All the flag soldiers and Yu Ding rolled up their trouser legs, and many men went up to the pool barefoot, the pool in March still made people feel a little cold, and many people shivered suddenly after entering the water.

Under Han Sen's order, the people of a small flag and a small flag are in the water, and the kanchi with an acre of land is exactly a row of about a dozen people, and the front and rear rows are more than one step apart, and the two rows are more efficient to stir together.

Min Yuanqi looked at everything in front of him with interest, there were some tree poles standing in the four corners, someone lit a torch to illuminate it, and everyone was still shadowy under the moonlight and firelight, and they couldn't see it clearly, but as long as they could keep moving and stirring, it didn't matter if they could see clearly.

The people in front of him and the swaying pool on the water surface made Min Yuanqi feel intimate, and a strange and familiar feeling came to his heart.

In later generations, when Min Yuanqi was a teenager, his grandfather worked as a salt pusher in the salt field, in fact, this work was quite hard, the industry and commerce in later generations were developed, people spent a short time at home, and the men went out to work when they were busy with farming, and the income was much higher than in their hometowns. At that time, the salt factory in his hometown used the ancient method of drying salt, which was an old salt farm that had been inherited for more than a hundred years, and the general emerging state-owned salt works used machines to improve the efficiency of salt production, increase production and reduce costs. After all, it is purely dependent on the right time and manpower, and the cost of time and labor has increased exponentially, and the output is quite low compared to the mechanized production of later generations, that is, it barely supports survival through pure natural gimmicks.

Min Yuanqi loved to go to the salt field when he was a teenager, sometimes he went to the crystal pool in the middle of the night to play, he often fell asleep in the first half of the night, and woke up in the second half of the night in the dull sound of pushing and stirring, and saw his grandfather and a group of workers pushing and stirring back and forth in the crystal pool, the sound of the sea water, and the muffled humming sound when people contributed their efforts, the sound of walking around, after dawn, the brine of the whole pool was pushed out of a large number of fine salt crystals, and then people shoveled the wet salt to the straw mat with a wooden shovel, and gradually piled up into a mountain of salt......

All this in front of him was too familiar and too intimate, including the salty sea breeze, the rich smell floating out of the crystal pool, and the sound of people pushing and churning the seawater, which made Min Yuanqi feel a little confused in time and space.

In the second half of the night, people talk much less, everyone feels a little tired, but people's spirits are actually more excited, everyone feels that the sea water in the pool is decreasing, and the resistance when pushing increases, obviously the brine in the pool is constantly pushing and stirring to speed up the process of crystallization into salt, this discovery makes everyone feel extremely excited, but in the middle of the night, many people really can't lift their spirits to speak......

By dawn, the moonlight had faded, the torches had burned out, and no one had run to tie up new torches, and the people yawned and pushed the sea almost by inertia, only to feel the resistance in front of the planks increasing......

When a touch of red was revealed in the east, and people who were accustomed to being half-dark suddenly found that everything in front of them was clearly visible, Liang Shifa subconsciously looked in front of him.

He stopped, as if he was being pulled by something, his mouth was open, but he couldn't make a sound, his steps were slow, like an old man of seventy or eighty years old, his body was trembling, his throat was surging up and down, his fingers were pointing forward, as if he had been immobilized, and he couldn't move for half a sound......

"Liang Shifa, what are you pretending to be a god...... Min Yuanjin scolded with a smile not far away, the friendship between the two was originally ordinary, after all, they were both delicate and shrewd characters, and they were more vigilant and careful with each other, but last time they were arrested by Yang Shida and his gang, the two were tied up together, and they were beaten together every day, and from this experience, they pulled out a real hard friendship like a fate, it can be said that in the following years, unless the family surnamed Liang and the Min family fought, otherwise there could be no cracks in the friendship between the two......

Liang Shifa couldn't answer, this twenty-year-old man was pressed by life, hardship, hardship, and complained, no matter what, he was trying to move forward, bent on making his family live a life of food and clothing, two babies at home, his parents Gao Tang and his wife were there, and he, the man in charge, could only eat more hardship.

When all the efforts were not rewarded, Liang Shifa was not without despair, even if he was doing well while nibbling on multigrain cakes, many times he needed to pawn those broken bedding and household things, in exchange for a few liters of black buckets to barely survive, relatives and friends were poor and couldn't help at all......

At this moment, Liang Shifa's whole body trembled, and he pointed to the front and couldn't say half a word.

Everything in front of him is too strong for Liang Shifa.

Following Liang Shifa's fingers, Min Yuanjin was also stunned, he was not immobilized, but his eyes were swept over and over again, and after repeated confirmation, this thin and tall little flag officer squatted down, covered his face and cried.

Salt, large piles of fine white salt.

This thing is actually whiter and finer than the salt that is fried, and its shape is like fine sand, white as the size of fine salt like sand grains, and there is obvious moisture in the hand, but it is also obviously a good salt.

