"Back to Mr.
Yang, it's exactly the same."
Old scholar Li hurriedly bowed towards Yang Ming and said: "Every summer, the tide is most likely to rise.
Generally speaking, the water level will reach our calves.
I don't know if you have any other questions."
"Of course there is a problem."
Yang Ming smiled and explained to everyone: "When we build a salt field, we must understand one thing.
The so-called salt field is actually a platform for drying sea salt.
Of course, this platform is not blindly flat.
It must be a concave area with high ends and low in the middle.
In this way, the seawater can be poured in, and enough seawater can be evaporated by the sun to get enough sea salt.
Therefore, we must control the highest point of the tide."
When he said this, some people with smart minds already understood everything.
Yang Ming continued: "So when we build salt fields, we must consider these issues, such as the rainy season, how to divert seawater, and the growth of tides.
These are all issues we must consider."
"Look, that is the highest position of the tide in recent years."
Yang Ming pointed to the side in front of him.
Although the shallow marks on the sand were shallow, they were very obvious and were about three feet high.
"Yes, it seems that this is the highest point."
Liu Yi touched his beard and nodded.
It was not difficult to find the highest point of the tide.
He looked at it and then asked Yang Ming: "Yang Ming, what do you mean?
The salt fields we build must be higher than this point, but have you ever calculated that the Huidong coast is dozens of miles away, and the amount of cement required is more than an astronomical figure.
Even if I burn it every day, wait until you think about it.
I don’t know how long it will take to build this salt field.”
After hearing Liu Yi's words, everyone else couldn't help but feel sad.
As Liu Yi said, if the salt pan is really built according to the highest point of the tide, the amount of cement required is absolutely astronomical.
The salt pan will need to be raised by nearly two and a half feet.
It is such a long distance and requires a certain amount of cement.
Width, this undoubtedly caused their newly excited mood to fall to the bottom in an instant.
There were only some gentry who said nothing even though they felt a little sad.
Yang Ming knew that for officials, a term lasted for three years, and they would obviously be transferred to other places as officials before the entire salt field was completed.
If he worked hard to build the salt field, it would not be easier for outsiders by then.
This thought was on the mind of almost every official present.
"Finish it together."
Yang Ming laughed, looked at Liu Yi, then pointed at the endless beach and said, "Hasn't Mr.
Liu thought about disconnecting?"
He walked forward, pointed to the beach in front and said: "The repair must be completed, but we can build it section by section.
Firstly, it is convenient to introduce seawater.
Secondly, the salt drying will not be too long because of the passage. causing water to evaporate slowly In my opinion, if we build it in units of 100 meters, not only will the construction period be short, but I estimate that it can be completed within three days.
Even if we wait for the cement in the salt field to solidify, it will only take seven days.
What's more, as long as we have cement, we can still build at the same time.
We have plenty of manpower.
Calculate how much time you can save by going back and forth.
The most important thing is that we have a salt field of 100 meters.
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We can't help but achieve rapid construction and It saves time and supplies, and also plays a certain role in the control of personnel and sea salt.”
Speaking of sea salt control, here comes the issue of salt affairs.
The high salt tax in the Ming Dynasty was a feature, but this was not the key reason that prevented the salt fee from remaining high.
The biggest problem was that salt sellers and merchants must hold salt certificates issued by the Ming Dynasty government.
During the Ming Dynasty, if they wanted to sell salt legally, merchants had to obtain a "salt quota" from the government.
Each quotation number is divided into two volumes, the front and back.
After being stamped, it is divided into two parts from the middle.
The latter volume is given to the merchant, which is called "yin paper" and salt citation; the stub of the first volume is called "yin root".
Merchants were led to salt farms to sell salt, and then to designated salt selling areas to sell salt.
From this point of view, "Yan Yin" can be an inappropriate analogy with the "food stamps", "oil stamps" and "soap stamps" in my country's planned economy period.
The Ming Dynasty led the salt with salt; Buy food with food stamps.
The salt industry monopoly is a state-implemented monopoly.
This practice began in the Qi State during the Spring and Autumn Period, and the initiator was Guan Zhong.
