As a result, Emperor Wanli was so praised by the civil officials that he couldn't find the north directly! I was happy and scattered a lot of things! This is why his pockets have swelled in the past few years because of Liu Haojia, and according to his previous character, it is impossible to put down a reward!

But not long after the reward was released, the stinginess of his old Zhu family flare up again! He regretted it, and felt that the reward was too much!

He had this thought, so he naturally complained a few words when he was communicating with Liu Haojia. But this matter can be hidden, Emperor Wanli can't hide Liu Haojia! He knew too well that commerce and industry were the most absorbing industries, so he could understand the before and after a little thought! It turns out that all the credit I have made has been taken by you civil officials!

Now that he has figured it out, he naturally can't let the credit be taken away in vain. So he explained the matter to Emperor Wanli in the letter.

Emperor Wanli is not stupid, and he has also learned some aspects of governing the country over the years. So after he received Liu Haojia's letter, he was furious and scolded! But those rewards have already been handed down and they can't be returned, which makes him even more aggrieved!

Emperor Wanli's temperament is that you don't let me feel better, and I will never let you feel better! So in the eyes of the ministers, it was Emperor Wanli who suddenly changed during this time!

At the beginning, when everyone played the book together, he was kind and smiling. I was even happier to hear that this year's situation was better than in previous years, why did I suddenly start to provoke problems with everyone? Fines the ministers for several months' salaries at every turn!

The eyes of several pavilion elders were naturally bright, and they immediately judged that Emperor Wanli was taking revenge on those ministers because he saw through the truth of the matter! Because the ministers who were fined for one year were all the first to advocate the peace of the country and the people, Your Majesty Shengming, the elders of the cabinet were meritorious, and the ministers worked hard!

But several pavilion elders secretly snickered but did not intend to speak. On the one hand, they didn't come out in this matter, they were all figured out by the people below, and while sticking gold on their faces, they grabbed Liu Haojia's credit by the way, which was originally a routine operation of civil officials, and it was nothing unusual.

Again, since these people want to fight for a future through small means, they must always be mentally prepared to pay the price! Anyway, there are so many civil officials, and a few of the unlucky ones are substitutes. It's just that these people were recognized by Emperor Wanli, who suddenly became smarter!

However, Liu Haojia ignored the disturbances in the temple, but concentrated on organizing people to repair seawalls and salt farms. Finally, when the weather turned cooler, it was already autumn, and the first and third phases of the project were completely completed!

Originally, Liu Haojia planned to only build the first phase of the project this year, but this year, there were more displaced people, and the construction personnel from all parties were very effective, especially the sappers played a major role, resulting in a large advance in the construction period. In order not to waste manpower, after strict calculations, Liu Haojia ordered the third phase of the project, which was relatively small, to start ahead of schedule.

The third phase of the project is actually a sea salt refinery. The salt produced in the first stage is melted again into a highly concentrated brine, which is then filtered and recrystallized. The salt produced in this way is very close to modern table salt, the color is as white as snow, the particles are crystal clear, and it can be sold at a super good price!

Don't think that the salt industry was very developed in ancient times, and the salt made was beautiful and delicious, but in fact, it was two different things!

In ancient times, the ancients were still accustomed to using salt for brushing their teeth and rinsing their mouths, but it was limited to high-ranking households, and ordinary people could not even afford to eat salt, so how could they brush their teeth with salt. And the big families also use green salt,

Because the brine of green salt is extracted from wells, there are fewer impurities, the color is white, and the taste is not astringent, which is already somewhat close to modern table salt. The richer people used more salt than sea salt. However, the color of this salt is still yellowish, and the particles are relatively large, because the filtration methods they use are not thorough, and this salt tastes okay, but there is always a smell of sea and a faint astringency.

As for the salt eaten by ordinary people, it is unsightly! First of all, these salt particles are very large! Larger salt particles can be as big as a fingernail! And the color is so yellow that you can even see the impurities contained in individual salt grains! As for the taste, it is true

It's salty, but it's fishy and astringent, and it's hard to eat! But even so, it still sells for a lot of money!

The reason why Liu Haojia made the salt factory so big was because he planned to raise the level of the salt industry in Daming by a big margin! Therefore, when he built the salt pan, he set up layers of filter ponds to ensure that the brine entering the salt pan is extremely clean, so that the salt produced is pure white in color, smaller in crystals, and purer in taste!

As for the salt produced by the third phase of the project, it is aimed at high-end users! Therefore, the salt must be made as white as snow as a modern act, only salty, no astringency, and no sea smell! In this way, you can sell it to those *** dignitaries to sell it at a better price!

As for the first phase of the project, it is only to meet Liu Haojia's needs for exchanging salt for grain, so the scale is not large. The second phase of the project is extremely large, almost thirteen times larger than the first phase! If the second phase of the project is completed as scheduled, the salt field will spread from Tianjin to Shandong, forming a huge salt field!

In Liu Haojia's plan, he wants to use this salt factory to completely destroy the salt industry in the south of the Yangtze River, completely pull down the price of salt, and make private salt nowhere to be found! Every pound of salt sold must pay taxes to the Ming court! Therefore, this requires that the output of the salt farm must be very large!

However, Liu Haojia is very confident in this, because in later generations, the Changlu Salt Farm itself was a huge enterprise, supplying almost one-third of China's edible and industrial salt. But for the current Da Ming, industrial salt is almost useless, so he only needs to produce edible salt with all his might.

If the planned fourth phase of the salt farm is put into use, he is even sure that he will use a salt factory to supply all the salt in Daming! At that time, Daming will be able to collect about 20 million taels of silver a year just for the salt tax, instead of three or four million taels like the poor baba now, and it will be handed over to the imperial court like charity!

However, relatively speaking, Liu Haojia's operation is more risky! Because he offended the two biggest merchants of the Ming Dynasty almost at the same time, the grain merchant and the salt merchant! ap.

Anyone who dares to meddle in these two industries is a real high-ranking family! They are intertwined with each other, entrenched in the court and the locality, and have great energy! Especially when they still have a huge flow of funds, combined with their power, it is simply invincible!