"yes!" Liu Jin agreed, and then said, "Your Highness is still resting early!" “

Shaking his head with a wry smile, Zhu Houzhao said helplessly: "The matter is not over yet, how can I rest!" While there is still time, hurry up and finish the matter, it is estimated that this palace will not stay here for too long! “

Although there has been no feedback from the capital so far, Zhu Houzhao also knows that this feedback will not take too long, especially after the Ye family is arrested, there will definitely be feedback from the capital, and it is very likely that he will return to Beijing. Glancing at Liu Jin, Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "You are also tired, let them wait, you go to sleep first!" ”

How could Liu Jin go to sleep at this time, he would not give the opportunity to serve His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to others, and turned on the lamp a little, Liu Jin said: "Your Highness is not tired, the slave and maid are not tired, the slave and maid accompany Your Highness, if there is anything, Your Highness can also greet the slave and maid!" “

nodded, Zhu Houzhao didn't say anything, just shifted his gaze from the book to the book, and the expression on his face became serious again.

Early the next morning, Zhu Houzhao came to the salt field again, and what he came to was the salt field that Zhu Houzhao first came to, which was originally the Huaibei T-shaped salt field managed by Ye Li. The people here are also the deepest in their gratitude to Zhu Houzhao, seeing Zhu Houzhao coming, many stove households came over to kowtow to Zhu Houzhao, and Zhu Houzhao also smiled and helped these people up.

These people are still dressed simply, Zhu Houzhao knows that their lives are still embarrassing, although he sent a lot of things last time, but these things are just to improve their lives.

However, unlike the first time I saw them, they were numb at that time, and they could not see the slightest anger on their faces, but these people at this time were not like this, their faces were full of smiles, which was the longing for life and hope for life, and their eyes were no longer fearful, but kind with expectation, that was the expectation of their future life.

He walked in with people hula, these people no longer retreated, no longer ran away, but rushed over, Zhu Houzhao's heart was very pleased.

"Go get their captain!" Zhu Houzhao glanced at Liu Jin beside him, and then said, the salt farm that has been restructured, Zhu Houzhao is not setting up an official system such as a treasury and ambassadors, it is these old men who are in charge, these captains, except for the salt field yamen who manages the entire salt farm, Zhu Houzhao is not ready to set up other low-level officials.

It didn't take long for several old men to walk over to this side together, and the old man Zhu Houzhao at the head knew him, and he was the old man who Zhu Houzhao helped him up on the execution ground that day.

Li Yan, his name is Li Yan, Zhu Houzhao is very impressed with him, his dry hands are a little cut to the touch, different from when he first saw him, although Li Yan at this time still looks very old, but he walks with the wind. The people who followed Li Yan were also some old men, all of them were old people in the village, Zhu Houzhao looked at them with a smile.

After seeing the ceremony, Li Yan said: "I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has come down, and they all want to come over to meet His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Zhu Houzhao nodded, and then said: "This palace is looking for you to come over, in fact, there is something for you to do, is there nothing wrong with you here?" “

"Back to Your Highness, of course we have no problem!" Before Li Yan could speak, the other old men opened first, and Li Yan turned around and glared at them fiercely, obviously dissatisfied with them challenging their authority, which was robbing them of their performance opportunities, but those old men were not to be outdone, and glared back fiercely, and Zhu Houzhao who saw this scene smiled.

"It's fine!" Zhu Houzhao nodded, and then said, "Then call for people, let's do it!" “

A few old men agreed, and then turned around and went to the back to greet people, Zhu Hou looked at the vigorous old man, and suddenly felt much more comfortable in his heart.

Of course, what Zhu Houzhao wants to do is to build a salt pond, which is actually a matter of being dragged down by the Ming bureaucracy, which is why Zhu Houzhao has to run two salt farms in one lap. Since ancient times, the people have known that the most primitive method of making salt from seawater is the method of "frying" and "boiling", using a plate for frying, and a pot for cooking, which is called "boiling sea for salt" in history.

After more than ten centuries of practice and improvement, from direct decoction with seawater, to drenching and boiling with brine decoction, the use of decoction method to produce sea salt not only has low yield, but also poor quality.

Compared with this, the benefits of the salt drying method are more, Yuan Taizong two years to Yuan Shizu twenty-three years in the north of Jieshi Mountain, along the Jinjin River built Haifeng, Hairun, Haiying three salt farms. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Hairun and Haiying were fried and sunned, but the advanced salt drying method was not promoted, because no one did it, and everyone just wanted to make money from it.

The life of the stove households was miserable, and they would not think about improving the salt drying method and increasing the yield, until the first year of King Sejong's Jiajing, Haifeng Field took the lead in frying for drying.

Although it was changed to frying to drying, this advanced technology was not promoted on a large scale, but was concealed as a secret, and more salt was produced by drying salt, and these salts were washed away as residual salt, and most of them were sold by salt merchants as private salt, which is why the strength of salt merchants after Jiajing became stronger and stronger.

Originally, the process was improved and the output increased, which would bring a lot of benefits to the country, but these people filled their pockets.

It was not until the late Ming Dynasty minister Xu Guangqi promoted the salt drying method that this advanced technology was taken out and used, but at that time, the salt merchants were powerful, and the benefits were still occupied by them.

Zhu Houzhao came to the Lianghuai Salt Farm this time, in addition to cleaning the salt farm, establishing a new system, in order to promote the salt drying method. Only when the salt works are cleaned up, the salt road officials who fill their pockets are cleaned up, and the illegal salt merchants are cleaned up, can the promotion of such advanced skills be meaningful, and Zhu Houzhao's previous research on the output of the salt works is also because of this.

When everyone arrived, Zhu Houzhao also finished changing his clothes, and wore a coarse cloth short dress on Zhu Houzhao's body, which looked decent.

Glancing at Liu Jin's constipated expression, Zhu Houzhao glared at him, of course wearing this is not for people to see, but to wear this for ease of work, not to mention anything else, the prince robe he is wearing now is really inconvenient. This is the first time to build a salt pond, and these people have no experience, so Zhu Houzhao must have to end up in person.

The salt pan is generally divided into two parts: the evaporation pond and the crystallization pond. First introduce seawater into the evaporation pool, evaporate the water to a certain extent after the sun, and then pour it into the crystallization pool, continue to sunshine, the seawater will become a saturated solution of salt, and then the salt will gradually precipitate, and the crystals obtained at this time are our common coarse salt, Zhu Houzhao wants to take them to do such a salt pool.