Chapter 254: A Long Way to Go

At noon the next day, when everyone saw the little grains of salt on the soil, the whole person was not good.

Only..... It's that simple? This is the legendary magic skill? I didn't think of that!

It's really that simple, save salt in the mud, as long as you keep repeating this process, it doesn't take a few waves, and when the amount of salt reaches a certain level, you can use a small shovel to collect it, and you can also pour clean water into it, so that people keep stepping on it with their feet, and what comes out is almost pure salt water, and separating salt water is much easier than separating sea water.

I have to say irony, it's such a simple method, the Chinese people have been boiling salt for more than 5,000 years, no salt worker has ever thought of it, but when all the salt pans in the Ming Dynasty used such a new method, no one knows who invented this method.

Only then did everyone understand why Qin Hao never revealed half a word of the salt-making magic technique as if he was precious, because this method could not be concealed at all, as long as the sun began to dry here, I am afraid that within half a month, this method would be known to the whole world, and any family could learn the same.

The Sky Rats were the first to sprang up, carefully plucking a large grain from the pile of dirt and putting it in its mouth, and then smiled ecstatically.

"Good! That's great! No worse than well salt. ”

It's not worse than well salt, but in just five words, there seems to be a strange magic, and in an instant everyone went crazy, where did everyone still have the image of the leader of the Green Gang, a swarm of bees pounced on it like a dog, pouting his ass and going into the salt mud to pick up salt and stuff it into his mouth, and even many people didn't even have time to blow the mud clean, laughing while spitting out mud cubes outside, how weird and weird the picture looked like Qin Hao also showed a knowing smile.

This kind of coarse salt produced by the ancient method, the quality is actually average, far from being compared with the modern vacuum process, the modern pure salt is not iodized before the general purity is more than 98%, here can reach 60% is good, it can barely be compared with the ordinary well salt, even the green smoke is inferior, but its cost and labor consumption is much less than the well salt, the most important thing is his output.

How many salt wells are there in the entire Central Plains? And if you draw the entire coastline, how many salt pans can you draw?

Of course, it does not mean that as long as it is by the sea, it is suitable to be a salt pan, if it is really like this, there is no need to mention any control, the choice of salt pans must be the kind of place with large high tide and big low tide, and it must be a place with good sunshine and little rainfall, the most ideal large salt pans are in these two Huai areas, which is also the reason why the Ming Dynasty specifically collected salt taxes in the two Huai areas, as for the salt fields in other places because they are not large, they are actually very difficult to manage, and this is how private salt comes.

Basically, it is impossible to plant crops in places suitable for encircling salt pans, but since the imperial court wants to control them in patches, it is natural to move all the nearby residents away, although it is not much to harvest from saline-alkali land, but the people of the special country have such a ability, not to mention saline-alkali land, desert and high mountains can let him grow crops.

Before, Qin Hao had asked Cheng Huaimo to start part of the demolition work with the power of their family, but the factory in Yangzhou was delayed, and a large number of people still could not be resettled, and as long as the crops in the field were confiscated, no one was willing to abandon the field, so the progress of the demolition work was too slow and slow, and even 10,000 mu had not been cleared out after a few months.

"Brother Xu, I'm afraid we don't have time to do that meticulous work, after the simple training of the Yangzhou government soldiers, you work hard, personally take charge of all the work of the demolition, all the official positions above the captain level along the Lianghuai coast report directly to you, and all the salt fields must be cleared out within a month after the autumn harvest!" In the future, these government soldiers will be responsible for guarding the salt fields in the future. ”

This work is undoubtedly very hard, Xu Jie is not afraid of hard work, but he can't help frowning and sighing: "If you are in such a hurry... I'm afraid, a lot of people will die. ”

Qin Hao also felt the same way, and couldn't help but feel lonely for a while, so he had to sigh and say: "Brother Xu, Ci is not in charge of the army, this is not only about the Qing Gang, about the navy, but even about the centennial national fortune of my Tang Dynasty, the rise and fall of the nation for a thousand years, at this time, I can't be soft-hearted, I will get money as soon as possible to do the resettlement fee, and the officers who dare to be greedy for the people's resettlement fee will be punished by military law, but those people who are unwilling to move after the resettlement fee are paid。。。。。 Catch it. ”

"Okay, I understand the reason, we are soldiers, and we just do our best to obey the destiny of heaven."

Everyone listened to the conversation between Qin Hao and Xu Jie at this time, and they were all a little embarrassed for a while, and the mood that was crying with joy just now instantly turned to a low level, and they all expressed their willingness to donate money again, even if they were bankrupt, they would support this great cause, and all the gangs of the Green Gang naturally fully supported it.

Just like Xu Jie said, doing one's best and obeying the destiny of heaven is by no means an easy project, and if you compare it with the Manchu Qing Dynasty's sea relocation order a few years later, the scope of his salt field is actually not too much worse than that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Qin Hao still remembers that this period of history is commented on: 'On the same day, the wife and children were carried on the road, placed in their rooms, set on fire, and left no stones. More than half of the people died, and the pillow was painted. That is to say, those who can go to the interior have no food for the stones, and starvation is already at present.'"

Translated, more than half of the people who moved to the sea died, and 12 out of 12 people who did not die were about to starve to death. (Hehe, Kangxi Shengjun)

Qin Hao is naturally not a Tartar, this is the people of his own family in the Tang Dynasty, if he really wants to do such a thing, no one will be able to protect him at that time, and it may not be impossible to divide the corpse of five horses, but this kind of thing, from the central government to the locality, from the order to the execution, has always been a thousand miles away, did Kangxi think that it would be so miserable when he ordered to move to the sea? There should be no, Qin Hao may not be as good as Kangxi in terms of ability, what he can do is not much than to earn as much resettlement fees as possible for the people of Yantian.

"It's handed over to Brother Xu, when Brother Xu was in Luoyang, millions of victims could be appeased by us, I don't believe that our brothers will not be able to complete this enclosure together."

Xu Jie turned his head and looked at Qin Hao with a smile, at this moment, the two of them really found a little bit of the feeling that they were still carrying a million burdens when they first entered Luoyang City last year, stretched out their hands and clenched them into fists, Qin Hao also smiled and stretched out his fists and touched them powerfully, this is the posture that Qin Hao brought from the afterlife, and they often cheered themselves up like this last year when they were bottomless.

An autumn wind blew, rolling up the ground and cooling.

"It's windy, it's time to get to work."