As Li Dejian sent these envoys away, Li Tai naturally returned to Tianjin City.
Because the pace of this era is quite slow, and the unified entry of grain into the warehouse also requires a lot of people who know how to calculate and calculate it.
About a week later, Wang Zhenru completed the statistics on the grain purchases and came to report to Li Tai.
"King Yan!" Wang Zhenru immediately reported to Li Tai when he saw Li Tai.
"This time I received a total of 337,000 stones of grain, all of which have been paid in silk. This is the account book, please check it out."
"Let me go, I will find someone to calculate!" Li Tai nodded,
"However, I didn't expect there was so much food, which was a bit unexpected. I originally thought that it would be good to have 200,000 stones of food in Youzhou!"
"Since the Eastern Turks were destroyed by our minister Li Jing, the northern border has been no longer in chaos.
Afterwards, the Bohai Navy was stationed in our Youzhou, and retired ships were supplied to Youzhou. Most of the fish hunted were sold to Youzhou, which was used to solve the food problems of many people.
Besides, the weather has been beautiful and peaceful in recent years, and the country is prosperous and the people are in a bumper harvest year every year. It is not surprising that families of all sizes, such as Youzhou, have stored so much food in their hands.
With the great charity of King Yan, you, you, help them clean up the warehouse, they were just asking for it.
Not to mention, they have invested a lot of money in the Grass Plan. Now they have a chance to recover their blood, which is naturally better!”
Wang Zhenru said at the end and added,
"After all, it is King Yan who is wise and powerful, laying the foundation for us to work in Youzhou.
We just did nothing worth mentioning.”
Li Tai couldn't help but look at Wang Zhenru, "Well, there is a future!"
Then, Li Tai slowly told Wang Zhenru and Taoism, "Save food well and you will use it soon."
"Huh?" Wang Zhenru was a little confused when he heard Li Tai's words and couldn't help asking.
"Does King Yan have other tasks? It is easy to teach King Yan that we still have Tianjin's port to build a Bohai Sea.
There are also three roads in Tianjin Jinkou, Tianjin City, and Tianjin Port that need to be repaired, and no force will be drawn in a short period of time."
Li Tai waved his hand and said to Wang Zhenru and Tao, "You are too worried, how could I use you to death like this?
You can deal with these two things one by one.
However, since the food is fully collected, we naturally have to move to the next step. Otherwise, there is so much food, what should we do in the warehouse?"
Wang Zhenru looked at Li Tai at this moment and didn't dare to say anything more.
Because Wang Zhenru, who had been with Li Tai in Gaoling, knew very well that King Yan was the kind of guy who liked to find trouble for nothing.
Especially when he had a lot of money in his hand, normal people either saved it or took it out to buy land, but what the King of Yan liked was to expand reproduction.
It seemed as if the King of Yan would feel uncomfortable if he didn't spend this money.
However, since the King of Yan supported this, Wang Zhenru would not say anything more. What did the King of Yan say and what he did himself.
At this time, Li Chunfeng walked in quickly, with a proud look on his face and said excitedly, "King Yan, it has crystallized, it has crystallized!"
Li Tai was slightly stunned when he heard Li Chunfeng's words, but he was a little dazed.
Since June, the autumn harvest has passed, and it has been more than three months. Although I have absolute confidence in the salt drying method, it was Li Chunfeng who really operated this matter, and finally the result came out.
"Let's ride a horse to Yantian to take a look!" Li Tai heard Li Chunfeng's words and went straight to the precepts.
Li Chunfeng nodded. Everyone came to the salt pond without delay, and they soon came to the salt pond, one by one, like a lake.
Li Chunfeng took Li Tai to the smallest small salt pond with an area of about 16 square meters, but saw a layer of crystal white salt at the bottom of the salt pond. Seeing this scene, Li Tai smiled satisfied.
, finally crystallized.
"It's finally crystallized!" Li Tai looked at the coarse salt and finally breathed a sigh of relief. He turned his head to Li Chunfeng.
"Chunfeng, how long does it take to really use these coarse salt?"
"At this speed, you can get coarse salt after using it for about one month. The first batch of salt will take longer. As for the future, it depends on how strong the sunlight is and how strong the sea breeze is!" Li Chunfeng looked at him.
