Yang Chong's salt field is drawn out of Haiyan County, and it is not a particularly good area, the Jiangzuo Shi clan has no interest, only Fu Gongyou and Wang Xiongtan each sent special personnel to help the popularity for the future relationship, and the last piece of salt field was auctioned for a price of 160,000 yuan. Yang Chong had no choice but to discuss with Duhuhong and give the Yantian to Wang Xiongdan, Duhuhong smiled: "Mine is not yours, I understand, you can take it." ”

Yang Chong photographed 1.12 million guan at one time, which frightened everyone, even if it is 50 years, the same salt field is only 15,000 guan a year, can Yang Chong earn 30,000 guan a year for a salt field? But at this time, everyone found out that Yang Chong had already enclosed the salt pans, and the three thousand Shanyue immigrants had become salt workers, and outsiders could not see the inside at all. Yang Chong took everyone to visit the ditches on the beach and said: "If you have time, you can play in Huating for ten days and half a month, bring some salt back, and show your family." ”

The big guys thought it was a joke, but Yuan Hongzhao, the chief manager of the Yang Mansion in Huating, and Yang Shuang, the head of the salt factory, didn't laugh, which time was not unexpected. Sure enough, Yang Chongxian instructed Yang Shuang to arrange for salt workers to divert seawater into the ditch at high tide, build a dam to hold back the tide before the tide drops, fill the canal with enough seawater, and then pour seawater on the ash of the red grass burning, absorb enough salt, and then let the sun dry the salt flowers.

This kind of grass is an inexhaustible weed on sandbanks such as Hu Tuzhou, because the roots of this grass are red and easy to identify, and the salt workers call it red grass. After the salt flowers are dried, the salt workers scrape the salt flowers out, pile them into piles of ash, pour brine through the salt tower made of mud, and finally flow to the water tank through the sink to form salt brine; Yang Chong pointed to the salt brine tanks and said to Yang Shuang: "The technicians assigned to you by Mozhuang are responsible for the grade, and they will record the process from beginning to end according to the experience of the old salt workers, distinguish the grade of salt, and then determine the best process. ”

Yang Shuang also dug up three old salters who boiled salt, made an iron pot for boiling salt, but did not expect to boil salt in the end, but used cedar boards to nail into a wooden plate one by one, poured brine, under the bright sun on a sunny day, two or three hours to dry the snow-white and bright salt. After the three old salt workers tasted the salt, they immediately knelt down and swore to Yang Chong that they would never leave the salt farm in this life and would keep it absolutely secret; After the salt is piled up, the salt worker shovels into the bamboo basket with a salt shovel, and then puts the bamboo basket on the empty cylinder, so that the bitter brine contained in it is leached out from the hole of the basket, and the next day the salt is packed out of the salt field according to the sack of 100 catties.

Zhou Shaoyi, Duhu Kaiche and others were stunned, sea salt is seasonal, and a large number of additional products are needed, and the annual output of the same salt farm does not exceed 2,000 quintals and 200,000 catties; Yang Chong's salt farm produced 2,000 catties of salt in five and a half days, but he didn't expect to transport more than 3,000 catties of salt at noon and evening. One by one, they did not go, and calculated every day, and by the fifteenth day, a total of 27,000 catties of salt were produced; By 30 days, it is 66,000 catties of salt, and depending on the momentum, the output will increase after the workers are skilled.

