In the first three days after moving into the salt farm, the members of the Crossing Mass Organization cut down bamboo and wood on a nearby hillside and set up a row of temporary shelters on the site of the former salt farm village. As for the brick house, I am afraid that it will have to wait for a long time, because it requires a large amount of electricity supply, and the combined brick machine will not be officially put into operation until the completion of the hydropower station, and the bricks and stones produced will also have to be supplied to the camp and factory construction near the second base first, and it will be at least a few months before it is the turn of the Yanchang Commune. Fortunately, these Ming members are also used to hardship, and now their lives are no longer worried about food and clothing, so that they have felt greatly satisfied, and it doesn't matter if they live in a humble place for the time being, anyway, Master Haihan has already said that as long as they work hard, they will ensure that everyone lives in a brick house within a year or two, which is a good day that they never dreamed of in the past.

Considering that the living conditions on this side of the salt factory will be relatively difficult, the executive committee arranged for the Ministry of Construction to build a set of prefabricated houses for several people stationed here, and also have a supporting solar power supply system, and also introduce nearby mountain spring water to allow solar water heaters to be used. There are four people stationed here, one is in charge of technology, one is in charge of civil administration, and two are in charge of security and defense. On a per capita basis, their living conditions are far higher than those in the base camp. It's just that it's a little far away from the base camp, and it's separated by mountains and seas in the middle, and the wifi signal can't be counted on, even PHS can't be used, and it can only rely on a military radio to communicate with each other.

The Ministry of Agriculture sent people to guide the members to reclaim more than 10 acres of land near the station, plant some vegetables and fruits, and arrange for the members to plant some tea trees on the mountain in the future. The grain consumed by the Salt Works Commune will all be operated from the capital. It is not to save trouble by cultivating only such a small amount of land, but the salt content of the soil is too high to grow crops on a large scale.

Anxi is 26 years old this year, and before the crossing, he worked as a civil technician in the geological drilling brigade under the Sichuan Salt Administration, and after participating in the crossing, he was naturally absorbed into the Ministry of Construction. In the past, he was always dealing with Jingyan and had almost no contact with the Haiyan Salt Farm, but after the establishment of the Yanchang Commune, he was temporarily appointed by the Executive Committee as a technical guidance expert of the Commune Management Committee, and was transferred from the hydropower station site to the Yanchang Commune, where he will be fully responsible for the technical guidance and production planning of the salt farm in the future.

The executive committee originally set to let the Ministry of Industry send someone to be responsible for technology, but it was also a hundred secrets, and it was only at the end of the matter that it was discovered that no one on the Ministry of Industry had engaged in industrial salt production. There is no way to catch ducks on the shelves, who let him Anxi be the only one among the more than 400 people who crossed the crowd from such a professional place as Sichuan Salt Industry School?

Anxi actually felt full of grievances, he was a person who studied civil engineering, obviously the organizational relationship was still in the Ministry of Construction, because Mao is now going to change careers to engage in salt making, and people who graduated from salt industry schools do not all know how to make salt!

But now that Anxi has been sent to the front line of salt production by the executive committee, he can only sigh heavily when he looks at the stone salt troughs scattered throughout this valley. Salt making is actually good to say, although I was not a salt major in school, but I have taken a few professional classes, and now I have temporarily called up the relevant information in the big database to make up for it, and the basic principles and technological processes of seawater salt production are generally known. But what kind of organizational structure of production was the commune system, Anthy was at a loss at all. In the era before the crossing, the commune had been converted into a township before Anxi was born, and his understanding of the commune was actually not much better than that of the members who had just moved in. Fortunately, most of these Ming people know how powerful they are, and after careful screening, there are no thorns, and it doesn't take much trouble to command. The only problem is the language, and several people can only communicate with these members by speaking half-familiar Hainan Mandarin and comparing hands and feet.

In addition, because the executive committee announced the work schedule of Anthy and others at the forum, Anthy soon received the nickname "coach", although he was not fat at all. Now those young people who are familiar with Anzai are all smiling and changing their names to "Coach Anzai" when they see him, and even shouting "Coach, I also want to learn how to make salt", which makes these unknown members also call out with the coach. Anxi has been going to teach these arrogant guys a lesson several times, but in the end, he can only cooperate with the perfunctory "hehehe", after all, he also knows that his body of more than 1.71 meters is difficult to play real PK with those guys with thick shoulders and round waists in the Military Police Department.

