Chapter 745: It's not good to suddenly have money

After the brine production is completed, it is crystallization, and the brine crystallization will occur in the eleventh salt pool, and the brine concentration is at 24 degrees, which reaches the standard of salt production.

Every half hour, salt farmers will drag ropes and walk along both sides of the salt pond to stir the brine, which is called "brine flower", the purpose is to mix the fresh brine with the old brine and make the salt crystals more uniform and delicate.

When the brine enters the last salt pond, it just starts to evaporate, and white salt will appear, and when the salt reaches a certain thickness in the crystallization pool, the salt can be collected and piled up.

From the introduction of seawater to the crystallization of salt, the drying cycle of sea salt is about 12 days.

Chao Buzhi introduced to everyone: "Today's Luli salt field can produce 7,000 catties of salt per day, and the annual output is about 700,000 catties according to the normal production of 100 days a year. ”

"Some of the sea salt produced was crushed, washed, screened, dried many times, and shipped to various places in the interior of the Great Song Dynasty; A considerable part of it is used as industrial salt to produce soda ash, caustic soda and other chemical products. ”

Yan Jidao was a little dizzy when he heard this: "How much income can a salt field bring to the imperial court in a year?" ”

Chao Buzhi said: "About 24,000 guan, half of which goes to the imperial court." ”

Zheng Xia asked, "Can the salt field enter 12,000 guan?" ”

Chao Buzhi nodded: "It's almost, now the Luli Salt Farm has organized all the former salt farmers and become the workers of the salt farm, and the more salt is produced, the higher their income will be." ”

"The income of the salt field and the imperial court is basically five or five open, the imperial court has 10,000 yuan, and the salt field has 10,000 yuan."

"After removing the maintenance costs, the income of the salt farm is about 7,000 guan, and the annual income of the family can reach 100 guan."

"However, the labor intensity is much lower than before, and after the most arduous water drawing work is replaced by the irrigation machine, all that remains is to clean the beach, return to the mound, transport salt, and lead brine. In normal times, the family can plow the fields and raise chickens and ducks. ”

Su You took notes while listening: "No blame, you should be more detailed." ”

Chao Buzhi bowed and bowed: "After a long period of seawater immersion in the salt flat, the soil at the bottom will be soft and void, and then the beach needs to be rectified; The beach rectifier is similar to the Bianjing roller, which hardens the soil of the salt pond and can increase the salt yield; The beach is cleaned twice a year, once in the winter during the low season and once in March before the summer season. ”

"The summer with high temperatures and high evaporation is the most suitable season for drying salt in the Luli Salt Farm. But the weather at the beach is changeable this season, and heavy rains are common. ”

"The salt ponds are all open-air, once it rains, the brine in the salt pond becomes light, and the brine making work will fall short, so it is necessary to rush before the rain to introduce the brine into the brine pool next to the salt pond and cover it with covering."

"When it rains, check the salt pond to make sure that the rainwater in the salt pond drains away smoothly; After the rain, the brine is introduced from the brine pond to the salt pond to continue to make brine. ”

"In addition, the salt mounds that have accumulated must be reinforced and compacted to cover them."

"That's pretty much the business of production."

Su You nodded: "Then it's the season to renovate the salt factory?" ”

Chao Buzhi said: "Exactly, look, they are tamping the salt pond. ”

On the salt pond, the workers were dragging the huge stone stone to crush the salt field, Zheng Xia looked at the stone stone and felt very strange: "What kind of stone is that?" ”

Su You said with a smile: "That's concrete, first make a mold, and then use cement slurry to mix pebbles to cast it, it has to be built by quarrying in the mountains, but I'm afraid that it won't be finished until now." ”

Liu Erli is now both a supervisor and a major laborer, and when he heard what he said, he ran over and knelt down: "Dare to ask which noble person is Su Shaobao?" ”

Everyone hurriedly dodged away, and Liu Erli kowtowed a few times in a row: "Erli thanked Shaobao for saving his life." You saved my life and my mother's life......"

