Chapter 368: Inside and Out
What Dong Zhuo was able to do at the beginning, Li Ru naturally didn't think that Lu Bu couldn't do it. With Lu Bu's current prestige, it is natural that those Qiang tribes can be convinced, and it is only natural that they can recover Shuofang. Therefore, Li Ru now wanted to remind Lu Bu to prepare for this salt lake.
Speaking of salt making, Li Ru still remembered that Lu Bu once said with him that he could come up with a new method of salt making after watching the Jinyang soil salt being taken. But this was just Lu Bu's casual mention, and then there was no follow-up, and Lu Bu never mentioned this matter again. Li Ru is also very curious when he talks about this salt lake now.
He now knows very well that his lord will not be untargeted, and Lu Bu can make many unexpected things. He said that if there can be a new way to make salt, that is, there really is!
Sure enough, after Li Ru mentioned the matter of the salt lake, Lu Bu looked at Li Ru's eyes full of hope, and said with certainty, "This is natural." This salt-making thing, I think back, the last time we went to Jinyang to observe the method of making soil salt, I said that we should improve this production method! After so many days, this new method of salt production can be tried to be used in these two salt lakes! ”
"The lord has really come up with a new method of making salt?"
Li Ru was a little surprised.
Lu Bu nodded slightly, this ancient method of making salt is still quite easy. Before the Tang and Song dynasties, people's practice was to pour brine and decoction salt, and the salt obtained under this practice was coarse salt, mixed with too many harmful substances, such as sodium sulfate and magnesium sulfate. This makes the taste of this salt really bad! For a long time, Lu Bu was uncomfortable. Later, after going to see the scraping soil and pouring brine and frying salt with this Li Ru, Lu Bu remembered that he had not dried salt at this time. It was to come up with the idea of drying salt, and after a period of research, a new method of salt production was probably come out.
Counting it, Lu Bu didn't know much about this method of making salt. But isn't it that there is a salt official in Jinyang, isn't this salt official still managing so many people who make salt. Lu Bu gave them an idea, and then motivated them with money, and they were immediately able to do things safely. A lot of the time, it's just a matter of thinking. If it weren't for Lu Bu's knowledge of the later generations' practice of drying salt, who would have thought that he would be able to dry the salt? This is the last time Lu Bu saw those people plowing with a straight long plow in the suburbs of Jinyang, he thought of the idea of the curved plow.
No, after Lu Bu put forward that idea, and with the help of the little genius who helped the wind and Ma Jun, this Qu Yuan plough appeared now! I don't know how those historians will evaluate these things when they see the epoch-making thing of this quyuan plough appearing in the future?
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After talking freely with Li Ru, Lu Bu was still very happy in his heart! When he came to Jiuyuan this time, Lu Bu originally just wanted to go back to his hometown to have a look, and by the way, he would arrange some things in Hetao Tuntian. But I never imagined that this small Shuofang would have these two large salt lakes. This made Lu Bu excited, after he went to Wuyuanyi, Liangchengyi, and Xi'anyang to investigate, he still gained a lot.
First of all, he still knew about the situation of the Great Wall today. He never imagined that in the past few years, the Great Wall would be so deserted. Secondly, Lu Bu also knew some of the conditions in these counties of Wuyuan County. Even though Lu Bu was born in this Nine Plains, he still didn't understand many things, and he was only responsible for fighting those Xianbei in the past. For example, these five plains are still the county governance of Shuofang County, for example, Nachengyi even has soil salt. In the end, the two major salt lakes in Shuofang County still made Lu Bu overjoyed. In this troubled world, this salt is more expensive than life! That's a war resource comparable to food.
Nowadays, in the entire merger of states, there is only the pacification of Xihe County, Guangyan and Meiji. Chengyi in Wuyuan, Qiuzi in Shangjun, Jinyang in Taiyuan and Yanze and Loufu in Yanmen have salt officials who can produce salt. It is indeed a great burden to supply millions of people throughout the state with the salt produced in these places. And now that there are two salt lakes, Jinlianze Salt and Qingyanze, there is no need to worry about the problem of salt.
When Lu Bu felt happy about these two things in Shiozawa, this surprise came one after another. Cheng Chong, who had been separated for nearly ten days, also arrived in Jiuyuan, and the entire Jiuyuan City was also very lively. What Cheng Chong brought was not only the 5,000 armor soldiers, but also tens of thousands of displaced people who migrated from Guanzhong.
After separating from Meiji, Lu Bu and his party went to Jiuyuan, while Cheng Chong and Han Hao, as the main persons in charge of the relocation, continued to evacuate those displaced people in various counties. In this way, it is naturally delayed for some time. It is not so easy for these 100,000 displaced people to settle down, but fortunately, Zhang Yang also helped. and Yu Fuluo, who asked Lu Bu to be established as a Xiongnu Shan Yu not long ago, is also very eager! Under such circumstances, Han Hao moved a part of the displaced people with Yu Fuluo to Dingxiang and other places in the clouds, while on the other hand, Cheng Chong and Zhang Yang led a part of them to move to these places in the Five Plains Shuofang.
"Lord!"
"Bongxian!"
Two different voices sounded almost at the same time, Lu Bu looked at Cheng Chong and Zhang Yang who came from the line, and also laughed, took a few steps forward, and took the initiative to shake Zhang Yang's hand, "Brother, it's been hard work all the way!" I have already set up a big banquet in Jiuyuan City, just to catch the wind and wash the dust for my brother! ”
I haven't seen each other for months, even though Zhang Yang's temples still have a few more strands of white silk, but there is a lot of energy on this face! Obviously, during this time, Zhang Yang seems to have found his purpose in life again. Lu Bu asked him to be the general of the Xiongnu and let him appease these Huns, so that Zhang Yang's reputation among the Huns is increasing day by day, and the Han people under his rule are also grateful to Zhang Yang.
This Lu Bu and Zhang Yang, one master kills and the other master is lenient, but they are each other's appearance, and they actually make these Huns obedient. This situation is really quite wonderful, and it is very similar to Liu Yugong and Sun Zan in Youzhou. It's just a slight difference, Liu Yu of Youzhou is the superior and Gongsun Chan is the subordinate, Liu Yu is generous but can't be subordinate, Gongsun Chan is brave but resistant.
Let Lu Bu's hand be clenched tightly, Zhang Yang's face also turned red, he didn't expect his virtuous brother to still be so enthusiastic about him! Thinking of the current situation in these places, Zhang Yang felt more and more that it was correct to cede the state pastor to Lu Bu in the first place. Pulling out a hand, Zhang Yang pointed at Cheng Chong, "Fengxian, you should be rewarding this General Cheng, he is very hard working on the matter of immigration, I just helped on the side." ”
Lu Bu nodded slightly, and looked sideways at Cheng Chong, "Zizhi, hard work!" ”