Chapter 58 Methodology

Are there any benefits? Indeed, the military spending in the border states is no longer tight, and Jiezhou is only in charge of salt production and transportation, so naturally there is a large group of businessmen who are pulling out of the country, and the imperial court ensures that the tax revenue is not lost and not intercepted.

In more than a dozen states along the way, everyone had cheap salt to eat.

It's just that the hard work of those sub-businessmen is also for the sake of profit.

Later, salt became salt money.

If there is no war, the grain and grass are not in a hurry, the ancestral system of the Great Song Dynasty, the world's silver money will be transferred to Beijing, then the goods will be transported to the capital for delivery, exchanged for salt banknotes in Bianjing, and then go to the place of origin to pick up the goods.

When the people of the Song Dynasty invented salt money, they never thought of a problem.

Salt plays a very important role in this commercial cycle.

This thing is really there, and the paper value corresponding to the salt banknote is directly linked to the salt production! At this time, salt becomes a very creditable, hard erection of reserves!

With this, the nature of salt money begins to change, into what? Currency! This property is far more than 10,000 times more important than the bill of lading!

At the end of the Song Dynasty, the credibility of salt banknotes was much higher than that of Jiaozi and Huizi in the same period.

Until Cai Jing corrupted the salt government.

This baby didn't know anything about the economy, turned the salt banknotes into futures proofs, and then when a large number of old banknotes could not be cashed, the new banknotes were issued at a discount for the old banknotes, and the salt banknotes became a tool for the court to extort businessmen.

It can be said that Cai Jing was arranged by God to come to this world to deliberately accelerate the fall of the Great Song Dynasty.

In addition, if the Great Song Dynasty did not kill scholars, the scholars were very arrogant, and the local government officials spent a lot of money under various names, which greatly hindered the circulation of goods and the economy.

The high-level officials of the Great Song Dynasty, the royal family, and many people of insight have noticed this problem, but there is no way to take this.

The resistance of local interest groups is too great for all kinds of measures to be implemented, and salt money has already made great progress under the pressure of war.

If you want to be persecuted again, the local officials will dare to make trouble, who will raise so many officials outside the organization? Local governments don't want to stay afloat? Theoretically, in a state and county, there are only so many people who take the imperial court, who is not the bigwig in the DPRK and China? You don't really think that you can rule the place just by taking that little bit of people, right? Where did these people's rice come from? Don't we have to find our own way?!

Su You and Shi Dongxiu chatted and pondered, and the eyes of the accompanying babies lit up one by one.

For example, Zhang Qi, he never thought that there was such a set of laws in operation in this world.

Is there a disadvantage to salt money? There are also.

First of all, because it is linked to salt, not all merchants are willing to sell salt honestly, and more prefer to turn their gloves on the spot in Bianzhou or Bianliang.

This gave rise to the business of cashing out banknotes, in which the wealthy lords of Bianjing vigorously suppressed the value of salt banknotes and mastered a large number of salt banknotes, while controlling the market supply and driving up the price of salt.

In short, how to make money and how to come, the country, the court, the daily life of the common people, go aside!

The Song court is a moderate court, if this matter is changed to the Ming and Qing Dynasty, a piece of paper will be lightly written, and countless people will be wiped out. There are 10,000 ways to force these man-eating tigers to spit out.

The Song court didn't have those methods, and the court made a fuss at the slightest move, so it had to set up a salt warehouse in Bianliang, sent a warehouse ambassador, and introduced the national regulation and control mechanism.

The more Su You thought about it, the colder it became, and he nodded secretly in his heart, one day when Lao Tzu got the opportunity, he would always clean up this gang of moths!

