Chapter 260: Repurification of Lake Salt
Zhao Yulin asked the teachers and students in the front row to come forward and operate it themselves. As the globe rotated again and again, the changes in the northern and southern hemispheres throughout the year were clearly visible, and every student was excited.
He asked them to light the lights and continue the lecture. After introducing the equator, the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer to the students, the students gained a deeper understanding of the concepts of the sun's altitude, the vernal equinox, the autumnal equinox, and the equality of day and night.
Then, Zhao Yulin told the students that there is a lot of land on the earth. The place where we stand is called Asia, and there are four oceans and six continents.
The students of Cuiping Mountain were all surprised.
Wow, the world is so big. I really want to go out and see it.
Even the professor sitting in the front row was full of curiosity.
At this time, Zhang Xiangyang's wife, Ms. Liu Haitang, asked him: The third young master said that the earth is round and floats in the space, so why don't we fall into the space and fly away?
Zhao Yulin said he was just about to explain this matter.
He took out a small apple from his pocket and tossed it in his hand, asking everyone if they had noticed that most objects on Earth would fall down if thrown into the air. Of course, smoke was too light and would float in the air.
Everyone laughed immediately. Zhao Yulin threw the apple into the air with great force, then caught it steadily and told everyone why he threw the apple so high but it still fell down?
Everyone looked at each other in confusion.
He told everyone that this is because the earth beneath our feet has gravity, which attracts objects to fall downwards, and no matter how high it flies, it will fall down.
The students took out their own little gadgets and put them into practice, making this big classroom very lively.
Finally, he asked the students to find out the territory of the Han and Tang dynasties, telling everyone that not an inch of the motherland's territory was redundant, and they must study hard, enrich the country and strengthen the military, and realize the dream of reviving the Han and Tang dynasties.
The students were excited and kept shouting: Revitalize Han and Tang Dynasties, Revitalize Han and Tang Dynasties...
Three days later, Zhao Yulin settled Shunzhidi's parents, bid farewell to his family and headed north to Chengdu. Shunzhidi also returned to Renhuai on her small official boat.
When he arrived in Jiading, Chen Chen said resentfully that his first wife was really precious and was sent to Chengdu to be a transport envoy, and we, the younger ones, can only guard this broken Jiading.
Zhao Yulin knew that she was just teasing him, so he took Zhao Guangchen, who was offered to him, and ignored him.
The little woman was about to go forward to deal with him, but she heard Zhao Guangchen turning on the loud speaker and yelling. She hurried in to take the baby from the maid. The couple each held a baby and walked around the yard, one in front and one behind.
He asked: Has the headmistress never come to see you again?
Chen Chen asked him sullenly: Who are you looking at? My brother or my child?
Is it our brother who wants to be the headmaster’s daughter?
The beautiful lady is busy cultivating herself as an immortal and has no time.
Zhao Yulin knew Chen Chen was angry, so he ignored him and focused on helping the child sleep. He was indeed a father who had taken care of countless children, and he was experienced. After a while, Zhao Guangchen fell asleep after being rocked by him.
He smiled proudly at Chen Chen and put the child back into the crib, then picked up Guangchen and rocked him.
Chen Chen said that she had worked in Jiading for several years and had become familiar with the officials around her. Sometimes she was too embarrassed to criticize them and she really wanted to change her job to another place.
Zhao Yulin said that he had just returned to Chengdu, so there was no need to rush.
He asked Chen Chen to find a successor first, and if that didn't work, let her father do it. He had already talked to the old man about this in Xuzhou.
On the contrary, the woman felt that it was not a good idea for her father to take over, and that it would be better to find someone who had nothing to do with her to do the job so that her shortcomings could be discovered and corrected.
Zhao Yulin felt that Chen Chen had done a good job as an official and had found a way to govern the public officials.
His son fell asleep in his arms. He put the baby in the crib and Chen Chen happily asked him to go out with her to see the new coin-making machine she had made.
The two men went out and walked towards Fengyuan Prison.
After Chengdu allocated 30 million yuan in military expenditure, the Shenwei Army was no longer short of money, and the Fengyuan Prison started to make coins at full capacity.
Zhao Yulin looked at the rustling new currency and said that these things would soon become obsolete. Guigu's great craftsmen were already developing new banknotes, and in the future we would use banknotes with stable value.
Chen Chen said with a look of disdain, "What's the good of that black piece of paper? Ordinary people still recognize our silver coins."
He held the woman in his arms as they walked, saying, "No matter how good the silver coin is, do we have so much silver? He will rule the country one day, and everyone will become rich. We will all need money, so where can we get so much gold and silver?"
It is very inconvenient for a businessman to make a living with a group of strong men carrying silver and money. It also makes people with evil intentions to get evil intentions.
Chen Chen thought for a moment and said: It is more convenient to use light paper money. You can print as much money as you want on it.
Zhao Yulin said proudly that it was natural, but it must be guaranteed by silver coins. Everyone can go to the government bank to exchange for silver coins of equal value at any time. Do you still worry about the depreciation of paper money?
When the two of them returned, they saw Bai Ling and her daughter waiting at the gate of the government office. As soon as Chen Chen got off the carriage, he took Bai Ling's hand affectionately and asked when she came.
Is the leader here?
Bai Ling looked at Zhao Yulin with eyes wide open and said no, her master asked her to come and see the young master and young lady.
Bai Heng has already gone up to talk to Zhao Yulin, thanking him for his help. Now that he has served his sentence and returned home, he sees that the lake salt sold by the cooperative has a lot of impurities, and wants to offer a plan so that the lake salt can be sold at the price of tribute salt.
