Chapter 49 The Yin Yang family is great!

Author: March

Chapter 49 The Yin Yang family is great!

Zhao Si himself was dizzy, and Wang Li was so concerned about his body that he allowed Zhao Si to move erratically due to his natural strength.

However, for Wang Li's sake, Zhao Si did not let Wang Li lay down on the ground.

It can be felt that Wang Li is really excited. In fact, Zhao Si is also a little excited. He and the First Emperor eat hot pot and drink together. I have only seen this plot in novels in my previous life, and I actually became the protagonist in real life.

Although I can’t say much about my sense of integration into this era, but!

That’s the First Emperor!

As for Wang Li, a filial son, it seems that he was oppressed too much by his father...

On the other side, the First Emperor, who was driving, was half-lying with his belly stretched out and one hand on his belly.

So full!

Although I eat delicacies from the mountains and seas on weekdays, they are bland and tasteless, and I have lost my appetite recently.

With a sudden appetite, coupled with fresh and delicious condiments, it is easy to eat too much without restraint.

The First Emperor was in a good mood, and his communication with Zhao Si was quite pleasant.

Although Zhao Si's main character is a political novice, Zhao Si's speeches are vivid and interesting. Listening to the stories is quite good, which is a rare pastime.

The First Emperor had a very good impression of Zhao Si.

Political novices can be cultivated. After all, Zhao Si went to sea on a ship when he was a child, and now he has just returned to Daqin.

What's rare is that Zhao Si can actually let go in front of him.

Although it may be because he drank a little, the First Emperor could feel the informality and freehandism in Zhao Si's bones. Zhao Si's attitude towards him was not disrespectful, but like...

Hmm... Facing elders? In short, it is not the attitude of subordinates facing superiors.

The most important thing is that the First Emperor could feel that Zhao Si and he had a restless heart and an adventurous factor buried deep in his bones that was not afraid of risks.

It's just that Zhao Si's adventurous spirit was reflected in nature, and Shi Huangdi's adventurous spirit was reflected in politics.

In short, the impression Zhao Si left on the First Emperor was that of a young man who was neither humble nor overbearing, spoke interestingly, brought him a lot of good news, seemed relatively close to him, and had the same adventurous spirit as himself.

A, um... very good young man, one of the rare children who could make the First Emperor's eyes shine and interest him at this age.

Of course, this is just the First Emperor's own summary.

In fact, it is unclear how much of these summaries are attributed to individuals and how much to the halo of raw jade.

At the very least, given the character of the First Emperor, it was difficult to label a person with a good impression in a short period of getting along with him.

A good impression and approachable!

These labels were extremely difficult for the First Emperor to give to someone.

On the contrary, the First Emperor did not know how many of those labels such as capable ministers and officials were sold wholesale.

The Emperor was a little lazy as he drove slowly. Although he didn't smile at all, he didn't smile twice in total. However, when he came to Lantian this time, the Emperor's mood improved a lot.

I saw sweet potatoes, corns and potatoes growing well, and I gained an appetite, and ate delicious hot pot barbecue...

Returning to the palace, Zhao Gao put down the bamboo slips summarized by Wang Ben one by one.

Meng Yi, the First Emperor's personal secretary, was responsible for coaching the First Emperor in summarizing.

"Wonderful!" Meng Yi exclaimed with a smile as he watched.

"Your Majesty, this method of drying salt can solve the problem of insufficient salt produced in various places!" Meng Yi said.

Except for Qidi and other coastal areas, the rest of the world does not produce much salt.

Including Shu salt, it is not worth mentioning compared with the vast amount of salt produced in Qi Di.

If we take it seriously, the total salt production of the entire Daqin is not enough for the whole world to use. Salt is really a scarce resource in this era.

Including the people in Qi Di, a large salt-producing household, they also have to eat salt sparingly.

Although there is a lot of salt produced in Qi, the method of boiling salt is used. The method of boiling salt requires a lot of firewood. The production process determines that the price of salt remains high. Even if the salt is produced from the same source, the price is still high.

