Invincible Zhengde

Chapter 130 Advanced Technology
"Yes!" Liu Jin agreed, and then said: "Your Highness should rest early!"

Shaking his head with a wry smile, Zhu Houzhao said helplessly: "The matter is not over yet, how can you rest! Finish the matter quickly while there is still time, I guess I won't be here for too long!"

Although there is no feedback from the capital city so far, Zhu Houzhao also knows that the feedback time will not be too long, especially after the Ye family is arrested, there will definitely be feedback from the capital city, and it is very likely that he will I'm going back to Beijing.Glancing at Liu Jin, Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "You are tired too, let them take care of you, you go to bed first!"

How could Liu Jin go to sleep at this time, he would not give up the opportunity to serve His Highness the Crown Prince, so he turned on the lights, and Liu Jin said: "Your Highness is not tired, and this servant is not tired. The servant is with His Highness, what's the matter?" , Your Highness can also greet your slaves!"

Nodding his head, Zhu Houzhao didn't say anything, but turned his gaze back to the book, and the expression on his face became serious again.

Early the next morning, Zhu Houzhao came to the salt field again, and he came to the salt field that Zhu Houzhao first came to. It was originally the Huaibei T-shaped salt field managed by Ye Li.The people here are also most grateful to Zhu Houzhao. Seeing Zhu Houzhao coming, many kitchen households ran over to kowtow to Zhu Houzhao, and Zhu Houzhao also smiled and helped these people up.

The clothes of these people are still simple, and Zhu Houzhao knows that their lives are still in distress. Although he sent a lot of things last time, these things are just for them to improve their lives.

However, unlike the first time I saw them, they were numb at that time and could not see the slightest anger on their faces, but these people are not like this at this time. Their faces are full of smiles, which is a reflection of life. Longing and hope for life, they look at themselves no longer with fear, but with anticipation in kindness, which is the expectation for their future life.

He walked in with people cheering like himself. These people were no longer giving in, no longer running away, but rushing to come over. Zhu Houzhao was very relieved in his heart.

"Go find their captain!" Zhu Houzhao glanced at Liu Jin beside him, and then said, Zhu Houzhao did not set up official systems such as treasury and ambassador in the saltworks that had been restructured. Except for the salt farm office that manages the entire salt farm, Zhu Houzhao is not planning to set up other low-level officials.

After a short time, several old men walked towards this side together. The old man in the lead, Zhu Houzhao, knew him. He was the old man that Zhu Houzhao helped up on the execution ground that day.

Li Yan, his name is Li Yan, Zhu Houzhao was very impressed with him, his withered hands felt a bit cut, unlike when he first met him, although Li Yan looked very old at this time, but There is wind when you walk.The people who followed Li Yan were also old people. They were old people in the village. Zhu Houzhao looked at them with a smile.

After seeing the ceremony, Li Yan said: "I heard that the crown prince is here, and they all want to come and pay respects to the crown prince."

Zhu Houzhao nodded, and then said: "I asked you to come here because I actually have something for you to do. Is there any problem with you here?"

"Return to Your Highness, of course we have no problem!" Before Li Yan could speak, several other old men opened the door first, and Li Yan turned around and gave them a hard look, obviously very dissatisfied with their challenge to his authority. They took away their opportunity to perform, but those old men were not to be outdone, and stared back fiercely. Zhu Houzhao laughed at this scene.

"As long as there is no problem!" Zhu Houzhao nodded, and then said: "Then call the staff, let's get started!"

The old men agreed, and then turned around to greet the staff. Zhu Hou took care of the energetic old man, and immediately felt much more comfortable in his heart.

Of course, what Zhu Houzhao wanted to do was to build salt ponds. This was actually something that was dragged down by the bureaucratic physique of the Ming Dynasty, which is why Zhu Houzhao had to go around the Lianghuai salt field.Since ancient times, the common people have known to make salt from seawater. The most primitive preparation methods are "frying" and "boiling", using a plate for frying and a pot for boiling. It is called "boiling the sea to make salt" in history.

After more than ten centuries of practical improvement, the sea salt is not only low in yield but also of poor quality, instead of directly decocting with seawater, instead of decocting in brine.

Compared with this, the sun-dried salt method has more benefits. From the second year of Emperor Taizong of the Yuan Dynasty to the 23rd year of Emperor Shizu of the Yuan Dynasty, three salt fields, Haifeng, Hairun and Haiying, were built along the Gejin River in the north of Jieshi Mountain.In the early Ming Dynasty, Hairun and Haiying had frying and sun-drying, but the advanced sun-dried salt method was not popularized, because no one did it, and everyone just wanted to make money from it.

The life of the kitchen households was miserable, and they did not even think about improving the method of drying salt and increasing production. Until the first year of Emperor Sejong's Jiajing, Haifengchang took the lead in making it easy to fry for drying.

Although it was changed from frying to drying, this advanced technology has not been promoted on a large scale. Instead, it has been concealed as a secret. Sun-dried salt produces more salt, and these salts are drifted away as residual salt. They were all sold by salt merchants as private salt, which is why the strength of salt merchants became stronger and stronger after Jiajing.

Originally, the improvement of technology and the increase of output would bring a lot of benefits to the country, but these people filled their pockets.

It was not until Xu Guangqi, a minister at the end of Ming Dynasty, promoted the sun-drying salt method that this advanced technology was used. However, at that time, the salt merchants were very powerful, and the benefits were still taken up by them.

Zhu Houzhao came to the Lianghuai Salt Field this time, in addition to cleaning the salt field and establishing a new system, in order to promote the method of drying salt.Only when the saltworks are cleaned up, those salt road officials who are pocketing their own pockets, and those illegal salt merchants are cleaned up, the promotion of such advanced skills will be meaningful. Zhu Houzhao's previous research on the output of the saltworks is also because of this.

When all the people arrived, Zhu Houzhao also finished changing his clothes. Zhu Houzhao was dressed in a short coarse cloth and looked decent.

Glancing at Liu Jin's constipated expression, Zhu Houzhao glared at him. Of course, he didn't wear this to show off to others, but it was convenient for work. Not to mention anything else, the prince's robe he was wearing now was really It's so inconvenient.This is the first time to build a salt pond, and these people have no experience. Zhu Houzhao will definitely end in person.

The salt fields where the salt is dried are generally divided into two parts: the evaporation pond and the crystallization pond.First introduce seawater into the evaporation pool, and when the water evaporates to a certain extent after being exposed to the sun, it is poured into the crystallization pool and continues to be exposed to the sun. It is our common coarse salt, and Zhu Houzhao will take them to make such a salt pond.

(End of this chapter)