Even if it's a slightly smaller branch of a burning tree.

I can't find much either.

The Fujian-Guangzhou region has undergone the development of the Song Dynasty and the former Yuan Dynasty.

By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it was also a province with a large population.

Small mountains and forests have been reclaimed to form Yokota.

A place that is not suitable for planting.

During the Hongwu period, they were also ordered by Zhu Yuanzhang to plant mulberry trees.

Mulberry is an important resource in Fujian.

You can't just cut it down and use it.

Luckily, winters in Fujian are not cold.

There is no need for excessive heating supplies.

This is also the main reason why the economy of the south has gradually become stronger than that of the north since the Song Dynasty.

The Central Plains region after many dynasties of felling and consumption.

The cost of heating in winter is gradually ballooning.

After the food replenishment in the south.

It is even more difficult to survive in the north.

Zhang Luo's mind was in his mind for a while.

The modern industrial revolution in the West has not only improved the role of machines.

The point is that efficient machines have changed the way humans live.

The discovery of coal, stone, and natural gas.

Let the energy hidden in the ground replace the traditional trees.

As a result, productivity has developed rapidly.

Therefore, the industrial machine has a function that is hundreds of times stronger than the physical body.

I want to go back to the smoldering oven salt method.

The biggest defect of the smoldering furnace method of the Ming Dynasty is the large consumption of materials.

This is also the reason why the saltsmiths in the salt works are also called furnace households.

The main job of a saltsmith is to burn the furnace.

Starting from the design of the stove household registration during the Hongwu period.

Furnace households are allowed to use nearby farmland and reed fields.

A small portion of the salt works also allowed furnace households to go up the hill to mine trees.

But in the Jiajing period.

The mountains and forests around the salt works have been overexploited.

Some reed fields have also been slowly depleted due to overexploitation.

At this point, the furnace owners need to ask the surrounding government for material support.

Salt can only be produced with the fuel for the fire.

After the refined salt is loaded.

Zhang Luo remembered a flaw in the salt drying method.

The southeast coastal area will enter a typhoon-prone period in a few months.

At that time, it was often impossible to see the sun and not be able to dry the salt.

Zhang Luo still has to hurry up and make more salt.

Dig out more stone plates.

Take advantage of the spring to make a good profit.

After a few days of busy work, it was the end of the month.

Zhang Luo called the little stunned Zhang Wangsheng and said:

"The ghost market should be open today, right?"

Zhang Wangsheng saw Zhang Luo for the past few days.

Busy work by the sea in the morning.

In the afternoon, Zhang Luo in the wing.

I don't understand what Zhang Luo is doing for a pound of coarse salt.

More than ten days have been busy.

The coarse salt produced is only seventy or eighty catties.

It adds up to only seven or eight hundred texts.

It's far from the more than 30 taels of fine that the county government has to pay.

Fujian's coarse salt is already difficult to sell.

Official salt produced in the salt farm of the county.

It's only ten pennies a pound.

There's a good chance it won't sell out at all.

There were already a few shops selling coarse salt in the ghost market.

Someone has already sold it.

Why do you have to buy Zhang Luo's?

But seeing Zhang Luo, a scholar is so concerned.

Zhang Wangsheng himself has no ability to make money.

The little stunned man could only take the children to follow Zhang Luo.

I heard that Zhang Luo was planning to go to the ghost market again.

Zhang Wangsheng rubbed his eyes and said:

"The ghost market is open today, does Brother Zhang Luo plan to sell salt?"

"I'm going to try it out, what are the rules of the ghost market here?"

"Do you have any experience in buying and selling ghost markets in the guardhouse?"

Zhang Wangsheng said with a puzzled face:

"To sell something in a ghost market, you just need to explain it to the market official of the day."

"When the stall is over, someone will come and collect the tax."

"If we set up a stall on Houyin Street."

"Just pay a few dozen dollars in taxes overnight."

"That's what Grandpa Zhang said before."

"Experienced people, why don't we just go and set up a stall?"

Zhang Luo explained:

"You little doll, my figure is too ostentatious."

"It's not suitable to set up a stall directly in a ghost market."

"Are there any normal people in the guardhouse?"

"The more ordinary, the better."

Zhang Wangsheng didn't understand why Zhang Luo was so careful.

But he still said:

"Ah Gong Zhang's eldest grandson and elder brother have been to the ghost market."

"Shall we try to get him for help?"

Zhang Luo nodded in agreement.

Immediately asked Zhang Wangsheng to find Zhang He.

Ask him to go with Zhang Luo.

Now Zhang Luo's reputation in Zhenhaiwei is very high.

Everyone knows that Zhang Luo is a capable reader.

Zhang He naturally agreed on the spot.

Zhang Luo brought a few catties of refined salt.

and Zhang Wangsheng, Zhang and went to the ghost market together.

Along the way, Zhang didn't ask a word.

Honestly walking on the side.

Zhang Luo heard the third master mention the eldest grandson of Zhang's family.

Zhang is in his early twenties this year.

But they still haven't married.

In feudal times, at the age of twenty, he did not start a family.

It's an older leftover man.

Zhenhaiwei is a bachelor like Zhang He.

Basically, every house has one.

It is difficult for military families to get married.

This situation was a norm by the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

The military household system established by the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

It's an invisible chain.

This shackle is not only on the soldiers.

It was also locked up in the soldier's home.

Zhang's family is a military household.

Now the soldier is the eldest son of Ah Gong Zhang.

He is also Zhang Ji's uncle.

But that doesn't mean that Zhang Ji is just lying down.

If Ah Gong Zhang's eldest son had an accident.

That Zhang is not at risk of joining the army.

became the daughter-in-law of a military household.

It means that the son born will have the possibility of being dragged to join the army.

His own grandson and great-grandson can't get rid of the identity of a military household.

You may be dragged into the army at any time.

Dare to ask the ordinary woman of that family.

Will you risk being the heir to marry a military household?

Someone proposed that you could marry the daughter of a military family and digest it internally.

In ancient times, there was a long-term patriarchal mentality in Fujian.

The male-female ratio is extremely dysfunctional.

If the woman of the military household has the opportunity.

I wouldn't be willing to marry a soldier from the same guard.

Instead, I want to marry outside and get rid of the shackles of the military household.

This is an important reason for the existence of a large number of singles in Zhenhaiwei.

It's getting tougher and harder to get married.

Without a wife, Zhang Ji's personality became more and more withdrawn.

In addition to learning farming from grandpa.

Hardly ever going out of the house.

Wait until the three of them come to the ghost market.

Zhang Luo handed over the six boxes of refined salt behind him to Zhang and said:

"Brother He, this is six catties of refined salt."

"Let's set up a stall on Houyin Street."

"You can sell it at the price of eighty wen a catty."

What? Table salt!

Hear the word refined salt.

Zhang Wangsheng and Zhang He were both taken aback.

Zhang Luo makes salt on the tidal flats.

This is clear to all the guards.

However, the people in Wei Li said that Zhang Luo made coarse salt.

How did coarse salt turn into refined salt?

Zhang Wangsheng hurriedly opened a wooden box.

I dipped a little of my hand and tasted it.

There was not the slightest bitterness in the mouth.

It's really refined salt!

Oh my God, how the hell did Zhang Luo do it?

Obviously, when I saw salt on the beach, it was bitter.

Only then did Zhang Wangsheng react.

Zhang Luo has been working in the wing room these afternoons.

Sure enough, Zhang Luo is familiar with hundreds of books.

There is a secret recipe to turn coarse salt into refined salt!

Six boxes of refined salt are more than 500 yuan.

Earn 500 wen a day.

That's a lot of money!