One two three: gold coins, astronomical gold coins!
Unexpectedly, it directly exceeded 10,000 kilograms.
This, this is just the first batch of the 500-acre salt field. Next, a steady stream of brine will enter the crystallization pond.
According to the current weather, crystallization can take up to two or three days after entering the crystallization pond, which means that basically different salt fields can harvest salt every day.
Moreover, once these 500 acres of salt fields are truly regulated, dozens of people at most can take care of them.
In the past, more than a thousand salt slaves worked day and night to cook, and they could only cook hundreds of thousands of kilograms of salt throughout the year.
At this time, dozens of people can produce hundreds of thousands of kilograms of salt in less than a month.
Master Sauron is right, the output has really increased dozens of times.
Once again, he created an unparalleled miracle!
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Next, the entire Rock Island entered a period of crazy construction. Both the family warriors and all the salt people seemed to be completely unaware of fatigue and worked almost crazily.
Moreover, these salt people can still only drink porridge every day, but compared to the previous wild vegetables and rotten bran rice, drinking thick porridge every day is already like heaven.
Not to mention, a mule got sick on the way, and Sauron ordered it to be killed, and then chopped into minced meat and put into the porridge. When everyone drank the meat porridge, they became even more grateful to Master Sauron.
Although the lord Sauron appears to be very aloof, he spends most of his time in the castle hiding from the scorching sun outside.
In fact, Sauron was just resting the muscles in his arms.
The tendons of his right hand were severely injured by Ling Ao, and he could hardly lift it up at all. The only thing he could do was to gently rub Suoning Bing's buttocks, and it was difficult to even apply a little force.
The muscles and veins of the left hand were damaged due to the forced completion of the ninth move of the Nine Swords of Disaster. However, the condition was much better. There was no problem in writing and drawing, but it was very difficult to hold the sword.
Time passed day by day, Sauron was recuperating in the castle, and occasionally came out to inspect the salt fields and observe the progress.
Most of them listened to the reports from the family warriors and the leaders of the salt people.
After these salt people figured out the principles of drying salt, they immediately became more professional. Not only did they not need Sauron's guidance in many aspects, but they also explored it more thoroughly.
They were digging new salt fields and drying salt at the same time, without any delay in either aspect.
This rocky island is really a God-given salt drying field. There is really little rain and the sun exposure conditions are really good. The salt production is getting higher and higher every day, and the rate of increase makes everyone excited, even scared.
Time is like water, years are like shuttle, two months have passed.
Now, with the help of Yao Xing, Sauron's left arm has completely recovered, and most of his right arm has recovered.
In the past two months, with the hard work of more than a thousand people, they have frantically opened up more than 4,000 acres of salt fields.
The salt stored in the warehouse has piled up like a mountain, and there is no room for it. The salt has to be put into other houses.
Finally, when the family warrior leader Suo Mu came to report, his voice was trembling.
Because in more than two months, the salt fields that have been opened have produced 1.5 million kilograms of salt.
After hearing this output, the warriors of the Soclan family and the salt people almost fainted.
This, this was only two months, and it was only a small part of the salt field. It produced 1.5 million kilograms of salt.
Before, three thousand salt slaves worked day and night to cook, and in a year they only produced more than one million kilograms.
Moreover, the current salt production is increasing every day, and the increase rate is completely dizzying. The latest day's production has exceeded 60,000 kilograms.
Is the master Sauron really a god?
Looking at the mountains of sea salt piled up on the salt field, all the salt residents were almost filled with the urge to kneel down and worship.
Not only that. Sauron also allocated some women to purify and recrystallize some of the salt, and used raw materials such as plant ash to refine the coarse salt.
After countless attempts, I finally got fine salt as white and as fine as snow.
The appearance of this kind of fine salt made Suoning Bing and Ye Jingyu exclaim. The quality of this fine salt is not lower than that used in the Earl's Mansion before. It looks white and has almost no impurities.
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So, Suoning Bing and Ye Jingyu used this fine salt to brush their teeth every day.
And they told Sauron an almost dizzying price. The price of this kind of fine salt is about 380 copper coins per round, which is four times that of normal coarse salt.
Moreover, there is no market for this kind of snow-like fine salt. Nobles and nobles throughout the kingdom are using this kind of fine salt, not only for cooking, but also for washing.
As for the three hundred and eighty copper coins, it was a sky-high price for common people, but it was nothing to wealthy nobles.
For more than a month, Sauron had people purify and recrystallize twenty to thirty thousand kilograms of snow-white fine salt, with an additional three thousand kilograms being produced every day.
All this is wasted money.
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However, after the ecstasy, the Suo family warrior leaders also felt faint worries in their hearts.
