Chapter 108: The Treasure House of the Salt Pond Lecture at the Academy

Zhang Zhimu came to the command center and joked when he saw Qiu Laodong's family: "Qiu Laodong, why are you used to staying here in Yaogang." Can't go back for a day? ”

"No, when my family comes home, I don't think it's okay, and I don't think it's good. Especially when eating, it is said that the monosodium glutamate dishes without kiln are unpalatable. Just let my old man go on a trip to buy MSG. ”

Everyone laughed for a while, and Chen Yufeng said, "I talked to my old club just now. What do you do if you look at this? Let Qiu Laodong say the specifics. ”

"We were so busy forgetting one thing. After our salt supervisor in Jiezhou ran away, we didn't arrange for anyone to take care of it. When I got back, I realized that it was a big deal. I was afraid that the telegram would not be clear, so I arranged it and ran over. Qiu Laodong said.

"We have sent officials in Yuncheng and Jiezhou, isn't it okay for your old man to help them manage it?" Zhang Zhimu said.

"No, I think I have to tell you about it, you don't know about the salt industry in our Yuncheng Jiezhou." Qiu Laodong said: "We have been producing salt in Jiezhou for three or four thousand years. In the Song Dynasty, the salt tax revenue of our salt industry in Jiezhou was almost half of the salt income of the Great Song Dynasty. I remember a number, during the Northern Song Dynasty, the salt income of Jiezhou was 728,000. In the same year, Jingdong, Hebei, and Zhejiang. Huainan, Fujian, Guangnan and other six roads, only 1,633,000. In the Ming Dynasty, although the production capacity of sea salt has also increased, I think the annual income here is not much for hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. So we need a dedicated set of people to manage it. We in the Salt Gang can only buy salt from here and sell it according to the salt introduction. I must not participate in the management, and our salt gang will sell salt again. Especially from the Tang Dynasty, in order to protect tax revenue, a forbidden wall was built around the salt pond for 120 miles. It has been perfected throughout the ages. In our Ming Dynasty, two major repairs were carried out, and now the forbidden wall built around the pond is 58.7 kilometers long. The door is divided into three seats; There are 60 shops in the East Gate, the West Gate, the Middle Gate, and the pool, all of which need to be guarded by troops. The Salt Pond Forbidden Wall is not just a sight, so don't be careless about it. Hurry up and send a competent person to take over the place first, otherwise it will be troublesome to clean up after the destruction. ”

Ouyang He said: "After Qiu Laodong finished speaking, I was thinking about this matter. It's a cornucopia. The imperial court will not give up. What if they send someone to take over? ”

Qiu Laodong said: "I don't think so. Because over the years, I know that the imperial court can hardly take much silver from here. said that the imperial court sent someone to take care of things here, but in fact, it was the prince of Jin who had the final say. It seems that the imperial court sent people over, but which official dares to offend the prince of Jin, it is a matter for the Zhu family. Our salt gang can eat mixed rice, that is, it depends on the prince of Jin. Speaking of which, our salt gang has made a lot of money, but those who pay filial piety to the palace have to use half of it. Therefore, after passing through the hands of officials at all levels, the silver in the hands of the imperial court is very limited. ”

"So, there should be a lot of silver in the Jin Palace." Zhang Zhimu said thoughtfully.

"Of course, you know. Several generations of Jin kings have eaten Shanxi's steel, tin, copper and salt, and their income is not only a little bit of money from the imperial court, but also the filial piety of other officials. Their silver is no less than that of the emperor. Now it is the imperial court that is poor. Qiu Laodong said.

"No wonder, Mr. Lu said that we didn't get much money from Li Zicheng there." Zhang Zhimu said.

"King Jin, they are very good at collecting silver, and they are even better at hiding silver. Even if Li Zicheng captures him, he will not give all the money to Li Zicheng. Chen Yufeng said.

