The refining from coarse salt to refined salt is an important and outstanding contribution of the Academy of Sciences in recent years.

This refining method has been protected as a trade secret, and the refined salt has not been handed over to private salt merchants to operate independently, but an independent salt factory has been established in Shaofuzhong, and a high-end brand such as "Snow Salt" has been created.

That was also the first time Zhu Houzhao introduced the concept of the brand to people of this era.

Later, the Shaofu Enterprise Control Department was prompted to introduce laws to strengthen the protection of corporate brands, prohibiting people who are not authorized by the brand owner to indiscriminately steal other people's brands.

Snow salt is naturally taken from the meaning of salt as fine as snow, which is easy to understand and elegant at the same time.

Once launched, it was widely loved by bureaucrats, nobles and wealthy businessmen, and the rush to buy that year was like the sugar that began in the first month of this year.

So much so that in a short period of time, the annual revenue of Shaofu's snow salt factory climbed to the scale and level of one million taels.

The director of the salt factory was also concurrently served by Shaofu Ling Fan Yuchang himself.

This is the perfect linkage between science and efficiency, because this achievement is derived from the Academy of Sciences, so the salt plant needs to pay dividends to the Academy of Sciences every year.

For example, in the past 20 years of Zhengde, the Academy of Sciences has obtained a salt profit of 800,000 taels of silver.

Of course, they internally call it a salt tax.

All this was allowed by Zhu Houzhao, the emperor, in fact, the current Academy of Sciences can be said to be a place where wealth gathers.

The so-called support cannot be a simple empty phrase.

For the household department, it is also happy to receive this money every year.

The only unhappy ones are the major salt merchants, who will lose most of their high-end customers over time, and they have only two options.

One is to find a way to make another breakthrough in salt production technology.

The other is to sell their excess production to more remote areas, which are not only abroad, but also those areas that are not covered by snow salt in China.

The salt merchants, of course, are on fire.

But the representative of Shaofu has to be the emperor, and it should not be difficult to choose whether he wants money or life.

The success story of Xueyan in a short period of time was also compiled into a text, engraved on a beautiful stone tablet, and placed on the avenue where the Academy of Sciences entered.

Zhu Houzhao meant that future achievements should be exhibited in this form, so that people can know that the wealth here is not obtained by virtue of power.

Similarly, he passed by this monument every time he entered and exited the Academy of Sciences.

"You Ji, will you go somewhere with me?"

The old eunuch took two steps closer, "I don't know where Your Majesty is going?" ”

"I don't know," he smiled and shook his head, "Although I have lived in Jingshi all my life, I have never been to most of the places, so I am in a good mood today, so I am not in a hurry to return to the palace." ”

You Di could see that the emperor was so happy that he wanted to go to some new places, but he was a little worried, "Your Majesty, the Venerable of Ten Thousand Vehicles, but today is not prepared, the slave maid asks Your Majesty to decree, do you want to go back today, wait for two days The slave and maid have found a fun place, and then it is not too late." ”

Zhu Houzhao shook his head as he walked, "Don't be so disappointing, I don't want to come out tomorrow, I want to go to you alone." ”

You Ji was still smiling when he was trained, "Then, then Rong slave and maid are good to think about." ”

"There's nothing new and good in the capital?"

"Good place?" This guy scratched his head, his thoughts were a little crooked, "In such places, I am always afraid of staining His Majesty's eyes." ”

Zhu Houzhao didn't care about him,

forced him to find an ordinary silk satin gown, and after changing into it, he didn't even return to the palace, and went to the streets of the city that never sleeps.

In ancient times, the things that could be presented on the streets were nothing more than cloth, simple metal ornaments or simple snack shops, and Zhu Houzhao had come out a few times over the years, so it was not strange.

It's still people who are different.

So he rushed to a new restaurant called 'Wenwei' in the city that never sleeps and sat down.

Listening to the past vendors selling, the crowd is noisy, and there is no other feeling, this person, that's it, it's like it, it's been quiet for a long time, and I want to be secluded again.

