The salt drying method in the salt field is nothing more than the five steps of beach rectification, tide acceptance, brine making, crystallization, and salt collection and return. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The most important preparation and crystallization of dried salt.

Brine production is simply the introduction of seawater into one salt pond to evaporate for one day and then into another salt pond, and so on; On the ninth day, when the sea water enters the ninth salt pond, the evaporated sea water concentration reaches about 20 Baumé degrees, and the brine production is completed.

Crystallization is to introduce the brine into the tenth salt pool, and the salt people stir the brine with a rope every half an hour to mix the fresh brine and the old brine together, so that the crystals of the salt are more uniform and delicate.

When the salt reaches a certain thickness in the crystallization pond, the salt can be collected.

From the introduction of seawater to the crystallization of salt, the drying cycle of sea salt is about 12 days, and a salt pond can produce 6 tons of salt. The sea salt is then crushed, washed, screened, and dried many times to become refined salt.

Although Li Yu didn't remember the specific steps of drying salt, he told him the general method of rectifying the beach, collecting tides, and making brine required for drying salt.

The seawater salt drying method has a large output and low investment, and the manpower required is relatively small, and it is no worse than Hedong salt solution under a little processing.

In addition, the early Tang Dynasty inherited the salt industry policy of the former Sui Dynasty, and did not set up a special salt official management, and in the decades since the founding of the country, even decent salt taxes have been confiscated.

When Li Yu learned about this situation from Cui Xuan, he woke up laughing from his dreams at night. This is simply one of the few periods in the history of country Z that is suitable for private salt production and salt sales, and you don't even have to pay a penny in tax.

Li Yudu estimated how long it would take to monopolize the Datang salt market and collect money after the large-scale salt production of Changlu Salt Mill.

The horizon can't be too small, there are also nomadic tribes such as Silla and Wa markets in the east, and the northern steppes, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is also meat, how can these three places also contribute to the salt industry demand in the south of the Yangtze River!

Hahaha! Li Yu returned to Pyongyang with a wicked smile all the way.

After arriving in Pyongyang, Li Yu summoned the civil and military generals who were guarding various parts of Andong and read out the edict of his father's reward to his ministers.

Li Yuanyuan, Xue Jun and others were overjoyed one by one, became officials and soldiers, and left the prosperous land of the Tang Dynasty to run to this bitter cold Anton for what reason?

Those who are ambitious have made meritorious contributions in order to worship the prime minister in the future, and their names will remain in history; Those who have no ambition, of course, are to be a big official and get a reward, return to their hometown to show off to their neighbors, buy land and become a big landlord.

Zhang Zhuo, Cheng Wuzhong, Dai Liangshao and other members of the Hongmeng Society, who followed Li Yu to Antontu to make meritorious contributions, stood next to him, looking enviously at the ministers of Anton who had been rewarded by His Majesty. How can I say that some of them are not the same as themselves more than a year ago, and it has only been a long time since their status is different, so it is strange that they are not blushing.

"Today, on the day of the celebration of the Eastern Army, this king announced that the whole army will be feasted for three days!"

"Your Highness Xie......"

The officers and men shouted their voices to thank Li Yu, and the cries of Hong Longlong were deafening.

In the next three days, the entire Anton officials and soldiers, except for the soldiers and horses guarded, will be drunk and happy in the mansion and camp, and the wine and talk will be more lively than the New Year.

After the three-day banquet, Li Yu got up with a groggy head, washed up, and prepared to see what happened to Anton in the three months that he went back. Although the military and political affairs are entrusted to Changshi Li Yuanyuan, Sima Xue Jun, Xue Ne and others, they still have to understand it well and always grasp the situation of the military and politics under their command. It's not so easy to be a shopkeeper, maybe one day you will be killed by the guys.

Cang Cao Shenjun, who was in charge of Anton's officers and soldiers, and Dou Huaike, braved the wind and snow and entered Li Yu's study with an account book.

"Your Highness, this is the financial income and expenditure account of the Metropolitan Protectorate for this month, and I would like to ask Your Highness to take a look."

"I'll see."

