The preliminary investigation at Nanan Tong lasted for two days, and because of the company of Fu Aoya, the investigation of the survey team went very smoothly. Fa Shilu and Cui Yunhong were in charge of agriculture, forestry and minerals, respectively, while Mu Min inspected the local social conditions. The products of Nantong are still very rich:

First of all, there are all kinds of forest resources, there are large areas of woodland in the mountains, although the original cultivation of the local people planting mountain fences has destroyed a lot, the reserves are still quite rich; The perennial woody cotton of Chenglin, which Fashilu had dreamed of for a long time, was also found - apparently the locals spun and weaved cloth from this cotton. There are also many wild plantains, lychees, longans and jackfruit trees in the mountains, which are a source of food for the locals. There are many betel nut trees, but they are of little use to the traverser other than as trade goods.

The second is that a large number of native rice varieties have been found in the rice fields here, which is a very useful gene pool for breeders - as long as there are enough rice varieties, new varieties can be continuously cross-bred. Fa Shilu found seventeen different varieties of rice in the paddy fields near Nanan Village alone, and obtained five varieties of upland rice on the hillside, including indica, japonica and glutinous.

Hainan Island itself is the main distribution area of wild rice in China, and the genetic advantage of rice diversity is very obvious. Lingao is the main seed production area of hybrid rice in China in the 21st century - Fa Shilu looks at the various samples collected, and he really dreams and laughs! The father of hybrid rice in China may be himself......

Sweet potatoes have not yet been grown here, and Li Min doesn't even know that there is a new crop. But they grow some other potatoes, at most a species of Araceae. This is often used as a medicinal herb in other places. Fa Shilu is not a Chinese medicine practitioner, but he knows that the taro of Aracea has a small poison - this thing can be eaten as a meal? However, in terms of the area planted, it is clearly one of the main crops. Another common type is sweet potato, also known as hairy potato.

In terms of grains, he found corn. Fa Shilu never knew that there was millet cultivation in Hainan, and there was millet in the miscellaneous grains sent by the locals after the Battle of Bairentan, which made the entire Committee of Agriculture quite puzzled for a while. After consulting the locals, I learned that this is duck's foot millet, which is a common miscellaneous grain in Hainan, and the maturity period is very short.

In addition to grain, he also found patches of wild ramie, and it seems that the Li people do not care much about agriculture, and are basically laissez-faire, not to mention field management. Fruits, ramie and cotton are all in a wild state, they are only collected and used, and there is no cultivation of jihua.

Pigs, cows, chickens and ducks are free-range on the hillsides, without corrals and without feeding. So it doesn't look very robust, but the number of cattle is unexpectedly large, and buffalo and scalpers have them. However, he is not a student of animal husbandry, and he does not understand the problem of this breed, so it is better to send a professional to take a look at it later.

"I really think it's a waste," Fa Shilu sighed, "The agricultural conditions here are very good, but the level of agriculture is only slightly better than that of primitive society." ”

"Don't be emotional," Wen Desi patted him on the shoulder, "Let's talk about those paddy fields on both sides of the Wenlan River, where can they be smart." It's far worse than the farmers in our hometown. ”

Cui Yunhong's harvest was less encouraging, and with the help of a map of another time and space, he found an important source: lignite, which is shallow and can be mined. There are also some stone resources, such as small-scale reserves such as limestone, perlite, etc. But the road is long and the road is not good, so it is not of much value. The rarest of all is the discovery of a small vein of tungsten ore, but it is of little use to the traverser.

The Li people held a respectful attitude towards this group of strange Han people, watching them hold strange things, climbing trees for a while, going down to the fields for a while, and standing aside and painting for a long time...... However, the children obviously have the greatest curiosity about new things, and from watching from a distance at first, to slowly approaching, Zuihou began to fiddle with the utensils and objects of the traverser, and slowly began to communicate. Of course, most people can't communicate with the children, so they can only use a little rock candy to represent friendliness - this is what Wen Deji took care of before he left. Mu Min has an instinctive affection for her compatriots in this other time and space, she can speak Hainanese, and with the power of sugar, the next day, there is a group of followers around her.

Seeing this group of bare-assed, mud-monkey-like children, Mu Min suddenly had an idea, and this idea became the first school in the Li District of the Crossing Country.

Just as the team going to the Lebanon district was carrying out goodwill activities, another team of the traversers, led by Wang Luobin, advanced to the Mayuan Peninsula not far from them. The goal is to solve the problem of salt once and for all.

