Red Mansion: I relied on the AFK system to create a dynasty

The smile on Li Yanshang's face was uglier than crying, and beads of sweat the size of soybeans rolled down his forehead.

He shook his hands and began to slap himself left and right.

"I made a small mistake with my words, please forgive me, Your Highness, please forgive me!"

No matter who Li Yanshang cooperates with, he is just a commoner, no more than an ant in front of Cen Mingche.

No matter how much Zhen Yingjia felt that Cen Mingche was still young and looked down on him, he was still the third prince of Daqian. He seemed to be very favored and traveled south of the Yangtze River on the emperor's orders.

As long as Cen Mingche is accused of defying the royal family, he can be killed and his home ransacked.

To be honest, if Cen Mingche really wanted to deal with him, he would not have to use more force than lifting a piece of grass.

Cen Mingche sat down slowly and watched Li Yanshang slap him on the left and right.

In order to satisfy Cen Mingche, Li Yanshang did not hold back at all.

After he slapped himself more than a dozen times, Cen Mingche put down the tea cup.

"Mr. Li, why are you doing this? Come, sit down and drink tea."

As soon as Li Yanshang said something, he stood up timidly, sat down next to him, picked up the tea cup with shaking hands, and took a big sip of tea.

The tea was very hot, and Li Yanshang's mouth was already open. The pain was getting worse when the hot tea aroused it.

But Li Yanshang didn't dare to show anything was wrong on his face.

"If Mr. Li is so interested, he can find some chefs who can cook Yangzhou cuisine for me. Yangzhou cuisine is quite to my taste."

Cen Mingche still looked at Li Yanshang with a smile.

Li Yanshang's cheeks were already red and swollen, and it looked like it might continue to get worse. It was difficult to make any expression.

Upon hearing Cen Mingche's words, Li Yanshang breathed a sigh of relief.

It would be easy to figure it out. If His Highness asked him to guess, he would be even more panicked.

"Yes, yes, it is an honor for these dishes to be favored by His Highness."

Watching Li Yanshang leave in embarrassment, Cen Mingche sneered.

"Keep an eye on him and try to get the account books of the Li family and the Zhen family."

Lu Xiangyang walked out of the shadows, said "yes", and disappeared into the shadows again.

"Zhen family..."

"Oh, the Zhen family!"

Cen Mingche knew in his heart that no matter what was found, as long as the old lady of the Zhen family was still alive, the emperor would definitely give their family face.

However, the old lady of the Zhen family is already over 80 years old, how long can she live?

How long can his good father live?

Cen Mingche thought again of the emperor's secret decree before leaving.

"Originally, the Zhen family was my eyes in Jiangnan."

"But in recent years, the Zhen family has become more and more unsettled."

"You go to Jiangnan and help me take a good look at the situation in Jiangnan."

Cen Mingche also knew that the emperor would not simply leave this matter to him alone. There might be spies among the guards assigned to him by the emperor.

Besides, his good father not only wanted to observe how the Zhen family in Jiangnan was doing, but he also wanted to observe how he was doing.

In other words, being with a king is like being with a tiger.

Father, Emperor, Father, but "Emperor" comes first and "Father" comes later.

However, the Zhen family did rely on their father's trust to make the Jiangnan area their own territory.

As for this Li Yanshang...

There are not many honest salt merchants in the first place, especially those who cooperate with the Zhen family.

Many salt merchants not only buy and sell official salt, but also buy and sell private salt.

How does this behavior work?

First of all, no matter what kind of relationship you have, once you are qualified to get a salt guide, you can directly use money to buy it. For example, you can buy a hundred thousand kilograms of salt guide.

Then, take this and go to the salt field to pick up salt.

The well-established salt merchants began to exert their strength at this time.

From the salt farm, he would not only withdraw the original [-] kilograms of salt, but also buy another batch of salt from the salt official at a price far lower than the official price.

The two batches of salt are then put together and transported and bought and sold.

However, only part of it is "official salt" that has passed through the government, and the other part is "private salt" that is bought and sold privately.

But with the fig leaf of Yanyin, that batch of private salt can be hidden underneath and make a lot of profits.

As for where this extra batch of salt comes from?

Naturally, the salt officials from the salt field deceived the superiors and deceived the subordinates, and exploited the salt people.

It makes the people suffer, but these corrupt officials and profiteers have a lot to eat.

Necessities like salt have always been profitable.

No matter how you manage it now, it will only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. It will still return to its original state after a while.

If you want to fundamentally solve the problem...

What is the industrial production method of salt?

Nowadays, in the salt fields of Zhejiang University and Zhejiang University, the salt extraction method is used to extract brine. The saline-alkali soil rich in salt from the sea is used as raw material to prepare concentrated brine.

"When there is salt and frost on the ground, you use a shovel to cut it and collect it, which is called scraping soil. The scraped soil in March is called peach blossom soil, in June is called fu soil, and in September is called chrysanthemum soil. Fu soil is the saltiest, peach soil, Jutu comes second.”

Then spread the salt soil flat and pour it repeatedly with concentrated salt water to form a concentrated brine.

Wait until the brine reaches the desired concentration before decoction, thus forming table salt.

The salt produced in this way is coarse salt, which sticks together in lumps like mud, so it is called salt.

Because these are basically purely physical reactions, impurities in table salt cannot be eliminated. There are many more impurities in sea salt than in well salt, so well salt is rarer and more expensive.

Relatively high-grade fine salt needs to be filtered multiple times, and the salt mine itself is required to have no impurities.

Therefore, fine salt is as valuable as silver.

Ordinary people can only eat salt that has not been purified and is full of impurities.

The purification of table salt in the chemical industry is very simple - add lime and soda ash to the concentrated brine in batches to turn the impurities into insoluble salts and precipitate them.

This method can greatly improve the utilization rate of sea salt.

The extraction of sea salt and lake salt is the simplest.

Because you can use the sun salt method at the seaside and lakeside!

The huge temperature difference between day and night, as well as the strong wind, are good helpers for concentrating brine and refining salt.

The tide replaces artificial brine.

It is dug directly from the salt fields and is coarse salt.

The coarse salt is then filtered and purified into fine salt and refined salt.

This method can save a lot of fuel and manpower, thereby reducing the price of salt.

Even if it is impossible to dry salt inland, the salt can be greatly purified and more refined salt can be produced.

And if such a salt-drying method is carried out on a large scale at the seaside, the labor cost is reduced to the point where it can completely cover the transportation cost. In this way, sea salt alone may be able to meet the needs of people in most parts of the country.

Cen Mingche was eager to try it out.

However, Yantie official camp.

It is also illegal to refine salt privately.

You still have to write a proper plan and submit it to the emperor before it can be implemented.

If the problems of salt yield and production cost are solved, salt merchants will no longer need to exist, and salt will become a universal product.

How ironic that there are still so many people who can't even afford salt, let alone enough to eat.