I don't want to be king

"Too."

Lin Yi thought about it, it made sense, otherwise the Sanhe wouldn't be so poor!

After walking for another two days, I finally saw a bay where more than 20 small boats and a large ship were moored.

On the shore is a shop, with two rows of wooden sheds in a mess. On the street, there are a bunch of people gathered in twos and threes. They all look haggard and skinny, but many of them have big bellies.

Lin Yi knew it was schistosomiasis at a glance.

They looked at Lin Yi's group of dozens of people expressionlessly, and their eyes suddenly brightened only when they fell on Wen Zhaoyi and Mingyue.

Occasionally, someone would greet Tian Shiyou enthusiastically, and Tian Shiyou would snort coldly as a response.

"Are all these people fishermen?"

Even if Mingyue is a seventh-rank expert, she still feels uncomfortable being stared at by so many pairs of eyes.

Tian Shiyou laughed and said, "A small part of the time is a fisherman, and a small part of the time is a pirate."

Mingyue asked curiously, "What about the rest of the time?"

Tian Shiyou said, "Then what else can we do? Dry salt, boil sugar, and grow tobacco leaves."

Turning his head to Lin Yi again, he said, "My lord, if you go further ahead, there will be my people. Let's ride horses and mules."

"Go to your home?"

Lin Yi looked at both sides of the road while talking, the more he looked the more chilling he was!

poverty!

so poor!

In comparison, Baiyun City is simply heaven!

A group of dark-skinned, withered-haired children ran wildly around, laughing and laughing, bringing up a cloud of dust.

The more heartless and carefree they were, the more uncomfortable Lin Yi felt.

All their emotions are probably related to food.

"It's enough to walk ten miles ahead. I'll put my house there. It's too remote and the inn is dilapidated. It's better for the prince to live in my house."

The closer he was to home, the more excited Tian Shiyou was.

When he came to a shack, Liu San, who was among the second generals of Tian Shiyou hum, walked over and opened the door, and the six people inside who were playing dice looked out the door together, the surprise on their faces was beyond words.

A tall and thin man ran out from inside and said, "Master, if you don't come back, we will go to Baiyun City to look for you."

Tian Shiyou said, "Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and prepare mules and horses, if you don't have enough, you can borrow them from other houses, and then let's go home."

"Yes, the head of the family."

With a wave of his hand, the tall man ran to the back of the house with the others and brought out seven horses and two mules.

After a while, someone borrowed thirteen horses, mules, and donkeys from other places.

There is no doubt that Lin Yi chose the donkey, and Hong Ying led it.

Out of the store, you can see stretches of sugarcane fields and lychee forests.

Lin Yi rode on the donkey, holding the sugarcane in both hands and gnawing it. Every time he spit out a mouthful of bagasse, the donkey would step back and pick it up and continue chewing.

In the end, he couldn't do anything, so he put all the bagasse into his cuffs, and when he met the river, he threw it in when the donkey was not paying attention.

The mountain road has eighteen bends, and after going around one hill after another, it finally enters an open river valley.

The rumbling sound in his ears became clearer. Lin Yi looked up, and saw that the waterfall hanging from the mountain stream fell from the sky, and all fell into the huge lake in front of him.

"My lord, just go ahead and you will be there."

Seeing Lin Yi like this, Tian Shiyou became more and more proud.

After walking for another two miles, there were shacks everywhere, and gradually there was a smell of people. Tian Shiyou bowed his hand to thank everyone who greeted Tian Shiyou.

Surrounded by a bunch of shacks is a large house, and the wooden door sign is impressively written: Tianfu.

"A local tyrant."

Lin Yi sighed.

The gate opened, and five women came out surrounded by more than 20 servants and maidservants. Tian Shiyou greeted them with a big smile, and after hugging left and right, he said a few words to them.

Then, a large group of people knelt down in front of Lin Yi.

The dinner was sumptuous, and Lin Yi only ate a little hastily, and slept until the next day.

After washing up and having breakfast, he followed Tian Shiyou to see the so-called saltworks.

Riding a donkey, bypassing a mountain, standing on the hill, everything is suddenly clear, white sandy beaches, blue sea, and islands one after another.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a fairyland on earth.

Chapter 76

After walking a few more steps, I finally saw large boats hidden between the island and the fjord, as well as small fishing boats surrounding it.

"Why does your ship stop?

Can this king's ship stop? "

Lin Yi couldn't help being angry when he thought about how many miles he had walked.

Tian Shiyou hurriedly said, "My lord doesn't know, our place is called Fangniao Island, and there are only two places where we can dock the boat, one is the place where we disembarked yesterday, called Pingfengao.

One is the Shangshui Bay in front of me. I have settled here since my ancestors.

Here, there is only one bad thing, that is, there are many hidden reefs, and if you don't know the way, you will sink the ship if you don't pay attention. You can only get in from the southwest by turning around.

We came from the northwest direction, and if we wanted to park here, we had to go around in a big circle from the southwest direction, which would delay an extra day.

Therefore, I took the prince and disembarked directly from Pingfengao. "

Lin Yi's face turned pale, and he said angrily, "What's wrong, it's obviously good for you, outsiders can't easily get in."

Tian Shiyou smiled and said, "That's natural, no matter how capable Du Sanhe is, he can't enter my Shangshui Bay."

Lin Yi forgot to look down the mountain again, and asked curiously, "Where's the Yantian? Why isn't there any?"

