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"It's really salt, so much ......"

An old pirate pounces on the salt heap and cries and howls, but it makes Ade feel more and more embarrassed. Although these natives are less knowledgeable, they are not stupid, and Ade, who has the most contact with them, often appreciates some of their little cleverness, and often succeeds. But are these guys crazy or stupid today? What is not salt that is dried by seawater, has the Ming Dynasty never seen dried salt?

"The salt method by drying the beach began to spread during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, and it was only popularized on a large scale in the Xianfeng period, and the most commonly used method among the people has been the torment method, and these locals may not have seen such a large-scale salt drying as ours."

Old Professor Li Mingyuan appeared in time to stop the mad Ade from continuing to teach the runaway workers with sticks. According to Professor Li, although there are examples of using the sun-drying method to obtain salt in the Northern Song Dynasty, the strange thing is that for a long time, the sun-drying method was only used to the salt of inland lakes and salt wells, and for the largest seaside salt farm, the ancients have always been accustomed to the backward way of "boiling the sea for salt". At most, it is only to use the sun to produce a relatively thick salt brine, and then it is necessary to use firewood to extract solid salt - so the ancient salt workers were called "stove households".

Many of the pirates were once the stove households of the Ming Dynasty, and everything the Ming Dynasty did was hereditary, and the stove households were boiling salt for several generations. Take brine from sea and land, fry it in the sun, boil it in the sea, and turn it into salt...... These people must have suffered a lot when they were children. I was deeply impressed by the hardships and hardships of salt production, but now I see that these "short hairs" have quietly made a few pools, and they can get this large batch of clean and snow-white sea salt by putting some seawater and drying it, which is probably a great stimulus for them...... In the past, so many hardships were all for nothing, and people did stupid work for several lifetimes...... It's really not worth it if you think about it this way, and anyone will go crazy if you change it.

Ade, Pang Yu and others learned about these situations at the earnest talks later, and it is a good way to always grasp the thinking of laborers. Basically, you can always find out the situation and then take countermeasures. But this time there seems to be no countermeasure available, except for proper enlightenment, that is, to give them a few packets of refined salt as a souvenir.

However, it turned out that the cunning old pirates had once again swept away the lads who had crossed the ropes - and the refined salt was sold on the market for a much more expensive price than the rice. Of course, being clever is only clever after all, and is vulnerable to Ade's elaborate modern management system -- soon members of the government military will come to snitch. It was only then that they realized that they were wrong in their previous belief that salt was of little value in the seaside area.

The ancient Chinese monopoly of salt and iron, which has been handed down since the Han Dynasty. Of course, since ancient times, seaside residents have always secretly made illegal salt, but even if they live by the sea, it is not easy to engage in illegal salt. The traditional salt boiling method requires a lot of fuel, the brine should be heated with an iron pot or an iron plate, and the small seed salt is obtained with lime to help crystallize, but the iron is not easy to obtain in the Ming Dynasty, and the salt is too much damage to the corrosion of the iron, and the iron pot is quickly scrapped after several times, and most ordinary people are reluctant to use the only iron pot at home to do this kind of thing.

Even if they have the strength to do private salt, the sales and transportation channels are all controlled by the government or gangs, and on Hainan Island, there are pirates and guards and soldiers, and ordinary people still can't get this benefit. Ade's two men, the pirates and the officers and men of the guard, had been involved in selling smuggled salt, and they were still rivals with each other, and they had done a few fierce battles.

However, when the traversers decided to join the market as well, the saltworks of both the pirates and the officers and soldiers of the guard were only closed. The small seed salt obtained by the traditional boiling salt method contains a variety of impurities, the taste is bitter, the color is black, and the quality cannot be compared with the crystalline salt made by the modern crystallization method. Not to mention that the petty bourgeoisie has higher requirements for edible salt - after obtaining coarse salt, it has to be dissolved again, filtered with an industrial-grade strainer and then crystallized to produce edible salt.

In the end, the Qionghai brand homemade salt that was finally brought to the market in the Ming Dynasty was no different from the ordinary salt sold in modern stores: the color is snow-white, the crystal particles are small, basically not damp, and the taste is also the purest fresh and salty. At the same time, the official salt sales of Hainan Island were still mixed with sand in salt bags according to the tradition, and consumers made the right choice in comparison, and after a period of time, the salt market in Lingao County and even the entire Hainan Island was completely monopolized by the Qionghai brand.

Of course, this is already the second year, and at the beginning, the people only used homemade salt instead of rice to exchange for supplies, or simply exchanged rice for rice.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, New Year's Day in 1630 A.D. quietly arrived. Most of the travelers didn't have a sense of the holiday, five days earlier, on Christmas Day, when they had just put the first prisoner of war laborers into the field, and everyone was focused on supervising them.

