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Chapter 20 Salt Making

In early April, Ji Kang and his mother Ji Zhao came to Fuzhou Bay accompanied by Gao Yao, the magistrate of Dashi County. Looking at the sea in the distance, waves came from the sounds, Ji Kang and his mother Ji Zhao, Shi Gan, Qingzhu and Qingmei were all relieved and happy.

"Kochi Prefecture, are there any craftsmen who can make ships here? Can they go to sea?"

"Report to the young master, we have it here, but most of the ships we make are small boats, not far from the sea."

The magistrate Gao Yao hurriedly replied.

Ji Kang pointed to the sea in front of him and said to Gao Yao: "Look at this sea, it is a treasure land. I heard that in the southernmost part of your Dashi County, there is a natural good harbor that will not freeze all year round. This is the treasure land of the Dashi County in Tianci! Then you gather these craftsmen who make ships, and I will be useful later."

"No. My subordinates obey the order."

For Ji Kang, who had visited the salt field in this place in his previous life and had some impression of the salt production process and site requirements, he was still a little sure how to build an open-air salt field. After thinking about it, Ji Kang quickly drew out the salt field drawings based on the current terrain.

The main consideration is the location during construction, and to ensure that there is enough sea water to irrigate into the reservoir during high tide, while the salt flats themselves cannot be affected by tides or storms.

Ji Kang was very grateful to the major he studied in his previous life - mechanical design and manufacturing major. He was able to transform many modern crafts in his previous life. However, it was still quite difficult to build this open-air salt field that seemed very simple in his previous life.

There were also trucks of cement produced by Anshan Cement Factory following Ji Kang to Dashi County. Although it did not meet the modern craftsmanship level in the previous life, it was enough to build a pool for the salt field.

What are the modern nouns in the past life such as evaporation tanks, adjustment plates, filter plates, and crystallization ponds, but they are actually just some large and small cement pools and cement tables.

To this end, Ji Kang built an earthen kiln near the salt field in Dashi County to start making bricks. Combined with the professional knowledge in his mind and hard to recall the layout and operation technology of rural brick factories in his previous life, he finally designed the standard molds in his memory and drew the earthen kiln drawings for firing bricks, which completely improved the brick making process in Yan State at this time.

When he saw the standard green and red bricks that Ji Kang had burned in Ji Kang's impression, Gao Yao, the fat county magistrate of Dashi County, was in tears. He stood in front of the fired bricks and said to Ji Kang:

"Your Majesty, this is a good material for building cities and houses! It is much standard and durable than the bricks that are fired now! And it is much more labor-saving and simpler!"

With bricks and cement, the salt field began to build a large-scale construction. First, use sand and gravel to block the seawater at the beach, and then use bricks and cement to build cement pools and cement platforms such as reservoirs, evaporation pools, regulation pools, halogen pools, crystallization pools and other cement pools.

At the same time, the carpenters built rows of pedal water wheels by the reservoir and many pools to extract sea water. When they saw the pedal water wheels, Gao Yao became crazy again. He ignored Shi Gan's contempt expression and said to Ji Kang:

"Your Majesty, with this thing, I can water many fields! How much more grain will I produce!"

After the many cement pools were built, under the command of Ji Kang's "Start".

Many people began to be busy, pushing away the sand and gravel that blocked the sea water and let the sea water enter the reservoir; when the water in the reservoir is full, the people standing on the bicycle are desperately stepping on it, sending the sea water to the evaporation pool through the built ditches; then sending the sea water in the evaporation pool to the adjustment pool one by one, and then sending the adjustment pool to the halogen pool; after the sea water is clarified by the halogen pool, it is finally sent to the crystallization pool.

What Ji Kang didn't expect was that after a day of exposure to the sun, when coarse salt particles condensed from the crystal pool, the people in the entire salt field seemed to go crazy. Everyone, including Gao Yao, ran into the crystal pool. Even Shi Gan next to him, made Ji Kang see his mouth that had not been opened for a long time again.

When he watched the people running into the salt pond, including Gao Yao, who ignored the salt and stuffed handfuls of salt into his mouth, jumped and shouted, Ji Kang was not proud, but just felt sad, allowing the people to live a beautiful life as well as their previous lives, and there was a long way to go!

