No shortage of walls

The emperor's trip did not have many escorts, just two thousand imperial troops. In addition to Liu Guo and Liu Gongquan, there are eighteen guards, two imperial doctors, and two imperial kitchens to cook food for the emperor.

It's just a person like this. As for the secret, it's impossible to let others know.

The emperor had only been on tour for two days, and Shi Wenrou, who was behind him, was already looking at a man tied to a chair and smiling tenderly. He said softly:"Good boy, you have to understand the difficulty of this old man like me. Prince Jing, the current orthodox emperor, said that he would treat us old men to sweet wheat porridge. I understand the sugar, but Wheat grows in the palace. My rank is too low. Why don't you tell me something? How dare I have the nerve to see the emperor? Besides, what kind of treasure is wheat? Not many people in the world have seen it now, and have never heard of it. Young Master, the emperor's imperial edict said that the people will not be able to eat until the fifth year of orthodoxy, but it is only the third year of orthodoxy. What a great honor is that? Can you have mercy on me, an old guy? As for those old guys, I Just ignore them."

Hearing the other party's scream, which was like a ghost, he smiled even more gently.

——He was originally gentle, but his surname was Shi, who was a bit weird.

A gentle stone.

He was extremely gentle. Said:"Unless the emperor's hair falls off himself, anyone who wants to touch it will die. As long as someone wants to, he will die. No one can be an exception, no!"

But Shi Wenrou didn't know that the emperor If he were on a carriage and had a quarter of an hour to react, even Song Xing himself would not know how many people would be needed to break through the carriage.

A carriage can destroy a country, more than enough.

Song Xing’s first stop was Chen State—oh no, Chenzhou, the salt well in Chenzhou.

Under a large mountain ridge connecting the Song, Qi and Wu kingdoms, three salt wells appeared in a piece of blue stone. Each salt well has a radius of twenty feet, and each salt well is more than ten feet apart. Surrounded by huge rocks, there is only a gap of about ten feet in the middle on the south side, from which salt water flows down. To the south is an endless salt field, all paved with bluestone; each piece is at least more than a foot square, and each small piece of salt field is twenty acres. A door made of wooden strips, blocked with wood chips.

The salt water flows from top to bottom, filling a salt field. Wooden chips are inserted into the wooden door to stop the salt water, and the salt water flows downward. If it continues like this, it will take eight or nine days for the flow to be halfway through. The first piece of salt field brine on top will start to dry up, and it will become a piece of salt. Workers used wooden shovels to scoop up and carry away the goods for sale. The salt water continues to flow downward, filling the last salt field below. Separated with wood chips. Then it fills up the first row of salt fields, and the cycle begins again. As long as the sun stays the same, there will be a harvest in ten days on average.

I started collecting salt from the middle and it became available every day.

As long as it doesn't rain continuously, everything will be lost. No wonder Chen Guo has a few bandits and dares to bully Sui Guo. He has the capital to use bandits. song

_ , There are no such fat people in the entire Song Dynasty.

He was so fat that his face was as round as a full moon, and his eyes as big as two beans were squeezed like pinholes by the flesh.

Life in Chen Guo is good.

At this time, he hurriedly raised his hands and said:"Go back to the emperor! According to the leaders of the past dynasties, it is natural."

Song Xing asked:"How many salt blocks can be produced every day?"

Ye Changqing said:"Go back to the emperor! There is a strong wind in winter, nearly five to six thousand salt blocks a day. Jin, sometimes nearly 10,000 jins. The rest of the time depends on the wind, rain and sun; in calculation, the yield is the highest in winter, and sometimes it can produce 17,000 jins." No wonder my father led troops to threaten Chen Guo with 10,000 jins of salt blocks. So refreshing, it turns out that the output is only two days' harvest.

Song Xing looked at him as he hesitated to speak. He smiled and said:"You must be thinking, why is there so much salt in winter? The days are short and the nights are long in winter, but the salt production is greater than that in the scorching summer? But I already know." In winter, the northeast wind blows fiercely, and the moisture Evaporation is less than Xia, but it continues day and night. Although the sun is almost as hot as a ghost during the day in summer. But there is sometimes fog at night, dew in autumn, rainy days in spring, and winter is still the best. The winter wind is dry and can break people's skin. If the sun is strong and windy, the amount of evaporation will be the greatest.

Ye Changqing hurriedly raised his hands and said:"Your Majesty!"

Song Xing said:"I still know! It dries quickly below in winter, but dries slowly here."

Ye Changqing admired it in his heart. He raised his hands and asked:"This is still based on many years of experience. The emperor can see it at a glance. May I ask your Majesty, why?"

Song Xing said:"Because the mountain is too high and blocks the wind, there is more rain in spring and autumn, right?""

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Ye Changqing was breaking out in a cold sweat at this time. Fortunately, he didn't intentionally deceive at the beginning. Who knows that the emperor knows more than he does? He has been the chief for twelve years, and after looking at the notes of his predecessors, it is the emperor, who is young, who actually understands More than himself.

Liu Guo looked at him. He smiled and said nothing. In his heart, the Crown Prince knew everything. If even His Majesty didn’t know about it, no one in the world would know about it. How could a mortal fool know about everything above? Immortal skills?

Song Xing said:"What should I do when it rains? Are you using those sandbags to block the gap?"

"Yes!

Song Xing asked:"There are many leaves on the mountain. How to clean the mouth of the well?""

Ye Changqing said:"It's very easy. Your Majesty, just send someone up to clean it up."Looking at the question on the emperor's face, he couldn't help but feel proud. It turns out that the emperor didn't know something. He said:"The wellhead looks big, but in fact it is composed of countless small wellheads that are more than one foot square. People can walk on it at will, and besides, it is far away from the wellhead. The mountain is a bit far away, and the leaves fall only when it’s windy and rainy"

"oh! I see."

Now he looked carefully and found many things that he didn't understand, and he was very interested.

Song Xing said:"Should we climb the mountain?"

This side seems to be full of bluestones. Lu Zhi hurriedly raised his hands and said:"Your Majesty! Absolutely not! Too dangerous!

Liu Guo hurriedly held up his hands and said:"The dragon body is precious and cannot be taken into danger!" Song

Xing looked at the mountain, with lush trees and undulating vines. He said,"What treasures are there up there?""I reached out and touched the stone. It was ordinary granite. It had been discolored after being soaked in salt water for many years. The top was washed by rain. It must have been covered with moss due to the continuous rain in spring. I followed the instructions and walked south. I washed my hands and slowly put my hands behind my back. Walk slowly.

Not only does the emperor not like to wear dragon robes, he also likes to walk. It is already September 28th when I left Songjing and arrived here. I looked at and touched everything I saw along the way.

But there were no roads around the salt well. There was not a blade of grass.

The fifteen-year-old emperor's face was as bright as a crown jade. The salt workers looked sideways as they walked down. There was a ditch more than ten feet wide next to it. It should be used for drainage, but it was dilapidated. It was so unbearable that some were washed down and fell to the middle. Looking down, the ditch should not be big. He said:"It turns out that Chenzhou is not poor, and no one cares for a broken ditch, and it doesn't cost much.""At that moment, I ordered the imperial guards to change their clothes and ride horses along the ditch to see how they look when they get there. Just take a look.