Zong Xin stretched out his fingers and whispered a few words to Lei Hong, who immediately frowned.

"This ...... Is this possible?" Lei Hong said: "Although you are a contemporary enlightened monk, I still can't believe it, if it is really this simple, then what have we been doing all these years?"

Zong Xin said: "Who knows, business will do it anyway." If you will...... Send Lei Tianxiao or Lei Tianxin to help me keep an eye on this business, and guarantee that I will have a share of you. ”

Lei Hong pondered for a while and said: "Tianxiao, this kid, I don't know what's going on with him, he has a very close relationship with Liu Chengyou, and he has been doing things for him. It's not easy to get him to take the time to come out and help. Although Lei Tianxin is a little clever, he is too arrogant and domineering, and he has never left my side, so it is inevitable that he will be a little worried if he is sent. ”

"There's no need to worry about this, the child has to go through the training, otherwise how will he be independent in the future? If he can't even be independent, I'm afraid that he will always be a waste. ”

Lei Hong nodded, his son had a point. It's also time for Tianxin to go through it, it's not a way to stay by his side all the time, he is a waste now, and he can't be a waste for the rest of his life. Raising his godfather, Lei Hong is also a little skeptical about his education plan.

However, Lei Hong still felt a little strange, why did this kid have to hide his identity? Except for Zong Xin's apprentice, everyone present knew that he was his father, and Zong Xin also said that it was to deceive his apprentice Tianya, so they would hide their identities from each other. Although Lei Hong didn't want to think about it, he felt a little awkward to talk like this.

"Well, let's just let this waste have a good experience. When you have kung fu, this king will personally send a letter from heaven to join the master, and you will have to take in this unscrupulous son when the time comes. ”

Zong Xin clasped his hands together and said, "Of course, I will definitely take care of it." After Lei Tianxin becomes the shopkeeper of this business, the whole world will know his name, because this business will definitely make everyone rich. ”

Everyone was curious about what kind of business Zong Xin was going to do, but Zong Xin had kept this matter a secret, and he had to go back to Nantang to do this business. Although I don't know what's going on, everyone is happy, at least there is no danger in doing business, Zongxin will not die, and this matter is good for everyone.

Zong Xin said that this business was ultimately left to Zhao Kuangyin, making him rich and rivaling the country. As for what Zhao Kuangyin will do with the money, it is completely out of his own fear, and Zongxin will not care about this matter. However, Zhao Kuangyin had already made up his mind that he would definitely develop a valve that was more powerful than the current Zhao Valve.

If you want to be stronger than today's Zhao Valve, you first need a lot of money, and you can raise soldiers only after you have money, and now Zhao Valve has six gold ore veins, as well as 100,000 soldiers, but this is also all the family background of Zhao Valve, which Zhao Kuangyin knows very well in his heart. As long as you can raise enough troops, it is not difficult to surpass Zhao Valve.

A soldier's annual consumption is at least five taels of silver, and 100,000 soldiers will have to prepare at least 600,000 taels of silver, because there are not only ordinary soldiers but also many soldiers, and their consumption is more than that of soldiers, and it is only a year's consumption. Not counting the consumption of weapons, armor and war horses, it will take so many years to feed these generals, and if other consumption is counted, I am afraid that it will take at least one million taels of silver a year to feed 100,000 soldiers. These generals still need to be trained before they can go into battle, and all this requires a lot of money.

As the saying goes, a thousand troops are easy to get and a general is hard to find, Zhao Kuangyin not only wants soldiers, but also wants soldiers, soldiers who really know how to lead soldiers to fight. As long as he has enough troops, he will definitely ascend the throne and become emperor, and then dominate the country. However, without the help of Zongxin, I am afraid that all this will be difficult to achieve.

Zhao Kuangyin was still worried, what if Zong Xin really lived in seclusion? Without Zong Xin's assistance, he would never be able to dominate the country. Although Zongxin is still paving the way for himself, Zhao Kuangyin now feels that Zongxin is like a life coach, and he really doesn't know what to do without him.

In the early morning of the next day, Lei Hong went north to Cangzhou, and Zong Xin and his party rushed to Weinan. After connecting with the weak scholar Zhao Pu, he took Zhao Pu and Youyun Eighteen Horsemen and 3,000 people and horses from Weinan to leave together, and the entire business in Weinan was handed over to Zhao Kuangyin's further Zhao Hongde to take care of.

Zhao Hongde originally liked to do this kind of thing, and Zhao Valve had enough manpower, so he naturally had no opinion on taking over other people's transactions, and he could also add more income to Zhao Valve.

The martial arts of the weak scholar are actually not low, but compared to Zong Xin and his party, they are not worth mentioning, their resourcefulness is not bad, and they are ambitious and ambitious, so Zong Xin hopes that Zhao Pu will take care of another business. For this reason, he was even willing to give up all the business in Weinan and relocate the entire Ao Gang.

Zong Xin was not in a hurry, he went to Xuzhou to visit his sister and brother-in-law first, at this time Lei Fang's stomach was already bulging, everyone was happy to look at it, and it wouldn't be long before Zong Xin could be his uncle.

After stopping in Xuzhou for a while, they went directly to Dugu Valve, and after discussing with Bai Yunfei and Gu Guozhang, they took their men and horses to go south with Zongxin and his party.

