The tide was high, the sea water was rushing, the gate was opened, the sea roared into the pool on the edge of the beach, and soon the pool was filled, the first wave of sea water receded, the sea water drove the gate, and with a soft sound in the waves, the gate was locked tightly, no matter how the sea washed it, it did not move at all. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Yang Lian stood on a high place, surrounded by Chen Tie, Lin Renzhao and others, in addition to several boiled salt stove households, at this time Jianghuai, has begun to take the beach field boiling salt method, although compared with the previous boiling salt is faster, the yield is also higher, but in fact it is still necessary to boil salt, but first let the soil absorb salt from the seawater, then plow the soil, dry the salty mud, and then use the seawater to leach the salty mud to obtain high salinity of the salt, and then burn the fire to boil the salt to obtain salt. The advantage of the previous salt boiling method is that when the salt is finally boiled, the damage caused to the iron pot is relatively small. The time to boil salt is shorter.

You must know that the method of boiling salt in Lianghuai is the most advanced in the Central Plains, and in some other places, because various conditions are not available, the method of directly boiling salt is still being used, which is a kind of torture for stove households.

The sea water filled the outermost pool, and soon someone used the waterwheel to draw water, and the sea water poured into the higher pools, until a dozen second-tier pools were filled, and the water stopped, and the tide rose for more than an hour or so, and after the tide receded, the sun became more and more scorching, and the sun was on the body, quite a bit of midsummer heat.

Several stoves are looking at each other, do you use this method to cook salt? The stove households felt that it was impossible and scoffed at Yang Lian's method, but although they didn't believe it, what was in front of them was a dignified festival envoy after all, and everyone didn't dare to be rude.

Yang Lian looked at the sun, although it was very spicy, it would take some time to evaporate the seawater in the pool. This method of drying seawater into salt in the pond is unheard of in this era, even Yang Lian needs time to experiment and improve.

The sun on this day is very big, the sea water evaporates rapidly, but it has not yet reached Yang Lian's requirements, and it has been drying for another day, the sea water has evaporated a lot, Yang Lian ordered to open the floodgates, the sea water has been very thick at this time, and it flows into the brine pool along the ditch, after staying in the brine pool for a day, the sediment and other debris have precipitated, and the brine is pumped out by a water wheel, and put it into the crystallization pool, the brine at this time is already very thick, and the white crystals can be faintly seen, and the white crystals can be seen faintly, and the crystallization pool has been in the crystal pool for two or three hours, after the scorching sun evaporates the excess water, The white salt has revealed a lovely face.

Looking at Bai Huahua's salt, Yang Lian's excitement was indescribable, it only took a few days to get so much salt, at least he could hand over the part of salt promised to Li Jing. Yang Lian walked on the edge of the pool, squatted down, stretched out his hand to touch the salt, dipped his index finger a little, put it in his mouth, it tasted good, at least it tasted better than the salt Yang Lian ate, of course, compared to later generations, it must be a lot worse.

"This is salt?" A few stove households couldn't believe that in just a few days, there was so much salt? This is incredible, the festival has only happened to take a look at the pool in the past few days, explain some things, this salt, actually boiled out? Several stove households were shocked, but they didn't expect that this salt was not boiled at all.

A stove farmer carefully grabbed a handful of salt and put it in the palm of his hand, the salt was white, and the color was more than a little better than that of boiling salt directly, and it was much better than boiling salt in the beach. The stove household learned Yang Lian's appearance, dipped his index finger in a little salt, put it in his mouth and tasted it, the stove household suddenly shouted, the color of this salt is good-looking, the taste is not bitter, and it is better than tribute salt. At this time, several stove households were convinced by Yang Lian's heart, and this method could actually be thought of.

Yang Lian doesn't care, in the future, these stove households will take care of the salt farm, and they generally can't go out, at least for now, Yang Lian's salt drying method must be kept secret. Salt is now comparable to money, and the rebellious Huang Chao at the end of the Tang Dynasty was a salt dealer, which shows the huge profits of salt.

The salt of the white flowers is in the pool, and when it is swept with a broom, it is piled up in the corner, and the white flowers are like a beautiful woman, which makes people salivate. Lin Renzhao and Chen Tie were also very shocked, such a speed of salt production is unheard of, the key is that the speed is too fast, it is only less than four days, there is so much salt, if the weather is good, it does not rain, which means that every day can continue to make salt, Lin Renzhao couldn't help but glance at the brine that was pumped into the brine pool yesterday, tomorrow these brine can enter the crystallization pool again, at most in the afternoon, it can produce white flower salt.