If you use firewood to boil salt from sea water, how much firewood does it take to cook a pound of salt? The cost of these firewood cannot be exempted.

Not to mention other areas, there are very few edible natural salt mines and well salt production is even lower. Transporting salt from Qi and even Shu to the world consumes a lot of money.

How would you describe the current salt production in Daqin?

The cost is high and there is not enough food.

Let's put it this way, even if the current salt production in Daqin is increased five times, it can still be completely digested internally.

As for what we should do now that we don’t have that much? Just make do with it.

The poor have a poor life, following the beasts to lick salt stones, jealous cloth, and even directly eat poisonous brine salt.

Of course, poor people have more tips to supplement their salt intake. In the end, if they don’t eat enough, they won’t eat enough, but as long as they can survive, that’s fine.

If we take the amount of salt that modern people put in cooking for three meals a day as a standard, I am afraid that the salt production of all feudal dynasties was not enough.

"According to what is stated in it, the cost is no more than brine salt mining, manpower sifting of water, and building a salt pond. The salt pond can be built from wasteland. The cost is probably lower than the method of boiling salt on the ground." Meng Yi said excitedly.

The cost of salt production in the Central Plains has been directly reduced to the cost of salt production in coastal areas. What a huge progress this is.

As for brine salt mines, there are really quite a few in the Central Plains.

"And if this method is used to level the ground, the cost will probably be even lower!" Meng Yi said with excitement on his face.

Because Zhao Si said that there is no need to open salt mines in coastal areas and can just directly divert seawater to produce salt in salt fields.

The steps are also very similar!

The cost of mining and transporting brine salt is directly skipped!

Salt production in Qi can reach new lows!

The most important thing is to get rid of the trouble of boiling salt and burning firewood.

Firewood must first be wood, isn't it... A big reason why the amount of salt produced in Qi's land cannot increase is that you can't put in as much firewood as you want to burn salt. Otherwise, with the predicament that there is not enough salt in the world to eat, Qi State will

It has already directly crushed the six countries economically.

First of all, your country, Qi, must have so many trees to burn for you, right?

Therefore, the wealth of Qi salt can make Qi the hegemony, but it is not enough to widen the insurmountable gap.

To put it bluntly, Qi produces a lot of salt, which can not only satisfy itself but also generate income from exports, but it is not so large that it can directly control the salt industry of the other six countries.

"What a pity! It all depends on the weather after all!" Meng Yi sighed.

There was no expression on the Emperor's face, he just nodded.

"If you want to practice the method of drying salt, you probably need a place for stargazing to ensure that the weather is safe. If there are storms and waves, there is a risk of losing all your efforts before the salt comes out." Meng Yi said.

Of course the First Emperor knew this truth. Meng Yi had already made it very clear. Sun-drying salt also has its limitations, because it depends on the weather. Although the sun-drying salt method is better than the boiling salt method, there are only a few days of good weather throughout the year, and the production of salt is limited.

It will be much more expensive than the boiled salt method, and the cost will be much lower, but it is not as if once this method comes out, Daqin's salt can really be squandered wantonly.

Before industrialization, the sun-salting method could at best be self-sufficient with limited export sales.

"First, we will open a trial salt field in Langya... You will be responsible for it." The First Emperor knocked on the table and frowned.

"In that case, Your Majesty must keep some disciples of the Yin Yang family with you." Meng Yi said with a smile.

He was one of the few people who could be so close to the First Emperor. After all, he was the First Emperor's personal secretary.

Well done, disciples of the Yin Yang family!

These days, basically all schools and sects are good at stargazing, but the Yin-Yang family is undoubtedly the more accomplished among them. Meng Yi himself studied from the Mohist family, and he doesn’t like the Yin-Yang family, but the weather is quite good when he comes here to see it.

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This kind of job of eating according to the weather is indispensable for the Yin Yang family.

(I won’t mention the theory but only the practical application. I am a master of Yin and Yang, go to sea, communicate with long-distance countries, and be a weather forecaster. Recommended monthly ticket and quick voting channel. Please read more.)
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