"this……"
"Son..."
"Brother Liu..."
Everyone at the scene was stunned.
A few days ago, this pile of salt was still shiny and dazzling. Today's refined salt with uniform color and uniform grains is really beyond their imagination. Shen Xing even rushed over, grabbed the refined salt with his hands, rubbed it on his face, and shouted: "It's like cotton, it's like cotton!"
Everyone laughed.
Liu Zheng also smiled and said: "Eating refined salt can at least help people live a few more years!"
Everyone was amazed, but no one didn't believe it. Because they are familiar with the production process, and they have been eating the many inedible impurities for many years. Who knows how many lives have been lost!
Liu Zheng looked at Zheng Yueru with a smile: "How?"
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 we price this salt?"
Everyone laughed.
A few days ago, Zheng Yueru was still hesitating whether this would be a beheading, but today she is already thinking about how to price it. Although the nature of the businessman has some influence, Zheng Yueru also understands what kind of changes it will bring to Yinzhou if this silver beach is really all salt, and even how much changes it will bring to the world structure. This is no longer a simple question of whether it is a crime.
And she asked this question well.
How to price?
Since ancient times, this salt has been controlled by the imperial court, and it is a major source of income for the imperial court. How much money the officials say is how much it will cost. It's never been cheaper. What they don't know is that there is really too much salt on the earth... Even if they let go of eating and mining, it is estimated that it will take hundreds of millions of years to mine it all.
The so-called regulation is nothing but a result of huge profits.
so……
Coarse salt is so expensive, but what about refined salt?
"Miss Zheng, just go and discuss it. I will only be responsible for the production!"
Liu Zheng made a deliberate bow, and everyone snickered. Zheng Yueru even blushed because of Liu Zheng, glared at him fiercely, and then turned and left. She also looked at Liu Zheng's salt-making craftsmanship, which lasted for six days and six days. There was no rest at night.
Another ten days.
In these ten days, the ten backbones have basically mastered the mining of lake salt. The project of enclosing the land and building the city is also proceeding steadily. This is destined to be a huge project. In the drawings drawn by Liu Zheng, the entire Silver Beach project is mainly divided into three parts. One is the collection workshop, the second is the tobacco drying workshop, and the third is the salt washing workshop. This is the lake salt part. As for mine salt, it's more complicated there.
Mine salt production is mainly divided into two links: brine mining and salt production. Different mine types use different brine mining methods. Methods for extracting natural brine include fishing, gas lift, oil pumping, deep well submersible brine pumps, and self-injection brine mining. In rock-salt mining areas, most drilling water-soluble mining methods are used, some using single-well convection methods, and some using double-well hydraulic fracturing methods.
The initial brine mining was to collect brine from the shallow part of the earth's surface, with well depths ranging from tens to hundreds of meters. A building frame is used, and a fixed pulley is installed to absorb the brine. There is a two-story towering derrick above the well, and a pulley is installed on the derrick. There are buckets tied to both ends of the falling rope, and four people pull it together. The wooden frame for absorbing the brine goes up and down. When it is lowered, The bucket filled with brine at the other end was lifted up. The bucket is lifted up, and the brine is poured into a container next to the derrick. The drop is then used to guide the flow through the bucket and into the brine tank next to the stove. On the large stove for frying salt, there are five pots lined up in a row, and the brine is fried into salt in the pots.
This means that the largest part of the mine salt mining process is the drilling process.
Liu Zheng also used the relatively advanced Zhuotong well drilling technology in ancient times.
Drill small diameter wells. The diameter of the wellhead of the Zhuotong well is only nine inches, and the deepest is more than 100 feet. In this process, Liu Zheng used the "circular blade" drilling tool. The invention of this new type of impact drill bit made it possible to mechanically drill the well, that is, using the circular blade with a drilling tool The drill pipe of the drill bit smashes the rock at the bottom of the well and gradually deepens the salt well. This round blade was designed into a spherical shape, which was also the basis for subsequent iterations of various drill bit shapes.
In order to realize this kind of drill, Liu Zheng directly moved the fine iron workshop and weapon workshop of Shengongfang.
When the circular blade drills to a certain depth, the drill bit needs to be lifted to fish out the cuttings and sediment. The method is to place a simple lifting device into the mud barrel and automatically load the cuttings and sediment into the wellhead. After the well embryo is formed, the large bamboos are used to remove the joints and make the hollow, "male and female are connected", and then lowered into the well to make an artificial well wall, which can not only prevent fresh water from the formation from seeping into the well, but also prevent the salt well from collapsing or sinking. This is also called "cutting the ground and planting bamboo" "; Use a bamboo tube smaller than the diameter of the salt well as a brine container, use cowhide as a piston at the bottom of the tube, and use the tension of the water at the bottom of the well and the downward pressure of the water in the tube to draw the brine out of the wellhead; a large wooden frame is erected at the wellhead, and a cart is set up nearby , one end of the rope is tied to the cart plate, and the windlass on the wooden frame is driven to extract the brine.
Mine salt is more complicated, but the quality of mine salt is indeed the highest among several salts!
