Chapter 323

After Zhaoling was repaired and Han Qi came back from the mausoleum, the Queen Mother sent an envoy to give Han Qi a letter.

Han Qi opened it and saw that it was full of records of contemptuous lyrics written by Zhao Shu and some of his mistakes in the palace.

Han Qi burned the letter in front of the messenger, and then ran to persuade the Queen Mother.

When the Queen Mother saw Han Qi, she sobbed and cried: "I have no place for me anymore, my husband wants to make the decision for me!"

Han Qi tried to persuade him: "Isn't this a sickness among officials? It won't be like this after the illness is cured. How can a mother not tolerate her son being sick?"

The Queen Mother was very unhappy.

Ouyang Xiu also advised: "The Queen Mother has served Renzong for decades, and her virtues of benevolence and saintliness are outstanding in the world. Women are rarely jealous. When Queen Wen Cheng was so arrogant, Queen Mother, you can get along with each other in peace and tolerate everything. Why? Now, mother and son can no longer bear it?"

Seeing that she could not get support, the Queen Mother had to change her words: "It's not bad that you are like this."

Ouyang Xiu said: "Don't worry, Queen Mother, He Duchen and others know about this matter, no one outside knows about it."

The Queen Mother's attitude began to soften.

Ouyang Xiu added: "Renzong has been in power for a long time, and his virtues are in people, and people believe him. Therefore, after his death, the whole world obeyed his orders and worshiped his successor, and no one dared to have different opinions."

"Now the Queen Mother lives deep in the room, and we are the only ones outside. If what we do is not because of Renzong's will, who in the world will listen to it?!"

The Queen Mother finally fell silent.

After reluctantly settling down here, Han Qi ran to see Zhao Shu again. Zhao Shu said, "The Queen Mother has not been kind to me."

With this sentence, Su You felt that Zhao Shu could no longer be clean.

Your adoptive parents gave the world to you, and the emperor protected you like that when he was in power. Now you say that your adoptive parents are ungrateful?

Han Qi thought that he was worried about Japan and wanted to defend the emperor he had established with tears in his eyes, so he had to advise: "Since ancient times, there have been many holy emperors and kings, but Shun alone is called the great filial piety. Could it be that others are not filial?" Is it? Not really.”

"If parents are loving but sons are filial, this is a normal thing and is not worthy of praise. Only like Shun, a son whose parents are not loving but still maintains filial piety is worthy of praise."

"Therefore, we are afraid that Your Majesty, your filial piety to the Queen Mother is not enough, and there are no unloving parents in the world!"

Zhao Shu realized something, and he didn't know what he realized. In short, he stopped saying bad things about the Queen Mother from now on.

However, these high-level quarrels were just ordinary gossip to Su You, and were not as important as bringing salt to the people.

In Yushan, a white mountain spring as thick as an arm flew out from a rock gap several meters high and fell onto the clear and calm river.

Anyone who comes here for the first time will think that this is a clear mountain spring at first glance.

Put a handful of clear spring into your mouth. Instead of the sweetness of mountain spring, your mouth is full of salty astringency.

The discovery of this brine spring laid a solid foundation for the Kuizhou Salt Industry.

The rest is manpower.

The method of transporting water changed from the method of "those who were affiliated with the wells used small boats to fly water" to the method of transporting brine along the channel.

On the mottled cliff, there are now closely connected post holes drilled one after another.

The endless supply of brine is led into workshops several miles away along the brine transport channels built on these pillar holes, where the terrain is open, transportation is convenient, and there is coal nearby.

One end of the bamboo mat is connected to the salt well, and the other end is directly connected to the brine storage tank in the workshop.

The salt brine has a lower salinity than seawater. If it is fired directly, a lot of fuel will be wasted.

Therefore, it is still the method of pouring the seal on the furnace.

"The stove is built with yellow mud, and there are five pots in one stove. The well water cannot turn into salt when put into the pot, so it is soaked in the stove, and all the salt water enters the stove mud. The next day, the stove soil is dug up, soaked in water and boiled for five days.

After digging out all the stoves, build another stove, soak it and dig it out as before."

This method is a bit crude, just like Meishan, which uses burned briquettes instead.

To put it simply, when the furnace field is burned to a certain extent by fire, the salt workers will continue to print the salt-making brine into the furnace field and pour it on the briquette slag. The brine evaporates the water, turning the slag into salt soil.

