Win the Ding 1617

Chapter 15 The Origin of the First Pot of Gold

() Half a month later, Yanhu Village was relocated as a whole, and became the first batch of relocated households. All the kitchen households were given land according to their heads, and left happily.

Soon, along the coastline, slices of salt pools, brine pools, and crystallization pools were built.It was built with blue stones, and a pumping truck was installed. More than a dozen strong oxen worked on the pumping truck day and night.

"In the entire Yanhu Village, all the seaside land has been built with salt fields. The salt pond covers an area of ​​about 100 mu of land, and [-] captives are used as salt workers. A team of guard battalion soldiers is stationed in Yanhu Village. After strengthening, nearly [-] People and horses. Stationed and patrolled day and night. It is absolutely difficult for outsiders to enter." Ajin, who was in charge of the Jingwei mission in Yando Village, this simple young man from the Miao family, is now the team officer of the Guards Battalion.

According to the calculation that every [-] mu of salt fields can process [-] tons of seawater per day, about [-] tons of coarse salt can be obtained from every [-] mu of salt fields in one day and night.

After the experiment, the data obtained made Fu Bo and Yan Meier so surprised that their tongues almost fell out.If the 120-mu salt field is so efficient, 60 tons of crude salt can be obtained every day and night, which is [-] million catties!Even if it is calculated in half, [-] catties is amazing.

However, what happened next was even more exciting.

"I have weighed these springs with a scale. The spring in the back mountain is the lightest and contains the least impurities. After a day and night of drying, the impurities have settled." While speaking, Li Shouhan directed Yan Ding to general Pour coarse salt into the water tank and stir constantly to dissolve the salt particles as soon as possible.

Then, the brine is poured over a tight cotton sheet pressed with cotton and filtered.A lot of impurities are left on the filtered cotton board, black and yellow.After several layers of cotton board filtration, the salt water is already clear and translucent.

"Very good! Use charcoal again!"

After being filtered by charcoal, oh, activated charcoal, basically, there are no impurities in the brine.

A salt clerk secretly stuck out his tongue and licked the salt water, and he could no longer taste the bitter sea salt taste he was used to. "My God! This Han man is amazing! He is really a person chosen by the gods!"

After several twists and turns, the salt water was finally poured into several large pots. Unlike other pots and stoves, the pots were inlaid with copper plates to prevent the salt water from corroding the pots.

"You are a businessman in my general's mansion, and the daily business is table salt. Take a look, what should I do with this kind of salt?"

Li Shouhan summoned Jiang Yili, the shopkeeper of the "Yuhetai" salt shop, and his big men, and threw them two samples of salt.

"My lord," Jiang Yili took a closer look at the white as snow, delicate as powder fine salt, "if you buy this kind of salt, you should buy it for 150 renminbi a catty, and sell it for more than [-] renminbi."

The big guy looked at the other bag of salt, "Sir, this kind of salt is slightly worse than the salt in the shopkeeper's hand, but it can also be sold for more than 120 Wen."

"Gudong!" With a sound, the mature and dignified Fubo chair fell to the ground, "Oh! I am old, not to mention my legs and feet, and even the chair is bullying people!" The famous salt field can now produce at least 10,000 shi per month. After processing, at least [-] shi of fine salt and [-] shi of filter salt can be produced.Based on the price calculation of [-] renminbi for fine salt and [-] renminbi for filtered salt, after deducting almost no labor costs, facility construction costs, and depreciation costs, the profit for almost every catty of salt is [-] renminbi. There will be an income of [-]+ silver.

With such a fixed and reliable source of salary, why not worry about the young master's great cause? !

Blessings are unparalleled until misfortunes never come singly.Who said it? !

Just when the shopkeepers of Yuhetai wholesaled fine salt with great fanfare and were having a great time collecting money, Li Shouhan fell into deep thought.

With the money, the start-up funds for the industrial revolution were obtained!But the labor force is still seriously insufficient, even if people are frantically arrested and brought back, it is not enough, because most of the labor force is farming, after all, survival is the first priority.No, we must find ways to increase food production!But the question is how to improve it?Hybrid rice is not so easy to get, with...

Come, call Wu Cunjie quickly.

Speaking of Wu Cunjie, there is another anecdote.After Li Shouhan swept away He Tianfu with a thunderbolt, he specially posted a recruitment notice. As a tried and tested old boy, Wu Cunjie was the first to go to the General's Mansion to work. (In fact, he just wanted to find a job!) Seeing him Handing over the name card, Shou Han almost sprayed a mouthful of tea onto Yan Meier's new dress.

"Wu Cunjie, do it with words. The name is Nanlang."

"Isn't this bastard a pure wolf?!" Shou Han secretly laughed, this is the nickname of a writer he likes.From then on, Wu Cunjie's nicknames became Pure Wolf and Wu Laolang.Of course, except for a few people, no one dared to call in person.Although Wu Cunjie's level of imperial examinations was poor, he did a good job of writing and calculating, so Li Shouhan asked him to be his accountant.

"Student Wu Cunjie, pay my respects to General Dongweng." As soon as Wu Cunjie entered the door, he immediately saluted Li Shouhan.

"I said, old wolf, don't be so polite with me." Li Shouhan asked while supporting Wu Cunjie, "How many household registrations do we have under our rule now? How many fields are there?"

