Urban Sims

Chapter 97
"This... Jian'er, can these strategies really work?"

Tian Feng looked at his son in disbelief.

The detailed and feasible plan in front of him was really written by his son?

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

I also said that I saw it from some miscellaneous books...

Zhou Ming said with certainty: "It will definitely be done, father, you actually don't know that Haiping County is much better than other places. Developing some industries here has many unimaginable advantages over other places. and benefits."

"But this... the combination of agriculture and animal husbandry you mentioned. It takes half of the land to raise cattle, horses and livestock. Isn't that too wasteful? 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 the sea water be dried to produce salt? Cooking it with firewood is almost the same. If it can be dried, why don't others do it? You have to wait until you do it to produce salt?"

There is also the development of marine fishing, which is even more unreliable. First of all, the Tian family does not have so many fishermen and fishing boats. 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, listen to me."

Zhou Ming stepped forward and explained: "The combination of agriculture and animal husbandry has more advantages and multiple advantages than the simple rotation of wheat and soybeans. One is that there are more fallow land, and the fertility of the land can be better maintained. The other is that there are more livestock. Yes, the burden on the tenant farmers has been greatly reduced, and there will be more manpower and manpower that can be freed. Three, the idle manpower and manpower have increased. Whether it is sea salt drying or the development of ocean fishing, there are enough manpower to participate. , create greater economic benefits!"

After a pause, Zhou Ming said in a clear and clear way: "As for whether drying salt in sea water can be done, father, let's follow the method in the ancient book, first get a small place, and try it out. It won'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 those sea fish cannot be processed? Boil them in the sun and marinate them with salt to make dried salted fish. Are you afraid that you won’t be able to sell it?”

"This……"

Listening to the three interlocking and closely related plans, his father Tian Feng had to admit that if what his son Tian Jian said was true, this plan was really 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 [-] mu of fertile land, and the grain alone can harvest hundreds of thousands of shi every year, which is equivalent to tens of thousands of copper coins. There is no need to worry about food, clothing or money, so why do those things?
It's better to study hard, strive to be admitted to Jinshi, and become a high-ranking official, so that the Haipingtian family, which has had no children for hundreds of years, can make a name for themselves and become a famous county again...

Seeing that the enthusiasm on his father Tian Feng's face gradually faded, his attitude towards the plan in front of him became indifferent and negative, and he began to put on a straight face, ready to reprimand himself, Zhou Ming's words immediately made him extremely dissatisfied. Calm down:

"Father, don't you want to take back the ancestral tablet 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 on the table and said: "The reason why the Guangling Tian family can become a family with six surnames and eight families is nothing more than two things, one is power, and the other is salt, and salt is the foundation of the Guangling Tian family. If the Changlu Salt Farm did not bring tens of millions of income to the Guangling Tian family every year, the Guangling Tian family would not have such a strong capital to help their clansmen enter the court development, nor would they have the capital to spend a lot of resources to subsidize this dynasty. Ancestor, help him seize the world and become one of Lingyan Pavilion's 72 founding feats..."

Zhou Ming said deafeningly: "So, my lord father, don't ignore the importance of money at any time. If you want to subdue the Guangling Tian family and force them to return their ancestral genealogy to the original family, our Tian family, apart from doing something 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 face changed, and he became extremely serious and serious. He re-examined the proposal in front of him, muttering the words "salt", "sea fish", "Guangling Tian's family" and "family tree" from time to time, and suddenly he slapped 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 if you try it."

"Then try it!"

……

In the next two months, my father, who used to drink and chat with his friends often, and was romantic with his wife all day, had a rare career ambition. He didn't need to be supervised by others, so he followed the plan in Zhou Ming's plan and started from the manor land. [-] mu of fertile land was set aside to experiment with a new farming model of half-agriculture and half-pastoralism.Then I personally took thousands of tenant farmers to the east, [-] miles away, on the edge of the seawater soaking area, picked soil to build embankments, and reclaimed land from the sea. After fighting for more than a month, I finally built a salt field with an area of ​​about [-] mu.

Today, the wind and the sun are beautiful.

After 25 days of evaporating 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 pottery pots in the crystallization pond. A few handfuls of firewood were added under the pot to speed up the evaporation of water in the brine.

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

"There is also salt coming out here!"

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

Good news came from more than a dozen large flat-bottomed pottery pots that had been set on the earthen stove for a while.

The large pottery pot continued to refine for three days. After filtration and purification, the first batch of sea salt with a total weight of nearly five tons was loaded together and transported to the large warehouse in Wubao.

Before entering the warehouse, he opened a salt bag containing salt, picked up a pinch of sea salt with fine particles and white as winter snow with his fingers, put it in his mouth and tasted it, Zhou Ming nodded and said: "It tastes good, it is the first-class Good salt should be able to sell for a good price, but the output is too low, a 100-acre salt field can only extract 1 shi of sea salt (50 shi = [-]kg) a month."

The father Tian Feng, whose skin has been tanned a lot recently, said excitedly: "A lot of Jian'er, this 100 rock salt is almost enough for everyone in the village to eat for a year, and we don't have to buy it from salt merchants anymore." Here, buy those poor salt with high price and low quality!"

"Eating alone is not enough!"

He was slightly startled by his son's words, but he heard a thunderous message in his ears: "If possible, we can take the large area soaked in seawater in Haiping County and go east for fifteen miles, and build a road with a total length of eight miles. A 30-mile, 750-meter-high seawall surrounds a [-]-acre salt field. As long as two batches of salt are exposed to the sun in the two months with the least rainfall in a year, [-] million halite can be obtained from this salt field. Salt, let alone a small Tianjiazhuang, all the people in the Great Zhou Kingdom may not be able to eat so much salt."

This……

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

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