"Very good, let's get started!"

At the sound of King Pulun's order, more than 200 workers gathered tools around a huge wooden hut at the same time, and began to build a salt-making prop called "Zhuo Tube Well" according to the drawings that King Pulun had designed for them before.

Zhuo tube well is an upright thick bamboo tube to absorb the salt well, "digging the ground to plant bamboo, for the Zhuo tube well", invented in the Northern Song Dynasty Qingli period (AD 1041 ~ 1048), more than 800 years earlier than the West. Its caliber is only the size of a bamboo tube, but it can drill wells as deep as dozens of zhang, and is known as "the fifth great invention in ancient China".

Zhuo tube well, mainly rely on three technologies, round blade file, surface casing, fan mud tube. The mud fan is equipped with a one-way valve, which is the first one-way valve in the world. With these three techniques, the salt well can be drilled deeper and deeper.

The workers were divided into three batches, each with their own duties, and although they were working in the same place, their tasks were completely different. The first group of people was responsible for making tsuò tsutsui, and the second group was responsible for building "salt cars". And this kind of salt car is not the kind of vehicle that transports salt, but a kind of brine can be drawn out of the well, the brine is turbid, the general concentration is 7~10 degrees, such brine salinity, low fuel consumption, high cost. In order to raise the brine concentration to 18~20 degrees, the production tools of drying brine support frame and dam drying brine were produced.

There were a lot of problems in the process of making zuò, because it was the first time that Tianxiang, the tool used to make this kind of salt making, had done so. Originally, the process of making zuò salt did not need to be so complicated, and if Tianxiang wanted to, it was possible to use the distillation method of boiling seawater to extract sea salt, but the salt extracted by this method was no different from other salts of this era.

If the city wants to sell items to the outside world, it must be completely ahead of the times in a certain field, so as to create a monopoly market and make huge profits.

Most of the salt flowing in the medieval market is mainly flower salt (poor salt quality and uneven color), if the royal city of Pulon can burn snow-white pot salt through guò this tool, then the salt of the royal city of Pulon will undoubtedly sweep the entire British salt noodle market in one fell swoop, coupled with the two-pronged export of weapons, the economy of the royal city will increase wildly at a double value.

Now, more than 80 workers are building a long dam, usually 60 meters long and 20 meters wide, on a vacant lot in the harbor. The shelf is generally about 30 meters long, 5 meters high, the structure is like a figure-eight shape, the wooden bucket is pierced, the slats are covered with spotted bamboo or wooden boards, and the top is made of a "heavenly boat". The boat is 10 meters long, 1 meter high, 15 meters wide, the boat is placed in the middle of the top end of the shelf, and the bottom of the boat has an empty bamboo tube that stretches to both ends of the strul, and the bamboo tube has irregular small eyes. On one side of the bracket, there is a tube car, which looks like a triangular dome, about 6 meters high, and is worn by a horizontal axis in the middle.

Bamboo tubes are placed on the outer ring of the waist bottom, each about 30~50 cm long. And install a wooden board on the inner ring of the waist bottom, and people walk around on the board to promote the rotation of the garden cover, and transport the small bamboo tube on the brine pass guò cover in the ship-shaped pit of the dam to the heavenly boat, and the small eye of the long bamboo tube connected to the bottom of the brine through the guò heavenly boat is dispersed, and then input into the filter cylinder for filtration.

This kind of stuff that sounds complicated is even more troublesome when it actually works.

On several occasions along the way, Intertek intended to stop this laborious and time-consuming project. However, in retrospect, the salt produced by this method is not only of high quality, but also of low cost, and more importantly, the time can be greatly shortened. Therefore, Tianxiang gritted his teeth and forced to mobilize manpower from all over the country to build "Zhuo Tube Well".

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June 21, 1st year of the first year of Puren.

July 21, 1086 A.D.

Over a period of more than three months, King Pullen invested a total of 1,147 manpower in the emerging port town of "Ronagunk" and now known as "Pandora Harbour City", and three groups took turns to alternate between King Pulon and Pandora Harbour City.