After thinking for a while, Zhang Zhimu said: "Uncle Yan, I see that you will send out five hundred policemen and let Yang Jing lead people to take over there." Subsequently, Mr. Lu organized a team to take charge of the salt work there. ”

Qiu Laodong said: "The person of your sect must be a shrewd and honest person. There are too many cats there. ”

Zhang Zhimu smiled slightly and said, "When Mr. Lu goes, he will know how to deal with this cat." No one in the world can play tricks in front of Mr. Lu. He will definitely work out a perfect system to manage the affairs of the salt pond. Unchecked power will inevitably lead to corruption, and it is difficult for any kind of person to withstand the test for a long time. Hehe! ”

Zhang Zhimu's words drew a smile of everyone's approval. If there were no these two hits, the ticket numbers of the kiln people would not be able to be opened.

Zhang Zhimu continued: "Where the salt pond is, if people from the imperial court come, we will not allow them to enter. I'll deal with the court side, but in fact, the smelting farms we took over are also facing such problems. If the court sends people again, you don't have to worry about them. In the future, I don't have to pay attention to those mine supervisors and the like in the imperial court. Li Zicheng is here, they ran far away, and we tried our best to beat Li Zicheng, how can we let them make profits again. I think Emperor Chongzhen is not stupider than us. Now he won't take the initiative to tear up his face with us, because he doesn't have the capital now. In that case, he can borrow some money from us, and in case of trouble or trouble, he can ask us to help. However, we must also give face to the court when we should give it. They don't mess with us, and we definitely don't mess with them. The officials we send to various places must work in the name of their own committees. ”

Zhang Zhimu said to Qiu's old owner: "At such an age, it's really unpleasant to let you toss back and forth so much." ”

"Come on, my body, some of you young people, may not be comparable. What's more, Yang Jing's carriage was very comfortable to sit in. I saw more and more pedestrians on the road along the way. And the crops of the field also grew. I feel happy in my heart and feel much better than staying at home. If it weren't for our salt gang, we'd have to go back and arrange it. I'd still like to stay with you in the kiln. Qiu Laodong said.

"Speaking of crops. I remembered, Mr. Lu said, "The crops in our fields that have been fertilized are obviously better than those that have not been fertilized. Actually, that's just nitrogen fertilization. Mr. Qiu, in the carnallite you brought over, we used potassium chloride. That thing is not only the raw material for us to make white **, but also a very good potash fertilizer. In fact, our crops need three main fertilizers: nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. The ammonia water from our coke is nitrogen fertilizer, the potassium chloride in carnallite is potassium fertilizer, and we can also extract phosphate fertilizer from apatite. If we build the fertilizer industry. I can tell you that we can at least double the amount of food we produce in our fields. Zhang Zhimu knows that the current grain production is too low. There are reasons for farming techniques, and there are reasons for the absence of fertilizers and varieties.

Everyone was shocked when they heard Zhang Zhimu say that the grain output in the field could be doubled, especially the old people in the kiln, they knew that Zhang Zhimu's words would definitely be true.

Zhang Zhimu said: "I think our next step is to build a power plant in Jiezhou. With electricity, we can build a chemical plant directly in Yanchi. There is no need to transport the raw materials to the kiln for further processing. We produce our products directly locally. ”

Of course, Mr. Qiu was happy to hear this suggestion and said, "This is great. We can also light the lights there? I went back these days, and there was no electric light, so I was so aggrieved. ”

Qiu's old owner's words caused everyone to laugh.

Chen Yufeng said: "I think Qiu's old boss is old, and he is still noisy when he is old. Look at you, after going home, the food is not delicious without MSG, and I feel aggrieved without electric lights. So how come you haven't felt aggrieved in the past few decades? ”

There was another burst of laughter.

Li Yan also laughed happily next to him, at this time Li Yan knew that the people here were discussing big things, but they decided to make big things in this relaxed atmosphere. The people here used to have different identities and statuses, but they were not high or low together, and they discussed things to convince people with reason. Li Yan felt an inexplicable impulse in his heart, that is, he had the idea of joining this collective and doing something.

