By the sea, next to the No. 1 salt pan of Jiazi, it is only less than ten miles away from Yinan City.

Liu Huai was fiddling with the grill because there were guests arriving today, and there were all kinds of pheasants and wild game with bright feathers and unknown names.

Zhao Yuanzhuo, the commander of the Mingzhou Navy Division, had already changed into a linen coat and came over with two jars of wine.

Liu Huai didn't look up: "You don't stay in Mingzhou, it's not what you said, here is ten out of ten and six dead and three times a person arrives, why are you running here in such a dangerous way?" ”

"Take a look."

Liu Huai looked up in the distance, there was also a guest there, Lei Ao, the commander of the Fuzhou Navy Division, was carrying a small bench and sitting there watching a group of people quarrel.

It should be two groups of people.

A group of craftsmen from the Han family, five first-class masters with a large number of apprentices.

On the other side is a military shipwright who came secretly from Pingjiang Mansion.

The craftsman of the Han family pulled out a picture: "Ten zhang of wood, which can be used as the main wood, does not need to be assembled to build four floors, so we have to take this batch of wood away." ”

The shipwright of Pingjiang Mansion was anxious: "These timbers are ordered by us and are good timbers for shipbuilding." Are you blind? This wood has a lot of grease, so that the sea ships can be used at least fifteen years longer than the previous wood, and we can build twenty huge ships. ”

"Phew. The Qian family shipwright has a picture of a ship of 44 zhang and 4 feet and 4 inches, and you have seen it, and he dares to call it a giant ship when he is only 20 zhang. ”

"I've seen it too."

"My young gentleman married the eldest girl of the Qian family."

"Bah."

"I vomit."

Seeing that the two sides were about to stage a full martial arts, Lei Ao, who was moving a small bench to watch the excitement, suddenly said: "Why don't you invite a few of the Qian family's shipwrights." ”

Both sides shut up instantly.

They are all carpenters, and on the other hand, they are masters of building furniture and houses. On the other side are shipbuilders.

But when it comes to the level of carpenters, I don't know what other places are, in the areas of Liangzhejiang and Jiangnan, no one dares to say that they are better than the carpenters of the Qian family.

The Qian family does not need to draw a line, does not need a ruler, and makes twenty wooden strips by feeling, and these twenty can be made exactly the same, with almost no error.

A carving knife can carve nine layers of coiled dragon wooden balls.

This level, God.

Please ask the money to go out of the mountain, who can have such a big face in this matter.

Lei Ao smiled: "Write a document on the wood you studied, and I will send it to the Han family for you, can you invite the master craftsman of the Qian family to see the face of the young gentleman of the Han family." ”

"Well, that's fine." The carpenters on both sides agreed.

At present, the timber by the sea has been piled up, and if it is used to build a house, then choose a day when the wind direction is good and the tide is good, and if you build a ship, put it here to build.

Therefore, the way the wood is used represents ownership.

The carpenters did not leave immediately, first pulled the rope to circle the pile of wood, some of the small wood was determined to be used to build a house, the carpenter of the Han family had already circled it, and there were dozens of oversized and over-long and super-thick ones, and the boatsmiths of Pingjiang Mansion decided that this could only be used for shipbuilding, so they also circled it.

At present, the focus of the dispute is the batch of wood with the largest quantity, about ten zhang in length.

From a distance, it really looks like a hill.

When Lei Ao returned to the fire, Liu Xianlun also came, carrying a basket full of colorful fruits.

Liu Xianlun sat down after greeting a few people: "When I arrived here, I realized that I didn't read much, and I didn't know the tree, and I didn't know the fruit, but the locals said that I could eat it, so I changed some." ”

Lei Ao picked up a few and looked at them, and also shook his head: "I haven't seen it either, this is a grass fruit or a wood fruit." ”

The grass fruit that Lei Ao said is the category of strawberries, and the wood fruit is the category of pears.

"I don't know, you don't know General Lei, and naturally we don't know each other."

Lei Ao said: "I really don't know, who would think that the difference between this sea is so big, and a small soldier in my camp told me a few days ago that he fancy a piece of land in this place, saying that he plans to take over the family, this place can make a fortune by planting sugarcane, rather than being a tenant for people, it is better to plant sugarcane here, but I don't know how to calculate the land money." ”

Liu Huai didn't know how to answer this question.

The question of immigration has not yet been thought about.

Liu Xianlun took over the topic: "I want to think about this, and then write a letter back to Lin'an to discuss, this matter is feasible." It would be a good thing to be able to grow a large amount of sugarcane, and the sugar in Lin'an City is 30% more expensive than last year, and there are more people who eat sugar, and sugar is also expensive. ”

The four of them clinked their glasses, Liu Xianlun pointed to the No. 1 salt field in the distance: "This piece of 1,700 mu is just getting it now, I calculated it a few days ago, if this year's 1,700 mu can produce no less than 80,000 quintals of salt, and it is not an accident to reach 100,000 quintals, after all, I don't know what the weather is like here in summer." ”

Liu Huai poured Liu Xianlun full of wine: "Brother Liu, ask for an official for you?" ”

"No, I don't. Just give it a drink, and if you can, give it some money to spend. After speaking, Liu Xianlun laughed heartily.

This is a joke, and Liu Huai doesn't ask any more.

It seems that if Liu Xianlun's identity is open, it must be time to face Han Jiang.

Such a character is definitely not something that can be passed away with a little wine or a few dollars.

Liu Xianlun stretched out his hand and pointed to the distance: "No. 2 Yantian is under construction, and the manpower is far away, and No. 3 A-shaped is afraid that there will be no chance this year." Counting the number of existing salt pans, it is difficult for the output by the end of this year to exceed 100 million catties, unless the No. 3 salt pan is built. ”

The existing numbering method is that the south of Yinan City is the A-word sequence, and the northward is the B-word series.

The A-1 is experimental in nature, so the area is the smallest.

No. 2 is official, and when it was built, it was directly claimed to be 10,000 acres of salt fields, with a total area of nearly 10,000 acres, minus roads and necessary construction areas, and the actual salt fields were 8,950 acres.

Liu Huai asked: "To achieve an output of 600 million catties, how many salt fields do we need?" ”

"Yes!" Liu Xianlun calculated and shook his head gently: "Impossible, I have traveled all the beachheads around Yinan City that can produce salt, and the most that is easy to transform is only more than 30,000 acres of salt fields, and the rest will take some time and spend a lot of money, and in the end we will be able to transform it will not exceed 150,000 mu." ”

"And how much is there?" All three generals were very concerned about this number.

Liu Xianlun took out a pamphlet from his arms: "This is given to me by the general, from the Han family's Shaojun's method of sea salt fields, I have carefully studied it, and I dare not say that there are some things on it that are wrong, I can only say that I still don't understand." According to Shaojun's algorithm, 10,000 mu of salt fields only need 10 households, but at present, we need more than 100 households for 10,000 mu. ”

Han Jiang didn't write it wrong, but the times didn't reach it.

Before the crossing, the output of the Budai Salt Factory was indeed more than 600 million catties of salt, but there were tractors at that time.

According to the Song Dynasty at this time, it was all manpower, and there was only a small amount of animal power, and it was already Liu Xianlun's management to reach seventy percent, unless the area of the salt field could be expanded, the goal of 600 million jin could never be completed in Yinan City.