"Spread the method of purifying refined salt in Zhuangzi to the seaside. If the salt produced by the seaside is good, there will be a way to make a living."
Li Longji was a little embarrassed when he talked about this. He had a lot of salt wells.
There were also natural gas wells and fires. In addition to cooking salt, the people nearby also went to process things.
For example, reeling silk, cooking sauce, making dried green onions, and cooking without using their own firewood.
When no one mentioned the dried green onions, the green onions could not be eaten and could only rot.
After the incident in Chang 'an spread, the people in Shu made the extra green onions into dried green onions and sold them to the imperial court. The imperial court sent them to the frontline soldiers.
The price was not high, but the demand was high.
In addition, other dried vegetables were also put in and sent to the frontline.
There was also meat floss and fermented vinegar, which were needed by the soldiers at the border.
Li Longji did not charge for the use of natural gas in this way, but he charged others for using it to cook salt.
He thought that his salt wells made the lives of the people by the seaside more difficult, so he decided to improve the quality of sea salt to help.
Li Yi shook his head: "They can't afford it. They don't have so many auxiliary materials. Actually, I have another method. Boil the sea to make salt and dry the sea to make salt …"
Li Yi began to introduce how to make salt pans, how to increase the proportion of salt in the sea, and when to add brine to catalyze.
He also explained the process of using a salt rake to push the salt and the salt production cycle.
"Third Brother, with this method, the salt will be piled up like a small mountain. The same amount of labor and labor time will be a hundred times more than boiling salt."
Li Longji was dumbfounded. He tried hard to imagine a small mountain of salt and white salt all over the seaside.
Everyone would be tired and sweaty from carrying the salt baskets …
"Brother Yi, this method is good. It saves firewood and is fast. It should be used."
Li Longji wished he could fly directly to the seaside and teach the people there how to dry salt.
"When the time comes, there will be more salt and the price will be lower. Whether it is Shu salt or sea salt, the money will be earned by the merchants."
Li Yi said the method, but he did not intend to use it now.
There was so much salt. Building roads? Qinghai Lake?
"Brother Yi, compared to more people being able to eat cheap salt, the Imperial Court can subsidize the loss of people drying salt by the sea."
Li Longji disagreed. He believed that the number of people drying salt on the beach was far less than the number of people who needed to eat cheap salt.
As for the impact on his well salt income, he didn't care.
The quality of Shu salt would always be higher than sea salt. It was impossible to buy sea salt when eating salt near Shu.
When the Yangtze River flowed down to Dongting Lake, they ate sea salt. When the sea salt and the transportation fee arrived, it was guaranteed to be more expensive than Shu salt.
There was also the Hanzhong region. On the way from Shu to Chang 'an, it was better to eat Shu salt.
Li Yi frowned as he pondered whether or not he should harm the interests of the salt-drying man.
Drying salt was more efficient than boiling salt, and the price of salt was also lower.
Drying salt was actually quite tiring. Now, drying salt meant going into the water barefoot.
Boiling salt was actually similar. Scooping seawater from the sea was done barefoot, but the concentration of salt in the seawater was low.
Drying the salt was done in salt water with a concentration of more than 30%, and there was also salt walking on it.
"If drying salt was done, the imperial court would be in charge. They would hire local people to do it, give them benefits, and set the price of salt.
For example, the salt produced by the salt pans could be sold for one coin for three catties. There would be a lot of profit. The profit would be used to subsidize the salt-drying man and provide them with protective measures.
It would be regarded as a salt tax collected from the sea salt. Other places were not allowed to set up salt pans privately.
Then the imperial court would start to fight against the illegal salt. The people they sent would definitely do it privately. "
Li Yi said all the key issues. You can choose whether it was okay or not.
If the price was not set, the salt-drying man would still be poor. If the price was set, the illegal salt would be profitable. It was impossible not to pick it privately.
