The village chief glanced at Liu Chong, who was looking over, and said to Zhu Biao: "Your Highness, there is salt locally. It is not easy to farm in Yanwan, which is thirty miles away, but there is no shortage of salt.
Just take the soil from the saline-alkali land and add water to boil the salt. No extra things are needed, and the salt can be eaten directly.
When boiling seawater to make salt at the beach, yellow mud water is added, and the local soil is directly saline-alkali soil.
Previous dynasties regarded this place as a good place. During the Han Dynasty, there were salt officials who had jurisdiction here, and there were also salt officials in the Tang Dynasty.
The local Wuding River is where Yanwan is located. Chen Tao of the Tang Dynasty wrote a poem: I vowed to sweep away the Xiongnu regardless of my own safety, and five thousand Shao brocade mourned Hu Chen. The poor bones by the Wuding River are like those in a spring boudoir's dream.
Of course, he only writes poems, he doesn't go to war with others, he just cannot pass the imperial examination.
After the Tang Dynasty, we fought and fought until the Song Dynasty came out. Unfortunately, this side became the border. It was not as good as what we are now.
The border was used for border trade, and it was called the Quechang. Liu Qianhu was guarding it, which shows the importance of this place.
The saline-alkali land covers a large area, so it is obviously not possible to grow food crops. Without the people, nothing can be grown.
It would be most suitable to plant the purple-flowered groundweed that is highly resistant to salt and alkali, and then raise sheep and cattle. Horses are also suitable. They have no shortage of salt or grass.
The most important thing is that there is coal here, which is even worse than the open-pit coal mine in Baofeng.
Now there is a large open-pit coal mine next to it. If you dig a little deeper, you can see the coal. Next to it is the Jiahe River, which leads directly to the Yellow River. "
The village chief told us about the local resources, mainly minerals, salt and coal, and others less important.
Zhu Biao leaned back and said just that! How can the Ming Dynasty be useless? There are only useless people.
Liu Chong was the same as the local officials who encountered this scene before: "..."
Whoever encounters this is not confused! Foreigners are more familiar with local conditions than locals.
But Zhu Xi was used to it. His father had to ask Xiaqiu Village to accompany him. Isn't it because of this? Every time he went to a place, he could talk about the affairs of that place.
While on the way, he taught himself and his brother knowledge. No one in the civil and military dynasties had this ability, so he did not take the ministers with him.
So he spoke up: "There are open-pit coal mines that are easy to dig, and they are transported by water next to the Yellow River. People in places where there is no coal along the Yellow River can burn cheap coal.
Baofeng's coal pipes are not upstream, so there is no shortage of coke for kilns or coal for daily fires. "
"Your Highness, it is impossible to transport it upstream to Jizhou. There is Hukou Waterfall there. It is impossible to go down and up.
Unless we adopt the previous method of transporting coal by land boat, it is not cost-effective and consumes too much manpower and material resources. "
The chief reminded that the coal here cannot be transported further downstream along the Yellow River.
"Are you afraid? If we can't get through there, it will be time for our Xianyang coal to be transported out through the Wei River!" Zhu Ping did not forget that there was a large coal mine in his fiefdom.
"What His Highness said is true. In fact, we can blast out a road next to Hukou Waterfall, for example, build a simple railway, and then connect shipping.
We can blow up the Rouge River, and the side isn't that deep. It's easy as long as there is a road.
With 20,000 people dispatched, the road can be built in two months, making it easier for everyone to travel around the waterfall. "
The head of the village first expressed his admiration, and then mentioned the matter of road construction. The area next to Hukou Waterfall was completed with a blast.
If you can row on land, you can walk. It’s just a question of how to choose. Why do you have to row? Can't we connect it to another track?
There is the Rouge River there, and the Hukou Waterfall is also made of stones.
"Why didn't you say that before? That's right! The key is to find a way for local coal. Only if it can be sold for money will the people be willing to come here. It just so happens that salt can also be transported together."
Zhu Ping complained, but he didn't dare to glare at Li Chang.
Zhu Biao interjected: "Find the coal first, it will be convenient later. At least there will be fuel for boiling salt. This salt is better than lake salt.
Liu Qianhu, let’s eat first. After eating, we’ll go find the coal mine and dig around.
Other people don't have it. This is a military camp. At least the people in the military camp can burn coal as they like this winter. Remember to beware of charcoal poison. "
Liu Chong: "Follow the prince's order!"
Even now, he is still guessing about the identity of the chief. Is the chief a name or a position? It’s the same idea as some previous officials.
After the meal, Zhu Ping, who put on his military coat, finally felt less cold and followed the team to a place six miles away.
In fact, there is no need to dig, because you can see scattered black coal and stones nearby, but it is desolate and no one cares.
The craftsmen and sergeants went up and started digging without explosives.
Two hours later, coal appeared in several pits six feet deep one after another. The more people there, the more powerful it would be.
"Dig coal, use the coal here for tonight's dinner." Zhu Biao ordered, you can tell the truth at a glance.
In fact, everyone knows that coal is coal, carry it up in a basket, and when the amount is almost there, everyone rushes back.
Liu Chong: "..."
He turned around and ordered his soldiers: "Go and tell the others to come over early tomorrow morning to load coal. We have good coal, and we can burn it as much as we want in the winter.
Then send fast horses to other guard stations and light torches. There is no need to come back today. Let other guard stations come to dig coal. "
The soldier nodded tremblingly: "Don't worry Qianhu, I promise to run over."
The soldiers are happy. Now that they have coal, they don't have to think of ways to get firewood. They can choose the best coal to burn. This winter will not be cold.
As for building fire tunnels, fire pits, and fire walls, it's too easy. There is clay locally, and cave dwellings are even dug in some places.
Um! For example, next to here, there are cave dwellings left by previous people.
"Chief Li, what is that in your hand? It looks familiar." When he returned to the original place and was about to eat, Zhu Ping looked at the hand of Mr. Li and saw that there was mud on his hand.
"Your Highness, the seven items we use in our home are provided by Xiaqiu Village. The quality of Xiaqiu Village is better. Guanyin soil is bentonite.
It is used to decolorize brown sugar. We used it to make white sugar, and then crystallized the white sugar into rock sugar.
The little girl cried so hard that her eyes were swollen, and she regretted being greedy and buying such expensive rock candy. "
The chief introduced bentonite clay, and took a look at the girl. Bentonite clay is a good thing. Most people don’t understand it. Bentonite clay has many uses.
The little girl pursed her lips and said, "I feel bad thinking about it now. It's such a scam. How dare they sell it so expensively?"
She knows all the crafts, but every time she thinks about it, she gets angry and angry with barbarians.
Liu Chong went to the village chief, stretched out his hand, took some soil given to him by the village chief, and squeezed it: "Your Royal Highness, Your Highness the King of Qin, there are many such soils in the local area, it..."
"Liu Qianhu! This soil is a good thing, we use it in Jubiqi! It has strong adsorption effect, so we can use it to absorb some things that shouldn't be there.
When the road is built in the future, we will send it down from the Yellow River, bypassing the Hukou Waterfall and taking the railway track.
Don't eat it as Guanyin soil. It's not good for your stomach. It can be used to feed livestock. In the future, our place will become rich and people will take the initiative to move here. "
When Zhu Xi heard that it was bentonite, he thought of many applications. Ju Biqi would use it in the process of making oil, sauce and vinegar.
(End of chapter)
