The Red House starts from Liaodong

Chapter 107
Some veterans who were injured and disabled on the battlefield were discharged from the battalion and were recommended by their generals to do some chores at the General Military Mansion.

All of a sudden, these people came out, sprinkled water in front of the door, and when they were cleaning the street, the passers-by were curious and asked, only to learn that the general was getting married.

In Jinzhou city, it is grand and low-key.

At this time, Tang Qing'an went to the salt field.

Jinzhou is currently strictly controlled, and people's livelihood materials are directly controlled, and the rationing system is implemented, which is not only different from that in Guanzhong, but also different from Liaodong.

This is unreasonable, and it cannot be maintained for a long time. Golden State's administrative ability cannot keep up with this form.

When the people have survived the most difficult time, they will hope for a better life and hope for more and more money in their hands. This is human nature, regardless of ancient or modern times.

Tang Qing'an plans to gradually loosen the control in Jinzhou in three years, and then implement the land allocation policy based on merit.

But this can't be done yet, the timing is wrong.

So for his big wedding, he not only did not stay in the General Military Mansion, but took officials to inspect the mines and saltworks.

In order to warn the officials and generals of Jinzhou, and more common people, the style of hardship and simplicity will continue, and no one can change it.

Generals lead by example.

The reason why I went to the salt field first is that the salt field is very important and production needs to be resumed as soon as possible.

The Dazhou Salt Administration was an important fiscal revenue of the imperial court, so it was directly managed by the imperial court. Even so, the imperial court's management of the salt areas in some places was in name only.

For example, the Guangdong Salt Administration Department is obviously subordinate to the local Chief Secretary, and the Lingzhou Salt Administration Department in Shaanxi is actually directly managed by the army and turned into military pay.

The same is true for several saltworks in Liaodong, which are managed by the guards, and the profits earned are kept in the local area and used for military pay.

The Lianghuai area, as an important place of national financial resources, has always been under the strict review of the imperial court, and Yangzhou is the place where the patrol salt censor lived.

The imperial court in the Mainland strictly controlled kitchen households. There were [-] registered kitchen households in the Lianghuai Transportation Division, [-] registered kitchen households in the Shandong Yundi Division, and so on.

These stoves are compiled and reviewed every five years, and the household names of Dazhou have not yet been checked nationwide, which can be seen.

However, Liaodong is full of soldiers and civilians, and there are no civilian households, let alone kitchen households.

The salt people in the Jinzhou Salt Field belonged to the military membership of the Weisuo.

At the beginning of the year when Jinzhou was recovered, the salt field here had not yet recovered. Gu Yingshi, a soldier in Lushun, followed behind Tang Qing'an and introduced the situation here.

"I have already started to organize the original kitchen households here, and recruit some new staff. It depends on whether the general is going to use the original pan iron or the new pot pier."

"What's the difference?"

Tang Qing'an heard that Gu Yingshi's words had a deep meaning, which aroused his curiosity.

Gu Yingshi is different from Feng Shengzhi.

After all, Feng Shengzhi had many scruples about the court's regulations, but Gu Yingshi was bold.

"The imperial court strictly prohibits the use of pot piers."

Gu Yingshi threw out a sentence first, then explained to the general with a smile.

"The output of Guodun is too high. A pot can produce 200 catties of salt in one day and one night, and the annual output can be worth [-] taels of silver.

It is not a good thing to have a high output. Most of the private salt from various places flows out from here. Therefore, the imperial court stipulated that the use of pot pier was prohibited.

The iron pans are uniformly regulated by the imperial court, and one can weigh over a thousand catties. Only this one item, the stove household cannot hide it privately.

However, the output of iron plates is low, and it is not easy to burn. The stove households are too late for their annual tasks, so there is no way to hide salt secretly. "

After listening to Gu Yingshi's explanation, Tang Qing'an understood.

The iron pot is small, the cost is high, and the output is large, and the iron pan is large, the cost is low, and the output is small.

The former is not easy to be controlled by the imperial court, so its use is prohibited, while the latter is easy to be controlled by the imperial court, so even if it is known that it is backward, it is still used as usual.

One pot can burn sea salt worth 200 taels of silver in one year.

Ten pots are worth 1 taels of silver, and a hundred pots are worth 12 taels of silver.

If a thousand pots were to be burned, regardless of fuel, labor, etc., the imperial court would first trouble Tang Qing'an.

Because of low productivity, the salt content is mixed, and the needs of the human body are different in each era.

In modern times, the national standard is 7 grams per person per day, but in some places, the taste is heavy, and the consumption is also high.

But this is because of the needs of the taste buds, not the needs of the human body.

In ancient times, the productivity was low and the salt quality was poor, so the average daily consumption of the Qin Dynasty was 26 grams per day, and the average daily consumption of the Han Dynasty was 22 grams per day.

In the Tang and Song Dynasties, productivity increased, and the per capita daily consumption dropped to 15 grams per day.

However, the per capita daily consumption in Yuan and Ming Dynasties was 16 grams per day, which actually increased.

Because it goes without saying.

At present, Jinzhou has a population of 40 and needs as much as 1 catties of salt every day.Now there are more and more fishing boats in Changbai Mountain, and the daily catch can reach [-] catties.

Many fish are not easy to survive, coupled with the climate, it is easy to rot, and a lot of salt is needed to make fresh fish.

Only in this way can it be completely sent back to Jinzhou for the use of the people of Jinzhou.

It takes three to forty taels of salt to marinate ten catties of fish, and [-] catties of fish is [-] catties of salt.

Salted fish can provide both protein and salt.

Including the rest of the consumption, Jinzhou currently needs to produce more than [-] catties of salt a day to be considered saturated.

