"Father, how do you feel about being in Anton's Acropolis these days?" Yang Bo didn't want to mention it again, so he diverted the topic

Bi Fangji stroked his beard and nodded to "Yes, these days are idle and have nothing to do, every time I only wander around in the city, and after finding a few local chronicles to read carefully, I have some feelings, here is not only an important place for coastal defense, but also a prosperous port of trade, bordering Qingzhou, Gunzhou, Huai'an, Dengzhou, and the sea, it is the way to go to Goryeo, the throat of the country, the sea and land are convenient, inside and outside the city, there are many shops, and the goods from the north and south are endless. It can be said that the place where businessmen gather, hundreds of boats compete for the stream, the people market is like a tide, in the early years of Jiajing, it is just the third and eighth days of West Street, and the first and sixth days of North Street are called markets, and now there are markets in every day, which shows the prosperity of today's commerce, but it is a pity that it is ......"

Yang Bo was a little strange: "What is a pity? ”

"Anton Wei San, only the stone mortar is lonely and has never been taken seriously, but it's a pity that Zhixian has come here, hey......"

Yang Bo laughed, "Anton Acropolis is naturally going to go, but the time has not yet come"

While the two were talking, they had already arrived at the original big house of 100 households

Bi Fangji looked at the grain on an ox cart behind him, and asked a little inexplicably: "Zhixian, why do you buy so much grain?" Are you going to let me live on the edge of the granary? ”

Yang Bo was biting Xiao Mochou's ear, and after hearing Bi Fangji's words, Yang Bo patted Xiao Mochou's shoulder, and the latter nodded and walked away

"On the way, I asked Mo Chou, but he refused to say, I'm afraid there are several stones of rice here, why buy such rice?" Bi Francis is a little strange, is there a famine here, haven't you heard of it?

"Ah, the priest doesn't know the hearts of good people, but this is a gift I prepared for you to buy people's hearts......" Yang Bo replied with a smile

"Buying people's hearts?" Bi Fangji took Yang Bo's hand with some excitement: "Knowing leisure is preparing ......"

Yang Bo nodded, "Yes, you also know the way you got out of the car and was "welcomed" just now, if you want them to accept you, in addition to my guidance, you can't do it yourself without some blood."

"What do you mean by some blood?" Bi Fangji has some incomprehension of the new terms that pop up from time to time by Yang Bo

"It means that some blood means that all this rice is recorded in your account, and a little girl will ask you for silver after a while......" Yang Bo found it interesting and couldn't help laughing

"It turns out that knowing leisure is generous to others......" Bi Fangji shook his head, a little depressed

While the dog was looking for someone to settle down, the two of them took a turn around the nearby river, the name of the river is also domineering, the locals call it the Yulong River, in fact, it is a small stream, if it does not rain for several days, this so-called Yulong River can not even see the hair, along the banks of the river, there are some sparse mud and grass houses, and some flat places, many irregular fields are abandoned there, and they are overgrown with weeds.

Seeing this situation, Bi Fangji couldn't help but shake his head again and again, he had come along the way, and he also learned a lot about the difficult living conditions of the local soldiers.

"Isn't the soil here unsuitable for farming? Why are all these fields abandoned here? Bi Fangji squatted down, picked up a lump of dirt and crushed it, and put it in the palm of his hand to watch

"It's not that it's not unsuitable for farming, but there are a few difficulties in it" Yang Bo shook his head and said, "Maojiatun fields are scarce, and the fertile fields near both sides of the Dalin River have long been carved up. It's normal for fields to be abandoned......"

