Chapter 325: Salt is the first of all flavors
Early the next morning. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info Xueqing climbed up with dark circles under her eyes. Sima Xiangru and the two of them sent Xue Qing out of the door respectfully. Zhuo Wenjun took over a box and handed it to Sima Xiangru, Sima Xiangru took it and offered it with both hands: "Your Highness, the greeting is not thoughtful, this is a guqin that has been carried with you for many years, and the ancient rhyme is quite expressive." Please smile at Your Highness. ”
Xue Qing is embarrassed, she brought hundreds of people to eat and take, she won't eat this goods poorly, right? I don't think so. Cast it with a peach and repay it with a plum, so he called Ruhua, took out a few pieces of better jade and gave it back to the past, and said politely: "This palace has taken the liberty of disturbing your mansion, and I really don't want to go." Meng Xian and his wife take care of it, Lang Guan has lived in Shu for a long time, if you want to change places to breathe, you might as well repair a book. Leave. ”
Sima Xiangru wondered in his heart, what do you mean, is this princess still trying to recruit me. You are a princess, you are not good at home...... Well, this princess is more powerful, and her background is extremely deep. Anyway, if he offended Emperor Wu to death because of the matter of Changmen Fu, it is impossible for him to be reused by Emperor Wu in this life. It's not impossible to take refuge in the princess.
Sima Xiangru shrunk his neck and forgot it. When you are old, you have no political ambitions. Although there is no administrative level. is just a small Lang official, but he is still in charge of the affairs of Shudi. My father-in-law's family has a lot of property, so let's eat soft rice if I eat soft rice, and I have written articles in this life. The official also did it, and what else do you want. Let's stay honest and retire.
The carriage slowly left Jinguan City. Xue Qing said softly: "This Sima Xiangru is indeed a talent. Yunwen Yunwu, civil and military are all good hands. You might as well let someone on the road touch it. Let's influence it slowly. Look at him and he's not in very good health. I can take care of it. ”
Ruhua said: "The slave maid wrote it down." ”
If this product is used well, it can have the talent of the prime minister. Xue Qing is not easy to start rashly. Let the Heavenly Dao develop slowly.
Except for Chengdu. Head south. Qingcheng Mountain does not have a Taoist temple, so it is not a scenic spot. It's just a wild mountain pass. It's all over the country.
There is no Big Buddha in Leshan. Xue Qing couldn't find time to climb Mount Emei. There was no winding road or ropeway up and down, and it would take at least three or four days. Besides, the top of the mountain is nothing more than snow. This scene is everywhere in Lishan in winter.
Besides, Xue Qing is sleeping in the carriage at the moment. Didn't sleep all night last night. It's just the right time to catch up on the rocking of the carriage.
The next day, we arrived in Zigong. Originally, Zhao Ponu was going to go straight out of the city and wait for dark to find a place to camp. was left behind by Xue Qing.
In the evening, Xue Qing and Ruhua each changed into a set of clothes and quietly walked out of the station to the street outside. Then the high heavenly line that was secretly following came out. He connected with the two and took them to a relatively quiet mansion in the east of the city. I went into the courtyard and took a look. A shed has been erected in the courtyard. Drainage ditches were dug around the perimeter. There are countless sacks in the middle. It's full of salt from white flowers. Xue Qing was speechless: "The output is already so large? ”
Tianbao smiled: "If we don't expand the sales channels, the next storage will be a big problem." Your Highness, please. This is where the salt is boiled. Day and night, the fire will not stop. Xue Qing looked over, that thing could no longer be called a pot, it could only be called a long and wide trough. There were people standing next to him, stirring with wooden sticks from time to time.
Tianxing took Xue Qing to another room. Various pipes criss-cross. One of the pools, Tianxing said, was brine.
The brine is pumped up from the ground, collected in this pool, and then transported to the outside through pipes to be boiled, and some pipes are connected to the outside. Around this yard, there are several yards that use brine left over from this side.
Xue Qing looked at the well over there. The wellhead is indeed relatively small. There's something like a waterwheel on it. Pulled by horses. Keep turning to pump out the brine in the ground. It flowed into the pool next to it.
Gao Tianxing said. This place is dozens of miles in circumference, and many places can make brine in the ground. It's a pity that the local people don't know how to use it. If the well in this courtyard runs dry, just change the place and continue to dig the well.
Look at the gurgling brine. Look at the salt from the brine. Xue Qing even suspected that everywhere else was rocks and dirt underground. Shouldn't this Zigong underground be full of salt? A city built on salt?
I really don't understand, this place is still the land of dinosaurs. There are countless dinosaur bones underground, and there is such a large amount of salt in the ground. Then we should have marinated all those dinosaurs into bacon. Why are the excavated bones still bare? It's really incomprehensible.
Tianbao said on the side: "Your Highness, you have also personally walked through the difficulties of Shu Dao. The Han army only brought weapons and equipment to the exchanges. Only those salt merchants who didn't want to die walked in from the plank road with salt on their backs. That's not much either. Just a few dignitaries and nobles will divide it. Our salt has now basically occupied the market in Shudi. But again, it's a bit more difficult to get outside. ”
Xue Qing waved her hand: "There is no way to solve this problem now." But there will be later. In the future, I will send this salt to the Western Regions through Hexi, where this thing is valuable. Besides, now that the salt has been released. It is better to study the structure of this well and how to produce more water. Let's see if this boiling salt can be faster and more economical. For example, by drying. Salt can be made in the city, and secrecy is the priority. You must grasp the contradiction in this. ”
Tianbao nodded: "That's it, if you are not afraid of people knowing." And he built a great shallow pool in the field. Just put the brine over to dry. That's a lot of trouble. ”
Xue Qing dipped her hand in a little white salt and put it to her mouth, and tasted it carefully. The taste is relatively normal, and there is no bitter taste. I just don't know how to get iodization. I guess it was extracted from kelp. But Xueqing has never seen anything called big neck disease in her life. Don't worry about it. There's no need to be so obsessive-compulsive, is there?
Bags of white salt. It's a good business. Before high industrialization, business could still be done for at least 2,000 years.
Xue Qing inspected the entire production process of Yanba. expressed appropriate concern for the front-line employees, and it was enough to increase the salary, so there was no need to show it to anyone. Is it so funny to cry like three fat? Finally, he expressed a high degree of affirmation for Gao Tianxing's work in the previous stage. I hope that he will continue to play a fine tradition in his future work. (To be continued.) )