Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 163 "Competing for Benefits with the People"

After Zeng Mu finished handling the matters in Liulinli, he got into the carriage with Zhao Chen and Wang Xue, and traveled from Gaochang City to Shazhou City, preparing to attend the Shazhou Conference.

This Shazhou meeting can also be said to have started because of Zeng Mu. Although the ownership issue of Liulinli has not been resolved, the Shazhou governor's office has still drawn a road for Liulinli to pass through.

Zeng Mu's speed was very fast, and he immediately invited the player construction team. A spacious road crossed the willow forest.

And Zhao Chen and Wang Xue came out of the laboratory to sell their freshly purified salicylic acid product.

Zeng Mu was sitting in the carriage, still feeling dizzy. When Zhao Chen and Wang Xue, a couple of players, approached him and asked Zeng Mu to help sell the medicine they had just produced in their laboratory, Zeng Mu readily agreed. .

Originally, Zeng Mu thought that Zhao Chen and Wang Xue were also engaged in medicinal planting like other players.

The cultivation of medicinal materials is highly profitable, but it also takes time to grow, and it can be regarded as a long-term high-end agricultural project.

So Zeng Mu granted them [-] acres of land at once, but he didn't expect these two players to build a laboratory with only [-] acres of land, and then there was no land for farming.

But at that time, Zeng Mu had already been involved in a lawsuit with the Dong family, and had no time to deal with these two players, so he let them toss about.

But unexpectedly, Zhao Chen and Wang Xue suddenly came to the door and told Zeng Mu that they had already produced salicylic acid in the laboratory.

"Salicylic acid? What kind of medicinal material is this?" Zeng Mu was stunned for a moment. The couple had been working in the laboratory for almost a month, and they came up with a medicine that he hadn't mentioned, and they even wanted to help sell it. .

Zhao Chen thought for a while and said, "Well, salicylic acid is the raw material of aspirin, and it is also the part of aspirin that can work."

Now Zeng Mu stood up suddenly and said, "What! You made aspirin?"

Although Zeng Mu is a liberal arts student, he also knows the great reputation of aspirin. This drug is still a very important analgesic and anti-inflammatory drug, and it is still a very popular drug!
If aspirin can be made in Datang, wouldn't it be a waste of money?
Zhao Chen quickly said, "It's the active ingredient in aspirin. Aspirin's main drug ingredient is acetylsalicylic acid, but with the current technology, there is no way to acetylate salicylic acid, so we can only produce salicylic acid."

Zeng Mu quickly asked, "Then what's the difference between taking salicylic acid and aspirin?"

Zhao Chen scratched his head and said, "Salicylic acid has irritating side effects on the esophagus and stomach, but the physical and chemical principles of the drug are the same. Salicylic acid also has an analgesic and anti-inflammatory effect."

Zeng Mu asked excitedly: "Does that mean that salicylic acid and aspirin have the same therapeutic effect? ​​Just a little side effect?"

Zhao Chen nodded, then shook his head and said, "It's not a small side effect. Taking salicylic acid directly will greatly stimulate the esophagus and stomach. That's why the last aspirin is not salicylic acid, but acetylsalicylic acid. .”

Now Zeng Mu is even more excited, aspirin, this is the longest-used analgesic and anti-inflammatory drug in human history!

He quickly asked: "How is your current output?"

At this time, Zhao Chen said: "We mainly extract salicylic acid from willow bark and branches, and we can make about one hundred effective salicylic acid pills every day."

"One hundred? It seems a little less, can you expand the production capacity?"

Zhao Chen shook his head and said, "The two of us work more than ten hours a day to produce so much salicylic acid."

"Then why don't the people in the willow forest do it?"

Speaking of this, Zhao Chen sighed and said: "We also tried to let the people in Liulin do it, but they have no mathematical foundation, and there is no way to achieve the operation accuracy required for the experiment."

So, Zeng Mu quickly asked: "That is to say, if we can increase the manpower, can we increase the production?"

"Of course, there are quite a lot of willow trees in the willow forest, and the purification efficiency of our laboratory method is also very high. As long as we have more people, we will definitely be able to increase the production."

Zeng Mu immediately said excitedly: "This is no problem, isn't it just manpower? Let's go to the post this time and find some young people who can write and count, and we will definitely meet your requirements!"

Yixiali is also his territory, but now Yixiali is entrusted to be managed by an indigenous villager. Zeng Mu will go to Shazhou this time, and he will also go to Yixiali to solve the backlog of Yixiali. .

Zeng Mu had already set up a night school in Yixiali. Even after he left Yixiali, he invited another six-test player to teach the villagers in Yixiali.

I heard from that player that nowadays a few smart children can already recognize commonly used Chinese characters and can do simple calculations.

These villagers who have a basic literacy foundation, as long as they are well trained, they will definitely be able to complete simple chemical experiments.

Zeng Mu said ambitiously: "We rely on mountains to eat mountains, and rely on water to eat water. We finally have our own competitive products in Liulin! With salicylic acid and other magic drugs, I can also compete for No. 1 in this territorial development competition." It's a fight!"

