Chapter 16 Kill Lin Xing!

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"Your Majesty, what did I promise just now?" Lin Baige pretended to be stupid.

"Oh, you didn't agree to anything. Then I didn't agree to anything either. As for the imperial examination, forget it. I will immediately ask people to select some young people from aristocratic families to fill the vacant positions." Although Fu Jiangyu said this, he was smiling when he looked at him.

"You're teasing me on purpose." Lin Baige noticed the smile in his eyes and immediately understood that Fu Jiangyu didn't really want to take back his decision or cancel the imperial examination. He shyly pulled up his wide sleeves to cover his face: "Your Majesty, can you not sleep with me today?"

Seeing him trembling with fear, Fu Jiangyu put him on the bed and said, "Okay, I'll let you go today, but I have to collect some interest first."

"What interest?" Lin Baige thought he was talking about a kiss. Although every time Fu Jiangyu kissed him, it was as if he wanted to swallow him up, kissing him so hard that he couldn't breathe, but... it wasn't unacceptable... It even felt good...

The more he thought about it, the redder his face became. He closed his eyes and nodded obediently: "Okay."

Instead of the kiss he expected, Fu Jiangyu raised his hand and ripped open his pocket, "Let me take a good look."

"Look, what are you looking at?" Lin Baige stared at him with eyes wide open in shock, and found that his eyes were still the same as when he was in court. However, in the court, he was examining all the officials, but now, Fu Jiangyu lifted one of his legs and examined him with the same eyes...

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Mr. Zhang did not delay. He went home to pack his luggage, took his men with him, and set out to see the salt wells on the third day.

Before they went there, they thought that this so-called salt well was just an ordinary well that Lin Baige had found to fool them. He had put a large amount of salt into the clean water in advance to make the well water salty, so as to impersonate brine.

But they were dumbfounded when they arrived at the salt factory. During the time they were delayed on the way, the salt factory had produced a large amount of salt, which had already filled up half of the warehouse.

On the other side, the salt wells were still busy extracting brine. The workers distilled the brine and made it into table salt.

Lord Zhang first went to see the salt well. It was very different from an ordinary water well. This well was bottomless. The brine was extracted by tying many long bamboo poles together. The design was very clever. A one-way valve was made at the bottom of the bamboo. The bamboo stretched to the bottom of the well, and the brine pushed open the valve and poured into the bamboo. When the bamboo was lifted up, the valve blocked the brine in the bamboo and prevented it from leaking out.

In this way, barrels of brine are brought up. To process the brine, soy milk needs to be poured into it and then distilled.

Mr. Zhang is very rigorous and sees every step clearly.

"I heard that the Jiang Kingdom makes salt by drying it in seawater. Can't we just dry it in the sun?" Lord Zhang asked the salt-making craftsmen.

The craftsmen said, "The recipe sent by the Imperial Concubine mentioned adding soy milk. We thought it was a waste at first, but later we discovered the wonderful use of soy milk. It can remove impurities inside. Otherwise, the salt would just be dried and inedible."

At first, the craftsmen did not believe that the water dug out from the ground could be used to make salt. There were also rumors that the demon concubine was practicing magic and needed them to dig a very deep hole in the ground, leading directly to the underworld, to absorb the extremely yin energy in the underworld.

They complained, cursed the demon concubine, and were terrified. But when the salt well was opened, the first bucket of brine came up, and the first batch of salt was made, everyone's eyes lit up. It turned out they had misunderstood. How could this be a demon concubine? This was clearly a deity. She even knew that there was brine underground that could be used to make salt. What else could she be but a deity?

Lord Zhang stayed for a long time, watching the salt production increase. He couldn't help but believe it: "He really made it. God bless our Jin State. With this salt well, we will no longer be shackled by the Jiang State. We can even sell salt to the other two countries and fill the national treasury."

The other officials and his disciples who came with him also looked at Lin Baige differently: "He really did something practical for the people."

Master Zhang stroked his beard with satisfaction: "Let's go back and kill Lin Xing!"