Chapter 60 Saltworks Commune

In the first three days after moving into the salt farm, members of the Cross-Travel Organization cut down bamboo and wood on the nearby hillside and built a row of temporary residences on the site of the original salt farm village. As for the brick houses, I am afraid we will have to wait for a while, because

It requires a large amount of power supply. The United Brick Making Machine cannot be officially put into operation until the hydropower station is completed, and the bricks produced must also be given priority to the construction of camps and factories near the No. 2 Base. It will be at least several months before the turn of the Saltworks Commune.

Fortunately, these members of the Mingren Society are used to hardship. Nowadays, they no longer have to worry about food and clothing, which makes them feel very satisfied. It doesn't matter if they live in a simple way for the time being. Anyway, Mr. Haihan has said that as long as they work hard,

It is guaranteed that everyone will live in brick houses within one or two years. That will be a good life that was unimaginable in the past.

Considering that the living conditions here in the salt field will be more difficult, the Executive Committee arranged for the Ministry of Construction to build a set of prefabricated houses for several stationed soldiers here. It also has a supporting solar power supply system and introduces power from nearby mountains.

The spring water allows solar water heaters to be used. There are four crossing troops stationed here, one is responsible for technology, one is responsible for civil affairs management, and two people from the military and police department are responsible for security and defense. If calculated only on a per capita basis, their

The living conditions are far better than those at the base camp. It's just that it's a little far away from the base camp, separated by mountains and seas. The WIFI signal can't be relied on, and even PHS can't be used. Usually, you can only rely on a mobile phone.

Military radios are used for communication.

The Ministry of Agriculture sent people over to guide the members to reclaim more than ten acres of land near the camp, plant some vegetables and fruits, and arrange for the members to plant some tea trees on the mountains in the future. All the food consumed by the Saltworks Commune will be operated from the headquarters

Come here. It's not to save trouble by only cultivating this small amount of land, but the salt content in the soil here is too high, making it impossible to plant crops on a large area.

Anxi is twenty-six years old this year. Before the time travel, he worked as a civil engineering technician in the Geological Drilling Brigade of the Sichuan Salt Administration Bureau. After participating in the time travel, he was naturally absorbed into the Ministry of Construction. In the past, he had dealt with well salt, and he had almost the same relationship with the sea salt field.

Completely unrelated, but after the establishment of the Salt Farm Commune, he was temporarily designated by the Executive Committee as the technical guidance expert of the Commune Management Committee. He was transferred from the hydropower station construction site to the Salt Farm Commune. From now on, he will be fully responsible for the technical guidance and production planning arrangements of the Salt Farm.

The executive committee originally decided to let the Ministry of Industry appoint someone to be responsible for technology, but it was also very careful. When things happened, it was discovered that no one at the Ministry of Industry had ever engaged in industrial salt production. Ning Qi looked through the personnel files and finally found out

Anxi is a talent that has been hidden in the Ministry of Construction. There is no way to rush the ducks to the shelves. Who knows that Anxi, the only one among the more than 400 people in the Chuangchuan School, came from such a professional place as Sichuan Salt Industry School?

Anxi actually felt aggrieved. He was a civil engineering major, but his organizational connection was still in the Ministry of Construction. Why did Mao want to switch careers to salt production? Not all people who graduated from salt industry schools knew the salt production technology!

Look, Anxi had quite a plan before crossing over - with his civil engineering expertise, there will definitely be endless projects in the empire under the executive committee's rule in the future, and he will be able to build a large transnational city by then.

For a contractor, wealth, beauty, and prestige are all indispensable!

But now Anxi has been transferred to the front line of salt production by a transfer order from the Executive Committee. Looking at the stone salt troughs scattered throughout the valley, he can only sigh heavily. Salt production is actually not bad.

Although the school does not major in salt production, it has taken a few professional courses. Now I temporarily retrieved relevant information from a large database to supplement it. I still generally know the basic principles and technological processes of seawater salt production. But what is the commune system?

Anxi had no idea what kind of production organizational structure it was. In the era before time travel, the commune had been transformed into a township before Anxi was born. In fact, he knew more about the commune than the members who had just moved here.

They are not much better. Fortunately, most of these Mingren know how powerful the time-travelers are. After careful screening, there are no thorns in the air, and it does not take much trouble to command. The only problem is still in the language. Several time-travelers only

Only by speaking half-familiar Hainanese Mandarin and gesticulating can we communicate with these members.

In addition, because the executive committee announced the work arrangements of Anxi and others at the forum, Anxi soon got the nickname "Coach" - even though he is not fat at all. Now the young people who are familiar with Anxi see him

They all changed their name to "Coach Anxi" with a smile, and some even shouted "Coach, I also want to learn how to make salt", which made the members who didn't understand what they knew also yelled after the coach. Anxi shouted several times.

