After a day of detailed understanding of Liu Fan has a deep understanding of Shihe Salt Farm and Daming Salt Industry, Liu Fan locked himself in the house at night, thinking hard about how to find a way out of the large network of power compiled by Daming salt merchants and civil official groups, just one night Liu Fan did not have the slightest clue, for Liu Fan, who was still an otaku a year ago, it was too difficult to fight wits and courage with these huge "carnivorous groups" to fight their wits and courage from the impossible, and to grab food!

Liu Fan also deeply felt the lack of talents under his subordinates, except for a group of big bosses, there was no one to negotiate. With the limited knowledge of those soldiers in the Broken Army, it is impossible for Liu Fan to let them give advice. At this time, Liu Fan discovered a very important problem, that is, he did not have an overall plan for the future. The main thing is that there is no talent to recruit, and no talent is willing to defect to him. Liu Fan lacked a guide who was familiar with the operation and struggle of Ming officialdom, which caused him to be unable to open the gap for a long time now, and he was completely passive.

Early in the morning, Liu Fan, who was red-eyed, pushed open the door and called Li Xiaohu, the captain of the personal army, and asked him to send someone to notify the Broken Army to pull out the camp and transfer the whole camp of the Broken Army to Shihe Salt Farm. Li Xiaohu called the herald and asked him to take Liu Fan's warrant to go to inform him, and then looked at Liu Fan's bloodshot eyes and had not slept all night, and asked worriedly, "My lord!" Are you alright? ”

Liu Fan glared at him and said angrily, "What's the matter with me!" Notify me when the Breakers arrive! After saying that, he closed the door again with a "bang". The dumbfounded Li Xiaohu didn't dare to disturb Liu Fan, so he had no choice but to wait anxiously at the door.

Liu Fan locked himself in the house again not thinking about how to break the situation, he had already thought about it, since there was no good way to open the situation, then break the situation with force, and use the most brutal method to open the situation. Liu Fan took out the salt-making methods of later generations that he had copied before, and studied them carefully. Since Liu Fan's mobile phone had no signal when he crossed over, all he kept on his mobile phone were some common sense things that he was interested in before and some small amount of historical information. Something a little technical is not at all. And the phone is already out of battery! With the current technology, it is completely useless, and has become a "brick", Liu Fan just left it as a sovir.

About two hours later, Li Xiaohu knocked on the door and said, "My lord! The Broken Army has now arrived at the Stone River Salt Works! Adults go and see! ”

Liu Fan woke up suddenly, pushed open the door and said, "Let's go!" Come with me! ”

Liu Fan took Li Xiaohu and other personal soldiers to a clearing in the Shihe Salt Field, and at this time, the Broken Army had already assembled, and they were standing neatly under the scorching sun waiting for Liu Fan's order! Liu Fan nodded with satisfaction and said, "Hmm! Very good! This time, it only took more than an hour from receiving the order to setting off. It seems that you are not wasting training these days! Right now! I command! The barracks surround the Shihe Salt Works! Set up checkpoints to guard all the traffic arteries in and out! No one is allowed to enter or leave without my orders! Wu Tao, who had been promoted to general, immediately received the order and began to act with the Broken Capture Army to carry out Liu Fan's orders.

At this time, Liu Fan turned his head to the shocked Ding Lu and said, "Ding Inspection!" Pass my orders! Convene a meeting of all salt workers and stove households! "Ding Lu should be in a hurry!

Half an hour later, Liu Fan stood on the high platform and looked at the panicked stove households below and announced: "Everyone may not know me!" So let me introduce myself first! This official is the new deputy envoy of the Jiaolai Salt Transportation Division! Take charge of the tax collection of all the salt works in Jiaolai! Now I have the final say in the Shihe Salt Farm! Starting today, Shihe Salt Works will cancel all salt boiling and drying work, and implement a new salt drying method! ”

Liu Fan's words were like a thunderbolt, exploding between the stove households! The stove households suddenly panicked! There was a lot of discussion, and suddenly the scene was noisy, and some bold stove households plucked up the courage to ask, "My lord! What do we do without boiling salt! What to do with the salt class task of the imperial court? And if you dry the salt, if there is no harvest in the rain, the court will blame it, but you will have to cut off your head! Ask the adults to be kind and give the little ones a way to live! The stove households below echoed in unison, and the black pressure fell to their knees.

