Chapter 744: Salt drying field

Yan Jidao also ate crabs in Bianjing: "When my father was still alive, he also received crabs as a reward from the palace. I heard that there was always one crab. This incident left a deep impression on me when I was a child."

Su You said: "Exactly, but in Taihu Lake, 'Frost Crabs don't care about money that day', and the price is extremely low. For example, white shrimps can be bought for a penny, and a pound only costs five pennies."

"This is the importance of commodity circulation. White shrimps can be processed into dried shrimps, crabs can be processed into crab powder, and anchovies can be processed into cans. On the one hand, more people in the Song Dynasty can taste the delicious food here, and on the other hand, it can provide

Local people’s income increases.”

Yan Jidao left the table and bowed: "I have always listened to rumors, and always thought that in today's declining world, there must be no sages from ancient times."

"The so-called benevolent person is nothing but cowardice; the so-called good person is nothing but hypocrisy; the so-called wise man is nothing but treachery. Today I have learned a lesson."

Su You also quickly stood up and returned the courtesy: "Mr. Xiaoshan said something serious. Keep this vigilance and suspicion. Su You can rest assured about what I will ask you to do next."

Zheng Xia then apologized: "It was Zheng Xia who dragged Ming Gong down. I feel so ashamed."

Su You greeted several people to sit down again: "We are going to Changguo. There is a large seafood base over there. I will definitely go to inspect it. Mr. Jiefu and Mr. Xiaoshan will go together by then. Even if I have completed the task for the court, will I still be there?"

Do you really want to let Mr. Sir live on the island?"

"Liang Zhejiang Road will follow the example of the Beijing Times and organize the Chao Bao. However, unlike the Times, which has long and laudable articles, Su You will use the talents of two gentlemen to become censors in white and supervise

Officials on the two Zhejiang Roads are powerful and speak out with the people!"

"Ah?" Zheng Xia never thought that Su You would give him such an important task.

Su You said: "Mr. Xiaoshan just said that benevolence is close to cowardice, goodness is close to hypocrisy, and wisdom is close to treachery. The Neo-Confucian school believes that human beings themselves are a contradictory body, benevolence and cowardice, goodness and hypocrisy, wisdom and treachery, will always run through

In the human heart.”

"If you don't help yourself, you will be straight. Su You knows that I am not perfect, so I have to ask the two gentlemen to supervise and support me so that I can maintain a kind heart."

Zheng Xia was extremely moved in his heart. He had no idea that Su You would not resent him because of his resignation, but would also be entrusted with such an important task: "Zheng Xia will go through fire and water to help Ming Gong accomplish this great thing!"

"No!" It was Yan Jidao who stopped him.

Zheng Xia turned his head: "Shu Yuan! You must know that Jie Fu is not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death!"

Yan Jidao's eyes were bright: "You have already hurt Mingrun once, are you going to hurt him a second time?!"

Only then did Zheng Xia realize that if there was any bombshell published in "Chao Bao" in the future, Su You, who was in charge of this matter, would definitely be in trouble again: "This..."

Yan Jidao said: "So we have to do it ourselves, and we have nothing to do with Ming Gong."

After saying that, he handed over his hand to Su You: "When my father was alive, his reputation was pretty good. Now, there are still many old friends in the court. I will go to Jiefu to beg for help. We will run this newspaper independently!"

Su You couldn't help but smile bitterly: "That won't work. If it's just you who speak up, I won't be able to reason."

Cai Jing suggested: "Then start another newspaper, two newspapers in Liangzhe Road, one official and one private."

Su You's eyes lit up: "It makes sense... then that's it. Since Mr. Xiaoshan said there is a way to raise funds, I will let Qin Shaoyou show off his skills and compete with the two of you."

Zheng Xia handed over his hand: "Shanmo Weiyun Lord, Ming Gong must ask him to show mercy..."

Dasu went to Mizhou. Mizhou also suffered from a severe drought this year. Today's Jiaoxi has a bad harvest, thieves are everywhere, and civil disputes continue...

Even Su Shi himself, together with his subordinate Liu Tingshi, went to the abandoned vegetable gardens near the city to dig wild vegetables, and only ate some wild vegetables such as qi chrysanthemum to satisfy their hunger every day. He also wrote two articles, "Ode to Qi Ju" and "Ode to Hou Qi Ju".

