When the experiment was successful, the construction of large salt pans began, and at the same time the excavation of canals to bring seawater to the salt pans and then pump them into the salt pans by water trucks, which was much more convenient, at least without the need for manpower to carry water.

There is no need to repair the road here, and when the time comes, it will be transported by sea, but the manpower is not enough, but Zou Yu does not plan to use outsiders, and when the time comes, the disabled soldiers can be resettled in large numbers, and it will become a military salt production base in the future.

This method must be kept strictly secret at present, which is why Zou Yu wants to let the Zou clan manage it, and at the same time, the soldiers also brought their families to come, and when the foundation is perfected, they will also build a sentry post, and outsiders are not allowed to enter or leave!

In the future, when it is loaded and transported, it must be people from the Yantian side, and outsiders can't even see the Yantian; Zou Yu's goal is to build this place into a small Yancheng.

The salt pans made of cement were completed faster than the mud fields, and after half a month, the first batch of ten acres of land came out. Another advantage of the cement field is that it is not afraid of soaking in water, so it directly starts to divert seawater.

The wider the field, the faster the seawater evaporation pit will be, especially in this place where the sea breeze does not stop all day and night, and the evaporation of seawater is only slightly inferior to that of summer.

It's just that such a large piece of land can't be a whole piece, all of it is divided into about 200 square meters of size and piece by piece, this time it is not like the beginning, only a little sea water is drawn, but in each field, there is twenty or thirty centimeters of sea water. When it is only two or three centimeters deep, the hole in the corner of the field is pulled out and the water is put into another field.

More than ten fields, gathered into one field; When the same time came, they gathered together in another field; At the same time, the vacant land in front of them already has new sea water in it.

In fact, when it first converged, it was no longer called seawater, it should be called brine. When the brine gathers, it is salt water, and at this time, if you throw a branch down, it will not necessarily sink.

In this way five times, when ten acres of sea water converge together, a mouthful of it is already salty and bitter. By the time the seawater has evaporated, the salt pan is already a thick layer of lumpy salt crystals.

At this time, it can only be regarded as coarse salt, although it is already white, but there are still some impurities in the middle, black, yellow, and some sand and earth.

"Phew!" Zou Yu tasted it, but it was still bitter, spit out his saliva, and couldn't help frowning.

Whether it is the mineral salt he filtered out of the boil or the sea salt that he dried, even if it is white enough, it is always bitter. Zou Yu knew that these were minerals in salt, and they were also dissolved in water, hence the bitter taste.

"How do you get rid of impurities?" While arranging for someone to melt the coarse salt into the water again, Zou Yu thought hard.

The coarse salt, which is melted into the water again, is left there and, if there is no accident, is filtered and boiled into fine salt.

This time is different from the past, unlike when he was in Fuyu City, so embarrassed, Zou Yu naturally wanted to make fine salt and make real refined salt, after all, this is also what he has to eat every day.

"Send the carbon to the prince's tent! This ghost weather, the sea breeze is so cold! ”

At this moment, a voice woke up Zou Yu in thought.

"Zou Kaiyong! Come here! Zou Yu glanced up and shouted loudly.

"Uncle Clan!" Facing Zou Yu, who was a little younger than himself, Zou Kaiyong honestly walked over to Shi Lidao.

"What were you yelling about?" Zou Yu asked. He was so engrossed in his thoughts just now that he only vaguely heard a sentence, and he seemed to have caught a little inspiration, but he couldn't remember anything.

"Just now? Just now, the little nephew asked someone to send charcoal to the tent for the clan uncle. Zou Kaiyong glanced back and replied.

"Charcoal! Right! Right! It's charcoal! Why didn't I think about it! Zou Yu's eyes lit up, knocked on his forehead, and said with a little annoyance.

"What?" Zou Kaiyong looked at Zou Yu in a daze, didn't know what to do when he called him over, asked a question, and was talking to himself.

"Quick! Bring me the carbon! Zou Yu waved his hand eagerly and shouted.

"Yes!" Zou Kaiyong hurriedly and obediently trotted over.

"Is this going to be a knockout? Or just put it in? Looking at the carbon in front of him, Zou Yu was embarrassed again. After thinking about it for a while, it was decided to do it at the same time.

