619 I'm Sorry 3
In Xizhou, Fumeng Lingcha accompanied Li You and his entourage to Raoul Village. He had absolutely no opinion on Li You's desire to open a mine here. This is a win-win situation. He can start from here. In his opinion, Li You's eye-catching industry can definitely make money if he gets the benefits.
Meng Lingcha, the husband of Raoul village, also came back for the first time. Of course, he also heard that there was a salt mine. It is very troublesome to mine rock salt like this. Basically not many people are willing to mine it. After all, it is not that it can be directly eaten as it is mined. It is just that the local poor people will use the rock salt.
But if the purity of the stone salt here is higher, it’s not the same. For things like local materials, it’s definitely a good thing. If it’s done, not only can you make money, but you can also add a portion of the income to the court. It is a feat. That's why Fumeng Lingcha came here with him, or else, how could he be leisurely.
The purity of rock salt depends on luck. Rock salt is accompanied by organisms. The less pure ones have a bitter and astringent taste. If they are eaten regularly, they can get sick. In severe cases, they can cause death. But even so, the people in the two villages here still use the stone salt here. After all, it doesn't cost money, and there is no need to travel more than two hundred miles to buy it.
No one knows how big this rock salt mine is, whether it has mining value, and how much potassium nitrate contains. No one knows it until a large area is excavated. This time, although Fumeng Lingcha didn't bring any soldiers over, he also had a personal guard, plus Li You's personal guard, there were more than 500 people, and there was no problem if he wanted to dig a mine. When I was in Xizhou, the tools were ready.
On a hillside far away from the village, they set up a camp here. In the tent, Meng Lingcha and Li You were drinking tea and chatting. They waited for the people who were digging to report. This time, open. I chose ten digging sites to see if this rock salt mine is big enough and how deep the mine is.
"Marshal Li, there is no shortage of salt in the Qihe area. Why do you come here to open a rock salt mine?"
"Marshal Fumeng, I really don’t want to conceal it. I really didn’t find a suitable mine in Beiting, so I saw it in your place. There is no shortage of salt in Qihe, even in the middle of the river, but the further west, This salt can be more expensive. To say that it is profitable, it is naturally there. It depends on the purity of the rock salt here. If it is high, it has mining value. Even if the cost of purification is added, it is still rich. Earn it, after all, we can't spend much on such an industry."
"That's true, it's just to see if we can do what we want later, but I hope this can happen."
Before the evening, all the people came back. Each team carried four baskets to the depth. What Li You asked for was ten feet. The rock salt mine that half of the people brought back was filled with rock salt shells, densely covered. Large-grained rock salt, and this layer is the potash saltpeter layer. Li You has already found a lot of potash saltpetre mines, and it seems that there are indeed a lot of them. The real rock salt mine is still buried under this thick rock salt crust. Anyway, it is also incidental. As long as you continue to dig, you will know how thick the rock salt crust of this rock salt mine is, and you can roughly know the nitrate layer. How thick is it.
In this way, Li You and Fumeng Lingcha stayed here for three days, and they have a general understanding. Stone salt can be dug everywhere here. I don’t know how big this salt mine is. There is an area of rock salt. The salt crust has been dug out, and the bottom is full of granular rock salt crystals. I don't know how thick it is. The color shows that the purity is quite high. After tasting it, there is no bitterness, and it does have great mining value.
Although the thickness of this rock salt crust is less than three feet, the potash saltpetre mine Li You is looking for is almost enriched in the rock salt crust. In some places, saltpetre deposits are formed. He has seen that. Everywhere, more than a meter thick, there are most areas of potash saltpetre deposits, he doesn't know, but he knows that it can't be used up at all.
Fumeng Lingcha then left with Li You, that is, leaving a part of the guards here. Next time they come, it will be large-scale mining. It is simply too simple to find someone to mine. If you don't say far, you can get hundreds of people by directly giving the money and letting villagers from two nearby villages dig and mine.
When Li You returned to Broken Leaf more than half a month later, he also brought back thousands of catties of saltpeter mine. When he came back this time, he had to arrange for large-scale transportation. Anyway, the soldiers of Broken Leaf are free now. As long as a few guards are arranged to lead the team, it is not difficult. It is nothing more than to prepare more carts.
But when Li You came back, he heard a bit of news that surprised him, that is, three ministers of Huoxun were assassinated and killed, and even Tanzberg was injured. If he hadn't been wearing armor when he went to the barracks this time. , Keep an arrow killed. Although two of the assassins died, they also grabbed one alive. You don't need to look at it to know that this person is a member of the Khazanite Khanate, and this news is not what Li You wants to hear.
In the palace, Li You looked at Yi Wu with an anxious look, and comforted her: "Don't worry, don't you just say that General Tanzberg was just injured? He should be fine." ァxinヤ~⑧~1~中文网ωωω.χ~⒏~1zщ.còм
"Husband, I'm really worried, I want to go back and have a look, can I?"
"Okay, I'll accompany you back. It seems that we have to fight again, alas!" Li You really had a headache. Originally, the Khazanite Khanate was not the opposite. Here and the food have just stopped, and they haven’t yet. He didn't expect to have time to breathe, and now it would be like this with the Khazanite Khanate.
In early May, Li You brought Yi Wu back to Huoxun. Before entering the city, Heizi and Tanzberg and others were already waiting here. After meeting, before Li You could speak, Yi Wu asked Said: "Uncle Tanzburg, are you okay?" New 81 Chinese website updated the fastest mobile terminal: https:/
Tanzberg laughed and said, "Your Majesty, don't worry, I'm fine, haven't I come to pick you up now?"
Li You asked: "The person who sent this message said that you are going to fight the Khazan Khanate. What is going on? I always feel that there is some misunderstanding in this."
Heizi said helplessly: "Young Master, it is indeed a big cannibal provocation. At first, he attacked and killed caravans to provoke the discord between our two countries, and then sent troops to attack and kill the Khazanian army, even this assassination. People, we all suspect that the cannibals did it. But the people of the Khazan Khanate killed the people we sent to spread the letter and sent their heads over."
"Why do you send people to the Khanate?"
"That's it. Last time the eclipse army attacked us, we saw dead bodies all over the ground after the battle. They were all soldiers of the Khazanite Khanate. So we sent people to the north. Unexpectedly, none of the ten people in the party He came back alive. The military commander of the North is the fourth prince Ashina Hurley of the Khazanite Khanate. He did this. In addition to killing our people, he also sent troops to attack us in the northwest of the Aral Sea. A few fortresses, otherwise, we wouldn’t think of going to war with them.” (End of this chapter)