The idea is that if it's the worst option, just raise a foodie, since there is plenty of food anyway.
Now it seems that this is not just a food-eater.
No matter who you are, you will be shocked when you hear that Min County wants to produce salt, thinking that this is nonsense.
But after a period of fermentation, I realized that it was not nonsense, it was really shocking.
There is no sea or lake. Salt can be turned into salt from the ground out of thin air.
Is this some kind of magic? Is this a deity coming down to earth?
After understanding it, I realized that this was not a magic spell, nor was it a deity descending from the earth. It was really such a thing.
This makes people curious about how this is done.
And the people who want to know the most are my salt-making colleagues.
You know, peers are enemies.
In the past, salt production could only be done by the sea or lakes. There were only so many places where salt could be produced with seas and lakes, and they were all monopolized.
The imperial court only occupied part of these monopolized salt production areas, while the other part was in the hands of the gentry.
From here we can also see the ability of the nobles, who can even have a hand in something as important as salt.
Therefore, the price of salt is only high but not low.
Even if the imperial court wanted to regulate the price of salt, it would still have to ask the nobles if they would agree.
Of course, the fundamental reason is that the production of salt is indeed insufficient.
But now, Min County can produce salt.
A place that is not close to the sea or a lake can actually produce salt, which means that the so-called monopoly has been broken.
At the current stage, Min County is an exception, but in the future, who knows whether there will be more such cases.
Another one.
Originally, the salt produced on the market was fixed, but now that new salt is added, this will inevitably have an impact on the original pattern.
However, salt producers are still emerging suddenly, and it is difficult to predict how the situation will develop.
At the imperial court level, Min County originally had salt production privileges issued by Kyoto, and the imperial court supported Min County's salt production.
But at the gentry level, it's different.
What you consider is what you will lose here and what you can gain here.
The other party is a fellow traveler, but not a nobleman. He is not in the same group as himself. Strictly speaking, he is not affiliated with the imperial court. He is a viscount with a fiefdom.
This is an anomaly and a sudden rise, which makes it difficult to predict how things will develop.
What's more, you need to know that what the other party knows is a method of making salt that no one else knows.
A sudden rise of an alien, with a method of making salt that no one else knows, he is not a nobleman, and he is not affiliated with the imperial court.
Putting these together always makes me feel uneasy.
The imperial court recognized Min County's salt-making privileges, but the gentry did not think so.
In the face of the issue of what to lose and what to gain.
The best way is to destroy it and take it for yourself.
To do this, you must first understand how salt is made in Min County.
The gentry was eyeing Min County, and there was a local gentry in Min County, the Liu Mansion.
It was difficult for other gentry to reach out to Min County, but the local gentry had no such confusion.
Therefore, the question of how Min County produced salt was left to the Liu Mansion to resolve.
At this time, the rice bucket that was supposed to be fed by food came into play.
This is about Luo Wenqing.
There are folk songs that record this.
"Three cows are facing Maling, and no nobleman can come out of the salt well", "Two streams pinch a branch, and there are eighteen packs day and night"...
This is about how to find terrain suitable for opening salt wells.
The explanation is that by observing the geographical situation, mountain structure, and river direction of the mineral salt belt, we summarized some of the terrain characteristics of the mineral salt.
"Sanniu" is opposite to "Maling", which means that the mountains are extremely steep and the characteristics of the fault structure are relatively obvious.
"Two streams sandwiching a branch" are some signs of the undulating terrain and fold structure.
Both structures are where natural brine is concentrated.
These understandings are summarized into regular insights
"Wherever the Jiangshi wells are located, there are many places between the banks of two rivers. The mountain shape is dangerous and the sand is prone to sand. Honggong erected a stone circle."
"Where there are stone mountains in Sichuan that are not far from the river, you can build wells to collect salt."
A well can be built against a mountain...
When opening a salt well, it is advisable to choose a place with a well next to a mountain col and place it in a middle area...
Wells near rivers have abundant but fresh water. Wells in mountains have little and salty water...
If the mountain is high, you must choose the low plain. If the mountain is low, you must choose the twists and turns. It is effective to open a well...
Every piece of knowledge like this is the accumulation of wisdom from the ancients.
This mountain is called Bu Lao Mountain.
It just so happens that the former village of the Wa Bandits was located in this Bulao Mountain.
The place where salt is made is based on the saying that a well can be built near the mountain.
If you want to make salt, you must have the necessary things. After all, it is a project involving thousands of people.
These include tools for drilling wells, tools for brine analysis, evaporation, and drying, as well as a place for thousands of people to live and work.
If Qi Xiangru were to handle these matters, Qi Xiangru would not know how long he would be busy.
Professional things need to be done by professional people.
In the end, Pei Yun helped complete these things.
Pei Yun transferred manpower from Nanshan Village to take care of everything about building tools and construction sites.
These people include Niu Lili, Xiao Lengzi, Mo Dachuan, Yu Haozhong...
The other workers are also good at work. Some of them have built villages in the mountains, and some have built houses in the villages.
This is the time for everyone to show off their talents.
For example, the mortise and tenon structures used by carpenters, cutting tools, grinding tools, surveying tools...
For example, the bricks and cement needed to build houses are specially transported...
They each show their special abilities and help each other.
Civil engineering is a family, and we work together as a whole.
There are about dozens of people like this, and many of them are women.
There is another saying that men and women can work together without getting tired.
Such a team was temporarily named Nanshan Engineering Team.
When outsiders see the Nanshan engineering team at work, they are surprised.
I have never thought that I could work like this. What kind of magic is this? Or are these people descended from the gods?
Even Qi Xiangru was shocked when he saw it.
To this end, he also specialized in the study of mortise and tenon structures, cutting tools, grinding tools, surveying tools... and bricks and cement...
Finally, he learned an answer: these things were all made by Pei Yun.
Qi Xiangru always thought that he didn't understand Pei Yun well enough.
He had to repeat that he really didn't understand Pei Yun well enough.
From what he saw with his own eyes, just a few dozen people could work as efficiently as hundreds of people, and the work they did was even better.
As for the knowledge, tools and materials they use, this is something that others do not have.
Just the mortise and tenon...just the cement...
Qi Xiangru couldn't help but wonder what would happen if the Nanshan engineering team was allowed to shine elsewhere, such as in Min County.