It seems that I am still too full [travel]

In Le County, the teahouses on the streets and alleys have always been the busiest places. Peddlers, pawns, and pulp sellers are walking on the road. They are thirsty and hungry. They go to the teahouse to rest and order a pot of crude tea. Buy a few dishes of tea and fruit with the hawkers who enter the store to sell, and then you can gossip with people you don’t know at the next table for an entire afternoon.If something important happens, the business of the teahouse will be even hotter. People who don't drink tea will come to join in and listen to the excitement and gossip.

Recently, most of the business in the teahouse is in such a situation that there are too many people to squeeze in. It was a shocking news that reached Le County.In October, the rebels who rebelled in Qizhou two months ago even defeated Qishui. The leader of the rebel army, Xu Shouzhen, proclaimed himself emperor, and now he founded a country in Qishui, named Daliang!Although ordinary people were all surprised by the news of the so-called Daliang, they were more concerned about the origin of the leader of the rebellious army, Xu Shouzhen.

There was a merchant who traveled all over the country with a very proud expression on his face. He said: "I know the leader of the rebel army, Xu Shouzhen! He used to be a small merchant who betrayed homemade cloth like me. I didn't expect that now I am still a cloth buyer. It's the emperor's lord!"

The people around him didn't believe it, and some people booed him, "It's true, how can someone who is an emperor be something ordinary people like us can see?"

Seeing that people didn't believe him, the peddler became anxious, "He is from Luotian County, Qizhou, and he is a fellow villager with me. Really, I have met him several times!"

Some people didn't believe it, and some onlookers believed it, and asked curiously: "What kind of person is the rebel leader Xu Shou really? Does he have three heads and six arms, so he looks different from us ordinary people?"

"Yes, yes, is this person born as the singer said, what kind of auspiciousness, for example, his mother gave birth to him after two years of pregnancy, or auspicious clouds came to the world, is there any, tell us quickly explain!"

"Come, come, buddy, here are the tea fruit and green tea I just ordered, talk while you drink!"

Seeing so many people cheering, the vendor couldn't help his vanity swelled, and he said triumphantly: "He doesn't have three heads and six arms, but he is indeed different from us ordinary people. This person is seven feet long, with a majestic appearance, and he is so strong and burly." Very, and often act bravely in the face of righteousness, eradicate rape and punish evil, so there is always a group of brothers behind him, no one in the countryside dares to provoke, he is a real strong man."

"That family is now very prosperous. It is said that there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers under them. Maybe they can really fight to Dadu, drag the emperor off their heads, and sit on the throne by themselves! Do you want to ask for an official position as well?" What was said later was whispered, but everyone who did not hinder the onlookers heard it.

"That's right, cloth merchant, with the friendship between your fellow villagers, maybe you can become a petty official if you go to seek refuge with others, and then you will be popular and hot!"

The cloth dealer was very sober. Don't look at him bragging about how well he knew the leader of the rebel army. In fact, he just came from the same county and had heard about his deeds. How could there be any deep friendship? Knowing that the rebellion was a matter of tying his head to his trouser belt, how could he dare to go, so facing the instigation of the crowd around the audience, he only laughed and perfunctory.

The important affairs of the imperial court can only be discussed by ordinary people after dinner. After all, the matter of rebellion and proclaiming the emperor is too far away, and even the discussion seems to be understated. However, another matter related to the self-interest of the people is that people are scolding. Worry unceasingly, that is the rising price of salt.

"The price of salt this month has become more and more exaggerated. In the past, the price of a catty of salt and [-] catties of rice has increased by five times, and the price has reached hundreds of catties of rice!"

"These damned salt dealers, why don't you grab the money!"

Some people have some connections and know some news, "We can't blame the salt dealers entirely. I heard that the higher-ups have imposed a salt tax and doubled the price of salt. If the price of salt is doubled, the cost of the salt dealers is It has doubled, and now that there is a war, it is not easy to transport salt, so the price of salt sold to our common people will naturally be high..."

