Kamatsudu.

When the first rays of sunlight shone on the ground in the early morning, Guan Yu cleaned the battlefield with less than two thousand remnants, Guan Yu was covered in blood at this time, and his originally red face was also covered with blood and mud, and he couldn't see his face at all.

This great battle lasted for a day and a night, and it was extremely difficult.

Dong Zhuo's 3,000 Qianghu soldiers only crossed half of the crossing, and they were tightly pressed by Guan Yu and his army to fight at the ferry, so that the remaining 1,500 people could not go ashore at all, and many Qianghu soldiers were directly squeezed into the water and disappeared into the rolling waves of the Yellow River.

If it weren't for Guan Yu's learning of Ji Ping's combat methods of 'killing generals and chaotic enemies', charging several times, killing nearly ten enemy generals, and leading the enemy to chaos, whether they could win this battle is still a word.

However, under the repeated killings, even if Guan Yu was a 10,000-strong enemy, brave and unmatched, and had several wounds on his body, he finally killed all the enemy soldiers before dawn.

Guan Yu ignored the wound and urgently ordered the soldiers to clean up the battlefield while deploying defense at the Pujin Ferry, as long as they controlled the Pujin Ferry, the future defense would be simple.

With bean paste and steamed buns in his mouth, Guan Yu's already hungry and tired body suddenly gave birth to a little strength.

Seeing that the soldiers were also eating steamed buns, Guan Yu felt an inexplicable emotion in his heart, before this march, Ji Ping brought a kind of dry food for the army from Dongyuan, called steamed buns.

The snow-white style, soft and slightly sweet taste, so that the soldiers after eating, they fell in love with this food, this time with the enemy for a day and a night, many soldiers to the end of the chewing steamed buns, while killing the enemy, the strength of the recovery fù very fast. It is a hundred times stronger than the dry food of the past, fried beans.

It can be said that those strong Qianghu soldiers were defeated in the last form of the body, because they simply did not have time to eat fried beans.

Therefore, the soldiers are very fond of this steamed bun, and they are also extremely grateful and respectful to the person who made the steamed bun.

It is said that this steamed bun was made by Ji Ping's mother and wife Ming Zhizuò, but Guan Yu knew about it. Ji Ping's mother and wife are the original queen mother and queen!

Whenever he thinks of the noble status of the queen mother and the queen, and makes this ingenious food for the soldiers and the people, this reckless man is full of strength.

With such a lord, what reason does he have not to swear to the death!

Just, whenever it quiets down. He always thinks of his brothers who are like siblings, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei.

After more than ten years of getting along, he is now separated, which makes him quite unaccustomed, and he is already a Zhonglang general. Liu Bei is also the Taishou of Hanoi, but Zhang Fei is still a low-level lieutenant, which always makes him feel inexplicably guilty.

While he was thinking about it, a soldier suddenly came to report: "General Guan, the lord sent someone to send a carriage to the general." ”

"Carriage?" Guan Yu was stunned for a moment, hurriedly got up, straightened his armor, and said, "Welcome." ”

No matter what the lord Ji Ping sent. For the former great Han Emperor, Guan Yu did not dare to slack off in the slightest. Reckless loyalty, cheaper loyalty than those of the family. Really much.

Outside the gate, looking at the chariot with drapery and nearly a hundred guards, Guan Yu was shocked, he naturally knew that the style of the chariot often represented status, and merchants and ordinary people were not allowed to ride in a carriage. can only take an ox cart, and the carriage in front of him is the car of the lord Ji Ping.

Ji Ping naturally wouldn't give him his car. Even if he gave it, Guan Yu didn't dare to use it. He was a little puzzled, looked at the ghost guards in front of him, bowed to the carriage, and said solemnly: "Guan Yu is here, could it be that the lord is here?" ”

"General Guan." After several guards saluted Guan Yu, one of the guards smiled: "General Guan, the Lord didn't come, but the Lord sent you a generous gift from Xie County, and General Guan will be happy when he sees it." ”

"Xie County?" Guan Yu's body trembled, he vaguely guessed something, and stared at the carriage tightly.

He has been sluggish since he was a child, killed the evil Xiong family when he was a teenager, had no choice but to abandon his childhood sweetheart's new wife, and lived in exile for thirteen years.

He dared to kill in the midst of the army, but he did not dare to go back to see.

Soon the curtain of the car was lifted, and a teenager jumped out of the car, turning his head to look at Guan Yu with wide eyes, and helping a woman in the car to get out of the car.

The woman was Guan Yu's wife, Hu Shi, as soon as she got out of the car, she hurriedly turned her head to explore the crowd, and soon looked at Guan Yu, who was covered in blood and wounded all over her body, her mouth moved, and she didn't say a word, but tears fell like rain.

"Father...... Father? Guan Ping, who was holding his mother, spoke hesitantly.

Bang!

Looking at Hu's familiar face, as well as the young man who was similar to himself, the long knife in Guan Yu's hand fell to the ground.

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The morning sun was shining with sparkling water, and on the bank of the wide salt pond, Ji Ping was patrolling the salt pans everywhere, and Lu Zhi, Yuan Ji, Cui Jun, Geng Zhong and a number of family stewards followed him.