Yang Jing has been running around outside, and he will go wherever there is an incident, because he is in charge of the police with Yan Boju. There are bandits there who are making a lot of noise, and the police there can't deal with it. Yang Jing took people to support.

As soon as Yang Jing returned to the kiln, Zhang Zhimu called this brother-in-law and told him that he must choose a reliable person with five hundred policemen to take over Yanchi. In fact, Zhang Zhimu asked Yang Jing to take over this salt pond, and there was another layer of thought, he knew that there would be many interest groups fighting around the salt pond. Yang Jing is Zhang Zhimu's brother-in-law, and no one else dares to be too presumptuous. And Yang Jing is very smart, and only he can handle things here. Those officers can fight wars, and it is difficult to say whether they can handle all kinds of relationships well.

Yang Jing told Zhang Zhimu that he would send someone who had been with him for a long time to be the head of the guards there to reassure him.

When Qiu Laodong and Yang Jing left, Zhang Zhimu said to Qiu Laodong: "After a while, when Li Mao comes back from Jiangnan, we will have a conference, and I will send a telegram to inform you in advance, maybe the phone will be opened at that time." I might call you. ”

"Don't worry. I will come to you with your letter. Qiu Laodong said.

In the past few days, Zhang Zhimu has talked with almost every leader in Yaogang and asked them for their opinions on the next step of development. Zhang Zhimu also got a lot of useful advice from them. After several deliberations, the content of the work report was basically completed. Relaxed, Zhang Zhimu took Li Yan to the college to give several classes to the students, and also told the students about the world's major events. I also play basketball with them when I have nothing to do. Now with a megaphone, it's much easier to give big lectures. In particular, after Zhang Zhimu asked Yangchang to come up with a dynamic microphone, the sound effect is better, and the dynamic range of the sound is obviously much better than that of the carbon crystal microphone.

Zhang Zhimu's report was even more popular with the students than the course.

What Li Yan didn't expect was that Zhang Zhimu and Xiao Hongyu actually gave a music appreciation class to the students in the art class and the students who were interested in music. This time, I mainly sang guitar and sang for the students.

Because Liu has asked Zhang Zhimu to play guitar for their string professor several times, Zhang Zhimu has played a lot of songs for them. Master Liu's class master, they are simply fascinated by the repertoire sung by Zhang Zhimu, and Zhang Zhimu seems to have endless songs here. For all the songs sung by Zhang Zhimu, they tried their best to record the songs in a simple score. Later, several large copies were printed for the reference of music students.

Students in the college can see these scores in the library of the college.

Thanks to the amplification equipment, many tunes that need to be sung softly can now be sung, especially Teresa Teng's songs, which Zhang Zhimu particularly likes, so that Zhang Zhimu can sing with his heart without caring too much about the size of his voice.

Zhang Zhimu and Xiao Hongyu played and sang passionately, which made the students listen to it as if they were fascinated, which also let them know that the original song could still be sung like this. In particular, Zhang Zhimu commented on the lyrics of each song, which made the students very inspired.

Zhang Zhimu, Xiao Hongyu and Li Mao are not ordinary people, and being able to sing and enjoy music with the students also adds a lot of superiority to the students and greatly increases the students' confidence.

Li Yan later asked Zhang Zhimu, is your explanation of love to students too explicit.

Zhang Zhimu smiled and said: "Now the students' thoughts are suppressed and somewhat distorted, they don't know that love is the most beautiful feeling of human beings." I think love is ugly. Our sanctimonious old masters, who are not three wives and four concubines, are a different face to others outside, and the hypocrisy is disgusting. I just want to wake them up to the courage to pursue love. Teach them to fall in love. ”

Zhang Zhimu thought to himself, if only there were campus songs on our campus.

During this time, because Zhang Zhimu often went to the school, he encouraged the students to participate in practical activities. He also supported the students to start their own poetry clubs. Students are learning to play guitar and other musical instruments in their spare time. There was also anger on campus.