The price of such fine salt is generally much more expensive than the coarse salt and salt bricks that are fried, Min Yuanqi's five coins and a load of silver is a large-scale wholesale price, after all, it is better to want to sell quickly and the price is lower, their output of tens of thousands of catties a day here is actually nothing, Daming Shengkou is hundreds of millions, Huai salt docking in addition to some places in Xuzhou, Shandong, as well as Henan, Jiangnan, Zhejiang and Huguang, these places do not contain all, because Shandong and Zhejiang themselves also produce salt, but the salt nest of the two Huai is the most, In the early years, when the private salt was not rampant, the place where the salt was underwritten was much more than the rest of the country in the Ming Dynasty, even if the private salt was rampant now, the old habit still made people in many places willing to buy Huai salt, the population of these places added up to no more than 100 million people, so many people are quite a huge base regardless of whether it is calculated according to Ding Kou or by household, and the salt to be consumed in a month is at least about 20 million catties, and there is no other source of salt intake in this era. At this time, people eat multigrain rice, lack of meat and the rest of the calories and salt supplements, a family of seven catties of salt a month is calculated according to the minimum intake basis, in fact, it is far more than ......

According to Min Yuanqi's considerations, if there are more than 100 camps, the output of hundreds of thousands of catties a day is not small compared to the sales impact of tens of millions of catties per month, which will affect many stove households who depend on this for a living, and the impact on small and medium-sized salt merchants is not small, but it is still within the scope of the entire market, so Min Yuanqi plans to open up to 100 crystal pools at most, and produce 200,000 catties a day as the upper limit, otherwise the public opinion and actual trouble caused by the impact on salt merchants are still secondary, although a large number of ordinary stove households are hard, Frying salt is the only way for them to live, and Min Yuanqi also has to make some considerations for these poor people......

For Min Yuanjin, Liang Shifa and others, they didn't think too long-term, and on this dawning morning, the impact of the fine salt they found piled up like a hill was enough to make them stunned and stunned.

"Salt, really salt!"

Liang Shifa finally roared out, and the exclamations in the surrounding pools also rang out one after another.

The people finally realized the fruits of their labor, and a large amount of fine salt was pushed on the east side of the salt pond, which was the success of the overnight labor, and the sea water in the crystal pond was so thin that it never reached the lower legs or the feet and necks of the people, which was the product of the whole night of pushing and stirring.

A large amount of fine salt was pushed into a heap, people were screaming and crying, and many people even knelt on the edge of the salt pile, holding the wet salt in their hands like a treasure with trembling hands...... Some people even can't help but stuff their mouthfuls of salt, as if they are afraid that the scene in front of them is fake, and these salts are also fake......

Min Yuanqi also didn't sleep all night, in the first half of the night he was instructing everyone to push and stir the action and frequency, after everyone mastered Min Yuanqi stood idle and bored, so he also took off his boots and lifted his official robe and tucked it on his belt, and worked with the flag army. At dawn he was actually the first to see the salt, but he didn't say anything, but left the surprise to his subordinates......

Now Min Yuanqi was a little less emotional, his mood was relatively calm, he smiled and said to Han Sen and the others: "The matter is not over yet, you have to shovel the salt on the straw mat, and wait for it to dry, by tonight, the water will almost evaporate, and then it will be fine salt that can be packaged and sold!" ”

"We're not going to rest, just keep doing it."

At this time, everyone does not need special mobilization, people do not seem to have slept all night and worked all night, but as if they have just slept all night, and now they are full of energy and have just gone to work in the field, not only are they sleepy, but the strength consumed in their bodies also seems to be all back to their bodies.

At this time, there was also the sound of people talking on the path from the east side of the village to the salt pond, and the sky had just brightened, and many people had already come from the village, and it was obvious that many people had not slept well this night......

Miles away, the voices of people talking were also extremely loud, and everyone could hear the women of the village, and a little closer could see many women carrying flat burdens and carrying buckets, and it was obvious that these women also got up to cook in the second half of the night, and picked up food as soon as it was dawn......

The eyes of people who looked at the past also became eager and warm, and even affectionate.

Yes, these guards and military households usually don't have any emotional expressions, they don't have the chic and literary style of those sons and ladies in the Peony Pavilion, and they won't make any love at first sight, private meetings under the moon, these things are fresh at most in the plays, and even these they don't like to watch them very much, those dramas with some obscene and erotic and erotic can make these military households who don't know a few big characters watch with relish, and the plays of those talented and beautiful women are too far away from them.

But this does not prevent them from having a deep affection for each other, those women are really incomparable with the ladies in the play, not to mention what they look like, they have messy hair like a chicken nest, and the gowns that are washed and mended are not any style, and the hands that have been working for a long time are full of calluses, as well as the dry cheeks with yellow muscles and thin skin, and the irritable and extreme bad temper caused by long-term hard work and lack of food and clothing......

But these women are their women, getting up early and working in the dark, doing housework in the field to serve the elderly and raising children, while the men work hard, these women are also for them to withstand half of the ups and downs, the more hard and difficult life, the more women are like the willows by the river, the wind, frost, rain and snow years of erosion, still with a trace of softness in the bones, and extremely strong.