Chapter 11                                                             �

Lin Run said: "Sir, after I have seen the method of salt drying, I have a deeper understanding of Qi. I feel that the method of salt drying has many improvements, so many salt fields are left."

After hearing this, Zhou Mengchen smiled secretly. He also knew that Lin Run was not smooth enough. He couldn't bear to let these things fill the mouths of those behind the scenes.

How could Zhou Mengchen give up? If possible, Zhou Mengchen also wanted to clean up the people behind him. In this way, the salt tax could be a lot more. But it is impossible.

Many people's roots go directly to the court, or even to the Da Nei.

Unless Zhou Mengchen rebelled, it would be impossible for him to purge him. He could only do so slowly.

However, Zhou Mengchen understood Lin Run's actions, and he did not go into it. Instead, he was very interested in improving the salt drying method. He said: "Oh, how do you plan to improve the salt drying method."

Lin Run breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Sir, please come with me."

Then he came to several courtyards by the sea.

The land is not valuable these days, let alone the land in the salt farm, which is even less valuable, so it is surrounded by a very large yard. After Zhou Mengchen entered, dozens of people immediately welcomed him. Zhou Mengchen saw the leader and said in some impression: "You are----"

"Student Chen Daozhi, pay a visit to the teacher." The man in his thirties said: "The student studied at Liuyi Academy and has listened to your class."

Zhou Mengchen was happy and said, "Not bad."

He was not happy about Chen Daozhi's accident, but about passing by Jiangnan, his theory of Zhou. He was no longer unknown and dared not say that he was a prestigious scholar in the world. However, if a person with a heart takes stock of the world's knowledge, he would inevitably say that Zhou Mengchen's Qixue was from last Zhou.

Whether Lin Run is flattering or truly believing in Qi, he set up a special research institution in the salt field. It is a good thing for Zhou Mengchen.

You should know that before this, such research institutions and research work were all initiated by Zhou Mengchen, who had been initiated by Zhou Mengchen's disciples. But now it was initiated by Lin Run, which shows that Qi is becoming more and more popular.

This was a great benefit for Zhou Mengchen to be extremely happy.

Zhou Mengchen immediately went to take a look at Chen Daozhi's research.

However, he was a little disappointed when he saw it.

Chen Daozhi's level is too limited. He is only studying some technical details of the salt drying method, how to better dry salt, and also recording and studying the weather. The reason is also very simple. The salt drying method is too dependent on sunlight.

Once the weather suddenly changes, the brine on the salt field will probably have to be done again.

These two topics are too simple and the other is too difficult.

The technical details of the salt drying method are necessary to study. Because the salt drying method is based on Fujian's salt drying method. It is an experience summary. It may not be all suitable. It may not be suitable for the sea water and climate here.

But this potential is also limited.

As for the study of meteorology.

In fact, the Beijing Imperial Heaven Supervision is an expert. But they have also developed something. They are just recording it. And summarizing some rules that seem to be proverbs, that's all.

After all, the chaotic system of meteorology is very difficult to study.

Zhou Mengchen didn't say anything, encouraged him to maintain his sensitivity to academic frontiers, read more journals, etc. The teacher's clichés at that time suddenly felt familiar.

Then a plaque was written for this: "The world's number one salt."

After a group of people inspected, the end was here.

However, Zhou Mengchen did not return to Yangzhou. Instead, he waited for two days. He waited for the Shanghai ship to pick it up, and then took the boat south, and arrived in Shanghai in just two days.

I haven't come to Shanghai for more than a year, and the changes that Shanghai has given people are changing with each passing day.

He was blocked outside Wusongkou.

The reason is that Hai Rui, the magistrate of Shanghai County, started the expansion project of Shanghai Port. Shanghai County itself undertakes more than 100,000 taels of funds to expand Shanghai Port. So now it is coming up from the Wusong River, with little space. A large number of ships are stranded outside.

Of course, it also includes Zhou Mengchen's ship.

