Produced in Huanzhou, it must be a high-quality product.

A large sign was erected by the side of the salt well, on which were written eight beautiful small letters, and the dots were decorated with a plum blossom, which was jointly completed by Qing Niang and Xiaobai; The brand is too big, Qing Niang is written on the ground, when Xiaobai was playing next to him, his paws were accidentally stained with paint, and he stepped on the brand to form a plum blossom, Qing Niang grinned, cleverly added the branches, and poured into the most beautiful decoration of eight big characters.

Considering that Huanzhou does not have such convenient water transportation channels as Jiangnan, and the transportation cost is high, Yang Yi decided to take the high-quality route, most of the people eat at present is coarse salt, and there are many impurities; The amount of refined salt is very small, the price is several times that of coarse salt, and it is usually only afforded by the wealthy.

The so-called refined salt, in fact, has not been processed, but the inland salt wells produce natural, relatively high purity fine salt, this fine salt is much better than sea salt, of course, this depends on the quality of each salt well.

The processing technology of refined salt is very simple, but simplicity does not mean that some people understand, at least the Great Song Dynasty has not heard of manual processing of refined salt.

Yang Yi plans to be the first person to eat crabs now.

Half a month later, I heard that the salt well of Forrest Gump Mountain began to produce salt, and it was all the best refined salt, Su Dongpo and Mei Zhengqing couldn't help but be curious, and came to Forrest Gump Mountain to visit together.

When I walked to the mouth of the valley, I saw two wooden rails like low bridges, erected to the side of the road, and there were four-wheeled "box cars" walking on the tracks, which were full of bags of salt; When the car slid to the end of the track, a man easily pulled up the baffle in front of the car, tilted the car, and bags of salt fell into the carriage below, saving even the labor of loading the car...... Mei Zhengqing and the others were stunned for a moment, Su Dongpo stroked his long beard, well, it is a bit clever, but this is not a difficult thing, and others can also use it with their hearts.

Su Dongpo is in his fifties and in good health, but he still can't help frowning when he enters the mountain, how did this Yang Renzhi do it? To open a salt well in the valley, there is not even a road to be built, this mess of rocks, it is difficult to walk empty-handed, this this... What kind of system?

Wang Er, the little official who led the way, saw that Su Dongpo was one foot high and one foot low, and he was sweating, so he smiled flatteringly: "A few adults, this mountain road needs to be repaired, and it costs a lot, Yang Zhizhou is too lazy to repair it, anyway, you don't have to carry the salt on your shoulders, if you think this mess of rocks is difficult to walk, you might as well take our rail car to go in." ”

"No, no, no! The official still walked slowly. Mei Zhengqing looked at the rail car, four wheels walking on two small wooden rails, if it slipped out, wouldn't the car fall over and hurt people?

"Ladies and gentlemen, in fact, our wheels are more special, the outer circle of the wheels is larger, and when pressed on the wooden rails, the wheels can clamp the wooden rails, ensuring that the rail car will not slip, Yang Zhifu and his wife have always taken this rail car in and out of the valley?" Looking at Mei Zhengqing's nervous appearance, Wang Er couldn't help but secretly snicker, and then explained, "Even Xiaobai too!" ”

Wang Er added another sentence at the end, and Cao Taiping couldn't help but ask strangely: "Who is Xiaobai?" Yang Zhizhou has only one maid in the family, isn't it called Ming'er? ”

"Xiaobai is not a human, he is a wolf raised by the Yang family, hahaha......" Su Dongpo and Yang Yi came to Huanzhou all the way, he naturally knew this, thinking of the well-behaved appearance of Qingniang and Xiaobai frolicking, Su Dongpo couldn't help laughing.

Although Wang Erbai explained, Su Dongpo and they finally decided to walk into the valley, although Su Dongpo could return by the wind, but by this rail car...... Uh, how vulgar! Don't sit!

The few people finally climbed over the rocks and came to a slope, where they saw two men shaking the winch, and as the winch turned, the rope was slowly retracted, and the rail car with table salt on the side of the salt well was slowly pulled uphill.

The cart of salt, the two strong men shook the winch, but it didn't look difficult, Su Dongpo's curiosity rose, it carefully observed the winch, but found that this winch has one more shaft than the ordinary winch, each of the two shafts is equipped with a wheel with teeth, the gear is large and the gear is small, the strong man shakes the shaft with a pinion, and the shaft with a large gear is also rotated.

Wang Er saw that Mei Zhengqing and the others looked at him with the meaning of inquiry, and hurriedly explained: "This double-shaft winch with gears was made by Mrs. for us, Mrs. said, this pinion turns a few times, and the big gear only turns once, and the same large pulling force is dispersed by the pinion to several turns, so that when it is manually shaken, the one-time effort will be much smaller, just a few more turns...... Uh, the villain explained it like this, do you adults understand? ”

"Ahem! Carving insects, how can we not understand! ”

Wang Er was full of suspicions, he was originally a craftsman, Mrs. Yang explained for a long time, he still knew nothing, these people knew it once they heard it?

Wang Er didn't break it, and laughed a few more times and continued to trek in with a few others.

It's not easy to finally walk to the salt well, and the rail car has been going back and forth several times!

