Feng Zhiji has already started to go to Zhangzhou here, and after arriving in Zhangpu, Feng Zhiji knows that there is such a place in Lingnan.

It is said that Lingnan is a barren land, but this Zhangpu is simply a barren land among the barren land! Feng Zhiji looked at this barren land that could not be seen at a glance suspiciously: Can this really become a treasure land?

Feng Zhiji looked at the two craftsmen sent by Cheng Hong beside him, and saw that they were full of confidence, and felt a little relieved. After looking at the people with tools behind them, what else can they say? Let's go!

Feng Zhiji handed over everything to the two craftsmen, and followed behind to give the craftsmen a strong momentum, as for how to build, Feng Zhiji didn't care.

Sea salt is much easier to refine than rock salt! And Zhangpu is a heavy salt production area in ancient and modern times! It's just that sea salt refining began to rise in the Song Dynasty, and now it is mainly well salt and rock salt brought by Cheng Hong.

And sea salt is not as difficult to refine as you think, what is said on the Internet that it contains harmful substances, phew! You say it's in the total amount of seawater! Who dried the salt until it all evaporated?

There is no need for those chemicals, Cheng Hong only needs salt, and when the salt crystallizes, the water containing the rest of the chemicals will be directly discharged! Why wait for the rest of the chemicals to crystallize?

The two craftsmen rode around on horseback, looked at it, and studied the rise and fall of the tide with the people nearby to see how high the dam would be! Where to build the dam.

This will have to wait until the 15th day of the new year when the tide is planned, and what can be done now is to measure the tide. Everyone lined up, set up tents, and when the tide was ripe, they began to build the dam.

It's no wonder that this place is uninhabited, and if it did, it wouldn't have to wait so long! As long as you understand it, you can build it directly.

For a whole month, everyone felt the tide and hoarded cement and sand on the seashore, preparing to build a barrage and a crystallization pond.

Finally, after the tide passed, the master craftsman reported to Feng Zhiji, and Feng Zhiji stood on the high platform and looked around: "I announce that ~ the construction of Zhangpu Salt Works has begun!"

"Oh!"

The people took the tools and began to pile up the earth according to the plan to stop the tide, and build a permanent cement dam behind the mound, which was of a permanent nature.

In addition, the dam must be built at one time, and the high impact resistance must meet the requirements, otherwise the next time the tide comes to take the mound away, the dam will be soaked!

Everyone also knows that this time the construction is a salt farm, and they are all working hard to build, Lingnan is short of salt, not to mention that Lingnan is also short of salt before Cheng Hong came! It wasn't until the advent of rock salt that it was relieved!

And Lingnan here obviously has not received the preferential treatment of rock salt, if the scholars in Jiangnan do not open their mouths, they will not be able to reach Lingnan with no salt! This is also the reason why Feng Ang is eager to get on the line with Chang'an.

Don't talk about the problem of salt, let's talk about Lingnan Feng An, now the Jiangnan Shi clan can use a basket to impeach his book, except for the trivial ones, half of the books on the Jiangnan Shi clan impeach Feng An!

It feels like Feng Ang is as bitter as Doudou! Eat, sleep, and beat beans. That beanie.

Therefore, this salt field is a good thing for Lingnan in both public and private terms! We must support it!

As for the people, Feng Zhiji has already told them: "After the salt factory is completed, all the people who participate in labor will be able to get salt at cost price!" With just this sentence, the enthusiasm of the people came up!

The tidal dam extends at a speed visible to the naked eye, and this earthen dam is the first step of the salt farm, built about four feet above the tide, and fills the sedimentation tank with the tide, but this is all for later, the main thing is this tidal dam!

"Quick! Speed up! Feng Zhiji looked at the time when the tide was about to rise, and there was still a section of the dam that had not been closed, and his face was red and his neck was thick.

If this section is not closed, the tide will rush in, let alone build a permanent dam, even if this piece is built, it will be washed away by the tide, and at this time, no matter what military and civilian, everyone has joined the ranks of carrying the dam.

"Quick, speed up, the tide is coming!" Feng Zhiji shouted in muddy water!

