Daqin: At the beginning, the father-in-law was invited to rebel, but the father-in-law turned out to

In the palace, the three of Li Si watched Brother Zheng and Meng Tian come back.

Immediately got up and greeted.

"His Majesty!"

Brother Zheng waved his hand and said, "Go inside and talk."

They followed Brother Zheng back to the palace.

Li Si couldn't wait, so he asked on the way: "Your Majesty, may I ask how the sweet potatoes in Songjiazhuang are growing? Are they really growing seedlings?"

Meng Yi Wang Jian also held his breath and pricked up his ears.

Brother Zheng said slowly: "There are indeed seedlings, but how many there are, I can't tell now, I advise you not to have too much hope, if it is just an ordinary grain production, wouldn't it be a waste of hope?"

This is also Brother Zheng's own voice, he just looks at the sweet potatoes that Song Yuan is talking about with a normal heart.

The three of Li Si were also stunned. Now that they thought about it, they were indeed dazed. After all, the yield per mu was 2000 jin and the yield per mu was 6000 jin.

Brother Zheng saw that the three of them suddenly realized, and took out a bottle of refined salt at the right time, and then said, "Okay, don't think about sweet potatoes, let's take a look at this thing first!"

The three of Li Si immediately calmed down and looked at the pottery bottle in Brother Zheng's hand seriously.

Inside the pottery bottle is a pool of white.

The three were puzzled and looked at each other, but they couldn't see what was in the vase at all.

After a while, Meng Yi scratched his head and said, "Your Majesty, is your bottle filled with snow? But it didn't snow in Xianyang today?"

"Hahaha!"

Brother Zheng laughed, and he guessed that these people would regard refined salt as white snow.

Seeing His Majesty laughing out loud, the three of them looked confused again.

Meng Yi was even more surprised, Your Majesty seems to be in a good mood today?He also glanced at Meng Tian for help.

Meng Tian looked at his nose, nose and heart, as if he didn't know anything.

After a while, Brother Zheng said: "Since you can't guess it, I will tell you mercifully that this thing is not white snow, but refined salt!"

Refined salt?

Salt?

This thing is salt?

Your Majesty, are you sure you didn't tease us?

The three of Li Si were stunned, looking at the salt in the vase, which was as fine as snow and without any impurities, they were stunned.

How could this be salt?

Brother Zheng looked at the dubious faces of the three of them, and said, "You might as well give it a try!"

Meng Yi was bolder, reached in and dipped a little, then put it in his mouth.

"!"

Really salt!It's just that this salty taste is too pure, and there is no peculiar smell at all!

"How about it?"

Seeing Meng Yi's constantly changing face, Wang Jian hurriedly asked.

Meng Yi thought about it again, and then said: "It's really salt, and the quality of this salt is even better than that in the palace!"

Wang Jian was surprised, tried it too, and was immediately amazed.

Seeing this, Li Si couldn't hold back anymore, took a sip, and said with curiosity on his face, "Your Majesty, where did this refined salt come from?"

Since Brother Zheng has decided to be Song Yuan's private salt dealer, he naturally won't hide it.

He said, "This refined salt is from Songjiazhuang. Song Yuan invented a new method of making salt. He can produce the refined salt in front of him for the cost of refining crude salt!"

The three of Li Si were surprised, this salt was actually invented by Song Yuan?

But when they thought of the various inventions before, they were relieved again. After all, it was Song Yuan, an old inventor.

Li Si looked at the refined salt in the bottle. He thought of the liquor from before, and asked, "Your Majesty, why did Song Yuan make refined salt? Could it be that he wants to sell it privately?"

Brother Zheng smiled and said, "As expected of my prime minister, what Li Si said is right, that kid made refined salt for private sale."

The three of them were slightly absent-minded.

This is another head-scratching thing, but now His Majesty brought the refined salt to the palace and introduced it to himself and others.

It seems that it is not that simple.

And the refined salt in front of them is indeed much better than those coarse salts, if they can choose, they choose refined salt.

Li Si said, "Your Majesty intends to help Song Yuan sell it?"

Brother Zheng nodded and said: "This kid is short of money now, and refined salt is good, so naturally I sold it for him."

"Is he short of money again? I bought a hundred bottles of wine yesterday!"

Wang Jian blew his beard and stared. Song Yuan made so much money from liquor, why is he still short of money?

Li Si and Meng Yi were also curious.

Brother Zheng explained and told about the steel plant and other things.

The three of Li Si were shocked again, Song Yuan really had endless ideas, and they were very meticulous, one link after another, really following the development of the rebellion!

Similarly, he also looked forward to the new type of steel that Song Yuan was talking about. After all, Song Yuan took out refined salt to pave the way.

Compared with this new type of steel, it will not be worse.

Brother Zheng also sighed, and then said: "This kid is very shrewd. This refined salt and steel are all things in the official mountains and seas. He took out these two things not only for development, but also for the sake of being able to rely on them after becoming emperor." These two things continue to be taxed!"

The three of Li Si were stunned again, Song Yuan really had far-sightedness, he was a good seed for rebellion!

After some emotion.

Brother Zheng also put away the refined salt, and said, "But at least for now, Song Yuan's refined salt will only benefit my government and the public, just like Quyuanli and waterwheels!"

"Your Majesty is brilliant!"

Li Si lined up to flatter, and the rest joined in.

