God don't even try to stop me from doing infrastructure!

On the way back, because they had to pass through Yancheng, the convoy took another curved road.This time they left with a large amount of white salt. The white salt was packed in clay pots and sealed with oilcloth. This was a sample to be brought back to Kuri.The adjutant sent by Prince Sham was responsible for transporting the salt directly to Kuri.He, Yunze and others will take two paths.

In addition, there are three carts of seaside specialties, most of which are very precious gemstones and minerals, as well as some spices.Oh, not from the magistrate of the port.After sending the island owner's son back, the island owner asked the general to bring it as a gift to the son of God, thanking him for saving his son.

The letter didn't go into details, but Yunze understood that what the other party wanted to thank was not only for saving his life, but also for removing the mark of slavery on his son.

On behalf of the government, the city magistrate also sent two carts of special products from Yunze, which were basically edible, such as dried shrimp, dried fish, dried scallops, sea vegetables and so on.They are all kinds of seafood that Yunze loves to eat. He has been here for four months, but he has eaten freshly caught seafood. It is big, delicious, pollution-free and pollution-free, super delicious.

The crab and lobster are cleaned, steamed with a little ginger, and it is delicious.

Kelp and the like are cut into shreds, scalded in boiling water, added to the sauce and mixed, crisp and delicious.

The big fish is cut into sections, marinated briefly, rolled in egg liquid, fried with a little bread crumbs, poured with sauce, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, full of deliciousness.

Don't waste the fish head either, cut it in half, and stew it with tofu, small shells, and vegetables. Adding a little salt and ginger is enough.

If you are afraid of fish bones when eating fish, then chop the fish meat into puree, add sauce, flour, egg white and knead it, steam it into a cake shape, fry it with oil and slice it, it is a snack suitable for all ages, there is no oil, and it is easy to boil tasty.

Fish balls and fish intestines can be made in almost the same way... Then, a kind of "small food pot" cooked in a clay pot appeared, which is actually similar to Kanto cooking.This kind of snack skewered on wooden sticks became popular in the port, and together with charcoal grilled squid, it became a cheap signature delicacy in many small hotels.

Sometimes Yunze has to be in a daze. He feels that the biggest change he brought to this city may not be salt, but the eighteen styles of seafood cooking.

After these four months of eating, Yunze almost got fat.Fortunately, he has to walk in the salt field for two or three hours a day, and he has enough exercise, so in the end he only got a dark layer, and he did not gain weight, but became firmer.

As for the others, they were even darker than him. Bayi, the white-faced general, was already a black-faced general.He wants to lead people to build fortifications, and there are no fewer things than Yunze.

The adjutant sent by Prince Sham has been assisting Yunze's work.

As for Menis, he was as busy as ever.The main thing is to promote the rotation of corn and soybeans. It seems that the priests on the port side are a little slack and did not follow the order of the temple.Corn is planted all over the country, and most of the land here is spring wheat and soybeans. After asking, I found out that this elderly priest is completely inactive. Anyway, most of the residents here fish for a living, and the land they plant is not not much.

Inaction is dereliction of duty, and this old priest still wants to rely on his old man to sell his old man here in Menis.Moreover, he is the priest of the Sea God Temple, so he accused Menis of overreaching.

The end of a hard fight with Menis is to get rid of the status of priest and take back all the property attached to the temple.Menis immediately transferred a new priest from the Temple of the Sea God from nearby to take over. On the other hand, he killed the old priest's family first and then played. The main purpose was to recover all the property and turn this pampered family into a proletarian commoner.After that, he sent a letter to the biggest priest of the Sea God Temple and his teacher, explaining the matter.

The two quickly sent a letter and had no objection to Menis' handling.

The temple received an order the year before last to try planting corn, and the planting was fully rolled out last year, but there is no movement here?Relegation to civilians is preferential treatment, and the priests of the Sea God Temple directly ordered that no one in the next ten generations be allowed to enter the temple system.

But after this incident, Menis had a new idea.When he returned to Curry, he planned to walk around the remote places of Taixi to see the work of the priests everywhere.

Yunze supports his idea, but it's a pity that he won't go out with him, because Yunze is already preparing to start a "vocational technical college", and the main recruiting targets are him, the descendants of Menis' subordinates, and some people whose fathers are unknown in the temple. Young monks will also select and employ some children from commoner families.

At the beginning, the scale will definitely not be very large, it can only be regarded as a prototype.

The employment situation of the students inside is very good after they come out, so the scale may be expanded.

After the land meets the needs of food, a group of people will be liberated from the land and become craftsmen.Since Taixi wants to develop the cotton cloth industry, sugar industry, and sauce industry, and plans to open official salt stores nationwide, it will definitely need a group of people to engage in related occupations, even if they are small traders.

Then when these children come out, in addition to traditional occupations, they can also try some new industries.

Considering that it is still an agricultural society, the production method is still manual, and there will not be too much surplus labor, so it is difficult for such schools to flourish everywhere.Anyway, for the bottom people, this is also an opportunity.

It is spring when it comes out, and it is the time when all things grow and germinate, but it is the end of summer when they go back, and the flowers are at their most vigorous, and they are about to turn from prosperity to decline.But Yunze and the others didn't feel any sadness. If the flowers are withering, doesn't that mean the fruit is about to grow?When they arrived in Curry, it was just in time for the harvest season.Pieces of gold are the most joyful color.

The salt field has been repaired, the task has been completed, and the salt drying reform in Yancheng has also been successfully experienced, so everyone is in a relaxed mood. They basically talk and laugh along the way, and gather in the carriage to tell stories when they are bored.

