The Hidden Dragon in the Abyss Chapter 123 Salt
Everyone could see that the green ring was different from usual, and Chen Ye saw that there seemed to be a drama in this matter, so he said it directly.
"Luhuan, you've been with Xiao'er for a long time, what do you think of this house?" When the green ring heard this, it tasted wrong, could it be that he had done something wrong, and he dared to go by himself.
"Childe and Mrs. are very good to me, and I am willing to stay in the house as a slave for the rest of my life" Green Ring wanted to cry as he spoke, but it was actually Green Ring who misunderstood.
"What do you think of Brother Zheng" Chen Ye's words made Luhuan's mind a little unable to turn, didn't he say to go by himself? Why did it get to Zheng Xin. Green Ring looked at Zheng Xin, his face turned red unconsciously, his whole face was flushed, but he thought that he was a maid to marry, and his heart was a little entangled.
"Brother Zheng has admired you for a long time, and I want to ask for your opinion." Hearing what Chen Ye said, Zheng Xin and Green Ring both blushed and lowered their heads.
It's rare to be a matchmaker, looking at the shy appearance of the two, Chen Ye laughed.
Luhuan said hesitantly: "I thought that the son didn't want me, but I think Brother Zheng is very good, and I am willing to let the son and his wife decide." Green Ring felt so ashamed, and ran out directly covering his face.
Everyone laughed in a circle, and Zheng Xin was very happy when he got a satisfactory answer. Of course, the matter was quickly settled. After all, one is affectionate and the other is intentional, and it just happens to be able to match the two of them, which is a great joy. Then when Chen Ye began to arrange marriage, Zheng Xin couldn't live in the mansion after being married, so Chen Ye bought a house with Zheng Xin outside, next to the mansion. The purpose is also so that if there is anything in the future, Zheng Xin can escape with his family and Chen Ye.
Chen Ye comforted Zhao Xiao for a while, Zhao Feifei on the side really didn't care, Zhao Feifei was now thinking about pregnancy, in order to prevent Chen Ye from being snatched away by the people around him, he directly asked Biqing to stay away from Chen Ye, and tried not to leave Chen Ye at night.
Zhao Xiao's mind is now all about the big and small things at home, and his sister is either busy with business, or pulling Chen Ye to make children.
After convincing Zhao Xiao, he originally wanted to give Zheng Xin a big deal, but he didn't expect Zheng Xin to refuse directly, after all, after Zheng Xin came to the capital, according to Chen Ye's idea, Zheng Xin would recover some of the ruffians in the capital, plus he would help Jinyiwei, which was not a difficult thing.
Zheng Xin still wants to handle it simply, and Zheng Xin will be directly exposed, which will be difficult to carry out the follow-up work, and in another aspect, it is also to protect the green ring. Just such a simple wedding, under the witness of Chen Ye and Zhao Xiao, the wedding was simply held, but at Chen Ye's insistence, Zheng Xinba was still asked to carry the sedan chair and pick it up from Chen Ye's mansion with a suona.
To the outside world, it is very simple to be a maid to get married, originally many people paid close attention to Chen Ye's dynamics, knowing that it was a maid who married out and didn't take it seriously, so it passed. It's actually good for Green Ring to marry in the past, so Zheng Xin is also married to his own person, Green Ring is very good at taking care of people, and he can also take good care of Zheng Xin.
However, even if Luhuan himself got married, he still had to stay in the house, and he usually continued to manage the big and small matters, saying that he still couldn't do without Zhao Xiao. It was uncomfortable to stay at home alone, and after the strong request of the green ring, the green ring was still in the house as before.
The group of people brought by Zheng Xin has already started construction on the canal, and now it is hot on both sides to see who is faster, and the speed of canal excavation has begun to gradually accelerate. Chen Ye also has to start thinking about continuing to make money, after all, so many people in the People's Health need a lot of funds. A guerrilla unit was also raised in the steppe, and it was the children who were sent to remote places for exercise. Over the course of the year, the team has grown larger and larger. Some of their supplies were looted by themselves, and the rest still needed Chen Ye to support. There are also weapons and armor that cannot be crafted in the capital, and can only be bought from the black market to be built secretly. Sent over there, seeing that money is needed here and money is needed there, Chen Ye felt that it was still a big head.
The plan to delay the sale of salt was mentioned on the agenda, but the main reason was that there was no such environment at home, and Chen Ye had been soaking in the school for the past few days, thinking about how to refine the refined salt. There are a lot of utensils and chemical stuff in the school, so it's easy to use whatever you want.
After refining for a long time, I found that I couldn't use any scientific method to refine the refined salt, but after so many days of research, I could purify the magazines inside, which can be regarded as progress.
Next, we began to look for the source of salt, which is generally sea salt and well research, and no mineral salt has been found at the current level of technology. Even if the mineral salt was discovered, Chen Ye had no way to remove the sulfuric acid and the like inside. Relatively speaking, the safest ones are well salt and sea salt.
