From the Qiantang River ferry to Wukang Longxi Manor, although they walked all the way, Shen Zhezi and Yu Tan did not have many opportunities to communicate. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

It's not that Yu Tan deliberately neglected and alienated, but that this old man sorted out and read the records about the salt drying method in the car all day long, even if he stayed overnight to eat on the way, he was in a hurry. Occasionally, he discussed the advantages and disadvantages of the current salt making method and salt drying method with the salt boilers in his family, which shows the importance he attaches to this new technique in his heart.

Shen Zhezi revealed through the old man that there are two ways to dry salt, one is to dry salt on a salt board, and the other is to dry salt in a salt field.

The former is suitable for small households, as long as the salt mud is scraped in the coastal place, and the brine is poured and drenched with careful operation, a family can make several salt plates, as long as there is sunlight, the energy will continue to produce salt. Moreover, the salt obtained in this way is not of low quality and can be eaten directly.

The latter is suitable for large-scale production, directly on the beach to build a pond to store water, as the seawater evaporates, the seawater is introduced into different brine ponds, the brine with a very high concentration is dried, poured into the crystallization pool, and finally the salt is dried. However, this large-scale operation, because of the lack of boiling links, finally obtains a lot of salt impurities, which can only be regarded as coarse salt. If you want to purify, you need to carry out secondary processing.

Compared with the boiling salt method, the main convenience of the salt drying method is to save a lot of fuel consumption, save labor and labor, save costs, and the output can be greatly improved. As for the disadvantage, it is limited by the weather, once it rains continuously, it will produce nothing all day long, resulting in a salt shortage. But in just a few months of summer, the yield can exceed a year's hard work of the old method.

No matter how you compare, compared to the boiling salt method, the salt drying method is an improvement.

Compared with using this technological blockade as a tool for his own profit, Shen Zhezi feels that it is more rewarding to push it to the sea. Salt production is also a very labor-intensive industry, and the Shen family is currently in a labor shortage, even if they have the technology, they cannot invest a lot of manpower in large-scale production.

If the technology is promoted, the benefits are obvious, and it is of great significance to the Shen family's business association.

The people are all profit-seeking and go to the sea, which is more conducive to the Shen family's development of Zhoushan, and the effect is far better than the father's forced expulsion of people into the sea by government decree, so as to form a stronger control over Huiji. Secondly, it can alleviate the contradiction of inland development in Huiji and reduce the resistance of local people to attract overseas Chinese to the south to reclaim land.

The third is to be able to increase a large amount of taxes, salt plates, salt fields are new means of production, not like the land of each family to enrich themselves, the county government can quickly register and make a register, grasp a larger source of taxes, the effect is certainly far better than the hard implementation of the land cut.

Each of these meanings is much greater than the Shen family's simple monopoly on the salt harvest. Shen Zhezi is not a good person, if he wants to support the Northern Expedition, it is impossible to maintain it for too long with the tax revenue of the imperial court, and he does not believe in those northern and southern high gates at all. Only by mastering the huge financial resources can we gain greater initiative.

Therefore, after the implementation of the salt drying law, the management of Huiji must be raised to a new height, even if it is done to the extreme, it is necessary to hold the heart of the three Wu in their own hands.

Yu Tan's attention to the salt drying method has exceeded Shen Zhezi's expectations, which shows that his heart is urgent.

The more people he came into contact with, the more Shen Zhezi found that when later generations talked about the Eastern Jin Dynasty, they would call it Xuan Xuan nothing, which was actually quite a bit of a partial generalization. At least in the early years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the mountains and rivers were turbulent, the society was not stable, and there was still no lack of people nowadays, whether it was for the family or for the community, regardless of their respective patterns, but there was indeed no lack of attempts.

The freedom of being born and the difficulty of entering the WTO are anxious confrontation in the hearts of people at almost every time.

The real mere nonsense and inaction became dominated by public opinion, which should be in the Yonghe period of Wang Xizhi's Lanting Yaji. The old man Tai of Nandu died, and the children of each family were stuck in the status quo and had no talent. But even in that period, there were still Qian Guohuan's sudden rise and repeated use of troops against the north.

It's a complex world, and any single label seems unfair.

For example, Yu Tan, who is in the same company, still has to run around in office, and its purpose and discipline do not need to be discussed in detail, as long as the behavior can bring a good impact to the world, it is worthy of recognition.

If a person is observant, there is no disciple, which is the understanding and characteristic that a person in a position of superiority should have. Although Shen Zhezi has not yet ascended to the position, he has already regarded himself as a reserve, and he feels that he should be big-bellied and tolerant, so that different talents can do their best in his pattern.

When he arrived in Wukang, Yu Tan personally went to the Shen family's old mansion to visit the elders of the clan, he had become the county guard here, and he had to release goodwill to the Shen family, a local tyrant of Wu Xing, no matter what. Moreover, he has already had a tacit understanding with Shen Chong, allied with each other, and no longer fought-for-tat.

The Shen family also had a friendly attitude towards Yu Tan, and gave a large sum of money to settle down with goods, in fact, it was to return the Yu family's settlement fee to Shen Chong in Huiji not long ago and then transfer it to Yu Tan, and access it in a different place, saving freight.

At the same time, the more than 1,000 households that the Shen family carved out from the Wuxing County Government were all returned. This is what Shen Zhezi meant, so that the Yu family can be urged to return the official and military households as soon as possible, and the Yan family will be highlighted.

