Chapter 83 How to survive in the world
"this……"
"Young Master..."
"Brother Liu..."
Everyone at the scene was stunned.
If a few days ago, this pile of salt was still a bright and dazzling piece. Then today's refined salt with uniform color and consistent particles really exceeded their imagination. Shen Xing rushed over, grabbed the refined salt with his hands, rubbed it on his face, and shouted: "It's like cotton, like cotton!"
Everyone laughed.
Liu Zheng also laughed and said, "Eating refined salt can at least make people live a few more years!"
Everyone was amazed, but no one disbelieved it. Because they remembered the production process clearly, and they had eaten the many inedible impurities for many years. God knows how many lives they had lost!
Liu Zheng looked at Zheng Yueru with a smile: "How is it?"
Zheng Yueru was so shocked that she couldn't speak. What else could she say at this time? She smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Liu, how should this salt be priced?"
Everyone laughed.
A few days ago, Zheng Yueru was still hesitating whether this would lead to her death, but today she has already started to consider how to set the price. The nature of businessmen certainly has an impact, but more importantly, Zheng Yueru also understands that if the Silver Beach is really full of salt, what kind of changes will it bring to Yinzhou, and even to the world situation, how much changes will it bring. This is no longer a simple question of whether it is a crime or not.
And she asked a good question.
How to price?
Since ancient times, salt has been controlled by the imperial court and is a major source of income for the imperial court. The price is determined by the official. It has never been cheap. What they don't know is that there is too much salt on the earth... Even if it is allowed to be consumed and mined freely, it will take hundreds of millions of years to mine it all.
The so-called regulation is nothing more than the result of huge profits.
so……
Coarse salt is so expensive, so what about refined salt?
"Miss Zheng will go and discuss it. I will only be responsible for production!"
Liu Zheng deliberately bowed, and everyone laughed. Zheng Yueru blushed even more. She glared at him fiercely before turning away. She had also been watching Liu Zheng's salt-making process for six days and six nights without a rest.
Another ten days.
In these ten days, the ten backbones have basically mastered the mining of lake salt. The project of enclosing land and building a city is also progressing steadily. This is destined to be a huge project. In the drawings drawn by Liu Zheng, the entire Yintan project is mainly divided into three parts. The first is the collection workshop, the second is the tobacco drying workshop, and the third is the salt washing workshop. This is the part of lake salt. As for the well salt, it is more complicated.
Well salt production is mainly divided into two links: brine extraction and salt production. Different types of mines use different brine extraction methods. The methods of extracting natural brine include bailing, gas lift, oil extraction, deep well submersible brine pump, and self-flowing brine extraction. In rock salt mining areas, most of them use drilling water solution mining methods, some use single well convection method, and some use double well hydraulic fracturing method.
Initially, the brine was collected from the shallow surface of the ground, and the depth of the well was about tens of meters to hundreds of meters. The brine was extracted by using a floor frame and a fixed pulley. There were two towering well frames on the well, and pulleys were installed on the well frames. Buckets were tied to the two ends of the falling rope. Four people pulled the wooden frame up and down to extract the brine. When it was lowered, the bucket filled with brine at the other end was lifted up. When the bucket was lifted up, the brine was poured into the container next to the well frame, and then drained through the pipe by the drop, and injected into the brine tank next to the stove. On the large stove for frying salt, five pots were lined up in a row, and the brine was fried into salt in these pots.
This means that the largest part of the well salt mining process is the drilling process.
Liu Zheng also used the relatively advanced Zhutong well drilling technology in ancient times.
Digging small-diameter wells. The diameter of the Zhuotong Well is only nine inches, and the deepest is more than 100 meters. During this process, Liu Zheng used a "circular blade" well-drilling tool. The invention of this new type of impact drill bit made mechanical well-drilling possible, that is, using a drill rod with a circular blade and a drill bit to smash the rock at the bottom of the well and gradually deepen the salt well. This circular blade was designed to be spherical, and it was also the basis for the subsequent iteration of various drill bit shapes.
In order to make this drill, Liu Zheng directly moved the fine iron workshop and weapons workshop of the Divine Workshop here.
When the circular blade drills to a certain depth, the drill bit needs to be lifted to remove rock debris and mud. The method is to put a simple lifting device fan mud tube into the well, and automatically load the rock debris and mud and lift it out of the wellhead. After the well embryo is formed, a large bamboo is hollowed out with "male and female connected" and lowered into the well to form an artificial well wall, which can prevent the formation fresh water from seeping into the well and prevent the salt well from collapsing or sinking. This is also called "digging the ground and planting bamboo"; a bamboo tube smaller than the diameter of the salt well is used as a brine container, and cowhide is used as a piston at the bottom of the tube. The tension of the water at the bottom of the well and the downward pressure of the water in the tube are used to draw the brine out of the wellhead; a large wooden frame is erected at the wellhead, and a wheel plate is set nearby. One end of the rope is tied to the wheel plate to drive the windlass on the wooden frame to extract brine.
Well salt is more complicated, but the quality of well salt is indeed the highest among several types of salt!
You should know that in later generations, 80% of edible salt is well salt.
Therefore, despite the almost inexhaustible supply of lake salt, Liu Zheng still wanted to produce the mine salt.
