Destiny Only Han

Chapter 199 Odd and Even Changes

"Hey! Hey! Hey..."

In the barren hills to the west of Fushun County, more than a dozen craftsmen with big arms and round waists were divided into two groups and stepped on a pestle.

Under the action of the lever principle, the pestle head is tilted up, and the filing tool is rapidly impacted downward by its own gravity.

When the rock was crushed by the hammer, a craftsman directed another craftsman to pour water into it, mix the crushed rock into mud, and then lift it out with other tools.

Ji Xin stood aside, watching nervously.

Although he is full of confidence in Liu Ying, in his inherent impression, things like salt are all sea salt from the ground, and he has never seen salt dug from the ground...

But with doubts in his heart, he was still carrying out Liu Ying's plan to the letter.

In the distance, there are more than a dozen construction sites that are exactly the same as here.

According to the engineer's judgment, these places are all places where salt wells are dug.

As long as you can pass through the rock formation and come into contact with the brine, you can get a steady stream of table salt!

And with this salt, it means that the business in the entire southwest region will be revitalized.

Leading soldiers into the mountains to hunt may not be able to catch slaves, and what is entering is their home field. It is not certain who is the prey and who is the hunter!

But under the guarantee of strong force and fair trade, they can get everything they want stably.

With the help of this kind of trade, trading posts can be continuously set up in the places where the savages live, and then connected by roads, posthouses and small residential areas and garrison points serving the trading posts can be set up.

After that, it continued along the road and widened to both sides.

From point to line, from line to surface, the great integration of the nation is finally realized.

However, Liu Ying had another plan in mind.

Five one project.

A country, a nation, a language, a character, a royal family...

When Ji Xin was worried about gains and losses, an engineer took a sip of the muddy water that had just been brought in, and was overjoyed.

"Salt is out!"

Under his unrestrained shouting, the whole construction site began to boil.

Here, it will be the center of Dahan Southwest Salt Trading Co., and Ji Xin promised them before that they will work in the salt well, take a bath every four days, and pay [-] yuan a day!

They have inquired about it from other places, digging canals near Chengdu, working hard every day, and only paying fifteen dollars a day!

They are not afraid of being tired and hard, as long as they have enough money, they will be like cows and horses!

Ji Xin ran forward and found that the muddy water was salty and bitter, which seemed to be the brine that Liu Ying had mentioned before.

But, they have just started working within a day, and they have produced salt?

He looked at the engineer suspiciously, and saw that the other party said with a happy face: "The brine layer here has never been excavated, and it is extremely shallow! According to my experience, the dozen or so places where wells are dug will be cleared within a day or two." Salt out!"

The engineer looked at the vast wilderness in the distance, and waved his hand: "Not only this, those places are all treasures with brine layers! If they are all drilled with salt wells, it will be enough for the whole world to eat!"

Ji Xin opened his eyes wide: "That is to say, with the well salt here, the people of the Han Kingdom no longer need to buy salt from Hedong at a high price?"

The high-priced salt he mentioned refers to the Puban salt pond in Hedong, which is the place where the Yellow Emperor and Chi You fought.

In fact, if you look at it from another angle, the war between the emperor and Chi You probably broke out because of the salt pond here.

After all, at this time in the Central Plains, the sea salt transported from the coast of the East China Sea was still unavailable.

Therefore, whoever controls the salt here has the capital to control other tribes.

After all, neither human nor livestock can live without salt!

Hearing Ji Xin's words, the engineer nodded first, then shook his head.

Ji Xin was a little puzzled: "Huh? What does this mean?"

The engineer sighed slightly: "The salt here is enough to feed the whole world, and all of it needs to be dug out... And this requires a lot of manpower and material resources. According to my experience, it requires a million people..."

Ji Xin was taken aback: "So many people?"

The engineer nodded: "The dug out is just brine, and it needs to be boiled before it can be turned into salt, and boiling requires countless firewood, and this firewood needs countless people to cut down, and Planting...and this is where the most manpower is needed."

After hearing his words, Ji Xin's face was full of sorrow.

If it was only because of the fuel problem, then he was not worried at all.

According to what Liu Ying said, there are still many coal mines distributed here, as well as a gas that can burn, although it can't be seen or touched!
Well, low pressure natural gas.

As early as hundreds of years ago, the salt wells in the Zigong area began to use this gas to cook salt. The raw material for transporting natural gas is also very simple, that is, pipes made of bamboo and wood, also called "pipe pipes" and "pipe pipes".

The pipeline that transports brine is called brine, and the pipeline that transports natural gas is called gas pan.

After the bamboo joints are connected with tenons, they are tied with bamboo hoops, and then scraped and pasted with putty to prevent rainwater from infiltrating and brine from seeping out, which is used to prolong the service life of the pipes.

After a brief understanding, Ji Xin decided to act according to the plan given by Liu Ying when he left.