"You don't need to eat this meat, but if you don't eat this salt, your body will lose strength. What should I do?"

"We can only tighten our belts and store some salt at home, otherwise, if this war continues, the salt will only become more and more expensive!"

"Now the salt shop is out of stock. Even if I have money, I don't know where to buy it. It's really annoying!"

I heard that someone in Qishui County in the northwest proclaimed himself emperor, and the trend of hoarding salt intensified, and even caused a looting situation. Even Xie Shi, who was farming in the academy, knew about this farce. Wu Ping discussed the dishes, and when autumn and winter came, Xie Shi planned to change the dishes in the cafeteria and add nourishing and hot dishes.Wu Ping casually complained about the skyrocketing salt price.

Xie Shi said that I regret my life and that I am a Buddhist player, but in fact, apart from being busy with the experimental field and the cafeteria, I have been secretly poking and paying attention to the situation on Han Ji's side. There were signs of inflated salt prices, so I was naturally worried. I went back and thought about it for an afternoon, made a decision, and went to Cen Yu.

When Xie Shi walked into the hall, he saw Cen Yu sitting in front of the desk, flipping through the paperwork with his left hand, and flapping his fingers in his right hand, making calculations, and there were two subordinates standing beside him to assist him.After a while, Cen Yu finished the calculation, took out a stack of silver bills, put them in his purse, and handed them to his subordinates to pay the bill.Cen Yu raised his head and saw him coming in, stopped the movement of his hands, quickly got up to meet him, and said with a smile: "Why is Tanwei here? Sit down quickly."

Xie Shi saw that he interrupted the busyness of others, and felt a little embarrassed, "Why don't you entertain me after Gu'an finishes his work?"

Cen Yu directly waved his hands to let the two subordinates go down, and asked Panda, the servant, to serve good tea. He himself did not forget to fan himself with his precious fan, and shook his head to Xie Shi: "These trivial matters are not as important as Tanwei's coming to me. , don’t rush, don’t rush.”

The two sat down facing each other in the tea room, and Xie Shi realized that this man was finally willing to change his feather fan that he had been wearing all year round, and he was shaking a Jinchuan fan in his hand.

Xie Shi asked curiously, "Why did you change the fan?"

Cen Yu smiled complacently, and showed him the new treasure that he bought with a lot of money, "A few days ago, I went to Sichuan for the sake of salt. How are you?"

Xie Shi couldn't help complaining in his heart, it's fine that this person can't leave his fan in summer, why is it that it's winter now, this person is still shaking his fan?However, he made complaints in his heart, and on the surface he still had to be serious, so he boasted casually and said: "It's just right, this time I'm looking for you, it's about the salt."

Cen Yu's hand shaking the fan paused, and then he closed the folding fan with a snap. This familiar scene made Cen Yu's heart skip a beat. His upper body almost leaned forward towards Xie Shi, and asked, "Tan Wei, could it be that you have rescued the siege?" plan?"

Fuzhou is close to the sea, with excellent wind and sunlight conditions. Naturally, there are salt farms. Logically, there should be no shortage of salt. However, these salt farms are under the control of various salt transport companies. The current rise in salt prices is not only during the war period, but also when salt dealers take advantage of the opportunity to increase prices. , the most important reason is that the imperial court sold Yanyin doubled in order to raise money and supply the army with food and grass to suppress the rebellious armies all over the country.

Facing the salt price which has increased by five times or even expected to be higher in the future, Han Ji will naturally not sit idly by, and Cen Yu was ordered to go to Sichuan to negotiate the purchase of cheaper well salt in the inland.As for the salt field, in order not to be choked by the throat, it must be brought under Han Ji's control in the future, but now the time has not come, and it still needs to be dormant, so it is not appropriate to let it go.

Xie Shi did come to Cen Yu because he had a solution to the salt price problem. Although he hadn't considered whether to change his life plan and join Han Ji and the others, since things happened to him, he There is another way, according to his temperament, he can't sit idly by.

