"In addition, before everyone sets off, the marshal will give each person a month's worth of food to travel. After arriving in Shaanxi Province, the Shanxi Governor's Office will also distribute new grain to you as your rations in the future. ”

"And that means the less time you spend on the road, the more food you can save when you get to Shaanxi." And this grain, our Shanxi Governor's Mansion will no longer take back, and will distribute all of it to you as your private property in the future. ”

"In other words, you don't have to do anything, you just need to hurry more on the way to Shaanxi. When you arrive in Shaanxi, you will have a private property of your own, instead of being poor..."

"Okay, I've already said what I need to say....immediately take the guards and follow me to get your rations for a month...."

When a large cart full of grain was pulled by Zhang Heizi and ten guards to the location of his group, more than sixty immigrants had a stunned expression on their faces.

Because, they have grown so big, they have never seen so much grain at one time.

When Zhang Heizi told everyone the news and rules he got word for word, everyone was boiling...

In the eyes of these military children, the last thing they are afraid of is rushing.

In their eyes, as long as they have a full stomach, it will only take twenty days at most to enter Shaanxi from here.

In this case, after arriving in Shaanxi, everyone can save a full ten days of food.

Of course, these are just the numbers...

For these military households, if they are only used to travel, they will not need a pound of food at all.

To know. A month ago, when I was a military household. Even if you have to do the body lì live. A day's ration is only about half a catty.

As for the elderly and children, even if they eat rice porridge that can be inserted with chopsticks and not poured at every meal, each person only consumes three taels of grain a day.

In this way, according to the standard set by the Haw Par Army for everyone, when everyone arrives in Shaanxi, at least half of the grain can be saved.

For Zhang Heizi's family, when they arrive in Shaanxi, the whole family will have a hundred catties of grain leftover...

100 pounds of grain. In Zhang Heizi's memory, even when the year was good, the grain in his rice bowl was not more than 100 catties. Therefore, 100 catties of grain is definitely a lot of wealth for Zhang Heizi's family.

At this time, when I saw a large car full of cars, the expressions on everyone's faces had disappeared.

Not only that, but everybody's face. Unconsciously, he has revealed his desire and longing for the future.

With a steady stream of migrants being sent to the Haw Par Army barracks. Then along the official road, step by step to Shaanxi.

With the help of ten merchant ships, Wang Daotian, who built Yantian, no longer needs to worry about cement.

There is no worry about cement, plus more and more military households are joining the ranks of craftsmen. The wall, which would have taken half a month to complete, was completed in just ten days.

With a battle wall and hundreds of tiger and leopard musketeers to protect him, Wang Daotian no longer had to worry about Yantian's secrecy.

As a result, the two salt pans that had been built were directly under Wang Daotian's order and began to dry salt for the first time in the salt pans.

A steady stream of seawater is transported by a human-powered water wheel to an evaporation pond built directly with sea sand, where it waits for the seawater to turn into brine with a high concentration of sea salt.

In less than two days, a high concentration of brine appeared in front of Wang Daotian.

With excitement, Wang Daotian immediately ordered the craftsmen to apply a waterwheel to pump the brine into the crystallization pond, which was completely made of cement masonry.

Although Wang Daotian is the main person in charge of the entire salt farm, Wang Daotian has not really experienced seawater salt.

Therefore, Wang Daotian is also full of yearning and expectation for the picture that is about to happen in front of him.

From the moment the brine was injected into the crystallization pool, Wang Daotian and several henchmen and craftsmen stared at the scorching sun, guarding the side of the crystallization pool, quietly waiting for the precipitation of sea salt...

An hour....nothing has changed in the crystallization pool......

For two hours, there was still no change in the crystallization pool......

When the sun overhead had already passed overhead, Wang Daotian and the others had been guarding the crystallization pool for almost three hours. An exclamation full of excitement suddenly came out of the mouth of a craftsman.

"It's out... Haiyan is out....Lord in charge, Haiyan is out......"

Several people who got the news hurriedly rushed to the location of the craftsman.

When several people stared at the bottom of the crystallization pool, a granular sea salt that had not changed much from the color of the seawater had already appeared at the bottom of the crystallization pool....

"It seems that what the big man said is true, and the sun can really dry the sea salt... Continue to wait, this official must see that the bottom of the entire crystallization pool is covered with sea salt today......"

When the sun set and the crystallization pool had no evaporation, Wang Daotian finally saw the picture he wanted to see.

A thick layer of white sea salt, already imperceptibly, has spread the entire crystallization pool.

Looking at the scene in front of him, the excited Wang Daotian exclaimed again: "It's successful, it's really successful..."