God, what a great wealth of salt is so much? It doesn't take a year to produce, it only takes two or three months, and the salt produced is probably more than the salt in the entire Lianghuai salt farm. Lin Renzhao's Adam's apple couldn't help but move, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

"Renzhao, I'll leave the matter here to you. This method of making salt must be kept secret, and stove households are not allowed to enter and exit at will, and those who violate the order will be beheaded! When Yang Lian spoke, he saw a stove farmer's face pale, so he comforted him with kind words, and said: "As long as you do things seriously, you can't lose him in this section." For a month, in addition to the necessary wages, he was given an extra ten catties of salt. ”

Ten catties of salt is a drop in the bucket for Yang Lian, but for the stove households who use an iron pot to boil salt directly, it takes more than half a month, and it is busy day and night, a lot of firewood is used, and the iron pot is also boiled through, and it is already the limit to be able to get a pound of salt in one pot.

Several stove households are grateful, they are originally lowly people, Yang Lian treats them like this, so that they are enough to be grateful. A rather clever stove owner picked up a broom, swept it up with great effort, gathered it in one place, and then put it in a bamboo basket, and the two carried a bamboo basket to a nearby house, and poured it into a clay pot.

The clay pot prepared by Yang Lian was not enough at all, most of the salt was placed in a clean room, mats were spread on the ground, and salt worth thousands of gold was piled up in it, and it was initially estimated that there were at least a few thousand catties.

Yang Lian was also quite happy to see that the salt was successfully dried, so he invited Lin Renzhao, Chen Tie and others to eat, and several stove households were also among them, which flattered them. During the banquet, Yang Lian said his idea, although the yield of such a method is not low, but Yang Lian is too short of money, he hopes that Lin Renzhao will find a way to open up a few pools.

And in the area of Yuzhou, it is actually easy to rain in summer, and when it rains, you can't dry salt, and the yield is greatly affected, and the cloudy day is slightly better, but the speed will be about half slower. As a result, production is not available for at least half of the time in summer, and in fact the output should be about the same as in spring and autumn, and in winter it should be halved. So in the end, the yield is not particularly high. Of course, this is Yang Lian's idea.

Lin Renzhao was also thrilled when he saw the salt of Baihuahua, silk can not be worn, gold and silver can not be worn, but this salt is to be eaten, and two meals a day are indispensable. Salt sales are not worrying at all. Lin Renzhao even had an idea to sell these salts to the Han Kingdom and the Khitan Kingdom to earn their money.

Yang Lian also has this idea, but he will definitely not barter for things, but to earn real coins, which is best exchanged for gold and silver if he can. The price, but it is slightly lower, quickly seize the market, and wait until the market share is increased, and the salt is not worried about the market, and then gradually increase, it is also possible.

The matter was settled, and Yang Lian also took the time to meet with several famous businessmen in Haizhou. Salt has always been a government thing, and like iron, it is strictly controlled by the government. When these merchants heard that Yang Lian had asked them to transport salt to the Han Kingdom to sell, they were first taken aback, and then overjoyed. They all see the business opportunity here. Selling salt is a huge profit.

Yang Lian said that these salts can be operated by them, but they can only be sold to the Han Kingdom and Khitan and other places, and must not be sold in Datang. Some people doubted that the Jiedu envoy could take out so much salt, but when they saw a room full of salt, they all opened their mouths wide, this is a salt mountain, no, it should be said that it is all money, it is a mountain of money.

Yang Lian stayed in Haizhou for more than ten days, mainly dealing with the affairs of the salt works and the wharf, and completed these two major events, and then rushed back to Chuzhou, before leaving, he told Lin Renzhao that he had sent someone to buy a big ship from the south to be converted into a warship, which could greatly save time.

Lin Renzhao's eyes lit up, he was a native of the old Fujian country, and the Fujian country was by the sea, he naturally knew that it was not easy to build a ship, and it was even more difficult to build a warship, and it was impossible to build a suitable ship without a year or two. And if you buy a large merchant ship, you can save a lot of time and build a fleet in the shortest possible time.

Yang Lian handed over the affairs of Haizhou to Lin Renzhao and returned to Chuzhou with Chen Tie and others. When he arrived in Chuzhou, news came that Ma Xicao had officially declared himself a minister to the Tang Dynasty and asked for reinforcements to attack Tanzhou with him, and Li Jing, the son of heaven, was still a little hesitant.