In fact, if it weren't for the perpetual calendar software program on the laptop that one of my brothers carried, most people would probably not know the exact date. Poor old Jack missed Christmas in a daze, and spent the days with his military brothers guarding the laborers in the mines, and it was only days later that he remembered to cut a Christmas tree for himself.

"Let's follow the local customs, and let's celebrate the Spring Festival together."

Xie Xi and the others comforted him so much, and the poor foreigner could only smile and accept it. Speaking of which, he is unlucky enough, everyone has fallen into this era together, and the Chinese can still have a sense of historical substitution and see what the Daming Dynasty looks like in the history books. But an American ran to 1629 and couldn't even find his homeland - the Declaration of Independence was not signed until 1776, when the American continent was filled only with early English and French colonists and a large number of Native Americans.

On New Year's Day and New Year's Day, Master Li added a few more dishes to everyone, including those captives. Of course, the captives didn't know much about the Western calendar, but that didn't stop them from experiencing the joy of the New Year as much as the Travelers. In particular, each person was given a bar of soap - not a modern product, but made by himself after crossing the crowd to the Ming Dynasty. Of course, it can't be compared with Lux or carved brand, but it is enough to wash clothes and bandages.

The perverts in the chemistry group have been researching explosives for a long time, and they haven't made a lot of by-products. Let's say soap and candles. The former is a by-product of the alkalizing process to make glycerin, and the latter is also a convenient one. The chemistry group is not very good at technology, but they know economics very well -- they currently occupy the bulk of the labor and resources of the people, and if they do not produce products for a long time, they will inevitably be complained about, so they will come up with small things from time to time to appease people...... Some time ago, it was said that margarine was made, but no one dared to eat it.

At the New Year's party that day, everyone sat together and chatted and said some blessings to each other, but then, Pang Yu stood up and put forward a very bold proposal to the collective meeting on behalf of all the colleagues of the engineering team:

On the Wenlan River next to Lingao County, build a hydroelectric power station!

"Oh my God! To build a hydropower station? ”

Including the dismissal, most people's reaction after hearing this construction was that Pang Yu was crazy, and the engineering team just built a few small houses and thought about making a big leap forward? Hydropower station...... The first thing that comes to many people's minds is the Three Gorges Dam.

But then Pang Yu elaborated on the energy crisis they had recently encountered – Wang Ruobin had repeatedly complained that his machine had not been able to work for many days because the wind turbine battery was always running out. At the beginning, he monopolized the generator with a small machine tool, but recently many machines on the ship have been moved down and put into use, including the pumping machine every morning, the threshing machine of the logistics department, and the small movie of the human resources team...... In addition, there are a few new electric lights in the courtyard of the green zone. The power supply is extremely tight.

And the next electricity is even bigger: the chemical group needs electrolytic salt to make potassium chlorate explosives, Xu Hui in the arsenal needs to use oxygen cylinders to transform mortars with electric welding, and Xiao Lang needs to use the ship's industrial machine tools to process the gun body...... Obviously, this qiē is not enough for a single civil wind turbine with a power of only 1 kilowatt and a voltage of 48 volts.

"We have a full set of hydroelectric power plants on board, and now it's time to put them to good use."

After that, Pang Yu got up and gave up his position to a comrade next to him, and he did the specific explanation work.

Lin Hanlong, male, 32 years old, his title on his business card is the site manager of the Hainan Provincial Water Conservancy and Hydropower Construction and Installation Company, but he is actually a small contractor under the company's name, and has always worked independently.

His main business is to carry out construction for remote villages in the mountainous areas of Hainan, Guangdong, Fujian and other places, and the contracted projects include roads, bridges, small hydropower, small water supply and other projects. Because the state has special construction funds for underdeveloped areas, there have always been projects to do. And because it is a national project, it can always get the project money in time, so it has never owed workers wages, and it has a good reputation among the majority of migrant workers. Claiming to be a conscientious contractor.

Unlike most of the unlucky ghosts who boarded this boat for tourism, Lin Hanlong and his three or four brothers went out this time, and they brought a complete set of main equipment for a small hydropower station.

Times have changed, locations have changed, but the project has not been a hitch – soon after arriving at Lingao, Lin Hanlong began to consider the possibility of building a hydropower station on the Wenlan River. It's not that he's hot-headed, it's actually where he is...... Or in other words, more than 300 years later, there is indeed a medium-sized hydroelectric power station: Baiyantan Hydropower Station.

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