Brother Zheng was very useful, his eyes narrowed, and he asked after a while: "Speaking of Quyuanli, Li Si, how is Quyuanli promoted now, and how is the effect?".

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Li Si was clever, thought for a while, and answered quickly.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, according to your instructions, Quyuanli has now been promoted around Guanzhong, and the effect is very remarkable. Farmland in many areas has been reclaimed and farming has begun!"

Brother Zheng nodded and said, "You must remember that there should be no Quyuanli within Xianyang, especially other villages around Songjiazhuang!"

Li Si nodded quickly.

Although Song Yuan's village faces the river on one side and the mountain on the other side, there is only one intersection in the whole village, and the nearest village to Songjiazhuang is also hundreds of miles away.

Even though Song Yuan hasn't been out of the house for five years, it's hard to say if Song Yuan will make any moves now that he's turned around.

In order not to expose His Majesty's identity, everything must be done carefully

Brother Zheng said again at this time: "There is no doubt that Song Yuan's invention is great. Li Si, spend more time in the past few days, watching the craftsmen make the waterwheel, complete the experiment as soon as possible, and then continue to promote it!"

"Yes!"

After all the orders were finished, Brother Zheng also started to deal with the government affairs.

After staying in Songjiazhuang for seven days, many important memorials have been accumulated and have not been dealt with. It is estimated that Brother Zheng will not be able to leave Xianyang City in the past few days.

Afraid that he was going to miss something again, Brother Zheng sighed helplessly, and subconsciously wanted to smoke, but he didn't.

I had no choice but to bury my head and start processing the memorial, trying to go to Songjiazhuang as soon as possible.

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Songjiazhuang.

Song Yuan arranged for Song Yunlong to bring ten Song family troops to Xianyang City to buy iron ore, then took out the blueprints and asked the craftsmen in the village workshop to modify the furnace for the next iron smelting.

In fact, it is said that Daqin's iron smelting technology is very poor, and it is only based on the strong bronze technology.

If you look at the whole world, Daqin's iron smelting technology is also outstanding.

Under normal circumstances, Daqin's iron smelting uses low-temperature smelting. First, the iron ore is solid-state reduced into sponge iron, and then forged into iron blocks.

By the time of the Spring and Autumn Period, this technology had been perfected. By the end of the Warring States period, iron smelting technology had improved, and people had decarburized through multiple forgings, and then made incomplete cast iron decarburized steel parts.

It can be said that pig iron and steelmaking technology appeared as early as the Qin Dynasty.

However, it does not mean that the ironware of the Qin Dynasty was very powerful, because the whole process was smelted at low temperature, and the ironware at this time had common problems.

It is because there is no high-temperature forging, which leads to a lot of impurities in ironware, and its hardness and toughness are completely inferior to bronze wares.

There is also the saying that on the battlefield, iron objects will be broken when touched, and broken when cut.

So so far, the ironware of the Qin Dynasty has been widely used in agricultural tools.

However, these problems are very simple to solve.

In the Western Han Dynasty, the common people invented the blower to increase the temperature of the furnace and carry out high-temperature forging.

As for Songjiazhuang, the technology has just been enlightened, and Song Yuan also intends to renovate the workshop according to the ironmaking method of the Western Han Dynasty.

A blower was added, the furnace was transformed into a larger shaft furnace, and a blast furnace base was added.

Of course, the hardware needs to be improved, and the software is waiting to keep up. I signed in before and got a new forging method for forged steel.

It is said that it can increase the efficiency by half, reduce more impurities, and the decarburization effect is remarkable, etc. Generally speaking, it is more than twice as strong as the ordinary forging method!

Song Yuan planned to improve the stove, so he handed it over to the craftsmen for trial use.

After the iron smelting work was ready, Song Yuan started to make salt.

After all, if you want to build a steel plant, everything must start with making money.

Moreover, his father-in-law had already gone to help him open up private sales channels, so Song Yuan naturally wanted to start making salt as soon as possible.

Because Daqin’s salt production technology is not high, basically there are three processes of filtration, exposure and cooking, so the obtained salt is generally coarse salt with many impurities.

Even in order to reduce impurities, salt fields in many places use the finest salt mines for salt production.

This also comes with a bonus.

Officials will deal with those salt rocks with a lot of impurities at a low price.

And Song Yuan has a system rewarded salt production method, which can extract fine salt from these salt rocks.

So Song Yuan had asked people to buy large quantities of salt stones early on.

Now the villagers have begun to expose themselves to the sun behind the village.

In about three days, the first batch of refined salt can be made.

And such a large-scale salt production, Song Yuan is not worried about being discovered.

Songjiazhuang has a river on one side and a mountain on the other. There is only one intersection. There are more than 1 people in the village, more than half of whom were rescued during the plague. The rest of the refugees in Song Yuan are all loyal.

There is absolutely no need to worry about internal spies.

Of course, the plate is getting bigger, so we still have to be careful. Facing such a big village with five hundred private soldiers, it is very difficult to defend, and the training needs to continue.

But because there was no extra spiritual water, Song Yuan could only let Song Jiajun lead the villagers to train and improve step by step.

By the time everything was planned, it was already dark.

Song Yuan sorted out the overall development plan again, and secretly said in his heart: As long as his father-in-law opens the refined salt channel, Songjiazhuang will enter a leap-forward development!

He is also confident that everything that has been arranged today can make him stunned when his father-in-law comes next time! .

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