"This... Jian'er, can these strategies really work?"

Tian Feng looked at his son in disbelief.

Is this detailed and feasible plan written by my son?

He is only six years old, and he knows so much that he doesn't even know anything?

I also said I saw it from some miscellaneous books...

Zhou Ming said with a confident look: "It will definitely be successful, Father, you don't know that Haiping County is much better than other places. Developing some industries here has many unimaginable advantages and benefits than other places."

"But this... the agriculture-animal and animal husbandry-style agriculture you mentioned, isn't it too wasteful to take out half of the fields to raise cattle, horses and livestock? That's tens of thousands of acres of fertile land!"

"There is also salt in the sea water..."

His father Tian Fenggeng looked disbelieving and said, "How can the sea water be dried out? It's almost the same to cook with firewood. If it can really be dried, why don't others go dry? You have to wait until you go dry before salt will come out?"

There is also the development of marine fishing, which is even more unreliable. First of all, the Tian family does not have so many fishermen and fishing boats. Even if they bring a group of fishermen and boats to go to sea to fish, on the one hand, not to mention the strong winds and waves and dangers of their lives, even if the sea fish are brought back and put on the shore and dry, they will soon become fishy and smelly and cannot be eaten at all.

"Sir, please listen to me."

Zhou Ming stepped forward and explained: "The farming model of agricultural and animal husbandry combines actually has greater advantages and multiple advantages than simple wheat and soybean rotation. One is that there is more fallow land and the land fertility can be better maintained. The other is that there are more livestock and the burden on tenants is greatly reduced, and there are more manpower and manpower that can be freed up. Three, the idle manpower and manpower have increased. Whether it is salting in seawater or developing marine fishing, there are enough people to participate to create greater economic benefits!"

After a pause, Zhou Ming said clearly: "As for whether salt can be done by sea water, father, we follow the methods in ancient books, and make a small piece of place first and test it. It doesn't take much manpower and time. As for the fish caught in the sea, as long as the salt test is successful in the sea water and salt, are you still afraid that the sea fish cannot be processed? Cook it and dried it, marinate it with salt, and are you afraid that the dried salted fish will not be sold?"

"this……"

Listening to these three closely related plans, father Tian Feng had to admit that if what his son Tian Jian said was true, this plan would be really feasible.

But……

My son, if he didn't think about the Five Books and Six Classics carefully, he would shine the lintel of the Tian family, so as to comfort the ancestors' spirits in heaven, and what should he do when studying these things all day long?

Moreover, the Tian family has 100,000 mu of fertile land, and can harvest hundreds of thousands of stones of grain every year, which is equivalent to 10,000 coins of copper. They don’t have to worry about food, clothing, and money. What else do you have to do?

It is better to study hard, strive to pass the Jinshi exam and become a high-ranking official. Only in this way can the Haiping Tian family, which has not been in office for hundreds of years, become a famous family and re-establish a reputation...

Seeing that the enthusiasm on his father Tian Feng's face gradually faded, his attitude towards the plan in front of him became cold and negative, and he began to look stern, ready to scold himself, Zhou Ming's words immediately made him extremely uneasy:

"My father, don't you want to take over the ancestral tablets and genealogies of the Haiping Tian family from the Guangling Tian family during your lifetime?"

This sentence seemed to hit his father Tian Feng's g-spot. He suddenly turned red and glared at Zhou Ming and said, "Why do you say this?"

Zhou Ming pointed to the plan on the table and said: "The reason why the Guangling Tian family can become one of the eight families of six surnames is nothing more than two things, one is power and the other is salt. Salt is the foundation of the Guangling Tian family. If Changlu Salt Field did not bring tens of millions of yuan in profits to the Guangling Tian family every year, the Guangling Tian family would not have such strong capital at all, helping their tribesmen to enter the court to develop, and there would be no capital. They would use massive resources to fund the Taizu of the dynasty and help them seize the world, and become one of the seventy-two founding heroes of Lingyan Pavilion..."

Zhou Mingzhen said deafeningly: "So, my father, don't ignore the importance of money at any time. If you want to suppress the Guangling Tian family and force them to return the ancestral genealogy to their original family, our Tian family must not only make a difference in the court, but also have to be able to compare with the Guangling Tian family and even be better than the Guangling Tian family!"

My father Tian Feng's face changed and he became extremely serious and serious. He reexamined the plan in front of him, muttering words such as "salt", "sea fish", "Guangling Tian family", and "genealogy". Suddenly he slapped the table, grabbed the plan, looked at Zhou Ming and said, "Jian'er, these three strategies are really feasible?"

"Is it feasible? Just try it."

"Then try!"

...

In the next two months, my father, who had been drinking and chatting with his friends and had a romantic relationship with his wife, had a rare career aspiration. Without the need for others to supervise, he first set aside ten thousand acres of fertile land from the manor land and conducted a new farming model experiment with half-agricultural and semi-animal Husbandry. He then took thousands of tenants to the east and went twenty miles away. He picked up soil and built embankments on the edge of the seawater soaking area, and built fields around the sea. After working for more than a month, he finally built a piece of salt field with an area of ​​about twenty acres.

On this day, the wind is sunny.

After 25 days of evaporation and drying, the seawater in the evaporation pond, which accounts for about 95% of the total area of ​​the salt field, was evaporated into brine with a salinity close to saturation, and was introduced into more than a dozen flat-bottomed ceramic pots in the crystallization pond. A few handfuls of firewood were added under the ceramic pot to speed up the evaporation of the water of the brine.

After a while, the old salt worker who was constantly stirring with a wooden stick saw some tiny translucent crystal particles appearing on the lower part of the wooden stick, and immediately shouted excitedly: "Salt is coming out, salt is coming out of the brine is coming out of the salt!"

"Salt is coming out here too!"

"It's so easy! These brines that have been dry for many days are so easy to produce salt!"

Good news came from more than a dozen flat-bottomed large pots that had been set on the earthen stove for a while.

The large pottery pot was refined for three consecutive days. After filtering and purifying, the first batch of sea salt with a total weight of nearly five tons were loaded and transported to the large warehouse of the fort.

Before entering the warehouse, I opened a salt bag filled with salt, picked up a pinch of even and fine grains, as white as winter snow, and put it in my mouth to taste it. Zhou Ming nodded and said, "It tastes good, it is a top-notch salt. It should be sold at a good price, but the output is too low. A piece of salt field of twenty acres can only be extracted 100 stones of sea salt (1 stone = 50kg) per month."

Tian Feng, the father who had been tanned a lot of skin on the side, said excitedly: "A lot of Jian'er, this 100 stone of salt is almost enough for everyone in the village to eat for a year. We no longer have to buy those low-priced and low-quality salt from the salt merchant!"

"It's not enough to eat by yourself!"

His son's words surprised him slightly, but he heard a thunderous message in his ears: "If possible, we can go deep eastward into a large area of ​​seawater in Haiping County, 15 miles deep, and build a seawall with a total length of 80 miles and a height of ten meters, and cover a 300,000-acre salt field. This salt field, as long as two batches of salt are dried in two months with the least rainfall a year, you can get 7.5 million stones of salt. So much salt, let alone a small Tianjiazhuang, even all the people in the Great Zhou Kingdom may not be able to eat so much salt."

this……
Chapter completed!