For the next period of time, Lu Bu was completely busy.

Lu Bu left all the matters on the county magistrate's office to Jia Xu.

In fact, there are not many things in the prefect's mansion. The officials in the mansion are basically all from the four major families.

Now Lu Bu is not ready to touch the four major families, and he just follows the old rules in everything.

What Jia Xu needs to do is intelligence work, especially the intelligence work in Jiangdong, which is the top priority.

As for the intelligence work of surrounding cities behind Luoyang City, Jia Xu has delegated power and allowed them to lurk for the time being.

When you go north in the future, it may play a big role.

The current focus of the intelligence department is put on Jiangdong.

...

Lu Bu is now anxious to trust talents around him. In fact, no matter how trustworthy he can trust, he lacks talents from all aspects.

For example, establishing salt drying factories, establishing paper mills, printing factories, etc., it is difficult to find suitable talents for a while.

In fact, there are many talents among the four major families. Since Lu Bu is not ready to move the four major families, Lu Bu must use the talents here.

But Lu Bu definitely dared not use such a critical project.

In this kind of core project, he only dares to use people he can trust.

...

First, Lu Bu pulled all 20,000 troops to the demarcated deserted beach in Shanghai County.

Let 10,000 people build military camps and houses, and the other 10,000 people burn the wasteland.

Ten thousand people are enough to reclaim one or two thousand acres of wasteland in a day.

Lu Bu is preparing to reclaim at least 16,700,000, nearly 20,000 mu of wasteland after ten days and half a month. It is temporarily enough for the first year.

In terms of urban planning for military camps, villages, etc., Lu Bu directly took out a planning map and handed it to Xun Yu.

After Xun Yu looked at the planning map, he admired Lu Bu's courage and overall planning ability.

In fact, this is just a simple version of Shanghai in later generations...

After two days of busyness, Xun Yu found Lu Bu and said, "My lord, Shanghai County is now full of waste, and Wu County will surely flourish under the lord's governance. But now the lord is short of talents around him. My subordinates want to recommend some talents for the lord, but I wonder what the lord wants to do?"

"Okay, that's great! Wen Ruo, you are really a timely help!"

Lu Bu slapped his head, yes, why did he forget Xun Yu?

You should know that in the original historical trajectory, how many talents did Xun Yu win over Cao Cao after he defected to Cao Cao?

Zhong Yao, Xun You, Chen Qun, Du Xi, Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia and other talents.

Now Xun Yu should have temporarily recognized Lu Bu and is also preparing to recommend some talents he knows to Lu Bu.

It would be great if all these people could be brought to my side.

Lu Bu was overjoyed and quickly took this matter as a task and assigned it to Xun Yu.

Xun Yu immediately wrote several letters and sent them.

To build a military camp and open up the fields, Lu Bu gave it to Xun Yu directly.

Lu Bu found a few trustworthy people in the camp, and then brought more than a thousand men to find a place to build a salt drying field.

At this time, the method of drying salt on the beach has not yet been invented.

Now we are still using the method of boiling salt. Not only is the slow efficiency, it also requires a lot of manpower and material resources.

This is not the case when it comes to salting on the beach.

The best place to dry salt on the beach is the low-lying silt land by the sea.

Low-ground mud flats facilitate the introduction of seawater and do not easily allow brine to seep underwater.

This kind of place is still very easy to find.

Lu Bu took more than a thousand soldiers and chose the address and built the house first.

Then, in the mild climate and abundant light areas, a large area of ​​flat seaside tidal flats were selected to start building salt fields.

Lu Bu first asked someone to dig out one evaporation pool after another, and introduce sea water into the evaporation pool, waiting for the sun to evaporate.

When the sun is almost evaporated, you can pour it into the crystal pond and continue to burn it.

Taking advantage of this skill, Lu Bu led the workers to continue to build the crystal pond.

Continue to sunlight in the crystallization pond, and the seawater will become saturated easily by salt. Then, salt will gradually precipitate after sun drying.

The crystals obtained at this time are our common coarse salt. The remaining liquid becomes the main salt, which can extract Duozhong chemical raw materials.

Of course, this mother salt is actually the common table salt on the market now. It contains many impurities. It tastes bitter and astringent, and the color is not pure white.

In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, it was all over if you spread coarse salt.

But in modern times, there is another process after the coarse salt is discharged.

That is to continue to dissolve, add chemical raw materials such as barium chloride, sodium hydroxide, sodium carbonate, etc. to the solution to remove impurities, and then filter, you can obtain precipitate and filtrate.

Only by adding dilute hydrochloric acid solution and evaporate and crystallize, pure salt can be obtained.

This process was never possible to be studied at that time.

Because this involves a series of chemical reactions, there is no possibility of deducing it in this era when the chemical foundation is zero.

Because barium chloride, a substance like barium chloride, must be produced through chemical reactions, it is not a substance that naturally exists in nature.

Fortunately, barium chloride is still easy to produce, and you can get it by just using barium ore and hydrochloric acid.

Lu Bu also conducted experiments with Professor Su at that time, so the process of producing barium chloride was not difficult.

As for sodium hydroxide and sodium carbonate, commonly known as hulk alkali, this thing is easy to produce as long as you understand the production process.

It took more than half a month to complete the process of the salt drying field, and the rest can be left to the people below to do it themselves.

The next step is to build a paper mill. Nowadays, papermaking is usually made of bamboo.

This cycle is very long because it takes 100 days to soak bamboo alone.

After soaking, the bamboo needs to be washed vigorously and then steamed.

The materials that Lu Bu is preparing to use now are just to use trees, weeds and other things.

You don’t need to soak this in the pond water for 100 days. Just chop it up and put it in a large pot to steam it.

This step alone greatly improves time.

After steaming, you need to grind it again and bleach it before you can make paper.

In Lu Bu's process, the bleaching process and subsequent pressing and forming process are much ahead of the process at that time.

Of course, the papermaking process cannot be completed in one or two days.

Lu Bu has arranged all the basic process production methods and built the factory. As long as Lu Bu’s process is done according to Lu Bu’s process, no major problems will arise.

After all this, a month has passed.

The portal display on Lu Bu's hand is ready to be used.
Chapter completed!