Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 186 Accidental Discovery

As Li Dejian sent these envoys away, Li Tai naturally returned to Tianjin City.

Because the pace of this era is quite slow, and the unified storage of grain also requires a lot of people who know how to calculate and calculate with their abacus.

After about a week or so, Wang Zhenru completed the statistics of the grain purchase and came to report to Li Tai.

"King Yan!" When Wang Zhenru saw Li Tai, he immediately saluted and reported to Li Tai.
"This time, we received a total of 33 shi of grain, all of which have been paid with silk and satin. This is the account book, please have a look at it, King Yan."

"Let's put it down, I'll find someone to settle it!" Li Tai nodded and said,

"However, I didn't expect there to be so much food. It was a bit unexpected. I thought it would be nice to have 20 shi of food in Youzhou!"

"Since the Eastern Turks were destroyed by our dynasty Li Jing Shangshu, the northern border has never been troubled.

Afterwards, the Bohai Navy was stationed in our Youzhou, and the decommissioned ships were supplied to Youzhou, and most of the fish from hunting were also sold to Youzhou, which was considered to solve the food problem of many people.

Besides, the past few years have been sunny, the country is prosperous and the people are peaceful, and every year is a year of good harvest. It is not surprising that the large and small families in Youzhou have stored so much food in their hands.

With you, a kind person like King Yan, to help them clean up the warehouse, they really wished for it.

Not to mention, they have invested a lot of money in the "Grass Seed Project", and now they have a chance to recover their blood, which is naturally better! "

Wang Zhenru said at the end, and added,

"In the final analysis, it is King Yan who is wise and far-reaching, laying the foundation for us to work in Youzhou.

We just did a little work that wasn't worth mentioning. "

Li Tai couldn't help but glance at Wang Zhenru, um, there is a future!
Then, Li Tai slowly said to Wang Zhenru, "Store up the food, it will be used soon."

"Huh?" Wang Zhenru was a bit at a loss when he heard Li Tai's words, and couldn't help asking,
"Does the King of Yan have other tasks? To teach the King of Yan to know that we still have a port between Tianjin and the Bohai Sea to be built.

There are also three roads in Tianjin, Tianjin City, and Tianjin Port that need to be repaired, and there will be no strength in a short time. "

Li Tai waved his hand and said to Wang Zhenru, "You worry too much, how could I use you to death like this.

You just deal with these two things one by one.

It's just that, since the food is fully harvested, it is natural to go to the next step, otherwise there is so much food, why put it in the warehouse! "

Wang Zhenru looked at Li Tai at this moment, but he didn't dare to say anything more.

Because Wang Zhenru, who had been with Li Tai in Gaoling, knew very well that King Yan is the kind of guy who likes to find trouble for nothing.

Especially when he had a lot of money, normal people would either save it or take it out to buy land, but King Yan liked to expand reproduction.

It seemed that if the sum of money was not spent, King Yan would feel uncomfortable all over.

However, since the King of Yan is so supportive, Wang Zhenru will not say anything more. What the King of Yan says, what should he do.

At this time, Li Chunfeng walked in quickly, with a proud face, excitedly said, "King Yan, crystallized, crystallized!"

Li Tai was slightly dazed when he heard Li Chunfeng's words, but he was in a daze.

It has been more than three months since the autumn harvest began in June. Although I have absolute confidence in the sun-dried salt method, it is Li Chunfeng who actually operates this matter, and finally the result has come out.

"Let's go to Yantian on horseback!" Li Tai said directly when he heard Li Chunfeng's words.

Li Chunfeng nodded, everyone did not delay, and soon came to Yanchi, one by one like a lake.

Li Chunfeng brought Li Tai to the smallest salt pond with an area of ​​only about [-] square meters, but saw that the bottom of the salt pond was covered with a layer of crystal white salt. Seeing this scene, Li Tai showed a satisfied smile , finally crystallized.

"It's finally crystallized!" Li Tai looked at the rough salt, finally heaved a sigh of relief, turned his head and said to Li Chunfeng,
"Chunfeng, how long will it take before we can really use this coarse salt?"