But the salt field does not allow outsiders to enter, not to mention the shareholder who won the bid, even the bank representative Yang Qu can't enter, there is obviously a freezer in the room, and the cold air comes out from the cracks in the wooden box, Zhou Shaoyi and others only feel hot, and their hearts are as uncomfortable as a cat's paws. Yang Qu and Yang Shuang looked at each other and smiled, Yang Qu sat on the chair and drank tea, while asking Yang Shuanghai if there was any high-quality salt; Yang Shuang nodded and said: "Yes, you have seen the drawings, there is a small piece of land in Fuhaizhou that is used for refined salt, and there are already products two days ago, and Steward Yuan can come back today." ”

In the afternoon, Yuan Hongzhao came sweating profusely, holding a porcelain jar in his hand, all of which were snow-white refined salt after opening, Yang Qu and others tasted it, although they couldn't catch up with the taste of green salt, but the purity was not much different from the top grade of Qinghai salt. Yuan Hongzhao Chao Yang Qu Shili said: "This is our first workshop in the south of the Yangtze River, and the king of Yue has set a name, called Fuhai Yan. It's a pity that it's too time-consuming, and the output is not high. ”

Zhou Shaoyi asked in a low voice, "Steward Yuan, where is King Yue?" ”

Yuan Hongzhao understood Zhou Shaoyi's thoughts, this was to discuss in private, but at present, which one is not from a deep background in Huating, Yuan Hongzhao said with a wry smile: "King Yue and the fourth lady went to Wujun and Hangzhou to observe the people's feelings, and they have been gone for half a month, and it is estimated that they will come back to Huating before returning to Chang'an." ”

Yang Chong is on the edge of the West Lake, watching the water of the Hupao Spring gushing upward, his face is full of smiles, Hupao Spring is under the White Crane Peak of Daci Mountain, it is known as the third spring in the world, second only to Zhenjiang Jinshan Zhongling Spring and Wuxi Huishan Huiquan, the spring water quality is sweet and mellow, and the West Lake Longjing is called the West Lake Double Unique, this time it is by Yang Chong to come to the scene in person, and the location is designated to hit this well. Because the Hupao Temple has not yet existed, Yang Chong bought this land in advance, built a Hupao Garden of less than two acres of land, and then explored the well.

Yang Chong asked Yu Yu to read out the thank you, thanking God for rewarding this sweet well, and announced that this well is Hupao Spring, although Hupao Park and Hupao Spring are Yang Chong's private assets, but open to the public, anyone can come in to enjoy the fun, anyone can come in to fetch water. Xu Lingyan and Sun Shihan, members of the Ministry of Rites, Chen Gaoren, the guard of Yuhang County, Liu Ziyi, a member of the Du Branch, Ye Xiaobian, the general of Eagle Strike, Yan An, the chief of Shanyue, and Miao Haichao of Huiji County, all couldn't help applauding, and thousands of soldiers and civilians around were chanting, and buckets of well water were sent to the crowd to share.

The reason why Yuhang could not develop in Huiji County was that the river and sea were the hometown, the water and springs were salty and bitter, and the people did not want to live; The water source that can be used is the mountain spring water in the West Lake and Wushan area. In the past two years, although Chen Gaoren and others have made a lot of efforts, with little success, it is difficult to settle Shanyue between West Lake and Wushan, Yang Chonglai is digging a well at the site; The scenery of Hangzhou is vague, Yang Chong according to the memory of the tourism of the year, successively designated the heart of the temple, Hupao Park, Wu Shanjing, Baoyue Well four approximate range, the success and public use of Hupao Well, so that the other three must be public undoubtedly, according to the scale, a well is enough to accommodate one or two thousand households.

Yang Chong turned back to Chen Gaoren, Ye Xiaobian, and Yan An and said: "Hangzhou will be handed over to you, you must remember the importance of the West Lake, if you don't dredge it for a long time, it will dry up and grow grass, and gradually become a field, affecting the survival of the entire Hangzhou city; Set up 1,000 lake soldiers in the government to do this. The Bao family built a good sand embankment, and they want to expand it into a large embankment, divide the West Lake into the outer lake and the inner lake, and connect the lonely mountain and the north mountain together, so that they can store water and irrigate the fields. The lower lake on the edge of the West Lake should be dredged as soon as possible, and if the lower lake can be revived, at least 3,000 more households can be resettled. ”

Yan An hurriedly said: "King Yue, please rest assured, I have mobilized manpower to dredge, and the official in charge of water conservancy has also arrived." ”

(End of chapter)