On the bank of Baizhu water outside Huojing City, nearly 200 acres of wasteland were surrounded by Datang Wushuang Salt Industry Company, and huge warehouses were neatly arranged.

There is a ten-foot-high rammed earth wall in the middle, separating the inner and outer courtyards, and the inner courtyard is full of smoke and noisy voices. The cars and horses in the outer courtyard are galloping, and the shouting and cheering are endless day and night.

A large number of horse-drawn carriages drove in and out, and there was an endless stream. The storerooms with open walls were filled with coarse salt brought in from all over the world. A strong man with bare arms, shouting a trumpet, worked together to push a Bing cart directly into the warehouse, and then dumped the coarse salt on the cart.

"Huojing Xie Baocai, seventy-three quintals and two buckets of third-level coarse salt, the mantissa is not counted!"

"Pujiang Liu nineteen, sixty-eight quintals of second-level coarse salt and one bucket, the mantissa is not counted!"

The loud account room shouted while keeping accounts, and one by one the shippers crowded to the table in the account room, and they were relieved to see him write down his accounts.

At the edge of the storeroom, several donkeys were blindfolded and pulled several roulette wheels like grinders. The shirtless man kept shoveling the coarse salt from the storeroom onto the conveyor belt driven by the roulette wheel.

The conveyor belt is long and passes through a fence inside the warehouse to transport coarse salt. On the other side, there are also two or three conveyor belts, which convey fine salt as fine as sand and white as snow from the courtyard.

What exactly is going on in the inner courtyard, it is not known from the outside. All people can see is a conveyor belt to send coarse salt in, and what comes out is the world's unparalleled refined salt.

The inner courtyard is also very spacious, even more spacious than the outer storeroom, with thousands of cauldrons with a diameter of nearly two meters on the open ground, and each salt worker can manage the firewood of ten cauldrons. The fire is raging;

Others were holding long shovels and were either stirring or shoveling out the boiled salt. Everyone is busy and orderly.

On the Baizhu River. There are several tall waterwheels that carry the water into the backyard through pipes and into a tall pool with small channels leading to the small pool by the first cauldron;

The monocycles are parked under the conveyor belt, and after the body is filled with salt, the strong man pushes it to a slightly higher pool of water and dumps it, and then fills it with water to melt the coarse salt;

There is a wooden frame on top of the pool, and there is a big man who constantly pushes the push rod on the wooden frame like a grinder, stirring the diluted salt water;

Someone else is responsible for adding lime and other substances to it, and wait for the coarse salt to be fully dissolved. Open the gauze drain on one side of the sink and drain the brine directly into a large pot and bring it to a boil over high heat.

Thousands of cauldrons are blazing under the fire, and the open space of fifty or sixty acres wide is boiling in a hot wave. Because when re-dissolved into brine with coarse salt, the concentration of brine is high, and it is boiled many times faster than boiling salt with natural brine.

In addition, Li Ang also invented the method of putting honey locust bean flour and sugar into the pot to make the brine quickly condense into salt, which greatly reduced the time required to boil the brine.

After a pot of refined salt boils out. It is then shoveled into a wheelbarrow, pushed onto a conveyor belt, and transported to a warehouse in the outer yard. In this way, the outer courtyard and the inner courtyard are completely separated. Outsiders have no way of knowing the process by which coarse salt becomes refined salt.

Inside and outside the high wall, He Chengguan and others with dogs were closely guarded to prevent anyone from peeping.

Atractylodes water's edge outside the wall. A simple wharf was built, and the river was full of boats. Some are unloading, some are loading.

Almost everyone in Huojing County who lost their fields. It's all here. Here, as long as you have a lot of strength, you can always find a job, and if you work hard, it will not be a problem to support a family of three or four.

Cui Yin, the county commander with a spring breeze, walked in front, Li Ang accompanied him, followed by twenty or thirty new agents, watching this busy scene, listening to the boiling voices, Cui Yin can be said to be full of joy.

At this moment, he has already imagined the most prosperous Fire Well City he can think of, and he has imagined what it would look like when Yi Zaisuke returned to Fire Well many years later, hehehe, hahaha......

Before that, he couldn't imagine that the fire well could be so vibrant in such a short period of time. It's wonderful, it's indescribable!

Now Huojing salt has become the largest salt distribution center in the entire Jiannan Province.

Merchants from all over the world have come one after another, and the rapid increase in the flow of people has brought huge business opportunities. The inns, green buildings, wine stores, groceries, snack shops, tea shops, cabinet shops, pawnshops and other industries in Huojing City have also prospered, and every house is overcrowded. Such a gratifying situation has greatly exceeded Cui Yin's expectations.

"Cui Mingfu, look at the busy scene on this wharf, now the average daily transportation of coarse salt by land and water is close to 20,000 quintals. Then we quickly convert it into refined salt and resell it as quickly as possible. It's just that the speed of purification is still a little bit unstable. In the next step, we would like to continue to expand our production capacity. ”

"Good! Very good! If you have any needs, as long as they do not violate the policies and laws of the imperial court, this official will support them as much as possible! ”

Li Ang and Cui Yin sang and harmonized, one is to distribute reassuring pills to the agents who have just joined, the subtext of this is that look, our company is in Huojing, and there is strong support from the government, you can rest assured.

Second, it is also to promote Cui Yin's concept of focusing on industry and commerce, in order to let more people come to Huojing for development.

