Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

Let Lu Hai find someone to teach Li Yan and Li Xin to learn mathematics, and the construction of Chi Hai finally ushered in a phased victory!

That is, the stepwise sun-dried salt fields in the interior of the Chihai Sea have been continuously built for more than a month. From the initial establishment of the salt fields to the present, the salt has finally been produced.

The scale of Yantian is larger than what Li Ke had planned at the beginning!The main reason is that the list of Tuyuhun nobles given by Murong Shun...is actually quite a lot, and the natural scale of so many people cannot be reduced.

And when Li Jing and the others knew that this thing was to prepare for the garrison in the future, they naturally made it as large as possible while they were busy enough.

Li Ke followed Lu Hai, and behind him were Li Daozong, Su Dingfang, Niu Jinda, Pei Xingjian, Li Yin, Li Yan, and Li Xin all followed.It can be said that all the high-level personnel of the Xizhou Protectorate are here.

When they entered the interior along the salt road accumulated in the middle, and saw the piles of snow-white salt mountains from a long distance, Li Daozong and the others were all stupid!

The difficulty of drying salt method is not high, but what was lacking in ancient times is the system of modern theory, and Li Ke has a perfect step and theoretical system in his hands, so it is inevitable to produce salt!The only biggest gap with modern times is that modern refined salt is released after removing impurities, adding iodine or not.

However, Li Ke never thought about the work of removing impurities in ancient times. Chemistry is still in its infancy, and it is impossible to remove impurities. That's why he chose Chaka Salt Lake because the salt here is of high quality. Filtration and other processes remove impurities visible to the naked eye, and after grinding into snow-white fine salt, it can be sold on the market.

The closer they got to the front, the more shocked Li Daozong and others were. When had they seen such snow-white table salt piled up like a mountain?What's this?This is gold!

And their surroundings have long been surrounded by soldiers. Except for the prisoners of the Tuyuhunyuan nobles who work here, the rest are the elite troops of the Tang Dynasty, and everyone else is strictly prohibited from approaching the vicinity of Chihai.

Jiang Feng, the master craftsman responsible for the construction of Yantian, is about 40 years old this year. He has hundreds of apprentices behind him, and these apprentices also need to work.But they don't need to be coolies, they only need to be responsible for the process, record relevant data and so on.

"Jiang Feng report."

"It's Your Highness, the total amount of salt we produced in this batch is 2232 shi. According to our current statistics, we can produce such a batch of salt in about 5 days! But when autumn or even winter comes, the time to produce salt will definitely It will gradually decrease, and we don't know whether we can produce salt in winter, and we need to test it this winter." Jiang Feng immediately gave an accurate figure.

Li Ke did some calculations in his mind, and soon came up with a figure, which was about 133 tons of salt.

Leaning over, Li Ke picked up a pinch of salt and threw it into his mouth, and tasted it carefully. There was no other miscellaneous taste, only a simple salty taste.You must know that almost all the salt in the Tang Dynasty has a certain bitterness. Even the salt eaten by the royal family is only very light in bitterness, which cannot be tasted after cooking, but it does exist.

And these salts don't.

"Everyone, this is why I chose to build a city here, and I am sure to station [-] elite soldiers! I don't need to say the cost of these salts, and you all know it in your own mind. The main cost of transporting them to various parts of the Tang Dynasty is the transportation fee." , but actually, because we have to spend a fortune to get enough food here."

"Then when the transportation team goes back, the cost of salt transportation that can be pulled will be greatly reduced!"

"About [-]% of the profits from Yantian here will be spent on the road to transport food to here, that is, the money spent on hiring those old and retired government soldiers, and the remaining [-]% will stay in the Xizhou Protectorate. Become the military salary of all the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty here, as well as other benefits in the future."

"The remaining [-]% is for other purposes."

"With these salts, Your Highness, I can assure you that the whole Tuyuhun is as strong as gold soup." Li Daozong said excitedly.

"Well, I believe that since the salt is out now, our next step plan can start. Since everyone is here today, let me talk about the next step plan." Li Ke said with a smile.

