Chapter 20: Refined Salt (I think my word count has caught up with more than 40 chapters)
Fang Yun, who was dressed in white, turned into a little white dragon in the waves, driving away the big carp that came to save people, only to see the white waves churning on the lake. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Fang Yun in his previous life had a good water nature, and after becoming a second-rate martial artist, his physical fitness was also much stronger, but when he swam to the person who fell into the water, he couldn't stand this woman's struggle in the water, Fang Yun had seen the news that saving the drowning person often had to defeat the drowning person, otherwise he wanted to live and catch something, at this time, the woman hugged Fang Yun's neck fiercely, almost strangled him out of breath.
"Gollum, Gollum"
"Save, Gollum, Gollum......"
I don't know how long it took, amid the cheers of the little maid, Fang Yun finally dragged this graceful woman ashore, saying that the graceful posture was mainly due to Fang Yun's touch, but he was startled when he looked at his face, his messy hair, his face was pale, as if he was dead.
"Miss, you, are you okay, Miss, Childe, please save our young lady, my young lady will definitely pay you." The little maid fell on this woman, and tears fell like raindrops, and it seemed that this young lady was also like a sister.
"Don't shake it, if you shake it, you'll die." Fang Yun asked the little maid to step aside, and reached out to tear open the tight placket on the woman's chest, obviously she was a woman, she had to pretend to be a son, and the chest cloth on her chest was so tight, it would definitely suffocate people to death.
"Ah, scoundrel, you stinky rascal, bastard, my young lady is dead, and you won't let it go!" The angry little maid rushed up and punched and kicked His Royal Highness the Prince, but fortunately, Fang Yun easily knocked down the little maid who didn't know martial arts with his soft and rigid skills.
"Shut up, her chest is too tight to breathe." Fang Yun pressed on the woman's chest again, using his strength, and easily let her spit out the water stuck in her throat, His Royal Highness felt that it felt good, cough, one hand couldn't hold it at all, so he took the opportunity to rub it.
After a long time, Fang Yun was still thinking about why this woman hadn't woken up yet, or else artificial respiration, so he noticed that this woman had actually woken up, her body was trembling a little, her eyes were closed, but tears slipped down from the corners of her eyes.
"No, this girl, miss, I'm here to save you, when you wake up, open your eyes quickly, your maids are about to be scared to death." Fang Yun hurriedly let go of his hand, and habitually helped him pull up the neckline.
Yan Shihan opened her eyes, tears fell like pearls, and she glared at Fang Yun angrily, and she was about to take out the most ugly words in her head to scold, but wasn't the man in front of her Mr. Wenmo?
"Miss, don't scare me, why don't you speak, if you get angry, let's go and report to the official." The little maid hurriedly took off her coat and draped it over her.
"Girl, although I will be puzzled by what I did just now, but I really want to save people, you must know that people can breathe because the heart is beating, and the heart is right in the chest, I press your chest just to make your heart beat again." Fang Yun, who had long sideburns and hair dripping slightly, was really explaining in every way, although I really touched it at the time, I still rushed to save people......
But the girl in front of her had red eyes, she couldn't cry, and she didn't know whether she was saving herself or harming others, and what if she committed suicide by throwing herself into the lake again.
"Concubine, concubine, thank you for saving your son." Yan Shihan didn't scold it after all, Mr. Wenmo, who wrote a poem "Spring Trip to the Qiantang River", disappeared, Yan Shihan, who was full of curiosity about this person, suffered from lovesickness, and was always depressed, and came to the West Lake to enjoy the scenery, but because he wanted to pick up the handkerchief that fell on the shore, he fell into the lake.
But at this moment, I really saw this handsome and handsome face, but I was full of shame and embarrassment, after all, this Mr. Wenmo woke himself up, but he thought he didn't wake up, but he secretly touched his chest, oh my God, I can't remember it, I really feel hot and hot when I think about it.
Yan Shihan asked the maid to help herself up, and before she even had time to say goodbye, she stumbled and disappeared in Fang Yun's eyes.
While twisting the soaked clothes, Fang Yun was a little puzzled by the scene just now, this woman was taken advantage of by herself, but she didn't scold herself, she was obviously crying, she looked at herself, but she thanked herself, His Royal Highness the Prince touched his face: "Is it difficult, is it really handsome to the point where flowers bloom." ”
"This woman is really unlucky, I don't know if she fell into it by accident or committed suicide by throwing herself into the lake."
Xiaohong came to the shore and patted the water at Fang Yun, splashed him all over the water, and then disappeared on the surface of the lake.
Fang Yun didn't understand why Xiaohong was angry, although he rushed to save the woman, there was a little bit of an attempt to take advantage, but what does it have to do with you as a carp, Lao Tzu was afraid that you would attract people to catch you because of the leakage of some spirituality, so he kindly let you hide.