Divide the brine into two cylinders first! Then one jar was filled with pure charcoal, and the other was filled with large pieces of charcoal.

"Need to stir? How long does it last? Put the charcoal in, Zou Yu thought with a frown.

"Forget it! It's still a tank of stirring, and a tank doesn't matter! Zou Yu was too lazy to think about it, so he just tried slowly. So he asked Zou Kaiyong to take a stick and gently stir the wrapped charcoal in the jar for a while before stopping.

After putting it there and letting it stand for more than an hour, Zou Yu asked people to gently change the salt water in the jar to a clean jar, and as for the charcoal in the bucket and the impurities at the bottom, of course, they were filtered out with a cotton cloth.

After all this, the filtered brine was poured into a large pot and steamed. This is a relatively slow way to live, but fortunately, I also brought a lot of coal, which is enough for a short time.

After waiting for a long time, Zou Kaiyong rushed to find Zou Yu, looking at the excited look on his face, Zou Yu understood that it must have been cooked.

"Let's go, let's take a look!" Zou Yu didn't wait for him to speak, and immediately beckoned.

Not far away, a few minutes to the place where the salt is boiled, a smoke of ten large iron pots, looks quite spectacular.

Zou Yu stepped forward to take a look, and piles of salt as white as snow and finer than sand were quietly piled up in the pot.

Zou Yu dipped a little salt in his hand, which was still a little hot, added it with his tongue, smacked his lips and tasted it, then smiled with satisfaction, nodded and said, "Not bad!" This is refined salt! ”

"Alas! I now know that the salt I used to eat was no different from poison. Zou Kaiyong tasted it and said with a sigh.

"Really, not bitter at all!" One of the soldiers put his finger into the salt pile, took it in his mouth, pulled it hard, and then smacked his lips and said in surprise.

"That's it for now! Pack this batch for me, and I'll take it tomorrow. Zou Yu commanded.

"Uncle Clan, are you leaving?" Zou Kaiyong looked up in amazement and asked.

"If I don't leave, who will send you supplies?" Zou Yu said angrily.

"Hey, hey! Isn't it still unaccustomed! You're not there, and you don't know the bottom of your heart. Zou Kaiyong smiled embarrassedly.

"Xi Junmai, go and call all the people in charge, I have something to say." Zou Yu commanded.

"Whoa!" Xi Junmai agreed and immediately went out to find someone.

Zou Yu didn't boil the salt here, gave Zou Kaiyong a look, and walked to the big tent.

"Have you memorized the process of making refined salt?" Entering the tent, Zou Yu motioned for him to sit down and asked.

"Uncle Hui, remember everything." Zou Kaiyong replied solemnly.

"Take a good look here, this is the foundation of the Zou family in the future, even if we fail to fight for the world, this is also the foundation of our life, the soldiers here are all selected by me, there is no family background, it is worth believing.

In the future, as long as it is operated legally, it will also be a permanent industry of the Zou family. Zou Yu admonished.

"The little nephew has written it down!" Zou Kaiyong nodded vigorously.

"If you know how to open a soldier, you will leave it to him for training and defense, and you need to be more attentive to deal with government affairs, and remember not to treat soldiers and their families badly." Zou Yu said earnestly.

"Yes! Nephew keep it in mind! Zou Kaiyong bowed down solemnly and said.

For Zou Yu, Zou knows very well that this is an opportunity for them to puff up, and it is simply unreserved support and trust. Although the official positions of the Zou clan are not high now, their positions are quite important, which is also Zou Yu's support and reward for the clansmen.

Although he knows that the family is not good, Zou Yu still doesn't mind supporting people of the same clan, of course! It's because he has the means to take control.

Speaking of which, the biggest drawback of the family is that it has knowledge, that is, talent! The other is land annexation. This is also something that there is no way to do, for Zou Yu, he can only find a way to avoid and suppress it.

Education is easy to run, and at present, no one dares to oppose themselves under the whole rule, and it is a good opportunity to promote basic education, and the output of paper has increased significantly, and this is a very good condition. First, in the form of stories, let the people increase their interest, and then add propaganda slogans to learn, so that before you know it, the people will learn some words.