Settle the immigrants first, and after simply opening up the farmland, dig the well salt, and exchange the prepared salt with the surrounding savages for slaves.

After that, let the old and weak in the immigrant's family supervise and guide the slaves in farming. All the strong and strong in Fushun County will naturally go all out to mine well salt.

Next, repeat the above process.

Step by step, step by step, let this place become the center of the entire Southwest!

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"Hey……"

In Yueyang Palace, Liu Ying was squatting on the ground and taking pictures with her loli, when she suddenly heard an ethereal and distant voice, which seemed to ring in her ears.

"Hey……"

Liu Ying looked up, and saw a ten-year-old little girl carved in pink and jade standing in front of her. Although she hadn't fully grown up yet, she already looked a little bit of a beauty.

This is exactly his concubine, Xu negative.

First of all, I don't say hello... Liu Ying looked directly at the other party, with a childish innocence on her face, and whispered casually: "Palace Yuye Wine..."

Xu negative on the opposite side was stunned and frowned slightly. She didn't say the secret signal as Liu Ying expected.

Could it be the senior who crossed over before that... Liu Ying continued to mutter in a low voice as if unwilling to give up: "Odds change and even remain the same..."

Xu Negative was still confused, but looked at Liu Ying with a little pity.

This, can't be a fool...

She recalled everything about Liu Ying that she had secretly inquired about.

Blessed by a stranger, a talent from heaven...

Now that I think about it, it is very likely that it is the product of Lu Zhi's packaging that I saw that day.

After all, Liu Bang was the Marquis of Wu'an before, and the King of Han after that, so the battle for his sons is very fierce!
Although she looked at Liu Ying with pity, but her heart was full of ecstasy.

Fool, better control!
And she is very sure that with her help, the other party can inherit Liu Bang's position, and with the palace fighting skills taught by her mother these days, she is fully confident that she will become the crown princess, and queen!

Thinking of those round pearls that Lu Zhi wore on his head that day, Xu negative's heart was full of fire.

These are all the ceremonial guards that the queen should have, and they are directly taken from the national treasury!
You don't spend your money at all!

It seems that she is not... Liu Ying looked at the other party up and down, feeling a little depressed in her heart. He had heard some legends about Xu negative in his later life, such as that Deng Tong and Zhou Yafu would starve to death.

Now it seems that maybe it was just a coincidence.

As for the 'Mingyu Tinghou' mentioned in the encyclopedia...

As we all know, the title of "Tinghou" only existed in the Eastern Han Dynasty, such as the famous Hanshou Tinghou.

It is absolutely impossible for the people of the Western Han Dynasty to obtain the titles of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Although Liu Ying felt a little rejoiced, she was actually frustrated.

If Xu negative is really a time traveler, then his daily life will not be so lonely.

Moreover, one person counts the shortcomings and the other two have the skills. With a partner who knows the basics, it will be more effective to check for omissions and make up for omissions.

However, the good-looking face of the other party completely made up for the above-mentioned defects.

Humans, after all, are visual animals.

As for the so-called turning off the lights, they all look the same...

Ha ha.

The gap between the three-point girl and the seven-point girl is deeper than the Mariana Trench!
When Liu Ying and Xu Negative looked at each other, Liu Le silently turned around and turned his back to Xu Negative.

Although Lu Zhi said, let her play with each other as much as possible.

But she is full of resistance to this.

It's not just that the other party is prettier than her, but more importantly, she played dice with Xu Negative before, and the other party won her many toys!

Moreover, the other party is one of Liu Ying's future wives.

Little Lolita suddenly felt that this was a bad woman who robbed her younger brother!
Therefore, it is a very normal thing not to like to play with each other.

"play together?"

Liu Ying held up the picture in her hand. It was a literary work of some mythological characters that he had printed on unqualified paper.

I am bored today, so I relive childhood memories with my loli.

Xu Negative looked at Liu Ying's dirty little hands, then at the flawless white gauze skirt on his body, still kept looking at a fool, and shook his head silently.

"Then why are you looking for me?"

After Liu Ying re-borrowed a few pictures of Little Lolita, she looked at Xu Negative curiously.

Xu Negative hesitated for a long time, and finally found an excuse: "My mother made some mung bean cakes and asked me to send them to the palace for the queen to taste..."

She would not say that she wanted to take this opportunity and come to the palace to see if there was any chance to make money.

After all, she might go out to sea to find immortals one day in the future.

So money, the more the better!
"Have you sent it?"

Liu Ying asked without raising her head.

Xu negative replied subconsciously: "Not yet."

"That's right, I'm hungry, bring me two..."

Liu Ying looked at her dusty hands, then at her playful loli, and said in a commanding tone: "My hands are dirty, feed me."

Little Lolita's eyes lit up, she licked her face and said, "I want it too!"

Xu Negative Fen clenched his fists tightly. Although he was angry, he still walked forward slowly, squatted down, and began to feed...

(End of this chapter)