Xie Shi thought helplessly, this is the hard work of those who are able. He never expected that the knowledge and money-making methods collected before crossing would come in handy in such a situation.And he had a vague premonition that there would be more times like this in the future.

When Xie Shi searched for ways to make money after traveling in modern times, he learned that before the Ming Dynasty in Huaguo, the salt-making technology was relatively backward. Generally, the salt-boiling method was used, which required a lot of manpower and fuel, and the efficiency was low. Iron pots are needed to cook salt, and salt water is easy to corrode iron utensils, and the price of iron is high and regulated, so the cost of obtaining salt is not low.

The price of making salt itself is high. In order to stabilize the country’s rule—after all, salt is the foundation of the people’s livelihood, people have to eat salt, and in order to obtain a stable and large amount of tax revenue. In order to increase tax revenue, the income from salt taxation often accounts for more than half of the world's tax revenue, and the price of salt bought by ordinary people is often ten times the cost of salt production.In some dynasties, salt was even used as currency.

As far as Xie Shi knows, the saltworks along the coast of this dynasty still use the method of "boiling the sea into salt", which is to boil seawater in an iron pot, and boil the seawater dry to obtain white coarse salt, which is the salt that ordinary people eat daily. As for the "snowflake salt" used by the nobles, it is fine salt obtained by repeated filtering and cooking crystallization, and the price is even higher.

Now that salt and iron are the monopoly of the government, it is naturally illegal to make and sell salt in private, so Xie Shi asked one more question first, "Since you are determined to start trouble, do you have plans to open your own salt farm privately?"

Cen Yu also nodded, and explained to him: "Naturally, I have such a plan, but now it's almost winter, and the people need to hoard firewood and coal to keep warm for the winter. After the beginning of spring, when the weather warms up, we will find a suitable coast to set up a salt farm to cook salt."

Speaking of this, he comforted Xie Shi, "Tan Wei is also worried about the salt robbing incident outside? Don't worry, it's just a temporary situation. The Lord has asked the Han family to transport salt from various places, and it will be delivered soon." Dalak County, then the surrounding salt prices will naturally drop.”

Xie Shi almost forgot that standing behind Han Ji was a huge Han family. He was not a self-made grassroots who was constrained everywhere, and the Han family made their fortune in business, so naturally they were not afraid of the fluctuation of the salt price in this area.However, the high price of salt is indeed a problem. Even the Han family is not immune to the impact of high salt prices. In order to prevent Han Ji and the common people from spending more money in vain, they still eat the worst coarse salt. said.Compared with the time-consuming and labor-intensive method of boiling salt, living by the sea and owning the sea, it is naturally cheaper and more efficient to adopt the method of drying salt in salt fields.

"Salt the salt?" Cen Yu was a little surprised, and he said: "Of course, some salt farmers have tried this method before. The method takes a lot of time, and it takes many years to obtain salt, and it is impossible to obtain salt in a short period of time, and the salt households reluctantly gave up."

The old god Xie Shi said: "That's because the method is wrong. The salt field method is not simply drying in sea water. If you follow the method I said, within ten days, you can definitely get countless snowflake salts without spending a single firewood."

Cen Yu jumped up in shock, "Tan Wei's words are serious? Snowflake salt? Doesn't it need to be boiled? It only takes ten days?!" From Cen Yu's four consecutive questions, it can be seen that he was shocked.To be honest, if the person who said this was not Xie Shi, Cen Yu would probably think that this person was exaggerating, and he would not believe it at all.However, the person who boasted about Haikou was Xie Shi, so Cen Yu couldn't help but not believe it.After all, Xie Shi is the person who proposed the yellow mud decolorization method, and also created the person behind Bazhen Pavilion's rare products. There is no prescription he said that cannot be realized!

Xie Shi nodded, looking serious, "Just find a beach with strong wind and plenty of sunlight, set up a salt pan on the beach, and take advantage of the high tide to draw seawater directly into the beach for drying..." This salt field method is naturally not just paddling the fields for drying The seawater is so simple, and subsequent processes such as brine making, crystallization, and salt mining must be carried out, and in order to obtain fine salt, that is, snowflake salt, it is necessary to filter the sediment and impurities entrained in the coarse salt.

