Qi Jing's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he patted his thighs with joy: "Yes, yes, the lady is right, even if you guard this prairie, you should think of more ways to do it on the cattle and sheep, these mutton and beef are killed and made into all kinds of jerky, wool is spun into thread and woven into blankets or clothes, and leather can be made into boots. ”

With Yun Yao's idea, others also opened up, and Yu Long also smiled: "In addition, I heard that the Western side uses milk to make all kinds of cheese, and we can also find some skilled craftsmen or skilled cooks here to come up with ideas, and make these milk into delicious milk fruits, milk candy and the like and sell them everywhere." ”

Qi Baohua also said: "There are many grapes here, which can be used to make wine, fourth brother, you still remember that in the early years, the eldest sister once went out to save a merchant in the Western Regions, and the merchant gave the eldest sister a recipe for making wine to thank him, but although this recipe is good, but our Zhenting Mansion does not produce grapes, it is useless for us, and the eldest sister has been collecting it, so let's find the eldest sister to try it, if it is really good, you can do this kind of business." ”

Qi Jing thought for a while before he suddenly remembered that there was indeed such a thing, and he was happy again, and said yes in a row.

Then he said: "If it is successful, we can try to use it to make wine because we produce a lot of fruits in Suzhou, which does not cost food, and can also make the people of Suzhou not work in vain, which is also a good thing." ”

Yun Yao added with a smile: "In addition to brewing wine, the fruit can also be sliced and baked to make all kinds of dried fruits for sale, in addition, it can also be washed, steamed, sealed and sealed in a jar, and taken out to eat in winter, which is not much different from fresh fruit, isn't it also a good thing." ”

With these ideas, the four of them thought more and more, and you and I discussed many good things.

In the end, Qi Jing made up his mind to prepare for his life. All parties worked together to clean up Suzhou.

He said that he took advantage of the warm weather in spring to ask the people to clean up the fruit trees, and after the fruit, he could not make wine, and he could also make all kinds of dried fruits for sale, which was also a livelihood, at this time, Yun Yao smiled and pulled him to sit down: "You say that the wind is rain." Good students sit down. I still have the most important point to say, if this business is done well, you don't need to do anything to keep it next to it, and you can renovate Suzhou into a plug outside the Yangtze River. ”

"What?"

Qi Jing thought that he had thought enough. If you can't think of anything else, Yun Yao might as well have something to say here, and she is also very surprised.

Yun Yao smiled mysteriously: "The most in Suzhou is not fruits, cattle and sheep, but salt stones. Not to mention, many roads in Suzhou are made of salt and stone. It's not a stone, it's all white salt. ”

Qi Jing couldn't help frowning when he heard this: "Although the name of this salt stone is salt stone, it can't actually produce salt, but this stone is very salty." It looks white on the outside to get its name, and besides, how many generations have passed. We can't get salt out of this salt stone, so what can we do? ”

Yun Yao raised her head. Extremely confident and proudly said: "Others can't do it, it doesn't mean that I can't help it, isn't it just to get salt out of the salt stone, it's not a difficult thing, and when I go back to make a thing, keep it so that Suzhou will not be short of salt since then, if it can, I can't say that it can still provide a few people to eat salt, or it can also make Yangzhou salt merchants grit their teeth with hatred." ”

When Yun Yao said this, Qi Jing was surprised and delighted: "Can the lady really call the salt stone to produce salt?" If this is feasible, then Suzhou will have no worries. ”

Qi Baohua glanced at Yun Yao, thought for a while and smiled: "Sister-in-law, I don't know how to do anything else, after all, there is no one better than her in this organ, I think this thing is feasible." ”

Yu Long thought about the delicate various mechanisms and playthings in the dowry of Qi Bao Vase, and also felt that Yun Yao's words were very reliable.

Qi Jing was also willing to believe Yun Yao, and immediately said happily: "I'll give you a hand after we go back, first get the mechanism you said, and then I'll find some salt stones to try, if you can really produce salt, the lady has made a great contribution." ”

Qi Jing thought about the affairs of Suzhou, and was very excited, and he couldn't wait to go back immediately and incarnate with a thousand hands and eyes to think about these things carefully, so he didn't stay at home for a long time, and he took Yun Yao back after sitting for a long time.

Although Qi Jing was very anxious, in the end, Yun Yao's distress took over, and he didn't urge Yun Yao to do his work when he went back, but only told Yun Yao to rest for a while and sleep and get busy again.

Yun Yao didn't refuse, and went to bed.

She didn't wake up until mid-afternoon, and when she woke up, she saw Qi Jing sitting on a chair beside the bed, with a small round table in front of him, and he was lying on top of it looking at the volumes that had been piled up in the yamen.

Yun Yao sat up before Qi Jing heard the movement, put down the scrolls and walked over: "Awake?" Would you like to drink some water? Hungry, what do you want to eat? ”

Yun Yao smiled and stretched her waist: "I'm not hungry, you pour me half a bowl of warm water, and after I drink it, I'll hurry up and do those tricks." ”

Qi Jing listened and helped her get out of bed, and sure enough, he poured half a bowl of warm water for her to drink, and told her to rest for a while before going to the side room with her.

The materials that Yun Yao collects on weekdays, as well as many of the tools she uses to make organs, are all in the side room, and after entering, Yun Yao found something and came over, and Qi Jing squatted beside Yun Yao to see how she operated.

But all the key things Qi Jing reached out to help Yun Yao move over, or under her guidance, many heavy objects were connected together, or separated or cut in half, or rolled into rolls and the like, it was always up to Yun Yao to do what Qi Jing said.

