As he spoke, Jin Yun took out a copper ball, and tied a rope to the copper ball, and threw it into the salt pan.

The copper ball first floated up and down a few times, and finally floated in the brine, not completely sinking.

"This copper ball is specially made, there is a scale on it, and the concentration of the brine is determined according to the degree of floating, and the brine in this salt field is already extremely dense, so that the brine can be led into the crystallization pool."

With that, Jin Yun asked the workers to come over and open the dam of the salt pond so that the brine from the salt pond could flow into the crystallization pool.

When the inflow is complete, new seawater will come to the salt pans.

The crowd then walked to the crystallization pool, where they saw a few workers pushing two carts of salt.

Everyone couldn't help but wonder, isn't it to dry salt? Why did you bring salt here?

Ma Qiang explained with a smile, "These can be called salt seeds, which can make salt crystallize faster.... Forget it, let's see. ”

The explanation is also a white explanation.

Jin Yun instructed the workers to start sprinkling salt into the crystallization pool, and at first, the salt could still melt, but soon, a large number of salt flowers appeared at the bottom of the crystallization pool.

At this time, the wind and the sun were beautiful, Ma Qiang was already tired of standing, not only found a stool, but also asked people to make a parasol, and Qingcheng, who was tired of playing on the beach, also came over to watch the excitement together, but those Haoqiang did not feel tired at all, and their eyes stared at the increasing salt crystals in the crystal pool.

"Little Brother Ma, don't they feel tired?" Qingcheng looked at an old man standing trembling a little, and couldn't help but worry.

Ma Qiang has already started to have people set up barbecue grills, ready to roast oysters and other seafood, Qingcheng just led people to the beach but made a lot of seafood, he hummed, "They don't just look at salt, but also the rise and fall of their own family, of course they won't feel tired." ”

Finally, Jin Yun began to let the workers pile up salt in the crystallization pool, and the heroes watched the workers push the special salt pushing tools, and the salt was piled up on the brine surface.

"It's that simple?"

"Incredible... In this case, why do you need firewood? ”

"Not really, there are unpredictable storms in the sky, and if it rains, the salt pans will be destroyed!"

"What if it's ruined? Just fix it again, the sea water is there, and it will be sunny again! ”

Ma Qiang watched the salt being pulled up, and more and more, and shouted with a smile, "Everyone, let's eat some seafood together, and we will talk about the salt industry in Qingzhou in the future." Jin Yun, you have worked hard today, come and taste the oysters that your wife specially baked for you, and let the workers come and eat together. ”

Jin Yun's excited mouth was about to crack to the root of his ears, and Ma Qiang's appreciation was the biggest reward for him.

In front of these children who came out of the laboratory, Ma Qiang was like an omniscient god.

Many Haoqiang walked towards Ma Qiang, and at the same time, they looked back with some reluctance.

Where is this Yantian, this is Tongtian!

While eating oysters, Ma Qiang said to everyone, "This salt is still coarse salt, and it needs to be further refined and impurities removed before it can be turned into table salt to make salt, even so, it can greatly reduce the cost of salt production."

I plan to open up 100,000 acres of salt pans in Le'an, Beihai and Donglai counties, with an annual output of 10,000 catties of salt! ”

Not all places near the sea can be made of salt farms, salt farms have high requirements for the terrain, need flat terrain, wide beaches, and it is best not to have a beach, but a mudflat, in addition to the requirements of more sunshine, less rain, in the later generations of the Chinese continent, divided into four major salt areas, namely Changlu salt area, Liaodong Bay salt area, Laizhou Bay salt area and Huai salt production area, of which Laizhou Bay salt area is the Le'an, Beihai area at this time, the reason why this can become a large salt area, is also because the Yellow River from here to the sea, piled up a large number of tidal flats.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that the later generations of China have basically abandoned the beach drying sea salt method, but adopted the Jingtan salt drying method developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and directly used the underground brine to dry the salt, so that the output increased several times, which made the later generations of China useful for all kinds of salt.

But in the era of the late Han Dynasty, the beach drying sea salt method was already a revolutionary initiative, at least, after hearing Ma Qiang's plan for the number of salt fields and output, all Haoqiang's faces changed.

If it is really as Ma Qiang said before, these sea salts will be sold for ten dollars a liter, and their salt factories can all be closed.

But if you want to say that let Ma Qiang raise the price, sell the salt more expensively, and let the people eat expensive salt, in this era, wait to be assassinated by heroes on the way home.

This is a standard political mistake.

Guo Jia, who was on the side, walked out and bowed to Ma Qiang, "Ming Gong, this matter must not be allowed!" ”

Everyone's eyes looked at Guo Jia, and many heroes were about to cry.

This Guo Jia is worthy of being born in the Yingchuan Guo family, and this heart is still towards our Shi clan!

"Huh? Why not? ”

"As the saying goes, the grain hurts the peasants, and the same is true for salt, all of you present have salt workers in your family, if Ming Gong puts such cheap and high-quality salt into the market, then these salt workers will be unemployed, and you will not feed these salt workers in vain, right?"

Guo Jia's words made everyone a little embarrassed, but they also acquiesced.

Ma Qiang got up and snorted, "The people are harmed by salt, I finally came up with this method, so that the people can eat cheap salt, is it wrong?" ”

Guo Jia sighed, "You can't let thousands of salt workers die because of this, farmers will rebel if they have no way to live, and the same is true for salt workers." ”

yes, yes! All Haoqiang nodded in their hearts, but they didn't dare to speak on the surface.

Ma Qiang walked around a few laps with his hands behind his back, and then said, "Then what do you say to do?" I'll put my words here first, this salt pan must be built! ”

Guo Jia turned his head to Zhonghaoqiang and smiled and said, "I don't think it's better to be like this, after the Yantian is built, I want to come to your salt farm, and it can't be opened, why don't you join the construction of the Yantian together and participate in the grand event?"

Since Ming Gong is going to open up 100,000 acres of salt fields, I think you can set up a big business, and then divide the business into 100,000 shares, and you will sell all the salt workers and salt farms in your hands to the government at a discount, and give priority to buying the shares of the company, and at the same time you can also participate in the practice.

Although this salt pan can produce salt, if it wants to be sold to the people, doesn't it have to run through various trade routes and sell it in various shops? ”

Ma Qiang touched his chin and said reluctantly, "So... I'm afraid that some people will say that the government is forced to buy and sell, which will only increase the infamy! ”

As he spoke, Ma Qiang and Guo Jia both looked at the Haoqiang.

There were no fools present, although they all knew in their hearts that the two people in front of them were acting, they had to cooperate with the acting.

Otherwise, when you go back, you really have to cry with the ancestral spiritual position, and maybe you will be forced into the palace by other side houses.

Lu Zhong was the first to shout: "Duke Ming's move is for the sake of all the people in the world!" It is an act of great benevolence and righteousness! I see who dares to talk nonsense! I, Lu Zhong, couldn't let him go first! ”

"Old Man Lu is right! Let the people of the world eat cheap salt, who raises it, the old man has to have a good theory with him! ”

Looking at Haoqiang who was patting his chest one by one to show his loyalty, the corners of Ma Qiang's mouth curved slightly.

Well, next, you can establish Qingzhou Salt Industry Group.