Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 321
The place where the Supervisory Committee was built in Lanshan was named Niugang, so the built village is called Niugang Village for the time being. It took Xie Bao and the others four days to repair the tidal flats in Niugang Village with the original salt fields.Then began to make more salt fields.

This salt pan is very difficult to build. In order to mix the mud for repairing the salt pan, more than 50 workers were basking in the sun, smashing stones and mixing soil on the tidal flat.

The salt field needs to bring in seawater to dry the salt. It must be ensured that the soil in the salt field is all very, very fine soil, not sandy soil or soil with fine stones. If it is sandy soil, the seawater will seep in. After half a day, there will be a lot of seawater If the soil with fine stones will fall into dust when the salt is released, or the soil will be turned up after a few more agitations. In short, it is a very complicated and labor-intensive task.

Boiled sea salt is popular in the north these days, and the sun-dried salt method is only used in the south. The requirements for weather conditions are too high. Even in Haizhou, there are not many sunny days in which salt can be sun-dried in a year. However, The salt-boiling method requires too much fuel. Depending on the population density of Niugang Village, it is too late to just chop firewood. The fuel is not transported by sea these days, so Jie Bao decided to use the southern salt-drying method after calculation. As long as refined salt can be produced, it should be able to make up for the time-consuming problem, and their Niugang village has a small number of people, so what is needed is not intensive farming, but the smallest number of people can start the largest industrial chain, so even if it takes more It is also cost-effective to spend a lot of money to build a good salt field, and save a few salt workers at that time.

This time, Xie Bao brought the best salt households in Dengzhou, and everything was built according to the highest standards.

After repairing and filling the first salt pan system, Xie Bao finally felt relieved when he looked at the salt pond covering a large area.

Not to mention in Dengzhou, but after landing in Haizhou Port all the way north, he had never seen such a beautiful salt field by the sea.

Xie Bao organized immediately, and everyone started the first private salt production.

The salt ponds built one by one by the sea are connected by complicated ditches, and the seawater enters the first-level salt ponds after a long length of ten. When it is full, the mouth of the pool is sealed.

The next step is to wait for the sun to concentrate the brine, and then gather the brine and put it in the next salt pond, increasing the salt content of the brine step by step.

When the salt content is close to saturation, it is put into the final salt pond. As the sun evaporates the water, the salt content of the brine in the salt pond gradually exceeds saturation, so the salt particles will crystallize in the sea salt pond.

Before coming to Haizhou, Jie Bao had carefully inspected the salt-making methods of the salt farmers in Dengzhou. He had a considerable understanding of the most advanced brine salt-making method at this time. He believed that this The method is more efficient than most salt-making methods in the north these days, so when you come to Haizhou, you must bring a salt worker who knows this method.

In fact, Jie Bao’s idea is really right. This sun-dried salt pond was still used until the end of Qing Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty. The main advantage is that different salt fields are concentrated in different degrees in batches, so when the seawater from the previous batch of salt fields is introduced into the pool behind The salt fields that are vacated during the drying of salt can be filled with seawater again, and each salt field will not be idle, and can be used most efficiently.

The farmer organized by Xie Bao was busy working. At this time, he also noticed that the village opposite his Niugang village had only a dozen salt workers who came out to cook seawater every day, and all of them were listless.

Jie Bao felt a little strange. He went to the opposite village to find out carefully that the Zhuangzi was under the name of a big family in Huairen County, and the person in charge of the village was a relative of that big family. Zhuangzi is also called Lijiazhuang.

That Li Cai was originally sent by the owner of the family to manage the Lijiazhuang, but he works very slack every day, and his wife, children, and children are not here, so this is the job of a supervisor. It stands to reason that he should actively organize the village every day. It's good for customers to cook salt and cook salt, but all of them in Zhuangzi are mediocre and lazy.

This morning, Xie Bao first inspected the construction site, and then went to the salt fields.

The seawater put into the first batch of salt ponds has been exposed to the sun for three days. The salt farmers stepped into the seawater with bare feet and kept stirring it with sledges to increase the speed of evaporation and make the concentration of seawater even.

In summer, this job is very annoying. After walking in the thick brine for a while, my feet feel dizzy and sticky. If you accidentally cut your skin, the brine will go directly into your feet, and tears will come out of those who hurt.

Xie Bao was also standing in the salt field with his trouser legs rolled up. He is very concerned about his work. Since the main business of Niugang Village will be private salt in the future, he must be familiar with the whole process, so he decided to follow the salt farmers. Salt.

In fact, he is the mastermind of Niugang Village. No farmer dares to ask him to work more. It is already a kind of performance for him to stand in the salt field. Several farmers are rushing to show in front of him. In the water, while following the farmers to push the sledge, at the same time observing the labor of the farmers in Lijiazhuang on the tidal flat not far away.

It was the scorching sun, the most suitable season of the year for drying salt, but the people in Lijiazhuang were still lazy. He found that Li didn't stroll out from Lijiazhuang until the sun was three poles.

