Chapter 51 Progress of the Salt Drying Method

Zhou Chen looked at Li Xian like this, and sneered faintly in his heart, he really had the courage when he hollowed out the granary, but at this time, he didn't have the guts.

Zhou Chen said: "Sometimes the disaster affects one person, the whole family, and you need to weigh it carefully. ”

Li Xian couldn't hold back any longer, and couldn't help asking: "What should the court do with the matter of the granary?" ”

Zhou Chen said: "How to deal with it, does it have anything to do with you?" ”

Li Xian listened to Zhou Chen's words of yin and yang for so long, how could he not know what Zhou Chen had guessed. Li Xian knelt on the ground and said, "My lord, save me." ”

Zhou Chen said: "What's the matter with you? If you don't make it clear, how can I save you? ”

Li Xian said: "This matter, I really didn't do it, how could I do such a thing, this is to send my family to Huangquan Road." It's just that such a treacherous little official, they planted this thing on me, and I just received them a thousand taels of silver every year for filial piety. How dare you do such a thing? ”

Zhou Chen didn't think that Li Xian was lying, since ancient times, he was not the only one who was played with by the officials below in applause.

Whether it is a capable minister or not, the first test is whether he will be led by the nose by the officials below.

And now this squire who has been mixing in the household department is simply pushed up by the officials below, and whoever does it under his banner will only share him with a thousand taels of money in the end. But he is responsible for everything that happened, and he is the main culprit in the highest official position.

The petty officials below threw out a few more scapegoats, and most of them fell lightly.

Zhou Chen said: "Master Li, I didn't mean you, when it comes to this, you also have to think about what happened behind you, and in the future, whether your Li family is a scholar or a crime is just in your thoughts." ”

The word scholar originally meant the identity of a scholar in the Wei and Jin dynasties, and this refers to Li Xian's current official status, because he had been an official, and his descendants would have special care and various conveniences in their household registration.

Although the Ming Dynasty did not have a cold name, the Ming and Qing dynasties were inherited, and many of the rules of the Qing Dynasty were just put on the surface of the unspoken rules of the Ming Dynasty.

The family used to have an official body, and it is always too convenient for the students who were born with mud legs.

Once he is involved in this major case, his children and grandchildren will be treated as the family members of criminal officials and put into a separate book, which will not be able to turn over for several generations.

Li Xian said: "As long as I come out, can you only sin me." Don't implicate the family. ”

Zhou Chen said: "I can still guarantee this for you. ”

After thinking about it, Li Xian finally made a decision and said, "Okay, I'll take the lead." ”

With Li Xian's head, the Jingcang fire case was quickly investigated. These little officials are not too bold,

The embezzlement was not too much, about forty or fifty thousand stone of grain, and after the two fires, the gap had actually been almost reduced.

After Zhu Qizhen saw the results, he directly asked the Criminal Department to deal with it severely to set an example.

Zhu Qizhen has clearly felt that the limelight is wrong.

He didn't want the rule of the officials who were still incorruptible in Yang Shiqi's era to be in his hands, and the rivers would be out of control. It is rare for Yang Pu to have the same thoughts as Zhu Qizhen.

Although Yang Pu has always said that this kind of chaos is Wang Zhenyu's sin.

Zhu Qizhen has checked some of them, but there are some people who do have a relationship with Wang Zhen.

Zhu Qizhen had to wake up, he is the emperor, I don't know how many eyes are staring, if he loosens a point here, he can relax a little below, think about it, you know, the gift to Wang Zhen, of course, there is Zhou Chen, in order to settle the relationship, and want to do things in peace, but think about it, you know that more people are not this idea.

The previous appointment of the thousands of households in Ningbo, if it was not obvious enough, has now revealed the consequences.

In the city of Beijing, under Zhu Qizhen's nose, Wang Zhen naturally did not dare to go too far, but to foreign officials, Wang Zhen was naturally not polite. Zhu Qizhen was very worried that the situation of the officials outside the capital was worse than he imagined.

It's easy to learn well, but it's too easy to learn bad.

And Zhu Qizhen's premonition soon came true.

Zhu Qizhen received Liu Dingzhi's recital, Liu Dingzhi's recital, which was specifically about the salt drying method, Liu Dingzhi knew Zhu Qizhen's habits, and tirelessly introduced many technical details.

