Prince Consort Lu set off for Tianshui, Qinzhou early the next morning, somewhat reluctant to leave this gentle town and cornucopia.
"Your Majesty, please help me inquire about the situation in Guanzhong. If the war requires it, we who crawled out of the mountains of corpses and seas of blood cannot stay idle here." Cheng Chumo said boldly.
Huaiyu brought many specialties of Yanjing Village to Prince Consort Lu, including some pickled fish, bacon and ham from Zhangxian County, as well as the salt baby salt guagua here. Naturally, he also had to escort a batch of salt as a gift. This time
I also brought Baoyu brand fire salt bricks produced on a trial basis in Huaiyu, as well as snow grain salt, and some braised dried beans, etc.
"When I arrive at the Governor's Mansion this time, I will definitely ask everyone about the reward. If the reward is not overdue, we can't keep hearing nothing." Lu Huairang directly expressed everyone's expectations.
Everyone is looking forward to being rewarded for their military exploits.
"gone."
Lao Lu waved his hand, mounted his horse and led his troops down the Zhanghe River. Wang Sima followed him, as did a fleet of salt merchants. It was so majestic and lively.
Cheng Chumo and the others could only stand there and wave goodbye. They all had their duties now and were not allowed to leave the country without permission without official business. They were not allowed to go to Qinzhou either.
Returning to Yanjing Village, Huaiyu continued to work on his refined salt workshop. This refined salt workshop has ten salt pots. Each pot only produces two pots of thirty kilograms of salt a day. It only produces three hundred kilograms of salt a day, but the output
It's refined salt.
Unlike other kitchens that only have a thatched roof and are transparent on all sides, Huaiyu's salt workshop was specially built next to the Zhensi Yamen, far away from other kitchens, and it also had four high walls.
"The smoke and fire in the kitchen makes me impatient. Why don't you find two more suitable girls to take as concubines and let them go to the kitchen to master the secret method of refined salt."
Which powerful and wealthy man doesn't have three wives and four concubines, and who doesn't have hordes of servants and children?
As soon as they saw him, Ma Zhou and others came forward with a smile, "Congratulations, Erlang."
"It's good for us to be like this now." Huaiyu smiled.
Longzhou Qizhou, martial arts Xianyang Chang'an, eight hundred miles of plains, how to stop a hundred thousand Turkic cavalry?
The Turkic soldiers passed Huating, which is the valley of Longzhou. Following the valley, they can enter the Weihe Plain of Qizhou, which is already the Great Plain of Guanzhong.
"When the next batch of new salt comes out, the Fan family you sent to summon should also be here. Then let them pick up a batch to sell, as well as soap, soap, alkali and so on."
"Now he only thinks that I am purifying and refining for the second time, and does not know that there is a secret method. Besides, Prince Consort Lu is actually pretty good. Although he is a bit greedy, he still has a bottom line and loyalty. I am now cooperating with him.
, we can also win and benefit each other, and everyone gets what they need. Even if he knows that I have a secret method in the future, he is not stupid, and he will not do it by just turning the table over and smashing the bowl."
You don’t have to worry about selling good salt, but you still have to build a reputation, and you also have to rely on distributors. When the reputation grows in the future, you really don’t have to worry about it.
"More and more people have come to Yanjing Village recently, many of whom are hungry after the disaster. Don't you have 300 acres of Yongye farmland in Qinzhou? I plan to select some of them as villagers and arrange to build villages there. This land is also
It can't be left idle. It just so happens that I have recently bought a thousand acres of land, and I have to arrange it." Fan Xuanfu is really like a lady in charge now. In the past, she would never care about such matters as money and food for the manor.
, but now he is actively thinking about Huaiyu.
Huaiyu's confidence comes from the fact that he is not an ordinary hawker. Not to mention that he is now a person who has made meritorious deeds and is famous among the princes. The Wu family is also a three-gong family, not to mention the Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin and Li Jing families.
He also has a good relationship.