Yesterday, after Dian Wei completely incorporated more than 3,000 private soldiers from various families in Yanchi, and defeated the 2,000 parts gathered by the Wei and Fan families, it was almost dusk, and Ji Ping dismissed the stewards of the various families in the courtyard.

Unexpectedly, when it was dark, a soldier suddenly came to report that before Xu Huang arrived at Fenglingdu, Dong Zhuo had already entered Hebei County from Fenglingdu, and Xu Huang was relying on the first-line defense of Zhongtiao Mountain.

Ji Ping hurriedly ordered Dian Wei to rush to support with the Tiger Battalion overnight, and sent people to Anyi City on horseback, and ordered Lu Zhi to bring 2,000 soldiers to Yanchi to guard the town.

At dawn, Lu Zhi led his army to Yanchi, and sent another 1,000 men and horses to Hebei County to support Xu Huang, and the remaining 1,000 people stayed in Yanchi.

After dawn, Ji Ping took a group of his subordinates out to visit the salt pond.

Salt and grain are the foundation of his expansion based in Hedong, it takes time to produce grain in Tuntian, but this salt pond is the fastest and most direct salt, so his current idea is to operate the salt pond first.

The salt pond is extremely wide, but the salt pans around the salt pond are even wider, and the past is snow-white, but the distribution of the salt pans is large and small, which is the result of the division of each family and the drying of salt.

Si Yan Zhonglang on the side will Cui Jun and an old salt worker tell Ji Ping about the situation of the salt pond all the way.

Cui Jun already knows a lot about Yanchi, which makes Ji Ping can't help but admire, presumably Cui Jun must have spent a lot of effort to understand the situation in Yanchi last night, this Si Yanzhonglang will indeed be very competent.

After walking for a while and listening to the two of them, Ji Ping had a general understanding of the situation.

Today's Hedong salt pond, there are three main methods of salt production.

The first method is the oldest fishing method, directly let the salt workers go down to the salt pond to fish, because the water of the salt pond is steamed for a long time, and a large piece of crystalline stone salt has accumulated at the bottom of the water, as long as it is fished up, it can be eaten, this method is relatively simple, but it is only suitable for carrying out in shallow water, the salt pond is buoyant, and it is difficult to fish in the deep water area.

The second method is the decoction method, which is to steam the water from the salt pond to a certain distance to become brine, and then pour the brine into a pot to make a fire and decoction, and the water is dry to become salt.

But whether it is the fishing method or the decoction method, the scale and output are too small, and the water of the Hedong salt pond has a bitter taste, and the salt produced by these two methods is also of poor quality, and it has a bitter taste, so Hedong salt is also called bitter salt in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

The bitter salt produced by these two methods is generally sold to the poor people or to other races.

Ji Ping stopped at a salt worker's fishing place, tasted the salt he picked, and frowned, this salt is indeed very bitter.

However, in addition to these two methods, there is a third method, which is the method of pouring and drying the salt pond, building salt pans around the salt pond and repairing the salt furrow, which is similar to a shallow pond several feet deep.

This method has been used in the Warring States period, but at that time it was only steamed with water, and the salt produced was still bitter, and later, after hundreds of years of watering, the salt workers slowly summed up some experience and perfected many processes, so that the bitterness of the output of salt greatly subsided.

It is also the main salt-making method used by the major families at present, with large scale and high output, which can make Hedong salt far away to Hanoi, Guanzhong, Bingzhou, Luoyang and Jizhou.

The salt furrow in front of you can be seen everywhere, there are canals, roads, and mouths on the side of the salt furrow, and many salt workers are still working.

Ji Ping walked to the edge of a salt furrow, bent down and picked up a few thick white particles, put them in his mouth and tasted them, it was more bitter than salty, he frowned and said, "What is this?" It's not like salt. ”

Cui Jun on the side hurriedly said: "Lord, this thing is not salt, but manganese." In addition to salt, there are many impurities of miscanthus nitrate in the salt pond water in Hedong, so the pond water is bitter and salty. ”

Ji Ping said curiously: "How can this miscanthus be separated from the salt pond?" ”

He knew that there were many other debris in the salt pond, and if it was a later generation, through various chemical means, it would naturally be able to separate lightly, but in this era, how did they separate?

"This is with the help of the power of time." Cui Jun pointed to a salt furrow on one side and explained to Ji Ping: "The salt workers mostly divide the salt pan into four furrows, the first furrow is the largest, and the water of the salt pond is introduced into the sun, and the water is consumed by the sun to become brine. ”

Ji Ping nodded, this should be the use of temperature changes, in a low temperature state, the solubility of miscanthus nitrate decreases, and it is the first to be precipitated.

Cui Jun pointed to another salt furrow with many white flocculents on the surface of the water and said: "After the miscanthus nitrate is exhausted, this brine will be led into the second furrow, and at the beginning of summer, the surface of the brine will have this white flocculent generated, and the salt workers call it 'fuzzy', at this time the brine is called yang water, and the yang water is still very bitter." ”

Looking at the white flocculent matter on the surface of the water, this should still be due to the change in temperature and other impurities, but Ji Ping didn't understand what these white flocculent was, he took some and tasted it, but it was more bitter than miscanthus salt.

Cui Jun pointed to the adjacent third salt furrow and said: "After the white floc is generated, the yang water can be introduced into the third furrow, and the bottom of the third furrow pond has a nitrate plate compacted by miscanthus nitrate. (To be continued)

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