The facilities inside are even more dazzling to Su Dongpo and others, there are many wooden shelves on the side of the salt well, there are hanging arms on the shelves, and there are many wheels on the crane arms, and the ropes go around on these wheels, a man easily pulls the rope, and the wooden box containing hundreds of catties of salt under the well is hoisted up. The salt in this box was not loaded directly onto the rail car and shipped out, but slid down another track to the creek.

There are waterwheels on the stream, which pour water into the first pool, and then through the pipes into the second pool, and when the second pool is halfway filled, the pipes between the two pools are closed.

Wow!

The rail car that slides along the track to the side of the second pool, is opened below, and the salt of the whole vehicle is unloaded into the pool, and someone pushes a push rod back and forth on the edge of the pool, like pushing a stone mill, but the push rod drives not the stone mill, but a "paddle" that stretches into the pool, and with the continuous agitation of the "oar", the coarse salt melts into the pool water.

Half a pool of water, a cart of salt, completely dissolved just a saturated solution, open the pool outlet, there is a loud sound, the solution flows to the gauze next to it, the gauze has two layers, filtered through the gauze, the pure solution flows into another pool, and the insoluble impurities are left on the gauze.

There are dozens of cauldrons next to it, and after the filtered solution is filled with the pot, the fire is made of wood or a kind of black coal, and one person can take care of several large pots, because the solution is saturated, it does not take too long for the water to evaporate.

The process of boiling salt requires a certain amount of thought, when the white crystals just appear in the pot, the fire must be stopped, and the residual water in the pot is dried with residual heat.

Su Dongpo and others are well-informed, but it is the first time they have seen so much white and fine refined salt, and looking back, from digging salt to loading and pulling away, the entire salt pond needs less than 100 people.

Such an output! Such refined salt!

Huanzhou has made a fortune! Sihu joined the army, and Cao Taiping only had one thought left! Get rich! This is a fortune!

Uh, how much did you dial for Lord Zhizhou in the first place?

Well, four hundred times, no, you must, immediately, immediately give additional funds to Lord Zhizhou, otherwise in the future, you will take the money from the salt farm, and if you don't get it right, your hands will cramp, and your heart will be black.

The thatched eaves are low, the grass is green on the stream, and the young couple drink in the shade of the trees, half-drunk and laugh in Wu Nong's soft language.

Qing Niang was wearing a purple flower skirt and was fighting grass with Ming'er by the stream, Ming'er lost several times, and every time she lost, Qing Niang put a praying mantis on her bun, which scared her from time to time to let out a coquettish sound; The alarmed Xiaobai would raise his head, "glare" at the two people on the shore who were so forgetful, bluff a few times in dissatisfaction, and then continue to flutter in the shallow water, and after a long time, he didn't catch the red carp in the water.

When Su Dongpo and Mei Zhengqing came to these huts half a mile away from Yanjing, they saw such a poetic scene.

"Hey, everyone come, why don't you squeak in advance, the official should prepare some food, now it's good, this fish is still in the stream, and the meat is still in the mountains, but how can it be good?"

Yang Yi opened his hazy drunken eyes, and smiled at Su Dongpo and the others with a bit of teasing, he is idle now, waiting to count the money! The thirteen niang next to her was a little embarrassed, so she gave everyone a blessing and retreated into the hut.

"If there is wine, there is a thick shade in the land, and the breeze in the middle of the stream is enough to accompany the wine." Lao Su is only eight buckets tall, but he doesn't know how to write the word polite.

Yang Yi was stunned for a moment, just saying this, it seems that Lao Su is much closer, could it be that he is also impressed by me, an outstanding young man?

After Lao Su finished speaking, Mei Zhengqing and others responded one after another, sitting in the shade of the tree, Thirteen Niang personally came out to add a cup and chopsticks, except for Lao Su, others didn't even dare to say, this is not only Mrs. Zhizhou, but also the pearl of the middle of the court!

"Guys, I have a small request before drinking this wine!"

"Lord Zhizhou, please speak!"

"In order to make our Huanzhou Treasury more substantial, I hope you don't talk about the processing method of refined salt."

"Of course, of course, I know my lord, but don't worry!"

"Hahaha...... Come, drink! ”

The mountain breeze in April came slowly, the afternoon time was leisurely and quiet, Su Dongpo had a wine-red face, lying on the bluestone under the shade of the tree, and the official hat fell under the stone slab, revealing a slightly speckled hair.

There is a fishing rod inserted on the side of the stone slab, and the fish made of sorghum stalks floats in the clear stream, probably the bait has already been eaten by the fish, and no one has started fishing, and the fisherman who is snoring has already sleepwalked in Gaotang...... And Cao Taiping and the others rushed back to Huanzhou in a hurry, preparing to go back and calculate the detailed accounts again, and see where they could dig out some more money, so that the other three salt wells could also start construction as soon as possible!

Time is money!

Thinking about the empty treasury in Huanzhou, which is not even patronized by mice, Cao Taiping has a deeper understanding of this sentence.

Yang Yi was happy to see it, anyway, the other three places just painted the scoop according to the gourd, and he didn't need to bother with it anymore. Now it's time to think about planting them!

This girl, it's been a few days since the army was dispatched, why hasn't there been any news yet, but don't be dumplings by Xia Jun!

(To be continued)