There is no doubt about the Yan family's greed for people, especially the labor force given by the county government officials, who occupy a lot more than the Shen family. After all, in the past few years, Yan Ping, as the county magistrate, has been the highest official position in Wuxing County Government. It is quite difficult to let his family take the initiative to return this part of Dingkou.

Yu Tan also gave the Shen family a lot of face, and even stayed in the Shen clan for a few days to teach the Shen family's children the scriptures. At present, this is already a rare gesture of goodwill, which will make the Shen family Qingwang climb again.

After returning to the village, Shen Zhezi found Qian Feng as soon as possible and explained to Qian Feng that the father and son had conspired together.

After Qian Feng heard this, his eyes couldn't help but brighten, and he exclaimed: "The salt industry is profitable, and everyone admires it. Boiling salt instead of drying salt did not hesitate to make earth-shattering changes, and directly destroyed the foundation of the Yan family. If Yu Envoy Jun wants to practice this law in the county, he will be inseparable from the Yan family. ”

Shen Zhezi also smiled, the salt industry is widely implicated, related to people's livelihood, such a big technological improvement, will drive the entire industrial upgrading, and even cause a lot of social changes. Under such a general trend, the stronger the original industry, the greater the damage will be, as the leading big salt family in Wuzhong, how can the Yan family be exempted!

Originally, in the salt industry, in order to gain an advantage, the first was to master a large number of salt pans, the second was to master a large population, and the third was to master a large amount of fuel. Only when the three are in place can they be called industry oligarchs. Yan has done an excellent job in these aspects, so he can become a salt tycoon, with a large amount of production resources in his hands, and with his huge output, he can even control the price of Sanwu salt.

However, the salt drying method directly ignores the fuel factor that limits the scale of the salt industry, so that the advantage of traditional salt farmers is gone, and the threshold for the industry to enter will be reduced, and it will face competitors like wolves.

For the Yan family, the price paid in order to maintain the huge reed ponds that supplied fuel was not small, and suddenly these reed ponds became meaningless, both emotionally and profitably, unacceptable!

Shen Zhezi could already imagine how angry the Yan family would be after learning about the salt drying method. In order to maintain their own advantages and position in the salt industry, their first reaction must be to resist the promotion of the salt drying method, even if they want to transform, they must fight for a buffer time. Therefore, it is inevitable that there will be a collision conflict with Yutan.

Even in later generations, how many industry giants collapsed because they couldn't keep up with the industrial upgrading brought about by technological innovation!

In particular, the Yan family still hides a huge number of people in the reed pond, if this large reed pond suddenly loses its meaning, how will the population in it be hidden?

Qian Feng has always been full of enthusiasm for this kind of conspiracy and calculation, and after a little muttering, he said to Shen Zhezi: "The method of boiling salt has been passed down from ancient times to the present, and the people trust it. If there are rumors spread by the old salt family, or attached to the ghosts and gods, to obstruct the small people, although this law is good, it may not dare to do. This has to be guarded against. ”

When Shen Zhezi heard this, he was slightly stunned, he only thought that the old salt family and vested interests would resist the new salt law, and even have an armed conflict, but he didn't take into account the rumors as a big killer of public opinion.

Hearing Qian Feng's reminder, Shen Zhezi suddenly came to his senses. Technology promotion is still secondary, and concept change is the most important. For nowadays, boiling salt is already a method, but drying salt is unheard of. They may not have the concept of high-temperature sterilization, but if someone spreads rumors that the new salt is harmful to food, and even may be life-threatening, people will naturally be more convinced of the old salt and dare not taste the new salt.

As for the theory of ghosts and gods, it is even more ethereal and impossible to refute. Droughts, floods, locust plagues, comets in the sky, the emperor will issue an edict against himself. In this era when the theory of ghosts and gods is prevalent, if the new salt law collides with ghosts and gods, and the people dare not act rashly, how can they explain it?

Thinking of this, Shen Zhezi realized that he was a little taken for granted, only thinking that new technologies would inevitably promote production, but ignoring people's fear of new things. But once he realized this problem, he immediately had a countermeasure: "Thanks to my uncle's reminder, I immediately asked the printing workshop to print relevant atlases and distribute them to the villagers, saying that this method is good." It is also necessary to remind Yu Envoy that it is best to find the origin of the salt drying method from ancient books, and then try to push this method after spreading it in all directions. ”

For the war of public opinion, Shen Zhezi is also a master, especially since he had the experience of creating gods from his ancestors a few years ago, so he naturally had to be fully prepared for the loopholes in the plan that were discovered. Although the process improvement in the printing workshop did not meet the requirements of printing most of the scriptures, some simple graphic leaflets were more than enough.

Qian Feng was also happy to see that Shen Zhezi was so agile, and then said: "For the Yan family, you can also start first." Once the new salt law spreads, his family is afraid of being hurt at all, and he will inevitably have to find another business. You can first sell a few manor properties to his family, work his spirit, and divide his efforts. ”

When Shen Zhezi heard this, he couldn't help laughing, and he had a deeper understanding of Qian Feng's conspiracy.

The Yan family wants to hedge risks, and the transfer of assets to farmland is the first choice. The Shen family was already the largest landlord in Wuxing, and many lands were abandoned because they did not have enough labor to cultivate the land, which was just enough to attract the Yan family's manpower and material resources to invest in it, and to disperse the strength of their Jiaxing base camp. When their own family is destroyed, they will all be swallowed up!