Chapter 47
Before the salt official set off, Ying Zheng said to him: No matter how you make it, you have to make new salt for me before the New Year, and don’t delay the people under my son’s hands pickling pork. If you can’t make new salt, you don’t have to come back. You can do it yourself.
Of course, this is not the case, but the salt officer sounds like this.
So the salt farm was built and practiced the method of drying salt. The sun was bad in winter. The salt officer also saw that the method of drying salt was effective. Starting to dry early next year should allow people across the country to eat cheap salt. He immediately asked someone to cook a handful of half-finished products and rush to get the new salt out before killing pigs in Yunyang County.
Regardless of whether it is drying or boiling in the middle, the new salt has come out, and the production indicators issued by the court will obviously be reached next year. The salt officer asked someone to process the salt in the back and took a few trucks of new salt back to Xianyang to report the good news.
Just like the process of sending new paper into the palace, several trucks of new salt were opened and covered in front of the palace gate.
At first, everyone thought it was flour, and they were quite puzzled why the salt officer was sending flour to the palace.
Didn’t people eat the food in the palace early?
When I got closer, I found that this was not flour. Compared with flour, the new salt was obviously more granular.
While the imperial guards were checking the trucks of salt, someone asked the salt officer what it was and asked him what it was. The salt officer smiled and twisted a handful of them, saying, "You will know if you try it!"
The curious person took it and found out that this is salt!
Salt is not a rare thing. As long as you find where it is, it is quite convenient to collect it. If you cannot collect it directly, you can also cook the salt. These people have learned it a hundred or eighty years ago. Why should you send it to the palace with great fanfare?
The salt official naturally blew Fusu with competent authority, saying that this was the immortal in the sky who felt that the Great Qin salt was not enough, so he specially taught their son how to make this new salt.
With this new method of salt making, the people of the Qin Dynasty no longer need to save on salt. While there are still vegetables in the field, they can pickle more until the coldest time to serve!
If someone else says such things, everyone won’t believe it, but it’s different if the salt official says no.
You should know that you can’t do anything to do, otherwise you will be able to work quickly if you turn around and raise your production indicators up, and you will have no place to cry!
Therefore, the salt official dares to boast about Haikou so much, which shows that this new method of salt making is indeed efficient and has a large output!
After learning about such new news that is closely related to one's life, many people no longer stayed and couldn't wait to share it with their relatives and friends.
The salt official took Xin Yan to ask for a meeting with Ying Zheng.
Ying Zheng was quite satisfied with the efficiency of the salt field. When he thought that the person who came up with the idea was Fusu, the new salt was ultimately due to Fusu's credit, Ying Zheng was even more satisfied.
He asked the salt officer to send the several trucks of new salt that had just been sent back to Fusu, and the new salt produced will be given priority to Xianyang, and the excess can be evenly given to Yunyang County. The salt prices in these two places will be reduced by half first.
I have to wait for other places to wait until the output will actually come out next year.
The salt officer was ordered to send salt to Fusu.
Fusu picked up a small pinch of salt and looked at it. He found that the new salt was quite fine, with small particles and crystal clear white.
Fusu asked someone to keep a car and distribute it to someone they knew, while the others were sent to the Yunyang Biezhuang for the manager to distribute it.
The new salt produced in the salt farm was successively transported back to Beijing, and the people in Xianyang City and Yunyang County discovered the changes in salt prices as soon as possible.
The salt is always collected by the court and sold by the court. The price is also determined by the court.
In order to make the people afford to use salt, the price of salt has never been high. However, for many people, as long as they have to spend money to buy, they are rare things. Most of them are reluctant to buy too much, so they naturally save money on weekdays.
I heard that the price of salt has dropped by half, and many people don’t believe it. When someone bought the salt at half price, they went out to buy salt one after another.
As new salt travels to thousands of households, there are naturally rumors that immortals teach Fusu the new salt preparation method.
Compared to new paper that not everyone can afford, new salt is closer to the lives of the people. Every household has a good meal and will inevitably mention their young son Fusu, who is said to be a fairy child.
When neighboring counties saw that Yunyang County was getting more and more prosperous, they wanted Fusu to live in their county for a year. There were bamboos, reeds, and stones in their county. Why didn’t the young master come to their place to take a look?
Compared with the simple expectations of the people in neighboring counties, those who sneaked into Yunyang County with the prisoners felt that they were living in dire straits every day.
After they sneaked into Yunyang County, they found that the rural villagers in Yunyang County were all literate and sang a poem on the fields from time to time. The poems contained many agricultural principles!
It’s winter and there’s nothing to do in the fields, so they just take their children to practice calligraphy at home. The poorest people in Yunyang County have bamboo paper at home. Although it’s a papermaking workshop that is a flawed paper that is sold to them at a cheap price, it doesn’t affect writing!
That's all, the county's servants asked them to work hard and try to become formal residents as soon as possible so that they can save some money to buy straw paper to wipe their butts! They also told them earnestly that bamboo strips and thatched straw paper is better for use. Just spend a little money to enjoy the straw paper that the king is also using!
