The salt farms of the East China Sea fishery are located on a sandy beach four or five miles away from the city of Zhou.

In order to speed up the construction of the salt works, Wang Xuance had temporary shacks built nearby for the helpers to live in.

As for the diet, it is basically based on a variety of marine fish, which makes the helpers very satisfied, and they work very hard.

However, even so, not only did these people not become emaciated, but their faces were ruddy, and their bodies slowly became stronger.

"Lord Wang, the first phase of the Yantian project has been completed, and the salt is being dried, and the salt will start to come out in the next two days."

Dai Quan followed Li Kuan, walking on the beach, reporting on the construction of the salt pans under the East China Sea Fishery.

"Yes, this progress is very fast, but you have to pay special attention to the coarse salt refining workshop next to it, and you must do a good job of secrecy."

It is difficult to keep the method of drying salt in seawater secret, as long as you take a few casual glances, you can generally see the process of drying salt.

However, the salt that comes out directly is coarse salt, which has a lot of impurities, and basically cannot be eaten directly, which requires it to be refined into refined salt.

In the era of the Tang Dynasty, if there was no golden finger of Li Kuan, it would be very difficult to purify the coarse salt from the seawater, and the cost would be very expensive, otherwise the seawater salt drying method would not have been progressing slowly.

However, Li Kuan can exchange some chemical raw materials such as barium chloride from the system to refine refined salt, and the effect is absolutely incomparable with any method now.

After all, the table salt of later generations is basically sea salt, and the key to refining is to remove magnesium and other components from seawater.

"Lord Wang, please rest assured, those materials are managed by the escort team, and the helpers and craftsmen in the workshop are out of reach. The subordinates have also tried, if the materials given by the prince are not added, even if the other processes are the same, the final refined salt is still very bitter. ”

"That's good, after the salt is out, it will be sent to the warehouse at Wendeng Wharf immediately, and the East China Sea fishery can now catch a lot of big yellow croaker every day, and it urgently needs a lot of salt."

"My subordinates understand that after the workshop here is built, the shipbuilding workshop you mentioned is also ready to start, but there is a lack of skilled shipbuilders here in Dengzhou, and this may need to recruit a group from Jiangnan or Chang'an."

"No problem, after a while, this king will arrange a ship to return to Beijing, and it will be dealt with together when the time comes."

……

Some warehouses and shacks have been built around Wendeng Wharf, and the East China Sea fishery has simply built a salted fish processing workshop here.

Remove the lin, open the intestine and break the belly, remove the internal organs, salt, and air dry......

Relevant personnel have been recruited for each process, but the operating rate of this newly built workshop is still very low.

The root cause is a lack of salt!

A pound of salt sells for 30 yuan, which is 10 yuan more expensive than Chang'an City.

This is the price at which the East China Sea Fishery procures salt in Dengju Prefecture.

Wang Xuance is not stupid, now the big yellow croaker is only sold for a penny a catty, how can he buy salt for 30 yuan a catty to pickle it?

"Steward Wang, the first batch of salt has been delivered from the salt workshop, you can go over and have a look."

"Huh? Finally Salt? Wang Xuance's face was overjoyed, and he hurriedly ran to the door.

I saw that at the door of the salted fish workshop, more than a dozen helpers each carried a load of snow-white salt, standing there.

Wang Xuance came to a person with an arrow step, stretched out his index finger and dipped some salt in his mouth, "Huh? Is this salt dried by seawater? ”

"Steward Wang, if you fake it, all these salts are produced in the salt workshop."

The salt in the workshop was finally officially released, and there was no need for Dai Quan to watch it every day in the future, so he simply escorted a batch of salt to the salted fish workshop, and then prepared to go to the shipbuilding workshop for a while.

"Impossible, sea salt should be very bitter, all these salts are refined salt, even the mineral salt of Chizhou, and the quality is not so good."

Wang Xuance felt that what was happening in front of him had subverted his imagination.

"The king is in charge, with the prince here, nothing is impossible!"

……

Wendeng Wharf, early this morning, Li Kuan personally went to see him off.

The shipbuilding workshop in Dengzhou lacks craftsmen, and the yellow croaker salvaged by the East China Sea fishery has been made into salted fish in large quantities, and it also needs to be sold, so Li Kuan arranged for Wang Fugui to return to Chang'an City.

"Lord, don't worry, after returning to Chang'an, I will immediately open a salted fish shop in the West Market, specializing in selling salted fish produced by Dengzhou Fishery, and then send someone to Luoyang to open one."

Looking at the pieces of salt on the salted fish, Wang Fugui was not worried that the salted fish on the boat would not sell.

"Selling salted fish is one thing, you can also talk to those merchants in Xishi to see if they are interested in coming to Dengzhou to develop. The East China Sea Fishing Industry is not averse to other vessels going out to fish, and we can even guide some of the vessels to fish with us. ”

The fishery resources of Datang are far richer than those of later generations, and Li Kuan is not worried about anyone stealing business with him at all.

On the contrary, he hopes that the more fleets that come to Dengzhou, the better, even if those families want to come to pick up the bargain, he has no objection.

Li Kuan welcomed anything that was conducive to Dengzhou's prosperity.

"Lord Wang, businessmen are all profit-seeking, as long as they see that the fishing industry in Dengzhou is so profitable, someone will definitely be tempted to come."

Wang Fugui has been in business all his life, so he naturally knows the thoughts of businessmen very well, and he also has considerations about how to complete the characters explained by Li Kuan.

……

"Envoy, envoy, it's not good!"

Shopkeeper Lu came to Chun Yu in a panic.

"Shopkeeper Lu, what's going on?"

Li Kuan didn't come to the Assassin's Mansion during this time, and Chun Yu didn't go to Wendeng County to visit, and the two sides were very peaceful for a few days.

"I heard that the salt drying farm by the sea produces a lot of salt, and many small merchants are asking them if they can sell it."

"I also heard this news a few days ago, but didn't the King of Chu say that all the salt from his salt farm is supplied to the salted fish workshop, and it will not be sold?"

"That's what if they secretly take it out and sell it?"

The shopkeeper Lu compared his heart to his heart and felt that Li Kuan's promise could not be trusted.

"Hmph, don't worry, this official also has acquaintances in the Imperial History Tower, if the King of Chu dares to sell salt, there will definitely be countless Imperial Historians to join him at that time!"

After meeting with several waves of guests from Chang'an a few days ago, Chun Yu felt much more confident about dealing with Li Kuan.

Even now he wishes that Li Kuan would sell salt everywhere by himself, so that the nobles in Chang'an City can help him clean him up and let him go back to Chang'an City quickly.

However, he naturally wouldn't tell Shopkeeper Lu about these news.

No matter how good a businessman is, he is just a chess piece at a critical moment.