Seeing that no one objected, Bu Qi was quite satisfied in his heart, and a little smile appeared on his face.

Also, such a good thing, whoever refuses, is a fool!

"Then the official is here to thank you for your support to the imperial court."

The tribal leaders hurriedly replied.

"Where is Lord Bu, the court is willing to carry me, it is a blessing for us, if you refuse, it is really good or bad."

"That is, that is, such a good thing is a reward from His Majesty to us, and this thunder, rain and dew are all gentlemen."

Seeing that these tribal leaders had placed themselves in the right position, Bu Qi was even more satisfied, brushed the newly grown short beard under his chin, and said:

"This silver mine is mainly the share of the imperial court. What this official wants to say next is related to the daily life of hundreds of thousands of people in Jiaxing Prefecture and the people under your rule. ”

Wu Kun's eyes rolled, recalling what Fang Cai Buqi said, and couldn't help blurting out.

"Bu-sama, didn't you mean the well salt?"

Since this Wukun was subdued by His Majesty, his heart is really great to me, and this praise is really good.

Glancing at Wu Kun, Bu Qi nodded with a smile.

"It's well salt."

A tribal leader asked suspiciously, "But Master Bu doesn't know, since our ancestors, we have been mining rock salt for generations, and this well salt has never been heard of. ”

Salt is the most basic necessities of people's life and an indispensable material for maintaining normal economic life in society.

Salt, because it is also related to people's livelihood, in ancient times, its status was even higher than that of modern oil.

It can be said that one or two salts and one or two gold.

The so-called rock salt in his mouth refers to translucent crystalline ores that contain a lot of salt.

The process of mining rock salt is to dig tunnels in the mountains or underground, mine these salty rocks by manpower, and then crush the rocks to dissolve the salt inside, and finally extract table salt.

Although this method is time-consuming, laborious and extremely dangerous, in order to maintain the survival and development of their own tribes, people have to risk their lives to mine salt in the pits.

Before mentioning table salt, Bu Qi had already made a lot of preparations for today, and he had already prepared for the doubts of these tribal leaders.

At that moment, he smiled and asked:

"This leader, this official doesn't talk about the difficulties and dangers of people in your tribe collecting rock salt, just ask, what does this rock salt taste like?"

When asked about this, the faces of all the tribal leaders present collapsed in unison.

Needless to say?

It's bitter and astringent, and it's hard to swallow!

Not only that, but even occasionally people were poisoned, and the witch doctors of those tribes couldn't figure out why.

Bu Qi smiled slightly, he already knew that this was the case!

With the technical level of these barbarians, it is already their limit to be able to precipitate salt from rock salt.

As for further processing and purification, it is embarrassing these barbarians!

"This official has invited a master of the Mo family, who can extract the salt in the rock salt and make table salt through the method of digging wells."

Bu Qi said and clapped his hands gently.

Soon, two officials entered the hall with a bag of salt.

"Why don't you take a look at the quality of this salt?"

Bu Qi smiled and made a "please" gesture.

When these tribal leaders heard this, they opened the bag and saw a grain of snow-white salt as pure and white as snow, so white that people couldn't take their eyes off it.

Wu Kun's throat rolled a few times, and Fang boldly asked:

"My lord, may I allow you to have a taste?"

Bu Qi nodded silently.

With Bu Qi's permission, Wu Kun stretched out two fingers and carefully pinched a pinch of salt grains and put them in his mouth.

Suddenly, a salty smell filled the entire mouth.

But apart from the saltiness, the bitterness is so small that you can't notice it unless you taste it carefully.

Wu Kun blurted out two words.

"Good salt!"

When the other tribal leaders saw Wu Kun like this, they couldn't care much about it, so they followed Wu Kun's example, pinched up the salt grains, and put them in their mouths to taste.

In the next moment, their eyes widened.

Since the day they were born, they have never eaten salt so pure, almost without the slightest peculiar smell!

Seeing the expressions of these people, Bu Qi gently stroked his beard and asked with a smile:

"How?"

"My lord, is this the well salt?"

Some tribal leaders couldn't believe it.

"If this official wants to deceive you, why do you need to spend so much thought?" Bu Qi snorted coldly, and seeing that the other party's face was ashamed, Fang said slowly, "This official is to implement His Majesty's intentions, and I hope to get along with you and other generations, so I want to cooperate with you and others, and at the same time eat this business, improve the lives of your people, and let them know the benevolence of my Great Chu." If you don't want to, then if the official didn't talk about it today, as for cooperation, don't mention it again, the official is looking for others. ”

"My lord misunderstood, that's not what I mean."

Lian Buqi wanted to repent, but everyone suddenly panicked and pleaded for mercy.

"That is, the adults think about us, how can we not know, and I hope that the adults have a lot, spare him this time. If he dares to do this again, he doesn't need to be done by adults, I will personally tie him up in front of the adults and let them deal with him! ”

At this time, in the eyes of these tribal leaders, Buqi is a living fortune boy.