Su You hurriedly helped him up: "It's far away, I can't say it, it's Chao Buzhi who saved you." ”

Erli said: "Don't worry, Shaobao, I will do a good job!" ”

Su You smiled: "The scale of this salt farm in Luli is still very small, so hurry up and learn the craft, and maybe you can become a member in the future." ”

Liu Erli waved his hand again and again: "If it is an outsider like Lu Peeling, Erli would rather not be appropriate." ”

Su You said: "Okay, it is said that the poor ** plan the rich have a long conscience, and I can guard my own heart, which is really rich." How is the old lady in the family now? ”

Liu Erli wiped his tears: "Okay, now my mother doesn't need to boil salt, so she leads her family to cook the food, and the work is much easier." ”

After speaking, he asked: "Shaobao, today's Luli should be one of the best salt farms in the Great Song Dynasty, right?" Why did you just say it...... Very small? ”

Su You looked at the people around him: "Erli, do you know how many people we have in the Great Song Dynasty?" ”

Liu Erli shook his head.

Su You said: "As far as I know, at least ninety million. ”

Not only Liu Erli was stupid, but everyone else was stupid: "So much? ”

Su You said: "Adults have a pound of salt a month, and children have half a pound, according to this calculation, the Great Song Dynasty should produce 900 million pounds of salt a year to meet normal needs." ”

Liu Erli's eyes were full of circles: "Nine hundred million catties, how many ...... is this?"

Su You didn't bother to explain, and patted him on the shoulder: "Anyway, do a good job." ”

A few more words of comfort to him, sent him to continue to tidy up the beach, Yan Dao asked: "Mingrun, how much salt does my Great Song Dynasty produce a year now?" ”

Su You said: "In a good year, it can reach 300 million catties a year, so in places like the current Luli Salt Farm, there are more than 800 more, and they can be eaten by the consumer market." ”

Yan Jidao was a little frightened: "That...... Is that...... How much? ”

Chao Buzhi said: "If it is calculated according to 35 catties of salt, 600 million catties is a gap of 21 million catties. ”

"No wonder I'm smuggling salt so rampant!" Yan nodded a few times, and then suddenly reacted: "Twenty million!" That...... That ...... The imperial court's half-profit is also a surplus of 10 million? ”

Su You laughed: "Where is it so simple?!" If you want to rely on Zhejiang salt to enter Sichuan, the imperial court will not be able to fill in the money, I am afraid that it will not be enough to fill in the road! ”

"This is a very complex problem, and now the price of salt is linked to the introduction of money, and the sudden explosion of production capacity will lead to too much money in the market and the price of goods will be expensive."

"There is also a serious economic imbalance between the east, west, north and south regions, if there are two salt buckets of rice in Zhejiang and China, and Shaanxi and Hebei are still pounds of salt bucket rice, what will happen?"

Yan Jidao felt that his brain was not enough: "What's the situation?" ”

Su You looked at Cai Jing: "Yuan Chang, you can talk about it." ”

Cai Jing arched his hand and said: "It will lead to a large amount of salt in exchange for a large amount of resources in the country, and lead to the concentration of resources in the already rich southeast." And what will happen to the Northwest, the Hebei front, which is really urgently needed? What has become of the Great Song Dynasty? ”

"The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer; The south is rich, the north is poor; The enemy country lacks food and clothing, the people's livelihood is withered, and the military is difficult; The counties of Jiangdong are far away from trouble, and they are in peace and luxury, and Wen Tian and Wu are ......""

Yan Daodao thought about it for a while, and his face turned white in fright: "It's terrible." ”

Su You spread his hands: "So, it's not a good thing to suddenly have money, right?" The consequences of uneven development are sometimes even more dire than widespread poverty. ”

After speaking, his eyes flashed: "Especially, where poverty is general, when the enemy country is still eyeing ......"

Yan Jidao was anxious: "Shaanxi is fine." Hebei! Now I'm heading towards Hebei! ”

Su You said: "Yes, so if you get the newspaper, you have to appeal well, so that the imperial court will pay attention to the last big shortcoming of my Great Song Dynasty." ”

In September, Daibei's territorial negotiations were overdue, and the Liao State sent Xiao Xi to speak.

Jiayin, the Privy Council of the Imperial Court discussed border defense.

Wang Shao and Li Xian returned to the court, and Zhao Ji worshiped Wang Shao as the privy deputy envoy. The people of Beijing called Wang Shao's "strange schemes, strange times, and strange rewards" as "three strange deputy envoys".

And Li Xian's promotion to the provincial guard class and the secretary of the imperial city, like Wang Shao, are all eye-catching favors.