On this day, Suo Mu couldn't help but came to Sauron and said: "Master, because of your miracles and wisdom, if this continues, once all the existing salt fields are in production, we can produce more than ten million kilograms of salt within half a year.
It’s totally a blessing from heaven.”
Somu was very conservative. In fact, the output in half a year was more than 10 million kilograms.
Then, Suo Mu worriedly said: "But even if the output in half a year reaches 10 million jins, or even 20 million jins, it will only be about 20,000 gold coins, which is still a long way from 150,000 gold coins."
According to Solon's estimation, if development continues at this rate, the total output of the salt fields will reach at least 15 million jins in four months.
But these salts would only cost 20,000 gold coins if converted into gold coins. This amount of money is far from enough to regain the gold coins of Tianshui City.
Then Suo Mu said: "Master, now we are still facing three fatal crises."
"In the first crisis, the 70,000 to 80,000 kilograms of food we brought will soon be used up. Even if we drink porridge every day, it can only last for more than 20 days. After 20 days, we will run out of food."
Sauron has noticed this. Fortunately, there are enough salt pipes now. Otherwise, if they only drink porridge every day, it would be difficult for these salt people to bear such high-intensity labor.
Suo Mu said: "The second crisis is that yesterday we found a ship peeping at our salt fields from a distance. This ship must have been sent by Gui Xingmin."
"Did they find anything?" Sauron asked.
The warrior leader Suo Mu said: "Because they were far away, they only saw the salt fields. They didn't see the salt on the salt fields. So they thought we were digging fields to grow food, and they still laughed at us. But Gui Xing Fu will definitely come one after another.
Those who sent people to monitor us are afraid that the secret of our salt fields will be discovered one day."
There is no doubt about this. Even if Sauron is trapped on this rocky island and commits suicide, Gui Xingfu will still monitor him for a long time.
Samurai leader Suo Mu said: "The third crisis is that we are hoarding more and more salt, but we can't sell it. We don't have enough ships to transport the salt, and we can't find such a big buyer."
After four months, there will be more than 10 million kilograms of salt, which is enough to supply the Nulang Kingdom for more than a month. It is true that no such big businessman can consume such a large amount of salt.
Suo Mu continued: "Moreover, our routes around Rock Island are blocked by the Gui clan's fleet. Even if there are enough ships, it will be difficult to transport our salt out."
This is indeed true. Normally, one can sneak out at night without being discovered, but with a fleet of hundreds of ships, it would be difficult to conceal their whereabouts.
At that time, Gui Xingfu had people pretend to be pirates and easily robbed the salt ships.
These three crises are all very fatal. If not resolved, the life of the entire island will be strangled in an instant.
Sauron did not speak. Instead, he looked through the sea to the west.
Nowadays, both the development of salt fields and the drying of salt have become formal.
After all, these salt farmers are professionals. Once they understand the principles of sun salting, they quickly become more proficient than Sauron. The mistakes they made before are gradually corrected. Sun-drying salt becomes more and more formal and the output becomes higher and higher.
So now is the time to leave, and it is also time to resolve these three crises.
"I will leave the territory tomorrow and come back in half a month at most." Sauron said: "By then, I will not only bring enough food and a sufficient fleet, but also more than 50,000 gold coins."
Suo Mu was shocked. Even if the salt field stored in the salt field exceeds two to three million kilograms in ten days, it will only be sold for three to four thousand gold coins at most. How could there be fifty thousand gold coins.
However, he was completely accustomed to this master's miraculous hands. If he said he would bring 50,000 gold coins, he would definitely get it. As for how to do it, he, the warrior leader, could not think of it. He was far from his master.
This kind of mind is almost heaven-defying.
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That night, with Suo Ningbing's reluctance to leave, Sauron and Ye Jingyu left Rock Island in a small boat.
These two months are almost the happiest two months for Suoning Bing. Although she lives in a simple castle and her skin is a little wheat-colored due to the wind and sun, she can be with Sauron every day.
Feeling scared all the time.
Moreover, she cooked three meals a day with her own hands. With the only ingredients, she tried her best to make exquisite food for Sauron, and then watched Sauron wolfing down the food. This kind of life was so wonderful.
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Although Sauron's hands have become more and more dishonest and bad. Her breasts and the beautiful places under her waist are touched by him almost every day.
Moreover, her indulgence and pampering also developed a very bad habit in Sauron. Every time he used his brain, wrote something, or drew a drawing, he had to touch something in his hand to get inspiration.
Therefore, every time Suoning Bing was teased so hard that her legs became weak, not to mention that she often had very embarrassing dreams after falling asleep.
She became a widow just after getting married. Her whole body was pure and pure, and she had not touched a finger by a man. However, after all, she was already twenty-six years old, and every part of her body was completely mature. She was really mature.
