been completed!