Chapter 143: The picture slowly

After passing through this piece of grass, the matter about the wasteland was temporarily put down by Zhou Mengchen.

The sea stretched out in front of Zhou Mengchen and spread directly to the horizon.

A salt field also appeared in front of Zhou Mengchen.

This salt field is the first salt field in Jiangbei.

From a distance, it looks like rice fields, forming a series of square-shaped pools on the coast. These pools are salt fields. Generally speaking, it is to introduce seawater with relatively high salt content into the salt fields and use Rizhao to increase the issuance.

Then, according to the concentration of sea water, it is introduced into different ponds, and then analyzed, and it becomes large pieces of white particles, that is, sea salt.

Zhou Mengchen was quite satisfied with this.

There are two sources of salt fields, one is a skilled salt worker from Fujian. After all, as the governor of Fujian, Wang Daokun supports Zhou Mengqi's work in many aspects. The method of salt drying in Fujian already existed during the Yuan and Ming dynasties.

Another place is naturally Zhou Mengchen's disciples. There are several disciples from Datong Academy who can hold a thick notebook and explain the specific situation to Zhou Mengchen.

But Lin Run looked at the things in front of her incredible eyes.

Especially those salt workers mostly speak Fujian accents, which makes him even more incredible because Lin Run is also from Fujian.

It’s just that he was born in the Lin family in Fujian. The circle he was in is 100,000 and the circle where these salt workers were located were 8,000 miles away. It’s not like he hadn’t seen these salt workers right away. But he did have had serious communication or confirmed the salt drying method.

Now, seeing large pieces of salt appearing in front of him without any fuel, I was shocked, and he never thought that since such a technique was a masterpiece of the people of his hometown, I was even more shocked.

If Lin Run doesn't believe it, the salt-sting method is fake.

Lin Run did not believe in the salt drying method, but believed in Zhou Mengchen.

Zhou Mengchen was in the Ming Dynasty officialdom, and he had the fate to turn stones into gold. Many magical methods emerged one after another. There was nothing wrong with the method of drying salt. However, he never thought that the method of drying salt was like this.

Before, he only believed that what Zhou Mengchen said about salt drying should be better than salt cooking, but now he realized that this is not a victory, it is simply a revolutionary transcendence.

Lin Run said: "How many days will it take to dry salt?"

A salt worker said: "When it comes to the master, it depends on the time and weather. How can salt be produced in four days when the summer is hottest, and if it is winter, salt can be produced in more than ten days. However, it also depends on the weather. If it rains, many things will have to be repeated."

Lin Run pointed to a piece of salt field with one or two acres of land in front of him and said, "How much salt can you produce at one time?"

The salt worker said, "This is not easy to say, but it usually costs hundreds of stones."

Lin Run was stunned. There were many salt farms for boiling salt along the coast of Ming Dynasty. Lin Run couldn't say for a moment.

It was not too little, but too much. The Ming Dynasty had salt transportation departments such as Lianghuai, Liangzhe, Changlu, Hedong, Fujian, and Sichuan. Except for a few inland salt transportation departments, there were many salt fields under the rest of the salt transportation departments.

Today, the salt field is not very large.

After all, it has not been long since Zhou Mengchen decided to implement the salt drying method. If the salt field is too large, it will not be easy to transform.

Lin Run silently calculated the output and cost. After a while, he gave up. First, the numbers were too big, and his mental arithmetic was not enough. Second, these numbers were not too certain, and the fluctuations were too large.

However, even so, he came to a conclusion that the salt drying method instead of the salt cooking method will greatly reduce the cost of salt.

Lin Run came to Zhou Mengchen, bowed to Zhou Mengchen, and said, "The lower-ranking officials thanked the people of the world for their own sake. The people of the world have given them cheap salt."

In ancient times, salt has always been a strategic commodity. Especially in some remote areas, monopolizing the supply of salt, which represents considerable power and can even influence local political changes.

The people do not sell anything and are self-sufficient in everything, but salt is absolutely impossible to be self-sufficient. It must be purchased from the outside. The increase in the price of salt can even become the highest part of the people's living costs.

