More than ten days later, in the evening, the sea breeze suddenly became stronger, blowing a large wave on the sea.

Li Yi rode a docile miscellaneous horse, Kong He and Fu Qian rode together, both of them looked serious, and Fu Qian was slightly nervous.

Recently, the construction and installation of the plant and machine of the hydraulic textile machine have far exceeded the budget, which has greatly increased the pressure on Fu Qian, and Kong He has almost lived on the construction site and factory for a while.

This made Fu Qian's stomach ache even more.

Everyone is full of exhaustion, in the early days of the great development of the Eastern Domain, everyone could not sleep, now their energy and physical strength are seriously overdrawn, they are full of exhaustion, every day when it gets dark almost upside down to sleep, but by dawn the next day, they are still full of exhaustion.

There's no way around it, everyone is overdrawing physically and mentally.

Of course, everyone would not resist Xu Zixian's summons, but at this point, when all the subordinates had impatient expressions on their faces, it could not be regarded as a serious offense to Xu Zixian.

As for Qin Dongyang and Chen Du, they were half-convinced, they completely believed in Xu Zixian's ability, but they were too skeptical about the things in front of them.

This can't be blamed on them, the spread of technology has always been difficult in China, and the salt drying method has been banned for more than a hundred years, and there are too many people who don't know the end.

"Come with me and see closer." Xu Zixian said with a smile: "Don't be blind, take a closer look to know the end." ”

When he arrived at the seaside, Zhang Xiande was already waiting at the intersection.

Compared with before, Zhang Xiande and the stove drivers still have black faces, but their bodies are also much stronger.

Xu Zixian remembered before that some of the original government institutions on the island did not receive dividends in development, and their lives did not change, so they were actually a dead end.

In addition to here, there are also a few Chang Ping, some potters, barn men, and shallow men who patrol the stream, all of which are classified as official households, allowing them to open up fields and farm, and they can also continue the work at hand and continue to receive money.

This is great news for the cooks.

The salt frying method will be completely ended on the island, in fact, the current frying salt is only a comparative experiment, it is indeed cost-effective, there will be no new materials coming in, and the cooks will all turn to salt.

"No need to be polite." Xu Zixian said to Zhang Xiande: "You have been very attentive to things recently, and you should do the same in the future." ”

Zhang Xiande arched his hand and said: "But don't worry, now the salt men can eat enough, there is meat every three days, and the subordinates also add salaries, dare not do their best?" ”

Xu Zixian nodded and smiled, and said, "When the salt is released, I will give you a reward, I have always been a man of words." ”

The salt men are very hard, according to the group practice routine, two times a month.

Zhang Xiande is ten a month, which is much higher than before, and he no longer has to restrain the food of the salt men to earn that little money.

In addition, Xu Zixian said first, after the salt was released, these people had additional rewards, Nan Anhou's reputation was excellent, and everyone was also relieved.

Hearing Xu Zixian's words, even Zhang Xiande, all the people in the salt pond looked much more eager.

After all, the benefits are already very close, or even just in front of them.

"Don't worry...... the prince" In front of Xu Zixian, Zhang Xiande's face was also full of smiles, looking at Xu Zixian, he said: "Shicai went to the salt pond to inspect and found that salt had begun to form in the crystallization pool, so he asked someone to notify the prince to come immediately...... I'm afraid it's getting worse at the moment. ”

"Very good, let's go and have a look!" Xu Zixian was also happy from the bottom of his heart, the salt pond in front of him cost a lot of labor and silver, and he also put in a lot of effort, and now it is finally time to harvest.

Xu Zixian and Li Yi, Kong He, Fu Qian, Qin Dongyang and others, everyone went to the salt field together, more than 20 salt men were already lying in the crystallization pool, and when they got closer, they could hear these salt men howling and crying in the pool.

"What's wrong, what's wrong?"

Fu Qian was anxious and shouted, "Is something wrong?" ”

He strode forward, climbed up to the mud mound of the salt pond, and when he looked into the pool, he was immediately stunned.

This person ran over with great momentum, but as soon as he left, he was in a daze, and the whole person stood motionless on the edge of the pool, as if he had been immobilized in an instant.

