After the first pot of salt was made, everyone's energy was also very strong, everyone was a Tang person, and they also knew that the entire Tang Dynasty was short of salt, especially the soldiers who fought abroad, because the edible salt was too short, they had to carry a vinegar cloth per person, which was a substitute for salt. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

But this vinegar cloth has been moldy for a long time, and the taste is something that Cheng Wu, a person who is used to modern life, can't understand.

If Cheng Wu knew this, he would understand the excitement of these colleagues when they saw that Cheng Wu could extract snow salt from the salt mine.

Cheng Wu asked people to make a few more sets of tools, anyway, this place is big enough, and there is no problem in fiddling with twenty or thirty cauldrons.

Seeing that these were all elderly colleagues, Cheng Wu wrapped a little snow salt that had just come out of the pot in paper and walked out of the door.

When Cheng Wu put the snow salt that had just come out of the pot in front of the emperor, Li Shimin, who was usually very secretive, excitedly held the bag of snow salt handed over by Cheng Wu. Excitedly, he kept saying good words in his mouth.

With the ability to extract non-toxic snow salt from toxic salt mines, Datang has bid farewell to the history of salt poverty since then.

Thinking of this, Cheng Wu planned to give the emperor another fierce medicine.

"Your Majesty, in fact, this snow salt can not only be refined from the human salt mine, but also the seawater can also be refined to make such a good snow salt, but there is not so much salt mine." Cheng Wu looked at the emperor who was so excited that he was going back and forth in the hall and said calmly.

"Are those words serious?" The emperor asked excitedly.

"In this way, seawater is inexhaustible, that is, won't my Datang no longer worry about salt in the future?" The emperor stopped, turned his head and stared at Cheng Wu, as if he wanted to see something from Cheng Wu's expression.

After getting Cheng Wu's answer, the emperor asked someone to bring a special pen and wrote down in detail the procedures for boiling salt in seawater.

"Cheng Aiqing, you are really the lucky star of my Datang, since you have this ability, we no longer have to suffer from the salt, the soldiers who fight no longer eat jealous cloth, and the civilians no longer eat vinegar cloth,......" Thinking about it, Li Shimin turned his head to Cheng Wu and said: "Cheng Aiqing, you have made such a great contribution to my Datang this time, you say, what reward do you want, although it is said, as long as I can do it, I will definitely satisfy you." After getting Cheng Wu's affirmation, Li Shimin even said a few good words to Cheng Wu. If the emperor's former ministers of the Qin Mansion were here, they would definitely drop their jaws in surprise.

The wise emperor is not a person who is easy to boast about Haikou, even those loyal horses who were born and died with the emperor, for so many years, I have not seen the emperor boast of such a large Haikou.

Cheng Wu thought about it, looked at the emperor, and gave his thoughts to the emperor: "Your Majesty, the minister wants the emperor to give permission, let the minister resign from this official, the minister doesn't want to be an official, the emperor, you also know that the minister has been wandering outside for more than ten years, he is used to being wild, he can't stand any constraints, he is used to sleeping until he wakes up naturally, and now if he gets up early every day, the habit he has developed in the past ten years, to be honest, the minister is really not adaptable, no, he was late for the first day of the court today." Cheng Wu said calmly, hoping that this big boss would definitely agree to his request. Speaking of which, he is also the most bizarre civil servant in the entire Datang, and he resigned to the boss on the first day of work, which is too awesome.

"Cheng Aiqing, you are so young, it is the time for me to shine in the Tang Dynasty, many people can't ask for it, Aiqing, you resign, hey, I really don't know what you think, you said you can't get up so early, then I will approve you don't need to get it? Why resign? ”

Under Cheng Wu's repeated requests, the emperor finally agreed to Cheng Wu's resignation request, but he had to wait until Cheng Wu taught his subordinates all the salt-making skills at hand. The emperor also sent a deputy to Cheng Wu as a follower to learn Cheng Wu's method of making salt, and after Cheng Wu resigned in the future, he would be the first leader of the Shanglin Administration, as for who was sent, it was not Cheng Wu who interfered.

After getting the emperor's consent, Cheng Wu also happily raised some questions to the emperor, asking the emperor to add more young and middle-aged employees to the Shanghai Forestry Department.