Cheap salt and cheap food, coupled with the absence of war, are almost one of the hard standards of the prosperous era.

Zhou Mengchen said: "Ruoyu, this is right or wrong. It is true that this method can make the people of the world eat cheap salt. It is not right or wrong. Because the cost of salt is low, it is not true, but whether the people can eat cheap salt is actually different."

Lin Run looked a little determined and said, "Please rest assured, sir, you have created such a good situation. I naturally know what to do."

Yes, there was a period of time in the early Ming Dynasty that the salt price was very low. But then it gradually rose, not to mention the official salt sold at high prices, and there were problems such as other things being mixed in it. Some salts were filled with mud, while some salts were filled with salt.

Has the cost of salt increased?

It has increased. However, it has always been a nearly free method for the government to take salt from the stove. Therefore, even if the cost increases, it has little to do with the price of salt. It can only be said that there are more people who eat from the salt administration. With layers of exploitation, the price of salt will gradually rise.

People cannot afford salt, so the profit margin of private salt appears.

It's not about production costs, it depends on the manager's skills.

Lin Run naturally understood.

Zhou Mengchen was still very pleased with Lin Run's sake. On the one hand, he was pleased to see a reformer who was willing to do things for the people of the Ming Dynasty. On the other hand, he was also happy to let Xu Jie bear some pressure.

It is not easy for Lin Run to really suppress the profit margins of vested interests in the salt administration under pressure.

Because Zhou Mengchen had already kicked out many of them while drinking with Teng Xiang. The rest of the people were hard-working. This way, the pressure reached Xu Jie.

This may not be a good thing for Zhou Mengchen.

Zhou Mengchen patted Lin Run on the shoulder and said, "No hurry. If you are cooking a big country, you should pay attention to the heat. Some things are not urgent. You should take it slowly."

Lin Run said, "The officials understand."

Zhou Mengchen could see that Lin Run didn't understand very much.

The two are of the same age, but have different experiences and completely different personalities.

Zhou Mengchen was in his twenties and was in the vortex of the Ming Dynasty's political arena. Now it has been almost twenty years. Over the past twenty years, the ups and downs, and all the places, who have understood the national conditions of the Ming Dynasty, and even knew that many things should be dealt with in this way.

But Lin Run is different. He has only been in the Jinshi for three years. He has been working hard for one thing for three years, and under Xu Jie's command, he is strict.

Now Yan Dada has completed his work.

Lin Run had just come down from above, and his mind was still the same as the party struggles in the court, either black or white, or me or enemy.

But in fact, it is natural that you can't do things without thunder. But you can also let your posture down. Politics is the art of compromise. If you don't have the confidence to kill the other party, it's like learning how to compromise.

Slowly, the future is long, the right way in the officialdom.

For example, between Zhou Mengchen and Xu Jie, Xu Jie cooperated with Zhou Mengchen, but it did not hinder him. He found a way to find Zhou Mengchen's black material and was ready to kill Zhou Mengchen.

Zhou Mengchen thought to himself: "It's time for me to slowly draw it."

Zhou Mengchen responded that after leaving Beijing, he did several major things in a row. To be precise, these major things were just beginning. The storm and storm had passed.

Now it has reached a little bit of water grinding skills.

For example, the establishment of the new military system in Nanjing. In Zhou Mengchen's view, it was even the military system of the future Ming Dynasty. For example, the new salt administration was implemented together with the new salt administration, and the liberation of stove households and the cultivation of grass storms.

This is nothing big. But it requires the people in charge to advance patiently.

Moreover, Zhou Mengchen also wanted to finish his responsibilities about the governors of the six provinces as soon as possible and hand over the overseas affairs to the Honglu Temple. Then he wrote to the court and sought to return to the capital again, but he didn't believe it. Zhou Mengchen could block him once, and he could also block the second and third time.

After all, one day, Mr. Zhou would stand on the stage of the cabinet.
Chapter completed!