However, by the Qin Dynasty and the early Western Han Dynasty, the salt industry monopoly was actually abolished.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty wanted to strengthen the country's power and conquer the Xiongnu, so he adopted the advice of the great salt merchant Dongguo Weiyang and implemented the official sale system of salt throughout the country from the fourth year of Yuanshou to 118 BC.
The salt officers set up in the 28 and 36 counties where salt is produced are all served by the original salt merchants.
People are recruited and the government provides "basins" and salt-frying pots and other tools to make salt.
The finished salt is purchased by the government at a fixed price and trafficked by officials. monopoly.
In 762, the sixth year of Baoying reign of Emperor Suzong of the Tang Dynasty, Liu Yan, the salt and iron envoy, carried out reforms.
Production and retail were handed over to merchants.
The government only controlled the wholesale link, that is, the government purchased finished salt and wholesaled it to merchants at a higher price for retailing in various places.
After the Song Dynasty, the Yanyin system gradually formed, that is, merchants spent money or paid other physical goods.
For example, under the Kaizhong system in the Ming Dynasty, grains were transported to the border in exchange for Yanyin, a monopoly certificate to buy Yanyin salt, to the designated salt field to collect salt, and transported it to Retail in designated areas.
This kind of salt introduction system was not exactly the same in different periods.
Even so, the salt introduction system was still used until the Qing Dynasty.
It can be said that it is these two reasons that keep the price of salt high, and some salt merchants even mix it with sand in experiments.
Of course, this situation also has a lot to do with the experimental manufacturing industry at that time.
Because of the old salt-making technology, the salt production area, weather and other reasons, almost all salt manufacturing is still in a very primitive stage.
Yang Ming's new method of manufacturing salt fields is obviously very advanced.
He only needs someone to introduce seawater into the salt field, and then let him dry it in the sun to obtain sea salt.
This method not only does not require a large amount of boiling method, but Firewood and even people only require a small number of salt sweepers.
When comparing the two, the advantages of this method are undoubtedly very obvious.
After hearing what Yang Ming said, the eyes of other people, whether they were officials or gentry, became lively.
As Yang Ming said, if one salt field cannot be built, why can't they build it in sections?
Not only could they repair it, but they could also start using the salt fields to produce salt at the same time.
While they were getting benefits, this huge credit also fell on their heads, which undoubtedly made each of them indescribably excited.
"What Mr.
Yang said is that as long as we separate the construction of salt fields, with sufficient materials, we can even gather young people from other brother counties in Huizhou Prefecture to build it together."
The magistrate of Huidong County is undoubtedly the most eager one. , as the salt-making county appointed by Yang Ming, his contribution is undoubtedly the greatest besides Yang Ming and Liu Yi, so he will naturally get the most rewards in the future, so he naturally starts planning.
"That's right."
This one was the county magistrate of Dayawan.
I saw that he was also eager to try, and said: "In my opinion, Mr.
Liu might as well build a few more cement kilns.
The official once heard in the Di newspaper that this cement manufacturing industry The method is not difficult, but there are requirements for the firing process.
Since this cement was invented by Mr.
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Yang, this method is naturally quite mature.
Building more will be enough to prepare for the construction of salt fields.
Moreover, in addition to being used by our Huizhou Prefecture to build salt fields, we can also sell them to other places for building cities.
The official is not talented, and Chen Sheng, the commander of Guangdong, is the uncle of the official."
Speaking of this, he couldn't help but feel a little proud.
The Guangdong Commander-in-Chief is actually the head of the military attache in Guangdong.
Under the Ming Dynasty's military system, the Commander-in-Chief directly controls the troops and horses of a province.
He is a dignified third-rank official.
Even if the status of a military attaché is not as good as that of a civilian official, he can still sit in this position.
He can be regarded as a big official in the border area.
Moreover, the relationship between the DPRK and China for people who can be placed as commanders in places like Guangdong and Fujian is not simple.
Yang Ming did not expect that he actually had such connections under his command.
But after thinking about it for a moment, he understood Presumably this Master Zhang is here to take credit.
As long as you work diligently under Yang Ming for a few years, it goes without saying that you can get a lot of qualifications and credit without even thinking about it.
It was precisely because he saw this opportunity that Mr.
Chen put his nephew in this key position.
But he never calculated that Yang Ming's focus was not on the inland areas, but on the coastal areas, and also on the production of sea salt.
