Chapter 51 Progress of Sun-salting Method

Seeing Li Xian like this, Zhou Chen sneered in his heart. He was really brave when he emptied the granary, but now he had no courage.

Zhou Chen said, "Sometimes it affects one person or the family, so you need to carefully consider it."

Li Xian couldn't bear it any longer and couldn't help but ask, "How should the court deal with the granary matter?"

Zhou Chen said, "How to deal with it, does it have anything to do with you?"

After listening to Zhou Chen's strange words for so long, how could Li Xian not know what Zhou Chen had already guessed? Li Xian knelt on the ground and said, "Sir, please save me."

Zhou Chen said, "What's going on with you? How can I save you if you don't explain it clearly?"

Li Xian said, "This matter was really not done by me. How could I do such a thing? This is sending my whole family to hell. It's just that such a cunning little official, they forced this matter to

If you fall on me, I only receive a thousand taels of silver from them every year as a filial piety. How dare you do such a thing?"

Zhou Chen didn't think Li Xian was lying. Since ancient times, Li Xian was not the only one who had been toyed with by the subordinate officials.

The first test of whether you are a capable minister is whether you will be led by the subordinates below.

And now, the assistant minister who has been hanging around in the household department was basically pushed up by the subordinates below. If anything was done under his banner, the money he got in the end was only one thousand taels. But when he left the affairs department, he was the one who

Bear in mind, his highest official position is that of the principal offender.

The junior officials below threw out a few more scapegoats, and most of them were given lighter punishments.

Zhou Chen said, "Master Li, I'm not talking about you. When this happens, you also have to think about what happens after you. From now on, whether your Li family is a scholar or a criminal, it all depends on you."

The word "shiji" originally means the status of a scholar in the ninth-rank system of the Wei and Jin Dynasties. In this case, it refers to Li Xian's current official status. Because he was an official, his descendants will have special care and various conveniences in their household registration.

Although there was no such thing as cold status in the Ming Dynasty, the systems of the Ming and Qing Dynasties were inherited from each other. Many of the rules of the Qing Dynasty were just the unspoken rules of the Ming Dynasty made explicit.

Having an official background in your family always has many advantages over a student with a poor family background.

Once he is involved in such a major case, and his descendants are regarded as family members of criminal officials and put into another register, it will be impossible for generations to get over.

Li Xian said, "As long as I make my debut, can I be the only one to be blamed? Don't implicate the family."

Zhou Chen said, "I can still guarantee you this."

After thinking about it, Li Siam finally made a decision and said, "Okay, I'll make the debut."

With Li Xian's appearance, the Jingcang fire case was quickly investigated. These junior officials are not very courageous.

The embezzlement was not too much, about 40,000 to 50,000 shi of grain. After two fires, the vacancy was almost reduced.

After Zhu Qizhen saw the results, he directly asked the Ministry of Punishment to deal with it severely to serve as a warning to others.

Zhu Qizhen has clearly felt that something is wrong with the limelight.

He didn't want the officials who were relatively clean in Yang Shiqi's time to decline out of control in his hands. It was rare for Yang Pu to have the same thinking as Zhu Qizhen.

Although Yang Pu has always said that this kind of chaos is the remnant of Wang Zhen.

Zhu Qizhen did some research and found that some people were indeed related to Wang Zhen.

Zhu Qizhen had to wake up. He was the emperor, and countless eyes were staring at him. If he relaxed a little here, he would loosen a foot below. If you think about it, you will know that Zhou Chen was the one who gave gifts to Wang Zhen.

It's to establish a relationship and to do things peacefully, but when you think about it, you know that more people don't have this idea.

If the previous appointment of thousands of households in the Ningbo guard station was not obvious enough, the consequences have now been revealed.

In Beijing, under Zhu Qizhen's nose, Wang Zhen naturally did not dare to go too far, but with foreign officials, Wang Zhen was naturally rude. Zhu Qizhen was very worried that the administrative situation outside the capital was worse than he imagined.

It is easy to learn well, but it is too easy to learn bad.

Zhu Qizhen's premonition soon turned out to be true.

Zhu Qizhen received Liu Dingzhi's memorial. Liu Dingzhi's memorial was specifically about the salt-drying method. Liu Dingzhi knew Zhu Qizhen's habits and took the trouble to introduce many technical details.