"What's going on?" Zhang Xiande is the salt ambassador, and he is also responsible for it here, he is very dedicated, although he refuses to say anything to Xu Zixian, he also admires it sincerely, so he is full of thoughts that Yanchi can succeed and he can get more benefits.

Xu Zi used him first, also because Zhang Xiande knew how to make salt before, and he used this person to continue to take charge of all things in the salt pool, and he got twice the result with half the effort.

Seeing that the situation was not right at this time, Zhang Xiande was in a hurry, and he didn't care about the unfavorable fall behind him, so he climbed up with a sigh of shame.

After Zhang Xiande went up, he also screamed, and then remained silent.

Li Yi and the others were all shocked and uncertain, not knowing what had happened.

Among the crowd, only Chen Duzhong was the most determined.

He is the principal of the Changwen Marquis Mansion on the island, and he is also the defender of interests.

During this period of time, Nan'anhou Mansion has almost made earth-shaking changes on the island, including the transformation of the Xiang army into a guard, Chen Duzhong cooperates with everything, but he feels that the affairs on the island are all under the leadership of Nan'anhou Mansion, and he himself has nothing to do, and it is impossible to feel no in his heart.

This time when he came to Yanchi, Chen Duzhong also had a feeling of watching jokes.

Nan'anhou is a young man in the end, a little whimsical, the salt pond in front of him can produce salt, that is not God's reward for rice, under this thousand years, no one knows how to eat this bowl of rice?

"What's this, what's going on?" Chen Duzhong was a little angry, he didn't care that he was old and his legs and feet were no longer as agile as they used to be, so he squeezed through the crowd and climbed onto the salt pond.

This time, when I looked down, I was also stunned, pointing at the salt pond with both hands, my whole body trembled, my face was pale, my mouth was stammering, and my chest was full of saliva, and I didn't even know how to wipe it.

For people like the Marquis of Changwen, Chen Duzhong's performance is simply a bit embarrassing.

But at this moment, no one laughs at Chen Duzhong, because everyone's performance is really similar.

"Salt, it's all salt!"

Just when there was a lot of discussion below, Zhang Xiande suddenly howled like a wolf.

While shouting, he jumped down violently, it seemed that he was still jumping head-on, and the people below were startled and taken aback, and when he looked at it again, this Xiande was full of salt, white, and on his turban, face, and clothes, all of which were snow-white refined salt.

"Salt, it's all salt."

Qin Dongyang's body is light, he has always had the style of a general, and he is stable and serious, so Xu Zixian has always trusted him.

In the regimental training army, Qin Dongyang is also the most trusted by everyone, his management and fighting style are the same, stable and attacking, like a rock everywhere, nothing will move him.

But at this time, he also climbed up, and then froze, his whole face seemed to be petrified, and there was no movement in the middle of the sound.

Zhang Xiande was like a madman, he pounced up, and then he stabbed down, got up again, and stabbed down again.

Not only him, but also the people who stayed in the salt pond stupidly at the beginning also did the same, many people just lay down in the salt pond, and then when they got up, they were all full of salt, and then they held the snow-white refined salt with both hands and began to throw it into the sky.

What's more, some people wept profusely, their faces were full of tears, and they grabbed a handful of salt and stuffed it into their mouths.

Kong He has always been calm and calm, and even a little withdrawn, when he began to see Yantian, he still had a wooden expression, and everyone wanted to praise him for his qualitative nature, who expected him to stay for a while, and suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed, laughed out loud, laughed breathlessly, and laughed until the sky was dark, as if he was going to laugh hoarsely, and finally slowly stopped laughing, but by that time, he was already in tears, and even the clothes on his chest were soaked.

"This fucking salt-swallowing thing is all for Lao Tzu to spit out."

Xu Zixian couldn't help it this time.

It doesn't matter if he sees someone rolling in the salt pool, it doesn't get dirty anyway, and he can't stand it when someone stuffs a big handful of salt into his mouth in this life.

The next arrow step rushed up, first kicked the laughing Zhang Xiande down, then jumped off the salt pool, pulled up all those who ate salt, and then crackled and beat until the other party spit out the salt.

