"This ......"

Su Ziheng pondered for a moment and replied: "Father-in-law, the number of salt fields of 20,000 mu is already the limit, and there is currently no extra tidal flat land in Donghai Mansion that can be used for drying salt. Besides, the 20,000 acres of salt pans should not be fully developed now, right? ”

Zhao Chengwen nodded and said, "Yes, I haven't even used a quarter of it now." This salt is too much to look at God's face, and the typhoon caused us a lot of damage a few days ago. ”

Zhao Wan'er asked worriedly, "Xianggong, did this typhoon cause a lot of damage to Donghai Mansion?" ”

Su Ziheng thought for a while and said: "How to say it, it's big and big, many of the crops planted have been blown away by the typhoon, and the yield reduction is inevitable, and even some vegetables will not be harvested, but the rice is okay, Qinghan has organized people to grab the harvest, the specific amount is not clear, but it is not extinct." ”

"Ah, it's that serious? But don't worry, Xianggong, we have purchased several ships of food when the fleet comes back this time, so we shouldn't make everyone hungry. Zhao Wan'er comforted repeatedly, at this time she admired her father-in-law, and asked her not to come back empty-ship after selling the goods.

After thinking about it for himself, he found that the price of grain in the Southern Zhou was cheap, so he purchased a lot of grain and saltpeter back. Saltpeter was specially explained by Xianggong, no matter where the caravan of the Zhao family firm went, it had to purchase saltpeter locally.

It can be said that saltpeter is now a strategic resource of Tokai Province and a key formula for making gunpowder. Now the rapid development of Donghai Province is inseparable from the opening of gunpowder mines.

Su Ziheng gently held Wan'er's palm and said with a smile: "This time, it is really thanks to Wan'er, you have transported a lot of grain from the ship today, so that the people can see with their own eyes that Donghai Mansion will not be unable to eat because of the lack of land harvest, which has greatly stabilized everyone's hearts." ”

Zhao Wan'er was held by Su Ziheng in front of her father, looking a little shy, her pretty face was crimson, and she had the heart to break free, but when she thought that she hadn't seen her husband for nearly two months, she was a little reluctant in her heart. So she lowered her head and became an ostrich, not daring to see her father's reaction.

Zhao Chengwen blamed the small movements of the pair of children in front of him with a smile, but he didn't say anything. The relationship between the two of them can be so good, it is too late for them to be happy, how can they be so blind, naturally they don't see it.

However, thinking of the impact of this typhoon, he couldn't help but ask worriedly: "Son-in-law, if this typhoon comes two more times, our Donghai Mansion may suffer a lot of losses." ”

"The old man now finally knows why the imperial court is willing to give such a large area of Donghai County to Her Royal Highness the princess as a fiefdom, it turns out that it is all because of the typhoon. This Donghai Mansion was a very prosperous place a hundred years ago, because of the abundance of Dongzhu, attracting many pearl divers to live here, and gradually formed a large county seat. ”

"It's a pity that later, as the Dongzhu was picked less and less, there were gradually very few people who came to Donghai Province, coupled with the annual typhoon, which made it impossible to grow food, and the people who stayed behind had to rely on fishing for a living, and more and more people naturally left, so that although it is now crowned with the title of a county, it is actually just a small fishing village."

"Hehe," Su Ziheng picked up the teacup on the coffee table and took a sip of tea, comforting: "Father-in-law, don't worry too much, you should know that the Dragon King Temple is going to be built now, and as long as the Dragon King Temple is built, we don't have to worry about the threat of typhoons anymore." ”

"Why is that?" Zhao Chengwen and Zhao Wan'er both looked at Su Ziheng with incredible expressions on their faces.

Su Ziheng said: "Naturally, because the dragon god has given a treasure to resist typhoons, which can make the typhoon change its landing path and not pass through our Donghai Mansion, so that we will be minimized by the impact of the typhoon." ”

As long as the typhoon doesn't pass directly through Tohae Province, the strong winds and torrential rain it brings are nothing.

"That's great, thank you Dragon God for your protection!" The two of them clasped their hands together in gratitude to the dragon god.

Su Ziheng said: "When the Dragon King Temple is completed, we will also burn some incense." ”

Zhao Chengwen nodded repeatedly: "I want it, I want it." In the future, after the Dragon King Temple is built, we will go to the first fifteenth day of the new year to make incense in person. When the time comes, please ask a statue of the god to come back and place it at home in the Dragon King Temple, and ask the dragon god for blessing every day. ”

A few more people chatted about the topic of the dragon god, and Zhao Wan'er suddenly asked: "Xianggong, do you want to come over tomorrow when you take the shopkeeper of the Zhu family firm to visit Yantian?" ”

Su Ziheng thought for a while and said, "If there is nothing important tomorrow, I will go with you to take a look." ”

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The next morning, the weather was clear and cloudless.

Su Ziheng first went to the mansion to attend the morning meeting, and after the matter was arranged, he found that there was no important matter waiting for him to deal with, so he went to the guest house, met with Zhao Wan'er and others, and went to the direction of Yantian.

The Donghai Mansion is quite far away from the direction of Yantian, seventy or eighty miles. It is naturally unrealistic to rely on people to walk, so Su Ziheng beckoned Shi Meng to prepare a carriage and a war horse.

After arriving at Yantian for an hour, I got off the carriage and the first thing that caught my eye was a huge reservoir, about two zhang high and nearly a thousand zhang long.

The reservoir is located right on a mountainous hill near the sea, and the sea water fills the reservoir only when the tide rises every month. Because of the blockage of the reservoir, the sea water cannot recede after coming in, and can only stay in the reservoir.

At the bottom of the reservoir are the divided salt pans, each of which is an evaporation pond, which is sorted in order, from the time the sea water leaves the reservoir to the final sea salt is dried, a total of eight salt ponds must be passed.

Zhu Zhirong looked at the huge reservoir in front of her in surprise and said in shock: "What method did you use to build the reservoir?" It's amazing that we can stop the sea from flowing back into the sea. ”

Zhao Wan'er pursed her lips and chuckled: "Sister Rong, there is a special building material used in this, which is a secret of our Donghai Mansion, so it is inconvenient to reveal more to Sister Rong." ”

Zhu Zhirong didn't care too much, when she stayed at the guest house yesterday, she keenly discovered a point. The house in the guest house looked like it was made of brick and stone, but the exterior seemed to be glued together with something unique, and there were no gaps between the stones, which surprised her.

When she came to Yantian today to inspect and found that the reservoir was also built so smoothly, she couldn't help but ask aloud, if she could know what items were used, the value would not be much worse than the profit of refined salt.

"That's a pity, my sister wanted to ask if we could cooperate here?"

Zhao Wan'er apologized: "Sister Rong, I'm really sorry for this, at present, the cement produced by our Donghai Mansion is not enough for itself, and we can't sell it to the outside world for the time being." ”