Li Tai said,
"However, this method of salt drying is only coarse salt, and people may not care about eating it, but if they eat too much, people will lose their hair. They also need to use the cube solution and use the cube method to slowly wash it out.
Impurities are OK!”
"What do you need! As long as you want, as long as I have it, all of them will be configured!" Li Tai said to Li Chunfeng with a wave of his hand.
When Li Chunfeng heard Li Tai's words, his eyes turned red. This was why he was willing to follow Li Tai.
Because when Li Taizhen does something, she never just wants to do it, but she really has to believe in herself and dare to spend money on herself!
Li Tai continued, "I agreed in advance that this kind of coarse salt is not a harm to the people. You can find a way to remove impurities from it, and use the salt I use as the standard. I will eat whatever salt the people eat!
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"No!" Li Chunfeng replied with great determination, "In the future, I will eat whatever salt is produced in this salt farm."
Li Tai nodded when he heard Li Chunfeng's promise.
To be honest, compared with land salt, this sea salt still has many impurities in modern people's eyes.
Because of the technological limitations of this era, this is inevitable.
But this attitude of using whatever you dare to sell is something you dare to use. Even if there are impurities, it can be gradually improved.
But after expressing his opinion, Li Chunfeng continued, "King of Yan, I need a lot of manpower to continue to develop the salt field.
Especially after the salt crystallizes, the next treatment project needs to be carefully considered.
So I need Mo Sci-zi to make exclusive equipment for the salt field, and a special halogen pool for bleaching to filter out impurities in sea salt.
The most important thing is that specialized salt science talents are needed to distinguish between sea salt and land salt.
Distinguishing what is more or less of the ocean allows us to understand sea salt in more detail and write the law of sea salt for it!”
When Li Tai heard Li Chunfeng's words, the corners of his mouth twitched. He always felt that some words were inconsistent when he said them.
To be honest, since the law of fire, the law of sun, and the law of water have become the auxiliary products of enlightenment.
The so-called word law represents the properties or theorems that matter will never change.
Now for Shanghai salt, Li Chunfeng naturally showed the spirit of specializing in science and began to find ways to analyze the substance sea salt.
All the information about sea salt parsed is called the sea salt law.
Therefore, Li Tai felt that it was indeed inconsistent, but Li Chunfeng had obviously adapted to the way of thinking of the agricultural institution.
No matter what he is, I will record it first and find someone to analyze it slowly. After the results are analyzed, I will write the sea salt law!
"By the way, King Yan, it's almost winter!" Li Chunfeng reminded Li Tai solemnly.
"Don't worry, we have accumulated a lot of grain, and even the coal industry has found Youzhou's local coal mines and started mining.
And I will ask the peacock to send a batch of cotton coats over. Even if I work in winter, no one will freeze to death!”
Li Tai answered with confidence when he saw Li Chunfeng. After all, Youzhou is much colder than Chang'an.
"I don't mean that!" Li Chunfeng said with a wry smile.
"You have never been here, King Yan. I don't know that in winter, not to mention the Grand Canal, even the Sanggan River will freeze.
As for the Bohai Sea surface, there will be times when there will be freezing, I mean, do you need to be prepared for this aspect?”
"Hmm?!" Li Tai's expression changed when he heard this. To be honest, he was not from the northerner, so he would instinctively ignore the things that the canal was frozen.
In fact, although there is enough food and charcoal in the small town of Tianjin, it is still very troublesome if the water transportation is cut off due to icy. After all, I have just come to Youzhou and may not have enough preparations.
"I will pay attention to this matter!" Li Tai nodded seriously and said that he knew.
When Li Chunfeng saw that Li Tai was prepared, he couldn't help but say, "If it freezes, what should I do with this salt pond?"
"The years of experience are accumulated first, but ditches can be dug at the edges and placed coal to heat up to maintain water temperature.
Of course, if you are naive and too cold, just let it go first, just stop for one or two months every year.
Let the workers rest as well. If there are workers who cannot rest, they will come to Tianjin City, and they will be able to do their jobs!"
Li Chunfeng nodded, at least he would not have been in vain for what he did.
