The scale of the new salt field in Wu County is really amazing, and it is mysterious, not only is there a high wall built around it, but even the surrounding mountain tops are guarded by sentinels, and no unrelated people are allowed to approach.

I'm afraid that there are thousands of guards stationed here, and it is even more incomprehensible what the general's mansion is trying to do with this fierce operation.

Some people even speculate that Bai Gong found the treasure of the Pirate King in the coastal sea, but in fact, these people came to dig up the treasure......

Of course, there are very few people who dare to verify it, and a very small number of those who are bold under the temptation of heavy profits have never returned, even if someone comes to ask for it, it is useless - since you dare to come, you can honestly work as a coolie for a few years...... Let people know that the General's Mansion is not easy to bully!

On the contrary, at the beginning of the batch of firewood, everyone "suddenly realized" - actually to boil salt?

When Bai Tu saw Pang Tong's plan before, he was also impressed by Pang Tong's thoughts.

He deliberately chose a location with a large area of sand, opened a salt drying plant, and even placed a glass factory near the left, so that fuel would really be used, and others would not be able to figure out what he was doing.

After Lao Lu heard his nephew Lu Tan talk about this, he thought that Bai Tu was crying poor, so he came to see Bai Tu, suggesting that the Lu family could "help".

However, Bai Tu did not accept it......

"In a few days, the first batch of salt from the General's Mansion will come out, probably ...... A million stones, if Lu Lao wants to help, help me contact the market, the quality is ...... It's much stronger than those in the General's Mansion. Bai Tu said.

Lu Kang looked at Bai Tu in surprise, as if he was still a little distracted, thinking about what was hidden in Bai Tu's words.

"Huh? What's wrong? Bai Tu looked at Lu Kang suspiciously.

"The old man is old, what is the meaning of the lord...... You may wish to show it below. Lu Kang said he didn't think of it.

"Huh? I'm talking about the production of millions of stone of salt, you can help me contact the market...... There is no other deep meaning! Bai Tu had an expression of "you don't even understand this, retire".

Lu Kang still looked at Bai Tu inexplicably - in his eyes, Bai Tu was talking nonsense!

In the whole Jiangdong, the seventeen largest salt tycoons have a total annual salt output of more than one million stones, and the rest are scattered...... It doesn't add up much more than that, and what did Bai Tu just say?

A salt farm, the first ...... A million stones?

Bai Tu saw Lu Kang's incredulous appearance, and then said seriously: "Of course, if you seventeen families want to be an 'agent' in the future, I can also give priority." ”

These wealthy families who cook salt for a business also have many channels in their hands - what Bai Tu values most is naturally to buy salt "outside" to make the region under his rule profitable as a whole.

As long as they cooperate obediently, although the general's mansion must take the lead in the future, it is not impossible to let them be "agents" - that is, salt merchants in the Ming and Qing dynasties, take salt from the imperial court, and then sell it themselves.

Seeing that Bai Tu said so solemnly, with a look of carelessness, Lu Kang also believed a little bit against common sense in his heart, and at the same time did not forget to add: "The lord lost his word, how can there be 'you' seventeen families, it is 'their' sixteen...... Ahem, we're all on the same side as the Lord. ”

Lu Kang is also not thick-skinned enough, and feels that the Yu family, the Wei family, and so on are all classified as "them", which seems to mean some bad things behind people.

"That's good, when the salt workers or something happen, they can also be sent to the salt works of the General's Mansion." Bai Tu said.

Listening to Bai Tu's meaning, it seems that as long as he makes a move, all the salt farms will be run out and bankrupt by him......

And that's exactly what happened!

More than 1 million stone ...... a year It sounds like a lot, but in fact, when converted into "stones" from the Han Dynasty, it is only more than 30,000 tons!

The modern Lianghuai salt field has an annual output of 3 million tons......

Of course, the Lianghuai Salt Farm is not a family, and when the Ming Dynasty was still mainly boiling salt, the Lianghuai Salt Farm also had an output of nearly 400,000 tons.

