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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 325: Iodized Salt

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    Changing water transportation to sea transportation, opening up sea restrictions, and expanding maritime trade are huge profits. Although the current level of navigation in China has not reached the level of Europe and North America, it can still reach North Korea, island countries, and Southeast Asian countries.  of.  The rise of maritime trade will naturally lead to the development of shipping, shipbuilding and other industries, and will also help a country's coastal defense. In fact, the maritime ban has long been opened by the powerful ships and cannons of the great powers. In Xiao Yungui's view, it is no longer necessary to open the sea ban.  It's ridiculous that the Manchus still cling to themselves. Perhaps they have no other excuse except that they are worried that the people's intellectual progress will lead to rebellion against the imperial court.

    At that moment, Xiao Yungui ordered Tang Zhengcai to lead the township officials related to water transportation to another hall to discuss the details. It was better to let experts negotiate the detailed regulations.

    As the township officials representing the salt merchant family began to talk about the salt industry, the New Deal encouraged private businesses such as tea, salt, sugar, tobacco, and alcohol. The biggest change was undoubtedly the salt industry. The West Palace abolished the old system of the Qing Dynasty and implemented the new system.  The Salt Ticket Law of the 1970s abolished the introduction of salt. Regardless of officials, gentry, merchants or civilians, as long as they paid taxes, they could transport it, and they could sell it at will in any county in Suzhou Province.  In this way, the monopoly of salt merchants and salt gangs on the salt industry is further broken. When there are more salt products, the price of salt will naturally drop, and the people will be able to afford salt.

    This open business policy has the greatest impact on the old salt merchant families. Although Yangzhou is the most famous salt merchant in the world, there are still many wealthy families under the rule of Sufu Province who make a living from the salt industry.  These people lost their salt profits and were naturally dissatisfied with the Salt and Iron Liquor Industry Regulations in the New Deal.

    After listening to the complaints of some village officials representing the salt merchant family, King Xi slowly said: "Firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, tea, these utensils are the daily necessities of the common people. Why is salt alone said to lead to nests? People's lives  The poverty is probably inseparable from the high price of salt, which is for the livelihood of the people. The salt stamp law of the New Deal still needs to be implemented."

    After hearing this, the township officials who represented the salt merchants all looked at each other in shock. It seemed that the King of the West would not change the salt vote law in the New Deal.  Chen Tian was secretly happy. Since the implementation of the Salt Ticket Law, the price of salt purchased by his family has dropped by 30%. He still very much agrees with the reform of the salt industry by the King of the West. He can't help but curse those unscrupulous salt merchants in his heart.  Come and see the King of the West.

    But the King of the West changed the subject and continued: "However, there are many people who were originally engaged in the salt industry under the rule of Sufu Province. This has cut off the wealth of our fellow villagers, and I am not embarrassed. Three months ago, I invited  I met a Western scholar. He has recently helped me prepare a batch of iodized refined salt. Eating this iodized salt can also prevent big neck disease and help children develop their intelligence. It can be said to be a special kind of salt"  Then the King of the West talked about the many benefits of this salt.  It made the eyes of the salt merchants and township officials shine.

    After a while, King Xi finally finished bragging. A township official asked boldly: "Dare you ask King Xi? What kind of salt is added to this? What kind of salt is added?"

    The King of the West laughed and ordered his people to get a Western transparent glass bottle with some black crystals inside. The King of the West ordered his people to look at everyone and said: "This is iodine. It is written in Shi Pang Dian and is extracted from seaweed"

    After hearing what the King of the West said.  Everyone briefly understood that this thing was extracted from seaweed, and another person asked: "King Xi, I see this iodized salt is so finely made. I'm afraid it's expensive and ordinary people can't afford it."

    The King of the West smiled slightly and said: "I have purchased Western equipment and built a chemical factory to specialize in the production of iodine and other chemicals. Our Sufu Province is close to the sea, so the raw materials are cheap, and the iodine is also cheap to refine. In addition, Su Fu Province is close to the sea, so the raw materials are cheap.  The Western scholars invited by this king have improved the method of refining refined salt, using machinery instead of manpower. The cost of making refined salt is 30% less than that of manual coarse salt. If you reinvest in building a refined salt factory according to my method, the iodized salt produced will have many benefits.  The price is only slightly higher than traditional refined salt, so I believe the sales will be good.¡±

    The salt merchants were all very surprised and began to talk about it. The King of the West pressed his hands to stop the noise and said: "But the method of refining salt was always invented by this Western scholar. He should pay for the secret method, right?"

    "It should be so." All the salt merchants said in unison: Since ancient times, the family's secret recipe in the country has not been passed down to the outside world. Even if it can be passed on to the outside world, it must be bought at a good price. Everyone knows this.

    But there was a hint of a sinister smile on the corner of Xi Wang's mouth. A few months ago, Xiao Yungui relied on Morgana Pasteur's relationship to contact her brother, who was also the dean and director of the Chemistry Department of Lille Polytechnic in France.  Louis Pasteur.  According to the memory of Hong Yun'er, a know-it-all about history, Pasteur was still troubled by the problem of fermentation in making alcohol at this time, so Xiao Yungui wrote a long letter explaining that fermentation is the anaerobic respiration of yeasts and controlling their living conditions.  Is the key link in winemaking and other theories introduced in the past.  Although Xiao Yungui came from a liberal arts background, he still knew a little about the fermentation effect of yeast.

    This was originally the result of three years of research by Pasteur, but it was plagiarized by Xiao Yungui. Pasteur got this theory?Inspired and quickly found the key to solving the problem.  In addition, when his sister wrote a letter saying that the magical Orientals said there were creatures even tinier than bacteria, Pasteur decided to travel across the ocean to the East and visit his sister Morgana.