Since the modernization of the salt works has not yet begun, Anzai can only let the members work according to the ancient method of drying salt. Three days ago, they had already started channeling the tidal water into the salt pans, allowing the sea water to soak the soil in the salt pans. In the past few days, the members of the society have to rake the salt mud several times from different directions with multi-tooth nail rakes in the dried salt fields to make the salt mud softer so that it can absorb more seawater. Seawater is then introduced from the ditches around the salt pan over and over again, repeating this process several times to ensure that the sea salt absorbed in the salt sludge is saturated.

Now Anzai directs the members to gather the dried salt mud together and pile it up in a filter next to the salt pan. The bottom of the filter is covered with a thin bamboo skewer or straw mat and used as a filter screen. The members stirred the salt sludge in the filter tank, then stepped on it, and let the high-salt brine pass through the guò filter screen, and then flow from the bottom outlet into the adjacent brine storage tank. This process lasted for three hours, until Anzai confirmed that the salt mud in the filter was basically empty of water, and the exhausted members of the club were approved by him and stopped to rest.

At this time, the concentration of brine in the brine storage tank must be tested once to determine whether the next process can be carried out. The Ministry of Chemical Industry has a lot of acid and alkali test strips available, but in terms of the demand for salt farms, their test strip reserves are obviously not enough, and if the brine samples are collected and sent to the base camp for testing, the timeliness is too low. Anthy had an easier way of detecting this, plucking a leaf from the bushes by the pool. This shrub is called a yellow croaker, and Anthy pinches off the leaves and throws the small leaf stem into the brine pool. Seeing that the leaf stems did not sink into the water, but floated on the surface, Anthy nodded in satisfaction. If the stems sink directly, it means that the concentration of the brine is not large enough, and the brine must be dried again until the concentration reaches the standard.

"Let's fetch water!" Anxi waved his hand, and the members who had been resting about the same time stood up one after another and began to pick up wooden buckets to fetch water from the pool.

The next step is to have the brine plucked out of the pond in wooden barrels and poured into the shallow stone salt troughs that dot the valley. The size of these salt troughs is more than a foot long, and the small ones are the size of a basin and no more than half an inch deep. After a day or two of drying in the salt tank, the brine will crystallize into large white sea salt. If it is to be refined, then the sea salt will be melted again and the brine will be vacuum-evaporated, but it will not only belong to the production task of the salt farm commune, but will be transferred to the production process of the Ministry of Chemical Industry, and most of the concentrated solution produced in the vacuum evaporation process will be used as chemical products or semi-finished products, and only a small amount will be sold on the market as refined table salt.

This kind of manual labor of the salt leaching method has lasted for hundreds of years, and due to the scientific and technological level of this era, it is difficult to make major improvements in the process, and this is obviously not the level of production that the Executive Committee wants. After the theoretical knowledge and practical operation in the past few days, Anxi also has a clear understanding of the efficiency shortcomings in the production process of the salt farm, such as tide acceptance, brine making, crystallization, and salt collection, but to improve the existing production efficiency, it is not enough to rely on the salt farm's own efforts, and it must have the full cooperation of other departments.

At present, it is easier to improve the production process, it should be crystallization, those large and small salt troughs are too much in the way of Anxi, and the future large-scale and uniform salt ponds and crystallization ponds should be the symbol of the salt field. But to build these pools on a large scale, the Ministry of Industry must first provide enough cement. As far as Anxi knows, the cement kiln of the Ministry of Industry is still in the trial production stage, and no one can say when it will be officially put into production.

What Anzai didn't know was that the cement kiln of the Ministry of Industry had now encountered serious technical problems, and several leaders of the executive committee who knew industrial technology were holding an emergency on-site meeting near the cement kiln.

Previously, the mining department had found limestone and gypsum mines in the Tianduhe Valley area according to the information prepared in advance, which made the executive committee think that it was only a matter of time before the cement was put into production. However, when the cement kiln was completed and the trial operation began, the relevant responsible persons found that there were overlooked loopholes.

Portland cement, which is common in later generations, the calcium silicate is made of calcium oxide and silica calcined and melted at high temperatures, and calcium oxide is calcined from limestone.