What happened today made Wei Shuo feel very depressed, and it also made him understand that nothing can be done overnight, and any success is inseparable from hard practical activities.

After seeing the salt pans washed away by the sea, Wei Shuo was thinking about reinforcing the salt pans with cement or other things. However, because the burning of cement was still far away, Wei Shuo had to think of another way. In fact, Wei Shuo didn't know that he did this to avoid a hidden danger.

After all, Wei Shuo had never personally experienced the life of the salt pan, but he did not know that in modern times, the bottom of the salt pan could not be laid with cement. If you use concrete to dry salt, the site will quickly be corroded by seawater. Once the salt pans are lost, it is difficult to recover.

Therefore, most of the salt people were built with sand, yellow mud and soil from the sea. But Wei Shuo didn't know the trick.

"Brother Wei, I heard from Da Lang that today's salt pans were washed away a lot?" Uncle Zhang looked at Wei Shuo, who was frowning, and couldn't help but comfort: "Little brother, it's not your fault that this matter is not your fault, and besides, hasn't it become a fifty acres of salt fields?" Our dealer is not so greedy, and having this bit of wealth is enough to make everyone happy. ”

"Alas!" Wei Shuo sighed and said: "I always feel that it is a bit like half the effort, although this can also produce salt, but after all, we can't expand the scale, and the output can't keep up, and at the same time, it is too affected by natural conditions, once we encounter extremely bad weather, all our hard work will be ruined." ”

Seeing that Wei Shuo said it so seriously, Zhang Laohan had no choice but to gather everyone together to think of a solution.

"Everyone has seen the salt pans today, and our lives in the future can all point to those salt pans, if it goes well, everyone will be able to live a worry-free life next year, which is all the credit of Brother Wei." Zhang Laohan has a good reputation in the valley, and after his words, everyone present immediately got up and saluted Wei Shuo, and Wei Shuo was so busy that he was moving around again and again.

"Although this salt pan has been built, there are also huge hidden dangers, just now I talked to Brother Wei, he said that the current salt pan is the most rudimentary one, and we have to build a more advanced salt pan in the future. This rudimentary salt pan's ability to resist natural disasters is too weak, and in the event of a violent storm, it is very likely to ruin our hard work. ”

"Ahh No way! What should we do? ”

"yes, we can't just sit idly by, can we?"

"Uncle Zhang, if you have any way, you might as well say it, I'll just do it."

"That's it, that's it, I'll just follow the arrangement."

"What are you arguing about! Is there anything you can't say one by one? Zhang Laohan's eyes widened, and he immediately suppressed the commotion at the scene, and then he pushed Wei Shuo out, after all, only Wei Shuo knew how to solve it.

After everyone saw Wei Shuo stand up, they all quieted down, for this young man who taught everyone to dig salt fields, he was now very popular in the valley.

"Ladies and gentlemen, although the salt pans have been built now, our salt pans are easily washed away by the sea because of the lack of reinforcement materials, so I hope everyone will use their brains to think of a way to see what can strengthen the terraces."

Wei Shuo's words suddenly made everyone fall into deep thought, at first Wei Shuo didn't pay attention to everyone, or he felt that if he couldn't think of a solution as a modern person, then other ancient people couldn't come up with a good solution.

But the reality taught Wei Shuo a good lesson, the ancients said: 'one person counts short, two people count long', 'three stinkers race Zhuge Liang', and soon everyone proposed a series of strange solutions, among which Wei Shuo was most shocked by an old mason's proposal to use hydrated lime to reinforce.

At first, Wei Shuo really didn't think of using hydrated lime, it seems that some people's life experience is really not to be underestimated. Lime was widely used in ancient times, and it was already used in China in the seventh century BC. Tao Hongjing of the Southern Liang Dynasty once recorded: "Lime, now near the mountain raw stone, blue and white, as a stove burning, with water fertile, that is, hot steaming and dissolution." If the sex is intense, people drink it with alcohol, and they will have abdominal pain and diarrhea. The treatment of gold sores is also very good. ”

Of course, it is not possible to use lime directly, but with lime Weishuo, I think of Sanhe soil. In the era when there was no cement, triad soil should be the best building material. Sanhe soil, as the name suggests, is a kind of building material obtained by the preparation and tamping of three materials, and different regions have different triad soil, among which hydrated lime is indispensable.

