Salt –

Since ancient times, salt has played an important role in China's political arena, and the salt industry has always been managed and operated by successive dynasties as a state-owned industry.

According to historical records, as early as the Zhou Dynasty, there were official positions of salt people, and salt was used as a condiment in ancient China.

But as far as today's Daqin is concerned, it is not so easy for ordinary people to eat salt, and those who can afford to eat salt are basically from the big families, even if the teacher who has been teaching in the school now is not all able to eat salt all at once, which can also see the preciousness of salt.

Daqin's current technology for obtaining salt is to boil salt water in a large pot, but boiling salt water is very troublesome, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the extracted salt also contains more impurities, and some even feel bitter, but as a necessity of life, salt is always in short supply, and the price is only high.

Like Li Ye and Yingzheng, the salt they eat is refined salt, with few impurities, and it can only be used by the emperor's important ministers.

Ying Zheng heard Li Ye talk about salt, and said with some doubts: "Sang Mo knows the location of some salt lakes and salt springs?" ”

Li Ye drank the tea in the cup and said, "Hehe, Sang Mo naturally knows, and there are a lot of them." ”

Ying Zheng got up, grabbed Li Ye's shoulder, and said, "This is true!?" ”

Li Ye saw that Yingzheng was excited, and it was not easy to play dumb riddles anymore, so he said:

"Uh~ Hehe, Your Majesty. In fact, although Sang Mo didn't know where the salt spring salt lake was located, Sang Mo knew how to make salt. ”

"Salt making?"

Ying Zheng was stunned when he heard this, salt is only found in salt lakes and salt springs, if you don't get it from it, how can you make it?

Li Ye saw that Yingzheng didn't believe it, so he explained:

"Your Majesty, Sang Mo heard that the salt in the daily meals of the people in the Linhai area is seawater, and the salt in this seawater Sang Mo knows how to refine it, and it can become the same as the refined salt we put in, and even better after purification."

If someone else said this, Ying Zheng would definitely not believe it, and he would definitely think that person was talking.

But if it's Li Ye, what reason does Ying Zheng have not to believe it, so Ying Zheng is a little wooden after hearing it, he doesn't believe that Li Ye will lie to him, after all, Li Ye has brought him too many surprises, but if the method of salt making can really succeed, the benefits and benefits brought by it are unimaginable.

Half a year has passed in the blink of an eye......

And since Li Ye handed over the method of drying sea salt and sea salt to Ying Zheng half a year ago, Ying Zheng immediately sent people to the coastal areas to experiment, and the results were as Ying Zheng expected, the sea salt refined by Li Ye's method was really like the refined salt they ate, and even the quality was higher than what they ate, plus the sea salt production was huge, so I believe you can imagine what kind of height the income of the imperial court has.

Because the refining of sea salt is too easy, and the daily output is amazingly high, it only took nearly half a year for almost everyone in Daqin to afford to eat salt, and the people and soldiers were able to eat salt all at once, so their physical fitness has also improved a lot.

In addition, Ying Zheng's attitude towards Li Ye has changed from shock to numbness, maybe Li Ye will fly with wings one day, Ying Zheng will not be much surprised, in Ying Zheng's words.

"Sang Mo is really a god and a man, and I have this virtuous minister to help my Great Qin, how can my Great Qin not prosper?"

It's just a pity that this world is not just a human world......

In Li Ye's bedroom in the National Teacher's Mansion, Li Ye covered his somewhat drowsy head and frowned.

"What's wrong with me? Was it all a dream last night? What are the stars in the dream? ”

Li Ye had a splitting headache last night, and a quaint drawing appeared in his mind, with countless stars flashing in the drawing, and the light of the stars was so dazzling, but whenever Li Ye wanted to concentrate on seeing a certain star, there were always some clouds that could not be removed to stop him, and the torture of the night and the drawings in his mind made Li Ye unable to distinguish whether it was a dream or reality.

Li Ye shook his head, and after a little refreshment, he got up and walked out of the bedroom to take a bath, but what Li Ye didn't notice was that the luster of He's Bi, which he had placed under the pillow, was much dimmer, but it was like a piece of rotten jade, and there was no longer the posture of the ancient jade......

"It's most comfortable to take a bath at any time." Li Ye put on a robe for himself and said with a comfortable face.

Then Li Ye was going to the palace to participate in the morning dynasty, although he usually went as much as he wanted, but recently he was always inexplicably flustered.

Li Ye sat in the sedan chair, held his forehead and laughed at himself: "Hehe~ I am really a little woman, what will happen if Daqin has been unified?" Don't worry about it yourself. ”

Unfortunately, today's day is exceptionally gloomy......

"We meet Your Majesty!"

"Excuse me!"

Everything is as familiar as usual, at first the officials reported all happy events, but when they were about to retire from the dynasty today, the six Shangshu also presented a fold to the Ying Zheng above.

After Ying Zheng opened the fold, he frowned when he saw the content recorded on the fold, but he hurriedly retreated from the early dynasty without saying anything.

Li Ye was left behind by Ying Zheng as soon as he got to the early court, and Li Ye looked at Ying Zheng's helpless appearance and said a little embarrassed: "I don't know what kind of news can make Your Majesty look like this." ”

Ying Zheng shook his head slightly when he heard this, and said, "Sang Mo, do you believe that there are demons in this world?" ”

"Demon?! Your Majesty, is there something going on in my Great Qin? Li Ye asked.

Ying Zheng sighed and said helplessly: "Alas~ Sang Mo, take a look." ”

When Li Ye heard this, he took the fold, and it was these few words that caught his eye.

"The demons attacked my Daqin one county and three counties, the city has been broken, the people in the city have suffered countless casualties, the Qin army soldiers are invincible to the demons, and the demons will even eat my Daqin soldiers, we are very afraid, but for my Daqin people, we have not put down our blades, our battalion soldiers are tens of thousands, and only one demon can be killed for every hundred together, but ......"

There are countless types of monsters recorded in the compromise, snake demons, fox demons, wolf demons, tree demons, deer demons, and they all seem to be headed by a fox demon in a black robe and white hair.

Li Ye put down the folds, and his face was very solemn, sure enough, the monster list world was not so simple even in the Warring States Period.

Ying Zheng patted Li Ye on the shoulder and explained: "Sang Mo, this is a chief who led their local militia to fight with the invading monsters until the last moment...... Although the current man is dead, he left this document, and although the army of demons is far away from our Qin capital, the goal is to put it on my Qin capital. ”

PS: At the end of this chapter, ask for collections, ask for tickets.