Xu Jie randomly picked up a hundred people from the patrol camp as guards, and Qin Hao accompanied dozens of Qing Gang masters and set off to the countryside shortly after dinner.

"Mr. Liu, how far is it?"

"It's almost done, let's ride the horse, and it will be in half an hour."

Young Master Liu is naturally the young master of the Liu family. After reaching a consensus on cooperation with the Liu family in Luoyang, he brought Young Master Liu with him on the grounds of not being familiar with the south. After all, no one knows whether this guy in heat has a bad temper to eat and beat him. It would be bad if he harassed Xiao Cui again.

The Eastern Family of the Liu family settled in Xiangyang. Although it is hundreds of miles away from Yangzhou, it is not close at all, but it is not a family of the southern family. At least it can be regarded as half a local snake. The field they are going to see now is the original Liu family's salt field.

The salt making technology has a history of at least 5,000 years, but it has too many impurities due to inefficiency and is still a little different from the ancient salt making in the true sense. Therefore, the Liu family has a ready-made salt field, which also saves Qin Hao a lot of trouble. He only needs to show his technology.

When we arrived at the place, the people from the Liu family had already been waiting there respectfully under the leadership of the head of the family, and a few big pots were cooking sea water.

Before the Ming Dynasty, salt was made by boiling sea. Simply put, it was just to put the salt water after being dried in a large pot and cook it. The salt made in this way had almost no possibility of separation of impurities. The bitter taste was far more bitter than salt. Therefore, in the Tang Dynasty, sea salt was not the mainstream salt acquisition channel, and the control was not very strict. Most people still consume stone salt, lake salt, well salt, etc. Sea salt was just a thing for the poor people in the south.

"Actually, my salt-making method is quite simple. The reason I have never told you to keep it secret is not because of the technical secret recipes or something. I just don't want to increase the difficulty when surrounding the fields. Now that the autumn harvest has been already, the time is almost done. But after you have seen it today, you should still control your mouth. The head of the Liu family, the fields are all own."

In fact, this is not difficult to understand. The land circle and demolition are similar, just like if the local people know that the municipal government is going to move here, the difficulty and cost of demolition will naturally increase greatly. It is so difficult now. Qin Hao doesn't want to get into trouble anymore.

"Don't worry, Gang Master Qin, they are all from our Liu family. No matter what kind of magic skills they see today, they will only rot in their stomachs. No one will go out to chew a word."

"Okay, then I'm sorry for you. There are so many people. You can live near this Yantian for the time being."

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Mom sells the certificate, you haven’t said before that we should limit our personal freedom.

Seeing the reluctance of the head of the Liu family, Qin Hao glanced at him with a smile, frowned slightly, as if asking again: Do you have any objections?

The situation is stronger than that of a human being, so the thicker the thigh, the less it is. If you want to get a piece of the pie in this feast, you will naturally have to pay the price. After gritting your teeth, the head of the Liu family simply said: "It should be done so, it depends on the orders of the leader of the Qin gang."

Qin Hao nodded with a smile, as if he was praising the sensibility of the head of the Liu family. Then he took off his shoes and limped to the edge of the salt field. He casually folded a handful of straw and threw it on it to measure the concentration of the brine. After taking a few pokes, he said, "Come on, I'll demonstrate it to you."

As he said that, Qin Hao ordered the people of the Liu family to raise the brine and pour it into the mud for experiments.

Some people say that all technical barriers in feudal society are a layer of window paper. This cannot be said to be completely correct, but at least this is true in the matter of salt making.

Before the Ming Dynasty, people used water to get salt, but never thought that salt could actually be taken from mud. This is also the biggest difference between the method of boiling sea salt and the ancient method of making salt. They directly pour brine into mud, and increase the salt content in the soil by constantly turning and drying. In the end, over time, these soils will naturally turn into salt mud. The higher the salt, the better the salt produced by the salt mud. Although there is only new mud and no old mud, it is enough for experiments.

The head of the Liu family sent a few strong men to keep rumbling over the land that had just been poured into salt water with rakes used to turn over the fields, and then asked, "What?"

"And? What then, oh, you prepared a banquet to entertain us? Why are you so embarrassed? We all came here after eating."

When everyone heard Qin Hao say this, even the Qing Gang people were confused. What do you mean? That's it? Where is your magical skills? Where is your salt?

"Looking at today's day, I guess it's noon tomorrow. As long as the guy is not lazy, you can see salt. By the way, if you think it's dry when stirring, you'll pour some brine until the sun comes out tomorrow morning, do you know?"

The man's face turned bitter, but he didn't dare to say anything more, so he nodded with a frustration. In fact, he was a direct descendant of the Liu family. Although he was not as hard-working as a sapling student, he was actually a scholar of studying. When he heard that he had to stir it all night, his tears were almost falling down, and for a moment he forgot that he could replace him.

In fact, the real ancient method of drying salt naturally does not need to be stirred for a while. It is just a matter of drying for two more days. To put it bluntly, it is just to exchange labor for time, for the speed of experiments. After all, Qin Hao cannot stay in this salt field for two or three days.

However, real salt drying is not much easier than this guy, because salt mud needs to be turned constantly under the scorching sun, so Qin Hao's new method of salt drying is actually an absolute heavy physical job, especially when there are no rubber boots, workers can only go barefoot into the field. This job will be scrapped after a few days. When they get old, they will most likely become cripples.

Qin Hao naturally told everyone about this, but everyone didn't think there was anything wrong with this. They all came from poor life. In their opinion, the most valuable thing was their strength. Sacrifice of a pair of feet in exchange for a hundred stones of salt, which was really a good deal in their opinion.

Alas, poor people, thinking of this, Qin Hao became more determined to build a large ship to Southeast Asia as soon as possible. As long as there is rubber, such a tragedy can actually be avoided.

However, if you want to build a large ship, you have to have money. If you want to have money, you have to circle more salt fields. If you have more salt fields, you have to have more salt workers. This is really a cycle of no solution.
Chapter completed!