Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 322 No way out?master come to help

Xie Bao and the others caught up with the sunny day for a while, even if it is difficult to dry salt in Haizhou, the brine in the small salt pond finally formed salt flowers under the scorching sun on the seventh day, Xie Bao and the others hurriedly moved the brine to the side Splashing the places where there are salt flowers to increase the concentration of brine and promote production, after a busy day, the salt in more than a dozen small salt ponds can finally be scraped on the second day.

But the more you scrape the salt, the less motivated you will be.

The seawater in Haizhou has low salinity, but the content of impurities is not only a lot but more. There are a lot of plankton at the intersection of the freshwater mouth and seawater. These creatures are all mixed in the seawater of Haizhou, so the dried The yield of salt is lower than that of Dengzhou sun-dried salt, but the sun-dried salt contains more impurities than the local Dengzhou salt.

After going back and forth, the salt produced here is not to mention pure white. Xie Bao and his team worked hard to control the salt at the brine concentration with the highest salt production rate, and worked meticulously. Finally, what they got was some that could barely be regarded as white. coarse salt.

When the first batch of private salt in Niugang Village was produced, a large amount of private salt in Lijiazhuang was also harvested.

At this time, the private salt dealers active in Haizhou naturally found two villages.

Before the salt dealers came to collect the salt, Xie Bao found that the farmers in Lijiazhuang were also active. They were actively working and running around the beach, but they were not drying salt, but drying sand.

Xie Bao was stunned to see Li Cai directing the people to mix fine sea sand into the private salt they made.

Xie Bao asked, "What is this for?"

Li Cai said to Xie Bao with a smile: "It's not as good as at this time, how can our Zhuangzi benefit?"

Xie Bao was speechless, and when he found out that Li Cai's salt mixed with sand was almost the same color as the original sea salt, he became even more depressed.

This salt is half white and half white, and it can't be seen at all if it is mixed with a little sand.

Li Cai and the others mixed the salt, and the salt dealer came to collect it the next day.

After looking at the salt from the two villages, the group of private salt dealers cared a lot about Li Cai's salt, but in the end they agreed to accept it, and they didn't have much comment on the salt from Jiebao Village.

At this time, official salt in Dengzhou can be sold for about 45 yuan per catty, and the price of private salt is also around [-] yuan per catty. If the price of private salt is calculated in Dengzhou, there will always be thirteen or four yuan. money.

But the price that the salt dealer bought for Li Caizhuang was six renminbi a catty, and the price for the cash register of Jie Baozhong was only seven cents a catty.

Jie Bao couldn't say anything at this price, because they themselves knew that the quality of the salt they produced was really poor.

But when he thought that his honest work was not as good as Li Cai's and the others' earning more by mixing sand, Xie Bao became depressed.

After a batch of private salt was sold out, Li Cai became lazy again. He often visited Niugang Village, and sometimes talked to Xie Bao.

"This place can't make a lot of money. Is it easy to make money by running a village in Dengzhou?"

Xie Bao had a melancholy look on his face. He regretted it. His elder brother Xie Zhen stayed in Dengzhou to work with Sun Xingan. He must be busy working on the newly opened farmland. Although the weather is cold this year, the corn harvest this season should be good. This year, the population under the jurisdiction of the Dengzhou Supervisory Committee has expanded so much, and the dividends from the farmer's farming, what my brother can get is at least dozens of guan.

He even envied Li Cai who was drinking tea leisurely in front of him. Although he earns less, he is relaxed and stress-free.

Li Cai just needs to support dozens of farmers in Lijiazhuang, earn a little money, and when it is hard to dry salt in winter, he will take most of the farmers back to the village in Huairen County.

What Xie Bao regrets now is that before he came here, he confidently told his master that he would be able to make himself self-sufficient in two months, but now he has more than 100 dealers under his command, and the little money he sells for salt can’t even support them. If it can't be done, how can we use this as a base to develop Haizhou?
Xie Bao only felt that he was under more and more pressure.But the village has not been built yet.The salt in the salt pond has not been exposed to the sun, and it is too late to go to the mountain to grow tea for the time being.

He began to think that there were some wild tea trees on the mountain behind Niugang Village that he could pick.

It takes four to five years for the tea trees to be picked. However, some tea trees planted by fleeing households in the mountains have grown for many years. Picking wild tea is also an income.

Xie Bao has already begun to think about whether to send some people to pick tea. It is estimated that selling private salt alone cannot support the people in this village.

Just when Xie Bao was at a loss for the future of Niugang Village, Sun Xin finally finished his work in Dengzhou and brought a large number of supplies and supplements to Niugang Village to help more than 20 villagers. State landed.

