Daqin: When I return from sea, I will offer you a map of the world

Chapter 49 The Yin Yang family is good!
Zhao Si himself was also dizzy, Wang Li half-pulled everyone on his body, allowing Zhao Si to walk erratically despite his natural strength.

But for Wang Li's brother's sake, Zhao Si didn't let Wang Li fall to the ground.

I can feel that Wang Li is really excited. In fact, Zhao Si is also a little excited. He eats hot pot and drinks with Emperor Shihuang. He only read this plot in novels in his previous life, and he actually became the protagonist in real life.

Although there is not much sense of integration into this era, but!

That's the first emperor!
As for Wang Li, a filial son, it seems that he was oppressed by his father too much...

On the other side, Emperor Shi Huang, who was being driven, was half lying down, with his stomach upright, and one hand on his stomach.

Eat up!
Although I eat delicacies from mountains and seas on weekdays, they are bland and tasteless, and I have a poor appetite recently.

With a sudden appetite, coupled with fresh and delicious condiments, it is easy to eat too much without restraint.

The First Emperor was in a good mood, and the communication with Zhao Si was also quite pleasant.

Although Zhao Si is mainly a political novice, Zhao Si's speech is vivid and interesting, and the story is quite good, which is a rare pastime.

The first emperor had a good impression of Zhao Si.

Political novice can be cultivated, after all, Zhao Si went out to sea with a boat when he was a child, and now he has just returned to Daqin.

What was rare was that Zhao Si was able to let go in front of him.

Although it may be because of drinking a little wine, Emperor Shihuang could feel Zhao Si's informality and freehand brushwork in his bones. Zhao Si's attitude towards him was not disrespectful, but like...

Hmm... facing the elders?In short, it is not the attitude of subordinates facing superiors.

The most important thing is that the first emperor could feel that Zhao Si and himself had a restless heart, and an adventurous factor buried in their bones that was not afraid of risks.

It's just that Zhao Si's adventurous spirit is reflected in nature, and Shi Huang's adventurous spirit is embodied in politics.

In short, the impression Zhao Si left on Emperor Shihuang was that he was neither humble nor overbearing, he spoke interestingly, brought him a lot of good news, and seemed relatively close, a young man with the same adventurous spirit as himself.

A, um... very nice young man, one of the rare ones who can make Shi Huangdi's eyes sparkle and interest him at this age.

Of course, this is only the first emperor's own summary.

In fact, how much of these conclusions should be attributed to the individual and how much should be attributed to the halo of jade in the rough is not known.

At least with the character of the first emperor, it is difficult to give a person a good impression in a short time together.

Impressive, very close!
These labels are extremely difficult for the first emperor to give someone.

On the contrary, Emperor Shi Huang didn't know how many of those labels such as capable ministers and officials were wholesaled out.

Driving slowly, the first emperor was a little lazy. Although he didn't smile, he didn't smile twice, but this time he came to Lantian, the first emperor's mood improved a lot.

Seeing that sweet potatoes, corn and potatoes are growing well, I still have an appetite, and I ate delicious hot pot barbecue...

Back in the palace, Zhao Gao took down the bamboo slips summed up by Wang Ben one by one.

Meng Yi, the personal secretary of the first emperor, was in charge of assisting the first emperor to make a summary.

"Wonderful!" Meng Yi looked at it with a smile, expressing emotion.

"Your Majesty, this method of drying salt can solve the problem of insufficient salt production in various places!" Meng Yi said.

Except for areas near the sea such as Qidi, the rest of the world does not produce much salt.

Including Shu salt, compared with the bulk of salt production, it is not worth mentioning.

If we take it seriously, the combined salt production of the entire Daqin is not enough for the whole world to use. Salt is really a scarce resource in this era.

The common people, including the large salt-producing households in Qidi, also have to save salt.

Although there is a lot of salt in the Qi estate, the method of boiling salt is used. The method of boiling salt requires a lot of firewood, and the production process determines that the price of salt remains high.

How much firewood does it take to boil salt out of sea water with firewood to cook a catty of salt?The cost price of these firewood cannot be exempted.

