Weizhou, Haicang Town, Xiapu Xiaogang, the offshore fishing fleet belonging to the Changyi Labor Battalion is returning to the shore in the hunting sea breeze.

Throughout the winter, there were three or four hundred seagoing vessels of all kinds and sizes that were collected from the coastal ports in Tongguò Town, most of which were inshore fishing boats that were not suitable for long-distance sailing, so they were reorganized according to the distribution of traditional coastal ports and fishing areas, and more than a dozen special offshore fishing groups and corresponding fleets were re-organized, and under the guidance of some local people, they went out to sea to find fish information and carry out operations.

Obviously, this harvest is not bad, or rather, because of the long-term coastal turmoil and foreign invasion, the offshore fishing industry has been abandoned for a long time, so when the fishing season resumes, after the first few unfamiliar conditions and errors in judgment and empty nets, it can be said that the fish news is very rich.

Therefore, compared with the agricultural production teams on land, which took several days to harvest, they and the nearby salt works team were undoubtedly the fastest and the first to achieve initial self-sufficiency and surplus in the production movement with the goal of self-sufficiency under the leadership of the Liuzhou Zhenfu Prefecture.

Under the scorching sun, these sturdy men, whose skin was blackened by the sea breeze, and whose faces were flushed, began to be carried down from the ships of the sea into baskets, like lively catches.

Some of the smaller trash fish were left behind as food and supplements for the local labor corps, and a few of the more intact catches were carefully placed in dug seawater pools, waiting to be loaded into trucks to be sent to Yidu for fresh goods.

The rest of the fish, shellfish, squid, shrimp and crabs were immediately sent to the nearby salt works, where they were cut and killed, cleaned, salted, baked, and dried for long-term storage, and then sent to Yidu and other places as important supplementary food and nutritional supplements for the garrisons and labor regiments in various places.

And among these sturdy men, there are still many neatly dressed and uniformly dressed people, all of whom are members of the former marine corps who have been detained, and unlike those operators and servants who have a complicated composition on the ships of the sailors, these thousands of sailors stranded in the coastal ports of the northern region are mainly from some remote prefectures, counties, and coastal areas of the island continent, and are hard-working fishermen.

Although there was some backlash and resistance to the fact that he was forcibly detained and detained by friendly forces, with the edict from the rear base camp, which confirmed the newly established Huaidong Zhizhi Road and the Liuzhou Suppression, the leadership and authority of the sea and land places had to accept the reality, and as the supplementary soldiers allocated by the national dynasty under the Huaidong Zhizhi Road, they were included in the domination sequence of the local garrison.

After a full amount of arrears of military salaries were paid, and the corresponding rations and basic benefits were given, even those who were disgruntled had no choice but to silence themselves and consider their own future in this new collective.

Of course, for a certain officer, it is a bit too wasteful for these marines who have taken into account a certain amount of surface and land combat capabilities to directly supplement the troops, so 2,000 Jianrui people were specially selected and organized into three water battalions, which were directly under the jurisdiction of the Zhenfu Prefecture, and were responsible for patrolling and policing the coastal areas on the basis of the few naval warships that were still detained in their hands.

After all, although the invasion from the East China Sea under the rule of the Southern Dynasty had stopped, as the coastal areas recuperated and recovered, the foreign feudal forces, pirates, and smugglers from the nearby Yellow Sea region and even active in the Bohai Sea still had to be on guard.

The rest were recruited into the Jiansheng Army and participated in the production activities of the labor camps along the coast. Therefore, they are familiar with this kind of offshore fishing work......

Similarly, in some places offshore, visible to the naked eye are figures holding small boats, which are using special hooks to salvage the shallow water wakame, staghorn and seaweed, and when the heavy pile of half a boat is full, they begin their journey.

Then the dried seaweed is dried on a special shelf, which is dried by the sun and the sea breeze into dry goods that are easy to carry and store, so that from a distance, one after another, the layers of seaweed are like gray-brown clouds, covering the rocky beach.