After coming here, I didn't go to the salt fields, but first stood there with my hips akimbo watching the sea.

Xie Bao couldn't help being contemptuous in his heart, being entrusted by others should be a matter of loyalty, even if this Li Family Village is not Li Cai's own property, it shouldn't be such a working attitude.

No wonder Lijiazhuang is so dilapidated, his own Niugang Village must not be like this.

Just when he thought so, Li Cai, who was opposite him, took a look at them, but instead of going to his own salt field to supervise the work, he wandered over to their salt field in Niugang Village.

"Hey, this Yantian repair is really good."

Li Cai went to the salt field in Niugang Village and looked at it, and couldn't help but praise him.

This place is close to Shandong, so the accent is not as difficult to understand as in the south, and there is no obstacle to communication between the two sides.

Seeing that Li Cai came to understand Bao, of course he had to be polite to greet him. He hurried up from the salt pond and walked up barefoot with a smile.

The two sides introduced each other.

Seeing Xie Bao face to face, he was also surprised that so many people in Niugang Village were led by such a young man as Xie Bao.

"How many catties of salt do you plan to dry this year? Build so many salt ponds?" Li Cai shook his head while speaking, "Unfortunately, it is a waste to build such a good salt pond in Haizhou. It would be a day if it was built in Dengzhou. Enter the bucket of gold."

Xie Bao was a little surprised, "Isn't it easy to make money in this place?"

Li Cai shook his head and laughed, "This place has to cook salt, and nothing can be dried in the sun. Otherwise, you will see that no one in our village is willing to work, and you can't make money. You have just done it. After two days Heaven will understand."

Xie Bao murmured a little when he heard the words. After sending Li Cai away, he asked the salt worker, and the salt worker didn't feel anything wrong.

After waiting for another two days, Xie Bao and the others were busy in the salt fields, but the salt worker's brows became more and more wrinkled.

An old salt worker said to Xie Bao: "The sea water here is really strange. The method of sun drying salt in Dengzhou in the past is so long ago that salt flowers should have been seen before being introduced to the next salt pond. Why is the sea water still clear? Clear and bright?"

The salt field in Niugang Village is very complicated to build. The large salt field where everyone works together has complex facilities. It can even be led to the side through the drinking pool. Xie Baozheng presided over the construction of a water storage pool with a roof to prevent it from raining. At that time, the salt pond was filled with water. This is the most advanced salt field in this era.

It takes a month to produce a batch of salt in the Great Salt Field. There is no problem with this Great Salt Field yet, but there are still some small salt ponds on the seashore that were carved out of huge reefs on the seashore. The salt workers are working on the small salt ponds. Found the problem.

There is little water in the small salt pond. It is reasonable to say that the salt should be dried out in four or five days. However, after four or five days, the salt worker who was about to scrape the salt found that there was not a single grain of salt in the salt pond after drying for so long. not seen.

The gray-haired Dengzhou old salt household was baffled: "Our ancestors have been making salt in Dengzhou for generations, and we have never heard of such a thing. Could it be that there is a ghost in this place?"

The salt workers also felt that something was wrong at this time. An old salt worker went directly to the beach and took a handful of seawater and put it in his mouth, and then his brows frowned even tighter.

"Why is the sea water so thin here?"

"The water is fresh?"

When the news came up, Xie Bao also became anxious. He hurried to the Li family village next door to ask. Li Cai was also at a loss. He asked how long it would take them to dry the salt in Dengzhou. Li Cai was surprised when he learned that it would only take four or five days.

"It's no wonder that Dengzhou produces a lot of salt. We don't have to dry the salt here for ten or eight days, so we don't want to scratch the salt flower."

The salt workers who went to Lijiazhuang with Xiebao to inquire were all dumbfounded. No wonder the farmers in Lijiazhuang were lazy in their work. It turned out that they did not make any money from drying salt here.

Xie Bao's heart was already cold. After returning home, he discussed with the staff and finally confirmed that the biggest problem of this place is that the sea water is too fresh. It will take a lot more time to dry the sea water here Salt.

"It's no wonder that although this place is hotter than our Dengzhou, it still has to boil the sea into salt, and the sun will last until the year of the monkey?"

The Yanhu people secretly thought that they were unlucky, but Xie Bao regretted it a little. He had studied physics with Sun Xin, and he had a habit of thinking about things in this world.

The border of Dengzhou is in the north, and there are not many rivers in the first place. Even if the river flows into the sea, it cannot dilute the sea water.

And this Haizhou is close to the Jianghuai River, the river network is densely covered, and a large amount of fresh water rushes into the sea. It would be strange not to dilute the sea water on this beach!

What I regret is that neither I nor the salt worker had thought of this problem before coming here.

How could they have imagined that making salt would be so much more difficult in Haizhou than in Dengzhou?

(End of this chapter)