Liu Lian on the side asked anxiously:

"Father, what's wrong?"

Liu Bowen saw that he had just lost his dignity and shook his hand and said:

"No defense! Unguarded! ”

Then he walked away.....

The next day,

Before the sun rose, Zhu Tong got up early, looked at the sleeping Sanbao with a comfortable face, tiptoed out of the yard gently, and his sister also got up very early, cleaning the snow in the yard, and it snowed overnight last night.

At this time, there was a sound of rustling footsteps outside the door, and Zhu Tong thought that the official of the palace had come to pick him up and enter the palace again, but it was obviously a little early today.

It wasn't so early in the past!

Could it be that Queen Ma has something good to give herself?

Thinking about rushing to open the door, outside the door was a young man with snowflakes on his head, wrapped layer by layer, his hands trembling and rubbing.

"Big brother, you can be regarded as getting up, the salt farm has been built, and the pot is almost ready, and I have already sent someone to the iron shop to destroy the boss."

The man saw Zhu Tong open the door and come out, and said excitedly.

Zhu Tong saw that it was Xu Yi, so he beckoned to go into the house to warm up, and after some exchanges, Zhu Tong knew that Xu Yi had solved the matter of the salt farm, and he was about to start making salt.

Such a shrewd and capable person also amazed Zhu Tong, almost no need to do anything to run the salt farm in an orderly manner, it seems that the original choice was not wrong.

After Jiang Pan made breakfast, Zhu Tong and Xu Yi came to the salt field after breakfast, and the rows of rows of rooms were lined up, the stoves and others had been prepared, and the workers had begun to mine the salt mine.

After a while, thirty or forty people came to the west of the salt farm, carrying a few iron pots, and hurried towards the salt field.

Under the command of Xu Yi, the workers have completed the placement of the salt-making equipment.

"Congratulations! Little boss, your business is developed, but remember to bring your brothers! ”

The owner of the iron shop clasped his fists in celebration.

"Rejoice and rejoice! Shopkeeper Li, where do you say, I will inevitably trouble you in the future. ”

Zhu Tong complimented, he knew the intention of the owner of the iron shop, and he naturally needed to play the iron pot and repair the pot at the beginning, so he would inevitably have business dealings with him, so he prepared in advance.

There is no need to turn down the door-to-door business, so it is normal to greet each other politely.

After Xu Yi arranged everything, he ran over and asked:

"Big brother, everything is ready."

Zhu Tong looked at the boss of the iron shop, paused, Xu Yi instantly understood what his eldest brother meant, and stepped forward to say to the boss of the iron shop:

"Shopkeeper Li, please have a sip of tea here, and we will start work later, so as not to hurt you by boiling water."

The owner of the iron shop left with Xu Yi.

In a short time, the smoke billowed from the salt works, the heat boiled, and the movement of salt production echoed in the wilderness.

......

On Liu Bowen's house, a man in black walked through the courtyard and flashed away.

The guards didn't notice anything.

Liu Bowen was still asleep, and there was a black shadow standing in front of the bed, hiding the horror of the abyss under a black iron mask, staring at him with cold eyes, there was a slight hoarfrost on the mask's snort, and the saber on his waist clanked from time to time.

"My lord, the Northwest Military News..."

Liu Bowen shuddered, bounced up from the bed, subconsciously took the military report, and was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, this is the military intelligence that His Majesty only showed him, which shows its seriousness.

Liu Bowen glanced at the military report and was retracted by the secret agent, and when he wrote down a few countermeasures and handed them to the secret agent, the black shadow disappeared without a trace just after a light sigh.

This surprise also made Liu Bowen sleepy, so he walked to the study alone to light the oil lamp, sat on the Taishi chair and thought carefully, the military report a few days ago had made him busy and out of breath, although he was temporarily dealt with today.

But the situation on the frontier is still not improving, thinking about opening the window and looking out, only to find that it snowed all night last night, looking at this Ruixue can't help but want to count a hexagram.

At the moment when he stretched out his hand, he suddenly saw that there was no trace of anyone in the snow, but just now someone did send His Majesty's military report, which couldn't help but make him gasp.

Even the mood of fortune-telling is gone, walking out of the study, coming to an attic, looking from a distance, looking at the black smoke rising in the distance, Zou Ran was a little curious, and thought about it carefully before remembering.

It turned out that this direction was the location of the land he sold to Zhu Tong, and he inadvertently had a burst of curiosity, seeing that it was still early, so he was interested in going to investigate.

He then instructed the butler to arrange a sedan chair......

When Liu Bowen arrived near the salt mountain, he asked the sedan chair man to stop and hiked into the salt field by himself.

Seeing the bright lights of the salt field, the sound of quarrying and salt making, and the rumbling sound, I was even more curious, so I took advantage of the workers' inattention to get close to the iron pot to see what was going on, and saw the workers pouring brine into the pot.

I couldn't help but ask:

"Master, what are you doing?"

The worker ignored him and continued to work, seeing that people ignored him, so he was ready to take a little research himself, but he didn't expect the fire at the bottom of the pot to become bigger instantly, and countless boiling water spots flew out with a bang.

Liu Bowen screamed and fell to the ground.

Zhu Tong heard that someone was injured and immediately came over to check, but he didn't expect that it was Liu Bowen who was lying on the ground.

Zhu Tong hurriedly ordered someone to carry Liu Bowen into the workers' rest area, and he followed.

I thought to myself, this time it can be regarded as a big disaster, the official of the court was injured by himself, wouldn't he be punished?

At this moment, Liu Bowen suddenly spoke:

"Xiao Langjun, the old man admires it, and he can even think of using this method to make salt."

"No wonder!"

Zhu Tong didn't care about humility, and apologized to Liu Bowen with a guilty face.

"Lord Liu, I'm really sorry...."

"It's not in the way, the old man just suffered a little skin injury."

Liu Bowen smiled, his eyes full of praise for the young man in front of him.

At this time, Xu Yi came back from outside and reported to Zhu Tongyu:

"Big brother, as you expected, nearly 10,000 catties have been produced, and it has been loaded into a truck according to your instructions and ready to be transported to the Salt Transportation Division."

Zhu Tong nodded and let Xu Yi continue to stare at the salt production, and he was going to the capital to transfer the salt to sell the newly produced refined salt.

Liu Bowen got off the bed and mentioned to Zhu Tong:

"Xiao Langjun, can you show the old man the salt you produce?"

Zhu Tong nodded slightly, took out the remaining salt from the side, and handed it to Liu Bowen.

Liu Bowen twisted a little with his fingers, looked at it carefully, and was full of praise.

"Refined salt! The old man knows that the ancient method of salt and the current method of salt are not as subtle as Xiao Langjun's method. ”

......

The first batch of salt was produced in the salt factory, and Zhu Tong directly took it to the salt transportation division and sold it out.

Zhu Tong left the capital to transfer the salt transport envoy, Tongzhi looked at Zhu Tong's distant back, thought for a moment and then called the officials, and after a few low commands, the officials led several people to leave in a hurry.

And Zhu Tong was carrying a lot of silver......

Seven hundred taels!