Looking at Gao Yao who was still crazy, Ji Kang was a little worried and said to Shi Gan:

"Send someone to let them all come out, don't kill them."

When the salt in the crystal pond was moved out of the crystal pond in basket by people, Gao Yao and the people, who still had tears on their faces, couldn't help but bow down to the little Junhou who was watching them. The voice of Junhou for thousands of generations, Long Live Junhou was deafening.

After building the salt farm, Ji Kang took Shi Gan and Dashi County Magistrate Gao Yao to Lushun, where Ji Kang had his previous life. Here were shipbuilders that Ji Kang asked Gao Yao to find.

In the world where Ji Kang came, the shipbuilding industry had already existed. According to the provisions of the "Book of Zhou" of Yan State, the emperor used a boat to board a floating bridge, the princes connected four boats in parallel, the doctors and two boats in combination, the scholars were single boats, and the common people rode a raft. It can be seen that the shipbuilding industry had a certain foundation at this time, and Ji Kang wanted to go further on this basis.

At this time, Gao Yao was introducing Ji Kang to the old man who knelt in front of Ji Kang and had an old face: "Young master, this old man is called Kang Qi, and his ancestors were all shipbuilding. I heard from the older generation that his ancestors had built ships with sails and traveled back and forth to Ji's North Korea from then on."

Ji Kang stepped forward to help Kang Qi, who was kneeling, and said, "I'm please get up quickly. Is what Magistrate Gao said just now true?"

Kang Qi hurriedly said, "Go back to my son, my ancestors did build such a big ship."

"Old man, can you make it?"

"Young Master, the villain is ashamed. The ancestors have lost their shipbuilding skills, but... but the ancestors still have shipbuilding silk. The villain can offer it to the young master."

Mr. Kang Qi's words made Ji Kang overjoyed.

The box brought by the old man was filled with shipbuilding silk. Ji Kang looked carefully several times and said to Kang Qi beside him: "Old man, according to this drawing, can you build this big ship that can carry 500 people?"

"Young Master, the villain can build this ship, but it will take craftsmen and countless money."

"Okay, old man, you can build one according to this picture and summarize your experience first. The government will send someone to help you. The craftsmen and money you need will be borne by the government. After the construction is completed, I will have a heavy reward."

After Ji Kang finished speaking to Kang Qi, he turned to Gao Yao, the magistrate of Dashi County, and said, "I call it a shipyard to build a building here, and it is the responsibility of Master Kang Qi. You can allocate craftsmen and money and grain according to Master Kang Qi's requirements, and you must not make any mistakes."

"promise."

Ji Kang pondered for a moment and said to Gao Yao and Kang Qi: "This place will be called Lushun in the future!"

Gao Yao hurriedly praised: "Young Master Da Cai. The word "神" represents a new starting point and a new beginning; the word "shun" represents everything we are doing now is smoother."

Shi Gan beside him curled his lips and said nothing.

At this time, the spring sowing in Liao was already over. Since the reclaimed fields were promoted under the organization of the government, the spring sowing area increased several times. It can be expected that the autumn grain will achieve the best harvest in the history of Liao.

This year, new plows were adopted, and the government organized the construction of warehouses and canals to make more fields irrigated, and many fields in the past were turned into fertile fields. Although the government reduced taxes by 10%, the Liao area recruited Huyi, refugees, and land reclamation and land construction in winter, and the population and fields were also more common than in the past.

In addition, Liaodi has promoted the technology of fertilization farmland cultivation on a large scale this year. When they thought of the autumn harvest at the end of September, officials in Liaodi were eager to build new granaries. After the spring sowing, the people were busy using manure to raise farmland land. Ji Kang was also preparing to return to Anshan from Dashi County.

The carts carrying cement from Anshan to Dashi were loaded with salt and headed towards Anshan from Dashi. At the end of May, Ji Kang and his mother returned to Anshan with many vehicles filled with salt, which caused a sensation among the crowd.

Jun Xiangjuxin, who received the news, and Su Qing, a doctor from the Ministry of Commerce, rushed to Anshan as fast as possible. When they saw the pile of salt in the newly built warehouse in Xinchang, they burst into tears. The old man Juxin even paid homage to Ji Kang with a big gift of promising to the ground:

"Young Master, since then, I have no worries in Liaoland!"
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