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If this Lian Zhongtao is worthy of his own cultivation and reuse, it is also necessary to take advantage of this time to take a closer look at his ability.

"Your Excellency, please go this way."

Lian Zhongtao led the way in front and led Wang Junlin and his party to the nearest place where salt was boiled in a salt pan.

The first thing Wang Junlin saw were potholes, which were now filled with seawater left over from the last high tide, but they were not used to dry salt, but to make mud......

Wang Junlin wanted to see Lian Zhongtao's organizational and coordination ability, so he didn't come forward and let Lian Zhongtao organize it himself.

Because there was no master craftsman, Wang Junlin simply asked Dong Kang to order all the salt workers and salt slaves to rest today, and Lian Zhongtao ran to the shack area where the salt workers and salt slaves lived, and he didn't know what to say, so he ran out of two or three hundred salt workers and salt slaves.

In the winter, they were barefoot, carrying toothed wooden rakes, standing in the salt pans, and began to rake the ground with criss-cross, mixing seawater with sediment, so that under the sun, it became a compacted lump, and then sent to the rear piece by piece, these were the most common jobs of salt workers and salt slaves on weekdays, and at this time, there were more Taishou adults watching from the side, one by one, as if they had beaten chicken blood, so they started to do it very quickly, and it was done in a while.

Lian Zhongtao ran to Wang Junlin and said, "My lord, this is the first step in salt making, and every salt worker and salt slave knows it. ”

Wang Junlin nodded slightly, there was not much surprise, but Zhang Tiangang beside him looked at the black mud blocks, and thought to himself, what does this have to do with the salt of the white flowers?

Lian Zhongtao then took Wang Junlin and his entourage to a ditch that was several miles long, and the ditch was also connected to a reservoir, Lian Zhongtao pointed to the ditch and said: "My lord, this ditch has been built for more than 400 years, and it is used to make seawater flow into the reservoir through the ditch when the tide is high, so that it is convenient to take water for decoction later, which can be regarded as saving the labor of carrying water. ”

As he spoke, Wang Junlin followed Lian Zhongtao to the side of a huge pond of ponds, which was actually a salt water pond.

Lian Zhongtao ran over and commanded the more than ten salt slaves who had just been sent by him in advance, and put the four blindfolded black donkeys on the ropes and started

Continue to rotate in a circle, drive the water wheel, and continuously extract the seawater in the salt water pool, and then transfer it to the filter tank at the back.

After doing these things, Lian Zhongtao ran over again and said: "My lord, this is the second step of boiling salt, this waterwheel is the key, before the master craftsmen prevented any salt workers and salt slaves from approaching the waterwheel, but the villain thinks that as long as you find a skilled craftsman, after carefully disassembling the waterwheel and looking at it, it is not difficult to imitate it." ”

"Alright, what's next!" Wang Junlin nodded with a smile, glanced at the waterwheel, and thought that the wisdom of the ancients should not be underestimated, and the Sui Dynasty already had a waterwheel.

Lian Zhongtao hurriedly said: "My lord, the next fifth step is the core skill that those masters have seen the most rigorously. But the villain already knows how to get it, so I'll show it to the adults now, and the adults please come with the villain. ”

The filter is actually the piece of salt pan from a distance, and it is distributed in a stepped manner from top to bottom, which is somewhat similar to the terraces, which is to carry out flow filtration layer by layer from top to bottom, and the water inlet and outlet between the layers contain the biggest secret of the salt craftsmen.

When Wang Junlin came over, several salt Ding hurriedly saluted, but they blocked Lian Shutao from the front, Wang Junlin frowned, Zhang Tiangang took a few guards up, and threw the salt Ding who was blocking the road aside.

"My lord, the thing between the inlet and outlet between the upper filter and the lower filter is actually a fixed bamboo basket with several layers of bamboo mats, and then regularly padded bamboo chips and thatch, and finally the hard clay board containing a lot of salt obtained in the first step is placed in the middle."

As Lian Zhongtao spoke, he had already instructed the salt slave who followed behind to put the hard clay tablet obtained from the first step in his position, and then continued to explain: "My lord, in this way, after the seawater brought from the reservoir enters the filter, it flows from high to low, and before entering the next layer, it is filtered through the water level difference, and then reciprocating one after another, until it is filtered five or six times before stopping, the whole time, as short as one day, as long as two days, and finally in the bottom filter tank, you can get a higher concentration of brine!" If you only rely on salt drying, even in the hottest part of summer, this process can take up to 20 days at the earliest! ”

Wang Junlin saw Zhang Tiangang and the guards with a confused look, and knew that they didn't understand why, Wang Junlin said with a smile: "The common things in this world can be roughly divided into two kinds, one is soluble in water, the other is insoluble in water, and salt is soluble in water, and the sediment in the hard mud slab with salt cannot be dissolved in water, so the sediment will gather when it enters the water, and the salt will dissolve when it enters the water, but there is already a salty taste in the water, so the salt is in the water!" ”

After hearing this, the guards were thoughtful, but most of them still looked confused. However, Lian Zhongtao was like an initiation, with a sudden realization, although he used a good mind to secretly master the method, but in fact, he also knew it but did not know why, at this time, he heard the concept of soluble and insoluble said by Lord Taishou, and immediately understood it thoroughly, and at the same time shocked Lord Taishou as a celestial, thinking that Lord Taishou was really not a mortal, and he had not been in contact with the method of boiling salt before, but just now he looked at the process, he had already understood the truth, and he came to the salt field for three years without understanding, He believed that those masters who had been ordered by Lord Taishou to cut off their heads and had played all their lives were like him, who only knew the method, but not the principle.

Wang Junlin felt the adoring eyes of Lian Zhongtao and a group of salt workers and guards looking at him, and thought to himself that since ancient times, people do not understand the process of change of things and only see the results, because they do not know why, so they are called 'gods', but if this change process is found out, let people know that it is so, and remove the mysterious gauze, it is actually science, and after a long time, after being known by most people, this has become common sense.

After making the brine, Lian Zhongtao secretly took out a piece of dark yellow wood the size of a palm's thumb from his arms, and then carefully put the piece of wood in the brine, and explained: "My lord, this wood is called Huang Cimu, which was secretly searched by the villain from the corpse of a master craftsman yesterday, if it floats on the surface of the brine, it means that the brine has reached a sufficient concentration to boil salt." If the wood sinks to the bottom of the water or is suspended in the middle of the water, it is an indication that the brine concentration is not sufficient and it needs to be filtered before the salt can be boiled. ”

Wang Junlin nodded and said: "Yes, I won't look at the boiler boiling salt in the back, you can clean up now, follow me for the next few days, and live in the post house!" ”

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