Although today is not the day of the opening of the market, there are still places to buy salt in the town, because thousands of households and nearly 10,000 people in Shili and Eight Villages have to eat salt every day, so salt is the most important living material in addition to grain, and in the Qin Dynasty, although salt and iron are important, they have not yet completely become a government monopoly, so some people do salt and iron business, and there is one in this Qinghe Town.

Under the leadership of Uncle Ma, a group of people soon came to the east of the town and found this place selling salt dozens of meters away from the main street.

Sure enough, the man who did business was to be much richer, because the salt merchant lived not in a thatched hut but in a wooden hut, which was very rough but much more spacious and bright, and when he entered it, he smelled a strong salty smell.

Salt is mineral salt, a lump of crystals stuck together, very hard, and you have to grind it into salt with a stone mortar before you can use it when you buy it.

And Chen Xu seems to remember that Henan in later generations originally produced salt, and there was a large salt mine in Pingdingshan City, and Pingdingshan seemed to also produce iron and coal, and in later generations it was completely an industrial city supported by mining, but I don't know if these mines are mined now.

If not......, well, Chen Xu thinks that he can consider finding a big boss to try to cooperate, although the Great Qin Empire will collapse after more than ten years, but the business of mining, no matter which dynasty is definitely the most stable way to make money, and with coal, iron-making technology can also take a big step forward, and even directly step into the era of steelmaking, and with steel, in the hands of an eloquent emperor like Qin Shi Huang, it is likely that China will become an infrastructure madman two thousand years in advance.

If we figure out the cement again, it is estimated that the Great Wall will be directly made of reinforced concrete.

Isn't that crazy?

Chen Xu thought while putting salt into the basket!

"Xiao Langjun, what are you doing when you buy so much salt, you have bought it and other people's houses have no salt to eat!" The owner of the salt seller kindly reminded him.

"Oh...... it! Chen Xu came back to his senses and looked at his basket, which was almost full, at least no less than seventy or eighty catties.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Chen Xu took out the salt one by one, and in the end, there were only about ten catties left, and then he stopped, and the boss who watched it only twitched.

"Xiao Xu, it's time for us to go back!" After buying salt, Uncle Ma looked up at the sky again and said.

"By the way, everyone has been busy for a day today, and each person will be given twenty yuan, if you want to sell something, you can buy it quickly, and go home after selling!" Chen Xu opened the leather bag containing the money and grabbed a handful of money out.

"Xiao Xu, how can this work?" Uncle Ma was the first to wave his hand and refuse.

"You're welcome, without everyone's help, I can't go home on the rotten mountains with these meats, it's all a village, I want to make money and let everyone drink soup, right, if I don't have other uses for this money, it doesn't matter if everyone divides it equally, you don't accept it, everyone won't accept it, but you also know the situation of every household, buy salt, buy cloth, buy something to use, you can't come for nothing!" Chen Xu forcibly stuffed the money into Uncle Ma's hand.

Uncle Ma's face turned red, his mouth opened a few times and then he accepted it, and the others saw Uncle Ma collect the money, although they were slightly embarrassed and nervous, but they were all excited.

Twenty yuan is also a lot of wealth for a group of poor haha, enough to buy half a stone of grain, mixed with wild vegetables can be eaten for a family of three for a month, in the event of a famine, that is life-saving money, so with these heavy copper coins, everyone is full of strange gratitude to Chen Xu, and this underage teenager suddenly became taller in their eyes.

It seemed as if he had woken up from a different person after falling from a tree and fainting.

Not only does it suddenly become curative, but it is also much more generous.

You must know that although Chen Xu was not very bad in the village in the past, his temper was definitely not good, he often scolded his sister and Chen Jiang at home, and he was a little lazy in his work, although he was almost an adult, no one mentioned a family matter to him, so that Chen Jiang was a little unable to raise his head in the village, and even Niu Dashi, the scheduled brother-in-law, did not like to associate with him very much, and he was called by his name when he met on weekdays.

But since he woke up, his performance in the village in the past few days has completely subverted the villagers' previous feelings.

"I'm going to buy some cloth and take it home, so that my mother can make a dress for my little sister!"

"I'm going to buy a jar to cook rice, the jar at home is already broken!"

"Wait for me, I'll go buy two bowls too!"

"I'm going to buy some food, the house is running out!"

After getting the money, several villagers scattered one after another to buy what they needed.

Chen Xu gave Uncle Ma another 100 yuan and asked him and a few remaining villagers to help buy two stones of millet grain to bring back.

"Dashi, aren't you going to buy something?" Chen Xu looked at Niu Dashi, who was staring at the money in his hand and smirked, and said:

"If you don't buy it, you can't buy it, my mother said, you have to save the money!" Niu Dashi shook his head again and again.

"What are you doing when you save it, you won't give birth to a baby when you save it, you have to learn to spend it!" Chen Xu said angrily.

"No, no, save it to marry Xing'er, and it costs money to repair a house and buy land!"

Chen Xu was stunned for a moment, patted Niu Dashi's shoulder and said with emotion: "This can be had, save it well, and when you save 50,000 yuan, I will marry my sister to you!" ”

"Okay......" Niu Dashi nodded, then shook his body, and the money in his hand fell to the ground, and he broke his fingers for a long time before looking at Chen Xu and howling: "Fifty thousand yuan, you just kill me, if I have fifty thousand dollars, the town's lidian is willing to marry my daughter to me!" ”

"That's the best!" Chen Xu rolled his eyes and nodded.

A few minutes later, led by Niu Dashi, who was crying and mournful, Chen Xu found the blacksmith shop in the town.

It is said to be a blacksmith shop, but it is actually a shed with air leaks on all sides.

A thatched hut made of a few thick woods, with a stove made of mud and stone, and a variety of unformed iron and bronze products were placed on the ground, and a wooden shelf hung with made wood knives, kitchen knives, axes, hoes, daggers, and other tools, all of which were made of bronze, and as for the iron tools, they were all simple cast iron, with plowshares and hoes, but they all looked rough and bulky.

Although iron products appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period, they have been limited to the level of iron-making technology, the quality of iron is very poor, and a large number of impurities in it cannot be removed, so the properties are very brittle and tough, although they are hard enough, they are easy to damage, and it is not possible to build weapons at all, even if they make agricultural tools, it will not take long, so they have not been popularized in a large area, and the main metal in production and life is bronze.

After more than 1,000 years of development in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, by the time of the Qin Dynasty, the refining process of bronze had almost reached the peak of mankind, and the bronze weapons created at this time were no less than some high-strength alloys of later generations in various properties, not only with good toughness, but also with the sharpness of the sword even after two thousand years.