After determining the direction, everyone immediately took action, although the hydrated lime is not easy to get, but at least compared to the cement that has no shadow, it is also a lot simpler. In the following period, everyone obtained some slaked lime by various means, although the amount was not large, but at least fifty acres of salt fields could be temporarily reinforced.

After solving the problem of Yantian, Wei Shuo set his sights on the construction of the escort team, and he knew the importance of armed struggle in troubled times. Didn't the great man also say: "Power comes out of the barrel of a gun!" ”

However, with the previous lesson, Wei Shuo now does not dare to act rashly, not to mention that this is still an area that he is not good at. In modern times, he did not receive systematic military training, but only participated in military training when he was in school, and most of his military knowledge came from the Internet, and he was not very sure whether he could withstand the test of practice.

The first was the choice of weapons, and after careful consideration, Wei Shuo decided to equip the escort with spears. The spear was chosen mainly because of its simplicity of production and the ease of availability of raw materials, and in ancient times, when forests were everywhere, wood was used to make spears everywhere.

In addition, Wei Shuo once read a YY novel on the Internet, in which the protagonist and his subordinates relied on a spear to stab the world, although there is a suspicion of exaggeration, but there is also a certain significance of borrowing. Perhaps Wei Shuo didn't know at this time that his move today laid the foundation for defeating the northern Hu cavalry in the future.

In fact, Wei Shuo didn't know that spearmen were a very effective type of troops in ancient warfare, and all the spears moved forward together to form an impenetrable wooden Great Wall, defeating all enemies in front of them with overwhelming momentum. The spearmen's main weapon was a long spear made of solid and durable wooden pillars, with a sharp tip of the spear, which was very effective against cavalry that won with speed

Historically, the Swiss spearmen are the most famous!

At the end of the 15th and 16th centuries, the Swiss spearmen were impressive on the battlefield. From 1445 to mid-1515 the Swiss spearmen were invincible, and the Habsburg, Burgundy, Swabian Union, Aragon and French armies were defeated at the hands of the Swiss, and the prestige of the spearmen reached its peak.

In the Battle of Laubory, 6,000 Swiss soldiers attacked the 12,000 Austrian soldiers besieging the city of Laupy, quickly routed the enemy infantry, and then raised their spears to fend off the Austrian cavalry coming from three sides. The heavy cavalry was helpless in the face of the spears and was quickly defeated by the troops who had slaughtered from the city of Laubi.

Of course, the spearman is not omnipotent, first of all, it has high requirements for the terrain, and in the absence of terrain to rely on, once surrounded by cavalry, it is very likely to be divided and destroyed, unless there are other arms on both flanks.

It took a week for Wei Shuo to prepare a hundred spears and thirty longbows for one hundred and thirty guards. Wei Shuo combined with the ancient army establishment, and organized these 130 people into one capital, two tuns, thirteen and twenty-six soldiers, one of which was spearmen and three archers.

In addition, in addition to training troops and drying salt, Wei Shuo was not idle, but led everyone to continue to boil salt and purify refined salt to sell, after all, this is the only source of income for everyone at the moment. Through this incident, Wei Shuo also found that boiling salt is not without advantages, at least it is not limited by natural conditions.

At the same time, Wei Shuo also secretly released news to salt farmers in other places through Second Uncle Yang, and purchased a large amount of coarse salt at a price higher than the market price. At first, no one dared to come to Laoshan to sell salt, but as people who were familiar with Uncle Yang came, and then they spread the situation in Laoshan, a large number of salt farmers began to secretly sell their coarse salt to Laoshan people.

With the coarse salt supply of retail investors, Wei Shuo was finally able to sell refined salt in a steady stream, and although this brought him countless wealth, Laoshan was increasingly exposed to the eyes of major forces in the outside world.

For a while, there was an endless stream of people from all walks of life who came to Laoshan to investigate, but fortunately, outsiders couldn't figure out the reality of Laoshan for a while, and it didn't bring any hidden dangers, but Wei Shuo also knew that the peace of Laoshan might not last long.