The next day, the five hundred craftsmen were finally recruited, and after Lu An found out, he found Guo Jia.

"What is Taishou-sama looking for me? Say it in advance, although you have named me a long history, I have not promised your expedition, and I will not die for you. Guo Jia yawned and said very indebtedly.

"I said I wouldn't force you, I came to you, but I just wanted you to see something!" Lu An smiled slightly, unimpressed by his attitude.

"What's that?"

"Something that will give you an instant boost of confidence in me!"

took Guo Jia out of the mansion, and Lu An came directly to the school field, where the five hundred craftsmen gathered.

"See Taishou-sama!" Although these people from poor families didn't know Lu An's identity, when they saw the soldiers around the school field saluting him, they immediately bowed down in style.

"Get up! Since everyone is here, I believe they are all here for the information mentioned in the announcement, if you have any questions, please feel free to say it! Lu An smiled and waved his hand, and went straight to the topic.

"Taishou-sama, are you really recruiting? And three meals a day, and there is still a salary? ”

"Lord Taishou, dare to ask what you are doing to recruit labor?"

As soon as Lu An spoke, the people below immediately shouted in a hurry, but most of them said that they had one purpose, that is, to confirm whether the authenticity of this information was reliable.

Originally, it stands to reason that the notice was posted by the Taishou Mansion, representing the government, and there would be no fake, but Lu Ankai's conditions were really good, not only three meals a day, but also a monthly salary, this kind of thing that is almost equal to the pie in the world suddenly made these poor people a little unbelievable, you must know that now many rich and noble families only eat two meals a day, and it is common for them poor people to be hungry, where will they see such a good treatment, including food and housing, and pay wages.

"Silence!" Seeing that the environment had become chaotic, without waiting for Lu An to remind him, a bunch of soldiers on the side immediately shouted.

"Whoosh!" In this era of chaos, the soldiers who served as soldiers still have a very strong deterrent effect on the people, and as soon as they stop drinking here, they immediately become silent there.

"It seems that everyone still has doubts about this matter, so this official will explain it himself! The notice is posted by the official, and the things mentioned above are naturally true, not only that, but the government will also provide you and your family with a house to live in for free, but there is no free lunch in the world, you need to pay a certain price, what I want you to do is not so hard, you only need to work for five hours a day, but one thing is crucial, because it is a matter of military secrets, if you join, then you must keep what you are doing next strictly confidential, It must not be leaked out. Lu An paused as he spoke, glanced at these people who showed extremely expectant expressions, and suddenly said sternly: "If you dare to disobey and be discovered, not only will you be executed immediately, but even his family will be implicated and executed together!" ”

After speaking, Lu An returned to his usual indifferent expression: "That's all this official says, it's up to you whether you join or not!" If there are those who want to quit, they can still leave now, and once they join, at least for a few years, the official will supervise you, and you or your family members cannot be allowed to leave Wuling County! But it can ensure that you and your family have no worries about food and clothing, and it is not impossible to eat meat and fish from time to time! Now you can make your final choice! A stick of incense will give the official a reply! ”

"This!" Hearing what Lu An said, the people below began to talk again.

"What the hell is it? How can there be such a severe punishment? “

"Zhang San, are you joining?"

"Plus, why don't you add it, anyway, let's have a cheap life, it's rare to have such a good treatment, why don't you try it, as long as you don't leak secrets, it's fine?"

"That's what I said, just our days, it's almost impossible to get by, I only have half a bowl of millet left at home, and if I don't want to find a way to get food, my mother-in-law and daughter will starve to death!"

"That's right, no matter what, it's better than starving every day!"

After a stick of incense, all these people replied, and none of them withdrew, and they all agreed to the conditions put forward by Lu An. This was actually what Lu An expected, after all, in this era of frequent famines, the conditions he set would undoubtedly be tempting to all the ordinary people, and as for the consequences of the leak, it was completely out of the minds of these people.

"Very well, since that is the case! Then you will understand what the official wants you to do! Lu An nodded with satisfaction, and then instructed the armor soldier beside him, "Present the tools." ”

After a while, the armor came over with a large number of things, and Guo Jia next to him glanced at it with curiosity, but there were several pieces of salt mines, sieves, hammers, iron drills, linen, wooden barrels, iron pots, and stone mills. This made him quite puzzled, and he couldn't figure out the effect of these things for a while, and he wanted to ask, but he couldn't pull his face down, so he had to be bored there.

Lu An saw his expression, but he secretly smiled, even if a ghost is like Guo Fengxiao, it is impossible to know the crystallization of wisdom in this later life.

"Ten representatives from among you!" There are a total of 500 people, and it is naturally impossible for Lu An to do experiments for them one by one, so he can only pick a few for them to learn, and then pass them on like this.

"You're watching!" When the representatives of the ten people approached, Lu An took a deep breath, picked up a small hammer, smashed those salt mines into small grains, and then poured them all into the stone mill, grinding for a while, the brown mineral powder slowly flowed out, Lu An received these mineral powders into the bucket, added water and stirred them, and then filtered them with a burlap cloth, after repeated filtration, the brown water gradually turned light red, Lu An took a funnel again, first blocked it with carbon, and then put all these things in, but what came out became cyan, Then Lu An took another iron pot and put the cyan liquid in it and boiled it for a while. When it evaporated, it was already a cyan lump of salt.

"This is actually an edible green salt extracted from brine salt (that is, salt mines, which cannot be eaten)! He has such a secret technique! During the whole process, Guo Jia couldn't turn his eyes to see it through, and then he understood what Lu An was doing, but then there was a great wave in his heart, looking at the quality of this green salt, it was a little better than the green salt used by those wealthy families to gargle, and it was absolutely no problem to eat, and the price of green salt on the market was simply sky-high, but now it was easily manufactured by him.

Guo Jia finally understood why Lu An recruited so many laborers, and only recruited ordinary people who did not have any background/background.

Everything is for monopoly, with the temptation of a worry-free life of food and clothing, and the threat of these people's families, while satisfying their rich living conditions, at the same time controlling the freedom of these people, not letting them leak secrets, and ensuring that only he can master this technology, Guo Jia can already imagine how much profit Lu An will use this green salt to make huge profits.

"This guy is really far-sighted!" Guo Jia carefully looked at Lu An's side face, and for the first time his heart was greatly shaken, judging from this person's style of acting, it is afraid that it will be a matter of time before he achieves a hegemony.