"You're going to die!"

Xu Zixian was furious and scolded: "Can you eat this salt like this, do you want to die?" ”

Everyone was scolded by him, but no one showed an unhappy look, one by one, they were still smirking.

"Junhou, this is so happy, so happy." Zhang Xiande, who was rolling in the salt pile, was already snow-white, and when he got up, the salt fell one after another, just like snow, he grinned and smiled at Xu Zixian: "Junhou, from childhood to adulthood, I know that I have to chop firewood, boil it in a cauldron, boil, boil, boil until people's eyes are red, the whole body is black, and I keep coughing. It's still rough, the particles are large, and the taste is not very good...... Junhou, I have eaten well salt, and the green salt is indeed fine, and the refined salt boiled out of sea salt is also very fine, but it takes a lot of effort. Junhou, this salt of yours, this salt ......"

Zhang Xiande was stunned again when he said this.

He didn't finish what he said, but someone else said it, Li Yi said solemnly: "This salt of the prince is fine, just like the refined salt that has been boiled, no, it is better than refined salt, it is the appearance of the well salt in Shanxi and Gansu, this, this is really too incomprehensible."

"Our ancestors have been around for generations, why didn't they think of drying salt like this?"

"Alas, how many generations of suffering have I suffered in vain."

"It can't be said that they eat for nothing, they are not blessed to meet our princes."

"That's right, it's all the princes and the princes!"

In the end, everyone actually attributed it to Xu Zixian's great blessings. Speaking of which, these stove households really have no way to explain the changes in the salt pool.

"Junhou, may you be a prince for all generations, and the official family will give you the promotion of the prince and worship the king, and the hereditary reckless children and grandchildren are endless!"

Zhang Xiande read for about two days, and immediately knelt down, banging his head, and while snorting, he was blessed.

At this time, more and more people are pouring into the salt pond or standing on a high place to watch.

The salt pond with a radius of several miles has not changed much elsewhere, only in the crystallization pool, all of which are white and flowery!

These salts, snow-white and fine, are like a handful of fine sand in your hand, and as soon as your fingers are loosened, the salt falls straight down.

Soft, delicate and white.

Many people are fascinated, kneeling in the salt pool, holding the salt up with their heads down, letting go and putting it down, holding it again, putting it down again, and so on and so on, and so on.

Xu Zi also shook his head and sighed when he saw it first, in fact, it is no wonder that these people are so embarrassed, they have been by the sea for generations, although they are not stove households, but boiling sea salt is also a livelihood passed down from generation to generation by their ancestors.

And aside from these cooks who boil salt, except for officials like Li Yi, how can ordinary people be so easy if they want to eat salt?

A day's income may not be enough to buy a pound of salt, and the whole family, sometimes not only can't eat enough belly, but even salt can't be eaten normally.

What a difficult and difficult thing it is, the light and tasteless porridge of wild vegetables is the staple food of this era.

People who rely on the sea to eat the sea have never been able to afford to eat salt, and then they realized that they were squatting in front of Baoshan every day without knowing it.

This psychological impact is too strong.

The ocean is the real resource bonanza, fishing is certain, before Xu Zi crossed first, these Fujian people were reluctant to eat their own fish, all of them were picked to the market town to sell, because it was too close to the sea, there were many fishers, and the sea fish could not be sold at a good price.

It's a joke to say, people who rely on the sea, but those seafood eat very little, basically for a lifetime, that is, very few times.

In such a pond in front of me, only twenty or thirty people are responsible for putting brine, draining, pushing crystals, and drying repeatedly, and the result is the salt of this large pool. Looking at it this way, such a large salt pond is at least tens of thousands of catties of production, and at least 2,000 to 3,000 stones.

Shovel it out, and then lead the brine from the evaporation pond into the crystallization pool, and then wait for the crystallization to produce salt.

Such a fast, convenient, and trouble-free way, just imagine, how much salt does this salt pond produce in a year? Build more than a dozen or twenty such salt ponds, how much salt will come out this year?

Thinking about it like this, everyone has different expressions, and the expressions on their faces are changing again and again.