You know, in later generations, 80% of the edible salt was mine salt.
Therefore, despite facing an almost inexhaustible supply of lake salt, Liu Zheng still had to collect the mine salt.
Time passes little by little.
After a full month, the prototype of Silver Beach City has already emerged. The general building structure has also been completed. Many people heard the news and came to watch. This was shocking, but 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 doing things!
But as the number of soldiers from the beginning to 5,000 has increased to 5,000 elite soldiers, patrolling around the Silver Beach City day and night, those who want to come over and covet them have no chance at all.
On this day, Shen Xing, who was about to take a job in Yangzhou, suddenly came to his door.
"My lord, that man appears again!"
Liu Zheng hadn't completely figured out the mine salt mining line yet. He just lay down and jumped up excitedly: "Where is it? Where is it?"
There is an urgent shortage of talents...
Shen Xing smiled bitterly and took out a piece of paper: "Master, please take a look!"
Liu Zheng looked carefully and saw that there were only a few words written on the paper.
"Why establish the world?"
The handwriting is straight and the title is quite large.
Why establish the world? Naturally, this question is about how Yinzhou, or the current Yinyang, was founded.
Liu Zheng smiled bitterly and said: "How can I answer such a big question?"
Shen Xing snorted coldly: "Sir, I think this person is just trying to gain fame! Now we are in Yinyang, the territory is rich, the people are at home, and the people all over the world admire me, how can we establish a world?"
Liu Zheng shook his head and frowned.
In fact, these four words from this mysterious man shocked Liu Zheng all over, as if they hit the bottom of Liu Zheng's heart. A direction he had been trying to find but could never find. Although Yinzhou was already prosperous and wealthy at this time, for some reason, this could never give Liu Zheng a real sense of security.
What does he want?
How to get to Yinzhou?
Why establish the world?
"Why establish the world?"
Liu Zheng laughed loudly: "What a good person to establish the world, let's go!"
With that said, he picked up the confused Shen Xing and rode back to Liangzhou to Fengming Tower. When Zheng Yueru saw Liu Zheng, a flash of distress flashed across her face, and she said lightly: "Does Brother Liu also know that he is coming back to rest?"
Then he immediately ordered the girl from Fengming Tower to arrange for Mr. Liu to bathe and change clothes.
Liu Zheng laughed loudly and shook his head: "There is a question for Fengming Tower today!"
Zheng Yueru also took a look at it and took a breath: "Why did you establish the world? Brother Liu, is this topic a bit big..."
Liu Zheng said: "The topic is not big, how can I show my talent? Put it down! I'll go wash up first!"
Zheng Yueru rolled her eyes at him and called a few more massage fans to follow him. I don’t know if Brother Liu is really tough. He didn’t sleep for six days and had to rush back to post this question.
Liu Zheng was in the bathtub, soaking and then fell asleep.
What he didn't know was.
As soon as this question came out, the entire Fengming Tower exploded.
It was a corner of Fengming Pavilion that belonged to literati's debate and argument. It was full of spit and impassioned from the beginning. There is no other reason. Everyone knows that the one-day question in Fengming Tower was posted by the Liu family. On weekdays, it is 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 big.
Many people are very excited. Now Yinzhou is no longer the unruly land it used to be. There was a lot of prosperity, but they regretted not catching up with the open recruitment on the day when the county magistrate's office opened. At this time, isn't this the topic of Mr. Liu's desire to recruit talents again?
Seize the opportunity to show off!
So, one day, Fengming Tower was absolutely packed with people.
Those who shake their heads, those who throw glasses and get angry, those who scream in admiration, and those whose faces are red.
When Shen Xing saw the situation, he saw that the young master was catching up on his sleep. He could only temporarily postpone his appointment as Yangzhou County Magistrate and sit here and listen to the arguments of these literati. Not to mention, in just these two days, Shen Xing actually picked out a few good young people who could be supported, and he planned to take them with him to serve as counselors and deacons.
Two days later, Liu Zheng woke up and asked hurriedly: "Shen Xing, is there anything you can do?"
Shen Xing smiled and said: "Master, there are a few, but I want them."
Liu Zheng laughed and scolded: "You kid, you have learned how to manage your own team."
Shen Xing chuckled: "One county is enough, but there is really no talent for managing the world."
Liu Zheng nodded, took a bottle of wine, and continued to sit in his exclusive room, listening to the arguments of those people with relish.
Why establish the world?
Of course I am talking about Yinzhou.
Most of the views of these literati are those. Some people suggest focusing on the wealthy territory to observe the situation in the world. Some people suggest that military strength should be developed to prepare for emergencies. Some people proposed commercial expansion and formed a three-legged trend in Liangzhou...
Liu Zheng couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this.
Who wouldn’t say big words and empty words?
What he needs is someone who is far-sighted and can come up with concrete plans. Instead of grabbing a few people and asking them, they don't even know what business is or what a chamber of commerce is.
Great talent, great talent...
Where are you?
This topic lasted for seven days, and finally someone came who slightly interested Liu Zheng.
What he didn't expect was.
This person is also an extremely beautiful woman.