Li Yu opened the account book and took a closer look, but Li Yu also taught himself accounting in his previous life, and understood the legal double-entry accounting method of country Z in later generations.

As early as when the Yan Wangfu was opened, Li Yu popularized the double-entry accounting method in the palace with the scriptures, and all the industries of the Yan Wangfu were universal, and the civil and military generals in the Andong Protectorate were basically directly promoted by the subordinate officials of the Yanwang Mansion.

Therefore, the financial revenue and expenditure of the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate are all in the double-entry accounting method, and Li Yu opened the account book, and the loan entries about the Metropolitan Protectorate for a month were clear and clear at a glance.

It's just that when he saw the last painting surplus, Li Yu was taken aback, and the cost of protecting the mansion in a month actually reached 339,875 and 4,000 wen. This is not counting the cost of the feast of the upper and lower levels of the Imperial Protector Mansion in the first three days, and it will be a huge expense when the data from all over the country is collected.

"Didn't the imperial court support the food of our army of 40,000? Why is the cost so large? ”

Due to the food and shelter of the soldiers and horses under Li Yu's command, the armor and armor were all provided by the Metropolitan Protectorate. The lowest-ranking soldier still has 300 yuan per month, which increases according to the military rank, and it only costs more than 59,400 yuan a month.

"Your Royal Highness, the food of the imperial court has not yet arrived, and when His Royal Highness returned to Beijing, he also instructed the officials and soldiers of the Imperial Protectorate to send New Year's red envelopes to the officials and soldiers of the Imperial Palace, and more than 60,000 yuan were distributed. The Liaodong Shipyard and the Iron Cast City are required very much every month, plus the victims recruited by the Andong Pioneer Group need to be resettled......"

Dou Huaike's face was calm, and where did he spend more than 330,000 yuan a month, Li Yu listened to it for a while.

"Alright, I know!"

Dou Huaike left, leaving Li Yu, who was worried about the account book.

There are only more than 100,000 yuan left in the treasury of Pyongyang Prefecture, which is about enough to meet the needs of the Metropolitan Government for one month, but what will happen next month? What's more, there are also shipyards, cast iron cities, and resettlement of disaster victims.

It seems that he has to quickly send an envoy to urge the grain allocated by the imperial court, just waiting for Cui Xuan to bring good news to himself.

Cui Xuan, who Li Yu was looking forward to, finally arrived in Pyongyang, and with great anticipation, he took the surplus account book of various industries in the palace from Cui Xuan last year and opened it.

"Why so little?"

Li Yu's face collapsed and questioned Cui Xuan.

"Hey!" Cui Xuan sighed and said: "Your Highness, last year alone spent 100,000 yuan in Anton, and the six major trading houses were busy sending the recruited guards to Anton on the orders of His Highness, buying food and iron materials everywhere, and more than 40 states assisted the Anton Pioneer Group to recruit disaster victims, and more than half of the money earned was sent to Anton, and the rest was spent a lot because of these things ordered by His Highness." Jiaolong HNA didn't do any maritime trade last year, and it was sending people and food, and at the end of the year, it was sending disaster victims, and it survived completely by the government's money. ”

"What's more, at the end of the year, His Royal Highness ordered the supply and demand offices in the north to go to the Turkic, Khitan, Xi and other departments to buy cattle, sheep and horses on a large scale, and the supply and demand offices in the south recruited shipbuilders and sailors, and bought sea ships......

Li Yu's brain was booming, and he suddenly remembered that he had done a lot of things in the past year, and it was not over yet, and the money was flowing out like he had earned it at the beginning.

The surplus of the commercial banks on the account book is only more than 500,000 yuan, and the big money users that Cui Xuan said cannot be stopped in a short time, which means that the commercial banks also have not much surplus to hand over this year.

Is this still worth it? Li Yu's ambitions can't be done without money.

As for coming up with some commodities to invent in later generations to make money, Li Yu has come up with everything he can think of.

What perfumes, soaps, soaps, distilled spirits, comprehensive shopping malls, fried tea, out-of-season vegetables, stir-fried vegetables; Even the pit people's winning activities were not less in the seven or eight days of the New Year, otherwise where did Li Yu come from to exceed one million yuan a year?