On the long tidal flats on the edge of the harbor, there are more women and children bent over, holding tools in the mudflats, digging clams and tide crabs, and filling the baskets behind them little by little.

Finally, it is concentrated, poured into a pot of boiling water and cooked, shelled and gutted off, and then spread on a plate and sieve to dry, it is a good seafood specialty, whether it is made into soup or eaten dry.

Then, according to the principle of keeping half of the fishery, half of the fishery harvest will be left in this group, except for the consumption required for daily life and the public reserve for emergency preparedness, the rest will be re-discounted and purchased by the public center.

Then, according to the contribution and contribution, each head will obtain some labor points called "labor points", which can be taken to the nearest cooperative, or the wandering trader's cart, and exchanged for some fruits and vegetables, meat, cloth, needlework, ironware, pottery and other daily necessities, and even sugar, salt, tobacco leaves, wine, etc., which are rare items that are extra daily distribution.

Or go a step further and redeem the ration rolls of the corresponding finished products such as clothes, hats, shoes, socks, bedding, etc., and then use them to trade with others in the spontaneous small and wild markets, and finally form the underlying circulation channels and categories of limited credit tokens.

Therefore, compared with the labor camps in the interior, which could only barely eat, these coastal fishing groups were generally higher living standards under the rule of the six states.

Of course, according to the salted fish sect leader of a certain plane, these people only need to have dried salted fish, so what more can they ask for.

And in the salt drying field not far away, there is a bright reflection of the sun everywhere, which is dazzling, so that people can only squint, wear a hat covered with a circle of homespun cloth, and work in the large salt pans.

With the shouts of opening the canals and opening the gates, accumulated in the large salt pans, the indigo sea water containing concentrated salt, under the drainage and irrigation of artificial means, washed through layer after layer of stepped drying grounds, and also quickly evaporated the excess water under the hot sun, leaving layer after layer of white flowers, with a certain blue-gray hue of coarse salt layer.

Although there are still a lot of impurities in the coarse sea salt produced by this new terraced method, it is much cleaner than the traditional boiling and stacking method, and can be directly used to marinate meat and fish, or as gray salt sold by salt dealers.

In order to reduce costs and increase profits, they often add all kinds of weight-increasing sundries to the private salt they sell. The more conscientious ones are mostly mixed with sea sand, while the worse ones are weighted with more delicate raw ash and white soil. And this is usually the only option that the lowest level of the general public can afford.

But here, these primary salts have to pass through at least two passes in the sedimentation tank before they can become relatively clean and white civilian fine salts, while the special salt used in the army must be filtered at least three times. On top of this, there are further deep-processed special ingredient salts, but they are products produced on a small scale.

In this way, the biggest investment is that the class drying field under the salt pan needs to use a large amount of special cement that is resistant to erosion and corrosion, and can also prevent seepage, to coat and level the bottom of the drying field, so as to obtain better results and harvests. The whole process is quite cumbersome, but once completed, it can be quite hassle-free and hassle-free.

The Changlu area itself is important in the north, and the Weizhou Haicang Salt Field, which is on the edge of the Changlu salt area, is no exception, because the relatively suitable sea tide and wind direction, as well as sufficient sunshine and geographical structure, and even the temperature and humidity, and the composition of seawater, are all indispensable basic elements for making sea salt.

Under natural conditions, the salt production of this kind of thing, is not like the later generations of online article Xiaobai described, just find a piece of land on the beach, dig a pond to fill it up, you can sit and wait for the salt to be dried, just the pollution of underground leakage caused by the inappropriate location, or a sudden high tide, is enough to make you work hard for a long time, all the previous efforts are wasted.

Otherwise, why did the ancients bother to boil the sea and boil salt, and they did not give up completely until modern times.

Because it is a suitable traditional salt farm, and new processes and management processes from later generations are adopted, the production of the re-restored salt works is also rising, and the coarse and fine salts of various grades are not only enough for the nearby states and counties, but also have some surpluses to enter the surrounding distribution channels.

In turbulent times, in addition to grain, salt is also a kind of circulation with a price preservation effect, and even under special circumstances, it can be used as a temporary substitute currency.

