Fortunately, there is Peng Yue round the field.
"Mr. Xu County Magistrate, Mr. Zhao is a miracle doctor who can conquer the plague. His medical achievements are beyond our reach."
"He said that this kind of coarse salt is not good for the body, so it must be bad for the body."
"We have to choose to believe him."
"I just want to figure out what's wrong."
Xu Tianhua said angrily: "Otherwise, it will be difficult for me to explain when I meet His Majesty."
"Can you understand what I said?"
Peng Yue asked back.
"I do not understand."
Xu Tianhua blushed and said, "Forget it, I won't pursue it anymore."
"It's right to follow Mr.'s arrangements."
"Sir, tell me, what should we do next?"
"sleep."
"sleep?"
"if not?"
"It's almost Haishi now, what else can you do if you don't sleep?"
Zhao Ping yawned and stretched.
"Let's all go to bed and get back to work tomorrow."
"All right."
Everyone took a look at the sky. The bright moon was in the sky and the sky was full of stars. It was indeed very late.
I didn’t force it anymore.
According to the original arrangement, I found my own home, washed and slept.
Li Hu, Gao Meng and the brothers in the trapped camp led by him did not sleep, but took turns guarding Zhao Ping's safety.
Fortunately, the night was uneventful.
At dawn the next day, Zhao Ping was woken up to eat, then forcibly pulled to the beach and asked what he should do next.
How to do it?
Zhao Ping also thought about it all night.
In his previous life, Zhao Ping did not live by the sea, nor did he work in a salt factory, so he did not know how to dry salt.
Even in his knowledge, the salt he eats in daily life is dried from sea water.
It was also because those disgusting Japanese people discharged pollution into the seawater and polluted the sea area, causing many people to rush to the supermarket to buy salt. Zhao Ping went to the Internet to check some information.
Only then did we learn that 87% of the edible salt in China comes from well salt, 3% from lake salt, and 10% from sea salt.
Even if the sea water is polluted to the point where salt cannot be used, Chinese people do not have to worry about eating salt.
Officials have repeatedly stood up to refute the rumors.
Only then did the rush to buy salt subside.
It was precisely because of checking the information that Zhao Ping had a rough understanding of the seawater salting process.
The main one is the salt field method.
To use this method, you need to construct a salt pan in a mild climate, sufficient sunlight, and a large flat seaside tidal flat.
Salt pans are generally divided into two parts.
Evaporation and crystallization ponds.
Seawater is first introduced into the evaporation pond, and when the water evaporates to a certain extent under the sun, it is then poured into the crystallization pond.
If you continue to expose yourself to the sun, seawater will become a saturated solution of salt.
If it is exposed to the sun again, the salt will gradually precipitate.
The crystals obtained at this time are coarse salt, and the remaining liquid is mother liquor.
Add barium chloride, sodium hydroxide, and calcium carbonate to the coarse salt in sequence to remove impurities and filter to obtain precipitate and filtrate.
Then add dilute hydrochloric acid solution, evaporate and crystallize, and you can obtain pure salt, sodium chloride.
Barium chloride was not found.
But if you don't mind, you can use barium carbonate instead.
Barium carbonate is a must for making ceramics. The ceramic industry in the Dawei Dynasty was also quite prosperous, so it should be easy to find.
Even if it cannot be found, it can be extracted from barite, which is not a problem for Zhao Ping.
As for sodium hydroxide, just use plant ash.
Calcium carbonate is even simpler. It is abundant in limestone and can be found almost everywhere.
Of course, you must make coarse salt first.
Once you have coarse salt and earned money, you can then consider the issue of fine salt.
Zhao Ping also roughly calculated the cost issue.
The main cost is labor.
After all, the areas near Linhai County are flat beaches, and he can use them at will without any land fees.
The labor cost is very low. If each person has three meals a day and two or three copper coins, he can find a lot of people to work hard for him.
Hiring a thousand people would cost less than twenty taels of silver a day.
What about output?
According to Zhao Ping's knowledge in his previous life, one acre of salt field can produce about 500 to 1,000 kilograms of coarse salt a day.
Even if the technology is not mature now, it can only produce 300 kilograms.
Calculated based on ten cents per pound, one acre of salt field can earn three taels of silver per day.
The seaside is so big that it would not be a problem to create thousands of acres of salt fields.
That output would be an astronomical figure, and Zhao Ping didn't even dare to think about it.
More profitable than acacia wine.
After all, acacia wine is used to cut leeks.
If you cut it once or twice, people will find out the clues and won't buy it, causing the price to fall, which is a little higher than ordinary drinks.
And what about salt?
Every household needs sustainable income.
This is still just kosher salt.
What if it is made into fine salt?
The price is double that of coarse salt, and it’s probably much cheaper than the fine salt of today’s Dawei Dynasty.
If you put it on the market, it would be strange if it wasn’t snapped up like crazy.
Zhao Ping is becoming more and more confident.