However, this is refined salt, so it must be a high-end route. "Then I will meet with salt merchants from various places in the past few days and give them some samples of fire salt bricks and snow grain salt."
"Well, thank you for your hard work."
Doubling the amount would only amount to 600 kilograms of salt a day, which is actually not much.
"How about I go pick some for you and bring them back. We have to have someone to help us in this courtyard. Then you can use whichever one you think you like."
Even if she hasn't proposed marriage yet, she already considers herself the hostess.
"Consort Lu, Cheng Dalang and even your brother have all taken concubines and bought maids in a short period of time. You are the only one in the house. What I did is wrong and I need to change it." Fan Xuanfu said seriously.
Huaiyu was greatly surprised when he heard what the green-robed angel said in the hall, "Is the situation in Guanzhong already so tense?"
Huaiyu left the merchants fighting there and quickly crossed the river to the county government office.
"Well, let's go in and see the angel."
He taught several slaves to handle several processes such as pulping and hand-burning, and each was responsible for a process. Among them, such as the ratio of pulp mixing, he was personally responsible for it. When he was not available, Fan Xuanfu took over.
"It's probably a good thing."
Her attitude put a lot of pressure on Huaiyu. On this matter, there was a big difference in the views of people of the two eras. It was natural for a wife to take concubines and buy maidservants for her husband in this era.
"Let's talk about this later." Huaiyu felt guilty talking to her about this.
Huating has always been an important place for defense. It is not far northeast of Longguan. In the eighth year of Wude, the imperial court asked Li Yi to send troops to garrison Danzheng Gorge and Huating.
"Do you know what's going on?"
Huaiyu now also has a lot of research on the topography of Guanlong. When he heard this, he knew that something was wrong. Although Fan Xing entered Binzhou, Yuchi Gong was behind him, blocking their way straight into Guanzhong along the Jinghe River Valley. But
The Turks all crossed Longshan and entered Jingzhou. Especially Li Yi refused to defend or fight, which left Jinglong's defense line full of loopholes.
"Erlang, Prince Consort Lu is back, and he has brought back the angel from Chang'an, asking you to hurry to the county government office." Hou San broke in and reported quickly in Huaiyu's ear.
Fan Xuanfu is very aware of the secret value of this precious jade salt. Others have to purify and refine it twice, but they can produce refined salt in one go. This saves a lot of time, manpower, firewood and other costs, and the benefits are huge. Especially for Huai.
Jade's fire salt bricks are even more unique, and they have a great competitive advantage in long-distance sales.
Huai Yi, Chu Mo and others had arrived a long time ago, and even Ma Zhou, Wu Junwei and others had arrived before him.
It was already late July, and half a month had passed since the battles between Huaiyu and his colleagues in Wuchuan and Xingxingchuan.
There are no other Shaoshou in the kitchen now. They are several slaves trained by Huaiyu himself. They were also slaves of the official salt workshop and knew how to cook salt. Huaiyu bought them and signed a contract to add them to his name.
I specially bought slaves for them and paired them up to get married.
Chai Shao was still a step too late.
Fan Xuanfu didn't have a good impression of Lu Huairang. He felt that this guy was just a playboy with no ambitions and only wanted to make money by eating, drinking and having fun.
"Um."
Fan Xuanfu is now the wife of Huaiyu. Although she has to dress as a man most of the time, she enjoys her current situation. She even sent a letter to Duke Rong to ask him to send someone over. Not only did he summon his sword maid,
He also asked the government to send a smart steward over here, which seems to indicate long-term development here.
He met with many salt merchants. As soon as the samples of fire salt bricks and snow salt were taken out, the eyes of these salt merchants were fixed. Their eyes were red with such good salt.
"Well, although General Fan led an army into Binzhou, took over Zhang Jin's Tianji Army and blocked the Turks' way, the Turks were heading west along the Ne River in Jingzhou towards Huating in Longzhou and entered Qian in Longzhou.
