The second condition!

Li Mu pointed to the sea and said, "It's here." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Wei Da followed Li Mu's fingers and looked at the boundless sea, and after looking at it for a long time, he didn't understand what was so strange about this sea.

"Did the lord say that I should let the people of Quanzhou go to the sea to fish?" After thinking about it, Wei Dayong added: "Or dive into the deep sea to catch the sea mussel and take its pearls?" Or coral? ”

This is Wei Dayong's understanding of the sea, and Wei Dayong's impression of the sea, that is, the inexhaustible sea fish, as well as the valuable pearls and corals.

The other Wei Dayong don't know, if that's all, he thinks that the second method really doesn't need to be proposed.

People born on the seaside, there are almost no people who can't go to the sea, there are no people who can't drive a boat to fish, and fishing is already a seaside person, brought from the mother's womb.

Wei Dayong thought so, he stubbornly thought that Li Mu's meaning was also like this, in good intentions, in order to save Li Mu's face, Wei Da persuaded with relief.

"If the second method that the lord said is this, this envoy feels that there is no need, and it cannot be said that everyone in Quanzhou will go to the sea to fish, but this envoy can guarantee that most of the people in Quanzhou will go to the sea to fish."

After speaking, he stroked his dark beard, and said with a smug smile: "Even the hometown of this envoy is not from Quanzhou, and since he has been in charge of Quanzhou in the past few years, he has also learned to recognize this water nature." ”

"Definitely." Li Mu shook his fingers, ignored Wei Dayong's complacency, and continued: "If I said that I was going to the sea to fish or catch sea mussels for pearls, then I don't have to say this second method. ”

"Oh? What's that method? Wei Dayong saw that what Li Mu said was different from what he thought, and asked suspiciously.

"I don't know if you know, what is the most beneficial in this Datang? Longest? Li Mu didn't answer directly, but asked a question.

"This?" Wei Dayong thought for a while and said: "The most beneficial thing is nothing more than the clothes on the people's bodies and the food in their mouths, one of these two things is a personal thing, and the other is indispensable every day, so the profit in this is the most and the longest." ”

"So to speak, then let me ask the envoy, what is indispensable in the people's food besides the indispensable food?" Li Mu asked again.

If Li Mu prompted him here, and Wei Dayong couldn't guess it, then he could only say that he was a confused official, or a parent official who only read books and didn't understand the people's feelings.

"If the lord says so, then it's only salt." Wei Dayong said.

"Yes, it is salt, the people can't do without salt, if they don't eat salt for a day, the body will have no strength, and the people have to work hard every day, what they need most is strength, and salt can ensure that the people have the strength to work hard all day."

"Salt and iron are the most profitable trades, and when there is no food, you can eat other things, and salt is something that the people have no way to replace. Iron is strictly controlled by the imperial court, and it is impossible for Quanzhou to smelt steel and sell it privately, and you and I dare not do this. ”

"But salt is different."

Li Mu checked the information in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the salt industry had not yet been managed by the imperial court, and private manufacturing and sales could be allowed.

Moreover, the early years of the Tang Dynasty were an era of salt shortage, and if salt was sold, the profits would be absolutely unimaginable.

"That's right, but there are no salt wells in Quanzhou, so we can't boil salt at all." Wei Dayong wanted to agree with Li Mu's words, but Quanzhou has not yet found an edible salt well.

"That's why I'm talking about the sea." Li Mu reminded.

"No, there are many disadvantages of boiling salt in seawater, not only the color is poor, the taste is bitter, the quality is inferior, it is not suitable for consumption at all, if it is not a last resort, no one buys sea salt, and the profit obtained from boiling salt in seawater is lower than the cost of charcoal consumed, which is a loss-making business."

Wei Dayong once thought about using seawater to make salt, but in the end he gave up because of the cost, and saw that Li Mu said that he also used seawater to make salt, so he kindly reminded.

"Rest assured, since Lord Ben said that he wants to make salt from seawater, there must be a way to make it meet the requirements for consumption."

Li Mu knows the disadvantages of boiling salt with seawater, and he is not a fool, the ancestors of China have been using seawater to boil salt since the time of the Yellow Emperor.

It's just that with the changes of history, people discovered the well salt method, and the salt obtained by the well salt method is better than the sea salt, and the well salt gradually replaced the sea salt.

Moreover, Li Mu also knows that when making sea salt, the mother liquor will be produced, which can be used in heavy industry production.

Think about it, can the things used in the production of heavy industry be eaten by humans?

What's more, Li Mu knew that in the Tang Dynasty, there was no way to extract the mother liquor at all, but just blindly decocted the seawater, which was the sea salt obtained.

In modern times, there are mature technologies and methods, and the process of removing the mother liquor can make the sea salt reach the point of human consumption, plus some other processes.

Li Mu believes that the sea salt he makes will be the best sea salt in Datang.

Why didn't Li Mu bring tons of salt from modern times to Datang, in that case, there would be no need to work so hard.

There is no way, Li Mu also wants to bring it, but in modern times, salt is also a controlled material.

Don't say it's saved, even a large number of purposeless purchases of salt may be investigated.

In that case, it is better to directly bring the technology to dry salt in Datang, for which Li Mu brought 5,000 tons of high-grade cement.

"Since the lord has a way, it is naturally good." Wei Dayong heard that Li Mu had a way to solve the shortcomings of Haiyan, and he was overjoyed.

Thinking that this sea salt must be made from the nearest materials, and it is impossible for people to pick seawater into the city for boiling, so Wei Dayong said the doubts in his heart: "I don't know, where is the lord going to boil sea salt?" ”

"Right here." Li Mu pointed to his camp.

"No." When Wei Dayong heard that Li Mu was going to boil sea salt here, he immediately denied it.

Seeing Li Mu's puzzled look, he quickly explained.

"The lord doesn't know, although Quanzhou is vast and sparsely populated and lacks materials, but this seaside is also often troubled."

"Sea trouble? Is the envoy talking about the sea breeze? ”

"No, the sea is actually the bandits, this Quanzhou seaside, there are often bandits to harass, so that my Quanzhou assassin history is very annoyed, but every time I send troops to encircle and suppress, they will let them escape, and these bandits come and go like the wind, see the government soldiers will get on the boat and escape, over time, there is no way to take these bandits, in desperation, the envoy has to let the people move away from the seaside, to settle around the nearby city, one is to prevent the bandits from attacking, and the other is also convenient for the management of the assassin's mansion." Wei Dayong told the reason for this.

Hearing that this was the reason, Li Mu laughed and said, "Have you forgotten what you are underfoot?" ”

"Oh?" Wei Dayong, who was slightly stunned, instantly understood, and laughed along.

The two of them stood on the Muhai, and the laughter attracted the side glances of the surrounding subordinates, and they were puzzled.

Li Mu may be laughing, the benefits he is about to get, Wei Dayong may be laughing, Quanzhou will become prosperous through this conversation, or he is laughing at the Muhai that he forgot under his feet just now.

This steel ship!