In fact, Hai Rui had long wanted to expand Shanghai Port. Now he has just waited for the opportunity. However, Ningbo, Wentai, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Denglai and other places have opened ports one after another. It has attracted a large number of maritime merchants, which has alleviated the situation of Shanghai Port being overcrowded.

It's just that wealth is touching.

In the past two years, Shanghai Port occupied the only port of Kaigang, merchants from the Ming Dynasty came here. Shanghai expanded like a balloon.

All infrastructures are not good.

And other infrastructure is nothing more than that. First of all, it is not that important. Secondly, it is not too difficult to repair. The biggest difficulty is the port.

The dock that Zhou Mengchen built had overestimated the number of ships. But a year later, this number was far from enough. Although many of these ports opened in a year or two.

However, Hai Rui still firmly believes that Shanghai Port has an irreplaceable position in Daming. Although it will temporarily seize customers because of the opening of other places, over time, whether other customers flow into Shanghai or when they go to other places, merchants come back again.

Anyway, there are not enough ports in Shanghai today.

Therefore, Hairui went against the opposition and started the expansion project. This expansion occupied many berths, making the berths in Shanghai Port even less than enough. So a large number of ships were stagnant at Wusongkou.

Even a temporary wharf was established here in Wusongkou. It seems that sooner or later it will develop into an external port.

Xu Wei said, "Sir, I'll go and report it. I think Hai Rui dares not let the adults wait outside."

Zhou Mengchen said: "No, there is nothing wrong with waiting. This is also the real fireworks on earth."

So, until nightfall, they were not discussed.

Suddenly someone came to invite him on the boat next to him, saying that meeting him is worse than meeting him by chance, and today I am afraid that I can't enter the harbor. It's better for everyone to gather together.

Zhou Mengchen was also very interested when he heard this, but how dare the escorts around Zhou Mengchen let Zhou Mengchen board other people's ships? You know, these maritime merchants are honest here. That's because there are garrisons here at Wusongkou and a fleet of ships. Although they are all small boats, there are cannons on the ships. And behind them is the Ming Dynasty court, so these are honest.

What do they look like on the sea?

No one can say it.

No one can deny that even after the opening of the sea, a large number of merchants poured into the sea, but they did not wash away the image of maritime merchants and outlaws. Even under the stimulation of wealth, many people became even more desperate.

Even some people who gather in the forests of Xiaoxiaoshan felt that there was still a future at sea, and they changed from bandits to a promising profession of maritime businessmen. Of course, when necessary, they didn't mind doing some old business.

This is inevitable.

After all, many places on the sea are outside the law, and the Ming Dynasty's court cannot control it at all. That is the real law of the jungle. A businessman who can become bigger and stronger at the sea doesn't have many lives, and he himself doesn't believe it.

How could the people around Zhou Mengchen let Zhou Mengchen go there?

Helplessly, Zhou Mengchen could only become the organizer of this temporary banquet on the grounds that he was big.

I don’t know if the maritime businessmen around me were due to their connections or other ideas, but no one gathered.

So, when the lights first came on, the merchants around boarded Zhou Mengchen's ship.

Zhou Mengchen went out to greet him, and was the leader of a maritime businessman and said, "Have you seen this master?"

Zhou Mengchen was stunned and said, "Have you seen me?"

The maritime merchant said, "I have never met an adult, and I don't know who he is?"

Zhou Mengchen said: "Then you-----"

The sea merchant laughed and said, "I have seen this ship. It is a lucky ship from Jiangnan Shipyard. It is specially reinforced and can be equipped with heavy artillery. And the box on your ship is very special. It is placed on the cannon position. Moreover, everyone around you are all from the army. Especially this kind-hearted person has exposed his pistol."

"The ships, cannons, and these hand guns in the Jiangnan Shipyard are all rare objects. Idle people can't get them, so you are either an adult or a yamen."

Zhou Mengchen smiled and said, "Oh, why don't you think I'm a yamen?"

"My lord is joking," said the sea merchant: "How could your temperament be a yamen? Even if the adult has some romance, he definitely did not rely on romance to get to the present."
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