Water River Valley·······”
"Our salt factory now only cooks two stoves a day. How about we do two shifts day and night like other households? In this way, we can cook four stoves of salt a day and make an extra three hundred kilograms of salt a day." Fan Xuanfu saw that her husband didn't want to do it.
After talking about it, we decided to go back and choose first, then buy it.
The Turks entered Jingzhou from Yuanzhou along the Danzheng Gorge. Although they did not capture the cities of Jingzhou and Binzhou, they could follow the valley tunnels and directly reach Longzhou.
Huaiyu was a little confused by them, "Have you received the reward?"
The angel from Chang'an should have gone to Longyou to announce the award a long time ago, but when he was doing martial arts in the west of Beijing, he encountered a Turkic ranger and was unlucky to be hit by an arrow. He then rested in Qizhou for a few days, although he persisted
He came to Longyou to announce the decree, but he was injured and was not going very fast along the way.
Huaiyu held her hand and said, "Actually, it's good that we are like this now. It would be great if we spend more time together."
Chen Xing came over with a smile, "Master Wu!"
"Erlang just chooses the right girl. I'm serious. You won't be able to keep an eye on the salt factory in the future. I don't have the patience to take care of it. I'll leave it to those salt slaves. It's better to choose a few girls as concubines."
Then let them help carry groceries, manage accounts, etc., and also serve tea, pour water, make beds and fold quilts." Fan Xuanfu said it quite grandly, or based on the education she had received since childhood and the feudal environment she lived in, she felt that this was all
It's natural.
"Everyone, please take the crown prince's order."
Huaiyi came up and hugged him, patted him hard on the back, "Good thing." This Wu Dalang seemed to have been led astray by Lu Huairang, Cheng Chumo, Wu Junwei, Wang Da and other princes' sons in Zhang County recently.
They actually took in several concubines and maidservants, but they haven't found a real wife yet. As a result, the old Wu family can't wait to spread its branches here.
Wu Huaiyu was busy making refined salt and building a furnace to make alkali. He was also busy building a soap factory to prepare for the official launch of soap production. He was very busy.
Anyway, there is only one wife, and the rest are concubines, maids, and concubines. Their statuses are completely different and will not affect the status of the head wife.
"If you give him fire salt, snow salt, and sell it, aren't you afraid that he will covet your secret technique?"
When he was in Qizhou, he originally asked his deputy to come to Longyou first with the order. However, when the deputy was in Longzhou, he encountered a Turkic ranger coming from Jingzhou. The guy was even more unlucky. He was immediately surrounded and then became a prisoner.
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"Consort Lu is gone?"
When Huaiyu said he was willing to bring some samples to them, they almost started fighting on the spot, wanting to get more.
The relationship between Lu's consort and the Wu family can allow refined salt to enter the Chang'an market in Guanzhong, but in the areas south of Bashu Mountain, Longyou, Hexi, and even Dangxiang and Western Qiang areas, we must rely on traditional salt merchants to give them samples and let them carry some first.
Go to sales.
Naturally, this kind of secret method must be kept strictly confidential. In order not to leak it, it is best to use domestic slaves or maids and concubines. They are more reliable. Everyone is their own and completely dependent on their master.
The belated angel took out the Crown Prince's Order apologetically, and all the generals in Longyou who made meritorious service were rewarded heavily. Xue Wanche, who beheaded and captured the flag, and Wu Huaiyu were awarded the title of Duke of Jin County and the founding son of the country.
Huaiyu received great rewards, including being promoted to a higher rank, an eighth rank, a seventh rank, and a founding baron. However, what he did not expect was that although the imperial court did not change the rank of sixth rank hospital town general awarded to him by Chai Shao,
However, he was summoned to the north gate of Beijing to serve as chief minister.
Being promoted to the North Gate means that you will be on duty as a guard at the Xuanwu Gate of the capital for a long time. Is this equivalent to a secondment?
"Master Wu, General Cheng Tongjun, General Wubie, and Ma Shenjun, all of you who have received the order from the commander of the North Gate, are ordered to enter the capital immediately!"
