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"Fang Qiao, you prepare, I want to give Wang Jun a secret decree." Yang Guang said in a deep voice.

Fang Qiao hurriedly said, "The minister obeys the order." ”

Yu Shiji watched Fang Qiao prepare, and couldn't help but secretly say in his heart: "It seems that the relationship between Wang Junlin and Fang Qiao is by no means as cold as it seems, today Fang Qiao went around in a big circle, I'm afraid it is to ask for this secret decree for Wang Junlin!" Well...... If I sell the secret decree to the Lu clan, I don't know how much silver I can sell? ”

"I have long heard that the Lu clan is rich and rivals the country, but they take care of the people of Fanyang County, and even the tenants of its people hand over less grain than other nobles, I have never understood why they are so rich that they are rival the country, and now it seems that the Lu clan's money is stealing my salt tax, which is really a crime that deserves death."

At this juncture, Yang Guang cares most about the taxes of the imperial court, which county pays less taxes, may suffer heavy fines, and which county has more taxes may be praised, and even the chief official can be promoted.

The reason for this is very simple: the financial situation of the Great Sui Empire is extremely optimistic, whether it is the emperor's private treasury or the imperial court finances, although they are not yet exhausted, they are all stretched.

In the four or five years since Yang Guang ascended the throne, it was a rebellion in Bingzhou at the beginning, and it took four or five months before and after, mobilized 200,000 troops, and spent countless money and food. Then came the construction of the Great Wall, the new capital, the straight road, the Chi Road, and the construction of the Grand Canal...... And so on, each of which is a big money-consuming thing.

In short, Yang Guang recently discovered that he wanted to achieve the imperial industry of the Qin Emperor and Han Dynasty, not only because of his eloquence, but also because he needed the assistance of many excellent civil officials and military generals, but also needed a lot of money. Anti.

So, in order to be able to continue his ambitions, and to be able to maintain a huge empire. Since the accession to the throne

, Yang Guang, who spends money lavishly, also had to start paying attention to tax matters, trying his best to look for money everywhere, and he even thought of finding an excuse to destroy a certain gate valve family, these gate valve families have accumulated for hundreds of years, or even thousands of years, so that they are rich and rival the country, and the money obtained from the family can do a lot of things.

Why do the other four counties of the East China Sea have more than 500,000 taels of silver every year, but Fanyang County is only 200,000 taels, not to mention the previous things, this is enough to make Yang Guang extremely ruthless to the Lu family, because in Yang Guang's eyes, the white salt of the East China Sea at this time is no longer white salt, but silver!

Thinking of this, Yang Guang suddenly found that it was really appropriate to send Wang Junlin to Fanyang County as a taishou, and he believed that after his secret decree was passed into Wang Junlin's hands, Wang Junlin would definitely not let himself down.

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Wang Junlin was watching the sea at the seaside at this time, he inspected the salt pan today, and Fanyang County used seawater to cook salt, so the salt field was naturally on the seaside.

The smell of seagrass blew in his hair, and as far as the eye could see, the blue ocean occupied most of the field of vision, and the waves surged, as if the sun, moon and stars were all out of it, only to feel magnificent, sweeping the block in the chest!

But his eyes did not stay on the sea for too long, most of his attention was always on the salt pans on the beach, which were connected and divided into quite square pieces, and beside him were Xu Xiaohu leading the five most experienced salt workers in the salt farm, all of them were tanned by the sun, malnourished since childhood, making their bodies look very thin, but long-term labor made them very strong, but they were only in their forties, but they looked like they were fifty or sixty years old.

"You don't have to worry about the method of boiling salt, I will provide you with a simpler and more efficient method than the previous method of boiling salt." Wang Junlin looked at the five people and pointed to these salt pans: "But I need five people who are qualified to learn this method and become master craftsmen, you might as well talk about your views on the salt field and boiling salt, which can be regarded as the interview and assessment of you by the official." ”

When the five of them heard this, their bodies were shocked, and they became the master craftsmen from salt workers, which was no less than a carp jumping over the dragon gate, and they were the top among scholars. One of the salt workers preemptively said: "Lord Qiyu, the salt production of the salt farm in Fanyang County is decreasing year by year, in addition to the fact that a lot of salt is taken out and sold privately, there are three reasons. ”

"Oh! What's your name, tell me about it. Wang Junlin was interested, looked at this person carefully, and found that this person's eyes were full of vicissitudes, but it was indeed a shrewd look, Wang Junlin and the nobles of this era regarded the people as untouchables, he knew that there would be pearls in the reckless and lowly people, and even hidden dragons and snakes, if there were such characters among the tens of thousands of salt workers, he would never be stingy to promote and cultivate them.

The salt worker listened to Lord Taishou ask his name, and said excitedly: "My lord, the villain's name is Liu Yanlang, plus the villain's generation, there have been four generations of ancestors who have been salt workers in the salt farm, and the villain said that the two reasons are that the sea invades and disturbs, which makes the seashore restless. The second is that the salt workers and salt slave workers were deducted from the money of the master craftsmen, and there was no motivation, so the output decreased. Third, for more than 1,000 years, Fanyang County has been boiling the sea to make salt, which has depleted the coastal firewood, and it is necessary to transport firewood from farther away, which will be very costly......"

Wang Junlin nodded, and expressed his appreciation for what Liu Yanlang said, Liu Yanlang was right, the sea salt in these years was basically obtained by decoction, and it is said that the person who first invented this matter was called "Shusha Clan", which was a Laiyi monarch.

Legend has it that when boiling clams in a clay pot by the sea, he accidentally boiled the water dry, but at the bottom of the jar, he got a layer of crystalline sea salt, reached out and tasted it, and since then there has been a way to boil salt through seawater.

Three days ago, when Wang Junlin came to the salt field, he saw from a distance that there was a ditch to bring the sea water at the time of the tide into the large pond dug up, and the salt workers and salt slaves carried wooden barrels to the frying and brine stove room, which contained two rows of buried stoves, on which were set up with clay pots, and people were constantly transporting firewood, burning the fire and boiling the sea day and night, and the whole seashore was billowing with smoke...... And in order to keep the master master of the core technology of boiling salt, salt workers and salt slaves are not allowed to enter the stove to watch.

Of course, no one could stop Wang Junlin from coming to see, and when he inspected it the next day, he went in and took a look, and found that the method was similar to boiling sugar, first boiling high-concentration brine in a large kettle, and then transferring it to a small kettle, and finally obtaining a white hemisphere, which was the salt in the fried pot, and then smashed and scattered, it became sea salt sold in bulk.

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