Not to mention the rest of the region, there are very few edible natural salt deposits.Well salt production is lower.Transporting salt from Qi and even Shu to travel around the world is even more expensive.

As far as the current salt output of Daqin is concerned, how should I describe it?
The cost is high, not enough to eat.

Let's put it this way, even if the current salt production in Daqin is increased by five times, it can still be completely digested internally.

What if there are not so many now?Just make do with it.

The poor have the way of the poor. They follow the animals to lick salt stones, eat vinegar cloth, and even eat poisonous brine directly.

Of course, poor people still have more tricks to supplement salt. After all, it is not enough to eat enough, but it is enough to survive.

If the amount of salt that modern people put in cooking three meals a day is used as the standard, I am afraid that the salt production of all feudal dynasties is not enough.

"According to what it says, the cost is no more than mining brine salt, sifting water manually, and casting salt ponds. The salt ponds can be built with wasteland. The cost is probably lower than the method of cooking salt in the same land." Meng Yi said excitedly.

The cost of salt production in the Central Plains is directly reduced to the cost of salt production in the coastal areas. What a huge progress this is.

As for the halogen salt mines, there are really not a few in the Central Plains.

"And if this method is used in the whole land, I'm afraid the cost will be even lower!" Meng Yi's face was full of excitement.

Because Zhao Si said that there is no need to open salt mines in the coastal areas, and it is enough to directly divert seawater to make salt fields to dry salt.

The steps are similar too!

The cost of mining and transporting brine salt is directly skipped!

Qidi salt production can reach a new low!

The most important thing is to get rid of the trouble of cooking salt and burning firewood.

The firewood must first be wood, isn’t it... There is a big reason why the amount of salt in Qi’s real estate can’t increase. It’s not that you can invest as much firewood as you want to burn salt. Otherwise, there is not enough salt in the world. It has already directly crushed the six countries economically.

First of all, you must have so many trees to burn in Qi, right?

Therefore, the wealth of Qiyan can become the hegemony of Qi, but it is not enough to widen the insurmountable gap.

To put it bluntly, Qi State produces a lot of salt, which can not only satisfy itself, but also export to generate income, but it is not so much that it can directly control the salt industry of the other six countries.

"It's a pity! After all, it depends on the weather!" Meng Yi sighed.

Shi Huang didn't show any expression on his face, just nodded.

"If you want to practice the method of drying salt, you may need a place to watch the stars to ensure that the weather is safe. If there are storms, before the salt comes out, all previous efforts will be in danger of being wasted." Meng Yi said.

Of course the first emperor knew this truth. Meng Yi had already made it very clear that sun-dried salt also has limitations, because it depends on the weather for food. Although the method of sun-dried salt is better than the method of boiling salt, there are only a few days of good weather throughout the year. It will be much more expensive than the method of boiling salt, and the cost will be much lower, but it does not mean that once this method comes out, Daqin's salt can really be squandered wantonly.

Before it entered industrialization, the sun-dried salt method was able to achieve limited export sales under the condition of self-sufficiency at most.

"Before the trial of the land of Langya, you will start the construction of the salt fields...you will be in charge." Shi Huang frowned as he knocked on the case.

"Since that's the case, Your Majesty has to keep some Yin Yang family disciples in Yuchen." Meng Yi said with a smile.

He is one of the few people who can be so close to the first emperor, after all, he is the first emperor's personal secretary.

Hello, disciples of the Onmyo family!
These days, all sects and factions can basically watch the stars with one hand, but the Yin Yang family is undoubtedly the most accomplished among them.Meng Yi himself is a student of the Mohist school, and he doesn't like the Yinyang school, but he came to see the weather is pretty good.

This kind of work of watching the weather and eating is indispensable to the Yin Yang family.

(Not mentioning the theory but only the practical application. The Yin Yang family goes to sea, communicates with long-distance countries, and is a weather forecaster. They are really small experts. Recommend tickets and monthly tickets for quick voting channels. Please follow up.)
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