So busy that it was time for dinner, I finally got the mechanism in place.

Qi Jing saw that Yun Yao still wanted to try to make salt, so he quickly pulled her out to eat, and after eating, Qi Jing asked his family to move the salt stone he had dug up in the afternoon into the wing.

Yun Yao asked Qi Jing to put the salt stone into an iron container, and asked him to shake the handle next to the mechanism, although Qi Jing didn't know what the reason of this mechanism was, he still shook the handle very obediently.

Then he put the salt stone into an iron bucket, and there was an iron hammer running up and down to smash the salt stone into pieces, and the iron bucket was raised and poured the smashed salt stone into another iron bucket, which contained many iron pages, and the iron bucket turned rapidly, and the salt stone was broken into powder, and the iron bucket was raised again, and the powder was poured into another wooden barrel filled with water. The barrel is turned, melting the powder in water.

After it is melted, it begins to filter several times, filtering out impurities layer by layer, and pouring the reddened brine into a funnel with two layers of gauze at the bottom of the funnel, and a lot of charcoal wrapped in the middle of the gauze.

Filter it out this time. The salt water turns pale cyan. Yun Yao asked Qi Jing to taste it, only salty and not bitter, so she nodded and said, "Let's cook it on the fire." When the water is boiled dry, it is green salt. ”

Qi Jing had a smile on his face, and sure enough, he took the salt water to the kitchen to find a big iron pot, poured the salt water into it and began to boil the water, stirring while boiling. It took half a day to finally boil the water dry, and the bottom of the pot was covered with green salt.

Qi Jing hurriedly went over and smeared a layer of salt powder to taste. Immediately smiled: "It's not much different from the best official salt, this time we are going to send it in Suzhou." ”

Yun Yao smiled and tasted it, and when she was salty, she quickly spit it out and rinsed her mouth with water, and then said after rinsing her mouth: "It's still Xianggong who will choose the place at the beginning." I chose such a good place, where the people are fierce and the geographical location is superior. can raise soldiers and pacify the people, and be an official here for a few years. will inevitably be able to make political achievements, and at that time, who will dare to be disrespectful to the prime minister. ”

Qi Jing thought about it, although he didn't think he was so good and visionary, he was still a little proud.

Afterwards, the two of them took out the green salt at the bottom of the pot and put it in the jar, Qi Jing personally brought it back to the room, and put it on the table, and then washed and slept with Yun Yao.

Chang'an City at home

But Yu Qi's kung fu of calling Xu a few words was cold, and he went to his mother Wu's house with a sense of anger.

It just so happened that Wu was smiling with a few girls to discuss making clothes for Yu Qi's boy, and when he saw Yu Qi coming over with anger, Wu hurriedly beckoned: "What's wrong with my son?" Who made you angry? ”

Yu Qi sat down and didn't speak, Wu Shi looked around, and hurriedly called the girls out.

Yu Qi waited for the room to be quiet before he said angrily: "Mother should be good at teaching Xu, she is becoming more and more unlike now, I am a man who is not good at beating and scolding and punishing women, but my mother is her serious mother-in-law, and it is natural to teach her a lesson. ”

"What the hell is going on?" Wu Shi sighed in his heart when he heard this, and he already had some bad premonitions.

"What else can I do, then the Xu family is a loser." Yu Qi threw out a complaint: "If it weren't for her, how would I lose my good official position, how could I be so humiliated by the Qi family sisters, I originally said that I and the Qi family are in-laws in the end, how can we save two points of face, even if we don't take care of the Qi family more, we shouldn't think about taking other people's land, but the Xu family is crying and making trouble, and I am also ...... Anyway, I'm not, my ears are too soft to listen to her words, and I actually do such a foolish thing, otherwise, I am doing a good job, how can I ......"

Although Yu Qi felt ashamed, he still told Wu Shi about the causes and consequences of the events of the past few days.

Wu Shi was furious after hearing this, slapped the table and said: "Xu, Xu, what a Xu, how dare she...... I said how I dressed up and went out to see the sky in the past few days, and it turned out that I was robbed of my son to do such unrighteous things. ”

After scolding, Wu also regretted a little: "I shouldn't have thought that she gave birth to the eldest grandson of our family by her temperament, and she is more and more unlike, look at Chang'an City, her days are not too moisturized, that is, you don't have to serve your in-laws, and you don't have to serve your father-in-law, the second family is still there, but because she can't stand it, she ran to Suzhou." ”

Speaking of Yu Long, who was far away in Suzhou, Wu Shi added a little sadness: "Poor my son has never been far away since he was a child, where has he ever left a prosperous place like Chang'an, and he wants to go to Suzhou so far away, which is next to Xidi, what kind of good place can it be." ”

Yu Qi was also a little ashamed when he heard Wu mention Yu Long: "It's because I'm not good, I always listen to Wu's words and split up with my second brother, if not...... Wouldn't it be happy for our brothers to be happy to serve the second elder at home. ”

Wu wiped a handful of tears, gritted his teeth and swallowed his anger: "Don't worry, although your mother and I are softer, but I am not ignorant, I am watching your husband and wife be happy, and you protect Xu's family, I don't want to make your husband and wife for some trivial things, but I am harsh as a mother, that is, now that Xu's family has done such a foolish thing, our family can't tolerate her well, for the mother's ancestor is also a high-ranking official and eunuch, although some methods have not been experienced, I have also heard people talk about it, and when I come out for my mother, I will definitely put Xu to my son well." (To be continued.) )