Li Chunfeng sighed, "But winter is not all bad. Many verifications from our Youzhou Academy are waiting for winter to come, waiting to experiment and verify one by one."
"Verification?" Li Tai said curiously when he heard Li Chunfeng's words, "What verification?"
"Verify the Great Way!" Li Chunfeng said, "There are many ways to prove the truth that cannot be done in spring, summer and autumn, and can only be in winter."
"Why?" Li Tai was a little confused.
"Don't King Yan remember the mercury experiment in the first place? We used ice as a vessel to detect the height of mercury and determined a new weight and measure!" Li Chunfeng said,
"Later I tried to change some utensils, but none of them could see through.
Later, when I arrived in Youzhou, I found that the ice sculpture craftsman here was very good, and I worked quickly and well, so I used ice sculpture utensils."
"Ice...Ice Sculpture..." Li Tai's mind was buzzing and he couldn't help but say, "What else have you done?!"
"It's nothing. I just asked the ice sculpture craftsman to make some bottles and jars with different solvents, so that I can see what's happening inside.
For example, a piece of paper burned in the frozen bottle and placed a bottle plug on it. I asked the soldiers to crush the entire ice bottle, but didn't pull out the cap.
In short, with this transparent bottle and jar, I can directly see what happened inside, or I can't see it!"
"Ice!" Li Tai also felt a little emotional.
I was in a dead end. Although I used ice to place mercury and developed the weights and measures I wanted, I didn't expect that this thing could be used like this.
The ice sculpture craftsman can directly make the ice into corresponding vessels. Can the ice sculpture craftsman also make the ice into other things?
For example, monocular telescopes, astronomical telescopes, microscopes, and even condensers.
In this era of untransparent glass, can we complete some miracle operations that may only be completed in this era through the hands of top ice sculpture craftsmen?
Li Tai didn't know whether his idea could be successful, but if he could really go beyond this step, what would happen when people discovered other worlds outside the naked eye?
Although it is only in the north and only in the coldest months, even so, the progress brought by transparent containers to scientific research is extremely important.
Of course, it is impossible to go far by taking advantage of this trick.
If you want real progress in technology, you still need to find the right materials, have the right technology, and then honestly climb the technology.
Li Tai was very inspired by Li Chunfeng, so he promised that Li Chunfeng would soon send what he needed.
However, with the arrival of winter, not only will the canals be frozen in Youzhou, but even Youzhou itself is very likely to be blocked in the roads under heavy snow. Li Tai felt that it was time for him to find Gao Jifu.
Before winter comes, I will trick people around Youzhou to come to Tianjin to move bricks and clear snow.
Even if the port cannot be repaired by the end of this year due to ice and snow, the roads can be repaired as much as possible before talking about it.
At the same time, the coal mines in Youzhou also require a lot of labor to work. They will definitely build supporting facilities well so that they will not let their lives in mining in winter.
Fortunately, I have rich experience in winter homework, at least I will not die in Chang'an.
The only thing that is unclear is how cold the wind and snow here in the north are.
Li Tai rode his horse and took people to Youzhou City because he really didn't understand why he always encountered a lack of labor force if he wanted to do something.
Now that the autumn harvest is coming, the people are free, and they should be in good condition.
At the same time, Gao Jifu completed the transaction between the King of Yan and the Youzhou family as an intermediary, which was also considered as a link with the families of all sizes in Youzhou.
Now that the autumn harvest is over, I can also use these aristocratic families to allow the people to serve labor service.
This is a national policy, but because the government cannot manage the grassroots, it is necessary for aristocratic families or local tycoons to come forward to support it.
Gao Jifu understood that during this process, the aristocratic families would pass on their corvee labor to ordinary people, but how could the people refuse?
They could only grit their teeth and complete the labor service. Let's talk about it after this year.
"Changshi Gao, I'm here to visit you!" Just as Gao Jifu was thinking about it, Li Tai's voice came from the doorman.
Gao Jifu felt a faint pain in his temple, after all, the King of Yan was so good at doing things.
But what can I do! I want to refuse too!
But for Gao Jifu, his main responsibility is to supervise Li Tai, and Youzhou Chief Shi is the deputy.