Mai Tiedan's agitated spirit stood up: "Huh? Dinner? Is there any meat to eat? ”

Lai slapped the whole man on Mai Tiedan's head, and scolded with a smile: "Eat, eat, eat, you know how to eat, you are a foodie." ”

"What is a foodie? Is it tasty? Mai Tiedan asked dumbfoundedly.

Come and put your hands on your forehead, with black lines on your face. This stupid big guy is really enough, he can eat, sleep, and not work. said that he was going to fetch water, but he ended up messing up four buckets and one tank.

In that case, let's go chop wood, this axe and wood will never break and break again, right?

Well, we underestimate the destructive power of foodies again, two axes that have been thrown off their heads and a roof that has been smashed and leaked, which explains what is called a rice bucket.

Seeing that Lai's face was speechless, Mai Tiedan was finally sure that he was being played, and muttered to himself: "You will bully me as an honest man, and you won't let me do my work, and you won't let me sleep when I sleep." There is no reason for heaven! ”

Before he finished speaking, he turned around and leaned against the tree again and snored.

In this world, simple-minded people live the happiest life, as long as they can eat and sleep, they never have to worry about what will happen tomorrow.

Lai Cheng is not this kind of person, so he has a lot of troubles. Not only do you have to figure out how to make enough money in the coming year, but you also have to worry about properly arranging the future of your family and friends before the upcoming troubled times.

In his previous life, he had read a lot of novels and TV about time travel, but he couldn't remember how to make perfume, soap, and glass in the so-called "Four Great Inventions of Time Travel". Only "spirits" seem to be obtained by distilling ordinary water liquor.

Even if you know that distillation can make spirits, it is difficult to make money when you find it. There are two reasons, one is that the imperial court restricts winemaking, because winemaking will waste a large amount of food, so all the wine supply on the market is made and sold by the government, and it is very difficult for private individuals to intervene in it. The second is that the wine-making equipment is not up to standard, there are no suitable sealing facilities, and the cost of distilled liquor is scary. A hundred catties of ordinary water wine can't produce a pound of spirits, such a high manufacturing cost, even if it is made, it may be difficult to sell, and the final outcome may only become a royal tribute to Yang Guang.

After thinking about it, Lai Cheng still gave up the idea of making money by "crossing the four major inventions".

However, it is not without its harvest to think about it for many days. He thought of a way that he could do and that he could definitely make money, and that was to dry salt in the sea.

The reason why I was able to think of this method is because I went on a business trip to Shandong Wudi in my previous life and saw a written record:

Song Yingxing, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, wrote "Tiangong Kaiwu: Zuo Xian Fifth", which recorded: "Haifeng has a person who leads seawater directly into the pond to dry, and when it is condensed, it sweeps the food without adding manpower. Same as salt solution. But when the salt is formed, it is very different from not borrowing the south wind. ”

It was such a passage that made Lai learn how to use the salt pan to dry salt.

Now people have known that the method of extracting salt from seawater is to use the "frying" and "boiling" method (using a plate for frying, using a pot for boiling) to heat the seawater to evaporate, and then refine edible coarse salt, but the sea salt is produced by decoction, which not only has a low yield, but also has poor quality.

The source of salt in Dasui is mainly guaranteed by the decoction salt of 100,000 salt workers on the seaside.

In contrast, the seawater salt drying method is almost a costless business. Not only the cost is low, but also the output is large.

You only need to find an area with a mild climate and plenty of sunshine, and choose a large flat seaside tidal flat to build a salt pan.

Divide the salt pan into two parts: the evaporation pond and the crystallization pond.

First, the seawater is introduced into the evaporation pond, and when the water is evaporated to a certain extent by the sun, it is then introduced into the crystallization pond and continues to be sun-dried, and the seawater will become a saturated solution of salt, and then the salt will gradually precipitate out, which is coarse salt.

If you want to make refined salt, you need to add procedures such as dilution and filtration, which is not difficult.

The place to choose the salt drying is Shandong Wudi.

Wudi boiled salt, the earliest can be traced back to the Shang and Zhou dynasties, Shandong Shusha's boiled sea for salt, for the originator of Chinese salt making.

According to "Pipe": "At the beginning of late spring, the people of Beihai boiled the sea for salt." "Historical Records" contains: "Taigong to the country...... Through the industrial and commercial industry, it will benefit from fish and salt, and the people will be united and become a big country. ”

As a result, the salt industry of Wudi is flourishing, and Bohai County is a salt official in the Western Han Dynasty. During the Wei and Jin dynasties, the salt people built a salt temple on Jieshi Mountain, so Jieshi Mountain is also commonly known as "Salt Mountain". There is the moon under the mountain to produce salt, there is a salt temple on the mountainside, and it is called the salt mountain in the Wei and Jin dynasties.

In the eighteenth year of Emperor Kaihuang of the Sui Dynasty, Gaocheng County was renamed Yanshan County after the salt mountain in the southeast and offshore of Gaocheng County.

The reason why Laicheng set up a salt drying plant in Wudi is because there are several conveniences, first of all, there is a tradition of boiling salt here since ancient times, which is convenient for recruiting skilled manpower. Secondly, there was already a salt official supervising here, so setting up a salt farm in Wudi would make the emperor feel more at ease. Finally, because Wudi has an outlet to the sea and convenient transportation, even if the world is in chaos two years later, Laicheng can quickly withdraw the manpower from here and continue to work in another place.

The plan to dry salt in Wudi was set, and several important joints needed to be opened.

Salt and iron have been the lifeblood of the country since ancient times, and have always been exclusively sold by the state, with a special salt and iron division. To get involved, you must have the emperor's nod, and how to persuade Yang Guang to agree is the most difficult part.

Besides, if you come to the house to intervene in the salt farm, it will definitely touch the chain of interests of many people, and how to balance and restrain many forces is probably decided only after a good discussion with Daddy Laihu'er.

There is also the last point, there is no one available in his hands now, even if he builds a salt farm, there is no one of his own people stationed in it, let alone use it to make money, sooner or later he will be played to death.

It is now the end of July, and there is still some time before Yang Guang returns to Luoyang, so he must set up his own manpower in advance, and as soon as he gets the emperor's approval, he can act immediately. You must know that you can start work one day earlier in order to make money one day earlier, and the time node of the world chaos waits for no one.

Lai Zhen had a plan in his heart, and as soon as the limelight of assassinating Yang Xuan, the king of Qi, passed, he went to Licheng to subdue Luo Shixin. What makes Lai a little headache is that whether it is Luo Shixin or Mai Tiedan, who follows him, they are both amazingly powerful, but simple-minded people, it is not difficult for them to take care of the salt farm, but if they want to run the business, these two people are useless.

It seems that it is necessary for him to find the second child of the Zhu family, who has been in charge of the business of Rongguo Mansion, to see if there is a suitable candidate to recommend.

Thinking of this, he greeted Liu Ye: "You go and invite Third Uncle Zhu to come over, I have something for him to do." ”

"Yes, Childe." Liu Ye, who had been guarding his side, went out in response.

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(Because there is something at home, I can only change it today, so please be considerate of all brothers and sisters!) Thank you! ）