If they leave this one angry, where will they go to find such easy money-making good things?

"Well, for the sake of your face, this official will not remember the villain, and spare him this time."

After beating these tribal leaders, Bu Qi accepted it when he saw that it was good, and got down to business.

"Regarding the matter of well salt, the official should let Mr. Wu and you explain it in detail."

With that, he nodded to the staff beside him.

The staff walked out of the hall, and after a while, a disciple of the Mo family wearing an ochre robe appeared in front of everyone.

"Ladies and gentlemen, my surname is Wu, a single name, trusted by His Majesty, serving as the director of the Ministry of Industry, this time I came to southern Xinjiang to promote well salt."

Wu Hui said as he arched his hand in the direction of Shenjing.

It turned out that when Zhao Yu was browsing the Mo family classics sent to the palace by Du Yunshan, he inadvertently saw the method of well salt from them.

After becoming the emperor for nearly a year, Zhao Yu naturally understood the importance of the salt industry to the imperial court and the people, so he sent Wu Hui, who was the most proficient in this method among the disciples of the Mo family, to Miaojiang to promote the method of well salt.

Hearing that Wu Hui was personally sent to Southern Xinjiang by the Son of Heaven, everyone realized how much the Chu court attached importance to this matter, and hurriedly got up and saluted Wu Hui.

After the two parties greeted each other, Wu Huifang briefly introduced the method of well salt in a language that these tribal leaders could understand.

It turns out that in order to make well salt, salt wells must first be built.

And this salt well, if you want to dig it successfully, it is also very difficult. First of all, you need to find an experienced craftsman to determine the location of the well, and then use the mouth-shaped iron cone to drill holes in the stone layer in the stone mountain, and then cut the bamboo in half, wrap it around the cone handle and chisel downward, and continue to connect the bamboo if it is not long enough, until the deep rock is ground into powder, and then the gravel is taken out with a hanging iron clamp, which is considered a successful well drilling.

In order to make the wall of the well not easy to collapse, the wellhead is only the size of a bowl.

In the well, the big Nan bamboo is wrapped with hemp rope outside, and the putty is coated inside, and the first socket is tied together as a casing to prevent the well wall from collapsing and fresh water soaking.

Hang the orange tree on the well, set up a turntable, and the ox pulls the turntable to lift the brine in the well, and finally puts it in a pot to fry and refine, so as to make this white well salt.

After listening to Wu Hui's simple explanation, everyone present, even Bu Qi, who had heard it several times, was amazed.

Some tribal leaders who thought that they would go home and open salt wells after hearing this were finally reluctant to give up.

There is no other reason, the technology and technology are extremely complicated, and the slotted drill bit required for sinking the well alone cannot be done by their own tribe, let alone others.

"There are warriors in all of your tribes, and I am going to hire them to dig salt wells for the imperial court. You can also invest money to join it, there is only one, and this well salt must be in the hands of the imperial court. However, although it is a government business, the leaders can also get a maximum of 10% of the profits. In return, you need to send people to inspect the salt wells. I don't know what you think? ”

Seeing that the leaders had digested Wu Hui's words, Buqi had to offer the conditions of the official mansion.

Salt and iron are related to the foundation of a country, so the salt and iron official camp is an unshakable national policy.

At this point, there is no room for bargaining.

As for the warriors of these tribes, it is because these skilled hands with internal strength can dig salt wells faster and better than ordinary workers.

At the same time, Bu Qi also wanted to take advantage of this to subtly transform these people into the hands of the imperial court.

With the example of the previous silver mines, these tribal leaders agreed without much thought.

For them, this is the property of the imperial court, and now it is a great grace to be able to let themselves get a piece of the pie.

…………

In the Zihuan Palace, Zhao Yu flipped through the folds of Jiaxing Mansion, couldn't help but flick the paper, and exclaimed:

In just two months, this step of the mountain gathered experienced salt workers and brave tribal warriors to successfully dig nearly 100 salt wells in Jiaxing Mansion. According to Wu Hui's estimate, this salt well, rain or shine, can get three stones of salt in one day, and about 1,000 stones in a year. Only these more than 100 salt wells can produce 100,000 stones of salt a year, and this is just the beginning! ”

You know, in this day and age, the price of table salt is extremely expensive.

Even in peacetime, the price of a stone of salt is as high as 800 yuan. And a stone of grain rice, no matter how good the quality is, is less than a hundred yuan.

This means that one stone of salt can be exchanged for at least eight stones of rice!

These 100,000 stone of salt, converted into grain, is one million stone.

And this is just the beginning of production.

Over time, salt production will increase.

The final result is that the price of salt in Jiangnan will plummet, so that more people in Dachu can eat cheap salt.

In the past, a stone of salt was 800 yuan, and in the future, it can even reach 80 yuan, or even 50 yuan.

No matter what era, scientific and technological progress is accompanied by a great increase in wealth, and it is ultimately the people at the bottom who benefit.