He planned to teach these arrogant guys a lesson, but in the end he could only deal with it with a cooperative "hehehe" - after all, he also knew that his body of just over 1.770 kilograms was difficult to compete with those thick-shouldered and round-waisted people from the military and police department.

Guys play real PK.

Because the modernization of the salt field has not yet begun, Anxi can only let the commune members work according to the ancient method of drying salt. Three days ago, they had begun to introduce the tide water into the salt field through the tidal channel, allowing the seawater to absorb the soil in the salt field.

Fully soaking. In the past few days, the members used multi-tooth rake to rake the salt mud several times from different directions in the dried salt fields to make the salt mud softer, so that it can absorb more water.

Then introduce seawater from the ditches surrounding the salt field over and over again, repeating this process many times to ensure that the sea salt absorbed in the salt mud has reached a saturated state.

Now Anxi directs the members to collect the dried salt mud and pile it into a filter next to the salt field. The bottom of the filter is paved with thin bamboo sticks or straw mats to serve as a filter. The members use the filter to

Stir the salt mud in the filter, then step it in, allowing the high-salt brine to pass through the filter and then flow from the outlet at the bottom into the brine storage tank next to it. This process lasted three hours, until Anxi confirmed that the water in the filter tank

There was almost no water to squeeze out of the salt mud, so the exhausted members got his approval and stopped to rest.

At this time, the concentration of the brine in the brine storage tank must be tested once to determine whether the next step can be carried out. The Ministry of Chemical Industry has a lot of acid-base test paper available, but based on the demand of the salt field, their little

The test paper reserves are obviously not enough. If we collect brine samples and send them to the base camp for analysis, the timeliness is too low. Anxi has a simpler way to test this. He picked a leaf from the bush by the pond. This bush is called

Yellow croaker, Anxi pinched off the leaves and threw the small leaf stem into the brine pool. Seeing that the leaf stem did not sink into the water, but floated on the water, Anxi nodded with satisfaction. If the leaf stem sank directly

If it goes down, it means that the concentration of the brine is not high enough, and the brine must be dried again until the concentration reaches the standard.

"Fetch water!" Anxi waved his hand, and the members who had almost rested stood up one after another and began to pick up wooden buckets to fetch water from the pool.

The next step is to have the commune members use wooden buckets to pick out the brine from the pool and pour it into the shallow stone salt troughs scattered throughout the valley. These salt troughs are large enough to cover an area of ​​more than ten feet, and the small ones are only

The size of a washbasin is no more than half an inch deep. After the brine is placed in a salt tank and dried for a day or two, large white grains of sea salt will crystallize. If further refining is required, melt the sea salt again and treat the brine.

Vacuum evaporation treatment is not only a production task of the Saltworks Commune, but must be transferred to the production process of the Ministry of Chemical Industry - most of the concentrated solutions produced during the vacuum evaporation process will be used as chemical products or semi-finished products.

Only small amounts are commercially available as refined table salt.

This human labor method of making salt by leaching brine has been going on for hundreds of years. Due to the technological level of this era, it is difficult to make major improvements in the process, and this is obviously not the production level that the executive committee hopes for. Anxi has gone through evil

After supplementing the theoretical knowledge and practical operations in the past few days, I have a clear understanding of the efficiency shortcomings in the salt field production links such as tide collection, brine production, crystallization, and salt collection. However, the existing production efficiency must be improved.

, it is not enough to rely on the salt farm’s own efforts, it must be done with the full cooperation of other departments.

At present, the production link that is easier to improve should be crystallization. Those large and small salt tanks are too much of a hindrance in Anxi's opinion. In the future, large and uniform salt drying ponds and crystallization ponds should be the symbol of the salt field. But it needs to be

To build these ponds on a large scale, the Ministry of Industry must first provide enough cement. As far as Anxi knows, the cement kiln of the Ministry of Industry is still in the trial production stage, and no one can say clearly when it will be officially put into production.

What Anxi doesn't know is that the cement kiln of the Ministry of Industry has now encountered major technical problems, and several heads of the executive committee who understand industrial technology are gathered around the cement kiln for an emergency on-site meeting.

According to the information prepared in advance, the mining department successfully found limestone mines and gypsum mines in the Tiandu Valley area, which made the executive committee think that it was only a matter of time before the cement was put into production. But when the cement kiln was completed and started trial operation, relevant

Only those in charge discovered that there were major loopholes that had been overlooked.

The calcium silicate in Portland cement, which is common in later generations, is made by calcining and melting calcium oxide and silica at high temperatures, while calcium oxide is made by calcining limestone. Limestone is available now, but the most important thing is calcining.

Calcium oxide requires a large amount of anthracite or coke, which is a problem for the Executive Committee - let alone anthracite, even if it only needs ordinary bituminous coal, the Executive Committee doesn't have much available now.
Chapter completed!