"According to this speed, it will take about another month to produce coarse salt. The first batch of table salt will take longer. As for the future, it depends on how strong the sun is and how strong the sea breeze is!" Li Chunfeng looked at Li Tai opened the mouth and said,

"However, this method of sun-dried salt only produces coarse salt, and the common people may not care about eating it, but if they eat too much, the common people will lose their hair, and they need to prepare brine, and use the brine method to slowly wash the salt inside. Impurities will do!"

"What do you need! As long as you want it, as long as I have it, I will configure it for you!" Li Tai said to Li Chunfeng with a big hand wave.

Li Chunfeng's eyes turned red when he heard Li Tai's words, that's why he was willing to follow Li Tai.

Because when Li Taizhen did something, he was never sober, but he really believed in himself, how dare he spend money on himself!

Li Tai continued, "I have agreed in advance that if the common people eat this kind of coarse salt, it will be harmful to the common people. You should find a way to remove the impurities in it, and use the salt I use as the standard. I will eat whatever salt the common people eat! "

"No!" Li Chunfeng replied extremely resolutely, "I will eat whatever salt comes out of this salt field in the future."

Li Tai nodded when he heard Li Chunfeng's assurance.

To be honest, compared with land salt, this sea salt still has a lot of impurities in the eyes of modern people.

Because of the technological constraints of this era, this is unavoidable.

But this kind of attitude that you dare to sell what you dare to use, even if there are impurities, can be gradually improved.

But after expressing his position, Li Chunfeng continued, "King Yan, I need a lot of manpower to continue to develop the salt field.

Especially after the salt has crystallized, the next treatment project needs to be carefully considered.

Therefore, I need the exclusive equipment made by Mokezi for the saltworks, as well as the special brine pool for brine to filter out the impurities in the sea salt.

In addition, the most important thing is that specialized salt specialists are needed to distinguish the difference between sea salt and land salt.

Distinguishing what is more or less in the ocean will allow us to understand sea salt in more detail and write the law of sea salt for it! "

Hearing Li Chunfeng's words, Li Tai couldn't help but twitched the corners of his mouth. He always felt that certain words were very offensive to say.

To be honest, since the law of fire, the law of the sun, and the law of water have become subsidiary products of enlightenment.

The so-called law is a word that represents the nature or theorem that matter will never change.

Now for Shanghai salt, Li Chunfeng naturally put out the spirit of scientific research and began to think of ways to analyze the substance of sea salt.

And all the information about sea salt analyzed is called the law of sea salt.

Therefore, Li Tai felt that the violation was indeed a violation, but Li Chunfeng had obviously adapted to the way of thinking of the agricultural school.

Whatever it is, first record it and ask someone to analyze it slowly, and wait until the result of the analysis is obtained, and then write the law of sea salt!
"By the way, King Yan, winter is coming soon!" Li Chunfeng reminded Li Tai solemnly.

"Don't worry, we have accumulated a lot of food, even the coal industry has found the local coal mines in Youzhou and started mining.

And I will ask Peacock to send a batch of cotton clothes over, even if I work in winter, no one will freeze to death! "

Li Tai looked at Li Chunfeng's answer with confidence, after all, Youzhou is much colder than Chang'an.

"That's not what I mean!" Li Chunfeng smiled wryly,
"King Yan, you have never stayed here, and you don't know that in winter, not to mention the Grand Canal, even the Sanggan River will freeze.

As for the sea surface of the Bohai Sea will freeze, I mean, should you be prepared for this? "

"Huh?!" Li Tai's expression changed when he heard this. To be honest, he is not from the north, and he would instinctively ignore such things as the canal freezing.

In fact, although the small town of Tianjin has enough food and charcoal fire, it will still be very troublesome if the waterway traffic is cut off due to freezing. After all, I just came to Youzhou, so I may not have done enough preparations.

"I will pay attention to this matter!" Li Tai nodded solemnly, indicating that he knew.

Seeing that Li Tai was prepared, Li Chunfeng couldn't help saying, "If it freezes, what will happen to this salt pond?"

"A few years is based on accumulating experience, but ditches can be dug at the edge, and coals can be placed to heat and maintain the water temperature.

Of course, if it’s really too cold, forget it first, just stop for one or two months every year.

Let the workers rest and rest. If there are workers who can't be idle and let them come to Tianjin City, it is necessary to let them work hard! "

Li Chunfeng nodded, at least what he did would not be in vain.