"Get up for me, I'm going to do Tai Chi ten times!" His Royal Highness the Prince angrily kicked up Xiao Yuwen with a confused face.
"What? Ten times, you kill me. Yu Wen was very reluctant with a bitter face, this fist-breaking method took a lot of time once, and I couldn't eat at noon ten times.
Fang Yun lay where he was lying just now, and closed his eyes: "Say it ten times, ten times, I'll listen to it, if there is a little bit of something wrong, I will add it again." ”
Not to mention anything else, for the sound of every movement of Tai Chi, Fang Yun could hear right or wrong just by his ears, Yu Wen wanted to lie to him, and he almost had the ability.
"His Royal Highness, persimmon, scholar, stone!" Yu Wen pursed his lips and kept complaining, but the hand Tai Chi moves did not stop, Fang Yun quietly opened his eyes, only to find that the little guy had become a little smaller.
At noon, Fang Yun came back with Xiao Yuwen, and as soon as he arrived at Leifeng Tower, the little guy hugged the thigh of a senior brother, and said with a bitter face: "Senior brother, help, save me." ”
However, his senior brother Sanxun is also an understanding person, and he knows that the little junior brother is tired, but this is not the reason for you to hug my thigh: "Although our Leifeng Pagoda is not a big temple, the state has national laws, and the Buddha has Buddhist rules. ”
The corners of Yu Wen's mouth twitched, and he looked melancholy, it was not good to hug anyone, he had to hug Senior Brother Sanxun, and he was also looking for trouble, so he didn't wait for him to finish the other two trainings, and ran away.
Senior Brother Sanxun looked at Fang Yun embarrassedly: "Your Highness is smiling, the little junior brother is not sensible, please forgive me." ”
"Yu Wen is very smart and learns things quickly." Fang Yun smiled casually.
I don't know what kind of bad luck Yu Wen had today, and he was caught by his master again, Fahai asked him to stand with a serious face, and asked him to recite the "Heart Sutra" while baptizing his own soul.
Yu Wen, who had no love, sniffled: "Contemplating the Bodhisattva of Freedom, when he walks in the deep Prajnaparamita, he sees that the five aggregates are empty, and he overcomes all suffering.
Relic! The color is not different from the empty, and the empty is not different from the color; Color is emptiness, emptiness is color; The same is true of what you want to do.
Relic! It is the emptiness of all laws, which is neither born nor destroyed, neither dirty nor pure, neither increased nor decreased.
Therefore, there is no color in the air, no thoughts, no thoughts, no thoughts, no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind, no color, sound, fragrance, touch, no vision, and even no consciousness. ”
Fang Yun, who didn't understand the Dharma, was a little confused, and left after watching it for a while, originally planning to ask Fahai for some experience in the afternoon.
But there are other things at the moment, I can only talk about it tomorrow, if you want to make money, it is definitely not possible to open a restaurant just by relying on those people, it is too childish, his father Wang Chengtian said that Fang Yun is short-sighted, but this time, Fang Yun let them know what it means to stand on the shoulders of giants to do business.
To say what is the most important material in ancient times, it is undoubtedly steel, grain and salt, and these materials are the most profitable and in demand, which is undoubtedly salt, but not to mention the Song Dynasty, before the Qing Dynasty, the refining of salt was all labor-intensive and laborious, and it was not possible to get good refined salt, and the vast majority of them were coarse-grained salt.
Because the method of refining salt in this era is still, frying salt, and there are also salt, but there is no good method, the effect is not good, it is very coincidental Fang Yun happens to know the trick of salt, and the southeast of Zhejiang is close to the coast, which also belongs to the fief of King Yan.
If you want to be a salt merchant, you can earn a lot of money without much effort.
In this era, in addition to the rich and noble, ordinary people use coarse salt, and if they can sell refined salt on a large scale, they will make a steady profit.
Although the salt merchants in Qianyang are all linked to the officials of the imperial court, they also have to see who His Royal Highness is.
What's more, the salt merchants in Qianyang are arrogant and lascivious, and they know how to drink and have fun, or they go to the Qinglou to visit the kiln, and they haven't done anything serious, so they don't suppress them, and they don't suppress anyone.
Fang Yun, who took out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, thought about it and began to write the process of making refined salt, in less than a stick of incense, a chapter of rice paper has been filled with hundreds of words, the process can be described as extremely detailed.
After reading it again, he found that there was no typo, Fang Yun rode his horse and went back to the palace with Song Changdao, because he had already instructed the housekeeper to find him some reliable workers, and after returning to the palace, he went to meet those people.
As the old man of Yan Wang's Mansion, Steward Wang used to be King Yan's personal guard, and he blocked twelve knives for King Yan, his strong body was almost cut into cripples, and the cultivation of first-class masters also disappeared, so Fang Yun respected him very much, and generally called him Uncle Wang.
"Uncle Wang, how are these people?" Fang Yun got off the horse and ran here, drinking herbal tea at this time, his body was a little tired.