However, it is not difficult to change from coarse salt to fine salt. Lime milk is obtained by reacting lime and water, and then chemically reacted with coarse salt, filtered and evaporated, and refined salt without impurities can be obtained.

Xie Shi continued: "If you can trust me, then find a place suitable for building a salt field, and then send some people to me. In half a month, the problem of lack of salt may be solved. Maybe, by then, Le County will still be there. You can sell the salt instead.” But the salt has to be sold secretly.

"By the way, the soap recipe I gave you before used plant ash. If you use the salt field method, the remaining brine can be made into caustic soda, which can be used to make soap instead of plant ash. The remaining by-product glycerin can also be used for washing and skin care. Bring new products to Bazhen Pavilion.” If the salt-making process is done well, in addition to obtaining table salt, the remaining brine can actually be an important source of industrial products.

Although Xie Shi is an agricultural student, when he learned that he was going to time travel, he still reviewed his high school chemistry knowledge.For example, bittern can be heated to about [-] degrees to react with milk of lime, and then clarified and evaporated to obtain caustic soda solution, that is, caustic soda solution.This lye and oil are mixed and heated, and after being fully stirred and left to stand, the soap liquid that forms soap is obtained.

The important thing is that after the remaining waste water is left standing overnight, the top layer of the colorless, odorless, viscous liquid is one of the common industrial raw materials—glycerin.As a surfactant, glycerin can not only be used as a material for making toothpaste to prevent toothpaste from solidifying and hardening, but also can be used in the production of washing products and skin care products to moisturize and lock water.

Cen Yu didn't even need to think about it, let alone ask the master for instructions, and said directly: "Is Tanwei scolding me? I will directly send 200 people to assist you, and please feel free to direct and transport supplies After finishing speaking, he got up again, bowed down respectfully and made a big salute while thanking him, "Here Yu is here, first for the Lord, for the people of Le County, and even for the people of Limin who are exploited by the salt class all over the world, Thanks Tanwei."

Xie Shi didn't expect Cen Yu to be so serious, he lifted his robe and got up, and helped Cen Yu up, "Gu'an Zhesha is me too, but I'm just doing my little bit for Le County together with Brother Han and you."

Cen Yu straightened up with his support, and took a deep look at him. At this moment, he fully understood why the Lord would say, no Hurry up, he will agree.

Although Xie Tanwei is still stubborn in his words, in fact, as long as the Lord's actions are for the people and to help this troubled world, then the two of them will eventually reach the same goal by different routes and walk side by side.

Cen Yu personally sent Xie Shi out of the door, he bowed to the thin and handsome young man, and said, "I'll leave the salt making to Tan Wei." Xie Shi bowed his hands to him, accepted the trust, turned and left.

A few days later, Cen Yu, who worked extremely fast, had already found a place for Xie Shi to secretly build the salt field, and accompanied him to protect him and [-] soldiers who were responsible for the construction of the salt field. If there is a shortage of people in the future, Xie Shi can continue to dispatch .

Xie Shi went out this time, at least half a month, at most a month, so he naturally had to explain and say goodbye to Xie Ju, so as not to worry his father.

The son traveled thousands of miles and his father was worried. Xie Ju didn't know what his son was going to do, and he was still muttering when he was packing his luggage, "Where is the seafood that needs you to go there yourself, can't You Sishui and the others go so far away? Surabaya Nawa grew up by the sea, and she is good at dealing with seafood, so I can trust him with the matter.”

Naturally, Xie Shi couldn't tell Xie Ju that he was going to build a salt farm secretly for others, that would scare Xie Ju into a fool, so he just told him that Quanzhou had a batch of very rare large-scale cargoes, and he wanted to see them, about a dozen Genius will come back.