He only saw a few fishermen, a few sampan boats, and a group of children playing wildly.

"My lord, please come with the grass people."

Tian Shiyou took the lead along the already flattened mountain path, walked down the hillside, then walked along the long sandy beach, and finally turned around a steep cliff.

A large salt field appeared in front of Lin Yi's eyes, like terraced fields, layer by layer, with no end in sight.

It is generally lower than the sea level, and the sea can flow into it by digging a gap.

More than 20 people were busy among them, some were picking baskets, some were pushing wheelbarrows, and each performed their duties.

Lin Yi pinched a little bit of salt and tasted it in his mouth, but he gritted his teeth and still had a bitter taste.

Tian Shiyou said, "Your Majesty, the official salt costs a lot of money. It costs ten Wen per catty, but our salt only costs two Wen per catty!

Sell ​​it as third-class salt, and it can sell for twenty yuan per catty! "

Lin Yi said, "You have seen the salt used in the palace, how do you think it compares with your salt?"

Tian Shiyou smiled and said, "Your Highness eats first-class salt, and the price on the market is at least 35 renminbi per catty. How can the salt of Cao Min compare with it?"

Lin Yi shook his head and said, "You are wrong, this king also eats sea salt, and the traffic in Baiyun City is not smooth, so there is no place for this king to buy high-quality salt."

"My lord!"

Tian Shiyou said loudly, "Caomin can tell the difference between high-quality salt and sea salt!"

He felt insulted!

He is a salt dealer, how could he not be able to tell the difference between third-class salt and first-class salt!

Lin Yi said, "Could it be that the salt in Yong'an and Wuzhou in the south of the Yangtze River and Qizhou in the north is not sea salt?

Why are people first-class salt? "

Tian Shiyou argued, "My lord, they are fried salt, and our Sanhe salt is dried, so it is naturally different."

Lin Yi rolled his eyes at him and said, "That's because you are not good enough, Mingyue, teach them how to remove impurities from this salt."

As a young web writer, he has a wide range of interests and understands everything, but he is not good at everything and is generally mediocre.

However, I barely know how to remove sea salt impurities.

He kept doing this after the refined salt he brought from the capital was gone.

It cannot be said to be successful. After all, there is no scientific instrument to detect how much chloride, magnesium, lead, arsenic and other impurities are left in it, but at least the taste is satisfactory.

Very "old fashioned".

It's a pity that the older you are, the more often you will kill people inadvertently. For example, self-brewed liquor, self-boiled sucrose, methanol, and bacterial colonies exceeding the standard are all normal things.

He is timid and afraid of death, and he dare not drink too much wine, unless it has been stored for a year or two.

Respect for science is always right.

Mingyue bowed and said, "Yes."

Lin Yi didn't give Tian Shiyou a chance to speak, and said directly, "Follow her to learn more, and find a way to sell the salt at a higher price. Don't be ignorant of your progress all day long, just sit and watch the sky."

Tian Shiyou blushed when he was told, he could only stare blankly at Lin Yi's disappearing figure.

Lin Yi looked at the coconut trees all over the mountains and plains, and suddenly wanted to eat coconuts.

Hong Ying lived up to his mission, swiping a needle, and a lot of coconuts fell from the coconut groves.

Lin Yi watched with his own eyes that the guard Han Deqing smashed down every coconut, and every coconut was empty.

"Is this a fucking coconut?"

Lin Yi is a little skeptical about life, why is there no meat and no juice?

Is this world different?

Han Deqing cut down more than 20 consecutively, and Lin Yicai finally gave up!

The only consolation is that the sea I yearn for is genuine.

For a person who has never seen the sea in two lifetimes, the sea at this time can satisfy all his fantasies.

Putting on the big pants, he plunged into the sea. Surrounded by the guards, he regretted it before he swam far.

It's not so good to feel sticky all over.

The sun was very hot, so after swimming for a while, I went ashore honestly and washed myself clean in the mountain stream.

The only thing that can meet his requirements is seafood, oysters, scallops, prawns, lobsters, geoducks, and oysters. During lunch, he unceremoniously asked the Tian family to prepare a full table.

After eating and drinking enough, under the coconut tree, before he could lie down for a while, he was woken up by Tian Shiyou who rushed over excitedly.

"My lord," Tian Shiyou said happily, carrying a sack of sackcloth, "It's just as my lord expected, first-class salt, really first-class salt!"

Lin Yi yawned, "Then stop talking nonsense, and quickly follow this."

Tian Shiyou laughed loudly and said, "My lord, now Caomin has confidence!

Even if it is only a penny cheaper than the official salt when it is shipped to the north, there are still a lot of people rushing to get it! "

Lin Yi hiccupped loudly.

Hong Ying glanced at Tian Shiyou, Tian Shiyou shrank his neck and ran away.

After Lin Yishui woke up, the first thing he did was to take a bath under the mountain stream, and just after getting dressed, he heard the cry of the child.

"Damn, money-losing thing!"

A man in his 40s showed his scorched teeth, and while swearing, he slapped a little girl with withered hair in the face.

The little girl only dared to cry, but remained motionless.

As soon as Lin Yi frowned, the guard Han Deqing walked over and kicked the man far away.

"Murder!"

The man let out a cry like a pig being killed.

Han Deqing drew his knife suddenly, the man stopped crying immediately, and ran away without looking back.