Next, Zeng Mu took Zhao Chen and Wang Xue to Shazhou to attend the Shazhou Conference.

This time, Zeng Mu also wanted to promote the magical medicine of aspirin in Shazhou. He asked Zhao Chen to put the pills into beautiful bottles, put a label on them, and take them on the carriage to Shazhou.

Sitting on the carriage, Wang Xue looked at the official road being widened and asked, "Brother Zeng, why are roads being built everywhere?"

Zeng Mu pulled down the curtain of the carriage and said, "It's not that the plan to build the railway has been put on hold for the time being. Everyone is widening the official road now."

"Why is the railway on hold?"

"It's still too much opposition from the players. Iron is too valuable these days. Now that the Bafu is short of money, all the iron in the Dashuixia Iron Works has been made into iron, so now we are only planning to build the section from Shazhou to Dangjinshan Pass. The experimental railway between Guazhou-Shazhou-Gaochang still has to take the official road.”

"Recently, the commerce and trade in the three states has developed, so the village chiefs who are close to the official road connected in the forum and decided to widen the official road so that more goods can be transported. This is beneficial to all players."

Zeng Mu said again: "It's a pity that it's just rammed earth. Now the output of the cement workshop is enough to repair houses in the city. It's too extravagant to build roads with cement."

"It would be great if there was asphalt, but we have found oil, and even if we find oil, it is still far away from the technology to industrially manufacture asphalt. Let's use this earth compacted road first, which is economical."

However, the earth-rammed road was already good enough for horse-drawn carriages, and the business of the horse-drawn carriage shop was getting better and better, and Zeng Mu also made a lot of money from investing in it.

Like Yixiali, there were many rest areas on the side of the road. When the carriage drove into a rest area, some villagers brought hot water and hot meals. Zeng Mu also got off the carriage and stretched his body.

Zeng Mu wandered around the rest area, and found that the people staying in the rest area were all discussing the matter of the Shazhou Conference.

Zeng Mu did not expect that a controversy that originated in Gaochang would have such a great influence.

In the same rest area, Hu merchant Hu Bayi heard that the Shazhou meeting was going to be held in Gaochang City, so he decided to go to Shazhou to attend.

Hubayi's original business was to sell silk to Shule City, and then bought spices from Shule City to sell to Shazhou.

Now there is still war in the pass, and the spices from the Western Regions cannot be sold.

Originally, Hubayi could buy silk in Guazhou or Jiuquan and sell it to Western Region merchants, but I heard that the government in Jiuquan has posted a notice that private merchants are not allowed to sell silk cloth. All Western Region merchants want to buy silk. Buy them at the government weaving bureau.

The quality and price of silk in the Weaving Bureau is high. If you buy from the Weaving Bureau, Hubayi will have no profit at all.

Hu Bayi didn't buy silk at all, but took a risky short-distance business, selling ironware from Guazhou to Gaochang City, unexpectedly making a fortune.

Guazhou iron is high-quality and durable, and it is very popular in Gaochang City. Hubayi's goods are sold out.

The ironware in Guazhou was also sold by the Iron Affairs Bureau under the command of King Jianning, but the price was about the same as the ironware in Guannei, and the quality was much higher.

Hearing that there are many new products in Shazhou city, Hubayi came to attend the Shazhou meeting on the one hand, and inspect the market in Shazhou on the other hand.

Hu Bayi is a businessman from the Western Regions. His ancestors were from the Shule country. They started doing business in Longyou only after their family became Sinicized.

There are many small countries in the Western Regions, and Hubayi naturally has his family's way of survival.

When the Tang Dynasty was strong, they naturalized the Tang Dynasty to learn Chinese. Now that Hubayi is planning to move his family to Shazhou, it is natural to see what the policy of King Jianning is.

At the same time, a kind of speech is quietly brewing. The "virtuous literature" that already has the right to speak is making speeches in the three states of Shazhou, Guazhou and Xizhou.

In Shazhou and Guazhou, where the Great Suo Maung Reading has been conducted, the powerful families who were suppressed by King Jianning are gradually speaking out in support of these "virtuous literature" remarks.

This remark is that the imperial court controls "mountains, rivers, mines" and monopolizing salt and iron is "competing with the people for profit".

It will be even more detrimental to the overlord's mansion of King Jianning if the hat of competing for profit with the people is removed.

However, there is still a market for such a statement. Nowadays, the "virtuous literature" in Shazhou City has gradually formed the pressure of public opinion, asking His Royal Highness King Jianning to open the "Shanchuanze Mine" to the people, and open the salt and iron officials monopolized by the government. camp.

In addition to attacking the policy of Jianning Wangbafu to firmly control the salt iron and mountains, rivers and mines, this group of "virtuous literature" also attacked Jianning Wangbafu's policy of establishing and encouraging the development of industry and commerce.

They put forward that agriculture is the foundation of the country, and they need to emphasize agriculture while restraining industry and commerce, and put agriculture in the most important position.

(End of this chapter)