Finally, after more than a dozen failures and re-attempts, the city of Pleon completed all the development and construction of the Zhuo Tsutsui process, and trained the first batch of "salt-making" laborers who were proficient in this technology. And now Zhuo Tube Well has begun to gradually put into production, the first batch of salt should be able to be harvested in a few days, salt workers predict that the first batch of salt harvest should not be high, after all, it is the first production can have more than 200 catties or so, but this amount should gradually increase in the future.

At the same time, there has been a marked increase in the number of foreign trade vessels in the harbour city of Pandorari in recent years.

Under the blue sky, white waves rolled.

Boats lavishing alum slowly approached from Ireland on the other side of the island, first revealing a small black dot from the intersection of heaven and earth, and then a fleet of three or four ships drifted across the ocean to Pandora.

The harbor city of Pandora has been transformed into a city with a giant port, but the port was over-expanded during the construction process, and the living space of the town itself was squeezed. The king had no choice but to order the builders to make some of the houses into "stilt houses".

A special kind of house built on the sea level with wood and brackets, most people didn't like this kind of off-ground house at first, but as they got used to it, they gradually liked this kind of house. Over time, a month or two later, it has become a distinctive feature of Harbour City.

When the sun sets, the tall and low stilt houses built next to the harbor are lit up as it falls, and the torches illuminate the huge port as bright as day.

On the far right side of the harbor lies the largest building in Pandora, a marine lighthouse and a shipyard. Its thirteen-meter-high lighthouse is lit with blazing firewood, which acts as a beacon in the dark night, guiding the direction of the drifting ships that have traveled for nearly a kilometer nearby.

The Glory Rose Banner of the Puron Kings fluttered in the sea breeze, and about two hundred City Guards (reserves) stationed in the harbor patrolled the docks.

They wore the same standard armor as the October Legion of the Puron King, but the weapons they used were mainly long knives. This new type of knife made by the Weapons Development Bureau, a subordinate department of the Iron Department of the King of Pulun, is a reference to the ring knife of the Han Dynasty, (needless to say, it must be a good thing done by Tianxiang...) The blade is large and steady, and the back of the knife is thick and conducive to chopping, especially in places like ports, where it is difficult to carry out large army battles, there is no better weapon than a large knife that is conducive to chopping.

The Guards were actually slaves who worked as coolies on the docks, and after the capture of Pandora by King Pullen, these slaves were pardoned by King Pullon and given them the same treatment as civilians, but with the requirement that they receive military training in King Pullon and become loyal guards of the harbor city of Pandora.

In the beginning, the number of Pandora guards was only a few hundred people, but with the gradual increase in the number of ships coming and going in recent times, from three or four a day to more than fifty ships a day in and out of Pandora, the new and prosperous port brought a large amount of taxes to the city of Pulun, and also brought many low-cost slaves.

The city of Pulon bought more than 500 able-bodied slaves for about two hundred gold coins, but this time the city did not immediately give them the same treatment as the first slaves to become residents of Puron, but instead forced them to participate in military training, but also undergo a lot of brainwashing education and the terrible consequences that they would face if they betrayed the city.

These slaves would then join the Guards on a time-based basis, and each slave would have to serve for five years before they could qualify as a junior resident of the Puron King's City, and then for the next five years they would begin to receive wages, housing, and approval from the regular Puron people.

In order to strengthen the management of these slaves, King Pullen knew that it was not enough to give grace and power, but also needed a certain amount of monitoring to firmly grasp the movements of these slaves. Therefore, King Pullen mobilized the first group of slaves who had deliberately pardoned in order to appease the civilians in the city, and scattered more than 100 people and placed them in the city guard composed of slaves to serve as captains or centurions.

King Pullen took advantage of the gratitude and support and trust of the first slaves to him, and at the same time made them clearly realize how lucky they were, while holding the actual right to enjoy the treatment and life of ordinary people without any difference, and then this group of people will willingly work for him for his use.

After the formation of the city guard, the security of the port was greatly improved, and at the same time, the king of Pulon once again issued a six-month tax reduction declaration, all ships entering the port of Pulon Pandora, as long as they wrote their names and various information and names of the ships on the "register" of the city of Pulun, they could become the preferential objects of the royal city of Pulon to be exempted from some taxes.