Was his supervision strict at that time? Was the monitoring system powerful? Was there any illegal salt?
"Put, put it out to dry the salt. If there are really salt smugglers … kill them! "
Li Longji admitted that Li Yi's words could not be stopped. They could only be killed after discovering them.
"In that case, you can ask the people of the local newspaper to keep an eye on them. The people of the post station also have to keep an eye on them.
Even if they want to bribe, they must first find out all the ways to report them. It is difficult to ban the illegal salt, but it can reduce the losses. "
Li Yi gave the follow-up measures. So be it.
It was cold to boil salt in winter. It was easy to get heatstroke in summer. Drying salt … the safety measures followed.
"Publish it in the newspaper tomorrow?" Li Longji decided to let the people of the Tang dynasty eat cheaper salt.
"Send people to the local areas to be responsible for building salt ponds. Don't publish it in the newspaper. Others will take the newspaper and learn it when they go back."
Li Yi did not want people to learn it, especially the Khitans and Bohai people.
There were salt pans in Bohai, not for drying.
As long as the price of salt in the Tang dynasty was low enough, it could be transported to Bohai to be sold. The selling price was cheaper than the salt they made themselves, and they would not produce salt themselves.
Then, they would raise the price of salt. When the other party saw that it was expensive, they would prepare to cook their own salt. But when the price of salt in the Tang dynasty dropped again, the people who cooked it could only give up.
In the long run, the price of salt would rise and fall. Those who wanted to cook salt would see that there was no profit, so they would not make salt again.
In other words, even if the price of salt in the Tang dynasty was the same as the price of salt in Bohai, the people in Bohai would not cook it themselves.
They were worried that once they cooked it, the price of salt in the Tang dynasty was low, and they would lose money.
The Tang dynasty could earn benefits from the process of selling salt in Bohai for a long time and suppress the other party's salt industry.
Just like in his time, the salt grown by foreign countries attacked the national salt grown by the country, and the salt extraction companies bought foreign salt.
Then, the technology was updated and the mixed salt was invented. Two parts of genetically modified salt, two parts of trench salt, and two parts of moldy old salt were invented.
When mixed together, it became a good salt for the new technology.
Li Longji nodded. "That's good. Send eunuchs."
"Okay. Eunuchs are no different from other officials. They should be killed." Li Yi was casual about who to send to organize the salt-drying organization.
The price of salt was not controlled by the government. The people who dried salt had always been exploited and had no labor protection.
When the price was set, it would inevitably include extra profits. Some people would want to squeeze this profit and sell illegal salt.
The local officials colluded with each other to fight against the inspectors.
When they caught them, they would kill them and confiscate their property. The imperial court used this method to recover its losses.
The new officials would repeat the path taken by the previous officials, and the cycle would never end.
"What goods are sent to the Yellow River?" Li Longji finally asked about the business he was here for.
"Seafood. Dried oysters, mussels, dried clams, shrimps and shrimps, newspapers, and exchange coupons."
Li Yi casually listed a few items. On the other side of the Yellow River were Gansu, Ningxia, and Inner Mongolia. They could not eat seafood now, not even dry ones.
Not to mention the mainland now, when he was in Liaoning, there was a large sea around it. In Liaoning, Fushun, Anshan, and other places, it was not easy to eat seafood in the 1980s.
Because these cities were not close to the sea, the dried seafood by the sea was used for hotpot. It was very precious.
The Tang dynasty's Chang 'an seemed to be relatively close to Yinchuan, but it was actually quite far away. If one wanted to go by land, one would have to cross mountains.
Now that he could finally pass the Hukou Waterfall, he had to let the people there know about seafood.
"When you go, leave some of the seafood there. Tell the local people that you want to buy local products and trade them when you come back. At the same time, promote the exchange coupons. "
Li Yi had already thought about how to trade. The people in those places were more unfamiliar with the imperial court.
He had to let them get familiar with it and recognize it.
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