Similarly, brine residues, which have precipitated the main salts, are also important industrial raw materials and catalytic components, which are naturally collected and disposed of.

Standing barefoot on the embankment, stirring the somewhat white, cloudy brine with a long-handled spoon to allow it to evaporate and crystallize faster, and then scooping out the slag-like extracts, Li Xianzhong was undoubtedly one of them, and he had been in this labor camp for more than three months.

His real name is Li Shifu, and his ancestor is a native of Yanzhou, Kansai, and he belongs to a local junior general. It was only when his father's generation was in the struggle of the local factions and lords that his childhood was almost spent in repeated tossing and turning, until with a man who had lost his territory, the Yansui Army, from the many Western Army sequences, came out of the rule of the Luodu Imperial Court, and was able to settle down in Haizhou again and marry the locals.

Therefore, he can be regarded as half of Haizhou, but compared to those military commanders and their deployments, he can often change with the interests and situations of the position and attitude, after experiencing the upheaval and tossing and turning of childhood, he is a rare outlier.

Because he is tired of this tradition of frequent changes of court, he thinks that this is the root cause of the troubled times, and he cares and values the righteousness of the Luodu court, as well as the honor of loyalty and other martial artists. Therefore, it was easy to get out of the place and get the appreciation from the Luodu side, and was summoned to give the six-rank background, and was promoted to enter the martial arts training, and thus changed his name to Xianzhong.

Then, as an important chess piece, as the new patrol soldier and horse envoy, he returned to Qingxu Town, where his family is located, and began his new future and ambitions.

However, his ambitions and ideals were soon destroyed by the tide of the Southern and Northern Expeditions, and he became one of the fiercest resistance to these invaders who destroyed and seized their homeland.

For this reason, he even did not hesitate to personally lead people to cover the road, ambushed and killed the secret envoy sent by the Southern Army, and cut off his superiors, and surrendered the back road and determination to lose sincerity. It's just that no matter how much effort and struggle he makes, it is difficult to resist the general trend of the Southern Army gaining the upper hand.

Qingxu Town, which has existed for hundreds of years, finally collapsed under the powerful offensive of the Southern Army, and even he and his subordinates were sacrificed to Kaecheng by the local soldiers and people and became prisoners of the Southern Dynasty.

However, he still did not give up, but escaped from the prisoner camp with his men and ran back to the control area of the Northern Army, for which he was promoted and appointed again as a model of a certain loyal and brave man, and became the commander of the periphery of the Bian army, and continued to fight on the front line of resistance to the invasion of the Southern Dynasties.

Until the city of Bianzhou was broken, he led people to break out of the siege desperately, and then witnessed the process of those southern troops slaughtering in the city and dyeing the Bianshui into a river of bright red blood near the outside of the city.

After the next few counterattacks and tug-of-wars, he was still inevitably defeated in the resistance and retreated all the way to the process and results of the war.

What made him even more disappointed was that under the current heavy pressure of the great enemy, the surviving military horses of all walks of life in the country were fighting for power and profit, and fighting each other, especially with the support of the Generalissimo's Office, the factional struggle even overwhelmed the imminent defense against foreign enemies.

And the imperial army in Jinai also used these remnants of foreign states more as consumables to preserve their own strength and replenishment after battle losses, and there was an obvious lack of respect and attention to these loyal and brave men who persevered all the way in many battles, so they were always arranged in the most dangerous and difficult places, but the treatment and supplements they received were the last.

As a result, when those famous or senior generals, and his old friends who were close to him, were forcibly driven to the forefront, and disappeared or disappeared in the enemy tide one after another, Li Xianzhong gradually despaired of the current Luodu court, which was no longer the court for which he could die and fight.

Coupled with some unbearable things that happened later, he finally made up his mind that he would no longer obey the orders of the imperial court and retreat to Luodu City to continue to resist, but to take the boat from the Yellow River in the north and run to the shore in Huazhou, and then turn south.

In the end, he hid the scattered rebels and bandits all the way, and fled back to his hometown in Haizhou with dozens of Haizhou children, only to find that his relatives no longer existed, and a "righteous army" was entrenched in the ruins of his home.