The article is very beautiful, but it cannot hide the difficulty - "Life is like bending and stretching an elbow. Who is poor and who is rich? What is beautiful and what is ugly? Maybe the core of chaff is fat, or the meat is thin... I

Just use qi as food and chrysanthemum as food. Eat seedlings in spring, leaves in summer, flowers in autumn and roots in winter. I will live as long as Nanyang in the West River."

Although the days were hard, there was finally joy in the bitterness. Until one time when I was digging wild vegetables along the base of the city wall, I suddenly found an abandoned baby wrapped in a parcel next to a wolfberry bush.

After returning to the Yamen with the baby in his arms, he immediately ordered the officials of the state government to go to the wild to pick up abandoned babies, and he himself "swept all over the city to pick up abandoned babies."

In just a few days, nearly forty abandoned babies were adopted in the state capital. Su Shi arranged for these abandoned babies to be raised in various families, and the government paid monthly support.

At the same time, warehouses were opened to release grain, and part of the rations for state officials were evenly distributed to meet the urgent needs of the hungry people who had run out of food;

Write a letter to the central government, truthfully reporting the local disaster situation, and requesting the court to select officials to inspect, release taxes, or provide subsidies.

To deal with bandits, we adopt the method of "fighting bandits with bandits", recruit a group of big bandits, and then use this group of bandits to wipe out the rest!

Now the situation has finally been stabilized. When Qin Guan's "Man Ting Fang Shan Mo Wei Yun" came out, this kid was still in the mood to write a letter of praise, saying that Qin Guan was not famous, but called him Shan Mo Wei Yun.

Jun.

Qin Guan's literary name spread quickly.

Yan Jidao was also a master of poetry, so naturally he was a little dissatisfied: "Ask him to come!"

Su You handed over his hand and said, "You can't offend either one of them, 'The lights have already dimmed.' or 'It's easy to forget where you've come.'... I'd better just sit here in Hangzhou and watch your troubles."

Zheng Xia smiled bitterly and said: "It's better not to bother too much. Wang Xianggong once said, 'The spring breeze is green again on the south bank of the river, when will the bright moon shine back to me.' He came up with 'The spring breeze is a guest in the world, how long will it be prosperous?' to explain.

Mr. Zheng Xia cannot argue that you were harmed by me; but to say that he was also harmed by me, I really feel that I am somewhat unjust."

Yan Jidao said: "Obviously my poem was written first, but it was the gang of villains from the New Party who cleverly set up a name to frame people!"

But in a blink of an eye, he also laughed: "But without this hardship, and without tasting the most delicious crab meat in the world, it's worth it!"

Several people laughed.

In October, after the second season of rice was harvested, the two Zhejiang roads finally embarked on the fast track of development.

Su You, Zheng Xia, Yan Jidao and others, led by He Zhizhong and Chao Buzhi, began to inspect the salt affairs.

To the north and south of Hangzhou Bay, there is Xiuzhou on one side and Yuezhou on the other. From Xiuzhou to the east of Haiyan, they are all salt fields.

After the Luli Saltworks was renovated and powerful people were targeted, no powerful people dared to jump in all the saltworks in Xiuzhou.

All were obediently included in the scope of remediation.

In just two months, Luli has undergone earth-shaking changes. This place has been built by Suyou into a model project for the implementation of the sun-salt method.

The first step in the sun salt method is to absorb the tide.

With cement, it is no longer difficult to build huge tide pools and salt ponds at all levels.

Every time the tide rises, the tide pools on the seaside will be filled up. When the tide recedes, there will be enough seawater available, which will not affect production.

There are huge stone pillars built in the tide pool, and between the stone pillars are equidistant spiral wind-powered water lifters, which lift the seawater to a height of several meters and pour it into the first-level salt field.

After the seawater evaporates in the first layer of salt fields for a day, it will be introduced into the brine pond next to it, and then introduced into the second layer of salt fields using the same water lifting machine.

The area of ​​the salt pond is very large. Cement is not used to cover the entire salt pond. The main ground is mud. The cement is only used to repair the embankment and brine pond.

The salt content of seawater is called salinity. The salinity of fresh seawater is three degrees, which means that one hundred pounds of seawater can produce three pounds of salt.

The brine is raised layer by layer. By the tenth day, the water in the salt field is close to saturation and the salinity reaches 20 degrees. That is, one hundred kilograms of brine can produce twenty kilograms of salt. At this time, the brine is considered "cooked"
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