Then while listening to Shi Dongxiu, he said with a smile: "If you want to talk about business accessibility, I take the fourth road of my Sichuan Gorge as the most." Although we use iron money and Jiaozi, we have been prosperous thanks to tax enlightenment. ”

"I heard that the adults are discussing the tax law, and they can't control it outside the four roads, and within the four roads, they only collect the land tax once, and the tax is levied once, and they can't be extorted on the way. Virtuous nephew, look at it, our Xichuan, especially the waterways from Kui, Lu, Jia, and Mei to Chengdu, are still prosperous. ”

Su You said with a smile: "As soon as the tax system changes, the state capitals will pay more attention to production, the tax will drop significantly, and the land tax will be paid more attention. ”

Shi Dongxiu laughed: "What my jade porcelain, don't you also have a share?!" ”

Su You touched his chin: "If you really want such a change, there are many questions: such as which commodities will this tax law start with?" For example, Chengdu Mansion is the end of all kinds of commodities, and the tax is dominant, and the repair and maintenance of this trade road must rely on the locality, so it cannot be swallowed alone, how to share the profits? There are also warehousing in various places, how to deploy, control and supervise? Another big article. I really want to go to the Yizhou Road Transfer Division to find out the mystery......"

Shi Dongxiu said: "The virtuous nephew has a big mind, but you are still young, and now you should cultivate a solid foundation and wait for the time to make a splash." ”

This sentence is a bit of a meaning of cultivating the spokesperson of the Jiang Qing family in the next few decades.

I chatted with Shi Dongxiu about the process again, and decomposed the difficulty of ball mill manufacturing into several key directions, among which high-precision bearing balls are one.

But fortunately, the material of this thing is cheap, large-scale tests can be carried out, large bearings can withstand large work differences, it is easier to do, as for the small bearing balls to be used in the Shijia folding knife, then win by quantity, burn it tens of thousands of pieces, and always pick out the one that can be matched in one place.

After discussing this, Shi Dongxiu still didn't let him go, and beckoned Shi Da to come over: "Don't you still have something to ask Mingrun?" ”

Shi Dahan smiled and arched his hand: "Little master, this glaze is ......"

Su You said with a smile: "I don't know much about the glaze formula, but I think I can work on the purity." ”

"The most convenient way is to knock the ore into small grains first, and then remove the miscellaneous stones through rough separation, leaving the concentrate."

"Then use a small ball mill to grind out a fine slurry, and obtain an extremely fine powder by the water fly method."

"What we should pay attention to here is the mixing of impurities, so the inner surface of the ball mill is best made of jade porcelain, so that even if it is peeled off, there is no pollution."

"As far as I know, the metal composition in the glaze has a great impact on the color of the enamel, so in the process of grinding the glaze, we should try to avoid contact with the metal."

"In the same way, it is necessary to study the corresponding glaze color of various metals, as well as the proportion of mixing, firing with porcelain tiles, and making experimental records."

"After these things are done, it is the color burning, the change of kiln temperature is one aspect, and the air intake is another."

"In a recent study between Brother Zhang and me, we found that there is a gas in the air that helps fuel combustion, called oxygen; In Brother Zhang's latest letter, he mentioned that the reaction between oxygen and carbon, in the case of sufficient and insufficient oxygen supply, produces two gases. ”

"So you can control the amount of air intake during the firing process, change the ratio of the two gases, and experiment with the change of glaze color under various combustion conditions, and you should be able to gain something."

Shi Dalian arched his hand repeatedly: "If the little heavenly master and the young master are really pedantic, they must not be wrong." ”

Su You waved his hand again and again: "Everything is subject to the result, I will design an experimental table for you later, and you will fill in all the parameters related to production, so that the glaze will be fired, and it is well documented, or it can be copied." ”

"No matter what the porcelain workshop does in the future, as long as it masters this methodology, it will be able to avoid many detours."

Shi Dongxiu was very happy, and entertained everyone with the pigs, sheep and chickens used for the sacrifice, and asked Zhang Qi to pack a large bag and bring it to the children of the Land Temple.

The porcelain rooster made a fortune today, and suddenly became so generous.

Back at the Land Temple, Su You sent the internal affairs team and the business team into the city to buy large vats and soybean meal.

Zhang Sheng said happily: "Little master, do we want to raise chickens?" ”

Su You smiled: "Do you think we look like we have grain in stock?" Dozens of bellies are waiting to be filled, and chickens are raised! ”

Zhang Zao said with a smile: "The young master is a capable person, now we sell fish and pan iron sand every day, and we can probably earn six or seven yuan, more than 100 yuan per capita, which is enough for expenses." ”

Su You took the bamboo strip on the table and gently slapped him: "People have no long-term concerns, but they must have near-term worries." Why do you just look at the incoming and not the expense? ”

After speaking, he pulled out a list from his bag: "Take it and take a look." ”