The first went to the salt field, and now Yancheng has 4,000 acres of salt fields, covering a huge area, and all the neat paddy fields are at a glance.

The salt in the warehouses is piled up, waiting to be shipped out and sold after the trade routes with other countries are opened.

But under this prosperous appearance, it is easy to find a problem, salt farmers have many foot diseases, not smelly feet but rotten feet.

When I inquired, I found out that it was soaked in salt water for a long time, and the skin was cracked and ulcerated.

In this era, there was no rubber, and naturally there were no waterproof rubber shoes.

People go to the salt pans barefoot to work, and the consequences of doing so for a long time can be imagined, and it can be said that every grain of salt is bought by salt farmers in exchange for their illness.

Wen Yi began to find a way to solve this problem in addition to guilt, but there was really a lack of waterproof things in ancient times.

In the end, the most clumsy method was used to wrap the shoes in iron.

Although it will increase the weight and be inflexible, it is better than soaking barefoot in brine, at least the salt farmers are very satisfied with this kind of iron shoes.

If you say that iron shoes are not good, first soak your feet in thick salt water for half a month.

For Wen Yi who made iron shoes for them, the salt farmers were grateful from the bottom of their hearts, and the king had the people in his heart.

After three days in the salt works to help everyone with their shoe problems, he set off again for the sugar cane and garlic plantations.

Garlic is used to extract allicin, which is a miracle medicine in ancient times, and Wen Yi is already planning how to use this thing to exchange people from nobles in various countries.

I'm not afraid that your mouth is hard, but I'm afraid that you won't get sick.

Want to buy it? This thing is a miracle drug, and it can only be exchanged for population.

Processing allicin also gave rise to an industry, winemaking, which extracts allicin from alcohol.

Wen Yi doesn't like alcohol and doesn't advocate it, but he respects the right of others to drink legally.

So he also sold wine, and the wine business in the Tang Kingdom was almost monopolistic.

Why do you use the word 'almost', because he did not legislate to prohibit the common people from making wine and selling wine, and anyone in the Tang Kingdom could sell wine.

However, because the brewing technology is not up to par, the wines of this era are all cloudy wines, and the taste and degree are not good.

The quality of the liquor he brewed with new technology is completely crushed, and when the price is about the same, the people will naturally choose the official liquor.

It's just that, considering the problem of alcoholism, he sells low-alcohol liquor from a few degrees to a dozen degrees.

As for high-grade liquor, when the commercial route is mature in the future, they will find a way to sell it to the north, and I believe that the grassland tribes will like this kind of thing very much.

Anyway, he didn't lack food for winemaking.

The best crop for winemaking is sorghum, and sorghum wine has a sour taste and needs to be neutralized with alkali.

He had already made soda ash in order to burn glass, and now he can just take out some of it to make wine.

In the future, he is also going to sell alkaline noodles, in ancient times, steamed steamed bread with yeast flour, steamed steamed bread has a sour taste, and only when using alkaline noodles can he eat sweetness.

Ordinary people may not care about this, and people with a little money probably want to improve it, and the business of alkaline noodles is worth doing.

Alkali can also make another thing, soap, which was also a sharp tool for cutting leeks in ancient times.

It's just that now there is a lack of oil, and he can't make soap. When there is a chance in the future, a special fleet will be organized to go whaling, and the oil of one whale can make hundreds of thousands of soaps.

By the way, there is one thing left over from making soap called glycerin.

It is a drug in medicine, but its application in chemistry is more widely known...... Nitroglycerine......

There is also tea, which has been an artifact of foreign trade in the Central Plains Dynasty since ancient times.

It's just that tea is not only owned by the Tang Dynasty, but also by the Eastern Jin Dynasty, so for the time being, he is not ready to engage in this trade, and he will talk about it in a few years.

And then there's sugar.

There are only a few thousand acres of sugarcane plantations, and the brown sugar, red sugar, and white sugar produced are all ...... The reason why the cultivation area of sugarcane has not been expanded is because sugar has a shelf life.

Sugar can grow mites after a year, and mite droppings are highly toxic to humans, and high temperatures have no way to kill this toxin.

Eating sugar that contains mite droppings can be infected with a variety of deadly toxins. Once the outbreak of the 21st century, medical treatment is more tricky, let alone ancient.

Therefore, there is no way to grow sugarcane on a large scale until the market is opened.

At present, these thousands of acres of sugarcane are to meet domestic demand, and secondly, to produce samples and sell them to various countries.

When the market is opened, the planting area will be expanded.

There were no problems with the sugar cane and garlic plantations, he just came to pay his respects to the people. Showing his importance to the people, he left after reaping a wave of loyalty.

Then I took a boat to the Rift Valley Racecourse.

Compared to the desolation it used to be, this place has become more vibrant.

Zongbei Port has begun to take shape, and there is a two-meter-wide chidao leading directly to Zongbei County.

Zongbei County does not have city walls, but is more similar to the city of the previous life.

The population here has also reached more than 7,000 after several replenishments, which is enough to operate the Rift Valley Racecourse, and too much will take up the space of the racecourse.

Therefore, the household department has decided not to replenish the population here in the short term, and then there are immigrants who will give priority to the development of Ningbei and Ningnan areas.

Looking at the neat streets, the leisurely crowd, and the fields planted with black beans in the distance, Wen Yi was very satisfied.

Although Yan Xi lacks pioneering ability, he is really down-to-earth, and he can hand in a 120-point answer sheet with a good framework of 100 points.

Today, he, the Attendant Supervisor, naturally came to greet him in person, and then went to the racecourse together.

On the way, Yan Xi began to report to work: "Now we have 2,600 stallions, 700 sturgeons, and 1,900 stud horses in northern Xinjiang......

"Now these horses have adapted to the climate and environment here, and they are living very well...... Sixty percent of the mares are already pregnant with ......"

Wen Yi couldn't help nodding, what he was most afraid of was that the horse would not be able to adapt to the environment. Being able to adapt to the environment and reproduce normally means that his plan to raise horses on the island has come true.

Yan Xi continued: "We are trying to use crossbreeds of horses with northern Xinjiang horses to breed our own horse breeds, but we have not yet seen results. ”

Wen Yi said: "Horse breeding is not something that can be completed in three or five days, there is no need to rush and take your time, and it is a great achievement to be able to find a clue within ten years." ”

Genetic improvement is not as difficult as imagined, and there is a high probability that a few good horse breeds will be crossbred to produce better offspring.

What is really difficult is to ensure the stability of heredity, and it makes no sense to return to the ancestors after a generation or two.

As he spoke, he arrived at the horse farm, where the area that was once overgrown with weeds and trees has been transformed into an endless grassland.

Herds of horses graze leisurely on the grassland, and when the horses are interested, they gallop on the grassland under the leadership of the head horse.

Although it is not the wind blowing the grass and seeing the cattle and sheep, the blue sky, white clouds and green grasslands, and the galloping of herds of horses look just as beautiful and make people excited.