"Most of the net worth is innocent, and I have installed a lot of my own people in it, they are all diehards cultivated by Yanwangfu since childhood, and they are generally placed in important positions in various fields."
Fang Yun nodded, that's good, don't be afraid that the salt-making method in your hand will leak secrets, but this matter is very important after all, His Royal Highness the Prince of the World, who thought about it for a while, burned the rice paper in his hand, took out three pieces of rice paper, and wrote out three processes respectively, from now on, it is in the hands of three people, even if someone leaks one or two, it will be no problem.
If the three of them are unreliable, it is too underestimated to underestimate the ability of the palace.
Steward Wang mainly recruited some ordinary people who didn't know anything, basically they didn't know how to make salt, and they needed to learn from scratch, but Fang Yun was not afraid of trouble, he was afraid of spies from other salt merchants, the three processes were separated, no one knew what the order of making salt by himself was, the last process was naturally guarded, and the Yan Wangfu was not short of manpower.
Fang Yun mainly met with the person in charge of the three salt-making processes, and through the selection of him and Steward Wang, the three people were confirmed respectively, Liu Cheng, Wang You, and Zhao Weidong.
His Royal Highness the Prince finally stood on the high platform, after some careful consideration, the speech was very touching, many employees cried bitterly, Steward Wang was like seeing a ghost, I really didn't know that His Royal Highness the Prince was so eloquent, and this is not with the prince.
When the prince rewarded the three armies, he also poured out boxes of silver and piled them up into a mountain of silver, which was two million taels of silver, Fang Yi shouted at that time: "I will give you all the silver, but I just want the city in the north, will you give it to me?" ”
"Give!" More than 100,000 Yanyun iron horsemen shouted in unison, murderous and scattered the sky.
So Yanjing City was taken down by this group of young men.
No one knows that on the night of taking Yanjing City, the prince cried, in order to conquer the entire Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, how many people died under him, and how many men with wives and children came to his Yanyun Iron Horse in order to support his family, but he could never go back home, and he didn't know if he would find out that his mother was bullied, but he couldn't do anything, and the kid in the family was scolded by other children for being a wild child without a father, what to do if he cried.
The prince only felt sorry for these soldiers under his hands, he was leaving Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, just because he was also a father, for more than ten years, he was a father, he had never had a good chat with his son once, Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures were defeated, and he got a lot, honor, rights, respect, fear, and admiration.
But he also lost a lot, the death of his wife, the unwelcome of his father-in-law, and the congenital cold symptoms of his son.
King Yan, who had received everything, had no desire but the throne at this time, and he didn't want his son to accompany him to suffer in Yanyun anymore, so he could only go south.
More than a dozen talents recruited by the palace were sent to Zhejiang by the sea for a generation, although Hangzhou is close to the sea, but there is not much salt, there are some salt-producing places in the interior, but they are also controlled by the government, salt merchants are generally trying to produce salt in places near the sea.
Fang Yun waited to hear the news after that, hoping that the refined salt would be made out as soon as possible, and when the time came, the silver would naturally enter the Yan Wang's Mansion like flowing water.
The Tiger Roar Gang is not advancing fast at this time, and some gangs in Hangzhou have spent a lot of money to invite a lot of guests, and they are at a stalemate at this time, but the Tiger Roar Gang belongs to the top of Hangzhou in terms of strength and power, and if he doesn't move, others naturally dare not move.
Just wait for Wang Xiaohu to break through the little grandmaster, and many gangs in Hangzhou will surrender.
Fang Yun, who returned to the palace, met with Fang Kai and others, and ate dinner at home, after all, King Yan gave an order, saying that Yun'er was back, so let's eat at home, and there was no hurry to go back, after all, the house was very close to Leifeng Tower.
After the other princes and princesses left, Fang Yi thought for a while and said, "Zaixing brought back 10,000 soldiers and horses, because they all belong to their respective military camps, I plan to give them a place together, do you have any plans to take charge of the army?" ”
Fang Yun was interested at this time, his eyes lit up, but when he thought of this group of soldiers who did not obey the holy decree and dared to come to Hangzhou from Yan Yun privately, he was a little cowardly, in the army, it is often the strong who can speak, why Yang Zaixing can hold down so many veterans in the military camp alone, they are powerful, proper grandmasters.
Not only can he get off his horse and rush into battle, but he can also get on the horse to lead the troops, and now he has a father, who is second-rate in strength, and the captain of Yanyun Iron Cavalry has such a realm, or even higher, as for his reputation, he is even more infamous, especially the title of Yanyun Xiaobawang, which is simply hurting himself.
His Royal Highness just thought about it, and then shook his head: "Wait a little longer." ”
King Yan could see Fang Yun's desire, but he also understood his difficulties, so he didn't say much, thinking in his heart: "As long as Yun'er really grows up, I can also support my old age." ”