    After successfully transferring to Pasteur, Xiao Yungui asked him to join Li Shanlan's Institute of Science. In addition to talents in physics and mathematics, chemistry was also an indispensable subject.

    In addition to Pasteur, Xiao Yungui also had ideas from Mendeleev and Nobel.  Mendeleev is still working as a teacher at a middle school in Odessa, Russia, while Nobel is only in his twenties and is still an intern at Engineer Allison's factory in the United States. There is still a good chance of inviting them to Shanghai.  Although Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er came from liberal arts backgrounds, Hong Yun'er still remembers the periodic table of elements. As for picric acid explosives, Xiao Yungui still remembers the general theory. He believes that using these to abduct these celebrities is still possible, not to mention  Xiao Yungui spent a lot of money to invite the scientists to Shanghai.

    After Pasteur came to Shanghai, Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er met him. Hong Yun'er chatted with him for a long time about the theories about bacteria and viruses. As for the confirmation, it was up to Pasteur himself, but Hong Yun'er still gave him  An important inspiration from Pasteur was the method of heat sterilization, which was later called pasteurization. He also proposed that the virulence of infectious microorganisms could be reduced under special cultivation.  Turn them from germs into vaccines against disease.  This opened up a new world before Pasteur's eyes and made him realize that many diseases were caused by microorganisms, so he established the germ theory.

    As for the development of iodized salt, it was just a theory that Xiao Yungui put forward in passing. The reason was very simple. There were many Taiping soldiers and civilians suffering from big neck disease. Xiao Yungui hoped to develop iodized salt as soon as possible to prevent and treat this disease.

    With the cooperation of Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er's theory and Pasteur's practice, iodized salt was quickly developed.  Xiao Yunguitian shamelessly added his name to Pasteur's paper, so this salt became a joint discovery of Xiao and Pasteur, and was patented by Pasteur in Europe.  Xiao Yungui then asked Pasteur to set up China's first modern chemical factory in Shanghai to produce some chemical raw materials.

    Now Xiao Yungui wants to use this salt production method to appease the salt merchants and coax them to invest in opening salt processing plants. Naturally, he will have to collect some patent fees.

    In addition to giving the salt merchants a new method of making salt, Xiao Yungui also gave them a lot of preferential policies for investing in and building factories. In this way, most of the salt merchants went away happily. In Xiao Yungui's view, a small number of those who were clinging to the old were  They are short-sighted people who will be eliminated sooner or later, and there is no need to bother to correct them.

    After the salt merchants were taken care of, most of the remaining township officials were dissatisfied with Juntian just like Chen Tian.  The King of the West immediately issued a new order to supplement the land equalization system, which stipulated that the land of each ethnic group should be remeasured and a township official office was established. The clan field deeds were handled in the name of the township official office. In name, this was the public land of a large clan.  , the government collected grain taxes based on the number of public fields.  Clan fields can be inherited by the clan, but they must not be left deserted and must be cultivated. For any clan fields that have not been cultivated for more than three months, township officials are obliged to call people to cultivate them.  At the same time, the clans in the countryside were informed that if they rented clan land to people with other surnames, their grain and tax payments would be reduced by 30%.  However, the cultivation of grain in public fields must be guided by the Department of Agriculture, and grain areas and cash crop areas must be specially designated. Tea and silk cannot all be planted, and a certain grain output must be guaranteed.

    As for growing opium, etc., it is not allowed. Anyone who violates the guidance of the Department of Agriculture will be fined money, and the person involved in the case will be punished, and the public land will be confiscated.

    Looking at the various "Additional Supplementary Clauses to the Equalized Land System", Chen Tian secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It was fine that he was not forced to allocate the clan land to people with other surnames. He finally kept the clan land. As for leasing it to people with other surnames, it was also necessary.  There is not that much labor in the country, so it is still necessary to recruit tenants.  As for farming according to the plan of the Department of Agriculture, Chen Tian is not worried, because the attached clause states that if the grain and crops are cultivated according to the plan of the Department of Agriculture, after the public grain is paid, the remaining cannot be sold, and the government will purchase it at the current price.  .

    Xiao Yungui's approach first brought out the role of national macro-control. Sufu Province must ensure food supply. People cannot go to plant tea, raw silk and other crops just because of liberalization of industry and commerce. The Department of Agriculture must ensure that the agricultural reclamation area is determined by the Department of Agriculture.  Make a reasonable plan, otherwise there will be insufficient food reserves, so how can we fight against the clear demon?  Not to mention feeding Tianjing!

    The establishment of the rural official office made Chen Tian feel more official. The Kingdom of Heaven was more generous than the Manchus and directly recognized the patriarch's control over the countryside. However, he did not expect that when he became an official of the Kingdom of Heaven, he would be dismissed by those officials.  The rules that should be followed are trapped.  Xidian even sent work teams to the countryside to help township officials deal with clan economic disputes, public security affairs, and civil disputes, and gradually diluted the rights of clan leaders.

    After talking about the equalization of fields and the township official offices, Chen Tian boldly stood up and said: "The King of the West?In Chentian, Dahe Township, Zuowang Town, Hangzhou, most of the tribesmen make a living by weaving. Nowadays, the New Deal has opened up industry and commerce, and the customs tariff has also been reduced too much. Foreign yarn and foreign cloth are widely imported, and the tribesmen  If no one cares about the fabrics we produce, we are afraid that our livelihood will be cut off in the future.  "(To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!
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