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As early as 1256, his brother Zhang Hongliu was appointed governor of Suncheon Road, and after he went to the residence of the Tatar leader of Möngke, Zhang Hongfan was left to act as an agent, which provided him with an excellent opportunity to demonstrate his administrative skills.

At that time, he was determined to reform the atmosphere and strictly rectify the discipline program.

At that time, the discipline of the Tatar army was very poor, and wherever they passed, they were harassed in every way.

Zhang Hongfan was young and vigorous at that time, and believed that the state should have a legal system, and that it should be ordered and prohibited, and no illegal acts should be allowed.

Therefore whoever does not keep the testimonies must be brought to justice.

In this way, many Tatar soldiers who violated military discipline were punished, and many were beaten with military sticks.

Since then, the Tatar army stationed on Suncheon Road has been clean and refreshing.

As a result, his administrative skills impressed the new generation of big bosses, Kublai Khan.

There are generals who can lead troops to fight, but there are very few people who can manage local administration at the same time.

Therefore, he can be in charge of the Daimyo Road, and he can be forgiven for his "specialization".

However, this time the situation was different, and he could smell his anger in the orders of the big boss...... Don't dare to disobey.

Where did these pirates come from, it's so infuriating!!

But it's useless...... For a while, the situation in the Daimyo Road, which had just regained some vitality, was completely ruined, and Zhang Hongfan painfully ordered the soldiers to forcibly recruit ...... The original accumulation of popular will and public opinion is all over.

He walked among the people in civilian clothes again, and he could close his eyes, but he couldn't close his ears...... The voices of the people were endless.

Even more uncomfortable than him was Liu Quan...... Where is he going to build a thousand warships now?!

Of course, if it is postponed for three years, Liu Cheng will make a big difference.

He will build 5,000 warships and train the navy every day. Although the rain can't come out, he also paints the ground for the boat.

In this way, he strengthened the naval forces of the Tatar bandit group, and organized a powerful naval army, so that after they captured Xiangyang, they advanced by land and water, and defeated the Great Song naval army in even battles. In the end, Lin'an Xing surrendered without a fight.

After the Battle of Yashan, the naval army trained by Liu Quan was commanded by Zhang Hongfan there, and defeated the last naval army of the Great Song Dynasty led by Zhang Shijie, and Lu Xiufu was forced to throw himself into the sea with the little emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty on his back.

As a result, Liu Quan, a renegade Han who committed corruption, and Zhang Hongfan, a Han who grew up in the north, completed the mission of destroying a nation and destroying a civilization.

But, now, where do you ask him to go and get supplies? Although a lot of craftsmen came to escort it. also brought some shipbuilding supplies, and Fengjie itself also has a shipyard...... But it's hard for a good woman to cook without rice......

At this time, he had to think of something else.

He set his sights on the salt merchants.

In the history of China's salt industry, different types of salt appeared: the slightly bitter pond salt in Yuncheng, Shanxi, the salt springs in the Three Gorges area of Chongqing, the well salt in the western Sichuan Plain in Sichuan, the sea salt in Yangzhou, and rock salt produced in other places.

The geological reserves of Sichuan well salt rank first in the country, which is related to the hilly terrain around the Sichuan Basin.

These underground salt brine resources were finally discovered by Li Bing by sinking wells during the Warring States Period.

Li Bing, the Taishou of the Qin State, is famous for designing and building Dujiangyan, and few people know that he also pioneered the method of sinking wells to extract brine and boil salt.

In the Han Dynasty, many salt wells were dug on the western Sichuan Plain. The salt industry has become a pillar industry, and people have gradually shifted from the plains to the hills.

"The shadow is high and low. The sound of cars and the sound of the wells are connected" began to appear.

The well salt in Sichuan has a long history, and the Zhuo Tube Well in Yingxian County was founded in the Northern Song Dynasty during the Qingli period, more than 800 years earlier than the West.

Among the ancient salt-making processes, the production process of well salt is the most complex, and it also best reflects the wisdom of the ancient Chinese.

At that time, the diameter of the salt well was large, and the wall of the well was easy to collapse. And there is no protective measures, and the depth is shallow, so only shallow salt brine can be absorbed.

After the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhuo Tube Wells appeared in the southern Sichuan region.

Zhuo tube well is a small deep well, when the well is sunk. Using a "slotted" drill bit, the rock is crushed by impact, water is injected or groundwater is used, and the cuttings and water are drawn out with a bamboo tube.

The diameter of this kind of Zhuo tube well is only the size of the bowl mouth, and the wall of the well is not easy to collapse.

The ancients also knotted the bamboo of Da Nan, socketed it from end to end, wrapped hemp rope outside, coated with putty, and went down to the well as a casing to prevent the wall of the well from collapsing and fresh water from soaking.

When taking brine, use fine bamboo as a brine tube, insert it into the casing, the bottom of the cylinder is made of cooked skin as the opening and closing valve, a tube can draw several buckets of brine, a large wooden frame is erected on the well, and the brine is extracted with a roller and a car plate.

As mentioned above, Gu Jianshan, a half-sized son, also saw the scene of boiling well salt.

If sea salt is also tormented, the cost of the two is about the same.

Although it seems that it costs money to drill wells for salt wells, they extract natural gas to fry salt, saving firewood salaries, and more importantly, they also have geographical advantages...... The sea salt transported here from Yangzhou is more expensive because of the increase in travel fees.

Liu Quan wanted to start from the well salt merchants, because the big boss Kublai Khan was really in a hurry......

Kuilu Province and pacification envoy Liu Cheng summoned large and small salt merchants to discuss shipbuilding matters.

When he revealed that he wanted the salt merchant to subsidize him, a leading salt merchant tremblingly put forward a request, saying: "To appease the envoy, now in the two roads of Jinghu North Road and Jingnan South Road, the sale of sea salt is rampant, and in order to squeeze us, the price of sea salt is extremely low...... There is also the so-called refined salt, and I don't know where it came from...... Now it is difficult to sell well salt. ”

What the salt merchant said was true, and Liu Quan, who was in Kuilu Province and appeased, understood it as soon as he heard it, and now it is strange, Haiyan inexplicably appeared in those two roads, not to mention, it was actually sold in Kuilu Province......

Then those salt merchants said that my Dayuan will never produce sea salt, it must be the Song merchants, and they must have ulterior motives to sell the salt at such a low price......

At this time, Liu Cheng had to ask about the price of salt, but he was surprised, it was cheaper than well salt!

He asked coldly, "Do you know where they came from?" ”

The salt merchant who took the lead said respectfully: "It's the Lu merchant in the Xiangfan area...... They must have bought and sold by force, otherwise, how can they have this price......"

At this time, Liu Quan's overall view came...... He still sneered and said: "If it was really a forced purchase and sale, their Lu family would have been able to become bigger and stronger more than ten years ago, and they still have to wait until today, there must be a reason for this!" ”

Later, I checked, and sure enough, there was a reason.

The Lu merchants took the opportunity to transport military funds, and at the same time privately carried thousands of stones of sea salt, including a kind of refined salt, which was sold in the Xiangfan area, and the sea salt of other people was much cheaper than their well salt before, and their merchants still sold it at a higher price, where did they have any ulterior motives to lower the price?

Liu Cheng sneered and said to the re-recruited salt merchants: "How can people's sea salt be so low, and why do you sell it so high?" Don't be too greedy for business......"

A large group of salt merchants shouted and slammed into the sky. (To be continued.) )