"As long as you dry it for another day tomorrow, the brine in the crystallization pool will be dried. When the time comes, we'll have a lot of sea salt to harvest......"

Under the scorching sun of the next day, the remaining seawater in the crystallization pond was dried before noon.

As for the crystallization pool, a thick layer of white sea salt is left.

Seeing this, the excited Wang Daotian jumped directly into the crystallization pool, and took the craftsman to collect the sea salt...

After some effort, the sea salt piled up like a mountain appeared in the center of the crystallization pool.

Seeing this, the excited Wang Daotian once again let out a heartfelt sigh: "It's so fast, just this crystal pond in front of me, it took less than two days to harvest thousands of catties of sea salt..."

"If all of my salt works are built into crystallization ponds, then I won't be able to dry 100,000 catties of sea salt in that day..."

Speaking of this, the excited Wang Daotian directly ordered the craftsmen around him who were also stunned by shock.

"What are you still doing in a daze, immediately bagging these sea salts and continuing to deliver brine to the crystallization pool..."

"It's still two hours before it gets dark, and as long as we hurry, we can still get another round before it gets dark tomorrow."

"Yes, sir..."

1,200 catties of sea salt, a full 12 sacks, before they were all filled.

At this time, He Guozhong, who got the news, also came to the crystallization pool with a face full of excitement.

When he saw the sack of sea salt in front of him, he was stunned.

Because, he didn't expect that it would be so simple to dry salt with seawater, and that just a few salt workers could dry so much sea salt in such a short period of time-......

And it was only at this time that He Guozhong faintly realized that if this salt farm was well managed, it would definitely become a cornucopia of wealth as the marshal said.

Since this salt pan is a cornucopia that cannot be measured in terms of gold and silver, it indirectly tells Sù He Guozhong the importance of the task of himself and the fifteen hundred musketeers under his command.

Once this cornucopia is discovered by others, and this cornucopia is not in the Haw Par Army's sphere of influence, then this cornucopia will definitely cause others to blush.

What's more, in order to prolong the huge benefits, he directly sent troops to attack the salt works and take the salt works for himself.

In this case, it is necessary to have a garrison under his own command to defend and extend it to the death, and to keep this cornucopia for the Shanxi Governor's Palace.

Thinking of this, the excitement on He Guozhong's face had been unconsciously replaced by solemnity.

After taking a deep breath, he said to Wang Daotian: "Lord Wang, Ben Jiang has already seen the importance of the salt field..."

"In order to prevent the secrets of the salt works from being snooped on by others, we must do everything we can to keep them secret...."

"Starting tomorrow, the garrison regiment will leave fifty musketeers to train recruits, and the remaining four hundred and fifty people will all patrol along the fence to ensure the safety of the salt works."

"Lord Wang, you should also pay attention here....There will be more and more crystallization pools in the future, and it is obviously not enough to rely on the dozens of salt workers we brought from Datong."

"Therefore, it is certain that the recruitment of salt workers among the local military households will be carried out..."

"For the sake of the secrecy of the salt works, we must strengthen the management of these salt workers, and we must not let them leak the secrets of the salt works... It's really not possible, just send their families to Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, and let them give us their lives thoroughly. ”

"In addition, after the number of crystallization ponds expands, more and more sea salt will be dried every day....For the secrecy of the entire salt farm, all the dried sea salt can only be sent back to Shanxi by water, and it must not be exposed to outsiders by official roads."

Wang Daotian nodded deeply and replied: "Captain He is right, this deception salt farm is indeed a cornucopia....whether it is for ourselves, or for the sake of the commander, for the sake of the Shanxi Governor's Mansion, we must ensure the safety of the salt farm..."

"The matter of the salt worker, this official will solve it...."

"The safety of the salt works depends on you..."

"My idea is that since the wall around the salt field has been built, and the salt field is so big, we can report to the Governor's Palace, and ask the Governor's Palace to expand the strength of the salt field garrison again..."

"In my officer's opinion, in order to really hold the salt works and ensure the safety of the salt works....there must be at least one division of garrisons here, and they must also be equipped with a lot of artillery..."

He Guozhong nodded and replied, "Ben will consider your mention...... The next time the merchant ships come, the general will bring his opinion back to the Governor's Palace, and ask the Governor's Palace to consider our opinion..."

Salt from the salt field....In the face of this gratifying result, Wei Zheng knew that he wanted to change the idea of the entire Daming salt industry, and he had taken the first step.

In order to ensure that he could carry out the reform of the salt industry in the future, Wei Zheng only made the decision to secretly expand the garrison regiment into a division after only a brief hesitation. (To be continued......)