Su Mu'er waved her hands when she heard this, "That's not okay. You are the owner of this village. We are very grateful that you can make room for us to live. You will naturally be the village chief."
After pondering for a while, she said again:
"Otherwise, since this place is close to the seaside, let's call it Linhai Village."
"Linhai Village?"
Old Uncle Yang repeated it in his mouth, and then nodded, "This name is good, let's call it Linhai Village."
After the name was finalized, Su Muer asked Biaozi to go to the beach to find a wide, flat stone, and then asked a bandit who knew how to be a stonemason to carve the words "Linhai Village" on it.
Standing at the entrance of the village, she looked at the big stone and suddenly felt a little emotional.
After going through so much, they finally have a place to stay, but they don't know how long they can stay here.
Maybe one or two years, maybe three or five years, in short, when she becomes strong enough, she will take action.
In order not to attract the attention of people in the court, she decided to change her name to Shui'er. People in the village naturally called her Miss Shui'er.
The weather is nice today, so Su Muer asked Uncle Wu to gather everyone under the big locust tree at the entrance of the village. The locust tree seems to be a standard feature in this village and can be found in almost every courtyard.
She stood on the boulder under the big locust tree and glanced at the brothers fighting side by side with her, feeling an indescribable excitement in her heart.
"Brothers... no, it's the villagers. We will be ordinary villagers in Linhai Village from now on. Now let me tell you what we are going to do next. Starting from tomorrow, everyone will follow me to the beach every morning. I
Teach everyone how to wash the salt, how to dry the salt, and how to store the salt. The young and strong are responsible for diverting water and building canals, and the older ones are responsible for washing the salt and drying the salt."
At this time, a curious person in the crowd asked:
"Miss Shui'er, how can salt come out of sea water? This is a rare thing, we have never heard of it."
"Yes, I only know that this salt is very expensive, I don't know where it came from."
Seeing everyone's confused expressions, Su Mu'er pursed her lips and smiled. She began to introduce to everyone how to make sea salt.
"Sea salt is mainly obtained by building dams and opening up salt fields on the seashore where the climate and geological conditions are suitable, and then introducing seawater into the salt fields. Relying on sunlight and natural evaporation, the seawater in the salt fields can be turned into brine. The brine can be used in high-temperature weather.
It evaporates, dries, and finally turns into salt."
Her words made everyone present confused, as if they couldn't understand!
At this time someone asked again:
"Miss Shui'er, how do you know so much? It is said that there is only one place in the Eastern Jin Dynasty where salt can be produced, Wangbacheng. Could it be that you have learned it secretly?"
"Don't talk nonsense. Miss Shui'er already knows a lot, so maybe the people in Wangba City don't know as much as we, Miss Shui'er!"
Bastard City?
Su Muer frowned and looked at the speaker. This name was too strange!
"Where is Bastard City? How far is it from here?"
After hearing her question, Uncle Wu stood up and said:
"I haven't had time to tell you yet. It's called Wangba City, the dam of the dam, and it's the Royal Salt Works, although..."
When Uncle Wu said this, he suddenly stopped talking, glanced at Su Mu'er, and stopped making any sound.
Seeing Uncle Wu's hesitant expression, she knew that he had something to say, perhaps because it was not convenient to say it in front of so many people!
After understanding this, she continued: "Brothers, we want to make money, but we still need to practice Kung Fu. Every afternoon, everyone, young and old, must practice Kung Fu. When our lives are better, the nearby villages will
I don’t know if there will be an older girl who is willing to marry here. When the time comes, you can start a family and have more children, and our Linhai Village will become prosperous!"
Her words made everyone's blood boil. Everyone dreamed of marrying a wife.
Everyone waved their fists and shouted: "We all listen to Miss Shui'er."
Looking at everyone's dark faces and expectant eyes, Su Mu'er suddenly felt that the burden on her shoulders was very heavy...
After everyone dispersed, she specially called Uncle Wu to her home. She wanted to hear what he wanted to say just now!
Uncle Wu sat down on the low stool opposite her, frowned, sighed and said:
"There were so many people just now, but I didn't say it clearly in front of everyone. In recent years, the Eastern Jin Dynasty's treasury has relied on the salt from Wangba City to fill it. Salt production is a very profitable business, although the Eastern Jin Dynasty did not restrict people from privately mining salt.
Ban, but if we do it, we will compete with the imperial court for jobs. I am worried that it will attract the attention of the imperial court, and I am afraid that I will get angry again!"
Uncle Wu's words made Su Mu'er startled at first, and then she frowned. She really ignored this, and she never expected that the court would be responsible for collecting salt.
However, it is not difficult to understand. Everyone needs to eat salt, and collecting salt is a very profitable business. How could the imperial court let go of this opportunity to make money?
After pondering for a while, she asked again:
"What if we sell the salt we collect to them, or to other nearby countries? For example, Guning Country?"
Hearing what she said, Uncle Wu nodded directly: "This is a good idea. As far as I know, Guning is not close to the sea, so most of the salt is purchased from the Eastern Jin State at high prices, and of course from other neighboring countries.
Jin, you can go to Liu Jin and sell the salt to them, then if we don’t sell salt to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it doesn’t count as robbing the imperial court of business, so naturally they won’t interfere!”
Su Muer nodded immediately, "Okay, after the brothers successfully harvest the first batch of salt, I will take the sample salt to Guning Country. I believe that if we give them a low price and high quality, they will not disagree."
Thinking of this, her heart finally became much brighter!
Early the next morning, she led her brothers to the beach.
Standing on the vast seaside, these thousands of people seemed very small.
She personally selected a plot of land suitable for salt fields, and then asked some people to build dams here, while others dug canals to prepare for water diversion, and some people who knew carpentry were arranged to go to the mountains to cut down redwood trees and come back to do the drying.
Salt slabs and salt barrels.
After arranging all this, Su Mu'er came to the beach alone and looked at the seagulls flying freely in the sea. She felt comfortable in her heart.
The sea breeze blew on her face, calming her already agitated heart.
This sea is the basis of their future survival. They not only have to collect salt here, but also salvage seafood from this sea and land it, which may be sold at a good price.
However, I am afraid that the idea was immediately opposed by Old Uncle Yang.
Old Uncle Yang shook his head when he heard this,
"Miss Shui'er, I know you have quick ideas, but except for fish, the rest of the things in the sea are not edible."
His words instantly gave Su Muer hope.
If people in the Eastern Jin Dynasty think that only fish can be eaten in the sea, then if she can fish out seafood, her business will definitely be booming.
Thinking of this, she suddenly became a little excited. Anyway, she had enough people here. Wouldn't it be a good thing to allocate some of them to build my boat and then go into the sea to fish for seafood?