After the uncle gave the order, everyone naturally did not dare to hesitate, and they had long been looking forward to the arrival of this day.

The laborers shouted neatly and jumped into the salt pond excitedly, allowing the bitter brine that would not continue to crystallize and precipitate the sea salt to flow into the sea along the salt ditch. What remains at the bottom of the pond was mixed with a small amount of salt grains that seemed a little viscous.

Pushing forward with a wooden push board, like a snow cart, the crystalline sea salt was pushed up in piles.

Technology changes the world, this sentence really doesn't fool people.

The sea salt that was pushed up at first had a certain amount of bitter braised inside, which was so sticky and not good-looking. Everyone was also worried that Boye's technological innovation would fail.

But as the bitter brine gradually flowed out, under the sunlight, the remaining moisture slowly evaporated, and the pile of salt that was still somewhat dark stained showed his appearance.

White as dazzling as snow.

As the bitter brine in the crystallization pond slowly dries, the remaining salt particles at the bottom of the pond gradually dry, like the bitter frost after autumn and the thin snow in winter, it is white.

The laborers did not care about the shock in their hearts, and used a bamboo broom to sweep the remaining layer of sea salt at the bottom of the pond and put it together with piles of snow-white salt, and then used a dustpan to put it on a wheelbarrow that was different from the past.

Trucks of sea salt were transported to the open space behind the crystal pond with cement ground, and easily piled into a hill.

A salt mountain that is as white as snow! When the last truck of sea salt was pushed out of the salt pond and piled onto the salt mountain, the labor force opened the gate above the crystallization pond. The brine that had been precipitated and filtered and had been dry for several days flowed into the pond again. After another day or two, another pool of sea salt was found.

When all the processes were completed, everyone was wiping their sweat, the gentry and merchants opened their mouths, staring blankly at the salt mountain in front of them that reflected white light in the sun! This... is salt coming out?

Everyone can hardly believe their eyes... Since ancient times, it has been a long time since boiling sea and salt.

Someone has tried salt drying, but the effect is very poor. However, I didn’t expect that this uncle just changed the process and then added this cement. All this is different.

Farmers either boil salt themselves or the wealthy families. The whole family worked hard to go up the mountain to chop firewood and pick up sea water in the sea. Each pot can only hold up to 30 kilograms of sea water. After being simmered, they would not get much sea salt.

The local farmers are better. Apart from the heavy taxes and the family has to eat one pound, so they don’t have much left every month after working hard.

Moreover, the seawater is highly corrosive and the iron pot is not good. If the iron pot is boiled too many times, it will burn through the bottom of the pot by accident, which is another expensive fee.

As for those laborers who work for the noble families, they are even more miserable. They work hard to make salt but not their own. Their eyes are damaged by fireworks, and their hands and feet are sores by the sea. In the end, they can only exchange for some food that is covered with belly, so that the whole family cannot eat enough... But when they look at the scene in front of them, they dig some ponds on the beach, and dry them in the sun. When people go down, they use rakes to sweep them with brooms, and easily get such a salt mountain. I am afraid that there are tens of thousands of kilograms of sea salt?

The laborers were so excited that they could cry when they remembered their hard work. Suddenly, they thought that they could easily obtain sea salt with such a good way in the future. Although the salt was not their own, they were all ecstatic to make a living and have enough meals for such a relaxed life.

The gentry and merchants were generally stunned and stunned, with mixed feelings in their hearts, which were so sweet, bitter and spicy that they were afraid of. I don’t know what it tastes... I am happy naturally. Such a light and simplistic method of making salt, compared to Zhu Zhen’s original promise, the output would only be greater or less, and this investment would naturally make a big profit.

But there are many people who regret it! But they also know that if Zhu Zhen’s new technology and cement were not working, they would never have imagined such a production model, and the output would be even more unlikely to be increased.

The output of sea salt is indeed quite large, and this transaction is worth it. Even if you borrow a large amount of money from the "bank" and have to pay a considerable amount of interest every year, you will still make a lot of money.

But the question is that such a simple method of drying salt, why did I never imagined it before?