When he saw Sun Xin, Xie Bao's face couldn't hide his sadness.

"Master, the quality of our salt is too bad!
Sun Xin took a bag of salt made by Xie Bao, picked it up carefully, and nodded. Xie Bao was surprised to find that Sun Xin didn't have much surprise on his face.

"Go to the salt field you built first."

Xie Bao brought Sun Xin to the salt field together, and when Sun Xin saw the salt pond that Xie Bao and the others had rested for a while, his eyes lit up.

"Is this all settled within ten days by you?"

Xie Bao nodded.

The joyful expression on Sun Xin's face couldn't be stopped. He originally thought that it would be considered good for Xie Bao and the others to repair their house during this period of time, but he didn't expect that they could endure such poor living conditions and repair the salt field by the seaside first. stand up.

It seems that Jie Bao really wants to make Niugang Village self-sufficient within two months.

"It's not in vain to build such a large salt field. Come with me."

Sun Xin said to Xie Bao with a smile.

When he came to the coast, Xie Bao saw a group of people getting off the ship carrying big iron cans and porcelain jars.

When Xie Bao saw the tin can, he immediately recognized that it was specially used for strong acid and alkali by the Dengzhou Acid Factory, which was not seen in other places.

"Master, what's the use of bringing this strong acid and strong alkali to our Haizhou?" Xie Bao was a little confused. This thing is a chemical raw material in a textile factory. How can they build a textile factory under the current conditions in Haizhou?

Sun Xin glanced at Jiebao with a smile, "Before you learned farming, arithmetic and physics with me, but you have never been taught this skill."

It's not that Sun Xinzang is unwilling to teach Jiebao chemistry. The key is that these concepts of chemistry are too difficult for people to understand at this time. Secretly hid a strong alkali and went back to use it as medicine. Sun Xin couldn’t even do the most basic chemical experiments under the conditions at hand. You can tell him about redox reactions, silver ions, iron ion covalent bonds and so on. It's strange to understand.

And basic chemistry is not what is most needed in this day and age.At this time, many chemical products still rely on production methods passed down from generation to generation, and the demand for pure chemicals will not really appear until the late stage of industrialization. Today's Dengzhou industrial talents can understand the use of acid and alkali, the ratio of gunpowder raw materials It was enough, so Sun Xin didn't teach more content at all.

Hearing that Sun Xin was coming to help make salt, all the old salt households here were a little surprised. Although they knew that Sun Xin was a powerful official, they were really dissatisfied when it came to making salt.

But this is their property, so what can they say?
When Sun Xin instructed them to take out an independent salt field as his experimental pool, these veteran employees did not dare to speak out.

The salt field that Sun Xin found is already concentrating the brine from the third stage. The brine concentration is so thick that it can almost produce salt, which is in line with his experimental requirements.

He directly called the farmer, and carried sulfuric acid diluted with clear water into the salt field. Seeing Sun Xin's operation, the old salt workers hadn't seen the power of this sulfuric acid, but they didn't respond, but many farmers who had worked in the flax mill The customers were all confused. They know the power of sulfuric acid, and they know that if it is not operated properly, it will burn people to death, and the salt they produce is imported. It will be okay to pour sulfuric acid into the salt pool, right?
But no one dared to ask Sun Xin's prestige there.

After pouring in the sulfuric acid, Sun Xin asked Ji Ke to stand by the salt pond and use a sledge to stir the salt water in the pond. Soon, black sediment began to form in the pond that had not yet produced salt flowers.

When the sediment no longer increased, Sun Xin also stopped adding sulfuric acid, and asked Xie Bao to record the concentration and dosage of dilute sulfuric acid and the ratio of the brine in the pond, and then Sun Xin asked people to drain the brine from the salt pan into the next drying pond.

Everyone stared wide-eyed at the lumps of sediment left at the bottom of the salt pond.

What surprised me the most were those old salt workers.

They almost exclaimed, "This is salt ash!"

The so-called salt ash is actually what people of this age call various impurities in table salt.

In addition to sodium ions, there are a lot of metal ions in seawater. The sea salt made by directly evaporating seawater has a high content of impurities. It looks half gray and half white, and the taste is not pure salty, but Bitter and astringent, the culprits of these reasons are these metal ions and various impurities.

Some impurities floating in the sea, such as seaweed and microorganisms, can be slowly precipitated in the previous salt ponds by using the field sun-dried salt method, which is why the quality of salt in the sun-dried field is better than that directly dried in the small salt ponds high reason.

But even in the salt that was dried in the large drying yard established by Xie Bao and the others at this time, most of the metal ion impurities in it have not been removed.

(End of this chapter)