Those salt merchants were really aggrieved...... Although salt wells are often once and for all, they can even be operated for a hundred years and become descendants of wells. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

However, its mining is not easy, in the process of sinking wells, extracting brine, transporting brine to frying salt, the division of labor is very fine, the process is complicated, and the engineering cost and equipment investment are quite a lot.

It generally takes one or two to four or five years to open a well, and the most it takes more than ten years or even decades; The investment in sinking wells is calculated by thousands of dollars for the shallow ones, and the tens of thousands of dollars for the deep ones, and even the ones who spend as much as 30,000 or 40,000 yuan and do not see the merits.

Moreover, the division of labor and cooperation are required in the production process of well salt, so there are all kinds of specialized craftsmen in wells, stoves and pipes, such as mountain craftsmen who dig wells and control wells, salt burners who fry salt, mountain craftsmen who set up brine pipes, stoves who set up fire pipes and fire rings, and water craftsmen who transport brine to get wages according to their professional degree and different types of work...... Especially the mountain craftsman, it is even more difficult to find money.

A good mountain craftsman must be a real expert, starting from the handyman, picking brine, repairing the soap, the stove, frying salt, the miller, the account room, and then to the mountain craftsman, he must have done everything, and he must be familiar with everything.

Even some mountain craftsmen have a very peculiar method of the well, do not use a compass or hexagram, as long as you lie on the ground and smell it, saying that there is salt here, eight or nine do not leave ten, dig it down, and the brine will come out.

The mountain craftsman is a wise man in the salt industry, exploring the earth's veins, looking at feng shui, and identifying the source of the well...... It is also the highest wage in this industry, and it can even share the income equally with the owner.

Once the salt well is found, once it is excavated, the project will be more complex and enormous.

There are five steps to sink a well: the first is to open the wellhead, that is, to determine the location of the well; the second is to go down to the stone circle, that is, to use stones to circle the wellhead and fix it; The third is to dig a big mouth, that is, to build a frame and a roller, and dig a big pit four or five zhang wide in the stone circle, and this pit should also have a depth of six or seven zhang; The fourth is the lower wood bamboo. That is, hanging wood, erecting cranes, installing well cavity conduits, at this time the well should be dug to about thirty or forty zhang underground, and the red rock layer can be seen; The fifth is to dig small openings, and this is when the real well sinking begins. At this time, it is still far from the bottom of the well, there is still ninety percent of the depth to be drilled, and the well hole is no more than the size of a bowl, but the craftsmen have to dig through such a small hole until they find the salt brine.

At the same time, it was the direct sinking method of Zhuo Tube Well that made it possible to dig deeply, and after that, the production of well salt in Sichuan increased dramatically. Significant increase in salinity.

Therefore, the one-time investment is very large, and it is not easy to find a place where salt wells and geogas wells also exist...... In short, the input cost is not small, and it is absolutely impossible to compare with the price of sea salt.

The salt merchants decided that as long as Liu pacified and drove away the sea salt that came to the Fengjie area to sell, they would take the initiative to offer military funds......

Liu Cheng smiled, spread his hands and said, "They salt merchants came up from the water." I only have three or two broken ships here...... How can they ban their sea salt......"

The salt merchant who took the lead arched his hand and said, "Pacify your lordship." The little ones are willing to donate ten big ships to ban the sea salt here......"

Liu Quan said lightly: "What if even the sea salt in Jinghu North Road and Jingnan Road is banned? ”’

"The little ones are willing to donate fifty big ships......

"What if the whole river is banned?"

“……”

"It's not a big talk, let's talk about it?"

"Then I would like to donate 500 big boats!"

Liu Cheng nodded, very good, if it can be done, it will be easy to solve half of it!

The dispute between the two Huaihai salt and the well salt that occurred in history occurred hundreds of years in advance, and it also happened in another form.

The little butterfly that caused this change doesn't know yet. He's also working with his shipyard manager to design the Old Lock.

In this time and space, the north and the south were in a period of political cold and economic heat, although there were still some minor frictions.

The two countries basically acquiesce to each other's free trade and exchanges, and there is even a special venue, isn't it in that Xiangyang City? And the merchant castle.

However, Liu Quan's pacification envoy suddenly started in the Fengjie area, and set off a special action to control and rectify Haiyan.

The reason is simple, sea salt is poisonous...... This is what the local salt merchant said, originally, the locals eat local salt, and there is such salt inexplicably, and it is so cheap, where can it be a good product?!

What's even more terrifying is that refined salt, non-astringent salt, can it still be called salt?!

So several families "got sick" because of eating that sea salt...... The broad masses began to cooperate with the actions of appeasing Lord Liu Cheng.

Strictly speaking, the brine required to make well salt is purer than the brine concentrated in seawater, and is more suitable for processing into refined salt, which is why in that world, even in Zhejiang, facing the sea, their salt market has 90% well salt......

But where will the salt merchants of this plane be post-processed...... Therefore, it still has an astringent feeling, and it is different from the shape of sea salt.

The well salt grains are small, and the sea salt grains are large, which is a good difference.

Soon after, a vigorous campaign against poisonous sea salt outside the country came to a successful end.

On the edge of the Yangtze River, they poured all the boatloads of sea salt seized in accordance with the law into the river, and the crowd of onlookers applauded...... The vendors who bought the sea salt were whipped several times in public and then driven away.

Watching them flee to the boat with their heads in their arms and get out of Fengjie, everyone laughed!

Subsequently, this special rectification intensified and expanded to the periphery.

As mentioned above, when Liu Cheng surrendered to Luzhou and its fifteen counties, 300,000 households, Lu Wende of the Lu Group was ordered to recover Luzhou.

They first recovered the outer fort of Luzhou, and then advanced to Luzhou with the tactics of step-by-step and siege of the wall.

Liu Cheng could not support it, so he withdrew the following year, that is, in early 1262, and migrated the people of Luzhou to Chengdu and Tongchuan.

In the first month, Lu Wende recovered Luzhou.

The Song court changed Luzhou to the Jiang'an Army, but the states to which it was subordinate, except for Lu, Syria, Changning, and Fushun, were all Tatar army commanders, and the Great Song Dynasty lost most of the Sichuan region.

Liu Quan's move broke an unspoken rule that both parties could abide by for the time being...... That is, the small merchants on both sides may walk in the other's sphere of influence, and in addition to having to pay taxes, it is not difficult for each side to be the other's people.

However, this time Liu Cheng made a decision for his shipbuilding career, which is the only way he can find at present.

The head of the Lu military group, Jinghu System, made Lu Wende furious, those sea salts, he didn't take a fancy to it, this business was done by a side branch of the family, saying that it was not big, saying that it was not small, and Lu Wende really didn't like it.

The problem is, this shameful embezzler and the big traitor Liu Cheng broke the rules!

And it was when he felt he was at his strongest...... Lu Wende immediately asked the soldiers, holding arquebuses, to arrest all the merchants in Fengjie and even the entire eastern Sichuan in the field outside Xiangyang City, and then confiscated the goods, everyone whipped in public, and caught up with the boat in the laughter of the onlookers!

Lu Wende certainly had the courage to expand the economic struggle. (To be continued.) )