Urban Sims

"This... Jian'er, are these strategies really feasible?"

Tian Feng looked at his son in disbelief.

Was the detailed and feasible plan in front of me really written by his son?

He's only six years old, but he already knows so many things that even he doesn't know?

He also said that he read it in some miscellaneous books...

Zhou Ming said with determination: "It will definitely happen. Father, you actually don't know that Haiping County is much better than other places. The development of some industries here has many unimaginable advantages over other places." and benefits."

"But this... the combined agriculture and animal husbandry you are talking about, isn't it too wasteful to use half of the land to raise cattle, horses and livestock? That's tens of thousands of acres of fertile land!"

"There is also sea salt..."

His father, Tian Fenggeng, said with a look of disbelief: "How can salt be produced from sea water? It's almost enough to cook it with firewood. If it can be dried, why don't others dry it? They have to wait until you dry it to produce salt?"

There is also the development of ocean fishing, which is even more unreliable. First of all, the Tian family does not have that many fishermen and fishing boats. Even if they get a group of fishermen and boats to go out to sea to fish, not to mention risking strong winds, waves and life risks, those Even if the sea fish are brought back, if they are put on the shore to dry, they will soon become fishy and smelly, and they cannot be eaten at all.

"Father, please listen to me."

Zhou Ming stepped forward and explained: "The combined farming and animal husbandry farming model actually has greater advantages and multiple advantages than the simple wheat and soybean rotation. One is that there is more fallow land, and the land fertility can be better maintained. The other is that there are more livestock. Now, the burden on the tenant farmers has been greatly reduced, and more manpower and manpower can be freed up. Three, idle manpower and manpower have increased. Whether it is seawater salting or the development of ocean fishing, there are enough manpower to participate. , create greater economic benefits!”

After a pause, Zhou Ming said clearly and clearly: "As for whether seawater salting can work, father, let's just follow the method in the ancient book and make a small area to test it. It doesn't take much manpower and time. .As for the fish caught in the sea, as long as the sea salt salt test is successful and there is enough salt, are you afraid that the sea fish cannot be processed? Cook it, dry it, and pickle it with salt to make dried salted fish. Are you still worried that you won’t be able to sell it?”

"this……"

Listening to these three interlocking and closely related plans, his father Tian Feng had to admit that if what his son Tian Jian said were true, this plan would be quite feasible.

But……

My own son, if he doesn't study the Five Books and Six Classics carefully, and glorify the lintel of Tian's family, so as to comfort the spirit of the ancestors in heaven, why study these things all day long?

Besides, the Tian family has 100,000 acres of fertile farmland. From the grain alone, they can harvest hundreds of thousands of dan, which is equivalent to tens of thousands of copper coins. They have no worries about food, clothing, and money, so why do they do all that?

It is better to study hard, strive to be admitted to the Jinshi, and become a high official. Only in this way can the Haipingtian family, which has not had a son become an official for hundreds of years, make a name for itself and become a famous county official again...

Seeing that the enthusiasm on his father Tian Feng's face gradually faded away, his attitude towards the plan in front of him became cold and negative, and he started to keep a straight face. When he was about to scold himself, Zhou Ming's words immediately made him extremely unhappy. Calm down:

"Father, don't you want to take back the ancestral tablets and genealogy that originally belonged to the Haipingtian family from the Guanglingtian family in your lifetime?"

These words seemed to have stabbed his father Tian Feng's G-spot, he blushed immediately, glared at Zhou Ming and said, "Why did you say that?"

Zhou Ming pointed to the plan book on the table and said: "The reason why the Guanglingtian family can become one of the eight families with six surnames is nothing more than two things, one is power and the other is salt, and salt is the foundation of the Guanglingtian family. If it were not for the Changlu Salt Farm, which brings tens of millions of dollars in income to the Guanglingtian family every year, the Guanglingtian family would not have such strong capital to help its people enter the court and develop, nor would they have the capital to devote massive resources to support the imperial family. Ancestor, help him seize the world and become one of the seventy-two founding meritorious service of Lingyan Pavilion..."

Zhou Ming said with great enthusiasm: "So, father, never ignore the importance of money at any time. If you want to subdue the Guangling Tian family and force them to return the ancestral tablet genealogy to the original family, our Tian family, in addition to making a difference in the court, In terms of money, it must also reach a level that can be compared with the Guangling Tian family, or even better!"

Father Tian Feng's expression changed and became extremely serious and serious. He re-examined the plan in front of him and murmured the words "salt", "sea fish", "Guanglingtian family" and "genealogy" from time to time. Suddenly, he took a shot table, grabbed the plan, looked at Zhou Ming and said, "Jianer, are these three strategies really feasible?"

"Whether it's feasible or not, you'll know after you try it."

"Then let's try!"

…

For more than two months after that, my father, who often drank and chatted with his friends and had a romantic relationship with his wife all day long, suddenly became more ambitious. He did not need supervision from others and followed the plan in Zhou Ming's plan to start from the manor land. 10,000 mu of fertile land was set aside to experiment with a new farming model of half-agriculture and half-pastoralism. Then he personally led thousands of tenant farmers to the edge of the seawater soaking area 20 miles away to carry earth to build embankments and reclaim land from the sea. After more than a month of hard work, he finally built a salt field with an area of ​​about 20 acres.

Today, the wind and the sun are beautiful.

After twenty-five days of evaporation and drying, the seawater in the evaporation pond, which accounts for about 95% of the total area of ​​the salt field, is evaporated into brine with a salinity close to saturation, and then introduced into the dozens of large flat-bottomed clay pots in the crystallization pond. , adding a few handfuls of firewood under the pottery pot to speed up the evaporation of the salt brine.

After a while, the old salt worker, who was constantly stirring with a wooden stick, saw some fine translucent crystal particles appearing in the lower part of the wooden stick, and immediately shouted excitedly: "Salt is produced, brine is salted!"

"There's salt coming out here too!"

"It's so easy! It's so easy to produce salt from these brine that has been in the sun for many days!"

The dozen or so large flat-bottomed earthenware pots that had been burning on the earth stove for a while came with good news one after another.

The large clay pot refined the salt continuously for three days. After filtration and purification, the first batch of sea salt, with a total weight of nearly five tons, was loaded onto a truck and transported to the large warehouse in Wubao.

Before putting it into storage, he opened a bag of salt and picked up a handful of sea salt with uniform particles and white as winter snow. He put it in his mouth and tasted it. Zhou Ming nodded and said, "It tastes good, it's top quality." Good salt should be sold at a good price, but the output is too low. A 20-acre salt field can only extract 100 stones of sea salt a month (1 stone = 50kg)."

On the side, his father Tian Feng, whose skin has been tanned a lot recently, said excitedly: "That's a lot of Jian'er. These 100 rock salt are almost enough for everyone in the village to eat for a year. We no longer have to buy salt from the salt merchants." Here, buy those poor salts that are overpriced and of poor quality!”

“It’s not enough to eat alone!”

His son's words startled him slightly, but then he heard a thunderous message in his ears: "If possible, we can take the large area soaked in seawater in Haiping County and build it fifteen miles to the east, and build a road with a total length of eight miles. A seawall of ten miles and ten meters high surrounds a 300,000-acre salt field. From this salt field, as long as two batches of salt are dried in the two months with the least rainfall a year, 7.5 million rock salt can be obtained. So much Salt, not to mention a small Tianjiazhuang, even all the people in the Zhou Kingdom may not be able to eat so much salt."

this……

Father Tian Feng was dumbfounded, his heart beating violently, and he didn't know what to say.

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