After resting for a night, early the next morning, Nalan Jinnian took her to a beach according to the location selection conditions proposed by Nuan.

Horse-drawn carriages are inconvenient to enter the beach and cannot walk.

The two got off the carriage in a fishing village and walked hand in hand on the pale yellow sand.

The warmth directly took off his shoes and stepped barefoot on the fine sea sand.

"Why don't you take off your shoes and step on them?"

Nalan Jinnian held her little hand with one hand, held her shoes with the other, looked at her white little feet and shook her head: "No! What's so good about that? Be careful not to step on a shell and hurt your foot. And put on your shoes if your feet are too hot. ”

"I can't wear it, I have to feel the temperature of the sand! Salt is dried around the sea, which has a requirement for temperature! If the temperature is a little higher, will the sea water dry faster? You also take it off, step on it, let's go a few more places and feel it! ”

It seems to be such a crooked reason, but Nalan Jinnian believes that she is just a whim.

Feel the temperature and touch it with your hands?

Not wanting to ruin her interest, he also took off his shoes and carried them in his hands.

Nuan Wen took it directly and put the two pairs of shoes side by side on the beach: "Okay, what are you carrying it for?" Just leave it at that! Are you still afraid that someone will steal? ”

Nalan Jinnian smiled: "I'm afraid that when you want to wear it, you won't have to wear it!" ”

It was not comfortable to walk in the sand, and besides, they had walked for two hours to get there, and it was noon, and the sand was so hot from the sun that it was so hot that it was so their feet.

The two of them kept walking towards the sea, leaving a long trail of footprints on the calm and untraced beach.

Nalan Jinnian glanced back, her heart was soft, and she took her hand tightly.

It seems like a good feeling!

It seems that from now on, they will continue to walk side by side like this until the end of each other's lives.

Warmth came to the beach, took a little sea water with his hand and tasted it: "It's salty, and it's a little bitter!" ”

The first basic condition for the construction of a salt farm is that the water quality of the sea is good, the salinity is high, and then the beach area is vast and flat.

The second basic condition is high temperature, low precipitation, and sunny winds, which are conducive to the evaporation of seawater.

Wen looked around at the beach: "The salinity of the sea here is enough, if only it could be more flat and broad!" ”

Because there is no modern equipment, the tide can only rely on natural tide.

And salt can only be dried in the sun!

The advantage of using the sun drying method to produce raw salt is to save energy and reduce costs!

The disadvantage is that due to the influence of geography and climate, it is not possible to build salt pans on all coastal tidal flats, and it is impossible to dry salt all year round.

Anyway, if the air is dry, the sunshine is long, the sun is big, and the evaporation is large, the yield of salt will be high, otherwise the yield will be low, or even no yield!

Therefore, only about March to November a year can produce salt, and the warmth is naturally due to the fact that the bigger the beach, the better.

In this way, more salt can be produced and refined.

It just so happens that there is no shortage of labor in Nalan Country now, there are too many idlers, and building a big Yancheng can also allow more people to have jobs.

Nalan Jinnian didn't expect the warmth and still felt that it was not big enough: "If you are flat and vast, this beach is the largest in this area. We can also go further south, from the sea near the border of the southern frontier, where the beaches will be wider and vast. But the sea water there, I don't think it's salty enough. ”

Otherwise, he wouldn't have brought her here first.

Nuan nodded: "Well, let's build a salt farm here first!" Later, take a look at the south side, and if it's suitable, build another one over there! In the future, there will be two big salt farms in our Nalan country, and if we people buy salt, we can buy two or three pennies a catty! Then let's sell it to other countries at the current price, and then the treasury will soon be full! ”

Nalan Jinnian nodded.

When the country is rich, the people's lives will naturally be better!

In this way, the cohesion of the people has become stronger.

When the country is rich, the soldiers can be trained to be stronger!

If anyone dares to destroy their own country and destroy the present prosperous days, the people will be the first to disagree!

Why worry, Nalan country can't be stable for a long time?

Then Nuan Nuan took out a kettle made of gourds and filled a pot of seawater: "I'll take it back and try boiling salt tonight." ”

Seawater drying yields only coarse salt, which cannot be used directly and must be purified.

If you look at the production, it is more troublesome, and it has to be dissolved, filtered, and chemically removed from the Ca and Mg ions in it.

However, no matter how difficult things are, people do them.

It is impossible to achieve the scale and production volume of modern times!

That's wishful thinking!

Nalan Jinnian took the gourd in her hand: "Well, shall we go to the next beach to have a look?" Not as big as this one, but there are some places that are relatively flat. ”

Wen Wen nodded: "Okay!" I'll check back tomorrow and see if there's a salt pan on that beach. ”

It can't be as large-scale as modern times, and we can only build a few more and a few in various places, and the small amount will add up to a lot, so it's not impossible.

"Hmm."

The two returned to the carriage and said warmly to Lin Feng: "Lin Feng, you go and get a bucket of seawater and bring it back!" ”

"Yes!"

Lin Feng immediately went to a nearby villager to buy a wooden bucket, then fetched a bucket of water and brought it back.

By the time we got back to town, half of the water had been shaken off.

This seaside town is called Changning Town, and Nalan Jinnian has a three-entry mansion here.

By this time it was close to evening.

When they entered the house, a housekeeper immediately said, "Master, the strict steward is here!"

A steward stepped forward respectfully and saluted the two: "Yan Han has seen the master, and he has seen the lord of Hui'an!" ”

This person is a person from Nalan Jinnian, and he will be in charge of the management of the salt works in the future.

All Nalan Jinnian's business related to salt is managed by him.

Very loyal.

Nalan Jinnian nodded: "Strictly manage to go to dinner in advance, and I will tell you something later." ”

"Yes!" The strict steward respectfully retreated.

Nuan Wen went back to his room to freshen up, and then had dinner with Nalan Jinnian, and went to a laboratory specially arranged by Nalan Jinnian.

Before Wen Jiarui's envoy, because of Nuanwen, she had already thought about building a salt farm, and she had already drawn a set of tools for Nalan Jinnian to find someone to make them.

Although they set off in a hurry this time, Nalan Jinnian had explained to his subordinates and brought the set of tools over.

So behind them while they were still at sea, this set of refining tools had already been delivered.

Yan Han walked into the house, looked at the bottles and cans in front of him, and asked Lin Feng curiously: "Lin Feng, the master said that he wants to use seawater to make salt, and these tools are used to make salt?" ”

It was hard for him to imagine how the Lord of Hui'an could get rid of the poisonous substances in the sea salt, after all, it was something that had dissolved into the water!

And the thing dissolves in the water and can't be seen.

(End of chapter)