Turbulent Times Chapter 933: The method of boiling salt

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"Fang Qiao, get ready, I'm going to give Wang Junlin a secret decree." Yang Guang said in a deep voice.

Fang Qiao quickly said: "I obey the order."

Watching Fang Qiao prepare, Yu Shiji couldn't help thinking to himself: "It seems that the relationship between Wang Junlin and Fang Qiao is by no means as cold as it appears on the surface. Ask Wang Junlin for this secret decree! Hmm... If I sell the secret decree to Mrs. Lu, how much money can I sell?"

"I've heard for a long time that the Lu family is as rich as an enemy country, but they take good care of the people of Fanyang County, and even the tenants of the people hand over less food than other nobles. I have never understood why they Wealth is incomparable to a country, now it seems that Lu's money is stealing my salt tax, and he deserves death."

At this juncture, Yang Guang cares most about the court's taxation. Whichever county pays less tax may be severely punished. Similarly, whichever county pays more tax may be rewarded, and even the chief official may be promoted.

The reason for this is very simple: the current financial situation of the Sui Empire is extremely optimistic. Whether it is the emperor's private treasury or the imperial court's finances, although they are not exhausted, they are all stretched.

Since Yang Guang ascended the throne four or five years ago, there was a rebellion in Bingzhou at the beginning. It took four or five months, mobilized 200,000 troops, and cost countless money and food. After that, the construction of the Great Wall, the new capital, straight roads, chi roads, the construction of the Grand Canal... etc., each of which is a big expense.

In short, Yang Guang recently discovered that if he wants to achieve an imperial career like Emperor Qin and Han Wu, it is not only because of his great talents, but also the assistance of many outstanding civil servants and generals, and a lot of money. He has ordered several times The addition of oral tax has aroused complaints from the people. The rent tax has been collected at one stone per mu. Even Yang Guang, who has never cared about the life and death of the people, knows that it is impossible to increase the tax, otherwise the people will have no way of life. The officials forced the people to rebel.

Therefore, in order to continue his ambition, and to maintain a huge empire. Since he ascended the throne, Yang Guang, who spends money lavishly, has to start paying attention to tax matters and try his best to find money everywhere. He even thought of finding an excuse to destroy a certain family of aristocrats. Thousands of years of savings have made them incomparably rich, and they can do many things with the money they got from raiding their homes.

Why is the salt tax of the other four counties in the East China Sea more than 500,000 taels of silver every year, while Fanyang County is only 200,000 taels of silver? In the eyes of the general public, the white salt of the East China Sea at this time is no longer white salt, but silver!

Thinking of this, Yang Guang suddenly found that it was very appropriate to send Wang Junlin to be the prefect of Fanyang County. He believed that Wang Junlin would not let him down after his secret decree was passed on to Wang Junlin.

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Wang Junlin is watching the sea at the moment. He is inspecting the Yantian today. Fanyang County uses seawater to cook salt, so the Yantian is naturally by the sea.

The seaweed-smelling wind blew his hair, and when he looked around, the blue ocean occupied most of his field of vision, and the waves surged, as if the sun, moon, and stars were all out of it, and he felt it was magnificent, sweeping away the lumps in his chest !

But his eyes did not stay on the sea for too long, most of his attention was always on the salt fields on the beach, which were divided into squares, and beside him was Xu Xiaohu leading five salt fields The most experienced salt workers were all tanned by the sun and malnourished since childhood, which made them look thin and small, but long-term labor made them very strong. It's just that they are only in their forties, but they look like He is fifty or sixty years old.

"The method of boiling salt, you don't have to worry, I will provide you with a method that is simpler and more efficient than the previous method of boiling salt." Wang Junlin looked at the five people, pointing to these salt fields: " But I need five people who are qualified to learn this method and become master master craftsmen, you might as well talk about your views on saltworks and boiling salt, which can be regarded as my interview assessment for you.”

When the five people heard the words, their bodies were shocked, and they changed from a salt worker to a master craftsman in charge. One of the salt workers was the first to report: "My lord, the salt production in the Fanyang County Salt Field is decreasing year by year. There are three reasons besides a lot of salt being sold privately."

"Oh! What's your name, let me tell you." Wang Junlin was interested, and looked at this person carefully, and found that the person's eyes were full of vicissitudes of life, but his face was indeed shrewd. Unlike the aristocrats of this era who regard the common people as pariahs, he knows very well that among the reckless and lowly, there will be pearls cast secretly, and even hidden heroes. If there are such characters among the tens of thousands of salt workers, he will never hesitate to send them Vigorously promote and cultivate.

When the prefect asked his name, the salt worker said excitedly: "My lord, the villain's name is Liu Yanlang. In addition to the villain's generation, four generations of ancestors have worked as salt workers in the salt field. People say that there are two reasons. One is that the pirates harassed the seashore, which made the seashore restless. The other is that the wages of salt workers and salt slaves were deducted by master craftsmen, so there was no motivation, so the output decreased. The third is that Fanyang County has been cooking seafood for more than a thousand years. Salt makes the coastal firewood exhausted, and the firewood needs to be transported from farther away, and the cost will be very high..."

Wang Junlin nodded and expressed his appreciation for what Liu Yanlang said. Liu Yanlang is right. The sea salt these days is basically obtained by boiling. It is said that the person who first invented this is called " Susha clan" is a Laiyi monarch.

There is a legend that Mrs. Susha was addicted to food. When cooking clams and snails in a clay pot by the sea, he accidentally boiled the water dry, but at the bottom of the pot, he got a layer of crystallized sea salt. A method of boiling salt through sea water.

Three days ago, when Wang Junlin came to the salt field, he saw from a distance that there was a ditch leading the seawater during the tide into the large pond dug. The salt workers and salt slaves carried wooden barrels and poured seawater Picking up the fried stew stove room, there are two rows of stoves buried in the ground, with pottery pots on top of the stove, and people keep bringing firewood to cook the sea day and night, and the whole seaside is billowing with thick smoke... Master craftsmen have always mastered the core technology of cooking salt, and salt workers and salt slaves are not allowed to enter the stove to watch.

Of course, no one could stop Wang Junlin from visiting. When he inspected the next day, he went in and took a look. He found that the method was similar to boiling sugar. In the cauldron, the white hemisphere is finally obtained, which is the fried pot salt, and then smashed and broken up, it becomes the sea salt sold loosely.

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