And this is not counting the rich salt, the fishing grounds in Changbai Mountain can catch more fish and so on.

For more than 100 catties of salt, more than [-] pots need to be built.

One pot pier burns 2000 catties of seawater day and night to get two hundred catties of salt.

And how much wood and charcoal is needed to keep more than 100 saucepans burning continuously is a big number.

Simply put, the original location of the saltworks was chosen for the convenience of obtaining fuel.

Not to mention the Jiguan Mountain in the north, the area of ​​Laotie Mountain in the south is four or five times that of Jiguan Mountain. The mountains are full of trees, which can be provided in large quantities.

More importantly, there are gold mines in Laotieshan.

In the Qing Dynasty, some local people discovered the secret here, and some people secretly entered the mountain to mine. Later, the Japanese colonial rule opened a gold mine in Tieshan.

Later, this place became a military fortress, and gold mining activities stopped.

Until the years of New China, the poor areas of the country went to the central government and asked for gold mining, but the country considered this place as a strategic place to defend the Jingmen, so it was rejected.

According to the detection of geographers, the gold mine in Laotieshan belongs to the same vein as the Wafangdian gold mine and the Zhaoyuan gold mine in Shandong.

However, Tang Qing'an did not have a mining plan, not because of any military needs, but because the timing was wrong.

If there is a gold mine in Jinzhou, the imperial court will send someone if word spreads.

Under the leadership of Gu Yingshi, Tang Qing'an and a group of officials finished patrolling the southern part of Jinzhou.

In later generations, the administrative center of Jinzhou was in the south, which was later the famous Dalian, which shows the abundance of products here.

The current Jinzhou City has become a district of Dalian in later generations.

pity.

The current short board here is the lack of metal mines.

Although there are some iron mines, but the output is not large, even the people's use is not enough, and now it is necessary to build pots.

Eighty to ninety percent are non-metallic mines, and there are quite a lot of stones of various colors.

When the matter of the salt field was handed over to Gu Ying, Tang Qing'an left very relieved, and happened to go back first, and then the boat coming back from Dengzhou docked.

The excitement in Jinzhou reached its peak, and everyone on the pier came to watch. This bride from the capital is the mistress of the future General Military Mansion.

The general loves others, so he has already sent someone to say that for thousands of miles, the bride does not have to abide by the etiquette, and she can do whatever is convenient for herself.

When Qin Keqing heard the words, while being moved in her heart, she became more and more reluctant to be rude. Although she was running all the way, she worked hard and said nothing, but finally gritted her teeth and persisted.

Now that he finally arrived in Jinzhou, he didn't even say a word, just sat quietly in the sedan chair.

As soon as I got off the pier from the boat, I only heard the voices of people outside the sedan chair, and then I was happy and worried, excited and afraid.

"Miss, they are all here to welcome us, many people, and many soldiers."

With a look of excitement on her face, Jin Chuan'er whispered into the sedan chair that she didn't know what military generals were wearing, and they all thought they were soldiers.

Qingwen secretly watched, the original big brother turned into the general of Jinzhou, so far she still can't connect such a gentle person with the general.

Her name was not Qingwen, but Second Master Bao clamored for her, but Mother Jia refused to give her. Second Master Bao married her a new name, Qingwen, so he called her that.

But she didn't like Second Master Bao very much, she just thought he was a bit annoying, but she was taken care of by Jia Mu and was not harassed.

Playing and singing, all the way to the General Military Mansion, there was a scene in front of the General Military Mansion.

The streets were filled with lights and festoons. An official originally wanted to arrange it all the way from the pier, but Tang Qing'an vetoed it.

After entering the city, the number of people increased, and the noise became louder.

Tang Qing'an had already gone out, wearing the groom's official uniform, with a big red flower on his chest, and was escorted out by all the guards with a smile on his face.

After all the ceremony.

The bride, dressed in red makeup, was sitting in the newly furnished new house. The two maids, Jin Chuan'er and Qingwen, looked around and told Qin Keqing what things she had.

How could Qin Keqing listen to it?

"I just saw it. The courtyard is full of soldiers, and there are a few officials."

"Not soldiers, but generals."

Qingwen said, seeing that Jin Chuan'er didn't care, she went to ask Qin Keqing quietly if she was hungry.

Qin Keqing waved her hand, she didn't dare to eat.

It was very late, Jin Chuan'er lay down on the table and dozed off, while Qingwen opened her eyes wide. The brother was surrounded by people, and she didn't even look carefully.

It looked like him again, and seemed to have changed a little bit, and I was not sure for a while whether it was still the same person.

at last.

There was a lot of noise outside the house, and I couldn't hear what was said. It was only after a while that I heard the footsteps of everyone leaving.

"Squeak -".

The door was pushed open, and Tang Qing'an walked in with a blushing face, and her steps were a little frivolous.

First, he saw the sleepy girl who was awakened, then turned his head, and saw a pair of big eyes, looking at him without blinking.

The people who watched were terrified, this girl didn't look at people like that before.

"Magpie, unexpectedly I saw you again."

Qingwen let out an "ah" in surprise, and covered her mouth again.

Although she doesn't like Second Master Bao pestering him, she still likes his name, which sounds much better than Magpie.

Tang Qing'an smiled, walked straight to the bed, and looked down at his bride.

The opponent's shoulders trembled slightly, showing that the opponent was very nervous.

Tang Qing'an then picked up the scale, lifted the red hijab directly, and was stunned for a moment when he saw a panicked little face.

In later generations, he has seen countless female anchors and heard countless thank you to my eldest brother.

But beauty is beauty after all, without three points of nature.

What catches his eyes now is a peerless work, a vivid and fragrant picture.

Even Qingwen took over the scale beam and red hijab from him without knowing it.

(End of this chapter)