Hu Hengqiu peeked at the emperor, and the emperor lowered his eyes and said nothing, not knowing what he was thinking. He looked at Hong Liang again. Hong Liang was so angry that his qi and blood were surging. If it weren't for the hat pressing him, his hair would probably have stood up.

Hu Hengqiu thought about it in his heart, and there were some things he shouldn't say, but Chu Qing... It's a pity that this person is young and young, alas.

With a light cough, Hu Hengqiu said: "Cough cough, everyone, setting up a sea salt field is a strategy for the joint cooperation between the court and the Linyang Hou. The court will leave the land, and the Linyang Hou will pay the money and people;

So the sea salt field was flooded and the loss was the property of Linyanghou, not the court. Are you sorry for Linyanghou? Or do you want to lend a helping hand to her?"

Hong Liang fisted his right foot with his left fist: "Yes!"

In fact, Hu Hengqiu still said nothing. Lin Yanghou was indirectly responsible for the construction of the Haiyan Field, but this was the emperor's intention and it was not made public in the court.

A court official turned his eyes and felt that he had found another remark. He was about to blurt out, but he was still not finished listening to Hu Hengqiu's words: "Although the Hai Salt Field in Ganzhou Prefecture has just become profitable, it has not affected the supply of fine salt, because it is supported by the Hai Salt Field in Linyang County."

The courtier closed his mouth.

To find Chu Qing’s trouble by delaying the supply of fine salt, Hu Hengqiu blocked this road first.

Hu Hengqiu also had a headache for Chu Qing.

Chu Qing did take off his position as a squat officer, and Hu Hengqiu also informed the emperor that Chu Qing could not make a profit in cotton and wool textiles. But in fact, although Chu Qing did suffer profits because of the large monopoly of cotton by merchants, the merchants did not take advantage of them.

As the earliest famous, oldest and best-known cotton wool maker, Chujia's cotton and wool textiles are difficult to replace by their peers.

Although colleagues in various places have established chambers of commerce and want to rely on the power of a group to compete with the Chu family's goods, they cannot achieve the quality, processing speed and transportation efficiency of the Chu family.

This makes Chu Qing less raw materials and in turn has fewer products, but they do not increase prices and ensure quality, so that merchants who are trying to monopolize cotton products cannot sell them.

The price of the Chu family has become the measure of the people invisibly. It is better to buy less or not to buy goods from other companies than to wait for the time-honored brands of "Baoqingxiang".

The Chu family's fine salt blocked the salt merchants and salt officials' financial path: the price of fine salt was appointed by the emperor's imperial pen, and Chu Qing also controlled the quality of fine salt and the terminal transaction price. Not only did the salt officials resell the salt and became unprofitable, but the salt merchants could not make a difference.

Therefore, Chu Qing still blocked the wealth of many big businessmen.

The bigger the merchants, especially the salt merchants, actually the greater the financial support for the court.

Salt tax has always accounted for a large proportion of national income. Sometimes, for the need to prepare for war, salt merchants will be levied large amounts of salt tax or required them to provide military supplies.

Including recently, the court has been trying to deal with salt merchants, hoping that they will bear the costs of the border guarding army.

Of course, in the end, the salt merchants will not spend money in vain, they will pass on these losses to the people.

Not only can they use private salt to sell it, or add some impurities to the salt to obtain huge profits to make up for losses, but they can also raise the price of salt. People are forced to eat high-priced salt and mix sand salt, without any damage to the salt merchants.

It seemed inevitable that Chu Qing would become the target of public criticism. Hu Hengqiu wanted to help her, but she was unable to do so. At most, she would just say something for her.

The premise is that it does not cause a crisis of trust in the emperor's heart.

Hu Hengqiu couldn't do anything like Hong Liang, and he would criticize him. He had already won the "Lifetime Achievement Award". As long as he did not rebel, no one could shake it; but he still had to work diligently and be cautious.

The emperor sighed in his heart, feeling that there was a problem before and he had enough confidence to deal with it. Why did he feel powerless this time?

"Let the local government help find Linyang Marquis. I'm afraid it's too hard to rely on her servants." The emperor said.

No one answered.

The Chinese New Year is coming, who can take care of the work for himself?

Besides, Lin Yanghou is the best if he dies. Who would like to find her back?

Hong Liang took a step forward to agree: "The emperor is wise! The old minister will also do his best to search for the whereabouts of Linyang Marquis!"

After responding to the emperor, Hong Liang retreated back to his position, as if he was talking to himself, but he was afraid that others would not hear it, and said, "Oh, who would have thought that Lin Yanghou has left the court for two years, but her figure is still active at the forefront of disaster relief, active in the hearts and minds of all his colleagues. I believe that like me, you will do your best to find the whereabouts of Lin Yanghou?"

The ministers were so angry that they were itchy: It would be annoying to have a Chu Qing stirring up the wind and rain, and the ghosts would not dissipate. This old guy also made trouble!

In fact, the court officials were not right. Chu Qing was not in trouble with the wind and rain. Their ideas were not on the same plane as them.

If you want to ask Chu Qing’s idea, which plane is she encircled herself in the plane of skilled workers.

Chu Qing took advantage of the Chinese New Year days and Xiaobao also led the team back, so he reorganized the entire island population, using the indigenous people and a small number of Chu family as the agricultural production population, and the majority of Chu family as the industrial production population, which was recognized by the Chu family.

With food and water (god) hair (stick) hair, the indigenous people will not become a resistance to Chu Qing's plan.

The industrial population has also been subdivided. Chao Liu, the most active among them, thinks this is the most meaningful year he has lived.

Chao Liu said: "I'm so important to me! I have to move. I want to move to the south of the island. Isn't there many trees? I cut wood and I build ships... I heard that the mountain people there raise cattle and sheep? I love to eat beef!"

He took the initiative to ask for shipbuilding without having to do ideological work. Chao Liu's spirit of striving for progress is worthy of encouragement. Chu Qing said: "Come on, let's discuss and discuss building sea boats. What's the difference between sea boats and inland river boats?"

The sea has strong winds and high waves, long distances and shallow drafts cannot withstand strong winds and waves, and it is easy to be hit by the waves to sink the ship.

In addition, the ocean is much wider than the inland rivers, so you don’t have to worry too much about the flexibility of turning, so you can build a large ship.

With basic ideas, details will arise, such as the height of the freeboard, the shape of the hull, etc.

If you go deeper, it involves how to make the ship sink when the cabin is flooded. Chu Qing proposed the classic "watertight cabin" design.

"Bamboo," Chu Qing said: "There are bamboo joints. The diaphragm in the bamboo joints divides the bamboo into many diabolic tubes. We can use this principle to create watertight compartments;

With this structure, even if a certain cabin gets into water due to a hole caused by a reef, it will not affect other cabins, so as to ensure that the ship can still drive normally and not sink."

On the night of the 30th day of the 12th lunar month, I discussed the design of the watertight cabin with Chao Liu. On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Chu Qing took out a drawing or a perspective view, reflecting all the content discussed the night before.

The round boat, freeboard, draught, keel, etc. were all clearly drawn, which made Chao Liu exclaim: "What is your relationship with my master?"
Chapter completed!