Let Xu Jie randomly select more than a hundred or so people from the patrol camp to be guards, and Qin Hao accompanied dozens of Qinggang hall masters to set off for the countryside shortly after eating.

"Liu Dashao, how far is it?"

"Come on, let's ride our horses, and we'll be here in half an hour."

Liu Da Shao is naturally the young master of the Liu family, after reaching a consensus on cooperation with the Liu family in Luoyang, he brought Liu Da Shao over on the grounds that he was not familiar with the south, after all, no one knows if this estrus buddy is not a good character, in case of repeated harassment of Xiao Cuiduo.

The eastern dependents of the Liu family settled in Xiangyang, although it is not close to Yangzhou for hundreds of miles, but it is also a family of the southern family, at least it can be regarded as half of the head snake, and the field they are going to see now is the original Yantian of the Liu family.

The craft of salt making has a history of at least 5,000 years, but there are too many impurities due to low efficiency, and there is still some gap between the real ancient salt making method, so the Liu family has a ready-made salt field, and it also saves Qin Hao a lot of things, he only needs to show the technology.

When they arrived at the place, the people of the Liu family had already waited respectfully under the leadership of the head of the family, and several cauldrons were boiling seawater.

Before the Ming Dynasty, salt was made by boiling the sea, simply put, the salt water after drying was put into the cauldron to boil, so the salt made almost no possibility of separating impurities, the bitterness in the taste was far greater than the salt, so in the Tang Dynasty, sea salt was not the mainstream salt acquisition channel, and the control was not very strict, most of the people still ate stone salt, lake salt, well salt, etc., sea salt is just a thing eaten by the poor people in the south.

"Actually, my method of making salt is quite simple, the reason why I haven't told you to keep it secret is not because of the technical secret recipe or anything, but I don't want to increase the difficulty when enclosing the field, now that it has been harvested in autumn, this time is almost the same, but after you see it today, you still have to control your mouth, the head of the Liu family, the fields are all their own people."

In fact, it is not difficult to understand, the enclosure and demolition are similar, just like if the local people know that the city government is going to move over, the difficulty and cost of demolition will naturally increase geometrically, and now it is very difficult enough, Qin Hao doesn't want to be sideways.

"Rest assured, Gang Master Qin, it's all our Liu family's own people, no matter what kind of magic skills you see today, it will only rot in your stomach, and no one will go out and chew a word."

"Okay, then I'll be wronged by you, there are many people, you can live near this salt pan for the time being."

“………………”

Mom, you didn't say you wanted to restrict our personal freedom before.

Seeing the reluctant appearance of the head of the Liu family, Qin Hao glanced at him with a smile, his eyebrows furrowed slightly, and seemed to ask again: Do you have an opinion?

The situation is stronger than people, the thicker the thighs, the more they are not held in vain, if you want to get a piece of the pie in this feast, you naturally have to pay the price, gritting his teeth, the head of the Liu family said simply: "It should be like this, it is all up to the Qin gang leader's orders." ”

Qin Hao smiled and nodded, as if appreciating the Liu family master's sensibility, then took off his shoes, limped to the edge of the salt pan, casually folded off a handful of straw and threw it on it to measure the concentration of these brines, took a few pokes and said, "Come, I'll show you a demonstration." ”

As he spoke, Qin Hao instructed the people of the Liu family to take out the brine and pour it into the mud for testing.

It has been said that all technical barriers in feudal society are a layer of window paper, which cannot be said to be entirely true, but at least in the matter of salt production.

Before the Ming Dynasty, people were taking salt from water, but never thought that salt could actually be taken from mud, which is also the biggest difference between boiling sea salt method and ancient salt method, directly pouring brine into the mud, by constantly turning over to improve the salt content in the soil, and finally the soil will naturally become salt mud over time, the higher the salt mud produced by the better the salt, although there is only new mud and no old mud, but it is enough to do experiments.

The head of the Liu family sent a few strong men with rakes used to turn over the crops, and kept churning the land that had just been poured with salt water, and then asked, "Then what?" ”

"And then? And then, oh, you guys prepared a banquet for us? It's embarrassing, we've all eaten it. ”

As soon as everyone heard Qin Hao say this, even the people of the Green Gang were stunned, what do you mean? That's it? Where's your magic skill? Where's your salt?

"Look at the day today, I guess it's noon tomorrow, as long as the guy who stirs is not lazy, you can see the salt, by the way, buddy, if you think it's dry when you stir, pour some brine, and you won't stop until the sun rises tomorrow morning, you know?"

The man's face was bitter, but he didn't dare to say anything, so he nodded aggrievedly, in fact, he was a descendant of the Liu family, although he was not diligent but he was actually a seedling of reading.

In fact, the real ancient method of drying salt naturally doesn't need to be stirred all the time, it's just a matter of drying it for two more days, stirring is to put it bluntly, it's just to exchange labor for time, for the speed of experimentation, after all, Qin Hao can't stay in this salt field for two or three days.

However, the real salt drying is not much easier than this man, because the salt mud needs to be constantly turned under the scorching sun, so Qin Hao's new method of drying salt is actually an out-and-out heavy physical work, especially in the absence of rubber boots, workers can only enter the field barefoot, this work will not be done for a few days A pair of feet will be wasted, and when they are old, salt drying workers will become lame nine times out of ten.

Qin Hao naturally told everyone about this, but everyone didn't think there was anything wrong with this, they all came from poor days, and in their opinion, the most worthless thing was the strength on their bodies, sacrificing a pair of feet in exchange for a hundred stones of salt, in their opinion, it was really a cost-effective thing.

Alas, poor man, thinking of this, Qin Hao was even more determined to build a big ship to Southeast Asia as soon as possible, as long as there was rubber, such a tragedy could actually be completely avoided.

However, if you want to build a big ship, you have to have money, and if you want to be rich, you need to have more salt pans, and if you want to have more salt pans, you need more salt workers, and this is really an unsolvable cycle.

That night, everyone rested after a simple drink of light wine, no one was in the mood to drink, and even few people really slept all night, the few salt-drying brothers were about to cry, and a group of bigwigs almost kept out every few minutes for a stroll throughout the night to make sure they were really not lazy.