Zhao Yulin immediately became interested after hearing this and invited Chen Chen to go eat the cross-legged beef together.
The group arrived at the new street at the pier. When they walked into the store, the shopkeeper immediately recognized the Third Young Master and shouted "Open the room upstairs, open the room upstairs." He then sent them to Room No. 1 with a smile on his face.
After the wine and food were served, Zhao Yulin raised his glass to welcome Bai Heng and wished him good health.
Bai Heng was very moved and thanked Zhao Yulin for the proper arrangements. Lord Yangjin, the governor of Baoning Prefecture, took good care of him. He did not suffer any hardship in Partridge Mountain, but his face got tanned.
Zhao Yulin saw that his face was gradually turning pale, and said with a smile that if his face was not tanned, it meant that he had never been to Partridge Mountain, where God treated everyone equally.
Bai Heng laughed loudly, nodded with emotion, and pulled up the white silk to toast Zhao Yulin and his wife. Bai Heng told him that he saw that his brother was going to practice the great work of using salt to increase the efficiency of fertilizer, and he had a plan to make high-quality lake salt of the same quality as tribute salt. Wouldn't it be better to use the remaining waste salt to practice, and make good use of waste?
Zhao Yulin was overjoyed; this was exactly what he needed.
He immediately gave Bai Heng a thumbs up, saying that this was a good idea that could greatly save costs.
Originally, Zhao Yulin wrote this to scare the sons of Jiangdong Shi, to make them think that Sichuan and Shu really had an endless supply of salt. After Bai Heng said this, he thought it was worth a try.
Bai Heng continued to explain that it is actually very simple to do.
In the past, when making salt, they had the experience of turning the stolen salt into brine and then making salt again. He believed that turning lake salt into brine and then making salt again was a principle, but it would take some thought to solve the problems of site selection and tool making for large-scale processing.
Zhao Yulin suddenly understood what was going on. He thought that this would not be a problem for his cooperative. He invited Bai Gong to join the Shenwei Army's cooperative and specialize in lake salt processing.
Bai Heng had just returned and had nothing else to do. It would be great if he could join the cooperative and resume his old business. He was familiar with the process and agreed immediately.
Zhao Yulin was very happy and asked Chen Chen to find a place in Jiazhou and let Bai Heng go to Guigu to make processing equipment and build a large lake salt processing workshop. He believed that the people would like the new lake salt after refining and it would be sold at a good price.
After dinner, they returned to the government office and saw Duan Xiaolin and his fourth sister Zhao Sihan coming.
Zhao Yulin was a little confused. What happened to Xiaolin Duan?
Why would you leave Prince Zhennan alone and come to him all day long?
However, Chen Chen enthusiastically went up to her and took Sihan to see her cute little baby.
Zhao Yulin and Xiao Linzi went to the tea room and sat down to have tea.
Xiao Linzi asked his third brother to help him without waiting for the tea to be served. Dali Kingdom and South Vietnam had a battle, and the new army rushed to the front and encountered an ambush, suffering heavy losses. By the end of the war, most of their newly trained troops had been killed and their weapons were almost completely destroyed.
Duan Xiaolin looked at him eagerly, begging his third brother to sell another column of equipment.
Zhao Yulin was in a dilemma. On the one hand, the Dali Kingdom always did things that went back on their word, which made his brothers feel uneasy. They were worried that after getting the new weapons, they would suddenly stab the Shenwei Army.
Secondly, the Mongolian army is currently gathering a large number of troops in the north, making it clear that they are planning to fight the Shenwei Army, so he also needs to arm himself.
At this time, Lao Lu arrived.
He told Zhao Yulin not to sell it out, because he had just received accurate intelligence from Chang'an that Hubili and Kuoduan were stationed in Lingzhou preparing for a southern expedition to capture Guanzhong in one fell swoop, and the troops outside the pass and Zhending Prefecture were dispatched.
Duan Xiaolin was full of anticipation, but when he heard Master Lu say this, he immediately slumped in his chair like a frost-bitten eggplant.
In the past, Lu Youpeng supported selling weapons to him, but now even Master Lu has come out to stop it. He thinks it's hopeless, and his third brother will definitely not sell him a hand grenade.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Yulin said, "Sell."
If Dali was given another 10,000 people equipped, he believed that with the equipment of two brigades, Dali would be able to resist Yue.
Duan Xiaolin was already extremely happy. Although he did not get the equipment for the 20,000 people he expected, having these 10,000 people's new weapons was still very good. Like Zhao Yulin, he was confident that he could resist the Kingdom of Nanyue.
He asked Duan Xiaolin to go back with Master Lu to do some work, as he also had to go to Chengdu.
Lao Lu said that he came for this matter. General Cao was urging him again. The provincial school in Chengdu opposed the new social concept of the Shenwei Army and besieged the newspaper office, clamoring for the Shenwei Army to go north to bring back the emperor.
Damn it, here they come again.
Zhao Yulin saw them off and went back to his room to rest.
At this time, at the foot of the Taihang Mountains in distant Hebei Province, a team was marching in the dark, and the leader kept shouting to drive the team away.
In the valley, two beggars, one fat and one thin, who were lying in a broken straw hut, suddenly woke up and shouted in a low voice, "Here they come." They quickly got out of the hut and hid in the pile of rocks.
With the creaking sound of wheels, the team came to a valley and stopped to rest. The leader shouted to eat something quickly, as they must enter the county town before dawn.