To change a more intuitive concept, the ancient method of drying salt under modern technology, the daily salt output of each mu of salt flats is half a ton to one ton - in fact, even if it is modern salt drying, there is no fundamental breakthrough in principle, but there are more mechanical equipment.

Originally, let the white map do it, and it must be slowly explored to achieve the optimal ratio, but ...... Now that Pang Tong is here, even if Pang Tong communicates with the craftsmen below and directs Ji Zao's labor, he still needs to run in, but it has greatly reduced the process of the exploration stage!

It rained on a cloudy day, and Pang Tong only needed 200 acres of salt fields to tie with the largest seventeen salt producers in Jiangdong, if the yield was lower because he had just explored...... Three hundred acres is enough, right?

Oh, the location is not the best, let you have some more, is 400 acres enough? 500 acres...... Is 1,000 acres enough?

This time, the salt and glass joint factory built by Pang Tong covers a total area of 100 percent......

As for the surge in salt production, will it change the supply and demand in the market, resulting in a sharp drop in salt prices?

Bai Tu had studied this problem with Lu Su and Pang Tong before, and the conclusion was that it would only increase the salt production in Jiangdong by ten times...... The downside is limited!

After all, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, "salt" was not only a seasoning, but also a "refrigerator......

The people's demand for pickled ingredients is in great shortage, even if Jiangdong's tenfold surge of salt, all of which are digested internally, it is just a pickled salted fish that everyone can be happier, and even there is still a great distance from the "freedom of pickled salted fish", there is no excess salt, not to mention ...... Most of the salt in Koto is still transported to the outside world.

Lu Kang was also puzzled after that, after all, the scale of the salt field was there, not to mention ...... Even if you can't go inside, you can always estimate the amount of firewood and charcoal that you bring in every day.

Where did the million stone salt come from?

The Ugly ...... in charge of the salt works Ahem, Dr. Pang, who has a strange face, can he conjure salt out of thin air?

After Lu Kang and Lu Yi talked about it, Lu Yi even swore from heaven to earth that it was absolutely impossible for that inexplicable salt field to "change" so much salt!

However, Lu Kang, who had been cultivated by the miracle of the white schema for a long time, still told Lu Yi to get ready...... Cooperate with the official salt whose output is nearly ten times that of the 17 companies combined.

Lu Tan even wondered if his clan uncle was too old and was really confused......

It's just that he didn't dare to show it on his face, and he honestly retreated.

……

On the other hand, in Xudu, Xiahoudun found his younger brother Xiahouyuan.

"Brother Xuan, why are you so idle today, come to my house? Want to have a spar? Xiahou Yuan asked enthusiastically.

The two were originally brothers, and they both played with Cao Cao, so they naturally had a good relationship, and they didn't have so many courtesies in private.

And Xiahoudun asked Xiahouyuan mysteriously: "Wonderful...... Brother sees that Juan Er is not too young, and he hasn't engaged to marry yet, right? ”

"Yo? That's weird...... Who? actually said that Dongyuan asked you to kiss? Xiahou Yuan immediately asked vigilantly, and the title was changed to a table.

Xiahou Yuan, the word Miaocai, Xiahou Dan, and the character Yuan Rang, are all generals who were born in the Xiahou clan and have relatives with Cao Cao.

Xiahou Juan is Xiahou Yuan's niece, but he has been passed on to him since he was a child, and because Xiahou Juan's late parents were kind to him, once during a famine in the Central Plains, Xiahou Yuan's own sons starved to death, and they also gritted their teeth to raise Xiahou Juan, who was closer than his own daughter.

He also knew that the object of his kiss was definitely not Xiahoudun's son, after all, he hadn't come out of the five suits yet......

"What do you think of Baitu?" Xiahoudun continued to be mysterious.

"White Picture? Which Bai family ...... Wait a minute...... White Chart? Xiahou Yuan's eyes when he looked at his brother were even more inexplicable than Lu Kang, who was far away in Jinling.

Where is this? When will you be able to say goodbye to Bai Gong?