Finally, before the tide came up, this section of the earth dam was closed, and Feng Zhiji and everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief, and it was finally over!

The waves hit the earthen dam one after another, taking away some dirt each time, and suddenly there was a voice in the distance: "The water is overflowing!"

Feng Zhiji ran there to see, the tide surging tore a one-zhang long hole in the earthen dam, and it was still expanding rapidly, some people ran to repair it, but how could this be repaired? One zhang, one and a half zhang, two zhang, three zhang, five zhang......

The tidal dam was washed away one by one, if Feng Zhiji hadn't ordered everyone to go ashore, maybe even everyone would have been involved!

The two craftsmen were stupid, and the people cried, but this was only closed after a day of robbery, and it was washed away in just a few quarters of an hour!

Feng Zhiji ordered: "Let's all go back to sleep, tomorrow when the tide falls, we will build, increase the height by two feet, increase the thickness by three feet, I don't believe that it can be washed away!"

Everyone walked back dejectedly, no doubt that the breached embankment had given them a basin of cold water, and the two craftsmen were also a little depressed.

When working with Cheng Hong, everything is set by Cheng Hong, and then they only need to do a good job in their own profession, they are always invincible, this is the first time the two of them go out to work, but it was piled up for a day, and it was gone after a while!

Feng Zhiji also saw the frustration of the two craftsmen, and patted them on the shoulder: "Don't worry, the tide is still more than ten days, we just need to build the earthen dam within these seven days, take a good rest before the tide recedes, and when the tide recedes, we will continue to build!"

The two craftsmen nodded gratefully, and Feng Zhiji began to shout around, telling everyone to rest, preparing to continue casting the dam after the tide receded!

After the tide receded, the dam was washed away, and everyone was preparing to cast the dam with tools, and at this time, suddenly a craftsman came running: "Feng Xiaolang, wait first!" Wait a minute! ”

Feng Zhiji looked at the craftsman: "What's the matter?"

The craftsman panted and said, "Feng Xiaolang, what is the difference between this remnant dam and the one that was washed out?"

Feng Zhiji glanced at it, didn't see anything, and then looked at the craftsman. After a moment's time, the craftsman said, "You see, the dam that has not been washed away is covered with stones, and if there is a layer of stones on the outside, the dam will be much stronger."

If you want me to say, let's not build a dam today, let's all go and collect stones, put them in bamboo baskets, and then when the tide goes low tomorrow, we will stack them in bamboo baskets and put the earth in two stone baskets!

It can definitely withstand it, if Feng Xiaolang is afraid that it will not be accurate, let's first use a stone basket to cast a section of the embankment to see if it can resist the impact, if it can't resist, we are thinking of other ways! ”

Feng Zhiji looked at the place that had not been washed away, and it was really like what the craftsman said, there was a layer of pebbles on it!

Feng Zhiji nodded: "Okay!" That's it, build a ten-zhang embankment first, and if you can resist it, start weaving bamboo baskets to build a dam tomorrow! ”

After receiving the order, the people began to concentrate on building the ten zhang embankment. These ten zhang put all the bamboo baskets that picked up the soil with pebbles and made a sandwich wall. Then go ashore and start cutting down bamboo and weaving bamboo baskets!

The tide rose and fell, affecting everyone's hearts, Feng Zhiji had been waiting on the shore for a long time, and had been looking at the ten-zhang wide line in the tide, which appeared and disappeared from time to time!

"The levee is still there!"

"Oh! Oh! ”

Everyone cheered, Feng Zhiji showed a smile, if Cheng Hong gave the method of drying salt to the Feng family, but the Feng family couldn't even build a dam, it would be a lot of fun, and they couldn't afford to lose that face!

Now it's okay, you don't have to build it all at once, as long as there is a bamboo basket, you can build a dam section by section! Everyone happily threw themselves into the work of building the dam.

Feng Zhiji smiled, as long as the embankment is built, this work will be half done, because the cement used in the salt pond or something, Feng Zhiji has already studied it, as long as the cement keeps up, it will not take half a month for all of his people to repair it!

And I heard Cheng Hong say that as long as the salt pond is repaired, this thing can produce salt in ten and a half months at most. It's just around the corner......