Xie Shi replied to him: "Just go out and have a look. I used to be sick all year round and never traveled far. Now I have the opportunity. Why don't I go and see how prosperous Quanzhou Port is, where I can meet many people from other places?"

When he said this, Xie Ju was not easy to refute, and he was relieved when he heard that there were more than 100 people from Cen's House who were going to deliver the goods, as well as servants who took care of his daily life and transportation.

So like this, Xie Shi was protected by a 100-member Cen family business group. Under the banner of commercial trade, he left Le County in an open and honest manner, and then went to the newly opened salt field. Note that they will disperse out of the city and gather at the salt field.

On the city wall, Han Ji and Cen Yu stood at the newly built watchtower, watching the team leave.In order not to attract attention, Han Ji and Cen Yu did not see him off, but practiced it in private to thank Shi Shi first.

It wasn't until the team turned a corner and disappeared from sight that Han Ji looked away, and suddenly said, "It's my luck to meet Ah Shi, and it's also the luck of the common people."

Cen Yu didn't say a word, but he took it very seriously. Sometimes, he even thought that Xie Shi was an extraordinary person. Otherwise, how could he have so many thoughts beyond ordinary people.Whether it's the prescriptions he got from the book by chance, or the shocking words he said after he was drunk, or even the various ideas revealed in his dealings, they are different from ordinary people, and even different from the world. out of place.

Cen Yu naturally also investigated Xie Shi. The original Xie Shi was just an ordinary young man with some talent for reading. The only outstanding point was probably the beauty of "Xie Pan'an" and the sick body like Wei Jie. Hehe, in order to offend his father, he approached himself and offered the yellow mud decolorization sugar-making method... But all of this didn't matter anymore, just like the Lord said, they just need to look for the moment in front of them, This is the Xie Shi they knew and fell in love with.

"Is there someone to protect him?" Han Ji asked suddenly.

Cen Yu replied: "According to your wishes, Qi Qi sent armored guards beside you to escort in secret, and Xie Shi will definitely return unscathed."

"Well, let's go back." The two of them got off the city wall.

Leaving aside other things, Xie Shi had already begun to plan workshops for the production of modern toothpaste, shampoo, and shower gel that he had been away for a long time on the way to the saltworks.

When he arrived at the salt field, Xie Shi discovered that Cen Yu had already sent people to station on the beach in advance, and built a residence with a cement house. At least Xie Shi and the other [-] people did not need to go all the way to build a house from scratch.Before these soldiers set off, they were told by the Lord that they would obey Mr. Xie and not disobey.Therefore, when Xie Shi commanded, it can be said to be very handy. As expected of the sergeants specially trained by the Han family, the discipline is very strong. Let this group of people do whatever they want. Fang's salt field appeared by the sea...

In order to prevent the leakage of the salt drying method in the salt field, nearly half of the sergeants are responsible for guarding the salt field, but the remaining more than 100 sergeants are enough. In a short period of time, not only the salt field was built, but also the salt drying process was started. He still had the mind to build a crude by-product processing plant in the salt field with a cement room, and began to tinker with his toothpaste and other toiletries.

So when Han Ji arrived, he saw not only Xie Shi, who was a little tanned by the scorching sun by the sea, but also a series of new things that he displayed like a treasure.

"It's time to work hard." Han Ji took his hand, shielding him from the sun and entering the room.Fortunately, although Xie Shi was inevitably tanned because he was by the sea, his living conditions were not bad.This is due to the continuous flow of supplies that were shipped in later. In addition to the things requested by Xie Shi, there are also a series of items for basic necessities, food, housing and transportation that Han Ji bought for him. His hands were itchy, and people even set up a similar kitchen for him, imitating the back kitchen of Xie's family.

Xie Shi didn't find it hard, and even because he changed to a new place, there were still people serving him at twelve hours a day, as if traveling, but he was a little bit reluctant to leave, "It's the sergeants who worked hard, I just gave verbal instructions, and I didn't do any work." It's not my turn to do it."

"If they dare to let you do it, this group of people will eat my rice for nothing." Han Ji said lightly.