Chapter 274 I Have 1 Thousand Baht of Money

Wei Zhigu stood there motionless and emphasized: "It is an important matter for the people of the Tang Dynasty."

"Yes, Wei Shangshu should go back to the court meeting immediately." Li Chengqi nodded.

"Irrigation matters." Wei Zhigu added.

"Wei Shangshu hasn't convened a meeting with officials from the Ministry of Industry immediately. Zhuangzi doesn't care about Datang Water Conservancy." Li Chengqi was still speechless.

"The well that Li Yi Zhuangzi pressed and pressured, Qin Tianjian said that there will be a drought this year, and the well on Zhuangzi is good." Wei Zhigu said the specific matter required technology, pressure well technology.

Li Chengqi was not in a hurry to chase people away this time. He thought for a while and said, "Wei Shangshu is going back. I will tell you when I return to the palace in the afternoon."

Wei Zhigu: "I want to ask in person."

Li Chengqi remained silent.

"Forget it, I'll leave now." Wei Zhigu took the flower glasses, got in the car and turned around.

Li Chengqi went to the pressure well. The windmill had been removed and water was not being pumped continuously to make ice.

The pressure well is still used every day, and even if there is no continuous water flow after the beginning of spring, it will not freeze.

Due to poor sealing, when the well is not used for more than half an hour, the water inside will seep in.

When using it again, you need to pour a basin of water into it and press it back and forth to drain the air and water will be pumped up again.

The people in the kitchen had just pushed away the two large buckets of water. Li Chengqi stood there, pressing down one by one, watching the water flow out.

"Brother Yi said that this well was specially made to prevent children from going to the open well to get water. What did Wei Zhigu want it to do?" Li Chengqi seemed to be saying to himself.

The palace maid Jin Ju who stayed behind said, "I think Wei Shangshu is also afraid that his child will fall in."

Ziyu objected: "Impossible. Only Zhuangzi had such wells in the Tang Dynasty. Have they been changed?"

"Then why do you think he wants a well?" Jin Ju asked Zi Yu.

"Maybe some rich guy likes it and gets through..."

"Shut up, Wei Shangshu is also responsible for your arrangement?" Li Chengqi glared at Ziyu.

He continued to press, unable to figure it out no matter how hard he tried.

"I would have asked Wei Shangshu if I had known earlier." Li Chengqi let go.

Li Yi showed up during lunch. The kitchen lunch focused on sauerkraut and white meat, which were steamed in a large steamer instead of boiled and stewed.

Place the three-layer pork belly at the bottom of each large box, add ginger slices and a few star anise, top with sauerkraut, pour water, cover and steam.

Steamed sauerkraut is not sour, and the soup is clear. At the same time, the meat is not greasy at all, which is much more delicious than boiled sauerkraut.

In fact, the best thing is the soup, which is refreshing, just like the cold noodle soup in summer.

Dip it into the rice. Although it is not good for the stomach, it is enjoyable to eat.

Li Yi filled a bowl and chose to eat steamed buns. If he tried to make rice, he would definitely be in trouble.

"Wei Zhigu, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, came over just now. His eyes were dazzled. I tried two lenses on him." Li Chengqi, who chose the same food, said the situation.

"Do you still have any health problems?" Li Yi is very concerned about patients.

"It's okay. You said during a drought, what's the difference between drilling an open well and a pressure well on your village?" Li Chengqi finally asked the doubt in his heart.

“Instead of grabbing water, you can dig diversion channels directly from the wellhead to other fields, and everyone can take turns to pump water.

If it were an open well, naturally whoever brought up the water would take it away to irrigate the ground. We couldn't take turns to bring up the water and pour it into the aqueduct.

Relatively speaking, pressure wells save effort. In the time it takes to shake a bucket of water with a windlass from the well, a pressure well can generally hold two to three buckets of water.

Jumei is suitable for shallow wells. When the water is deep, a very high shelf is needed. The pressure well is better used at night and operates continuously. "

Li Yi told his eldest brother, it's that simple, and the pressure well can be easily coordinated by everyone.

"Alas!" Li Chengqi sighed and drank the soup.