Now, the faculty and staff of the academy have started to get busy. Because the new enrollment is about to begin. Originally, the enrollment work should have started earlier, but Zhang Zhimu wanted to start it after the working meeting in Yaogang. Because both the number of students and the category of enrollment need to be determined after the general direction is determined.

On this day, Zhang Zhimu went to Zhang Bingchen to discuss many medical problems with him. Zhang Bingchen already has his own group of followers by his side. In fact, Zhang Zhimu is most concerned about penicillin. However, as Zhang Zhimu expected, the development of penicillin has not made much progress.

Zhang Zhimu said to Zhang Bingchen: "Bingchen, the penicillin you are doing now can only be regarded as one of the antibacterial genus. Penicillin inhibits the growth of bacteria by inhibiting the synthesis of the bacterial cell wall, not killing the bacteria. There are many other antimicrobials that kill bacteria directly, and you can also research new antibiotics at the same time. ”

"Well, if we can see bacteria through a microscope, we can find out what kills bacteria," Zhang said. Let's look for early antibiotics in this direction. ”

Seeing that Zhang Zhimu's face was not very good, Zhang Bingchen said: "Mr. Zhang, will I give you a number and pulse?" ”

"Okay," said Zhang Zhimu, who stretched out his hand and said, "I suggest that you get something called a stethoscope, as well as a mercury sphygmomanometer." These two things are very useful to you doctors. ”

Zhang Bingchen gave Zhang Zhimu a pulse and said, "It's okay, Mr. Zhang." Don't get too tired. Take a good rest. ”

"Okay, I'll listen to the doctor." Zhang Zhimu specially introduced blood pressure to Zhang Bingchen. Tell him: "Blood pressure is divided into arterial blood pressure and venous blood pressure. What we usually measure with blood pressure is arterial blood pressure. Arterial blood pressure is divided into systolic and diastolic blood pressure. When the heart contracts and ejects blood into the arteries, blood pressure rises, the highest value of which is called systolic blood pressure; During ventricular diastole, blood pressure decreases, and the blood pressure in the end-diastolic phase of myocardium is the lowest, called diastolic blood pressure. The systolic blood pressure minus the diastolic blood pressure is called the 'pulse pressure'. Usually we measure our blood pressure through our arms. In normal adults, the arteries of the extremities have a systolic blood pressure of 90 to 140 mm Hg, a diastolic blood pressure of 60 to 90 mm Hg, and a pulse pressure of 30 to 40 mm Hg. Both high and low blood pressure are pathological manifestations. ”

Zhang Bingchen knew that the things that Zhang Zhimu introduced to him must be very useful, and asked: "Mr. Zhang, when will the two things you said be developed for us?" ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "I see that you are not in a hurry now, why don't we go directly to Li Yunhe and ask him to arrange someone to make this thing for you immediately." ”

Zhang Bingchen got up and said, "Let's go, go now." Otherwise, you forgot about it and didn't know when. ”

But when Zhang Zhimu got up, he saw that a large porcelain plate was used for the equipment on another table in Zhang Bingchen's room, which looked very bulky, and couldn't help but say, "If only there were enamel plates." ”

Zhang Bingchen asked: "Mr. Zhang, what kind of enamel are you talking about?" ”

"You don't have to worry about it. I would ask them to study the use of a layer of porcelain on top of metal to make all kinds of convenient and durable utensils. After Zhang Zhimu finished speaking, he led Zhang Bingchen to Li Yunhe's office.