The history of many gentry and merchants boiling salt in the sea can almost be traced back to the ancestors' generation hundreds of years ago. If I had known this method of drying salt from then on, what amazing wealth would I have accumulated over the years?

What made everyone most angry is that just build a few pools by the sea, fill it with sea water and wait for the sun to dry the sea water. Such a fool can make salt. This hateful Zhu Zhen actually took tens of millions of taels of wealth into his arms?

It’s not that fast to make money when you are a pirate and rob a merchant ship. Zhu Zhen looked at the mountain-like sea salt, Bai Shengxue, and felt proud and proud! Each salt field is divided by salt ditch, with a length and width of about one mile, covering an area of ​​about half a square kilometer, and is divided into countless sedimentation tanks, evaporation tanks and crystallization tanks.

This place is located far from the estuary, and is a horn extending in the sea in Huai'an. It is surrounded by flat rivers and unobstructed. In summer, the wind is strong and the sea water is prone to evaporation.

It was only affected by the rainy season in Jiangnan that yields were affected during this period.

Zhu Zhen originally promised that each piece of salt field would produce 500,000 kilograms of sea salt per year. Now it seems that Zhu Zhen made a mistake in the calculation and the output was far higher than expected.

Are you at a loss?

Zhu Zhen didn't think so.

No matter what era it is, salt is the most important survival basis like food.

People without food will starve to death, and they will not survive without salt! Salt is not only an important condiment, but also an indispensable substance to maintain normal development of the human body.

Salt regulates the balanced distribution of water in the human body, maintains the osmotic pressure inside and outside the cells, participates in the formation of gastric acid, promotes the secretion of digestive fluids, and can increase appetite. At the same time, it also ensures the pH and alkalinity necessary for the action of pepsin, maintains the balance of pH and alkalinity in the body, and the normal circulation of body fluids.

If a person does not eat salt, eating too little salt will also cause too low sodium content in the body, resulting in loss of appetite, weakness in the limbs, dizziness, etc.; in severe cases, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, accelerated heart rate, weak pulse, muscle spasm, blurred vision, weak reflexes and other symptoms.

However, since ancient times, the official business of salt has not only made the country's finances rich, but has not allowed more people to eat salt. Official salt is too expensive, and most of the people circulating among the people is private salt.

However, in the early Tang Dynasty, the official operation of salt was not implemented, but most people could afford salt, and the price of salt was always low, which means whether the people could afford salt had nothing to do with whether the state was monopolized.

On the contrary, due to the monopoly of the country, salt prices have skyrocketed, which has made the people suffer... What is the most normal way?

There is no doubt that it is competition! Competition can improve product quality, reduce product prices, and directly benefit the people! The more salt production, the cheaper the price, so that the people can afford salt! I guess what is the loss of some money?

Not to mention that Zhu Zhen originally planned to give this benefit to Zhu Yuanzhang and the merchants of the Jiangnan gentry to differentiate the alliance of the Jiangnan gentry.

People with agility estimate that this large pile of sea salt has roughly calculated the benefits that a piece of salt field can get every year.

While feeling excited, I also became more and more respectful of Zhu Zhen.

This is not a way of respecting Zhu Zhen for turning stones into gold, but the wealth Zhu Zhen created for Zhu Yuanzhang.

The gentry merchants present occupied at most 30% of the salt farm due to the purchase of salt farm shares. What about Zhu Yuanzhang?

There are five salt fields! What a fortune this is?

They thought that this might be Zhu Zhen’s act of seeking credit, but now it seems that Zhu Zhen gave Zhu Yuanzhang a continuous mountain of gold.

Starting today, Huai'an's status in the Red Turban Army system will become higher and higher.

And Zhu Zhen’s position in Zhu Yuanzhang can no longer be shaken.

It is almost imagined that as long as Zhu Zhen does not commit suicide and rebel, he will be the minister that Zhu Yuanzhang trusts and favors the most in the next few decades... Who can promote such a stable position?

This is a thigh that is too thick to be thicker. The earlier you hold it, the higher the reward.

On the contrary, if anyone offends him, even if he doesn't kill you, he will have not lived a good life for decades...
Chapter completed!