Nine hundred and thirtieth chapters method of boiling salt
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"Fang Qiao, please prepare, I am going to give Wang Junlin a secret order." Yang Guang said in a deep voice.
Fang Qiao said quickly: "I obey your order."
Yu Shiji watched Fang Qiao prepare, and couldn't help but thought to himself: "It seems that the relationship between Wang Junlin and Fang Qiao is not as cold as it seems on the surface. Fang Qiao went around in a big circle today probably just to give Wang Junlin Ask for this secret edict! Well...if I sell the secret edict to the Lu family, I wonder how much money I can get for it?"
"I have long heard that the Lu family is as rich as the country, but they take great care of the people of Fanyang County. Even their tenants turn in less food than other nobles. I have never understood how they can be as rich as the country. , now it seems that Lu's money was stolen from my salt tax, and he really deserves death."
At this juncture, Yang Guang was most concerned about the court's tax revenue. Whichever county paid less tax might be severely punished. Similarly, whichever county paid more taxes might be praised, and even the chief official might be promoted.
The reason for this is very simple: the current financial situation of the Sui Empire is extremely optimistic. Whether it is the emperor's private treasury or the court's finance, although they are not exhausted, they are all stretched.
In the four or five years since Yang Guang came to the throne, the rebellion in Bingzhou began. It took four to five months, mobilized 200,000 troops, and spent countless money and food. After that, the Great Wall, the new capital, the straight road, and the Chi Road were built. road, building the Grand Canal...etc., each of which costs a lot of money.
In short, Yang Guang recently discovered that if he wanted to achieve an imperial career like the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty, he not only needed great talents and strategies, but also needed the assistance of many outstanding civil servants and military generals. He also needed a lot of money. He has ordered several additional oral gifts. , triggered widespread complaints among the people. The tax has already been collected at one stone per mu. Even Yang Guang, who has never cared about the life and death of the people, knows that it is impossible to add more taxes, otherwise the people will have no way to survive. That will really force the government. People.Revolt.
Ever since, in order to continue his ambitions and maintain a huge empire. Since he ascended the throne,
, Yang Guang, who spent money lavishly, had to start paying attention to tax matters and tried his best to find money everywhere. He even thought of finding an excuse to wipe out a certain family. These families had been together for hundreds or even thousands of years. The savings made them as rich as the rest of the country, and they could do a lot of things with the money they got from ransacking their homes.
Why is it that the other four counties of Donghai have more than 500,000 taels of silver in salt tax each year, while Fanyang County only has 200,000 taels of silver? Not to mention what happened before, this alone is enough to make Yang Guang cruel to the Lu family, because in Yang Guang's eyes, At this time, the white salt of the East China Sea is no longer white salt, but silver!
Thinking of this, Yang Guang suddenly realized that it was very appropriate to send Wang Junlin to Fanyang County as the prefect. He believed that Wang Junlin would not let him down after his secret decree was passed to Wang Junlin.
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Wang Junlin was at the beach looking at the sea at this time. He was inspecting the salt fields today. Fanyang County uses seawater to cook salt, so the salt fields are naturally on the seaside.
The smelly wind of seaweed blew his hair. Looking around, the blue ocean occupied most of his field of vision. The waves surged, as if the sun, moon and stars were all out of it. He felt so spectacular that it swept away the lump in his chest!
But his eyes did not stay on the sea for too long. Most of his attention was always on the connected salt fields on the beach, which were divided into quite square blocks. Beside him, Xu Xiaohu led five salt fields with the most experience.
The salt workers in the salt workers have been tanned by the sun. They have been malnourished since childhood, which makes them look thin. However, long-term labor has made their bodies very strong. However, they are only in their forties, but they look like they are fifty years old.
Sixty years old.
"Don't worry about the method of boiling salt. I will provide you with a method later that is simpler and more efficient than the previous method of boiling salt." Wang Junlin looked at the five people and pointed to the salt fields: "But I need
Five people who are qualified to learn this method and become master craftsmen, you might as well share your views on the salt farm and cooking salt, this can be regarded as my interview assessment for you."
When the five people heard this, their bodies trembled. From being a salt worker to being a master craftsman, for them, this was no less than a carp jumping over the dragon's gate or a scholar becoming the top scholar. One of the salt workers was the first to report: "Your Majesty, Fanyang County Salt Farm
The salt production is getting less and less year by year. In addition to a lot of salt being sold privately, there are three reasons."
"Oh! What's your name? Tell me." Wang Junlin became interested and took a closer look at this person. He found that his eyes were full of vicissitudes of life, but he did have a shrewd look. Wang Junlin and this era
The nobles regard the common people as untouchables. He knows very well that among the lowly and humble, there will be bright pearls and hidden heroes, and even hidden heroes. If there is such a person among the tens of thousands of salt workers, he will never be stingy in promoting and promoting him.
nourish.
When the prefect asked his name, the salt worker said excitedly: "Sir, my name is Liu Yanlang. Including my generation, my ancestors have been working as salt workers in the salt field for four generations. What the villain said
There are two reasons. One is that pirates harassed the seaside, which caused unrest on the seaside. The other is that the salt workers and salt slaves were deducted from their wages by the master craftsmen and had no motivation, so the output was reduced. The third is that Fanyang County has been boiling the sea to make salt for more than a thousand years, so that
When firewood along the coast is exhausted, firewood needs to be transported from farther places, and the cost will be very high..."
Wang Junlin nodded and expressed his appreciation for what Liu Yanlang said. Liu Yanlang was right. Sea salt these days is basically obtained by boiling it. It is said that the person who first invented this was called "Susha"
”, he is a Lai Yijun chief.
Legend has it that Susha was addicted to eating. When he was cooking clams in a clay pot at the beach, he accidentally boiled the water dry. As a result, he got a layer of crystallized sea salt at the bottom of the pot. He reached out and tasted it, and from then on, he had a taste of sea water.
How to boil salt.
Three days ago, when Wang Junlin came to the salt field, he saw from a distance that there were ditches that introduced the seawater during the tide into the large dug pool. The salt workers and salt slaves carried barrels of seawater to fry them.
There are two rows of stoves buried in the ground. There are pottery cauldrons on the stoves. People are constantly bringing firewood to cook the sea day and night. The entire seaside is billowing with smoke... In order to keep the master craftsman always
To master the core technology of boiling salt, salt workers and salt slaves are not allowed to enter the stove to watch.
Of course, no one could stop Wang Junlin from taking a look. When he inspected the next day, he went in to take a look and found that the method was similar to boiling sugar. He first cooked high-concentration brine in a large cauldron and then transferred it to a small cauldron.
Finally, you get a white hemisphere, which is the fried pot salt, and then smash it into pieces to become sea salt sold in bulk.
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