Datang: In order to be a salted fish, I decided to look forward to my father Jackie Chan

Chapter 133 Yangzhou March
The heavy responsibility fell on Chen Hong, Liu Rengui, and Fang Yiai did not rest. They worked in the dock, became familiar with sea-going ships, and trained Zhu Ziming and the others by the way.

Chen Bing, Daoist Chen, is in the dock for a consultation. If anyone has a headache, just look for him. It’s more leisurely than in Chang’an City. Except for the fact that I’m not used to eating seafood at the beginning, now I don’t have time to leave lobsters. Li Xiao thinks, doesn’t it? Father Sun Simiao treated his apprentice harshly!
Tang Qubo, the carpenter who will be the supervisor, is the most relaxed, just working with Hua Ziwen on the boat!

In the salt field, looking at the white salt grains, everyone's faces were full of joy. Even in this cold weather, the soldiers pushing the salt grains in the crystallization pool were still sweating profusely!
The salt fields were completely remodeled five days ago. After water testing and restoration, salt collection started today!

"Brothers, work harder, collect all the salt in the salt pond today, and then put the solution in it!"

Cheng Yaojin smiled brightly, encouraging the soldiers.

"Uncle Cheng, the food is good for the brothers. All you do in this salt field are manual labor!"

Li Xiao helped the soldiers fight for welfare.

"Don't worry, boy, don't you know that these boys, after getting used to seafood, are now eating sea fish and sea worms!"

Cheng Yaojin pointed to the soldiers working in the salt fields and said, "Look at them, their faces are full of flesh!"

"Father, the seafood is not oily, so it's not delicious!" Cheng Chu moaned, "Roast suckling pig and braised pork are delicious!"

When Li Xiao heard this, he immediately became anxious, "You kid is in Chang'an City, didn't you steal my pig?"

Cheng Chumo dodged his eyes and waved his hands again and again, "No, I didn't eat."

"Damn, I can't even tell lies!" Li Xiao was furious, "I'm still waiting for the pig to grow up, so you ruined it?"

"Do you know that those pigs have to grow to nearly three hundred catties before they can be slaughtered?"

"You are wasting food!"

Cheng Chu muttered silently, "Didn't you also kill the piglet and eat roast suckling pig?"

"Roast suckling pig is delicious when it's roasted. Now it's half big and not too small. It's not delicious!"

Li Xiao swallowed quietly while explaining.

Damn, eating too much seafood is really not enough oil and water!
"I'm too lazy to talk to you, stop thinking about big pigs, isn't the pig farm breeding its own piglets? There will be culled pigs in the future, so it won't be too late to roast them!"

"Who wants the eliminated ones?" Cheng Chumo actually bargained cheekily!

"Whoever told you that it's not good to cull pig meat, forget it, don't tell laymen if you have a reason!" Li Xiao explained weakly, "You should go to work in the salt fields!"

Li Xiao looked at the grains of salt piled higher than a person in front of him, and was in a daze. Why should he worry about the Zheng family of Xingyang?
The entire salt field is nearly 150 square kilometers in total, and the crystallization pool accounts for one-tenth of it, which is [-] square kilometers, or [-] acres. The concentration of seawater varies in different seasons, plus rainy days. When calculated comprehensively, one mu is at least Produce a thousand catties of salt!

The weather is good, and the crystallization pool can collect salt every day. If the weather is bad, it takes two or three days to neutralize it. There are more than 200 million households and more than 1000 million people in Datang. 5 grams per day is enough for everyone's intake needs!

However, this is all in an ideal state, and there are still wear and tear, and typhoon weather is not counted, but at least the people of Datang will never be short of salt again!
In addition to the salt from other places, the salt from the Banqiao Salt Field will still be exported in the future!
Salt is hard currency!
Li Xiao was in a trance when a soldier rushed to report to Cheng Yaojin, "Beijing urgent report!"

Grass, 100% that old boy Li Shimin is messing around!

It's also fortunate that Cheng Yaojin has a big heart. If he had changed his mental quality, he would have been driven crazy by the emperor long ago!Yantian is already messed up, and you still want to produce salt, you are beautiful!

Cheng Yaojin glanced at the ten lines, read it quickly, and then handed the letter to Li Xiao, "Master, let's have a look!"

Li Xiao guessed the front right, but didn't guess the back. As he checked, his brows became more and more furrowed!

Outside Yuncheng, on the edge of Hangu Pass, on the Yellow River waterway.

There is a small pier here, and three big ships are slowly docking!
Li Xiao got out of the cabin with a tired expression, "Are you there?"

"My lord, here we are. To the north is Yuncheng, and to the south is Hangu Pass. This is a good place to stop. If we leave tomorrow morning, we will be able to reach Fengling Ferry before afternoon!"

Liu Rengui replied respectfully.

"Okay, you guys go to work, I'll go to the shore and sit for a while!"

Li Xiao and Cheng Chumo carried stools and got into the boat, and headed for the shore!
Ten days ago, Li Xiao and the others received a letter from Li Shimin, and they were no longer in a urging tone. The general idea was that they couldn't bear it anymore. It seemed that they had to bow their heads to the Five Surnames and Seven Wangs. Otherwise, the price of salt would continue to rise, and the people would not be able to live happily ever after. up!

Cheng Chumo didn't understand the way of business, he talked nonsense, and if the people didn't buy it, wouldn't it be a deal?

However, how can it be so easy for people not to buy it?

Zheng created an appearance that salt is scarce. If you don’t buy it now, you won’t be able to buy it in the future. If you don’t eat salt, you can’t live. Of course you have to buy it, but it’s getting more expensive every day!
Don't you need to buy other things, you can live on salt alone, obviously you can't, so the people will be in a dilemma!
Use the money to buy cloth and food to buy salt, and end up starving.

If you don’t buy salt, if you don’t eat it for three days, you will feel weak, let alone work!

Only when Li Shimin bowed his head to the five surnames and Qiwang, and the Zheng family lowered the price, and the common people could buy salt at a low price, would they have enough money to live on!
Why did this rise from the Zheng family to the entire five surnames and Qiwang?It's not that the Zheng family is making trouble and distributing benefits!
The Zheng family gave up the four treasures of study market in the north to the Taiyuan Wang family. The Taiyuan Wang family exchanged their small salt ponds to the Zheng family, and the Lu family and other families. This time the Zheng family is putting all their eggs in one basket. There is no other way. I thought that Zheng Cheng could win the movable type printing technology at the Cyclamen Auction, so that the Zheng family's invasion of the salt market might be slowed down!
Who knows that Zheng Cheng is self-righteous, thinking that if he knows the biggest secret of Li Xiao's movable type printing, he can follow the gourd to draw a ladle, but who knows that it won't work at all, and he can't do it!

In addition, Xinyi Commercial Bank has lowered the price of paper, and there is almost no place for Zheng's paper in Xingyang. There is no other way but to make a fuss about salt!
The letter was full of loneliness, it was sad to hear it, and shed tears when it smelled it!

Li Xiao hurriedly bagged the salt harvested in those few days. All the salt added up to nearly 50 catties should be able to withstand a burst of attacks from the Zheng family of Xingyang!

Land transportation from Jiaozhou Bay to Linzi Mansion, after loading on the Yellow River, it took nearly ten days to reach Yuncheng. Tomorrow, when we arrive at Fengling Ferry, we can rest in Tongguan. If we hurry up, we should be able to enter Chang'an City the day after tomorrow!

(End of this chapter)