Why do you want money? Raise an army!
Previously, Liu Mo only paid for one year's military expenditure. After that, it will cost more than 200,000 taels every year. He must plan for a rainy day!
But Liu Mo's remarks confused Eunuch Cai. After a while, he laughed, "Haha, Mr. Liu is really refreshing! How about five hundred thousand taels of silver?"
Damn, that’s really a big deal!
However, this is only two years of military expenditure, not enough, not enough!
How could Eunuch Cai, who was in the center of power politics, fail to see Liu Mo's expression, so he said: "Master Liu, His Royal Highness does not like to bargain! Five hundred thousand taels is enough for you, Master Liu, to have enough food and clothing for the rest of your life."
Gee, this kind of thing is so overbearing!
"I understand!" Liu Mo nodded and said.
"Hahaha, then I'll ask Master Liu to write down the method of making salt."
Damn, keep pushing me harder and harder!
Liu Mo kept his composure and ordered his servants to get pens and ink, and began to write down the "method of making salt"!
Do you really want to sell your salt-making technology? Yes, why not sell it?
crazy? Or succumb to the authority of the prince?
No, no, no!
forgotten? Liu Mo is a modern person.
Modern salt production technology is not limited to sun-dried salt.
At this moment, Liu Mo was writing a flow chart of a fully modernized salt production process.
[Desalinated seawater concentrate->filtration->electrodialysis->concentrated brine->refined salt evaporation->concentrated evaporator->potassium chloride cooling->potassium chloride separation and drying-centrifuge mother liquor->low sodium salt evaporation …]
As expected, when Eunuch Cai saw this salt production process flow chart, his whole face turned green.
"Master Liu, what you wrote is..."
"The method of making salt!" Liu Mo explained patiently, "Eunuch Cai, look, Xiaguan also drew a flow chart of all the steps."
Eunuch Cai frowned, "Mr. Liu, what is this seawater concentrate? And what about potassium chloride! Centrifuged mother liquor! Low sodium salt!" He asked, "What are these? This is really unheard of in our family."
"Essential items for making new salt!" Liu Mo replied seriously, "You haven't heard of Eunuch Cai. This is normal. The reason why Xiaguan's new salt is so fine and delicious is all due to these rare items."
Eunuch Cai's face turned livid, "Then where does this seawater concentrate come from?"
"It's very simple!" Liu Mo smiled evilly, "Through filtration and concentration, open heating and concentration, separation, heating and concentration, cooling and standing, and freezing and concentration.
Between 15-200 meters below sea level, salinity 3.0-3.5‰, hardness 6000-7000mg/l..."
This explanation made Eunuch Cai dumbfounded.
Striking while the iron is hot, Liu Mo continued to add: "There is also the potassium chloride you asked about, Mr. Cai. It is an inorganic compound with an extremely salty taste, odorless and non-toxic. It is easily soluble in water, ether, glycerol and alkali, and slightly soluble. in ethanol
Are the production steps just..."
Then Liu Mo kept explaining, and the confused Eunuch Cai finally couldn't stand it anymore. "Haha, it's true that there are lines separated by mountains!" He said bitterly, "Mr. Liu, do these rare things you just mentioned also have... craftsmanship drawings?"
"This is natural!" Liu Mo said with a smile, "If you need me, Eunuch Cai, I will write it down now!"
If you can understand, I lose!
When the drawings of modern production processes were handed over to Eunuch Cai, Liu Mo almost couldn't help laughing. Because that is the legendary bitter gourd face!
He suppressed his laughter and continued to ask, "For Eunuch Cai, my subordinate has already written down the law of making salt. I wonder if this silver..."
Eunuch Cai was shocked. He had seen people who were greedy for money, but he had never seen you be so greedy.
"If this craft drawing is true, I will certainly not treat you badly, Mr. Liu!"
Damn, that’s not straightforward! Fortunately, I am smart. Even if I teach you the art of drying salt, you may still get the same answer!
Then, Eunuch Cai carefully put the craft drawings into the brocade box, then handed over his hands and said: "Master Liu, we have important things to do, so I won't disturb you!"
Liu Mo stood up, paying attention to the etiquette.
"Farewell, no need to send me far away!" Eunuch Cai declined.
"Farewell!"
After sending Eunuch Cai away, Liu Mo has to start busy with his own work!
The original Salt Transportation Department Yamen was located in Jianglin Mansion, but after Liu Mo's "frustration", the core of the Salt Transportation Department has been transferred to Rongcheng.
For this reason, Huang Shouren reported to the Xia Dynasty court and simply moved the salt transportation department to Rongcheng.
As a government office, an office building is essential.
Building a new one is obviously not advisable, not to mention the cost and time.
Liu Mo had an idea and thought of a perfect location, the house left by Chen Zhiyuan!
When he was in office, he frantically plundered people's wealth and bought three luxury houses.
One building was bought by Liu Mo for a cabbage price of 1,000 taels, and there are two other buildings!
It is reasonable to reuse the house that no one dares to buy.
As soon as this suggestion was made, He Ruda immediately approved it. As a result, the remaining house close to the Rongcheng County Government Office was renovated and used as the Salt Transportation Department Office Gate.
In the other building, Liu Mo originally wanted to hack together, but unexpectedly He Ruda disagreed.
At present, it doesn't have much effect, so I'm too lazy to argue!
In about half a month, the lobby of the Salt Transportation Department was renovated. There is no need to rush the other miscellaneous rooms, as long as they can be used for work.
So Liu Mo happily moved into the Yanyunsi Yamen and began his official career in the Great Xia Dynasty.
However, what he never expected was that this was the beginning of all the suffering!
It turns out that after Su Zhongle was cut into eight pieces, the post of Yanyun Yushi has been vacant to this day.
There is a lot of business backlog that needs to be dealt with during this time.
For Liu Mo, who has never been an official, these are tiring troubles.
There are also those endless civilians who will cause trouble to Liu Mo at any trivial matter.
Shouldn’t the county magistrate handle minor disputes among ordinary people? Speaking of this, Liu Mo really had the urge to strangle He Ruda to death.
All laws related to salt in the Daxia court were handled by the Salt Transportation Department.
Damn it, He Ruda took advantage of this: the salt he bought was short of a few pounds, had impurities, and other such trivial matters. They were all dumped on Liu Mo.
Not to mention the profiteers in Rongcheng. After the new salt was launched, countless salt merchants followed suit, hoping to take advantage of the troubled waters and make a fortune.
The more people there are, the more things will happen.
Unscrupulous traders secretly resell second-hand new salt, passing it off as good quality, and adulterate the new salt with other low-quality table salt. Only you can think of these despicable methods, but they wouldn't be able to do it.
All these nonsense should be taken seriously, right? Why Ruda is still polite to you?
So much so that Liu Mo sat in the lobby of the Yanyun Division Yamen all day long, listening to their complaints about the East and West, which made his brain numb and his buttocks sore.
Everyone speaks salt, silver, salt, silver!
They are all guys talking nonsense, but Liu Mo doesn’t have much help at the moment!
Why? Su Zhongle "conspired to rebel"!
Most of the people in the Salt Transportation Department were implicated by Su Zhongle and were liquidated!
The rest of the people are all old fritters and sycophants like He Ruda.
They are either confused or deliberately lying.
Liu Mo felt that working as the censor of the Salt Transport Department for half a year would drive him crazy!
"I need help, I need men!"
