Chapter 39: A Dream Come True
"One tael of silver and ten catties of salt, one tael of silver and ten catties of salt!"
Chen Yushi couldn't stop chattering this sentence, the whole person seemed to be crazy, crying and laughing, laughing and laughing, crying and laughing!
"Quick, go and get the imperial doctor!"
Xiao Guogong is still well-informed, and when he saw Chen Yushi's appearance, he should have been suddenly stimulated, and he had to calm down first.
"Long live Your Majesty, long live!"
Although Chen Yushi was crazy, after seeing Emperor Yang of Sui, he knelt down without hesitation and shouted long live, but in his hand, he grabbed a handful of snow-white salt.
That kind of white salt is the finest official salt of the Great Sui Dynasty.
Ten taels of silver and a pound of salt, and today in this room, a few of them only took an hour or two to conjure up official salt.
According to the current method of salt production, so much salt is sunburned, and the best weather in the shortest time takes more than five days, and the salt that is dried is at least more than ninety percent of the inferior salt.
What is this concept?
It's just that all the people present are crazy, it's terrible, Your Majesty's method simply subverts everyone's cognition.
Especially the little official, who has been working on the salt well for generations, and what the ears hear and the eyes see, the way people make salt from ancient times to the present day is to rely on the sun to dry salt.
No one ever thought that one day they would be able to put the brine, the raw material for making salt, into a pot and boil?
And this method is faster and more convenient, and can double, no, ten times or even more than a hundred times the yield of this salt production, and the benefits are simply unimaginable.
As long as the brine is sufficient, there are many hard laborers and laborers in the Great Sui who have no fields, and let these people cook salt, the consequences are obvious.
Perhaps, a large amount of salt output is enough to fill the treasury of the Great Sui, and the common people can eat salt cheaply, one tael of silver and ten catties of salt.
With the extra silver, you can buy more and better things.
"The fortune value of the country from Chen Yushi is 666+"
"The luck of the country from the small official is worth 200+"
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There were people kneeling on the ground, all shouting long live long live, and although the temperature in the room was high, no one cared.
Whether it was Empress Xiao or Xiao Guogong, they all looked at the snow-white salt in the pan in surprise at this time!
I couldn't close my mouth when I smiled.
At this time, they realized that just now they had witnessed a miracle together, and with this method of making salt, the problem of eating salt would soon be solved.
With so much salt, they could use the easily available salt to go to the grassland in exchange for a large number of cows, horses, wool blankets, etc.
A profitable business!
It is difficult for the country not to win.
When the imperial doctor came, he found that it was Chen Yushi again, so he simply checked him well, fortunately, the problem was not big, it was just because he was too excited,
After prescribing a few pairs of medicines, Emperor Yang of Sui asked the little eunuch to send him out of the palace this time, but let Li Shan tell him a word.
The method of boiling salt is the highest secret, and no one can tell it, so Chen Yushi naturally knew the seriousness of this matter, and nodded vigorously, but he burst into tears.
After Chen Yushi was summoned to the palace, when he came out again, he was sent out by the imperial doctor, and at this time, many neutral officials in the court couldn't sit still.
After hearing that Chen Yushi had submitted his resignation, I was afraid that he would soon leave Luoyang City.
Come to think of it, after he was summoned by His Majesty, he was afraid.
This day of companionship is like a tiger, but it is a mediocre and incompetent lord, when will this day be a head!
This night, Chen Yushi didn't sleep, he was very excited, he kept muttering in his mouth over and over, fortunately, he met Mingjun!
Poor God!
Xiao Shan, Wang Chaogui and the little official were all left in the palace, and they had been thinking about how to cook the best salt, and Emperor Yang of Sui also summoned Wang Chaogui.
I asked him if there was a salt well near the sea, or if there was a sea salt pond, which could be used to make salt in large quantities!
Wang Chaogui was an official in charge of the salt industry in the household department, and he was naturally well aware of the salt-producing areas of the Great Sui Dynasty, and the reason why the output of the salt industry was low was simply the method of salt production.
If they could boil salt, they could have made holes in the ground, and then brought brine from above, and sent people to burn wood in the holes.
In the case of high temperatures, a lot of salt can be produced in less than a day, instead of boiling salt in a cauldron like they did in the palace.
In that case, the yield of salt is higher.
Some of Wang Chaogui's ideas made Emperor Yang of Sui very happy, and his son can be taught, and this Wang Chaogui is also a person with brains and hard work.
Soon, he handed over the task of boiling salt and improving the method of making salt to Wang Chaogui and the little officials, and asked them to ensure that they would not reduce the tax income within half a year.
Reduce the price of salt by two to three times.
Wang Chaogui knelt down cautiously, kowtowed like Yang Guang, and swore an oath.
"Your Majesty, this is a good opportunity that I have never dreamed of in my life, this will make my name forever remembered with the salt industry of the Great Sui, and I will use my life to guarantee that I will definitely promote this method of salt production......"
That Wang Chaogui was like being beaten with chicken blood at this time, and he was extremely excited.
Although he is a squire of the household department, he is not very valued, but if he gets the output of salt up, it will be a great achievement!
It's more than enough to be a household waiter, and it's also a kind of exercise, and he likes it very much.
The eldest husband is alive, if he doesn't seek fame and fortune, what is the point!
What he likes is nothing more than a good name, and if he gets the production up during his tenure, he will be praised for a hundred years, which is too attractive to him.
"The fortune of the country from the noble dynasty is 333+"
Hey, this dynasty is actually loyal to the Great Sui Dynasty, that is very rare, Yang Guang looked at the backstage, and was secretly happy in his heart.
The five cauldrons only took half a day's work, and finally harvested nearly 100 catties of high-quality salt.
If it was according to the market price at that time, a pound of high-grade salt would cost ten taels of silver, and there would be thousands of taels of silver in this half a day's work, which would be only five cauldrons.
Today, whether it is Chen Yushi or Xiao Guogong, almost everyone is immersed in a kind of ecstasy and shock.
Xiao Guogong returned to the mansion after leaving the palace, and specially ordered to dig out his daughter Hong, who was buried in the back yard of the house, and the ladies in the family were stunned.
You must know that when Queen Xiao was born, she buried ten jars of daughter Hong, and when Queen Xiao got married, she dug out two altars.
When Empress Xiao gave birth to the crown prince, she also dug out two altars.
When Empress Xiao was canonized as the queen, she also opened two altars, and there were four altars left, and her daughter Hong, Xiao Guogong said it himself.
This wine can only be dug up when the crown prince marries the crown princess and the crown prince ascends the throne!