Only then did Zhu Qizhen discover that the salt drying method introduced by Liu Dingzhi was a little different from the salt drying method in his memory, although the local salt drying method in Fujian was salt drying, but it did not make people imagine a large area of salt pans, but surrounded the sand into a round mound. This is one of them.

The efficiency is higher than that of the salt frying method, but it is not as high as Zhu Qizhen wants to beat. The only thing is that the labor force is reduced, and there is also a division of labor among the stove households, some of them are dedicated to supplying firewood, and some people are responsible for frying salt, and the emergence of the salt drying method has liberated the people who are responsible for collecting firewood, and they give a sum of money for frying salt, so they quit the salt field and go to do their own work.

After Liu Dingzhi arrived, he let go of these firewood households and organized them into civilians, and was exempted from labor in the salt works.

Then Liu Dingzhi studied the salt drying method. The Yantian method was invented without a teacher.

Liu Dingzhi adhered to the idea of a large division of labor in Zhu Qizhen, chose several miles of coast, and built all of them into salt fields, and then used military law to order the stove households and detachments to do things.

That team builds salt pans, that team dries salt, and that team makes brine. That team of salt clearing, and so on.

It seems to be a simple thing, but Liu Dingzhi has been repeatedly experimenting for two years before it can be regarded as a success.

Among them, there are two difficulties, which are a specific division of labor

suddenly, how can it be reasonable. This is difficult for Liu Dingzhi, and the one who can win the exam is the first-class smart person at that time.

The basic prototype of drying salt is there, and it is not that he made it out of nothing. As long as Liu Dingzhi works hard, he can do it.

After the difficulty, there is the weather in Fujian.

In a sense, Fujian is actually not suitable for salt, because Fujian has a lot of rainfall, and the matter of salt, depending on the weather, is basking in a heavy rain, and the efforts of these ten days are in vain.

Liu Dingzhi didn't notice this at first. It was a rainstorm that educated Liu Dingzhi. He began to study the climate of Fujian in detail.

Choose to avoid the rainy time period of salt, so that many times a year, you can only work for half a year, but also the efficiency of salt is high, this half a year of salt, can be worth the quota of the previous year, and there is a lot more.

And because the Ming Dynasty implemented the salt system, the salt of the Fujian Salt Transportation Division can only be marketed in Fujian Province, so it is impossible to buy it if it produces too much.

Liu Dingzhi played this time, on the one hand, he summarized the salt drying method into a book and sent it together, so that on the other hand, he asked Zhu Qizhen for instructions, what should I do with this extra salt?

It can't be sold locally in Fujian.

Zhu Qizhen himself reviewed his opinions, that is, it can be exported through customs. Anyway, Fujian's sea trade foundation is very thick, after the provinces opened the sea, Fujian's sea trade developed rapidly, even more than Tianjin Port, only in Guangdong, in the second.

Zhu Qizhen just asked the maritime merchant to test the water to see if his idea was right, this salt is feasible as a bulk commodity.

After Zhu Qizhen finished reading it, he opened the salt drying method catalogue on the side.

There are pictures and texts on it, all of which are similar to the pictures above the heavenly creations, the human figures outlined with a brush, and all kinds of workmanship postures.

Zhu Qizhen actually didn't understand it, and he didn't know how different the salt drying method that Liu Dingzhi made was from the ancient salt drying method in later generations.

But Zhu Qizhen can see that this is a complete division of labor operation document.

In other words, Zhu Qizhen predicts that it is feasible to improve production relations and then promote changes in productivity.

Zhu Qizhen attached several orders of magnitude more to Liu Dingzhi in an instant, and it was not uncommon for him to be a champion, but it was very important for someone who could understand Zhu Qizhen's division of labor.

It just so happens that the palace is actually in charge of a lot of workshops, what glass factory, Shenmu Field, this bureau and that bureau, and even the weapons and equipment Ouchi all produce a part.

However, Zhu Qizhen has investigated, these so-called factories are actually countless small workshops gathered together, which are essentially different from modern factories.

A lot of people get a question wrong.

It seems that it is only necessary to make a steam engine with a golden finger, ignoring that there is no modern factory system, and small workshops do not actually need steam engines.