Everyone immediately began to listen seriously. Li Yan and Li Xin took out a notebook and pencil from somewhere and were ready to record, and the same was true for Pei Xingjian next to him. The pencil was naturally given to them by Li Ke. There are a lot of consumables in the building. If only a few people use it, it will be enough for them to die.

Not to mention Jiang Feng, there is an unwritten rule in Yuelai Trading Company, everyone who is around Li Ke must prepare paper and pen at any time to record what Li Ke said.

Because what His Highness said may at some point be golden and jaded words that will benefit the entire Yuelai Firm.But what Jiang Feng used was not a pencil, but a charcoal pencil, which was the prototype of a pencil.

"The first is to count the number of herdsmen in the entire Xizhou, and send these herdsmen whom we trust so far to help spread the word to them in all the places where there may be herdsmen in the entire Xizhou. All the Yongye horses will be distributed, and besides that, a large military horse farm will be set up to join forces with the Shandan military horse farm in Qilian Mountains to jointly cultivate the war horse system of the Tang Dynasty."

"In addition, as I said before, the letters are written by the soldiers. They have families who are willing to migrate. We pay for them to migrate to Xizhou with the caravan and plant in the Huangshui Valley, and some of them are willing to farm. Herdsmen can also be converted into agricultural households."

"The fields here will each be allocated [-] acres of Yongye fields, and the remaining [-] acres will be forced to plant cauliflower (later rapeseed flowers) for oil extraction." Li Ke added, " The reason why cauliflower is planted is that besides extracting oil, cauliflower can also fertilize the field.”

"If you continue to rotate crops, the fertility of the land will not decrease. The reason for oil extraction is that with the popularity of iron utensils in the Tang Dynasty, more and more people will be able to afford iron pots, and the stir-fry dishes I developed will inevitably become popular all over the world." Tang, just the restaurants and restaurants all over Datang can consume the rapeseed oil squeezed from the cauliflower we grow."

"These are all profits, which can increase the income of ordinary people in Xizhou! In addition, I will send people to start exploring along the official road from here to Chang'an, and select a site."

"Then build a service area next to all the post stations on the official road."

"Your Highness, what is the service area?" Li Daozong was a little puzzled.

"The service area, as the name suggests, is for the caravans on the official road. From now on, there will be a lot of caravans going to Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty from Xizhou. In addition to the Yellow River waterway, there will inevitably be a large number of land roads. caravan."

"As for the main official roads on the land route, a service area is established at a certain distance. In the service area, nearby refugees or some homeless people can be accommodated. Take charge and let them sell tea and meals inside, in this way, the food pressure carried by the caravan will be transferred to the service area."

"After the service area of ​​the entire official road is completed, a caravan from Chang'an to Xizhou, if the time is arranged, they don't even need to carry food. In this way, their caravan can carry more goods and materials." Li Ke explained road.

Li Daozong and others looked at Li Ke with bright eyes. Your Highness is too far-sighted... Obviously, His Highness has thought clearly about this a long time ago, which means that His Highness supports...not just Xizhou, but a large amount of output through Xizhou Salt, as well as food, cloth and other logistics materials that need to be transported to Xizhou, gradually pulled all the local government soldiers along the official road to make money.

This means that the government soldiers all over the world will get sufficient income protection, especially those Fu soldiers who are injured and discharged home.

However, Li Ke still has nothing to say, the construction of the service area, with the arrival of Chang'an to Xizhou, there will inevitably be people to learn from later, or the establishment of Yuelai Commercial Bank gradually, then these service areas will eventually form a complete, spread all over Datang Regional intelligence delivery channels.

Everyone in the service area may be the one who delivers the information, and it will not be limited to the current Yuelai Commercial Bank.And there is another invisible benefit, that is, to allow currency to circulate completely and gradually replace currency substitutes such as silk.

But there is a prerequisite for this, that is, Datang must have enough copper coins, and the powerful family has buried a large amount of copper coins.Among the members received by a mall, there are many coins from the previous dynasty mixed in.