Half a month later, Yando Village was relocated as a whole and became the first batch of relocated households, and all the stove households were given land according to their capitation and left happily.

Soon, along the coastline, patches of salt ponds, brine ponds, and crystallization ponds were built. It was built with blue stone masonry, and a pumping truck was installed, and more than a dozen sturdy oxen worked on the pumping truck day and night.

"The whole village of Shiodo, all the seaside land has been built into salt pans, the salt pond covers an area of about 3,000 acres, with 500 captives as salt ding, and a team of soldiers of the Guards Battalion is stationed in the village of Shiodo, and after the reinforcement, nearly 100 men and horses. Patrolled day and night. It's absolutely hard for outsiders to get in. "Ah Jin, who served as a guard in Yanhu Village, this simple young man from the Miao family, is now an officer in the Guards Battalion.

According to the calculation that every 15 acres of salt fields can process 100 tons of seawater per day, about 3 tons of coarse salt can be obtained for every 15 acres of salt fields a day and night.

After experimenting, the number of jù obtained shocked Fubo and Yanmei'er so much that their tongues almost fell out. If the 3,000 acres of salt fields are so efficient, 600 tons of coarse salt can be obtained every day and night, which is 1.2 million catties! Even if it is calculated in half, 600,000 catties is amazing.

However, what happened later was even more joyful.

"I have weighed the water of these springs with a scale, and this spring in the back mountain is the lightest and contains the least impurities. And after another day and night of drying, the impurities have been precipitated. As he spoke, Li Shouhan instructed the salt to pour the coarse salt into the water tank, stirring constantly, so that the salt grains dissolved.

The brine is then poured onto a tight cotton board pressed with cotton and filtered. After filtration, a lot of impurities are left on the cotton board, black and yellow. After several layers of cotton board filtration, the salt water is already clear and translucent.

"Excellent! Use charcoal again! ”

After the filtration of charcoal, oh, activated carbon, basically, there are no impurities in the brine anymore.

A salter secretly stuck out his tongue and licked the salt water, and he couldn't taste the bitter taste of sea salt that he was used to. "Oh my God! This Han man is amazing! What a character chosen by the gods! ”

After several tosses, the brine was finally poured into several large pots, and unlike other pots, the pots were inlaid with copper plates to prevent the salt water from corroding the pots.

"You are a merchant in my general's mansion, and your daily business is salt. Look at it, what should you do with this kind of salt? ”

Li Shouhan summoned Jiang Yili, the treasurer of the "Yuhetai" salt, and his men and threw them two salt samples.

"My lord," Jiang Yili carefully looked at the refined salt that was as white as snow and as delicate as powder, "This kind of salt, if it is purchased, should be purchased for one hundred and fifty wen a catty, and sold for more than two hundred wen." ”

The big guy looked at the other bag of salt, "My lord, this kind of salt is slightly worse than the salt in the shopkeeper's hand, but it can also be sold for more than one hundred and twenty yuan." ”

"Goo-dong!" With a bang, Lao Cheng's heavy Fuber chair fell to the ground, "Alas! When you're old, your legs and feet are not good, not to mention, even the chair is a bully! While covering up, he secretly calculated in his heart that the salt fields in Yanhu Village can now produce at least 60,000 stone per month, and after processing, at least 10,000 stone of refined salt and 30,000 stone of filter salt can be produced. According to the price of 80 wen for refined salt and 60 wen for filtered salt, after deducting almost no labor costs, facility construction costs, and depreciation costs, almost every catty of salt has a profit of 60 wen, so that there is an income of more than 100,000 silver per month.

With such a fixed and reliable source of income, why worry about the young master's grand cause? !

Blessings and disasters do not go alone. Which one said it?!

Just when the shopkeepers of Yuhetai were wholesale refined salt everywhere with great fanfare and were happy to collect money, Li Shouhan fell into deep thought.

After the money, the start-up capital for the industrial revolution was obtained! But the labor force is still insufficient, even if it is crazy to catch people back, it is not enough, because most of the labor force is farming, after all, survival is the first priority. No, you have to think of ways to increase food production! But the question is how to improve? Hybrid rice is not so easy to get, with ......

Come on, quickly call Wu Cunjie over.

Speaking of Wu Cunjie, there is also an anecdote in it. After Li Shouhan swept away He Tianfu with a thunderous momentum, he specially posted a recruitment notice, as an old boy who had tried and failed, Wu Cunjie, was the first to go to the general's mansion to serve, (in fact, he just wanted to find a job!) Seeing the name card he handed over, Shouhan almost squirted a sip of tea from his mouth onto Yan Mei'er's new dress.

"Wu Cunjie, with words. No. Nanlang. ”

"Isn't this dog a pure wolf?!" Shouhan was secretly amused in his heart, which was the nickname of a writer he liked. Since then, the pure wolf and Wu Lao Wolf have become Wu Cunjie's nicknames. Of course, except for a few people, no one dared to call to their faces. Although Wu Cunjie's level of the imperial examination is very bad, he can write a good account with good words, so Li Shouhan asked him to be his account room.

"Student Wu Cunjie, meet General Dong Weng." As soon as Wu Cunjie entered the door, he immediately saluted Li Shouhan.