I can't afford to tease anymore.
I don't know how many times she trembled and murmured Lan Ling's name in her dreams, and I don't know how many times she woke up from her dreams, changed out of her soaked pants, and washed her hot body with cold water.
Now, Suo Ningbing couldn't even tell whether she was Suo Ningbing or the sister Lancome he mentioned.
In fact, she even preferred to be that Lancôme, because in this way, she was not only his relative, but also his lover. This extremely close relationship really made her extremely fascinated.
Now, Sauron is leaving again, and she is about to enter the most difficult days again.
She really thought several times that she would simply give up Tianshui City and live with Sauron on this island for the rest of her life.
But she can't say this kind of thing, because she knows that many times even if you surrender, the enemy will not let you go.
Moreover, it is absolutely impossible for a paranoid and proud person like Sauron to surrender. He would rather die together than surrender.
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After Sauron left Rock Island by boat, he made a long circle on the sea before landing at a pier in the north.
This place is already a county of the kingdom and does not belong to Gui Xingfu's sphere of influence.
After landing, Sauron and Ye Jingyu disguised themselves and traveled at night in simple clothes, heading to the royal city without stopping.
He needs astronomical amounts of gold coins, astronomical amounts of grain, and a huge fleet. The salt he wants to sell is not hundreds of thousands of catties, nor millions of catties, but tens of millions of catties, or even more.
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Such an astronomical amount of salt can only be eaten by one person in the entire Nulang Kingdom, and that is the royal family.
They traveled incognito, day and night, and finally, four days later, Sauron appeared outside the royal city.
The two entered the royal city as wild warriors. Because his current face could not appear in the royal city, the princes were not allowed to enter the royal city without the king's order.
Half an hour later, Sauron appeared outside Duke Jiting's house.
He directly took out the jade pendant from Ji Ting and said to the servant of the Duke's Palace: "Please go and report to the Duke, and say that he is an old friend and wants to see you."
A quarter of an hour later, he appeared in Duke Jiting's secret room.
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"Sauron, you asked Gui Xingfu for a rocky island where even weeds can't grow?" Duke Jiting asked.
"Yes." Sauron said, but he didn't expect the news to spread so quickly.
"Jiang is still too old. You really can't fight against that old fox Gui Xingfu. Not only were you humiliated, but you were also trapped and died in that barren land." Duke Jiting said: "Now the entire royal city is already here.
Your death date is estimated, and you come to me for help? Then I have to tell you that I can help you. But don't have high expectations, my help will not exceed five thousand gold coins."
Sauron couldn't help but be stunned.
"You may think that I have no conscience. In that big bet with Ji Ning, you helped me win 70,000 gold coins, but I could only help you with 5,000 gold coins, right?" A trace of pain flashed in Duke Ji Ting's eyes.
His eyes said: "On the fifth day after you left the royal city, one of my vaults was stolen. Not only were all the gold coins in it stolen, but hundreds of people died."
"Is this Li's revenge?" Sauron asked.
"Of course it's him." Ji Ting's face twisted in pain: "The location of my treasury is top secret. Even the people guarding it don't know where they are. Apart from me, only my most trusted concubine knows.
Now...she has disappeared too."
Suddenly, Sauron could feel Ji Ting's pain. He lost not only gold coins, but also feelings. He no longer knew who else around him he could trust.
"How many gold coins were lost?" Sauron asked.
"Ninety thousand." Zhao Ting said: "Seventy thousand of them were won from Zhao Ning, and the remaining 20,000 gold coins are the money for my gold number."
With 90,000 gold coins, Xili not only recovered a lot of losses, but also made Xiting very nervous.
"So now, I can only support you with five thousand gold coins at most." Ji Ting said: "Besides, people have to help themselves before anyone can help them."
Ji Ting said this last sentence in a somewhat mysterious way, as if he meant something.
Sauron bowed his hands and said, "Your Excellency, Duke, you have been so kind to me. How could I ask you for money? On the contrary, I want to do a business with you and help you earn an astronomical amount of gold coins."
"Astronomical figures, how many gold coins are those?" Zhao Ting said, "Fifty thousand?"
"More than that." Sauron said.
"Eighty thousand?" Ji Ting's breathing was already a little rapid.
"More than that." Sauron said.
"One hundred thousand?" Ji Ting was trembling a little.
"It's more than that, far more than that." Sauron said.
One hundred thousand gold coins is far more than that? How can there be such a big business in the world? Ji Ting said: "How many gold coins are they?"
"More than one million gold coins, more than the kingdom's annual tax." Sauron said.
Ji Ting's eyes suddenly opened, revealing a gleam of complete disbelief.
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