Li Chunfeng sighed, "However, it is not all bad when winter comes. We are also waiting for winter to come for many tests in our Youzhou Academy, waiting to conduct experiments one by one and verify one by one."

"Verification?" Li Tai asked curiously after hearing Li Chunfeng's words, "What verification?"

"Verify the Tao!" Li Chunfeng said, "There are many ways to prove the Tao that cannot be done in spring, summer and autumn, and can only be done in winter."

"Why?" Li Tai was a little confused.

"Don't King Yan remember the mercury experiment at the beginning? We used ice as a container to measure the height of mercury, and determined a new weight and measure!" Li Chunfeng said,
"Later, I tried to change a lot of utensils, but none of them could see through.

Later, when I came to Youzhou, I found that the ice sculptors here were very good, and they worked quickly and well, so I used ice sculpting utensils. "

"Ice... ice sculpture..." Li Tai's mind was buzzing, and he couldn't help saying, "What else did you do?!"

"It's nothing, I just asked the ice sculptor to make some bottles and jars with various solvents, so that I can see the situation inside.

For example, a piece of paper was burned in a frozen bottle with a cork on it. I asked the soldiers to crush the whole frozen bottle without pulling out the cap.

In short, with this transparent bottle and jar, I can directly see what is going on inside, or I can't see it! "

"Ice!" Li Tai also felt a little bit emotional.

After all, I have fallen into a dead end. Although I used ice to store mercury and researched the weights and measures I wanted, I didn't expect that this thing could be used like this.

Ice sculptors directly make ice into corresponding containers. Is it possible that ice sculptors can also make ice into other things?

For example, a monocular, such as an astronomical telescope, such as a microscope, or even a condenser.

In this era without transparent glass, is it possible to complete some miraculous operations that may only be possible in this era through the hands of top ice sculptors!
Li Tai doesn't know whether his idea can be successful, but if he can really take this step beyond the past, what will happen when people discover other worlds beyond the naked eye's vision?

Although it is only in the north, and only in the coldest months, even so, transparent containers are extremely important to the progress brought about by scientific research.

Of course, it is impossible to go far with this tricky way.

If you want to make real progress in technology, you still need to find the right materials, have the right technology, and then climb the technology honestly.

Li Tai was greatly inspired by Li Chunfeng, so he promised Li Chunfeng that he would send what he needed soon.

However, with the arrival of winter, not only will the canals in Youzhou be frozen, even Youzhou itself may be blocked under heavy snow. Li Tai felt that it was time to find Gao Jifu.

Before winter came, I fooled some people around Youzhou to come to Tianjin to move bricks and clear snow.

Even if the port cannot be repaired by the end of this year due to ice and snow, the road can be repaired as much as possible first.

At the same time, the coal mines in Youzhou also require a lot of labor to work, and I will definitely build the supporting facilities so that they won't lose their lives mining in winter.

Fortunately, my subordinates have rich experience in working in winter, at least no one will be killed in Chang'an.

The only thing I don't know is how cold the wind and snow here in the north are.

Li Tai rode a horse and led people to Youzhou City, because he really didn't understand why he always encountered a shortage of labor when he wanted to do something.

Now that the autumn harvest is over and the people are free, it's time for me to take care of them.

At the same time, Gao Jifu, as an intermediary, completed the transaction between the King of Yan and the Youzhou family, which can be regarded as a connection with the big and small families in Youzhou.

Now that the autumn harvest is over, I can also use these aristocratic families to make the people serve corvee.

This is a national policy, but because the government can't control the grassroots, it needs the support of aristocratic families or local wealthy families.

Gao Jifu understood that the aristocratic family would pass on their corvee to the common people during this process, but how could the common people refuse it!
They can only grit their teeth and finish the corvee, let's talk about it after this year
"Gao Changshi, I'm here to visit you!" Just as Gao Jifu was thinking, Li Tai's voice came from the guard far away.

Gao Jifu felt a dull pain in his temple, after all, this Yan Wang was too good at making troubles.

But what can I do!I also want to refuse!

But for Gao Jifu, his main duty was to supervise Li Tai, and Governor Shi of Youzhou was the deputy.

(End of this chapter)