Chapter 15 is not happy to see each other

Out of Lizhou City, the eldest grandson Tang no longer stayed, and Wang Tiedang and Wang Tiedang went all the way to the south. It has entered the range of the Chengdu Plain, and it is quite fast.

In less than five days, they arrived in Chengdu, which was still called Yizhou at this time. Thanks to the Dujiangyan built by Li Bing and his son, the county guard of the Qin Dynasty, a fertile field near Yizhou, and the vigorous development of the silk industry by Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period, Chengdu at this time was the name of the country of abundance in Yizhou.

The eldest grandson stayed in Chengdu for a few days and specially went to Dujiangyan and Qingcheng Mountain for a visit. Qingcheng Mountain is the four famous mountains of Taoism, and it can also be said to be the birthplace of Taoism.

Leaving Chengdu, the eldest grandson never stayed again, and even Emei Mountain and the Leshan Giant Buddha in the process of construction did not go, and went directly to Rongzhou.

This Rongzhou was newly established in the early years of Wude, that is, not long after Li Yuan ascended the throne, and the Yangtze River flowed through the territory.

This Zhang Shaokang's house is in the southwest of Rongzhou, and after hundreds of years of development, it has changed from a barren land when Zhuge Liang pacified the Nanban to a real land of fish and rice. The Zhang family not only harvested the cocoons of silkworm farmers to make silk, but also was a landlord, but the mulberry field at home was hundreds of acres, and when the cocoons were harvested, the family and the hired short-term workers also had three or four hundred people.

The eldest grandson first visited Zhang Shaokang's parents, and then the two of them each told their stories in the living room.

Since Zhang Shaokang returned home, his father handed over almost all the big and small things in the family to him, and he did it in an orderly manner, and became married to his fiancée.

"Young master, young master, something is wrong with Shiojing?" While the two were talking about those eventful years, a man who looked like a steward rushed in in a panic.

"What's the panic, didn't you see that I had a guest?" Zhang Shaokang's bearing exploded at this moment, the boy who seemed to be discussing yesterday to peek at whose maid was taking a bath, at this moment the shallow beard under his lips has verified the traces of time, we will all grow up.

"Oh, this, I've seen Childe." The quality of the steward is still good, maybe there is something really difficult. However, it seems that the steward will be mistaken, thinking that these trade secrets should not be said on this occasion, and some of them looked at Zhang Shaokang, and stopped talking.

"What's the matter, isn't your family engaged in silk? Why is the silk a little light, and you need to sprinkle some salt? The eldest grandson laughed.

"No, some time ago, a salt merchant mortgaged a salt well and asked us to borrow some money to turn over, and the salt merchant ran away, so we took the well."

"This salt is also a good deal, if there is no problem, I guess you would have wanted to do this! Why don't you deal with it first, and I'll walk around. ”

"Don't mind, brother, I call you brother, I really didn't mean that." Zhang Shaokang looked at this steward, and his momentum returned to his body.

"What's going on?" Zhang Shaokang asked lightly.

"This ......" steward did not know whether to say or not.

"Say, this is the person I hired to solve this problem." Zhang Shaokang knew that Changsun Tang had a lot of ideas, and this time the matter was more tricky.

"A large number of merchants asked us to return the goods."

"Then retreat, it's really our problem."

"But we have no money left but a small amount of gold and silver."

The eldest grandson was a little foggy when he heard this, and cast a puzzled look at Zhang Shaokang.

"Is it so, there is something wrong with this well? Can't get out of the salt? ”

"It's not, the salt is still out, the same as before. It's just that the salt that comes out is a little bitter. ”

"Oh, I see. The eagle was pecked blind by the eagle. The eldest grandson seemed to be still immersed in the joy of the reunion of his old classmates, and completely turned on the ridicule to the maximum in the posture of hurting his friends.

"Your joke is also a point." We also always say that our hearts have changed, but we don't know that our original intentions have changed.

"Oh, I'm sorry." Changsun Tang reacted, and laughed at the boss in front of his subordinates, as if few bosses were happy, not to mention that this boss was still very young.

"However, you've always been the best at these things, but what can you do?"

"What, the problem is serious?"

"It's not a big problem, it's just that the family has to hurt some vitality." Zhang Shaokang didn't say anything, as the son-in-law of the family, if the loan failed, the family would not only lose some money and even need to buy some mulberry fields to make up for it, but more seriously, the prestige of the long house would be seriously hit, and even his father might give up the position of the patriarch, maybe this is a trap made by the second and fourth rooms.

"I don't know the exact situation, and I can't guarantee that the problem will be solved." The eldest grandson knew that with Zhang Shaokang's temperament, saying this meant that the problem was already more serious.

"It would be nice if Lao Ge was here. He has been making salt at home for several lifetimes, and these problems may be known. ”

"But I don't think it's a big problem, but we have to see it on the ground to understand what's going on." The eldest grandson Tingting Zhang Shaokang said, he basically understood what was going on. This must be mixed with impurities, but it is difficult to determine what impurities are under the current conditions, and there is not necessarily a solution to it. For example, Changsun Tang knew that TNT could be made from toluene and nitric acid, but the problem was where to find nitric acid and toluene, and during World War II, Germany could not synthesize nitric acid artificially, but could only make it from saltpeter.

The two were surrounded by more than a dozen people and went to the salt well.

This salt well does not need to be extracted manually, because of the pressure difference, it will flow out like a spring by itself, and Changsun Tang guessed that this may be near Zigong in later generations, and the local place name is also called artesian well.

This is a large area, and when the salt is extracted, the workers now beat the brine into wooden barrels, and if it is poured into the salt drying field made of bluestone slabs in the summer, it will be evaporated and boiled in a large pot in the winter. It may be that at this time, there has been no drilling for salt, natural gas should not have been discovered, and it is estimated that the stunts of Sichuan Opera's face-changing and fire-spitting should not have been born yet!

The salt drying plant, which should normally be very busy, is silent at this time. A few workers lazily leaned against the shade of the trees, and the owner did not pay much attention to them.

The eldest grandson walked to the salt bag that was stacked high in the salt field, and casually untied a bag of salt, and the salt of the white flowers was scattered all over the ground, and the quality was better than that of green salt. I dipped my finger in a little, and it was salty with a bitter taste, no wonder no one wanted this salt. In fact, it's not that no one wants this salt with a bitter taste, but this well salt was originally regarded as a high-end product, and it is not very valuable with a bitter taste.

When the eldest grandson tasted the bitterness of the salt, he already knew what was going on. I was constipated again, so I found a familiar Chinese medicine doctor to prescribe medicine, and the old Chinese medicine doctor charged five cents, weighed a few dollars for myself, and the magnesium sulfate problem was solved. I deliberately took care of it, and it turned out that this bitter magnesium sulfate has a laxative effect, and magnesium chloride can also be used.

Once the composition of the impurities is determined, the rest of the problems will be taken care of. Let Zhang Shaokang come over with his ears, like this and this. Zhang Shaokang, who listened, only frowned.