"This unparalleled salt, the official has sent someone to present it to Beijing, with the quality of this unparalleled salt, it is not a problem to become a royal salt supply. Although you are in short supply now, you must also reserve some, otherwise once Jingzhong sends someone down, you will not be able to let the angels wait. ”

"Cui Mingfu rest assured, this big thing, how dare I make a mistake."

Speaking of this, Cui Yin's heart couldn't help but pound, because once Wu Youyan really became a royal offering, it was enough to make his name go straight to heaven.

In addition, the tax revenue of Huojing County will definitely increase exponentially this year, if Gongsun Jin or Li Linfu help to say a few good words, maybe as soon as the emperor is happy, it is possible to immediately give him a few ranks!

And for Li Ang, seeing the silver rolling in, his heart is naturally unprecedentedly comfortable, and he feels pleasing to the eye when he sees everything, even the toothless old lady on the side of the road feels that her figure is so graceful...... Ahem!

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After returning to the company's headquarters from outside the city, Li Ang first went to the silver vault to check on the gold, silver, and copper coins in the silver vault. It adds up to a total value of tens of thousands, and it will be placed in the afterlife. I'm a multimillionaire myself.

The more Leon looked, the happier he became, because of the money. It's not the income from the sale of salt, it's just the franchise fee paid by the agents this time. With the full start of purifying refined salt in Chengnan, Huajiaao and Mantis Ao, it is foreseeable that gold and silver will roll in in the future.

What should I do when the money is out of the door? No, we have to expand a few large banks in advance.

Li Ang laughed three times, and then said to Li Tiezui, the chief financial governor: "Tiezui, I don't have time to go back to Xipu for the time being, you give me three hundred taels first, and send someone to the Hua family in Shangxi Village, Xipu." Hua Lao treats me as his own, and I can't forget my roots! ”

"Yes, boss." Li Tiezui happily responded, and his heart couldn't be wrong with following such a proprietor.

When he came out of the silver vault, Li Ang asked casually, "Tiezui, have you ever been to Chang'an?" ”

"Haven't been, boss, are you going to Chang'an?"

"Huh. Just ask. Li Ang smiled faintly and didn't say anything, but in his heart, he had already begun to think about another plan. Just out of prudence. Li Tiezui still needs to be examined before he can decide whether to tell him or not. "Tiezui, we also need to strengthen propaganda. Attract more people to join us. ”

"Yes, boss."

Everything that can be done. Li Ang has taken, but the technology of purifying refined salt is not complicated. No matter how you try to prevent it, it is estimated that it will be difficult to keep it secret for a long time.

Therefore, it is important now to solicit as many agents as possible before the purification technology leaks out, so that you can make a lot of money just by joining the fee.

At the same time, after signing the supply and marketing contract, with a strong supply and marketing network, it can also crush those later competitors.

On the other hand, with money, you can buy a large number of salt wells and control as many supplies as possible in your own hands.

People have no foresight, but they must have near-term worries. Although everything is booming now, it is impossible to last long without a strategic vision.

Furthermore, eggs cannot be put in one basket.

At this time, the old man Li from the porter hurriedly came in and handed a note to Li Ang. Li Ang opened it and looked at it, and the corner couldn't help but have a smile, how could the beauty be invited, how could he miss the appointment?

After freshening up, Li Ang took Wu Xuan to a small courtyard in the south of the city. In front of the courtyard, the willows are still around, and the roses are dotted all over the wall, which is a good and elegant place.

After Li Ang stepped forward to call the door, Xiao Luan, who was born with beauty, personally greeted him and invited him into the flower hall in the courtyard. In the hall, the green curtain is on the couch, the left and the right history, a pot of orchids on the edge, a guzheng is dusty. Under a sandalwood screen carved with orchids, a faint cigarette smoke wafts from a crane's beak incense burner.

Xiao Luan combed a falling horse bun, inserted a white jade crested hairpin, wore a purple cardigan, and wore a flower-sprinkled pleated long skirt, with a complexion like jade, elegant and refined, and a willow waist that was delicate.

"Li Langjun, please take a seat."

"As long as it's not in the urn." Li Ang smiled, took off his shoes, and knelt down on the guest seat, his eyes flowing on Xiao Luan.

After Xiao Luan instructed his subordinates to serve wine and food, he said with a smile: "The slave family should first congratulate Li Langjun on his prosperous business and extensive financial resources. ”

"Rejoice, rejoice." Well, looking at the beauty in front of him, Li Ang couldn't help but think of Yang Nan again.

"This time the slave family is an eye-opener. Li Langjun's means of making money is really unprecedented and admirable. In the future, the salt industry of Jiannan Province will not belong to Li Langjun. ”

"This is not certain, who can guarantee that the imperial court will not return salt and iron tea to the official camp in the future?"

When Xiao Luan heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned, you must know that since the Sui Dynasty, for more than 100 years, this salt has been privately owned, but Li Ang suddenly threw out such an argument today, wouldn't it be surprising.

"Li Langjun is too worried, right?"

"People have no long-term concerns, there must be near-term worries, do you want to listen to what Mrs. Xiao says?"

"Please also count on Li Langjun."

"Mrs. Xiao, why don't you sit closer, I'm tired of talking, and ask Mrs. Xiao to help pour a glass of wine to moisten your throat."

Xiao Luan saw that he was unscrupulous again, but he really wanted to hear what he had to say.......

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