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Chapter 342 The lifeblood of the country

Every charge is enough for Fan Yongdou to be doomed. If there are too many lice, Fan Yongdou knows that he will die. He bows his head and accepts his fate.

In the cellar, Ye Qing, Liu Hong and others were still taking stock of it. If the first three doors were a surprise, the fourth door was terrified. The weapons here were enough to equip the entire Liaodong.

Once these military weapons flowed to Jiannu, the consequences would be unimaginable. In fact, before they caught the profiteer, Fan Yongdou had been operating here for decades. Since the Apocalypse Period, it has never stopped.

Thinking of this, I am afraid that since Nurhaci started his career, Fan Yongdou became a dog in the Qing Dynasty. He was a dog with his tail stomped and begging for mercy.

It is very likely that before Huang Taiji, Nurhaci and his military weapons were smuggled by Fan Yongdou. The fourth door was heavy, just like Ye Qing and Liu Hong's mood.

It is very likely that the three hundred Qi family soldiers who died in Qifeng Mountain died under the weapons made by the Ming Dynasty. What a sad and infuriating thing. No wonder the Qing Dynasty was so powerful. What kind of people were invincible? On the one hand, their combat effectiveness and equipment were not bad at all.

It was these profiteers colluded with by dog ​​officials who carried out smuggling activities on the border without paying taxes. It was okay to trade some daily necessities with the Qing Dynasty, but this military weapon could not bear it.

There were three doors left, and Ye Qing and Liu Hong couldn't imagine what would be inside the three doors left. I thought that there was definitely not a good thing in the fifth door.

It's not some gunpowder, if it's gunpowder, it would be a life-threatening one. It's true that Huang Taiji could make cannons, but where did their gunpowder come from? In addition to making it himself, it wouldn't be the profiteer Fan Yongdou, the profiteer.

Therefore, when the fifth door was opened, Ye Qing and Liu Hong were extremely cautious. They did not dare to hold a torch. If this thing falls on Mars, it is not a joke.

Why not pull Fan Yongdou over and let him open the door with the key. First, Ye Qing and Liu Hong hated the unscrupulous businessman to the core, and they were afraid that they would be slashed with one knife when they saw him. Second, Fan Yongdou was already scared to a pool of mud and extremely moved at this time.

If you want to do it, you have to do it yourself. This time, Ye Qing did it himself. Instead of using an axe, he pried open the fifth door with a crowbar, and then carefully opened the door.

Sure enough, sacks and sacks on the ground were piled up tightly together. This scared Ye Qing: "Get back, all back back!"

The brothers holding torches behind them retreated one after another, and gunpowder was most afraid of the source of fire. Although it was still dark inside, it was still hard to see clearly, but if a spark fell, the entire Fan House would be razed to the ground. Judging from the amount stored in this door, it was probably directly accelerating to the Apocalypse explosion that year.

The cellar exploded. Fan's house was immediately destroyed. People outside didn't know what was going on. Maybe it would be a Chongzhen explosion left in history books.

The Apocalypse Big Bang, also known as the Wang Gongchang Big Bang, was a mysterious big explosion in Beijing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty in the sixth year of the Apocalypse.

At the 19th day of the fifth day of the sixth year of the Tianqi Dynasty, a bizarre explosion occurred in the area near the Wanggongchang Gunpowder Depot in the southwest corner of Beijing. The explosion ranged about 750 meters and the area reached 2.23 square kilometers, causing about 20,000 casualties. The cause of this explosion was unknown, with strange phenomena and huge disasters, which was "unchanged from ancient times to the present."

The cause of the Apocalypse Bang still plagues historians and scientists. It is known as the mystery of the three major natures in the world, along with the "Die Hill Incident" that took place more than 3,600 years ago in ancient India and the "Tungus Big Bang" that took place in Siberia, Russia on June 30, 1908.

The Apocalypse explosion directly changed the historical direction of the Ming Dynasty, because it directly led to the death of the Crown Prince Zhu Cijing, who was less than one year old, who was frightened by the explosion.

Look at the sacks and sacks of things, they are stacked in detail. It is very likely that the black gunpowder is stored here.

Ye Qing carefully cut a hole in the sack with a short knife. However, there was not gunpowder inside, but something more terrifying than gunpowder.

Fan Yongdou was not so stupid. He would bury a bomb under his cellar. The sack was actually salt-high-quality salt!

Why is salt terrible? In ancient times, salt could even control the lifeline of a country.

The most indispensable thing in the human body is salt. Without salt, people will not have the strength. Without salt, we cannot survive at all. Not only humans, but also plants and animals need salt.

Salt has more than 1,400 uses, but in most of us, it can only cause diseases such as hypertension. However, in ancient times, salt could be used to pay salaries instead of gold and silver. It can also preserve food and help patients heal their wounds.

Without salt, humans will lose their sense of taste at first. Then they feel very tired and even so tired that they cannot eat, and they will suffer from hyponatremia. One of the components of salt is sodium, and sodium is an essential substance for the nervous system in the human body to transmit information. Muscle contraction and heartbeat are closely related to sodium ions.

However, there was always a shortage of salt in the Ming Dynasty, and there was a great demand for salt, and the salt industry was the country's treasure pot.

In the era without refrigerators, salt was the best pickled product. Jiechi in Yuncheng, Shanxi. This is a salt lake, also known as the "Hedong Salt Pond". It mainly produces "Lu Salt Pond". It has been mined for thousands of years and is the "treasury" of all dynasties.

In order to make money, Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty secretly criticized some "salt" for the children of the royal family, asking them to buy salt from Jiechi. They could make a lot of money by replacing the goods, and then most of them were handed over to Wanli.

Salt indices are only equivalent to the qualification to buy salt, not salt, but they are already very valuable, can be transferred at a high price, and are also very popular, which shows how high the value of the pool is.

In the Ming Dynasty, the salt drying technology of later generations was not widely used, but instead used the method of boiling salt and frying salt to produce it. The output was limited, the quality was rough, but the price was not cheap. Moreover, sea salt required a lot of manpower and was called "salt", and its life was very miserable.

The Ming Dynasty was in a state of salt shortage, and there was no need to say much about the poor and poor Manchu Qing Dynasty. Although the Jilantai Salt Pond in Mongolia is not small, the Mongolians were not fools. The Qing Dynasty had to spend money to buy salt.

So Fan Yongdou gloriously took on the burden of buying salt for Manqing. The fifth door of this cellar was full of salt. And these salts were not rough coarse salt, but the best fine salt.
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