Cheng Wu's subordinates are now all old men, and I hope that the emperor will send a few more young people who can do some physical work, so that some of the work that you need to crush in the salt mine can be used. Now Cheng Wu's subordinates are all hands that can't be lifted or shouldered, and if they really have to work individually, they really can't count on them, just like the current salt production, and the work of smashing the salt mine can't be counted on them.

The emperor understood Cheng Wu's request, thought about it, and told Cheng Wu that he would give Cheng Wu an answer the day after tomorrow at the latest.

Cheng Wu knows how important the Shanglin Department of salt production is now, if it is not as Cheng Wu expected, with the character of the emperor, his Shanglin Department will definitely be expanded, and being the leader of such a big and important institution is so tired that he is tired to death, this is not the life of the Tang Dynasty that Cheng Wu wants.

People are in good spirits on happy occasions, and after discussing some things with the emperor in the side hall, the emperor Li Shimin gave Cheng Wu a piece of jade pendant, saying that with this jade pendant in his hand, it will be more convenient to enter the palace in the future, as long as the jade pendant is displayed, you can enter and exit the palace casually, without being checked by the guards. Of course, there is also an important function that as long as this is displayed outside, it is as if "I am here", which saves some unnecessary trouble. This can be regarded as a kind of compensation for the emperor's contribution to Cheng Wu.

Cheng Wu took a closer look at this piece of jade, this is a piece of white mutton fat jade, carved on both sides of an identical five-grasp golden dragon, and felt a sense of roundness possessed by the best jade material coming from the palm of his hand, in this sultry summer, there is a cold feeling, as if holding a piece of ice with a slightly higher temperature in his hand.

Cheng Wu was very happy, this jade pendant was exactly what he needed most now-a talisman. With this jade pendant, I believe that in the entire Chang'an City, like a crab, I can walk sideways.

Cheng Wu sincerely saluted the emperor, and promised the emperor that he would definitely pass on all the methods of salt making that he knew to them without concealing it.

In the end, Cheng Wu also said some of his thoughts. For the sake of the secrecy of the salt-making process, Cheng Wu suggested that the emperor could gather all the relevant personnel who had come into contact with salt-making and live together for necessary management. It is possible to designate a place for them to live in, and all the necessities of life can be prescribed for them to buy, so as to ensure that the method of salt production does not leak out. Of course, the family members of the people involved also live with him.

In the end, Cheng Wu also proposed a thing that made the emperor the most excited, that is, he could exchange snow salt with the Turks and other ethnic minorities for horses, as for the unit price of the transaction, it was not what Cheng Wu considered.

After saying this, Cheng Wu said goodbye to the emperor, and then left the palace and headed for the Daning Palace. Cheng Wu rode his bicycle to the outside of the palace, Cheng Wu wanted to go back and teach his subordinates to make salt as soon as possible, and get out of it as soon as possible.

Returning to his own territory in Daningfang, Cheng Wu and his subordinates made salt together, until the next dynasty, Cheng Wu didn't know how many catties of salt he had boiled today, only remembered that in the end, Cheng Wu counted the cauldron of boiling salt, there were as many as twenty-three, Cheng Wu's colleagues, energetic and enthusiastic, even though most of them are a little older, but the passion is still undiminished, Cheng Wu looked at them, and then looked at himself, he really felt a little blushing.

It wasn't until the time of the next dynasty came that Cheng Wu rode his bicycle to his home. When he came outside, Cheng Wu knew that now the entire Daning Fang has been tightly guarded by soldiers in uniform equipment, not even a mosquito wants to fly out, the entire Shanglin Department, only one person can enter and exit at will, and the rest of the people have been assigned to some designated residences in the Fang, which is their future home, from today on, their lives will be spent in it, like a bird in a cage, imprisoned.

It seems that the emperor also accepted his own suggestion and supervised these people. Cheng Wu looked at these scenes, and Cheng Wu thought in his heart.

Watching the carriages go in and out of Daning Fang, bags of salt mines and snow salt were continuously transported in and out, and then sent to various prefectures, counties and military camps.

Cheng Wu was happy that he could do something for this era, looking at the sunset that was about to fall, Cheng Wu stepped on his bicycle and walked out of the workshop.

A long series of crisp bicycle bells rang, and the people who had been returning home after a day's work heard such a crisp ringing, and looked back one after another, only to see a man of about twenty years old, riding on a strange thing made of two iron wheels, his feet constantly pedaling, moving forward, and the golden sunset stretched their shadows.