Whether to fight Chu State or not is of little significance to Yang Lian. Although Chu is located in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and is a threat to the Tang Dynasty downstream, the Chu State has insufficient troops and frequent civil strife, so it cannot pose a threat to the Tang Dynasty at all. If the Tang Dynasty wants to fight the Chu State, the Southern Han Dynasty is likely to send troops to intervene, in addition, the territory of the Chu State is mountainous, especially the western part is inhabited by barbarians, these people are just like the Shanyue people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, very difficult. It is not difficult to defeat the state of Chu, but it takes a lot of energy to manage, if it is not handled properly, the barbarian army rebels, for the Tang Dynasty, the gains outweigh the losses.

Li Jingsui wrote a letter to ask for his opinion, and Yang Lian hesitated to reply to a letter, telling King Qi not to interfere in this matter, but to decide by the Son of Heaven. Seven or eight days later, it was already mid-June, and news came from Jinling that Li Jing, the son of heaven, at the instigation of Sun Sheng and others, decided to send troops to support Ma Xicao and meddle in the internal affairs of Chu. The generals Bian Hao, the Chuzhou regimental training envoy He Jingzhu and others rushed to Chu to support Ma Xicao.

Yang Lian received the news that it was also a good thing to send troops, because Hu Qing was still in the hands of Datang, so Wu Yueguo would not act rashly because of Datang's many moves for the time being. Thinking about Wu Yueguo now, the internal struggle between the Qian family and the Hu family will inevitably become more intense. Yang Lian wrote an excerpt, playing the Son of Heaven, Hu Qing should find a chance to let it go, otherwise Hu Jinsi will die, and Hu Qing will be useless. The civil strife in Wu Yueguo will come to an end.

Compared with the affairs in the south, Yang Lian is more concerned about how things are going after Zhang Desheng goes to Huaibei. In the past nearly a month, hasn't Zhang Desheng persuaded the thirteen families in Huaibei? After waiting for another month, news came from Suzhou that the Huaibei bandits were robbing everywhere in the Han Kingdom, they robbed the people's food, killed the old and the young, kidnapped young and beautiful women, and burned many villages. In the territory of the Han Kingdom, smoke suddenly billowed out.

All of a sudden, in the southeast of the Han Kingdom, the people were panicked and fled, and production was greatly affected, some of these people heard that the taxes in the Tang Dynasty and Chuzhou were very low, and they rushed to come, Yang Lian got the news, personally led the troops to pacify, checked the identity, and determined that these were the people and not the bandits and other vicious people, so they were accepted.

There is still a lot of land in Haichu and Chu that has not been divided and belongs to official land, but in fact, a considerable part of it has become Yang Lian's bag. These farmlands were cultivated in time for spring ploughing, and now they are green shadows, and by the autumn season, they will be turned into grain. Yang Lian was willing to accept it, so he distributed a part of the land to the people, of course, half of the grain had to be harvested - the remaining half was regarded as the reward for the people to harvest.

Such conditions are very favorable, and the people who fled have benefited, so they publicize it, tell their relatives and friends, saying that the Tang Dynasty is rich, as long as they come, there will be fields full of crops to divide, and if the family is poor, it is confirmed that they can get food relief every month. All of a sudden, there was an upsurge of immigration, and Yang Lian had to send troops to guard the border and strictly check the people entering the country.

In these years, to dominate the world, we must not only rely on financial and material resources, but also on manpower, no one, no men, there is no way to fight, in the era of cold weapons, the number of population is an advantage, Yang Lian keenly saw this.

On the border of the Han State bordering Chuzhou, Suzhou, Xuzhou and other places, the people secretly infiltrated the Tang Dynasty, and when the Han officials found out, tens of thousands of people had left.

Han officials immediately blocked the official roads and sent guards in the most important places. However, the border between the two countries is not dangerous to defend, and most of it is a plain, which cannot be seen at all. While the officials were blockading, they wrote to the Son of Heaven, told the Son of Heaven as it was, informed the Son of Heaven, and asked him for instructions, what should I do?

Half a month later, Yang Lian received a letter, which was written by Liu Chengyou, the son of the Han Dynasty. How did the people of the Han Kingdom return to the Tang Dynasty? Could it be that Yang Lian is secretly making a plan?

Yang Lian was not in a hurry, and waited for two days before writing a reply, telling Liu Chengyou, the son of heaven, that the reason why the people of the Han Kingdom fled to the Tang Dynasty was because there were many bandits in the Han Kingdom, they killed people, robbed people, and did all kinds of evil, and the safety of the people of the Han Kingdom was not guaranteed, and they were terrified, so they fled to the Tang Dynasty.

Yang Lian said that if these people are willing to return to the Han Kingdom, he can offer gold and silver to send them back to their hometowns, of course, the people of the Han Kingdom eat, drink and Lazar in the Tang Dynasty, and consume a lot of food, and most of them are free. (To be continued.) )