Although Bu Qi did this, it seemed that the court had lost money, but in fact, the court was taking the path of selling a lot of money, which can only be said to be less profitable, but it is impossible to lose money.

For Zhao Yu, it doesn't matter if he earns less, because the people of Chu have benefited from this policy and improved their physical fitness in all aspects.

This means that the imperial court can recruit better soldiers and occupy a slight advantage in the competition for hegemony with other countries.

Such an advantage is accumulated little by little, and it becomes an absolute victory, and it has become the general trend of the world where the wheel of history rolls forward, and who blocks whom!

Zhao Yu handed the fold in his hand to the middle-aged man sitting solemnly beside him, and said with a smile:

"Regular, you can also look at the means of this step mountain."

The man who was called "regular" by Zhao Yu took the fold with both hands, looked at it carefully, and said: "Your Majesty really has a good eye for talent, just looking at the silent means of moisturizing things, you know that Master Bu has the talent of a prime minister." ”

He had to sigh like that.

Among the three who were first promoted by His Majesty, Bu Qi proved his ability with this skill, and Zhou Rui, the head of the household, has regarded Zhuge Jin as his successor and cultivated it at all times.

He had to admit that just looking at the treatment of the barbarian tribe in this song, with his own temperament, he couldn't do it as lightly as Buqi.

Isn't that right?

Zhao Yu said secretly in his heart.

Before that, he served as the assassin in Jiaozhou for nearly ten years, killing Wu Ju, Zhen Shixie, quelling the rebellion, repairing the city, and shaking the southern Xinjiang.

Now that it can be regarded as a revisit to the "old place", how can you not catch it?

However, this Liu Zhengze also has something to say.

Zhao Yu smiled and tapped the other party with his hand.

"Rightly, you said that I have a good eye for talent, but by the way, I also praised myself."

This person is none other than the talent that Zhao Yu summoned through Chenka [Tang Lu Yonghui] not long ago - Liu Renliang and Liu Zhengze!

[(White) Chenka: Tang Lu Yonghui]

[Card Description: Among the generals of the Tang Eastern Expedition, there is only one person with both civil and military talents, and Liu Renliang is the only one!] 】

[Card Effect: After use, get the famous minister Liu Rendao. 】

Liu Renliang, the word is regular, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, and a famous general. During his time in Baekje, he became famous for rescuing Silla and defeating the combined forces of the Wa Kingdom and Baekje at the Battle of Haganggue.

Martial Arts 70, Domination 92, Military Strategy 84, Political Strategy 90, Wisdom 89, Literature 85, Charisma 91, Morality 89, Ambition 20, Loyalty 85, Intimacy 400, Influence 500, Age 37, Origin: Commoner, Character: Perseverance.

Trait 1 [Poor Family]: Born poor, but his childhood experience made his mind precocious, with +5 wisdom, +5 morality, and -5 ambition.

Trait 2 [Entering the Phase]: When serving as a civil servant of the third rank or above, wisdom +5, political strategy +5, literature +5, and the national tax revenue will increase by 3% for two / year; When serving as the commander of an army, you will have +5 in command, +5 in intelligence, +10 in morale among your corporal and soldiers, and 10% in combat power.

Trait 3 [Arrogant and Self-Contained]: After Liu Renliang takes up an official position of the third rank or above, the probability of impeachment in the court is +20%.

Trait 4 [Alien Buster]: As the commander of an army, when fighting against a foreigner, the morale of the corporal under his command will +20, his combat power will be increased by 20%, and his movement speed will be increased by 10%.

"Minister, don't dare to praise Your Majesty. But if the minister and the step master change places, even if the means are different, but the minister is confident that he is not worse than the step master. ”

In the face of Zhao Yu's words, although Liu Renliang's attitude was still respectful, there was a hint of arrogance in his tone.

Another one who is as proud as Wei Wenchang is to the sky.

Although Zhao Yu thought so, he didn't care at all, and said with a smile: "Zhengzheng is so bold, okay, I'll wait and see, waiting for that day." ”

After a pause, he added:

"However, before that, Li Hanlin should first draft the holy decree of summoning Lu Shilang and others to lead the army back to Beijing."

Like the initial treatment of Du Pre and others, Liu Renliang was also appointed by Zhao Yu as a bachelor of Hanlin, and while preparing for the consultation of the Son of Heaven at any time, he also had the responsibility of being ordered to draft the holy decree.

Now that the time is calculated, the envoy of the Jin State thinks that he has already passed on his meaning to the Qi State.

Even if the monarchs and ministers of Qi State objected to the conditions they offered, they had to bow their heads obediently in the face of the pressure of Jin and Chu.

Therefore, Lu Yi'an and others, who were the first to lead the troops to support Guan Haocang, could also lead the army back to Shenjing City.

It just so happened that it was not too late to take the opportunity of his birthday soon to reward these heroes one by one.

"Minister, obey the order."

Liu Renliang said in response, and then wrote on the side.

(End of chapter)