Jiangmen's direct daughter is busy farming

218 Chapter 1 Disturbing the situation with the king ([-])
After Jingyue waited for a few people to sit down, she told the people in front of her again what she said to Xiao Chenyu in Weizhou about the development of well salt.

Finally, she said: "I think this matter is not trivial, and Chuzhou is not the territory of the Yue Palace, so I want to talk to some elders and see if you have any good suggestions."

"Yue'er, is this well salt really the same as sea salt or lake salt?" Every time King Xian heard Jingyue say something new, he would always lose the self-control he was always proud of and become excited.

"That's right, as long as the extraction is done according to the method I provided, the final well salt is the same as sea salt and lake salt." Jingyue said without exaggeration.

"Girl Yue, you have done a great deed for the people of Xichao!" Old Master Yun said sincerely.This Jingyue of the Song family is really extraordinary, Xueer is right, there is a golden phoenix hidden in the Song residence.

"Yue'er, please tell me in detail how to extract the well salt and what can we do?" Mr. Song did not expect that Jingyue's return this time would bring such a big surprise.

"Several elders, take a look. These are all the various design drawings I drew about the development of well salt. These are the kitchen, pestle room, large garage, and pestle frame and sky that must be equipped in the whole process. Cars, carts, etc." Jingyue took out a few more drawings, pointed to a few things on them and said, "These are pulleys and long folding ladders that I specially designed to improve efficiency and save labor..."

Although Jingyue said everything in detail, everyone present except Xiao Chenyu was half-understood and half-confused, and they had never heard of many things and their functions in their entire lives.

"Yue'er, according to what you said, the salt well to produce salt has to be dug very deep, and the big wooden guy you made can easily send people into the deep well, and it can also easily put people back into the well." People pull it up?" Xian Wang pointed to the ancient human elevator designed by Jingyue according to the principles of mechanics, and asked curiously.

"My lord, you are right, but you must choose the strongest wood and ropes, otherwise you will be in danger." Ancient times are no better than modern times. Many things are not here, or are the most primitive, even Jingyue For processing, there are some things that she can't create with the ancient conditions, so she can only do her best on the existing basis to contribute her ingenuity to the development of well salt.

"As long as well salt can be developed, these problems will not be a problem!" For King Xian, there is nothing that can make the people of Xi Dynasty live a good life, and he is more concerned about it.

"Yue'er, although this well water can be turned into well salt, but there are not many places like Yishui Town in Yizhou, will there be very little well salt extracted?" Song Zhanyuan asked with some concern.There are thousands of people in Xichao, how can this small Yishui Town provide the salt for the entire Xichao?
"Father, you are right to be worried, so we stayed in Yizhou for a few more days and conducted unannounced visits. We found that, in fact, since a hundred years ago, the people of Yizhou found that the well water was salty and drank it. Afterwards, they will be poisoned and even die.” When Jingyue conducted a secret investigation in Weizhou, she found that except for Yishui Town, there were very few wells in other places, and she continued, “So, they no longer rely on well water to live. It relies on the clear water in the mountains, and in addition, there are many water sources in Weizhou. Several large lakes are also freshwater lakes. So many ancient wells were sealed, and their descendants did not continue to dig wells, only Yishui Town, which lacked water, was forced to have a few shallow wells."

"That Yue girl, what do you mean—" Old Master Yun's second half of the sentence was almost in his throat, but he just looked at Jingyue, hoping that Jingyue could give him a positive answer.

"According to the results of my secret investigation, I estimate that a large part of the groundwater in the entire Chuzhou is brine that can extract well salt. If my prediction is correct, as long as there is brine underground, the people of Xi Dynasty will not be short of salt. However, any precious thing cannot be endless, we must think about it for future generations.” This is Jingyue’s calculation based on the land area of ​​Weizhou and the possible density of underground brine in conclusion.

"Yue'er, you're right. Our generation can't be full of fish and meat, while our children and grandchildren have to eat bran and swallow vegetables. If there is a salt treasure underground in Weizhou, as Yue'er estimated, then we will It must be guarded for the sake of the river." Old Master Su may not look like a literati with no power to restrain a chicken, but he has the whole country in his chest.

"Yes, when we didn't know it before, we can ignore it, but now that we know it, we can't let it be destroyed in our hands. Yue'er, in your opinion, what are we going to do next? "Faced with a new thing that he didn't know, Mr. Song pinned all his hopes on Jingyue.

"Grandpa, Yue'er thinks that it is not appropriate for more people to know about Jingyan, especially the Lingzheng family, as well as the prince and Jinwang. The emperor has Prince Xian to talk about it. I always feel that this matter It’s really inappropriate not to let the emperor know about the matter.” The emperor’s heart is unpredictable, if the emperor finds out that these people are secretly discussing the affairs of Chuzhou without his knowledge, it is inevitable that there will be pimples in his heart, and the pimples in the heart of the king of a country will last until the end. It is likely to turn into suspicion, and then disaster will follow.

"Yue'er, you are right to be worried, but the most urgent thing now is to hold Weizhou in our hands. Once we plan to make salt in Weizhou, it will definitely attract the attention of others." Xian Wang said.

"My lord, why don't you go into the palace now and ask the emperor to designate Weizhou as the fiefdom of the king of Yue, and then tell him about the well salt, I believe the emperor will make a ruling." Old Master Yun suggested.

"Okay, I'll enter the palace now!" The Xian Wang also thought that the matter in Weizhou should be done sooner rather than later.

Ever since the imperial study room was burned down by Xiao Chenyu, the emperor has been reviewing memorials and handling state affairs in the Gantai Hall.

"Long live Qizuo, Lord Xian is asking to see you outside the palace!" A eunuch serving in front of the palace reported.

"Let him in!" The emperor looked at the sky, it was almost evening, he didn't know what King Xian was looking for him in the palace at this time.

"Follow the order!" The little eunuch hurried out to ask the virtuous king to come in.

As soon as he entered the palace, after the virtuous king had shown the ceremony to the emperor, he said directly: "Brother emperor, I have come to disturb the palace at this time, I really want to ask for something!"

"Oh, what's the matter?" The emperor looked at the virtuous king strangely, he had always begged the virtuous king to do things, why did he do the opposite today.

"My brother would like to ask the emperor to grant Yuzhou to Yu'er as a fief, and I hope the emperor will agree." Xian Wang said.

"Qizhou? Hehe, it's strange today. Why do you all want to go to Qizhou?" The emperor asked back with a smile.

(End of this chapter)