"I said, old wolf, don't be so polite with me." Li Shouhan asked while helping Wu Cunjie up, "How many people are under our rule now?" How many fields are there? ”

"Back to Dong Weng, the students did statistics the day before yesterday, and now there are more than 15,000 households under the direct management of Dong Weng, more than 35,000 people, and more than 386,000 acres of land. The first crop of rice has been harvested, totaling 647,000 stones, and according to the grain tax rate of 20 taxes and 1 in Dong Weng, a total of more than 32,350 stones have been dissolved into the grain depot. ”

"Yes, yes, yes. Old wolf, don't you think that the amount of public grain we have in storage now is too small? Don't you want to get a little more rations? Li Shouhan asked with a smile.

Wu Cunjie's face immediately changed when he heard this, and he fell to his knees and shouted: "Dong Weng must not be!" Zi said: The people cannot stand without faith. Dong Weng had already announced a few months ago that the grain tax would be 20 taxes and 1. Now, if Dong Weng wants to rashly raise the grain tax, how will he win the trust of the people in the future? I beg Dong Weng to think twice! ”

Where is this? Li Shouhan couldn't cry or laugh a little, and quickly helped Wu Cunjie up and said, "I said old wolf, do you think I look like that kind of person who goes back on his word?" What I mean is to increase the yield, for example, an acre of rice produces four stones a year, and according to the twenty tax one, it is 24 catties of rice. But what if an acre of rice yields ten stone a year? Isn't there only 60 catties of rice in the public grain paid at the rate of 20 taxes and 1? ”

"This ...... How is this possible? Although he understood what Li Shouhan meant, Wu Cunjie still looked incredulous. After all, in the 17th century, even in a place like Indochina Peninsula, which had the title of rice paradise, the yield of rice per mu in three crops would not exceed four stones, but Li Shouhan put forward the goal of producing ten stones per year, could this not surprise Wu Cunjie?

Just as Wu Cunjie was thinking about how to get ten stone rice, Li Shouhan continued: "You send someone to inform you that in ten days, each village will send a person who is proficient in both farming and fish farming to the general's mansion, and at the same time post the notice. In addition, prepare 50 male and female carp and a number of willow branches, which will be of great use to me in 10 days. ”

"This ...... What's the use of Dong Ong asking for this? Wu Cunjie was even more confused.

"Slurp! What is so much crap for! Li Shouhan was a little angry, "Old wolf, since you are working under me, you must understand a truth: my orders, what you understand must be executed, and what you don't understand must be executed!" At the same time, we will deepen our understanding in the implementation, understand? ”

"Students understand."

"If you understand, don't do it quickly!"

Ten days later, representatives of one hundred and ten villages who rushed from all over gathered at the General's Mansion, and Li Shouhan came to them, cleared his throat and said: "You are all proficient in farming and fish farming, and this time let everyone come because I have a way of raising fish to consult with the big guys." ”

After speaking, all over the people led the more than 100 people to the pond, and led everyone to stand still, Li Shouhan said: "Look, there are willow branches and 50 carp of both male and female in this pond, I think there are also people among you who know that carp like to lay eggs on aquatic plants, in order to facilitate operation, I will take this willow branch as aquatic weeds, I think there are already a lot of fish eggs on it, and I will take this willow branch up to see." Saying that, Li Shouhan waved his hand, and several sergeants carefully scooped up the willow branches, only to see that the willow branches were covered with fish eggs, which looked very dazzling.

"These eggs should be left in the water to hatch into small fish, what is the general doing with them?" Seeing Li Shouhan's unusual behavior, everyone was naturally puzzled, so some bold people asked.

"Hehe, you don't know that if this fish egg is placed in a paddy field, it will be eaten by all kinds of things, and most of it will be lost before it hatches the fry. I fished them up to make sure that most of the eggs hatched into small fish. Li Shouhan replied with a smile.

The delegates shook their heads, knowing that fish will die when they leave the water, and fish eggs are no exception, so how can there be a reason to take fish eggs to the shore to hatch?

Just when the deputies were puzzled, Li Shouhan spoke again: "You have to be busy these days, wait for every ten people to get a willow branch, spread it out and put it in the courtyard to bask in the sun, and sprinkle some water on it every once in a while, for a total of three days." Be careful when spreading willow branches and sprinkling water so as not to break the eggs. ”

"Isn't the general looking for us and other pastimes?" Finally, someone voiced his dissatisfaction with Li Shouhan, "Zheng has been raising fish in a certain field for 30 years, and I have never heard of a fish that can survive without water!" ”

Li Shouhan was stunned for a moment, and then asked with a smile: "I don't know what this brother is called?" ”

The man arched his hand and replied: "Brother Tai doesn't dare to be, his surname is Zheng Quanfang, and the cheap word is Xinyuan." In the first year of Zhixue, he began to study books such as "April Civil Order", "Four Seasons Usurpation", "Jingshi Civil Record", "Qi Min Yao Shu" and other books, although he did not dare to say that he was proficient, but he also knew only a little about agriculture, mulberry and fishery and animal husbandry, and I really didn't know how the general let the fish eggs hatch fish fry on the shore? ”

Talent! Proper talents! Li Shouhan shouted in his heart. What is most important in the 21st century, talent! What was most important in the 17th century was talent! In this era when people who only know how to read the Four Books and the Five Classics, there is an alternative who has read so many agricultural technology books, which is even luckier for Li Shouhan than winning 5 million.

"This Brother Xinyuan, is you willing to gamble with Shouhan for a game?"