Liu Zheng didn't talk nonsense and smiled lightly.
Shen Xing walked over to the old farmer curiously and asked: "Old man, do sheep often lick stones?"
The old man glanced at him and said with a smile: "Master, I don't know why you are licking. But if you don't lick for a few days, the sheep will become sluggish. No, the road was blocked by heavy snow some time ago, and they will be kept in captivity for a month." Several of them have killed me!"
"It's getting better these days. The sun is out, the grass can be eaten, and the white rocks can be licked!"
"Next year, there will be another good harvest!"
The old farmer laughed and drove the sheep away.
Shen Xing clicked his tongue and marveled. After living for so long, he realized that sheep need to lick the white stone in order to gain fat and strong body. Although he didn't know exactly why, he felt in his heart that there were so many miraculous things in the world that were hard to describe.
When he looked back at Liu Zheng, he still looked shocked: "Sir, is this really salt?"
Liu Zheng didn't know how to explain it to him.
Many animals and livestock in nature will look for the trace elements needed by their bodies, such as salt, alkali, acid, etc. This is an instinct, an innate ability. Whatever the body lacks, it will I would like to find something to make up for.
This is nature.
The reason why Yinzhou is called "Silver Beach" is because of this large area of lake salt.
At present, the salt eaten by the Longyan Dynasty, or the entire world, is almost all sea salt. Needless to say, sea salt uses the basic "sun drying method", also called the "beach drying method", which uses coastal beaches. Dams are built to open up salt fields, and by collecting tidal water, seawater is attracted to fill the pond, and it is evaporated by sunlight and becomes brine. When the evaporation concentration of the brine reaches 25 Baume degrees, sodium chloride is precipitated, which is raw salt. The process of producing raw salt by solarization The process is generally divided into four major processes: receiving tide, making brine, crystallizing, and collecting salt.
The lake salt and mine salt of later generations are another kind.
Lake salt is a modern mineral deposit formed by the accumulation of soluble salts in salt-forming basins since the Quaternary Period, the concentration of mineralized water, and the gradual deposition of salt minerals.
Mine salt is a salt substance on land that is carried by surface water or groundwater and accumulates in inland basins. Under conditions of hot drought and evaporation greater than water supply, the salty water in the basin continues to evaporate and concentrate. Deposited into huge salt deposits.
What is very surprising!
This Silver Beach not only contains lake salt, but also mine salt! Yinzhou is located in the Qaidam Basin, and due to the dry weather, the difference between winter and summer is quite extreme. In addition, with this inland lake and a certain terrain, it is also A very huge mine salt mine was formed!
Lake salt plus mine salt.
Isn't this his best chance to make a fortune?
Just now Shen Xing said that the current commercial income of Yinzhou and Yangzhou is just enough to cover the agricultural tax! If Liu Zheng wants to pursue other plans, he can only put his hope in the lake salt and mine salt.
Liu Zheng nodded excitedly,
Shen Xing took a breath excitedly: "Doesn't that mean, doesn't that mean..."
Halfway through his words, he covered his mouth in shock.
You know, in this era, making salt and selling it privately is a crime of beheading!
Liu Zheng laughed and said: "What are you thinking? All these salts need to be processed, otherwise people will be poisoned to death if they eat them! Go quickly, call Wei Tiezhu and bring me a hundred craftsmen! A thousand soldiers !”
Shen Xing was shocked and knew the seriousness of the matter. He didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore and galloped away on horseback.
Soon, Wei Tiezhu brought people over, and Zheng Yueru also came.
Because Shen was feeling anxious and excited along the way. He knew that if the Silver Beach was really salt, what would it mean to Yinzhou and what would it mean to the world? What! What does it mean to the Liu family and his son?
Therefore, after receiving the order to go to Yintan, Wei Tiezhu asked why, but Shen Xing had no idea.
Seeing that another thousand soldiers had been counted, Zheng Yueru, who was busy working in the God's Workshop, was also shocked. Every time Liu Zheng made a move, it was a big battle. But he had never seen anyone who needed soldiers to protect him, so her curiosity got the better of her. Followed.
Liu Zheng saw several people coming and pointed here with high spirits: "Have you seen this silver beach?"
Several people nodded.
"Within half a year, I will encircle the entire Silver Beach! Do you understand? I want this place to become a factory like Shen Gongfang!"
When several people heard this, their expressions changed and they didn't understand why.
The Silver Beach in Yinzhou stretches as far as the eye can see. How much work is required?
Shen Xing knew it, but he didn't dare to say it. He was holding it back so much. Zheng Yueru didn't talk to Liu Zheng for many days, so she naturally didn't take the initiative to ask questions. She snorted coldly and started watching from the side. After Liu Zheng came to Yinzhou, this Yintan This is what he has in mind! Now, it will also be his biggest source of income in the future! Whether he can build his territory into an empire that can dominate the world depends on this. So he didn't waste any time and directly enclosed the land and built a city. !
This project will be large, but it will be worthwhile.
He will not allow anyone to get involved in his salt factory!
On that day, these one hundred craftsmen and one thousand soldiers started working immediately. It was impossible to keep this matter top secret. So Liu Zheng simply divided the one thousand soldiers into three teams, one team was responsible for guarding. The two teams take turns resting and working.
Soon, three days later, Liu Zheng's "project department", a simple house, had been set up near Yintan.
While others are busy, Liu Zheng naturally cannot be idle.
He specially brought ten key craftsmen who were trustworthy and flexible to study how to make salt. For the mining of lake salt, the mining method or the beach drying method were mainly used.
In terms of mining, Silver Beach has evaporated over a long period of time, and the salt has precipitated at the bottom of the lake. It can be fished directly without processing. Salt lakes in the Qaidam Basin such as Silver Beach have gone through tens of millions of years of changes to form dry lakes, and their salt Exposed on the surface. So it is not particularly complicated. The process flow is roughly: peeling off the covering, collecting salt, transporting, washing, dehydrating, and finished product!
The beach drying method is similar to the sea salt production process.
This is Liu Zheng's first time trying it, but fortunately it's not very complicated.