Jin Juhua and Ziyu lowered their heads to eat sauerkraut without raising their heads.

"There are still capable people in the Ministry of Industry." Li Chengqi admitted that the difference is that he is professional and can think of such problems.

"The Ministry of Industry has been dealing with water conservancy for a long time, so it naturally has to care about people's livelihood, otherwise it would not be possible to build water conservancy projects."

Li Yi thought about why his elder brother sighed and said with a smile.

"What kind of technology can be provided?" Li Chengqi thought that it would be beneficial to the people when he thought that the people would have less trouble in grabbing water.

"This technology is of no use. The salt from Shu has always been better than the salt from the sea. Shu salt is expensive but sea salt is cheap. Zhuangzi bought sea salt and processed it himself.

The salt wells in Shu, whether they were producing gas that could be burned or salt brine, were big money-making businesses.

I have a method that can be used for drilling small holes and deep wells.

The pressure wells in Zhuangzi were dug and the pipes were buried. Because the water system around Chang'an is developed, the underground water layer is shallow.

Changing it elsewhere would be time-consuming and labor-intensive. The salt wells in Shu are all shallow wells with large mouths. "

Li Yi hesitated and hesitated before asking a question.

"Brother Yi, you are saying that you have a better way to dig a well, but can this method be used for well salt?" Li Chengqi understood.

Then he hesitated because Shu was far away from Chang'an.

Come up with a good method, it will be more convenient to dig wells, and it will be more convenient to collect well salt in Shu. This money... Yi Di can't make it.

One well after another, the deeper you go, the easier it is to find water, brine, and gas.

Punch out the gas, light the boiling salt, beat out the brine, and be boiled.

Others are both angry and bitter.

Every time you hit it, it's money.

With good well salt in hand, you can buy things.

This technology...

"Brother Yi, just dig a big hole and bury the pipe, don't drill too deep." Li Chengqi decided that we can't suffer a loss.

In the past, farm tools belonged to the people all over the world and could be used, and digging wells was not under their own control.

Yizhou Prefecture is a great place, but it’s too difficult to get involved. With well salt, Shu brocade, saltpeter, and the climate, you can get almost anything you want in Shu.

Li Yi lowered his head and ate slowly.

He is weighing that other technologies are easy to talk about. People in agriculture will follow them as long as they have the conditions to increase food production and reduce labor intensity.

Drilling technology is also beneficial to the people.

Yes! Even if there is no drilling technology, wells are dug in every village, and it just takes some effort to dig them.

The most beneficial thing must be well salt. As long as it is taken out, it won't take long for the well salt mining area in Sichuan to be filled with new wells.

There is too much money, so much that I can't bear to part with it.

It hurts if I give it to you for nothing, it really hurts.

Everyone in the single room was silent, even the palace maids and eunuchs understood what was going on.

The proprietor actually has such a powerful thing on hand, and there will be a lot of Shu salt when he takes it out.

The white flowers of Shu salt, eating Shu salt without the bitter taste of sea salt.

Of course, no matter how delicious Shu salt is, it is still not as good as the salt from Zhuangzi.

But that is another matter. Who can compare with Zhuangzi?

When the meal was finally finished, Li Yi put down his chopsticks and took the last sip of soup.

He said to Li Chengqi: "Brother, how much power can we mobilize?"

Li Chengqi gritted his teeth and thought: "As long as you are willing to pay, it will be great."

"Can it be as good as heaven and earth? I want a 10% profit. If I really want it, I won't keep it for anyone else." Li Yi felt his mouth was a little dry and swallowed his saliva.

"Brother Yi said..." Li Chengqi asked.

"Yeah! I want 10%, half is fine, just half, one-twentieth." Li Yi lowered his request again.

The profit is too great, it will touch people's hearts, and it will kill people.

"Okay, Brother Wei knows what you mean, so Brother Wei will go and discuss it." Li Chengqi thought it was okay, and that's right, he asked his third brother to be the emperor in secret.

We brothers share the money. Third brother, you don’t want the money?

"But there is something I need to discuss first." Li Yi stretched out his finger.