Zhu Houzhao sometimes just felt that there was no sound in the palace at all.

When he arrived at the lively place, it was this plate of peanuts, and a few slices of cold tofu could make him want to move his chopsticks.

The twenty-first year of Zhengde is still a year of imperial examinations, but the northern disaster at the end of last year postponed the spring festival by two months, and at present, the Beijing division is crowded with talented people from all over the world, and it is really lively.

Zhu Houzhao saw that young, old, and scholarly people from all over the country gathered to talk, this kind of scene made him feel fresh when he usually heard a lot of ministers' noise.

The other person was on the second floor of the restaurant, and a table against the railing was crowded with six or seven lifters in a large table behind him.

While twisting peanuts, I heard someone say:

"The title of the gold list and the Toad Palace were originally the long-cherished wish of my generation of scholars, but now today, the three divisions can also enter the court, and they can also enter the Golden Palace...... It's not that it's wrong, but where should the learning of the saints go? ”

In this way, Zhu Houzhao can't hear it in the palace.

From the top to the bottom of the imperial court, the number of other types of officials has increased, which has increased the selectivity of the imperial court, and some aspects are indeed quite professional.

But from the bottom up, it may be a different feeling.

Of course, ordinary people don't dare to say the wrong thing directly.

The iron fist of the imperial court is still there, and the achievements made so far are enough to prove many things.

"Looking down, it's also the times." Another person followed up and discussed, "Today's Ming Dynasty is far richer than twenty years ago, all walks of life, a hundred flowers are blooming, and there are unexpected effects in the past, the imperial court has such a decision, the purpose of which is also to benefit the people." Speaking of water conservancy, aren't there many more officials in various places who know how to control water? ”

This is where they contradict each other.

"Brother Xu, what do you think is the solution to this problem?"

This one, Brother Xu, sat in the middle, and looked like the most prestigious of the group.

He asked rhetorically, "Brother Li thought that he would be relieved and return to the way he used to be?" Or did you cancel the three-division exam? Since ancient times, we scholars have always admired all-round talents, but there are too few such talents, sometimes only one in a hundred years, but the imperial court needs such a person all the time. Dividing it up for national use is also a good policy. Moreover, if the imperial court wants to employ people, it needs to be rewarded, and it is not difficult to understand that the official body is added. ”

"According to what Brother Xu said, there is no need to solve it."

No one answered this question.

There will still be problems, but to see them, we need to have a deeper understanding of Confucianism, and that level cannot be spoken, at least not in broad daylight.

That Brother Xu picked the back of the table next door, and motioned to the people around him, they can all hear what they say, don't make trouble for yourself when you first come to Beijing.

Then someone played a round, "We have chosen the way of the saint, we will be strong, never change, now that the Ming Jun is in power, as long as he obtains fame, are you afraid that there is no place for it?" Come on, full of glasses, don't talk about that. ”

"Well, that's a good point."

Next Door Table,

You Ji was also sitting, he secretly glanced at the emperor's face, and found that there was nothing unusual, "Master? ”

"There are always wise people in the world." Zhu Houzhao was still smiling to himself, "Don't keep a bitter face, do you want to have a drink?" ”

The old eunuch shook his hand again and again, "The little ones don't dare, the little ones don't dare." ”

While laughing at him, Zhu Houzhao himself was also thinking that the modern industrial revolution had impacted the Chinese culture represented by Confucian culture, but later facts proved that Confucian culture did not conflict with the industrial revolution, and on the contrary, it must be firmly grasped, otherwise it will be separated from the roots of its own culture, so what hope does this nation have?

It was also today that he heard the words of the ordinary juzi, and he suddenly realized that maybe in another few decades or a hundred years, he would be gone, and at that time there would be greater progress in science and technology, and people would find that Confucianism was far inferior to physics and chemistry, what would happen at that time?

"Hmm......" Zhu Houzhao's mouth chewing slowed down, "This has been ignored." ”