My life skills in Daming Liver

Chapter 64 Second Exploration of the Ghost City
This time when going to the night market, in addition to Lin Xianyang who volunteered, Su Ze also brought the honest and introverted Lin Deqing.

Lin Liangjun, the little carrot head, was left in the guard. The demon king protested. Su Ze immediately told Lin Mojun, and then the voice of the little carrot head crying for his father and mother came from the hundred households. The children have settled down quite a bit.

The three of them got on the donkey cart and set off towards the ghost market. This time, Su Ze did not make refined salt, but made coarse salt into salt bricks, and sent them to the ghost market to cash in.

The large-scale influx of refined salt into the market will definitely arouse suspicion, and this hugely profitable product will definitely be targeted by other people in the ghost market.

In contrast, coarse salt is a safe commodity. Su Ze got a stall selling coarse salt from Zhu Qi in Qianshi, a ghost market, and brought Lin Deqing today to let him be in charge of selling coarse salt.

Lin Deqing was introverted and dull, but he could handle everything he was told, and he never had any objections to Su Ze's words.

Lin Xianyang's personality is a little more outgoing. He has been trained by his grandfather these years, and he often handles some external affairs on behalf of the guard. He is a relatively active person in Changning Guard.

Ever since Su Ze helped him avenge Lin Xianyang, he also respected Su Ze from the bottom of his heart, and he also said exactly what Su Ze ordered.

It's still easy to use my own brothers. Su Ze finally understands why most big shots rely on their own brothers when they start their fortunes, and only their own brothers are the most reliable.

In contrast, although Xiong Wu was strong and smart, he didn't know what kind of thoughts he was hiding. Zhu Qi seemed to be submissive, but in fact he was restless, and needed to be beaten for a while before he could use it.

Su Ze also asked Lin Mojun. Zhang Haihu is indeed a gang of Japanese pirates in the nearby waters. They occupy an island called Nanpi Island. This island is not a small island without fresh water like Meiyue Island. It is a large island with fresh water.

According to the sea guards, those with fresh water are called living islands, and those without fresh water are called dead islands.

The dead island can only be docked temporarily, long-term life is not easy, and there is no way to cultivate it, so it has no strategic value.

Living islands are different. These islands can be farmed and supplied with fresh water. They are important sea nodes.

Both the army and Japanese pirates will compete for these living islands, and smuggling sea merchants also need such islands to transfer goods, and the competition is very fierce.

Therefore, Zhang Haihu must be a relatively strong pirate in the nearby waters. Lin Mojun told Su Ze to be careful and not to take it lightly.

Lin Mojun also proposed to let Changning Guard Yu accompany Su Ze. Su Ze agreed after thinking about it. After the three of them set off, more than 50 Changning Guard Yu Weimin ambushed outside the ghost city with weapons. The three of Su Ze will go in to save people in case of an accident.

Lin Mojun was about to send out the main soldiers, but was stopped by Su Ze. She was looking for Japanese pirates to do business, not to suppress Japanese pirates, so she didn't need such a big battle.

Be careful sailing for thousands of years, Su Ze also knows the essence of Gou Dao, and it is true that he has a system, but it is not that the game cannot be revived, and no matter how cautious he is when contacting Japanese pirates.

It's better to have a backing, Su Ze once again lamented the benefits of traveling to Changningwei.

The three of them brought coarse salt to the ghost market. Lin Deqing arranged the salt bricks and sat in the shop to wait for the business.

And Su Ze took Lin Xianyang and started shopping for other things.

The first is charcoal. Sure enough, Su Ze found a stall selling charcoal in Qianshi, the ghost market.

Su Ze looked at the shop's banner, which said "Changping Coal".

It was only then that Su Ze remembered that the term coal already existed in this era. For example, Li Shizhen recorded coal in "Compendium of Materia Medica".

"Charcoal is black gold stone. In ancient times, it was called graphite in calligraphy, but today it is called coal, and the sound of coal and ink is similar.

"Supplementary Notes" says that scorched stones are like charcoal, and "Ling Biao Lu" says that there are scorched stone caves in Kangzhou, which is exactly what it is.

There are also many places where carbon charcoal is produced in the mountains in the north and south, but people in the past didn't use it, so few people know it.Today, people use salary instead of cooking to cook and smelt iron and stone, which is of great benefit to the people. "

Now the Ming Dynasty has begun to widely use coal to make iron.

Wait, Li Shizhen is also a celebrity of this era, right?

Su Ze recalled the historical knowledge of Lv5. Three years ago, Li Shizhen cured the son of Fushun King Zhu Houkun and became famous as a doctor. .

After two years, he will be recommended to work in Tai Hospital. This time is when he lays the foundation for "Compendium of Materia Medica".

Do you need liver medicine skills?Su Ze thought about it and gave up on this idea. Now he needs too many liver skills, and he can't eat too much.

The store clerk greeted Su Ze very warmly. He pointed to his own coal and said, "Master, my family is the best Ganzhou coal."

Su Ze took a look. These were coal lumps of different sizes, and they had not been processed by the coal washing process. They were coal ore dug directly from the ground.

It's just that the natural abundance of this coal mine is good, and the surface of the coal block is like black gold, so it looks like high-quality coal.

However, this kind of coal mine raw stone is rich in various toxic substances, which is good for iron making, but it is prone to accidents when used for heating.

"How do you sell this coal?"

The man immediately said: "This coal is also sold by denier, and once the coal is sold, it will cost two hundred Wen."

"The price is too high. Doesn't our Yanping Prefecture also produce coal? Why are we selling Ganzhou coal?"

The guy said patiently:
"Your Majesty doesn't know that the soot produced by our Yanping Mansion is poisonous and burns quickly. Except for the iron smelting plant, the iron workshop is not used."

The iron smelter is the official iron factory of the Ming Dynasty. This is the place where iron ore is smelted into steel.

In fact, in this era, the Ming Dynasty was the world's largest steel producer. There were two "Dajian Furnaces" in Yanping Mansion. Each furnace produced 81600 jin of iron. 500 people, the imperial court also specially set up a fireman and iron smelting station, which was specially responsible for the work of the iron smelting plant.

There are government-run and private-run iron smelters, but most of the iron workshops (blacksmith shops) are private-owned.

It turned out that the quality of coal produced by local coal mines was not high, so those blacksmith workshops were more willing to buy less toxic Ganzhou coal.

Su Ze kept in mind that coal washing and desulfurization technology may be developed in the future, but at present, coal sales in Fujian are not very profitable, so let's talk about it later, coal washing and desulfurization technology may be a big killer in the north.

Su Ze first bought five-denier coal, went back to use it first, and then bought soybeans, rice, pickles and some cabbage seeds, hiding the key steps of refining salt with soybean milk.

It's not that Su Ze is deliberately guarding against Lin Xianyang, but that the profit of refined salt is too high, and it is currently Su Ze's most profitable business, so it is necessary to keep it secret.

After all these things were done, Su Zecai and Lin Xianyang went to the market outlook to look for the stall that Zhu Qi mentioned.

(End of this chapter)