He was almost furious, and he led these remnant Haizhou disciples with grief and indignation, and rushed into these rebels who were at least ten times his size, killing three in and three out, and finally crushed this rebel army of hundreds of people, forcing down most of the remaining people.

Then, he got the news from the villagers who were hiding nearby that his parents had long since passed away, and his wife and children had gone out to avoid trouble. So finding his lost wife and children has become his current goal. But the vast sea of people and the troubled times, with his own body can be described as looking for a needle in a haystack,

At this time, the remaining villagers in the vicinity came out and begged him to lead Ding Zhuang of his hometown to organize a soil group to protect the township and the land. And he also needs enough people and resources to achieve his goals. So the two met, and they became one of the leaders of the many local militias.

Under his leadership, the armed local villagers kept fighting against the rebels who broke into the country after being broken up, expelling and attacking those rogue bandits who wandered the road, desperately resisting the raging Huma rangers, and even expelling and annexing those foreign groups that broke the banner of the rebels.

They fought against almost any armed force that tried to enter the territory of Haizhou. And because of this, he quickly grew up to become the most powerful one among them, and was able to preserve the countryside, and by the way, he found the meager hope of his wife and children, which also became his last life goal and motivation when he was discouraged.

But it seems that God is determined to fight against him, at this time, a southern army retreat to Huaishang once again swept the Qing and Yi prefectures in Huaidong, and even Haizhou, where he survived, was not spared, so those Tutuan armed forces that rose up one after another were also destroyed or surrendered under the strong suppression of this so-called "invincible" foreign military horse.

In the end, he could only be armed with several other Tu Regiments, with his subordinates who were unwilling to surrender, and retreated to Tianwu Fort to survive, looking forward to a turnaround and changes.

However, as the saying goes, where there are people, there will be selfishness and contradictions, especially when several armed families, which have always been in harmony with each other, have been forced to be trapped in a corner of the mountains for a long time, and need to compete for relatively limited water sources, rations, clothing, and other daily resources, disputes and infighting have become inevitable.

In the second half of the winter, the person who dominated the distribution within Tianwu Fort was changed several times in the internal strife that evolved into open and secret fighting. In the end, it still fell on Li Xianzhong, who had been staying out of the matter and being alone, but this no longer had much meaning, as the ice and snow melted in spring, the end of Tianwu Fort had finally arrived.

Originally, I thought that I would be able to resist a little bit according to the danger, and in the season when the opponent was tired and lax, I went all out to break through and come out of my destiny. But I never thought that the frontal forcible attack was just a feint to attack the east and the west. When he found out that the situation was not right, he was suspicious and decided to send someone back to defend the back mountain, but it was already a step too late.

Under the coercion of thousands of old and weak women and children behind the mountain, even with Li Xianzhong's consistent call and prestige, he could not ignore the wishes of the majority of the people and continued to resist forcibly. And he also has an unfulfilled wish, and he definitely can't end it here so lightly.

Then he found out that he had actually defeated one of the four great masters in the world, the famous Liangshan people, but he also felt that he was not very wronged, and Luo Qiqi, who led the army, showed him some kind of solicitation, but he refused on the spot.

Therefore, in the end, these people who were captured by the Tutuan were all sent to the salt works to be used as the heaviest labor and undergo daily transformation, which became the final disposition of the backbone and leaders of the Tutuan who had once been the king's master.

And a big leader of a local group like him, even in the process of labor reform, is the object of key supervision and detention. Therefore, his idea of trying to escape and continue to search for his family has never been able to take shape and come true.

Suddenly, on the vast salt pans, a line of dazzling sergeants with bright armor came over, even if the weather was hot and sweaty, but their clothes were still meticulous, and under the leadership of the superintendent, they went straight to the front of the embankment

"Which one is Li Xianzhong,"

The first big black man with a beard shouted loudly.

"Drop things and go with me."

Li Xianzhong couldn't help but sink in his heart, could it be that his past identity had already happened.