The only difficulty is dividing the accounts.
I definitely can't enjoy such a profitable business by myself.
Just as Xu Tianhua said, if His Majesty's appetite is not satisfied, he may not even be qualified to sell salt.
How much is appropriate?
Zhao Ping was a little confused.
It seems that we can only discuss this issue in detail until we meet with His Majesty.
Anyway, the salt pan must be built first.
Salt pans are easy to build. Just dig pools one after another on the seashore, each one lower than the last.
Although he has not undergone on-site inspection, Zhao Ping thinks it should be good.
Try it first.
After all, the time to dry salt is very short. As long as the weather continues to clear up and the wind blows well, the harvest will be almost ready in seven or eight days.
While Zhao Ping was busy here, something happened in the capital.
His Majesty Chen Xuan wants to personally go to Yuzhou to suppress the bandits, which requires 50,000 soldiers.
Where does it come from?
Chen Xuan only gave him three days and could only mobilize them from Yongzhou.
But that's not enough either.
There is still a part left, and we can only use beggars and homeless people.
Beggars and homeless people are unwilling.
After all, they are no longer beggars and refugees now. Since they followed the fairy to sell goods, they have become self-reliant.
At least I can eat enough and wear warm clothes.
Although not everyone can live without worries about food and clothing, at least they have hope.
Who would want to join the army?
What's more, you still have to follow your majesty to suppress the bandits. If you do something wrong, you will be killed. How can you be as comfortable as doing business with a fairy?
But the person in charge, Meng Jingzhou, gave the order.
As long as those who join the military die, after verification, they will be given corresponding pensions.
And it's quite generous.
If you are lucky enough to survive, you can do business after you return, and your income will be increased by some copper coins every day, depending on the situation.
If you have better luck and achieve military exploits, you will not only be able to receive rewards from His Majesty.
The fairy will also make special promotions and become the fairy's right-hand man.
Even becoming a fairy's escort is not impossible.
And there's a little benefit.
The fairy said that after joining the army, if you don't want to stay in the army, you can come back and continue doing business with the fairy.
If you feel that the army is more suitable for you, the fairy will also provide certain subsidies.
At the very least it will make their lives worry-free.
It can be said that these beggars and refugees are given two choices.
No matter which one, these people can flock to it.
The Minister of War, Shuchou, whose hair was almost turning white, spent the whole night formulating a plan to attract young men.
There is not only the first set, but also the second set and the third set.
Many possibilities were discussed among the six ministries, and it was necessary to recruit 50,000 soldiers for His Majesty within three days.
Then……
Before Yun Chengze could implement these strategies, he saw many refugees and beggars rushing to the door of the Minister of War's Mansion, actively asking to join the army.
"this……"
Yun Chengze was dumbfounded.
When did the people of the Dawei Dynasty become so active in enlisting in the army?
Aren't you afraid of death?
But this is good, it solves his urgent need.
The troops are there.
The rest is food and grass.
The Minister of Household Affairs will definitely not be able to come up with it, so he can only come up with 180,000 shi of grain.
For the remaining part, Chen Xuan waved his hand and said boldly: "The rest will come from my internal money."
"Do you have that much money in your pocket?"
Liu Lai, the Minister of Household Affairs, said strangely.
"Xu Tianhua sells acacia wine. That's all under my instruction. Otherwise, would he be able to gain a foothold in the capital?"
Chen Xuan said very proudly: "Although I don't account for a large proportion, tens of thousands of stones of food are more than enough."
"So, when Xu Tianhua comes back to Beijing to sell acacia wine, you all should be more positive to me."
"Be more cooperative."
"I keep records in private. Anyone who performs poorly will be recorded in my notebook."
"If I don't cause trouble for you now, when I accumulate more, I might just peel off that layer of skin on your body."
Everyone was trembling with fear.
One by one, Zhao Ping and Xu Tianhua were scolded a hundred times in secret.
Why do you want to drink acacia wine when you have nothing to do?
Isn't this taking money out of their pockets?
At the same time, he also hoped that the manpower he sent out could cooperate with Zhao Ping, or take away the formula by force.
You can have peace of mind by taking this profitable business into your own hands.
Finally, there are weapons and armor.
Zhu Zhu, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, could only provide 10,000 sets, which were not enough for the real officers and soldiers.
Those refugees and beggars can only be given a random set of clothes to cover their bodies.
The weapon directly chose farm tools or wooden sticks.
The seemingly mighty 50,000 soldiers and horses are actually a little stronger than the bandits.
It's so uneven that it would be embarrassing to take it out.
But Chen Xuan didn't mind, but held the expedition ceremony happily.
Within the agreed time, with 50,000 troops and horses, they rushed to Yuzhou to suppress the bandits.
"The court is empty, some people can't sit still, right?"
Chen Xuan looked back at the palace and sneered inwardly, "When you guys take action, that's when I will purge the court."