Seeing this, Liu Fan said, "Everyone get up!" This official has obtained a very advanced method of drying salt! This time I came to Shihe Salt Farm to get His Majesty's permission to experiment with new methods! If something happens, the official will bear it! I can't blame you at all! All you have to do is do what you order! ”

The stove owners stood up in disbelief! I still can't fully believe Liu Fan's words!

Liu Fan was also a little helpless when he saw this! He had no choice but to say, "Then you can continue to make salt according to the previous method!" I'll send someone to find a place to experiment in a moment! When you see the results, you will naturally believe what the official says! It's all gone! Seeing the suspicious looks of the stove households, Liu Fan didn't want to force these poor stove households to do it according to their own methods! I had to mobilize 500 heavy soldiers from the Broken Army to serve as labor!

Liu Fan is ready to use the flat beach method of the later generations to dry salt, and the flat drying method is to introduce seawater into a large tidal flat, use sunlight and wind to evaporate, and do not add any additives in the drying process.

The whole sea salt flat drying method is actually very simple, first of all, dig ten large salt pans, these ten salt pans are from high to low, to ensure that the seawater of the previous salt pan can be introduced into the next salt pan, and the salt pans can start to dry salt after digging! The first step of the flat beach method is to absorb the tide, and if the weather is good, the salt workers will introduce the early tide of sea water into the salt pans in the morning. The salt content of seawater, also known as seawater concentration, has a proper term - Baumé. When seawater is introduced into the salt pans, the concentration is about 3 Baumé degrees, that is, about 3 kilograms of sea salt can be dried for every 100 kilograms of seawater in the pool.

The second step: brine production, seawater evaporates in the first salt pond for one day, the second salt pond is introduced into the second salt pond to continue evaporation, and then introduced into the third salt pond on the third day, and so on; By the time the sea enters the 9th salt pond on the 9th day, the salt pond is almost saturated! The 9th salt pond then evaporates for one day, and the 10th salt pond is introduced to start the final brine production.

Step 3: Crystallization, brine crystallization will occur in the 10th salt pool, different from the first 9 salt pools, when the brine enters the last salt pool, white salt will appear, and the salt will reach a certain thickness in the crystallization pool, and the salt can be collected. From the introduction of seawater to the crystallization of salt, the drying cycle of sea salt is about 12 days, and a salt pond can produce 6 tons of salt, that is, 12,000 catties. According to the "Brief Table of Calculation of the Evolution of the Balance System in China", it is recorded that 1 jin of the Song and Yuan dynasties was 633 grams, 1 jin of the Ming Dynasty was 590 grams, 596.8 grams of the Qing Dynasty, and 500 grams of the Republic of China. Therefore, the unit converted to the Ming Dynasty is about 10,000 catties! That's more than fifty stones. There are about more than 1,000 acres of salt ponds in Shihe Salt Farm, and if all of them are renovated, Liu Fan can probably get nearly 100 salt pans. After all the transformations are completed, Liu Fan can get ten to twelve salt-producing ponds. It can produce nearly 600 stone of salt every day, which is 18,000 stone a month. This salt is not the coarse salt of the Ming Dynasty, but the sea salt that is very close to the later generations. If it is sold to a private salt merchant at a price of 200 wen per catty of refined salt, then Liu Fan will make a profit of 940,000 taels per month. Nearly a million taels! One month can be compared to the income of Daming Salt Administration for a year! Actually? The average selling price of Daming coarse salt is as high as 300 Wen! The refined salt is close to a pound of silver! What a huge profit! Liu Fan just takes 20% of it, and has an annual income of nearly 10 million taels! Liu Fan suddenly went a little crazy!

Thinking of this, Liu Fan's eyes were full of blood, and he began a vigorous salt pan renovation project with heavy soldiers, and after several days of hard work, Liu Fan finally completed the transformation of nearly 20 salt pans.