The entire Denglai area has been ravaged by the rebels for so many days, and everything that can be robbed has basically been robbed, many wives and families have been separated, and a lot of money is needed to restore production, and the resumption of production requires officials to come forward to organize, and the wages and bounties of these people are a large amount of expenses, and the practice of driving the officials to work without letting the horses run and let the horses not eat grass is ultimately self-deception. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info the social status of the officials determines that they have to live a more decent life than ordinary people, and it is useless to educate officials with honesty and integrity, and it is not possible to scare people's greed with harsh punishments.

Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was born in poverty, and was persecuted by corrupt officials before, so he was very strict with officials after taking power, and the salary system for officials was very small, and strict laws were applied to corruption. Therefore, it is still too naïve to expect that a holy emperor will clear the Manchu Dynasty. If the emperor can't rely on the people's supervision, it's always okay, right? Zhu Yuanzhang, the great emperor, also tried, stipulating that the people can escort corrupt officials to Beijing for trial, this kind of supervision is really powerful, and there is an emperor in the court to support everyone, but it is all useless, the officials of the Ming Dynasty have been corrupt one after another, and the corruption has not decreased at all compared with other dynasties. In the end, the officials were all rich and flowed oil, but the emperor was poor and worried about the silver every day, and whenever the emperor still had some silver to spend, the ministers would jump out and shout: "Don't compete with the people for profit." ”

Zhang Chu would not think that the people who did things for him were all saints, so whoever did more things and contributed a lot to the security army should be rewarded more and live a better life. Zhang Chu's realm has been sublimated from taking his subordinates to find food to let everyone live a good life, and for this goal, he thinks about making money all day long. Zhang Chu thought about the ancient and modern ways to make money at home and abroad, and finally it really made him think of a thief's favorite business, that is, selling smuggled salt, salt is a necessity for people's lives, and it has always been monopolized by the state, and the state collects a lot of taxes from it, if you don't pay taxes, the production and sales of salt are profiteering industries.

Zhang Chu went from Shanxi to the sea, and also came to the edge of the cornucopia, and he would definitely not let go of the lucrative business of salt production.

The first thing the security forces did when they arrived at the beach was to take over the salt works in various places, whether they were official or smuggled salt works, all of which were owned by the security forces. It turned out that the entire management of the official salt was included in the system of the security army, although this was not in accordance with the rules, but in front of the sword and gun of the security army, no one would discuss these issues, and some wealthy businessmen who had relied on collusion with the government to make profits, after using silver as a stepping stone to test the new managers of the salt works several times, found that it was seamless. I had no choice but to leave. A few powerful people were unwilling to lose this financial resource, and after they used several subordinate means to interfere with the production of the salt works, the whole person disappeared.

Of course, Zhang Chu's goal will not be to control the original salt farm, and his current work is basically to go other people's paths so that others have no way out. Zhang Chu wanted to use the salt produced in Shandong to crush the government-run salt industry in Lianghuai. This is not Zhang Chu's natural arrogance, because Zhang Chu has the advantages of technology and management system that the two Huai salt sites do not have.

At present, the Lianghuai Salt Farm, the largest salt-producing area in the Ming Dynasty, is still using the backward decoction method for salt production. The salt frying method is the most traditional method of extracting sea salt, which simply involves boiling seawater in a large pot to extract salt. This method consumes firewood, and the salt workers have to engage in the work of burning fire, taking brine, and collecting salt, and the labor intensity is also very large, and it can only be produced by a household, and it cannot be formed on a large scale.

The salt drying method is a great progress in salt making technology, to the middle and late Ming Dynasty was promoted to many salt farms in the Ming Dynasty, the salt drying method is economical, practical and efficient, but such a good technology has not been promoted in the Huainan salt field, the main salt-producing area of the Ming Dynasty, and the main source of sea salt in the Ming Dynasty is still frying salt.

It is ridiculous that the salt drying technology has not been promoted, not because the salt workers cannot master the salt drying technology, but because of the system problems of the Ming Dynasty.

If the imperial court wants to control the production of the salt industry, it is necessary to control the salt workers, and the salt frying method requires an important tool is the "salt iron", that is, the cauldron of frying salt, this cauldron is cast in iron, each weighing about 140 catties, the imperial court also implements strict control over iron, and the salt workers themselves have no ability to purchase this kind of stove, not to mention the need for firewood and salt drying places need money, and ordinary salt workers cannot start production with the salt frying method. In this way, the imperial court could control all sea salt production in its own hands.

The people of insight in the Ming Dynasty did not think about promoting the salt drying method, and Sun Yuanhua's teacher Xu Guangqi tried to promote the salt drying method in the Lianghuai area in Chongzhen for three years. However, due to the obstruction of conservative forces and the struggle in the court, Xu Guangqi, who has the identity of the head of the household, failed to complete this matter.

Zhang Chu had been planning for the production of sea salt for a long time, and at the beginning of leaving Shanxi to go to Shandong to quell the rebellion, he sent people to the coastal salt works to find salt workers who were proficient in the method of drying salt, and hired them to Shandong with a lot of money.

As soon as the security army gained a foothold in Shandong, the hired salt workers had already begun experiments on the seaside, and it would be known whether the method of drying salt was feasible along the coast of Shandong. With Zhang Chu's strong support, the experiment was soon successful, proving that this method of drying salt was feasible in Shandong.

Zhang Chu also knew that he would definitely succeed, and if he didn't succeed, he would see the hell, one of the salt drying methods had developed and matured in the late Ming Dynasty, and the other was that this salt drying method was the sea salt production method commonly used in later generations, and not far from Shandong and further north was the location of the Changlu Salt Farm, the largest salt field in China in later generations.

After the success of the small-scale experiment, Zhang Chu mobilized a large number of people to start the construction of salt pans in all suitable places along the coast of Shandong, and in order to ensure safety, artillery towers were also built on the main road leading to the salt pans, and warships patrolled the sea from time to time.

On this day, the basic construction of the salt farm in Shandong was completed, Zhang Chu also specially organized a celebration ceremony, in the future, Zhang Chu can be rich, he felt that it was necessary to celebrate, so he also specially invited Xie Lian, the governor of Denglai, to participate in the official opening ceremony of the largest salt farm.

The salt workers of the salt works showed great enthusiasm for Zhang Chu's arrival. Because today is the day when the salt factory officially signed a labor contract with them, and they are already familiar with the content of the contract, according to the contract, they can live a prosperous life as long as they work hard, and Zhang Chu is the person who made all this happen.

In a burst of firecrackers and gongs and drums, the salt factory was officially opened. Zhang Chu took Xie Lian to the salt pan and looked at the salt pan that could not be seen at a glance, imagining that the salt produced here would be white flowers, and then turn into silver for white flowers, Zhang Chu's heart was very calm.

Xie Lian is worthy of being an official with high IQ and practical experience, and he soon discovered the problems existing in Zhang Chu's salt field, so he turned his head to Zhang Chu for verification. (To be continued.) )