This news is simply a blessing from heaven for those merchant ships coming and going, originally Pandora Port has always been a transportation hub and transit point for maritime trade, and now the tax reduction policy is implemented, and the merchant ships and fleets that come and go every day have been increased from more than 50 to more than 200 in one breath, directly reaching the maximum throughput of Pandora Port in and out of merchant ships in a day!

While the merchants were marveling at the greatness and generosity of King Pullen, three new bars opened in the port of Pandora. The location of these three taverns is very interesting, as they are located in each of the three directions of the dock port, one in the southern port, which is mainly used for human traffic, one in the north, where trade is carried out, and finally in the small port, which is mainly occupied by small fishing boats.

Except for the tavern called "The Seventh Day", which was opened in a small port and was really opened for fishermen who left the port every day at sunrise and returned with a load of seafood at sunset, the other two were ......

The port tavern opened in the northern port and aimed exclusively at merchants was called "Forest of the Night". There are a total of thirteen members of the first section of the intelligence department of the King City of Pullen, and these members are Xiao Si in the tavern during the day, and the porter is the scout of the intelligence department at night, and they are all composed of orphans aged 13~18 without exception.

And the boss in charge of running the Night Forest is ostensibly an honest middle-aged man, but in fact he is one of the members of the Praetorian Guard of the October Knights of King Pullen, and he is the direct personal guard of the King of Pullen! In addition to being the king's eyes and ears, and delivering to the king every week the news that the scouts had heard from the merchants, he was also primarily responsible for protecting the scouts, for which the king of Pullen gave him a token to mobilize the city's guards.

Another tavern is called "Haitao", which is dedicated to mercenaries and slave traders who travel from various places, and is also staffed by members of the Second Section of the Intelligence and Investigation Bureau, a group of well-trained members of the October Legion reservists, and a team of Praetorian Guards. Because most of the conversation here is related to the military and human trafficking, and the slave owners and mercenaries are not good at themselves, the members of Pullen here are all from the military, and the ones selected are also smart and clever.

Unlike the Night Forest, which is mainly aimed at commercial intelligence spying, Haitao is a military intelligence agency.

Intelligence, military, and commercial things that were lacking in the royal city of Pleon, all of which were gradually emerging in the harbor city of Pandora.

However, this is not enough.

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Early the next morning, at the recruitment announcement at the port.

It is a huge wooden plank set up at the intersection of the pier, and there is no published text or information on the board. Only a young man, holding a huge amplified voice in his hand, stood on a small wooden board and vigorously shouted job postings to busy people.

"Propagandist of the Marine Bureau of King Pullen, Chuck! Recruit everyone who is proficient in the craft of shipbuilding and has a lot of experience in sailing! No matter how old you are! Regardless of past experiences! Slaves and civilians alike can join! Our Oceanic Bureau has to recruit a total of 30 shipwrights and 10 experienced captains. We will provide you with boats, food, salaries and accommodation! But joining us relatively means that you abandon your previous identity, race, nationality, and your original identity! If anyone wants to have enough to eat, who wants to live in a comfortable house, who wants to live in a city protected by an army, come and join us! Valid from the time the announcement is launched until next year! ”

"I repeat again! The Maritime Department of Puren is recruiting ............ from all over the British Isles"

The royal city of Puren.

This previously unheard name is sweeping through the British Isles in a terrifying way that has never been seen before in just three or four months!

Whether it's a caravan sailing on the sea, or a merchant walking on land. They all became self-propelled mobile advertisements promoting the royal city of Pullen, starting in Yorkshire, the closest to the royal town of Pullen, then reaching Crosslyn and then to London......

The island of Ireland, Wales, and even Scotland began to hear the unfamiliar name.

The merchants passed on everything they saw in the harbor city of Pandora, the group of city guards dressed in uniform equipment, the powerful knight order with nearly a hundred heavily armed knights, and the thriving port, where the endless docks were full of ships from all over the world.