The most important thing is that in the two places of the School of Political Science and the School of Medicine, the first thing that teaches students here is literacy! As long as the number of students is increased, there will be thousands of literate people here. If they lead other people, it won't take a few years, and there will be more people who know how to read.

It's not that Zou Yu doesn't want to vigorously advocate education, but there is no foundation yet, and older children will help with housework or work in the fields; It is impossible for those who are too small to go too far to study, and you must know that there is no shortage of beasts now, and it can even be said that there are many to describe it.

In this way, reading can basically only be carried out in the village or county seat. This involves several problems, the child is small, and he is worried about getting lost, after all, this troubled world is not over, the child is still good to be trafficked, a year ago, the tragedy of Yizi and eating is not uncommon, who knows if there are people who are addicted to eating because of this.

In other words, the big ones don't have time to read them, and the small ones don't want to send them to read; At the same time, it is also because there are not so many talents who can teach.

Taking advantage of the characteristics of most of Taoism's literacy, Zou Yu started with adults first, which was the best choice.

Night school! That is, every night, people who know how to read and write teach people to read and write in the village, whether adults or children, can follow along.

Movable type printing has been made, but it has not been used in large quantities, after all, although the output of paper has increased, but the speed at which it is consumed, there is really not much used to print story readings.

Starting from the grassroots level, acting from places where no one is paying attention, and not establishing a school that specializes in reading and writing, the family will not notice that Dao Zou Yu is already promoting education, which reduces some unnecessary troubles and possible confrontations.

Teaching a small number of low-level generals in the army or small officials in villages and counties is a good thing in the eyes of many people, after all, students and teachers have added a layer of relationship in themselves, and the more students, the greater the teacher's ability, and the peach and plum are all over the world, which of course makes people happy.

Even many people from the family took the initiative to teach others, thinking that this was still to expand their network. The books taught by the family are good in themselves, but they don't notice these people who come to study, and at night they themselves have become teachers, teaching the people who work in the fields during the day.

A battle without gunpowder has already begun, and so far, Zou Yu has completely gained the upper hand. After two years, when the people are rich, it is time to promote books.

As for land annexation, for Zou Yu, it is not a thing, agriculture does not make money from business, and now all families have experienced the benefits of commerce, and there are naturally ways to clean them up in the future.

After a while, Xi Junmai took all the management personnel and entered the big tent.

"At present, the refined salt has been completely trial-produced! So I'll leave it to you here; Zou Kai was appointed as the general of Wupin Tuntian, responsible for guarding, protecting, and training; Zou Kaiyong was appointed as the commander of Yancheng County, responsible for establishing a small county seat here. Zou Yu motioned for everyone to sit down, and then ordered.

"Whoa!" The two hurriedly got up and answered.

"As for other positions, you can appoint and dismiss yourself, I won't just ask, in short, those who can do it! The mediocrity! Including you. Zou Yu continued.

In order to establish the prestige of the two, they deliberately left the petty officials of these low-level cities to their appointment and dismissal. At the same time, it is also a team of cronies for the two to manage. After all, there are still thousands of people here.

"Whoa!" Everyone hurriedly and solemnly stood up and clasped their fists in salute.

"Yancheng belongs to the king, but also everyone's, in the future, except for some disabled soldiers, I will not transfer more people, whether you can do a good job, whether you eat fragrant and spicy food, or drink porridge every day, it's up to you." Zou Yu motioned to everyone not to care too much about the form, and just listen with peace of mind.

Zou Yu's words made everyone very excited, because although this is to establish a county seat, it also belongs to the Haicun Cooperative. This kind of cooperative, on behalf of the local people, is a common interest. All salt is profitable, and they have a share of dividends.

The Sui Dynasty Salt Order was opened, and anyone could make and sell salt! But the people still can't afford to eat, because the production is low, so the "money" situation here can be imagined, not to mention all the salt in the supermarket.

Ignoring the excited crowd, Zou Yu continued: "There are many ways to make salt, and there are many ways; Although we have figured out a good way; But I hope you don't get complacent. Think more, see more, experiment more, and know the way to go, and only find it, not necessarily the best.

When I find a new way, a more convenient way, which can replace the current one, I will not only not be angry, but I will also reward the inventor! Do you understand? ”

"My subordinates understand!" Everyone hurriedly replied again.