"What do you think?" Bi Fangji clapped his hands and looked at Yang Bo

"The idea is there, but there are still some obstacles" Yang Bo nodded, and said that he was ready to promote the idea of drying salt. He had never been exposed to these things in his previous life, although he knew what salt wells were pulling salt from salt wells and drying salt in salt farms, but he was completely blinded by the specific drying method. He also tried it a few times, and until now, the sea water exposed to the sun in the yard is still seawater, and it has not turned into salt at all. He even suspected that the saltiness of the sea was not enough, and if it was really what he thought, Maojiatun could only honestly continue to use the inefficient way of cutting wood to cook the sea in the future

After listening to Yang Bo's words, Bi Fangji pondered for a moment and said: "Zhixian is the right person, when Xu Guangqi had to the emperor on the "Qin Feng Ming Decree Strip Tuntian Shu", in which the fifth volume is dedicated to the matter of drying salt, I remember that there are a few sentences: the sea water of Huaibei, the sea water of the Heiyang River, the surname is extremely salty, and the marinade is no different, then do furrow irrigation, dry water into salt, is a name raw salt, also called a salt pond ....... I remember him saying; In Zhangquan and other prefectures in Fujian, although the sea water is light, you can also use the method of drying salt......"

Yang Bo was overjoyed and grabbed Bi Fangji's hand, "Then, that means that the saltiness of the sea here is enough, right?" ”

Bi Fangji couldn't cry and laughed, "Xu Guangqi said that no matter whether the sea water is salty or light, you can use the method of drying salt, I Andong Wei is close to Huai'an Mansion, the sea water in Huaibei is no different from the marinade, of course, the surname is extremely salty, don't you know if you don't know, Lianghuai was originally a salt-producing area of my dynasty? ”

Yang Bo touched his head: "Don't hide it from the priest, I have also drunk a lot of seawater in the past few days, and I don't think it is extremely salty, but it is bitter and astringent."

Bi Fangji shook his head: "Leisure and slow joy, back then, Xu Guangqi's five volumes of Tuntian Shu, I also read it, at that time, it was just a quick glance, and I couldn't remember many details, this method of drying salt will wait for me to go back and think about it carefully......"

Yang Bo knew that this matter was not in a hurry, so he nodded and said, "Priest doesn't need to be anxious, wait until tomorrow and let's go see the method of boiling salt first, maybe we can touch the bypass, and we can know......

Early the next morning, Yang Bo took everyone to the beach, today in addition to the new Han Yaner Han Zongqi, Maojiatun also has a Yao Zongqi, before he has been in Andongwei, heard that the hundred households were in office, so he hurried over to meet.

Yao Zongqi was scared half to death by Bi Fangji as soon as he came, and when he saw Yang Bo, his face was already pale, and even his hands were shaking

"No need to be polite" Yang Bo nodded, and couldn't help but disdain in his heart: "As for it, doesn't it mean that Anton Weihai's sea route is smooth and business is developed?" Why is Yao Zongqi like a ghost when he sees a foreigner? Looks like this guy is also an embarrassing ......"

Yao Zongqi didn't know that Yang Bo had already made a judgment in his heart, he was left behind alone, and he didn't dare to get too close.

Everyone went to see the process of boiling salt first, Bi Fangji ignored the frightened looks of the soldiers around him, carefully looked at each process, and asked if he didn't understand, if it weren't for the majestic Yang officials on the side, Bi Fangji was only afraid that he would be tied to the stone and sink into the sea by these conservative guys.

"How?" Yang Bo asked

"Feasible!" Bi Fangji nodded affirmatively, "There were still some incomprehensions before, but after comparing the method of boiling salt, I have roughly understood"

The two of them squatted on the beach, pointing and painting on the sand, and those military households saw that Yang Baihu was not eaten raw by Hongyi, and the two of them were still talking and laughing, and their hearts were a little more settled......

"The seaside chooses an unobstructed, flat place, or digs a well to build a pool, or digs a ditch to build a pool, selects cylinders or tiles, or pads with bricks, builds with solid stones, and also has broken porcelain pieces, which is called a salt kan, and then draws the sea water to expose it to brine ......"

Hearing this, Yang Bo has already understood, before he ignored the process of brine, his own experiment has not been successful, simply put, is the use of wind and solar energy, the water in the seawater evaporates, but after evaporation to a certain extent, it takes a long time for the seawater to become crystalline salt, at this time, it is necessary to prepare the high-concentration seawater, that is, the brine to concentrate the salt crystallization first, and then pour the relatively low concentration of seawater on it, so that the thicker the salt bed, the faster the salt will be.

"It's really life full of learning......" Yang Bo sighed, stood up and looked at the vast sea in the distance, and the depression in his heart suddenly dissipated

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