Red House Shoufu

Chapter 16 Holy Grace
Lin Shu's sun-dried salt method is different from the traditional decocted salt method.

The manufacture of sea salt before the Song Dynasty was all out of decoction.Sea salt is to scrape the soil and drench the brine, and take the brine and burn the firewood to boil the salt.

The method and utensils of sea salt pan frying have undergone the replacement of Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and there is no obvious difference.Decocting salt consumes a lot of firewood and is labor-intensive.

Since the Song Dynasty, sea salt has been sun-dried. Due to technical reasons, the effect is not very good, so decocted salt is still more than sun-dried salt.

The method Lin Shu developed was mentioned in a popular science program he watched in his previous life, the method of the ditch and beach during the Guangxu period in the late Qing Dynasty.

This method only needs to spread the beach silt that has been exposed to the sun and dried on the ground, pour sea water to filter it, and after repeated several times, the brine with high salt content is left.

The brine is then stored in a sun-dried salt pond, and the water is evaporated by sunlight, and the brine crystallizes to become salt.On cloudy days, the method of boiling salt can also be used in this step. Not only the purity of the obtained salt is higher, but also the time for salt production is greatly shortened compared to directly boiling seawater.

Compared with the production of boiled salt, the method of sun-drying salt in ditches and beaches can greatly increase the production, and the entire salt field near the beach can be used.

The explanation in the brochure is very detailed, even Geng Xiangnan, a layman, can roughly come to the conclusion that after the implementation of this law, it is afraid that the emperor's money bag will be completely inflated.

And Lin Shu, who proposed this method, will instantly become the emperor's confidant from an insignificant move, and simplicity is never an exaggeration in the emperor's heart.

Lin Shu added: "This method needs to be close to the sea, and it depends on whether Mr. Geng is willing to change his position."

Getting the affirmation from Lin Shu, Geng Xiangnan also became excited, it doesn't matter if he is in Yangzhou or not, as long as he succeeds in making salt, maybe he can return to Beijing for his meritorious service.

"Lin Jieyuan, you have done me a great favor. Please also ask Lin Jieyuan to write a report and record the matter in detail. Together with this booklet, it needs to be sent to the capital as quickly as possible, and the matter in Yangzhou is also important. I need to deal with it. Time is tight, and I ask Lin Jieyuan for your understanding."

Geng Xiangnan's eyes were full of light, and he wished he could fly to the capital now and spread this booklet on the emperor's desk, so that he couldn't see the tiredness before.

He urged Lin Shu to write a thick stack of reports on the spot, put them away carefully, and then bid farewell to Lin Shu and prepared to return to Yangzhou.

After sending Geng Xiangnan out of the mansion, Lin Shu heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the figure leaving in Juechen: Yang Xueli, Yang Xueli, aren't you looking for trouble with my family?Then I will give you a big gift.I would like to see, without these [-] salt households, how can the salt farms in Yangzhou still produce salt?

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Eight hundred miles of urgent documents, even if there is no real journey of eight hundred miles a day, on the eighth day of October, the secret memorial of Geng Xiangnan, a thousand households of Qianhu Office of Embroidery Guards in Yangzhou, was delivered to the emperor's desk.

Gao Yongheng, the current Emperor of Great Chu, is the third son of Supreme Emperor Gao Rushao.

Since the Supreme Emperor took his throne five years ago, except for the first year when the Supreme Emperor was seriously ill, he had tasted the taste of power. With the improvement of the Supreme Emperor's health, Longshou Palace once again regained nearly half of the rights.

Unwilling to be a puppet, the emperor also challenged his father sitting in the Dragon Head Palace, causing the relationship between the father and son to be very tense.

Gao Yongheng, known for his diligence, saw the secret box of the embroidered guard with the unicorn painted on it at a glance, opened it and read it carefully.

Regarding the matter of Yangzhou, both the chief envoy and the Yangzhou government sent urgent reports. He was very dissatisfied with Yang Xueli, the new Yangzhou inspector and censor.

But this person was sent by the Supreme Emperor, and he was backed by the Jin Party, so he was really difficult to deal with for a while.

