The three scholars made eye contact, and their brows tightened.

Da Yue is not the Da Yue of King Yue alone, and when there are too many interests involved, he may not necessarily forget it.

In Da Yue, salt production and salt sales have long formed a fixed model, which seems to be a monopoly of the imperial court, but in fact, there are many families who profit in each link, and over the years, a huge community of interests has already been formed.

The cake is so big, who has how much share, how much effort, how much money to take, these are basically fixed, let Lu Zhi sell salt, who will bear the loss?

If someone joins, someone will inevitably lose, and no one wants to make less money, the best way is to kick out one of them and let the Lu family replace it.

But this is also a matter that affects the whole body, and the danger is not small.

King Yue naturally knew about these situations, and he didn't want to kick anyone out, but just wanted Lu Zhi to become the spokesperson of the royal family, and see if he could expand his business and make the cake bigger.

As for whether it can be successful, King Yue has a positive and optimistic attitude, judging from the information collected, Lu Zhi is quite a business talent, and he can make money.

Moreover, even if it doesn't work, he won't lose anything, and King Yue is naturally willing to give it a try.

Everyone is thinking, Lu Zhi is no exception, doing business pays attention to harmony and making money, and making a fortune together is the king, especially in a big business like selling salt, it will be enough to eat alone.

King Yue no longer hesitated, and wanted to announce something in public.

A hand was stretched out.

King Yue hesitated, "Huh? ”

"That...... The kid has something to say. Lu Zhi arched his hand, "Your Majesty, the Lu family is willing to serve the imperial court, but the kid is just a craftsman and is not good at business." ”

King Yue: "??? ”

Starting from scratch, the Lu family has made a lot of money in just a few years, is this still called not being able to do business?

"Hehe, the kid can't sell salt, but he can make salt!" Lu Zhi arched his hand, with a determined face, "The kid is sure that Dayue's salt production will increase by 30%, I don't know what the king thinks?" ”

Hiss~~~

The sound of gasping sound sounded in the room, not only King Yue, but also the three scholars were also stunned.

Thirty percent? That's amazing!

Lu Li shook his head, rare and strange, the fourth child is very capable, even if he says that he can double it, I dare to believe it.

"Good!" King Yue pointed at Lu Zhi and said suddenly, "If you can really increase by three percent, you will be alone...... Just ...... "I really can't think of how to reward for a while."

Lu Zhi arched his hand, "Your Majesty, there is no merit and no luck, this is not in a hurry, wait for the salt to be made, before that, the kid dares to take a look at the information of the black armor guard." ”

The three scholars looked at their noses and noses, and they all shut up.

The Black Armor Guard is a special force in the hands of King Yue, and if it involves them, it will not be a good thing.

King Yue frowned, he was really daring, but when he thought about the extra three percent of salt, "What information do you want to see?" ”

"It's the weather conditions along the coast of the East China Sea, and how much precipitation there is...... The kid was looking for a suitable place to make salt. "It takes time and effort to let Chen have money to find, how can it be easy to check the information directly.

"That's it?" King Yue couldn't cry or laugh, "It is the duty of Qin Tianjian to observe the celestial phenomena, and they are usually responsible for recording, isn't the use of black armor guards to kill chickens with a knife?" ”

Lu Zhi was stunned for a full three seconds, "Yes, I forgot that there is also Qin Tianjian." ”

The Qin Heavenly Prison undertook the important task of observing the celestial phenomena and promulgating the calendar.

Qin Tianjian is equivalent to the director of the National Astronomical Observatories.

Due to the relationship between the calendar and the agricultural time, and the belief of the Yue people that the changes in the heavens and the changes in personnel directly correspond, the position of Qin Tianjian is very important.

But to be honest, in Lu Zhi's cognition, there seems to be no difference between an observatory and a meteorological observatory, and the key weather forecast is still inaccurate.

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Qin Tianjian.

This is really a very important department, even if there are no fortune tellers who watch the heavens, there is a great responsibility here, and the key is that there is more flooding!

However, even if it is an important department, with the command of King Yue, Lu Zhi comes and goes freely.

Isn't it, Lu Zhi has been in Qin Tianjian's "data room" for three full days.

The information here is indeed very complete, but the method of recording is really too backward, and all kinds of things similar to "Cihai" turn Lu Zhi's scalp numb.

"Can't you just make a chart?" Lu Zhi was about to collapse, and pressed one hand on the thick book, "This one, when do I have to turn it?" ”

At the same time, according to Lu Zhi's requirements, the black armor guard had screened out some seaside tidal flats that were in line with the conditions, and King Yue failed to resist the temptation of making more salt than he could, so he still used a knife.

This really saved Lu Zhi's life, he would rather take people to engage in salt drying "test fields" on tidal flats one by one, rather than be trapped in the data room to check the information, it was too tormenting.

Yes, if you want to engage in an experimental field, Lu Zhi doesn't know much about how to dry salt, and he has to experiment whether it will work or not.

However, in the case of sufficient manpower, this experiment is really not the slightest difficulty, after all, the principle of drying salt is actually very simple, and several more experiments can always be successful.

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A month later, Lu Zhi took Lu Li to inspect the experimental salt pans, and the snow was white from a distance, and a bumper harvest was in sight.

Looking at the ridge of the pond about half a foot high, a row of words appeared under Lu Zhi's eyes:

Yantian, evaporation rate 7718, removal of impurities 7718

This ridge was sent by Lu Zhi to use the earthen barrier, and it didn't take much effort, he just went up and stepped on it, leaving a series of footprints and marking the attributes.

The so-called ridge of the pond is like a ditch, which is a ridge of soil half a foot above the ground.

It stands to reason that salt drying generally has to go through seven sets of processes: beach building, beach rectification, tide acceptance, brine making, halogen measurement, crystallization and salt fishing, but the system is so unreasonable, and several soil ridges solve the problem.

"The salt pan is generally divided into two parts, one is the evaporation pond and the other is the crystallization pond." Lu Zhi gestured casually and talked eloquently.

When drying salt, first introduce seawater into the evaporation pool, and when the water is evaporated to a certain extent by sun exposure, then pour it into the crystallization pool, continue to dry in the sun, and the seawater will become a saturated solution of table salt, and then the salt crystals will gradually precipitate out.

These crystals are our common coarse salt, don't look at it as coarse salt and feel bad, it is already ten times stronger than the existing salt of Dayue, even the tribute salt does not have this quality.

Lu Li glanced at the salt pan and didn't rush to record, "Fourth, this is all connected, how can you tell the difference?" ”

Lu Zhi snorted, "Don't care about these details, anyway, the salt is already here, you say, right?" ”

In fact, he didn't know that because of the system, the salt pan he built was not divided into pools at all, just like the abdominal muscles of a fat house, mixed together, ninety-nine into one.

"Yes." Lu Li nodded and looked at Yantian from afar, "I finally lived up to the king's expectations." ”

Lu Zhi shook his head, this is not just the expectation of King Yue, in fact, he is also quite looking forward to it, no matter what, the Lu family will have another way to make money in the future.

The court eats meat, and his Lu family can always get a bite of fresh soup.