Time passes by little by little.
After a full month, the prototype of the Silver Beach City has been formed. The general building structure has also been completed. Many people heard the news and came to see it. This is really shocking. Little did they know that in just one or two months, a city appeared out of thin air, and it was built on the Silver Beach!
This young master of the Liu family is really capable of making trouble!
But with the increase from the initial one thousand soldiers to the current five thousand elite soldiers patrolling day and night near Yintan City, anyone who wanted to covet it has no chance at all.
On this day, Shen Xing, who was about to go to Yangzhou to take up his post, suddenly came to the door.
"Young Master, that man appears again!"
Liu Zheng hadn't figured out the mining line for the well salt yet. He had just laid down when he jumped up excitedly: "Where is it, where is it?"
There is an urgent shortage of talent...
Shen Xing smiled bitterly and took out a piece of paper: "Sir, please take a look!"
Liu Zheng looked carefully and saw only a few words written on the paper.
"How to establish the world?"
The handwriting is neat and the title is quite large.
How to establish the world? This naturally asks about Yinzhou, or the current Yinyang, how to establish the world?
Liu Zheng smiled bitterly and said, "How can I answer such a big question?"
Shen Xing snorted coldly, "Sir, I think this man is just seeking fame and reputation! Now my Yinyang is prosperous, the people are loyal to me, and the people of the world admire me. How can I survive in the world?"
Liu Zheng shook his head, frowning.
In fact, the four words of this mysterious man also made Liu Zheng tremble all over, as if they had hit the bottom of Liu Zheng's heart. He had been trying to find the direction, but he could not find it. Although Yinzhou was thriving and prosperous at this time, for some reason, it could not give Liu Zheng a real sense of security.
What does he want?
Which way should Yinzhou go?
How to survive in the world?
"How to establish the world?"
Liu Zheng laughed loudly: "What a good way to survive in the world, let's go!"
As he said that, he pulled up the confused Shen Xing, rode back to Liangzhou, and came to Fengming Tower. When Zheng Yueru saw Liu Zheng, a look of heartache flashed across her face, and she said lightly: "Brother Liu also knew to come back and rest?"
Then he immediately instructed the girls in Fengming Tower to arrange for Master Liu to take a bath and change clothes.
Liu Zheng laughed loudly and shook his head: "Today at Fengming Tower, we have a topic!"
Zheng Yueru also took a look at it and took a breath: "How to establish the world? Brother Liu, isn't this topic a bit too big..."
Liu Zheng said: "The question is not very important, how can I show off my talent ? Put it down! I'll go wash up first!"
Zheng Yueru rolled her eyes at him and called a few other girls who knew how to massage to follow him. I wonder if this brother Liu is really made of iron. He didn't sleep for six days and still rushed back to post this question.
Liu Zheng fell asleep while soaking in the bathtub.
What he didn't know was.
As soon as this question came out, the entire Fengming Tower exploded.
The Fengming Pavilion, where scholars debated and argued, was filled with spitting and passionate discussion. The reason was that everyone knew that the Fengming Pavilion's daily question was issued by the young master of the Liu family. On weekdays, the questions were about how to improve farm tools, how to promote public schools, how to increase harvests, how to manage...
But today's question is a bit too big.
Many people were very excited. Now Yinzhou was no longer the inhospitable place it once was. It was thriving. They regretted not catching up with the open recruitment on the day when the County Marquisate opened. At this time, the topic of the young master of the Liu family was not to recruit talents again?
Seize the opportunity to perform!
So, one day the Fengming Tower was packed with people.
Some were shaking their heads, some were throwing cups in anger, some were clapping their hands in applause, and some were blushing.
When Shen Xing saw this, he saw that the young master was catching up on his sleep, so he could only postpone his appointment as the magistrate of Yangzhou County and sit here to listen to the arguments of these scholars. Not to mention, in these two days, Shen Xing actually picked out a few good seedlings to support, and he planned to bring them with him to serve as a counselor and deacon.
Two days later, Liu Zheng woke up and asked hurriedly, "Shen Xing, do you have anything you can show off?"
Shen Xing smiled and said, “Sir, there are a few, but I want them.”
Liu Zheng laughed and scolded: "You kid, you have learned to mess up your own team."
Shen Xing chuckled: "The affairs of one county are enough, but I really don't have the talent to manage the world."
Liu Zheng nodded, took a pot of wine, and continued to sit in his own private room, listening to the argument of those people with great interest.
How to survive in the world?
The one we are talking about is naturally Yinzhou.
Most of the opinions of these scholars are the same. Some suggest that we should focus on enriching the territory and observe the situation in the world. Some suggest that we should develop military strength to prepare for emergencies. Some suggest that we should expand commerce and form a three-legged tripod in Liangzhou...
Liu Zheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Who can't talk big and empty words?
What he needs is someone who has a far-sighted vision and can come up with a concrete plan, rather than someone who he can catch and question, but who doesn't even know what business or a chamber of commerce is.
Great talent, great talent...
Where are you?
This topic lasted for seven days, and finally someone came who made Liu Zheng slightly interested.
What he didn't expect was.
This person is also an extremely beautiful woman.