Salt is an indispensable necessity for human survival and an important raw material for modern chemical industry. For the Transit regime, they are also in dire need of a material that can be circulated and exchanged. In ancient societies with a backward commodity economy, there was no more suitable exchange than salt. Moreover, the salt industry here has been very developed since ancient times. Lingao faces the Qiongzhou Strait, there are many harbors, there are a large number of natural beaches, and the concentration of sodium chloride in seawater is very high, generally above 1.5-2 Baumé. During the dry season, the temperature is high, the wind is strong, the sunshine is long, and the rain is low, which is a good place for sea salt production. Salt has been produced since the Tang Dynasty, and the boiling salt method was still used at that time. Because of the superior natural environment, from the beginning of the Yongle period, the salt field in Hainan has successively adopted the salt drying method for large-scale production, Yantian Village on the bank of Xinying Bay in the south of Hainan Yangpu Economic Development Zone, is the earliest existing sun-dried salt making point in China, and it is also the ancient salt field that has retained the original sun-dried salt production method of Haode so far. This salt plant can still be in normal production.

According to the historical information mastered by the traversal: the salt field of Lingao in the Ming Dynasty was located on the Mayuan Peninsula 25 kilometers north of the county seat, and was under the jurisdiction of a salt field ambassador and belonged to the Haibei Lifting Division. It can produce "1,417 and 230 catties of salt" every year. According to the calculation of 300 catties per introduction, this salt farm produces more than 200 tons of salt every year, which is enough to meet the production and living needs of the people in the early stage.

With such an abundant resource, it is of course necessary for the regime to quickly take over it. Wang Luobin's task was to inspect the salt jishu in this time and space, and to consider how to improve and increase production with modern jishu - 200 tons of salt is too little for modern chemical industry.

The salt team was better equipped than the Lebanese team because it had to bring back some salt during the mission, so the whole team was completely mechanized and five agricultural vehicles were dispatched. The car bounced forward on the dirt road, walked for about two hours, and it was rare to see a pedestrian along the road, and after entering the area of the Mayuan Peninsula, it was even more insignificant. On the way, all you could see was ruins and abandoned fields, as if there had been a great battle here. The sporadic salt spilled on the road made everyone sure that they were not on the wrong path.

Wang Luobin was very confused: according to the operational information he obtained: according to the records in the historical books, there are more than 1,000 salt people in this salt farm, plus their families, there are five or six thousand people around the salt farm, and there should be many salt villages. But along the way, nothing but ruins are ruins.

At noon, they found a half-deserted stone road, and walked along the stone road, and finally found a village with cooking smoke, where the houses were made of volcanic stones, and the alleys were deep, but many of the houses were closed doors, and some of the weeds in front of the doors were high, and it looked like there had been no one for many years. The village is also scattered with many collapsed houses, on which grass has grown.

There are only a few women and children in the village, who are poorly clothed and look extremely poor. Seeing that their group of strange people did not hide, their expressions were numb, and they looked indifferent, Xiong Buyou asked in the village for a long time before finding the village chief's house.

The village chief's surname is Tan, and he is the hereditary salt ding here, from a famous salt-drying family in Hainan. Faced with Xiong Buyou's request to buy salt, he asked someone to open the salt warehouse: there were five or six hundred catties of salt in it. Wang Luobin was taken aback by such a small amount of salt, and only after asking did he know: In the 45th year of Wanli, the beach fields of the salt field were washed away a lot, and some places sank into the sea, and the production capacity of the Mayuan salt field has not been restored to the original level, but the silver color stipulated by the government is not less at all, and the salt Ding has fled a lot. To add insult to injury, since the end of Wanli, Haikou often came to the salt field to rob the salt lead, the salt Ding was killed, and the escaped escaped, and now there are only more than 200 salt Ding left in the village. The ancient method of drying salt is completely labor-intensive, and it is even more difficult to maintain production after less manpower. The annual fold color is always uneven, the government is urging the class, and the Ding Zhuang in the village usually hides. Fortunately, there is still a lot of land in Mayuan, and there is water from the Mayuan River for irrigation, and the salt ding is not only drying salt, but also cultivating the field to grow some grain, and it can also satisfy the stomach. It's just a matter of fear.

This situation dealt a big blow to Wang Luobin, and it was obvious that the production situation of this salt farm was extremely unsatisfactory. It seems that the executive committee's original control of the salt works, which bought all the output, has to be changed - the traversers not only have to control the salt works, but also organize the resumption of production and expand production. For a while, Wang Luobin felt that he was very much like the leader of the land reform team in the movie he watched when he was a child, and there were all kinds of waste waiting to be rebuilt.

But it was not easy to organize the resumption of production, so Wang Luobin decided to go to the salt works to have a look first. After giving the numb Tan village chief a Mexican silver dollar, the village chief, who was numb and looked uninterested, finally agreed to take him to the salt pan to have a look.