Crossing over reveals a waste's difficult journey home

Thinking of what the god Xia had said, Jiang Tuan asked and Jiang Qi immediately understood that the other party wanted to ask whether bean products could make Da Xia stronger.

He immediately replied: "Yes, I definitely can."

Jiang Tuan was very happy to get a positive answer. While he was happy, he suddenly thought of some history he had read.

Sometimes, the ideas of those in power are good, but when it comes to implementing them at the lower levels, all kinds of problems always arise.

Slow progress is already a better situation, and it is not impossible to cause unrest.

For the sake of energy, Jiang Tuan didn't want a good thing to turn into a bad thing, so he continued to ask Jiang Qi.

"Your Majesty, how are you going to tell the people about tofu?"

Jiang Qi didn't know why Jiang Tuan asked this, but he still answered patiently: "Let the officials go and preach."

After hearing this, Jiang Tuan shook his head and said, “Your Majesty, this is too slow.

We don’t have much time, so we can’t take it slow. Only by letting more people know about tofu and eat it as soon as possible can we do more.”

"Then what good idea do you have?"

If you ask a modern person what they have seen the most since childhood, everyone's answer may be different, but now Jiang Tuan thinks of advertisements, all kinds of advertisements.

In the past, there were radio and newspapers, and later television, and later mobile phone videos. There is no place that commercial advertising cannot reach, except for places people cannot think of.

In order to let more people know about their products, merchants will do everything they can.

Jiang Tuan felt that if he wanted to get energy as quickly as possible, he should learn from those merchants.

So he suggested that Jiang Qi find someone to make tofu on the street, to make and sell tofu in front of everyone.

In Jiang Tuan's opinion, everyone is curious, and as long as people's curiosity is aroused, most of the work is done.

When enough people see and eat tofu, there will always be knowledgeable people who can see the benefits of tofu, there will always be smart people who will find ways to learn how to make it, and there will always be people who can't help themselves and will take the tofu to other places to make money.

Never underestimate the speed at which the masses spread information.

If you want to promote tofu, taking the mass line will definitely spread faster than the emperor giving direct orders, and people will accept it more naturally.

Jiang Qi is an emperor, and his way of thinking is at an upper level. Even though he is an emperor who cares a lot about the people, he is still condescending when dealing with things.

It cannot be said that being high and mighty is a bad thing. At least it can deter officials and the people, and when the country is unstable, it can enable government orders to be implemented more quickly.

However, after listening to Jiang Tuan's advice, he discovered that there was another way to convey his policies smoothly.

He thought about it and felt that Jiang Tuan's method did not sound serious enough and was not in line with the majesty of imperial power.

But if it were put into practice, perhaps the people would be more likely to accept it than if the court had gone to great lengths to preach it.

After all, this is human nature. If you rush others to do something, others will think there is some conspiracy. If others can see that it is profitable, needless to say, people will rush to do it.

"Jiang Tuan, you are very smart."

Jiang Tuan didn't dare to accept this compliment: "This is not what I thought of. We sometimes do this in our place. It's not a rare thing."

After talking about tofu, Jiang Qi looked at the white salt in the pottery jar and sighed: "It would be great if all the people in Daxia could eat this kind of salt."

"It's not that difficult. The court can just make all the salt like this."

Jiang Tuan thought that this method was very simple and it should not be difficult to purify the salt that the people eat.

"Mr. Jiang's method is very good, but it is not particularly easy to implement. The amount of firewood required is difficult to estimate.

More importantly, there is not enough salt to use this method, so the people will not be able to eat it. "

Even though Jiang Huai is a noble prince, he still understands some basic common sense.

In order to let him understand the lives of the people, Jiang Qi would often take him out of the palace. As soon as Jiang Tuan opened his mouth, he immediately pointed out the shortcomings of his ideas.

Salt is a very common thing to Jiang Tuan. He doesn't think it is something difficult to obtain, and naturally forgets that the Great Xia Dynasty was an ancient time.

He couldn't remember where he had heard it before, but salt was indeed not easy to obtain in ancient times, yet salt was a necessity for human life.

Therefore, in many dynasties, salt merchants were a group of very wealthy and profitable people. Not only were they rich, they also colluded with officials and businessmen to make huge profits.

The result of the collusion is that it becomes even more difficult for people to get salt.

Thinking of this, Jiang Tuan couldn't help but ask: "Where does the salt you eat come from? How does it come from?"

"Most of them come from salt wells or salt ponds, and are fried and dried in the sun."

"Is there no sea in Daxia?"

"Yes, there is a sea in the east."

"Then why don't you eat sea salt?"

"We have sea salt, but not a lot. Making sea salt requires more manpower and firewood, so it's not cost-effective."

Okay, now Jiang Tuan understood. There was a sea in the Great Xia Dynasty, but they just didn’t know how to extract salt from the sea water using simple methods.

Seeing that Jiang Tuan was silent, Jiang Huai thought for a moment and asked, "Mr. Jiang, do you know some methods of making salt from seawater?"

Jiang Huai's words focused everyone's attention on Jiang Tuan, including the eunuchs.

Although they abide by the rules and do not make unnecessary movements, their ears have already pricked up.

If Jiang Tuan's previous comment on the high nutritional value of tofu touched upon the concerns of these people about their health, then the new method of making salt involves the vital interests of everyone.

There was no way. In the Great Xia Dynasty, everyone had a great desire for salt, including the maids and eunuchs in the palace.

Due to backward technology, salt production has not been very high for many years. The upper class and even the emperor ate bitter salt. How good could ordinary people eat? Sometimes they could not even eat it.

For some people, being able to eat a salty meal is already a good thing.

It is precisely because of this that Jiang Huai’s problem has attracted everyone’s attention.

The sea is boundless, this is something most people know.

If it were easy to make salt from seawater, would they have an endless supply of salt in the future? Would they be able to put as much salt as they wanted in their meals, and no longer have to eat bland food?

Jiang Tuan did know some knowledge about making salt from sea water, but that knowledge was too superficial. If he wanted to obtain salt successfully, he needed more detailed knowledge.

"I still do not know yet."