The Datang territory is almost unimpeded, and it took a whole month to go south from Jinling, and this is only the previous troops, and the three thousand people raised by Zong Xin have mounts, but not everyone in Bai Yunfei and Gu Guozhang's troops has horses, so the follow-up troops are still on the way.

The group traveled for more than a month and finally came to an island. This was originally the boundary of Fujian, because of the civil strife in Fujian, Li Jing took advantage of the situation to seize the Jiangshan Sheji of Fujian, although it is difficult to manage, but the seaside is full of poor and remote land, although Li Jing captured Fujian and made a lot of money, but in fact, it is not popular at all, and the people here are not happy.

At this time, it was already late spring and early summer, and the weather was hot, Bai Yunfei and Gu Guozhang had already begun to regret following Zong Xin on this trip, and they didn't know what kind of tricks Zong Xin was going to do. However, these two people's admiration for Zong Xin exceeds their own ability, when everyone knows that Zong Xin designed to kill Yelu Deguang, this matter can be said to be unprecedented and unprecedented, such a person will never make such a joke on himself.

Zong Xin rode on the back of the white wolf and said excitedly: "This is the place where we made our fortune, I will make this the richest land in the world, but you must keep this secret, otherwise the poor monk will never spare the person who leaks the secret." ”

Gu Guozhang said: "Master Zongxin, what kind of deal is this? You said that it can make us all rich and enemies, but this is just an island, and there are not many trees and arable land, so you can make money here?"

"The poor monk can really conjure up money, and the tools I let you buy be distributed to the soldiers, and let them dig pits, dig a few huge pits above the high tide, and dig a few smaller pits behind these pits, and then a few smaller pits. Let's try it first, I don't know what the size is. ”

"Yes. Zhao Pu didn't have a trace of suspicion, and Zong Xin's soldiers didn't have a trace of suspicion, and immediately began to dig a pit.

"Master Zongxin, what are you going to do?" Bai Yunfei couldn't help but ask, this question everyone was very curious about, what exactly did Zongxin want to do.

Zong Xin said: "I want salt." ”

As soon as I heard this, everyone's hearts were also reassured, it turned out to be salt. No wonder Zong Xin would find Bai Yunfei, because Bai Yunfei has been trading private salt all year round. But...... The island is not small, but it is not too big. There are not many trees on the island, and even if they were all cut down to make salt, the profit would be only a small amount. I can't afford to make so many people make a hard trip.

So far, most of the salt is boiled from seawater, some places eat rock salt, there is brine in the territory of Shu, and the salt can only be obtained by boiling water with fire. Not to mention the cost of wood, labor is incalculable, so the price of salt remains high.

Dugu Xingyue said: "Husband, even if we cut down all the trees here, we won't make much money from the salt we boil." ”

"Who said I'm going to cut down trees?" Zong Xin chuckled, "I'm going to turn salt out, you wait and see." There is no need to boil seawater with fire at all, and there are many ways to produce salt, but no one has thought about it. ”

No one raised the bar, but they were all depressed and couldn't think that the business that Zong Xin said was salt, and they knew that they wouldn't come. Gu Guozhang and Bai Yunfei both regretted a little, Zhao Kuangyin and Tianya waited to see the excitement, although they didn't know what Zong Xin was going to do, but they were full of confidence in him, Zong Xin would definitely be able to conjure salt. At that time, Gu Guozhang and Bai Yunfei's expressions must be very funny.

Zhao Pu naturally did not doubt Zong Xin, and immediately ordered someone to do something, three thousand people could not be used up, only a few hundred people were enough. The rest of the people, Zongxin, let them build houses here, and even let some people leave the island to buy stones, and Zongxin planned to build a fortress here that no one could capture.

It took hundreds of people a day to dig several pits requested by Zongxin, and then Zongxin ordered people to dig a channel in front of the pit to lead the seawater into the big pit, and no one doubted that he would do it immediately.

At the beginning of summer, in the extremely hot place in the south, the sea breeze and sunshine were very abundant, and the next day some of the sea water was evaporated, and Zongxin ordered the water to be channeled into the next pool, and the first pool was filled.

On the third day, when the pond had already begun to crystallize, Zongxin had the seawater flow into the third pool, the water from the first pool into the second pool, and the first pool to fill it.

By the fourth day, the smallest pool was filled with only a layer of semi-turbid water above, and the bottom of the sea was full of white flower salt and impurities.

Zongxin immediately ordered someone to dump the semi-turbid seawater, and then ordered someone to collect all the remaining salt. Although there are still a lot of impurities in it, most of them can be removed by hand, and the rest needs to be slightly purified.

Everyone was stupefied, these pools could be all day long, and they could receive so much salt in the last pool every day. This is just Zongxin's experiment, if the size is calculated, how much salt can be harvested every day if these salt pans are expanded innumerably? Even if they are sold at a low price, the daily income can be counted to death.

(PS: Before the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, salt was boiled with fire, and it was not until after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms that the salt drying method was invented, which is not contrary to history.) The person who really invented the salt drying method was called Chen Yinggong, who died in a peasant uprising in 982 at the age of 38, and was known as Yangong. ）