The Great Grandson of the Tang Dynasty: The beginning of the slaughter of General Tiance's mans

Chapter 396 Plan to sell chicken essence!

After Xu Mo scared Feng Li into submission, he continued to lead Li Chengdao into Yecheng.

On the way to the depths of the city, Xu Mo briefly introduced the internal structure of Yecheng to Li Chengdao.

"This is the door. Under normal circumstances, you can only go in but not out. The east door will only be opened when the Ministry of Household Affairs sends the ore that our office needs.

Therefore, most of the warehouses near the east gate are stocked with various types of minerals."

Listening to Xu Mo's introduction, Jia Xu also looked around the city by himself.

He found that the defense in Yecheng was really tight, with one post for every five steps and one sentry for every ten steps.

Not only were there guards armed with weapons everywhere, but there were also antlers, horses and other obstacles everywhere, making them even more formidable than the front lines of the battlefield.

Stopping at the nearest guard post, Xu Mo explained: "Whenever someone enters the city, they will first search here.

If someone counterfeits tokens and documents and tries to sneak into the city, hehe, they will suffer the consequences. "

Having said this, he pointed to the guard box, where many muskets and crossbows were placed.

But today Li Chengdao came to visit in person, so there was no need to check.

They continued walking for a while, gradually going deep into the hinterland of Yecheng.

Xu Mo introduced: "The north of the city is where the guards and their families live. The officials, craftsmen and their families of our Smelting Bureau also live in the north of the city.

I won’t take His Majesty to visit. "

After a pause, he continued: "The center of the city is the warehouse of our Smelting Bureau.

All kinds of weapons, armors, crossbows and even war weapons produced by our smelting bureau have their original samples and related design drawings preserved there."

When he said this, Feng Li couldn't help but ask: "Put them all together. If they are all stolen, wouldn't it be a huge loss?"

His concerns were right.

However, after he said these words, Xu Mo and the officials from the Manufacturing Bureau looked at him like a fool.

Xu Mo sighed and said helplessly: "That warehouse contains at least 70% of our city's organs.

If someone who doesn't know the details breaks into it, there is no need to dispatch the guards in the city, just send someone to collect the corpse the next day."

"70% of the mechanism"

After hearing what he said and thinking of the scene in the city gate just now, Feng Li decided to shut up and stay away from the warehouse.

There is also an experimental rice field, which is used to study the technology of growing crops on "salty soil".

The so-called salty soil actually refers to saline-alkali land.

Because the soil contains too much salt and is not suitable for crop growth, it can be called a bad field among bad fields.

Poor fields like this are actually not uncommon in Datang. Some are naturally formed. Due to the relationship between topography and groundwater, a large amount of salt accumulates in the soil.

Farmers who didn't know what was going on spent a lot of effort cultivating their fields, but ended up with a field that could barely grow any crops.

And some are caused by humans. Due to improper irrigation, the original high-quality fields gradually deteriorated into saline-alkali land.

Therefore, in order to solve this problem, the Smelting Bureau also has dedicated personnel studying it.

After all, although hybrid rice is good, it does not prevent us from solving the problem.

After a rough tour of the city, Li Chengdao headed to the alchemy department under the leadership of Xu Mo.

The alchemy department is a nine-story building.

According to the different levels of the alchemists, they are on different floors. The higher the floor, the better the experimental environment and resources they have.    This move is to stimulate the motivation of these researchers.

But overall, the academic atmosphere in the alchemy department is still excellent.

There is no distinction between big and small here, and they begin to gather with each other to discuss academics freely.

The magicians in the alchemy department learned that Li Chengdao was coming today and were waiting early.

The head of the alchemy department is a young man named Song He.

This man was indeed young, looking no more than twenty-five or sixty-six. He was wearing white clothes unique to alchemists and had a thin figure.

Perhaps because of his painstaking research, he looked a little haggard and had heavy dark circles under his eyes.

"See Your Majesty——"

After seeing Li Chengdao, Song He and the other alchemists saluted.

This was not the first time Li Chengdao met Song He. He was the one he summoned in the imperial study room last time.

So he asked with a smile: "I heard that the chicken essence you asked to study has been finished?"

This is the purpose of his trip.

Song He's eyes flashed with excitement, he nodded and said: "Reporting to your Majesty, the research has been completed!"

With that said, he hurriedly returned to the workbench and took out a small clay pot.

"Your Majesty, please see, this is the purified and crystallized chicken essence!"

Song He said happily and presented it as if asking for credit.

Li Chengdao took the jar, opened it and took a sniff. His eyes suddenly lit up as he smelled a pungent smell.

And what’s in the jar is real chicken essence!

"Researchers in our alchemy department spent dozens of days and nights, working tirelessly to find a method of crystallization and purification.

If this chicken essence is used in cooking, it can improve the taste of the dishes by several levels. This is all the chicken essence we have in stock now. "

Song He said, looking at Li Chengdao eagerly.

The implication is that he hopes Li Chengdao can leave some chicken essence for them.

Of course Li Chengdao understood and asked Gao Huai to take out a porcelain vase and then handed it to Song He.

Song He was overjoyed. After carefully pouring a porcelain bottle of chicken essence, he handed the porcelain bottle back to Li Chengdao.

However, Li Chengdao shook his head and said, "The bottle is for you, and I will take away the one in the bottle."

Song He: "."

But the emperor's order could not be violated. Song He and the alchemists could only watch helplessly as Gao Huai took away the jar of chicken essence, and then felt heartbroken.

Without the chicken essence, they might not even be able to enjoy their meals.

Seeing them like this, Li Chengdao laughed and said: "Chicken essence can be made again, and it can also be sold to outsiders.

I will put someone in charge of this matter, and 40% of the profit from the sales of the chicken essence produced will belong to you. "

Upon hearing Li Chengdao's words, the alchemists were immediately overjoyed and knelt down to thank him.

(End of this chapter)