Well salt is generally in Yunnan and Sichuan, and there is only one way to go, which is Haiyan. Chen Ye was thinking about whether there was a good salt mine nearby, and he could only go to the beach to explore this. Choosing a good sea salt site requires flat terrain and wide beaches; There is more wind and less rain, there is plenty of sunshine, and evaporation is vigorous.
It seems simple after all, but in fact, it is not so easy to find, Chen Ye directly took Chen Yi and a group of workers to the coastal edge area to search, and after looking for seven or eight days in a place with more reeds on the seaside, he found a relatively ideal sea salt site.
Chen Ye happily took the workers to start dividing the place, and sent someone to the county government to buy this long and narrow place, Chen Ye was rich and directly bought twenty kilometers, and these twenty kilometers were all Chen Ye's place. Because it was a dime a dime before, the price was not particularly expensive. 100,000 taels is done, after all, this income is also considered a local political achievement. Chen Ye's fame was so big, and he was scared that he was doing something for the emperor, and he took the land contract very lightly.
First of all, divide the several miles of seaside into large and small salt pans, and bring the sea water into the salt pans. When the sun evaporates, of course, it takes several days, and all that remains after the water has evaporated is sea salt. In fact, the reason is very simple, that is, the seawater enters the evaporation pond through the tide, is evaporated and concentrated into saturated brine by solar evaporation, and continues to evaporate and crystallize in the crystallization pool, and then collects salt artificially and piles up to complete the production.
Next, there are some processes, when the raw material sea salt crystallizes out, it will go through several simple processes such as sand filtration, membrane filtration, evaporation, crystallization, and separation, and finally form a product.
In this way, although the time is relatively slow, the output will be relatively high, and the use of manpower is more a problem. For salt making, Chen Ye is still the first time, but everything has to be experimented. When the first batch of sea salt was successful, Chen Ye deliberately tasted it, and when he saw the white sea salt, it was not particularly bitter in his mouth, but very leisurely. Chen Ye knew that this matter had been successful, and at the same time, looking at the excited expressions of the workers, he knew that the quality of the salt made this time was quite good.
After delaying here for a while, it can be regarded as a good result, and other things will be arranged by Chen Yi here. Chen Ye wanted to hurry back to the capital, and arranged for the people of the Chamber of Commerce to accept it immediately, and he was going to run the salt market next, and the emperor promised that he could sell salt, after all, there was no formal will.
Chen Ye didn't stop on the road, basically returned to the capital at noon the next day, went home to take a brief rest, and took a beautiful bath. I was ready to enter the palace and report this good news to Your Majesty.
"Your Majesty, Lord Chen Ye is here" Gonggong Zhou reminded on the side, after all, Chen Ye has been absent for several days, and the emperor knows the news that Chen Ye left Beijing to look for salt, and now it seems that he has found a position when he comes back.
"Let him in," said the Emperor without raising his head.
Chen Ye just arrived at the imperial study and saw that His Majesty was still renovating, and knew that His Majesty was busy. Hurriedly took out something from his arms and handed it to Father-in-law Zhou. After opening it, he found that it was some small snow-white crystals, and after getting Chen Ye's permission, he took out a little bit and tasted it.
"Hey, it's good salt, it's not bitter or astringent, I've never eaten such delicious salt in my life," Zhou Gonggong exclaimed after tasting the salt.
The emperor was not interested, but seeing such an exaggerated expression of Gonggong Zhou, he also tried to dip a little and put it in his mouth, feeling that it was indeed different from the previous one, and the color was better than that used in the palace. Because of the factor of productivity, Zhongshan is basically in a state of salt shortage, and salt is also a hard currency of the people, comparable to silver.
"How is the output" Emperor Han Qing is still more concerned about the issue of output, whether the people of the whole country can eat such good salt.
"My salt farm can guarantee two-thirds of the country's salt volume," Chen Ye estimated, if he continued to open the salt farm, he should be able to get this output.
"Seriously" Emperor Han Qing didn't correct it, grabbed Chen Ye's shoulder, and continued to ask.
"Your Majesty, when did I lie to you" Chen Ye had a confident smile on his face.
"Okay, you can do it, hurry up on this matter" Emperor Han Qing wanted Chen Ye to hurry up and increase production, but saw that Chen Ye didn't know what to do.
Chen Ye had no choice but to remind: "Your Majesty, my salt leads." Hearing this, Emperor Han Qing understood, it turned out that Chen Ye specifically asked for salt, so he directly spread out the dragon case and wrote down a decree on the spot, which was the place where Chen Ye was specifically responsible for sea salt.
"What's the name of the saltworks?" Halfway through the writing, I found that Chen Ye did not name the salt farm.
"I haven't chosen a name yet, it would be best if Your Majesty chose a name" Chen Ye hurriedly patted a sycophant at this time, if this thing is done well, it will be a famous thing in the future, of course the emperor is happy.
As soon as the emperor Han Qing of the "Chang'an Salt Field" wrote it casually, this thousand-year-old salt field opened the curtain of history.