Yes, just like in the 'Decamers', everyone has a story, and they go to bed after telling.

Menis and others either told some religious legends or Taixi's folk tales.And Yunze is also very characteristic. He likes to tell animal stories, humanizes animals, and then produces a series of stories.

A scribe who traveled with them recorded these stories.

Yunze asked him why he wanted to record these stories, and he replied: "I want to tell others these stories that contain profound truths. I have collected many such stories, and my descendants are exposed to them every day. You can learn a lot about being a human being.”

Yunze was thoughtful.

They turned to Yancheng, because Yancheng is a very rich city, and many merchants come to buy salt every year, so the road here is wide and flat, and the air seems to have a little salty taste.

Many people in Yancheng depend on salt for a living. They obtain cheap salt from the local area and transport it to other places to sell it to earn the difference.They are called small salt merchants. They are away all the year round, and women are in charge of the house, so in Yancheng, it is very common for women to run the house.But it doesn't say that women have a higher status, because most of the money earned by the family belongs to men, and whoever earns more money has the final say.

"If His Majesty's salt stores are opened all over the country, these small salt merchants will be hit hard. Can you consider recruiting them as an official salt delivery caravan?" Yancheng's salt will be delivered to various places around Specialty stores definitely need someone to deliver the goods, so it would be more convenient to find people in Yancheng directly.

The fixed salary is definitely not as much as they earn by running outside, but at least they still have income, and it is a long-term stable income with higher security.

In addition, some small salt merchants are not completely hopeless, because some remote small villages must not be able to take care of them. They can deliver salt to their door to earn errand fees.

The new city magistrate warmly received them. He was mentioned elsewhere, and it hasn't been long since he took over the work here, and he is still a little bit flustered.In comparison, other officials are much more silent.

Official corruption in Yancheng is not an isolated case. It can be said that from top to bottom, there is no one who embezzles salt money privately.Although the mayor's family was executed this time, the others knew that they were enough to be beheaded. It was just that the king was not interested in these small characters except for the culprit, so they survived by luck.

So these people are very quiet now, afraid of being caught.

However, Yunze didn't care about their lawsuit, and he went to the salt mine site as soon as he came.It was a salt pond, quite large, with the water vapor evaporating in the sun above, and new brine gushing out from below.

Brine cannot be eaten directly because it contains a lot of chloride ions, but it turns into salt crystals, sodium chloride, and is non-toxic.

Although the locals don't know what chloride ions and sodium chloride are, they know that the only thing they can take away and use is the white salt crystals accumulated over time at the edge of the salt pond.The upper layer is the top-grade white salt, and the bottom layer is the turbid low-grade salt.Further down, there is a lot of mud mixed with salt. I don't know if it is salt or mud.

In fact, this condition is much better than that of the seaside, and the concentration of these brines is higher than that of the brine filtered out by the seaside.It can be taken directly, filtered, poured into the salt field, and the salt can be dried.

The materials for repairing the salt field are also ready-made. It is the city lord's mansion built by the former city magistrate for himself. It was demolished before he lived in it.

Because it has been repaired many times at the seaside, and now it is familiar with the way, the size has long been standard, and the construction is right.There is no need to build fortifications here, because Yanchi is originally 'state-owned' and surrounded by walls and heavily guarded.

There is basically no need for Yunze to worry about things here, he can just check the progress every morning and evening.There is nothing else to do at other times, so I put on my cloak and wander around Yancheng.

Most of the land in Yancheng is saline-alkali land, and many crops are not suitable for planting. It is not easy to obtain food and money from the land in Yancheng.Hudou beans are mainly grown here, that is, broad beans, which are more suitable for the soil environment here.In terms of vegetables, it seems to be celery.

So many people have no choice but to be small salt merchants.

In terms of feeling, although people in Yancheng generally have a little money in their hands, life is no better than elsewhere.Because the wheat and food here have to be transported from other places, the price has risen.Wages are high and prices are also high, so overall, the standard of living has not improved.

Saline land...

Sugar beet can improve saline-alkali land, but it will definitely not be planted here at present, because the sugar technology needs to be kept strictly confidential.There are some special soils in modern times that can improve saline-alkali land. When he came to Yunze, he could only think of some crops that could be grown on lightly saline-alkali land.

Sorghum is one kind, and corn can also be grown, as well as goji berries, sunflowers, green vegetables...

Yunze thought a lot, but he didn't tell the mayor.Because it is almost autumn harvest now, even if there are suitable ones, there is no way to plant them for a while.Then, leave the matter to the king.

Salt-alkali land is definitely not the only case in Yancheng. The place where Taixi produces salt may be saline-alkali land. It is better to leave it to the king to solve it.

Hurry up, the salt farm was repaired a month later.Originally dried in the sun and prepared to test the results of sun-dried salt, unexpectedly the sky was not beautiful, and it rained a little.So they waited for another two days and poured the filtered brine into the salt field.The brine is exposed to the sun for a day in the shallow sun-dried salt field, and the white salt comes out, and the quality is better than that picked by the side of the salt pond.

It worked!

Those who participated in the construction of the salt farm were moved to tears.

Yun Ze stood aside with his hands folded. He watched the workers collect the salt with a shovel and pour it into burlap bags.The salt will later be sent to the homes of commoners in Taixi and put into their salt jars.

Before leaving Curry, he promised to let the people of Taixi eat clean and cheap salt.

He did it.