Of course, one reason is that the cabinet blocked the news, otherwise it is very likely that the Huidong County Magistrate is Mr.
Zhang.
However, Yang Ming did not alienate him because he was a related household, nor did he take more care of him because he was a related household.
As long as he does practical things in a down-to-earth manner, it doesn't matter to him if he can share some of the credit as long as he can achieve his inner goal.
Of course, having said that, if it was because there was someone above him, Yang Ming wouldn't mind operating on him.
Although this time he came to Guangdong, it was not directly controlled by Jiajing like last time, but Yang Ming had a different privilege from other prefects, that is, he could directly report to the cabinet or Jiajing.
This is almost a public secret, and given the importance the court attaches to him, ordinary people really can't do anything to him.
Apart from using his hands and feet in other ways to disgust the servants, it can be said that Yang Ming is like an iron prefect, and no one can touch him.
"Well, it's not impossible."
Liu Yi was obviously moved.
If cement can be fired in large quantities, it will not only meet the needs of the salt fields, but if it can also bring extra income, it will be a blessing to Guangdong after all.
The poor are not even a little bit poor.
With this huge income, at least the people in the inland areas should have enough to eat.
Now that Liu Yi has spoken, Yang Ming can't say anything else.
After all, he has left the cement matter to Liu Yi.
Although he feels that if it is fired too much, it may not be a good thing, but the current cement gap in the Ming Dynasty is undoubtedly very large.
Just rely on the few buildings in the capital.
The output of the cement kiln may not even be able to meet the needs of the wealthy nobles in the capital.
As for using it for other construction, it is simply impossible.
Therefore, even if Huizhou fires a large amount of it, it should have no impact.
What he is afraid of is only those officials or gentry who follow the trend.
Huizhou Prefecture is okay.
At least it can be fired in a planned way under the control of Liu Yi and him, but it will not be so simple in other places.
In order to highlight their political achievements and make money in those places, Yang Ming was certain that as long as those people were in a place where cement could be fired, they might even go to any lengths to mass-produce cement.
At that time, the entire Guangdong area will be flooded with cement.
If it cannot be exported to other provinces, then the losses caused cannot be made up by killing a few officials.
Of course, this is a bad idea.
The good thing is that if organized construction and transportation can be carried out, Guangdong can even become a wealthy place that is not inferior to other places.
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Just relying on this one item to meet the needs of the whole country has become a myth But now is not the time to think about so many things.
As everyone gave me suggestions, the sun began to set unknowingly, setting slowly on the other side of the sea, bringing with it patches of orange-red.
"Master Yang, Master Yang Yang, fish, so many catches."
Everyone was about to go back to the village to take a rest.
Then, Old Scholar Li's voice rang out.
I saw this old man in his sixties running away.
If Yang Ming had not known that this method was feasible, he might have been frightened by this old man.
Seeing Old Scholar Li running towards everyone, everyone also walked towards him.
"My lord, the students are blind."
As soon as he arrived in front of Yang Ming, the old scholar Li cried: "The students are blind.
I thought that the adults just came up with a random way to fool the students and others.
Unexpectedly, they discovered the bamboo cage after the experiment.
This method is actually many times more clever than casting a net into the sea.
Not only is there no danger at all, but the catch is so large that even the student, who grew up on the beach, cannot look at it directly."
"How many fish were caught?"
the gentry, who thought he was also born on the seaside, asked quickly.
"A total of nearly 500 kilograms of fish were harvested, which translates to an average of nearly 50 kilograms of fish caught in one bamboo cage."
Old scholar Li calmed down and pointed to the many villagers behind who were carrying fish.
Of course, those who went to sea The two Li brothers were also inside.
A bamboo cage is worth fifty pounds of fish, which undoubtedly subverts their understanding.
You know, even three very experienced fishermen, even if they go to the deep sea area, they still risk their lives and cannot catch so many fish.
Because they have no choice but to cast a net for big fish.
It's just a way to net some medium-sized fish, but with just a few bamboo cages, throw them directly into the sea, tie the ropes and lie on the boat to rest, you can actually catch so many fish after a few hours. , this is like money falling from the sky. s: Today’s chapter sends a cigarette butt to the new book The World of Martial Arts, which has been signed.
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