"Back to Dongweng, the students made statistics a few days ago. Now Dongweng directly manages more than 5000 households, more than 38 people, and more than 64 acres of fields. The first season of rice has been harvested. After harvesting, a total of 350 shi, according to Dong Weng’s grain tax rate of [-] shi, a total of [-] shi was sent to the grain depot.”

"Well, not bad. Old wolf, don't you think we have too little public grain in storage now? Don't you want to get more public grain?" Li Shouhan asked with a smile.

Wu Cunjie's complexion immediately changed when he heard that, he plopped down on his knees and shouted: "Don't do it! The Master said: People can't stand without trust. Dong Weng has announced to his ruler a few months ago: the grain tax will be taken Twenty taxes and one. Now if Dong Weng wants to rashly increase the grain tax, how will he win the trust of the people in the future? I implore Dong Weng to think twice!"

Where is it all?Li Shouhan couldn't help crying and laughing, so he quickly helped Wu Cunjie and said, "I said, old wolf, do you think I look like the kind of person who backtracks on what I promise? What I mean is to find a way to increase the output. For example, an acre of rice produces four stones a year. According to two If the tax is one for ten, it means paying 24 catties of rice. But what if one mu of rice produces ten stones a year? Wouldn’t the public grain paid at the rate of one tax per twenty be 60 catties of rice?”

"This...how is this possible?" Although he understood Li Shouhan's meaning, Wu Cunjie still had an expression of disbelief.After all, in the 17th century, even in Indochina, a place known as a rice paradise, the yield of rice in three seasons would not exceed four shi per mu. However, Li Shouhan proposed a goal of ten shi per year. Does this surprise Wu Cunjie?

Just when Wu Cunjie was thinking about how to get ten stone rice, Li Shouhan continued: "You send someone to inform that after ten days, each village will send a person who is good at farming and fish farming to the general's mansion, and at the same time post the notice. Go out. In addition, prepare fifty large carp of male and female and some willow branches, I will have great use in ten days."

"This...what's the use of Dong Weng for this?" Wu Cunjie was even more confused.

"Sip! Why are you talking so much nonsense!" Li Shouhan was a little annoyed, "Old wolf, since you work under my command, you must understand a truth: you must follow my orders if you understand them, and follow those you don't understand! At the same time, Deepen understanding during execution, understand?"

"Students understand."

"Understood, hurry up and do it!"

Ten days later, representatives from a hundred or ten villages who came from all directions gathered in the General's Mansion. Li Shouhan came to them, cleared his throat and said, "Everyone is proficient in farming and fish farming. This time I asked everyone to come here because I have a kind of The method of raising fish should be discussed in detail with the big guys."

After finishing speaking, he asked people to lead these more than a hundred people to the side of the pond, and took everyone to stand still. Li Shouhan said again: "Look, everyone, there are willow branches I put in this pond and fifty carps of each male and female. There must be some carps among you." People know that carp like to lay eggs on aquatic plants, so I used this willow branch as a aquatic plant for the convenience of operation, I think there are already a lot of fish eggs on it, so I will pick up this willow branch and have a look." With a wave of Li Shouhan's hand, several soldiers carefully picked up the willow branch, only to see that the willow branch was covered with fish eggs, which looked very eye-catching.

"These fish eggs should be left in the water to hatch into small fish. What did the general do to catch them?" Seeing Li Shouhan's unusual behavior, everyone was naturally puzzled, so some bold ones asked.

"Hehe, everyone said that they don't know. If these fish eggs are placed in the paddy field, they will be eaten by various things. Before the fry hatch, most of them will be lost. I fish them up to ensure that the fish eggs Most of them can hatch small fish." Li Shouhan replied with a smile.

The representatives shook their heads one after another. You must know that fish will die if they leave the water, and fish eggs are no exception. How can there be any reason to bring fish eggs to the shore to hatch?

Just when the representatives were puzzled, Li Shouhan said again: "Everyone will be busy these days, and every ten people will get a willow branch, spread it out and put it in the yard to bask in the sun, and every other Some water will be sprinkled on it for a while, and it will last for three days. Be careful when spreading the willow branches and watering, so as not to break the fish eggs."

"Isn't the general looking for me to wait for entertainment?" Someone finally voiced his dissatisfaction with Li Shouhan, "Zheng has been raising fish in the field for 30 years, and he has never heard of a fish that can live without water!"

Li Shouhan was taken aback for a moment, then asked with a smile, "I don't know what the name of this brother is?"

The man arched his hands and replied: "Brother, I don't dare to be the one. My surname is Zheng, my name is Quanfang, and my name is Xinyuan. I started to study "April Civil Order", "Four Seasons Urgement", "Jingshi Civil Affairs" "Records", "Qi Min Yao Shu" and other books, although I dare not say that I am proficient, but I only know a little about farming, mulberry, fishery and animal husbandry, I really don't know how the general makes fish eggs hatch on the shore?"

talent!Proper talent!Li Shouhan cried in his heart. What is most important in the 21st century, talent! The most important thing in the 17th century is talent!In this era when scholars only knew how to read the Four Books and Five Classics, there was someone who had read so many books on agricultural technology. For Li Shouhan, he was even luckier than winning 500 million yuan.

"Brother Xinyuan, would you like to play a game with Shou Han?"

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