On the construction site in front of them, thousands of soldiers who had just been transferred were busy working nervously. Their physical strength was much better than that of the civilian workers.
Although I don’t know why we have to keep digging here, and the supervisors are so strict about the depth. Occasionally there are one or two raised stones, which need to be dug out and refilled.
Originally, they were quite critical of this kind of thing. After all, they were soldiers, not coolies who did heavy work.
Even their generals were very resistant. After all, these soldiers who had gone through a lot of painstaking training were used to fight.
They were not allowed to do the hard work of the common people, even though there was a big difference in official rank between him and Zhang Tu.
However, this guy still went to Zhang Tu to argue.
Originally, when they saw their general arguing with the Grand Tutor, these soldiers felt a little lucky. After all, their general was a famous gunner, and he might be able to get them out of this hard work.
However, the Grand Tutor took his general into a tent, and he didn't know what shameful deal the two of them did inside. After coming out of there, his general took off his shirt and held a I started working with my hoe too!
At this time, the soldiers who were still lucky were completely dumbfounded.
Taking advantage of their familiarity, several soldiers tried to find out some information from their general, but the general refused to reveal any information no matter what.
I was really pushed into a hurry, and I just said that this thing was related to the lives of thousands of people in the country.
These big-headed soldiers couldn't figure out how digging holes on the edge of the salt lake was connected with the lives of the people.
However, the generals have already ended, how can they dare to be lazy?
In less than ten days, these soldiers dug out an evaporation pond covering an area of 1,500 acres, one with a radius of five acres. All the ponds were connected with moso bamboo, and finally valves were installed on the moso bamboo. .
In other words, during these ten days, these soldiers saw with their own eyes how the white salt was made.
After watching the process, everyone fell silent!
Could making salt be so simple?
Now they understood what the general said. This was indeed the fate of thousands of people in the country.
More importantly, from now on, their military pay will never be in arrears again!
Most of these soldiers are from farmers, and they certainly understand how valuable salt is.
Many of them grew up eating the large pieces of salt produced in the previous salt lakes. Not only was that kind of salt bitter and unbearable, but more importantly, if you ate it often, you would get all kinds of strange things. sick.
But there is nothing you can do, who makes their lives miserable!
When Zhang Tu announced that the king had issued an order, from now on, as long as he is a citizen of Dai, he can buy a pound of fine green salt at a fair price every year based on his head.
Of course, as a benefit to the soldiers, each of them can buy 30 kilograms of high-quality green salt at a low price every year.
How much is the par price?
Many soldiers didn't quite understand, so Zhang Tu personally settled the accounts for them.
A five-acre pond requires a total of one hundred kilograms of good charcoal, one bolt of linen, salt workers' expenses, court taxes, and carriage fees for transportation along the way. In the end, each kilogram of salt costs eighteen Money!
After Zhang Tu settled the account, all the soldiers were excited!
They have seen the so-called seven things to open the door, firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea. These are all high-quality green salt. At thirty kilograms of salt per year, even their military pay and rewards combined are not that much. ah!
Just for this reason, everyone worked with all their strength. The entire construction site was in full swing, and everyone worked hard. In order to speed up the progress of the project, the soldiers voluntarily divided into two shifts, working day and night. Grab jobs.
"How much salt do we have in the warehouse now?"
Ten days have passed since Liu Xian purchased all the salt in Dai Kingdom, and Zhang Tu couldn't eat or sleep because of this.
"Although we have been working hard these days to grab work, we still have less than 50,000 shi in the library until now! But if we have five more days, we can double our output!"
Tian Chong is not afraid at all now. With this huge salt production base, there will never be a shortage of salt in this country from now on!
His own king is indeed worthy of being of the Tian family’s blood, and he can actually come up with such a wonderful method. From now on, it is time for the grandsons of the Wu Kingdom to have a try!
"According to the king's plan, after 20 days, we will launch an all-out counterattack. However, there are still ten days left. I don't know if the king can hold on!"
Of course Zhang Tu knew that Liu Deng would be under a lot of pressure. Of course, he couldn't tell the officials in detail about such confidential matters.
However, the more this happens, the greater the pressure Liu Deng will receive from officials.
Zhang Tu has been in charge of the government of Dai for so many years. Of course he knows the virtues of the civil servants of Dai.
Those pedantic guys, if they saw Liu Deng's inaction, let alone remonstrating with death, I'm afraid they would follow his neck and pull Liu Deng out of bed.
It can't be done well. At this time, some people are starting to prepare and go to the tomb of the late king to cry at the grave.
"In twenty days, we will be able to collect 300,000 dan no matter what! By then, I really want to see what Liu Xian and the others' expressions look like!"
All the coarse salt in Dai Country has been emptied by them!
And each one was priced high. Thinking about this, Tian Chong felt happy.
His king was really clever and had these Wu people buy all the rubbish that was going to be used to fill the lake at a high price. This alone would bring so much wealth to the country.
"You guys, I don't usually notice that you are so narrow-minded!"
Zhang Tu also had a smile on his face, although he had not gone home for several days and was really tired from living on the construction site day and night.
However, Zhang Tu felt happy when he thought about the wealth that was about to roll in.
Ever since he started giving this to the Tutor, he has been calculating every day, wishing that a copper coin could be broken into five petals.
But even so, the income of the imperial court of this generation was still unable to make ends meet, and there was a deficit every year.
The majestic king, not to mention the jewelry and jades, even the strange stone ornaments in the other courtyard were all sold to Wu merchants at a high price.
Will this bring glory to his face as a master?