Then the servants naturally whispered to each other again, saying that their king was so concerned about the people and did not forget to think about them even when going to the toilet. It was completely different from your King Han who was greedy for enjoyment and allowed the people to live in dire straits!
After carefully writing a series of inhumane brainwashing experiences, people were in a daze: Could it be that the people of Qin really lived so happily, and the people of South Korea really were so miserable and helpless?
After seeing again, the prisoners who were arranged to Yunyang County with them had happily integrated into the entire collective, and even spoke with the Yunyang County accent, and people became visibly strong with the naked eye.
They obviously like this new life very much. If there are dirty and tiring work, they will always be at the forefront. The county will always be the first to sign up for the Juqi game. It is even more active than the people of Yunyang County, and they are all trying to become regular as soon as possible.
Han wrote down his experiences in Yunyang County truthfully and secretly sent them back to Xinzheng, and began to doubt whether what he did was meaningful.
Their secret letter was sent out not long after, and new salt appeared.
Cars of new salt were delivered to Yunyang County Central in full view.
The new salt was as white as snow, and it was filled with trucks after truck.
The servants in charge of escorting new salt spontaneously preached to the onlookers: This is the new salt made by the king and our son. It will produce a lot every year in the future. So starting this year, the salt price in our county will be reduced by half. Everyone just opens up and buy salt! Those who have not yet cured meat and pickled vegetables can buy more. As long as they are willing to add salt, they will have a more delicious winter this year!
When the people heard this, they immediately lined up in an orderly manner and prepared to buy some salt on site to pickle pork, so that they could have a delicious New Year this year.
The most outstanding thing is the school where all the teachers assigned homework to senior students, saying that they had been studying for almost two years. After returning, they thought about it and wrote a poem to praise New Salt. There was no other requirement, but they must be catchy and could teach your grandparents, younger brothers and sisters to sing.
Senior students have known basic characters, and have learned a lot of poems compiled by teachers. Moreover, the excellent essays they wrote before have been sung by the parents and fellow villagers. This kind of homework is not difficult for them at all. They went home to read the new salt, followed their parents to pickle vegetables and meat, and their inspiration exploded, and they wrote salt poems that were either serious or interesting!
Of course, the name is Song Yan, and it is essentially praising them the king and the young master. They still have the ability to read questions.
Therefore, the teachers and students of the school quickly produced a batch of salt-based poems and songs praising Ying Zheng and Fusu's concern for the destiny of the people, and selected the best songs to teach the people of Yunyang every ten days of teaching to the outside world, so that they could sing these hymns.
This new poem that can be sung is not only spread quickly, but also has a brainwashing effect. After listening to it, I can't help but hum a few lines. Not long after, it became popular throughout Yunyang County and quickly spread to neighboring counties.
At the end of the year, when the magistrate of Yao County from Yunyang County visited the school, he learned a few lines and sang very loudly, telling everyone clearly that he followed Fusu and that he unconditionally supported all the work of Fusu.
A Korean writing was a little desperate after accidentally humming a few new poems praising New Salt.
This Yunyang County is so terrible!
Even the detailed works knew, of course Ying Zheng knew that he had received several excellent essays from the school students, and asked people to hum it several times for him to listen to it.
Cheng Miao was the leader in the school, and he still took the general direction very accurately. He picked out the excellent works he sang either praised Ying Zheng or praised Ying Zheng and Fusu together. None of them was praised by Fusu alone.
All the fresh wind romances have the same general idea: Thanks to the king Yingming and the young master's cleverness, we can eat this cheap and fine new salt!
The only difference lies in how to praise Ying Zheng’s wisdom, how to praise Fusu’s intelligence, and how to praise the benefits of Xinyan.
Ying Zheng listened to these new styles that were quickly sung to various places, and felt that although these poems were a little superficial and straightforward, they were still smooth to read and not bad to sing. The Academy can indeed cultivate people.
Inspired by these excellent works, Ying Zheng asked Li Si to let out the news, saying that he would host all officials on his birthday, and he would invite all countries to sit down and chat together. Everyone did not need to prepare anything. Just write a poem that suits the situation on the spot and summarize the major events in the past two years. It can be mainly praised or criticized. However, the meaning of praise has become. You must write a better one for criticism, otherwise you should not be an official.
The reason for venting the sound in advance is of course because some military officers do not know how to write poems, and they imply that they will ask their disciples to write a poem early. Anyway, the disciples' belong to yours, and it will be done if they can take it out at that time.
Ying Zheng also said that his requirements are very low, and he will be better than the students' essays in Yunyang Academy.
As soon as the news spread, those who were qualified to attend Ying Zheng's banquet began to ask people to collect the "student exercises" of Yunyang Academy.
Everyone pinched their noses and finished reading the "student exercises". After gathering together and a little analysis, they immediately understood: The king asked them to write poems and praise him and his son, it is best to have detailed and evidence, and to praise them with targeted examples, and also write them in plain language that the people can understand!
If you don’t want to write, don’t be an official!
If you can’t write well, don’t be an official!
OK, it’s just writing poetry, they can do it!
The author has something to say:
Ying Zheng: It’s your birthday, are you going to praise me too much?
Chapter completed!