Li Yunhe sent away a group of people around him and said to Zhang Zhimu and Zhang Bingchen: "You two come together, you must have a task again." Go ahead! ”

Zhang Zhimu drew a trumpet-shaped pickup for Li Yunhe with a pencil, took out a rubber tube from the small mouth of the horn, and connected an earpiece on the other side of the rubber tube that could be placed on the ear with two prongs. After carefully telling Li Yunhe the size and shape of this thing, he said, "This is a stethoscope for patients, you have to make it for Zhang Bingchen." ”

Li Yunhe looked at it and said, "This thing can cure the disease?" Don't worry, I'll get it out for you in two days. ”

Zhang Zhimu said to Li Yunhe: "I'll get you another complicated thing." You're going to have to put a little effort into getting a blood pressure monitor. ”

Zhang Zhimu drew a mercury pipe, a rubber bag and a valve for Li Yunhe to cheer up. There are also air sacs wrapped around the arm. Afraid that Li Yunhe would not understand, Zhang Zhimu introduced the principle of using a blood pressure monitor to Li Yunhe.

Li Yunhe said: "It's not difficult. I'll get it for you in two days. ”

Zhang Zhimu asked Li Yunhe: "I want to burn a layer of porcelain glaze on the iron sheet, who do you say will do this?" ”

"We porcelain kiln people. However, the metal needs to be glazed with a bottom temperature. You need to master the heat. The enamel must also be able to be separated from the metal. Li Yunhe said.

Zhang Zhimu said: "Yunhe, think about it, if we use a steel plate and stamped it into a cup, is it easy to rust." But if we could burn a layer of enamel on top of this steel cup. Then this cup will have both the strength and lightness of steel, and the corrosion resistance of porcelain and not rust. If you solve this thing, we can use enamel for cups, basins, and barrels in the future, how big will this market be? ”

"I'm a little excited when you say that. And I don't think it's that hard. I'm going to organize people to do it right away. Li Yunhe said.

Zhang Bingchen listened to the excitement of the two, and also said: "If you can make enamel, I suggest that you send one to each soldier first." The soldiers went to the battlefield with porcelain cups that sank and were fragile. It was a problem for the fighters to drink water outside. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Not only should each soldier be given a water cup, but also each of them should be given an enamel basin and rice basin. In this way, it is also convenient for the fighters to eat with water in the field. ”

Given away to Zhang Bingchen, Li Yunhe said: "Mr. Zhang, we will be able to produce a hundred of the new sniper rifles immediately, so look?" ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "You have to produce 200 and put them away, and don't say anything about them yet." ”

"Okay!" Li Yunhe replied, and said, "Why do you want these kinds of guns, why are they still secret?" ”

"Our weapons are invincible now, and we don't need new weapons for the time being. We also need to have a little reserve. By the time our special forces are almost trained. I'm going to personally select snipers with this sniper rifle. Zhang Zhimu said, "Your 130 cannons must be tightened." ”

Li Yunhe said: "The 130 cannon has begun to forge the materials for the barrel. Barrels can be machined right away. Our special beds have been built. This time, even a larger barrel can be processed. ”

"Can you process a 320 caliber barrel? What about 460? Zhang Zhimu asked.

"No, no, no. Why is there such a big barrel? Li Yunhe was startled when he heard Zhang Zhimu's words.

"Little family. In the future, the warships we build will be many times larger than ours. The barrels used on the ship will get bigger and bigger. The firing range of the gun was also thirty or forty kilometers. The cannons you make now are just for the future to build cannons and practice your hands. Zhang Zhimu said.

Zhang Zhimu's words made Li Yunhe speechless, he said: "Last time I went to Lingshui Wharf, I deliberately looked at Lin Zongwei and them. Their new dock and gantry crane were under construction at the same time. I think the warship they built this time is enough for our 130 cannons. ”

"Yes, your words reminded me. I should ask Lin Zongwei to arrange the affairs of his family's **lucky boat. But don't spoil it. It was our biggest ship. Yes, if we put a steam engine on it, we can go directly to Shulu and transport the rubber back. Many of our products are marketed directly overseas. We can also go to the house of the Japanese and blow them all up. Let them never dare to come to us again. Zhang Zhimu said that Little Japan was a little excited.

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Five-line scores, oscillating circuits, caesarean sections. Guo Shoujing made alloy cannons, and Guan Hanqing created "Journey to the West". --Progress of "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty".