The infinite heavens start from the red building

Chapter 104 4.11 Establishing the Foundation and Opening the World

Chapter 4

4.11 Establishing the foundation and opening the world

More than two months later, the time has entered April of the 11th year of Yongzheng, Jinlingwei's house.

"These two blue-eyed ghosts are really clever." Shi Xiangyun grabbed a handful of white salt, let the salt drop from the palm of his hand to the plate, and said with a sigh.

"Girl Yun, it's all thanks to the two of us that we have gained so much, so you'd better be polite when you speak!" Wei Xu gave her a slap in the face angrily.

"Husband, according to what those two experts said, they haven't even achieved [-]% of the original technology's efficiency, so the cost of drying salt is less than [-]% of boiling salt.

If one day we can achieve what you said, wouldn't it be possible to guarantee that everyone can eat salt without restriction? "Qin Keqing said in admiration.

"Isn't that very easy?" Wei Xu, who traveled from the soul of modern society, never doubted this point, because it is really the truth.

For such a long time, it is impossible for him to be idle, but to spend his energy on the research and implementation of drying salt technology. Fortunately, there are two experts, Wilson Lee and Bernard Woodford. Effect.

Sun-salt technology is not just drying seawater and then sweeping up the salt. Among other things, if you use rammed earth salt ponds, how can you get clean table salt?
The raw materials used in the construction of the salt pond are naturally the original version of cement that has been successfully developed a few days ago, and green bricks and refractory bricks are also produced as a set; some beam structures are also reinforced with wrought iron ribs produced in small blast furnaces.

The plate of yellowed table salt in front of me is the first product of sun-dried salt technology. It is only because the technology is not perfect that there are still impurities in the table salt, which makes the surface yellow.

But this is completely enough, because the so-called "cooked salt" can get a product that is only yellow on the surface, which is absolutely top-grade, and there is even a so-called "table salt" that turns black after it comes out.

The salt products in the feudal era were not the same as they are now. Even the pickling salt used to pickle pickles was white and large. The quality of various salt products in this era varies greatly, which is surprising.

It is good for ordinary people to have salt to eat. No one cares about the quality at all. Most of the official salt that can be bought has impurities, and many of them are intentionally mixed with sand and muck. Instead, they are private salt, because they want to open market with better quality.

Rich families would definitely not eat these things. They eat high-quality white salt, such as well salt, mine salt, etc. The most famous one is "green salt", which is the kind that rich people rinse their mouths in the morning.

The most important thing is that the conditions required for drying salt are very simple. As long as the area is large enough, the salt farm can be spread without limit. Theoretically, there is no upper limit to the output.

For comparison, according to the most ideal calculations, the annual salt production of the Qing Dynasty was only over 100 million tons, and the upper limit was 200 million tons; another reference data, the modern Huaxia is 800 million tons!

According to Wilson Li's calculations, if the site optimization of the original Xuejia Salt Field is changed to an open-air drying salt field, the annual output can exceed [-] tons!

Even if it is for concealment, only a part of it will be developed, coupled with future technological improvements, it is still very easy to guarantee an annual output of [-] tons!
This kind of output is nothing in modern society, but in this era, it can already be described as "shocking the world", because it is too terrifying!

According to real historical records, the price of salt was always inflated during the Qing Dynasty. Generally, it cost more than a dozen renminbi in coastal areas, and even more than [-] renminbi in inland and even mountainous areas, so that some people really don’t know the taste of salt for a month!

It is definitely impossible for these salt goods to go through the official salt channel, but to sell private salt. Excluding the profit from the sale to the "distributors" below, it is easy to sell fifteen cents a catty, which has exceeded 100 million!
This is still a "self-operated" project, because no matter how stupid a salt merchant is, it is impossible to only sell their own salt products, and they will definitely get part of the official salt from the government-run salt farms, and by the way, they will collude with salt officials to "turn officials into private" to get rich. private pocket.

The data added by the two is very scary. As for the "cost", basically ignore it. The salt business in the feudal society is really huge profits. This is also the main reason why the eight major salt merchants in Yangzhou have tens of millions of assets.

Of course, this is the final state, and it is not a matter of a day or two to achieve it. According to Woodford Lee's calculation, it will take about a year to fully reach the ideal state, and this is the case without accidents in the middle.

It doesn't matter, anyway, Wei Xu can't be short of money in a short period of time, and this salt road is more for dealing with the four kings and eight male camps, and it will be much easier when he gets a firm foothold.

Compared with Yanlu, which has just started, Wei Xu is actually more concerned about another issue.

"Brother Xu, is this the latest version of the crossbow?" Shi Xiangyun took a newly made crossbow and looked at it repeatedly, with a look of interest on his face. "Yes, the performance has improved a lot, but the most important thing is that now we can finally carry out mass production, and the cost is quite low." Wei Xu said with a smile.

This batch of crossbows has really reached the basic "mass standardized production", and the parts can be used in common use. The most important thing is that all parts have production standards, as long as they follow them.

Moreover, the requirements for production personnel are not high. Except for the crossbow arms, other parts can be easily completed by apprentices, whether they are carpenters or blacksmiths.

The crossbow arm has been strengthened, the size is the same as the original version, but the elastic force is one and a half stone. The crossbow body/embedded/installed a gear box, and cooperates with the winch wheel to greatly reduce the difficulty of loading the arrow and speed up the speed.

The new crossbow can penetrate iron armor within a hundred steps, but the firing speed can easily guarantee two to three shots per minute. With a little training, any crossbowman can do it, and it is no problem to fire fifty arrows in a row.

The only problem is that due to the problems of the butt, grip and a considerable part of the cast metal parts, the weight is too large, which weighs about twelve catties, but after training, it can still be used by normal adults.

All of these benefited from the standardized mass production of blast furnaces and wrought iron, combined with the standardized production lines integrated by Woodford Lee, spring steel and several other low-end alloy steels were mass-produced.

The source of wealth has a salt field, the armed force has an arsenal with a high output, plus two masters, fifty key officers, and hundreds of peripheral brothers. Even the network has basically opened up the Xungui Group. Wei Xu is now finally established. foundation!

The rest is to make steady progress. By the end of the year, he won the title of "juren", and then he will be awarded the position of a thousand households in the Jiangdongmen Thousand Households Office. That is the real start of his career!

"Husband." Even if Qin Keqing didn't understand military affairs, he knew very well how important something like a "strength crossbow" could be called a "strategic material", so he just yelled and was speechless.

"Okay, I understand what you mean, you should be able to contact your uncle now, right? Let him arrange for someone to come over and take over a batch, and the price will be fine." Anyway, there is a new one, and the old version can still be eliminated. It would be nice to change it for silver.

"Thank you husband!" Qin Keqing said in surprise.

"In that case." Wei Xu hugged her with a smirk, and whispered a few words into his ear, making Qin Keqing blushed but still biting his lips and nodding.

"Brother Xu, we can start again!" Seeing that the couple could get fucked on the spot without stopping, Shi Xiangyun yelled in dissatisfaction, even ignoring the warning burst just suffered.

"Yes, we're ready to go!" Wei Xu reluctantly withdrew the strange hand that had begun to ravage a plump body, and sighed under Qin Keqing's reproachful eyes, "It's a pity that I still can't judge the exact location."

The so-called "departure" is naturally the opening of Yupei's traversal passage once, but this is due to the improvement of Wei Xu and Shi Xiangyun's internal strength and energy replenishment, and the time between the traversal intervals has been significantly shortened.

In the new world, only a small scene can still be seen from the jade pendant. It happens to be in a school, which seems to be a high school, and judging from the communication between personnel, etiquette and politeness, it should be a modern Toyo high school.

It's a pity that because the viewing angle is in the middle of the southwest corner of the outside of the school, the specific school name cannot be seen clearly.

The New World Passage appeared more than half a month ago, but Wei Xu never entered it. He chose to check the situation first, at least to confirm the danger.

Fortunately, for more than half a month, this high school seems to be very harmonious, and looking at the high school students in it, all the handsome men and women, there is no lack of real life at all, it is likely to be a Two-dimensional plot.

In any case, just in case before entering, it is nothing more than preparing clothes, daily necessities, various supplies, 3 taels of gold leaves, and a large amount of various weapons, and this is the end of the job.

After that, Wei Xu took the two girls to the manor outside the city alone, found an excuse and entered the villa in the mountain, and told everyone not to disturb, and then officially entered.

The two girls received the jade pendants, and their minds activated the power-traveling energy. Then, in a trance, Wei Xu was already standing in a deserted corner when he woke up again.

It's just that when he took a few steps and saw clearly the four characters "Fujimi Gakuen" above the school gate in front of him, he felt a sudden cardiopulmonary arrest!

(End of this chapter)