Just as Lin Shu thought, people manage Yanhu according to the ancestral system, and the "untouchables" are difficult to tame, so what does it matter to me, Yang Xueli?

When I saw Geng Xiangnan's mention, Lin Ruhai's heir, Nanzhili Jinke Xieyuan Linshu has a method of drying salt, which can replace the traditional method of boiling, and sea salt can replace lake salt and well salt.It not only consumes less, produces more, and has a shorter cycle, it can open up salt farms along the coast and get rid of the Yangzhou system.

Picking up Lin Shu's papers again, Zanhua Xiaokai is very pleasing to the eye, with clear ideas and detailed methods, and even pointed out several places suitable for setting up saltworks.

At the end, there was a passage that caught his heart: "Since your Majesty came to the throne, he has abolished bad governance and punished corrupt officials. The people have heard that they are called saints, but they are restrained everywhere and cannot benefit the world. If this method is implemented, the people will get cheap salt. The national treasury will be enriched, and your majesty will be named the Holy Son of Heaven. Eighty thousand salt households are waiting for your majesty's favor, and the students look north to the holy will, and bow their heads!"

"Okay, good, good, Lin Shu is the great talent of the country. Xia Shouzhong, send this statement to the cabinet..."

The emperor was overjoyed. A Yangzhou salt administration had troubled him for so many days, and finally he had a solution.

He immediately wanted the cabinet to draft a decree and show it to the father and emperor of Longshou Palace, leaving those moths of the country, he still has great talents to use.

However, Xia Shouzhong reminded: "Your Majesty, Lin Jieyuan's method has not yet been proven, so why don't you find a place to try it quietly first?"

The emperor also calmed down, walking up and down the hall with a note.It's not just a matter of experimentation. If the sun-dried salt method is successful, Jiangnan, Shu and even Shanxi salt will be hit.

And these people standing behind absolutely do not want cheap sea salt to flood Dachu.Not only will Lin Shu who proposed this method become a thorn in the eyes of those people, but the resistance to implementing the sun-salting method will also become very large.

"My lord, you can transfer Geng Xiangnan to work in a place suitable for opening up saltworks. You can send another confidant to be the parent officer. Let's try quietly first."

Xia Shouzhong carefully proposed the suggestion, and the emperor thought it was good after hearing it, but what about the [-] salt households?What excuse do I need to use to transfer over?

By the way, in recent years, Japanese pirates have been rampant, and the sea area has been continuously invaded. They used Yanhu as the crime, pretended to convict them and sent them to the army, enriched the sea area to prepare Japanese guards, and transferred them to the opened salt field.

As for the Yangzhou Salt Farm, hum, what does the trouble caused by you, Yang Xueli, have to do with me?

The emperor made up his mind and began to consider suitable candidates.Originally, Lin Shu was thought to be the most suitable person, but firstly, he hadn't formally entered the official position, and secondly, he was still in mourning period, so he had to find another person.

"Big Companion, how do you think I should reward Lin Shu?" The emperor wrote down a name on the paper, and then asked happily.

Xia Shouzhong replied respectfully: "Until the method of drying salt has not been implemented and there is no result, the emperor should not let Lin Shu be exposed. It is better to reward Lin's daughter in the name of benevolent Lin Zhongzheng's orphan."

"That's right. Although Lin Ruhai didn't serve me loyally during his lifetime, he made contributions to the imperial court, established himself as a public servant, and was well-known. The only orphan girl was plotted against by the Rongguo Mansion."

When the emperor talked about the Rongguo Mansion, a trace of sarcasm appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Everyone says that I am mean and ungrateful, so I will let people see that I will be kind to all those who have done everything for me and made contributions to the Great Chu. Zebei III Companion, proposed decree: Give Lin Ruhai's daughter, Rongjia County Lord..."

　Alas, I suddenly found that I had contact with time and space contacts, and I lost the mood of coding in an instant. I have only finished coding a chapter.

　　I will continue to do nucleic acid tomorrow, and I will continue to code when I come back.

　　By the way, friends, please follow up if you have nothing to do. I hope that this week's recommendation can be promoted, thank you everyone.

　　


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