Only then did Zhu Qizhen realize that the salt-drying method introduced by Liu Dingzhi was a little different from the salt-drying method in his memory. Although the local salt-drying method in Fujian was called sun-dried salt, it was not what people imagined in the vast salt fields.

, but the sand is surrounded into a round mound. This piece of it is the one that is exposed to the sun.

The efficiency is higher than the salt frying method, but not to the level that Zhu Qizhen wants to beat him. The only thing is that it reduces the labor force. There is also a division of labor among the kitchen households. Some are dedicated to supplying firewood, and some are responsible for frying.

Salt, and the emergence of the salt-drying method freed up the people responsible for collecting firewood. They paid a sum of money for frying salt, then quit the salt field and went to do their own work.

After Liu Dingzhi took office, he released all these firewood farmers and classified them as civilians, exempting them from labor in the salt field.

Then Liu Dingzhi studied the salt-drying method and invented the salt field method without any teacher.

Adhering to Zhu Qizhen's idea of ​​a great division of labor, Liu Dingzhi chose several miles of coast to build salt fields, and then used military law to order kitchen households to work in separate teams.

Which team builds salt fields, which team dries salt, which team makes brine, which team transports clean salt, and so on.

It seemed like a simple thing, but Liu Dingzhi tried it repeatedly for two years before he succeeded.

There are two difficulties, one is the specific division of work

How to make a reasonable step? This is not difficult for Liu Dingzhi. Those who can get the number one scholar are the first-class smart people at that time.

The basic prototype of sun-dried salt was already in place, and it was not just something that was created out of nothing. Liu Dingzhi could do it as long as he worked hard.

After the difficulty, there is the weather in Fujian.

In a sense, Fujian is not suitable for drying salt, because Fujian has a lot of rainfall, and drying salt depends on the weather. If there is a heavy rain, the efforts of more than ten days will be in vain.

Liu Dingzhi didn't notice this at first. It was a heavy rain that taught Liu Dingzhi an education. Only then did he start to study the climate of Fujian carefully.

Choose to avoid rainy periods to dry salt. In this way, many times a year, you can only work for half a year. This is also because the efficiency of drying salt is high. The salt drying in this half year can make up for the quota of the previous year, and there is not much more.

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And because the Ming Dynasty implemented a salt-free system, the salt from the Fujian Salt Transportation Department could only be marketed in Fujian Province, so if there was too much production, it couldn't be bought.

Liu Dingzhi then went to the memorial. On the one hand, he summarized the salt-drying method into a book and sent it together. On the other hand, he asked Zhu Qizhen for instructions on what to do with the extra salt.

It cannot be sold locally in Fujian.

Zhu Qizhen himself reviewed his opinion, that is, it can be exported through customs. Anyway, Fujian's maritime trade has a solid foundation. After the provinces opened their seas, Fujian's maritime trade developed rapidly, even surpassing Tianjin Port, second only to Guangdong.

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Zhu Qizhen just asked the maritime merchant to test the waters to see if his idea was right. As a commodity, salt was feasible.

After Zhu Qizhen finished reviewing, he opened the illustration of the salt-drying method on the side.

There are pictures and text on it, which are similar to the pictures on Tiangong Kaiwu, with human figures outlined with brushes and various workmanship gestures.

Zhu Qizhen actually didn't quite understand it, and he didn't know how different the salt-drying method invented by Liu Dingzhi was from the ancient salt-drying method of later generations.

But Zhu Qizhen could see clearly that this was a complete document for division of labor.

In other words, it is feasible for Zhu Qizhen to improve production relations and thereby promote changes in productivity.

In an instant, Zhu Qizhen paid several orders of magnitude more attention to Liu Dingzhi. It was not unusual for him to be the top pick, but a person who could understand Zhu Qizhen's division of labor was very important.

It just so happened that the palace actually managed many workshops, such as Liulichang, Shenmuchang, this bureau and that bureau, and even the weapons and equipment factory produced some of them.

However, Zhu Qizhen's investigation revealed that these so-called factories are actually countless small workshops gathered together, which are essentially different from modern factories.

Many people get this question wrong.

It seems that all you need to do is build a steam engine with some golden fingers, but it ignores that without a modern factory system, small workshops do not actually need steam engines.
Chapter completed!