Now it is semi-automated. There are movable water-conducting bamboo tubes. Shake the water wheel to draw water. The brine will rise along the pipe and flow into the water-conducting bamboo tube. Four people can control the pipes and print brine on the eight-port large stove without any trouble.

To bear the burden of burden.

After that, it’s the same as the mausoleum operation.

One stove can produce more than 300 kilograms of salt in a day and night. This salt workshop, with a total of eight dragon stoves and 40 large pots with a diameter of more than one meter, can produce nearly 3,000 kilograms of salt in a day.

This is a business that can last for thousands of years. In the 1980s, salt was still being exported here.

After excluding costs, the income is 30,000 yuan a year.

However, this was developed by Su You, not by a recruited businessman. Now he is an official, so the industry here belongs to the imperial court.

Su You doesn't care, what he needs is salt, not money.

The transportation of Kui salt to foreign countries is a matter for Daning Supervision, Feishuijing can just use it to meet domestic demand.

Besides, using Xianjing salt banknotes for settlement, thirty thousand guan is not a small amount, which is enough to pay the taxes of the first two Kuizhou states.

Nowadays, Kuizhou is booming, with commercial taxes alone reaching more than 100,000 yuan a year.

Thanks to Su You's vigorous recommendation and gifts, poems praising Kuizhou rice wine from famous literati began to arrive one after another. As a result, Kuizhou wine suddenly became a hot commodity, and the wine tax earned another 100,000 yuan.

Together with the tens of thousands of ramies, and the gold, silver, and cinnabar from the original wood leaf barbarians, it is already the tax revenue of a middle and upper state.

However, Kuizhou Road cannot get this tax because it was promised a four-year preferential policy, but only two years have passed.

So he was used by Su You to pave the paved roads in Kuizhou City, renovate dilapidated buildings, subsidize Futian Yuan, recruit teachers for the academy and military literacy classes, train sergeants in drills, purchase military equipment, food and uniforms, and subsidize rice for farmers.

Breed poultry and livestock farm tools, develop mountain pool terraces, hemp fields and fruit groves...

It’s not easy to make money, but it’s not easy to spend money, either?

The autumn harvest is just around the corner, and with this wave of food supplies, Shangzhou is in a stable position.

Of course, the state status of Shangzhou must be supported by fields, households, and households in addition to economic level.

For others, this is difficult and slow, but for Su You, it is too easy.

The people around him were familiar with the barbarians, and they had a strong desire to become a registered household in the Song Dynasty.

The Song government was unwilling and local officials did not dare to take this risk.

They are barbarians! Barbarians who rebel at the slightest disagreement!

It can be said that in the entire southwestern Yiji Prefecture, only Su You was able to fight on the first day and turn the prisoners into his subordinates the next day.

Both benevolent and powerful, after dismantling the tribe into small peasant economic family units with fields and pigs, the tribal organization suddenly became very loose and no longer cohesive.

In another ten years, it would be unimaginable for children who grew up reading "In the beginning of life, nature is good" to gather together to attack a city and seize a county.

So if others dare not, Su You dares. With a large number of workers and government households cultivating government land, the population problem will not be a problem.

…

Su Shi wrote again. He was so proud that he forgot to cry about poverty.

Because he finally took a small revenge on Chen Xiliang.

The old man built a platform called Lingxu Terrace and asked him to write a "Lingxu Terrace".

Now Su Shi has seized the opportunity. What kind of thing is your little Lingxu Terrace? To the east of this place, there used to be the Luquan Terrace where Qin Mugong prayed for good luck. To the south, there was also the Changyang Wuzuo Terrace of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

In the Tang Dynasty, there were 90% palaces and terraces. Which one was not a temporary victory, gorgeous and exquisite, a hundred times as good as your shabby terrace?

Where are they now?

So, Old Chen, sooner or later your platform will be useless. Why do you have to build such a platform to show off yourself? After all...

Zhang Dun's letter was written more objectively and included the follow-up to the matter.

It is said that Lao Chen burst out laughing after reading the article: "I treat Su Mingyun like a son, and I treat Zizhan like a grandson. Because he became famous when he was young, I treated him without pretense. This was because I was afraid that he would be overwhelmed by satisfaction.

Does this kid have a problem with me?"

It is not easy to write every word, so I have this article engraved and erected on the edge of the stage.

Su Shi's attitude towards Lao Chen changed because of this, so Mingrun, don't listen to Zizhan's nonsense, this kid is now honestly becoming a grandson.
Chapter completed!