Ling Tao, who was stunned for a moment, looked at the basin in front of him, and then looked at the surrounding mountains, and probably understood something.

This basin, surrounded by straight cliffs and a narrow valley with only one exit, looks like someone has carved out between the mountains. I wanted to say that this place was originally said to be mountains, and then a piece of it was dug up, and then the basin in front of me was formed.

"After your reminder, I think that there are really minerals here, and then they were mined in the open pit to form the basin today, but the mining age may be a little old, so far away that there are no traces of artificial mining," Ling Tao said thoughtfully.

Tie Ding was stunned, he didn't think about it at all, he was just a casual sentence that Ling Tao really thought so, but if he looked closely, wasn't that like that?

"So what's here? Gold, silver, copper, iron, aluminum? Or coal and jade or something"? Tie Ding was stunned.

C......runch, a sound of gorilla grinding teeth sounded behind Ling Tao, obviously the gorilla was also extremely curious, what was Ling Tao talking about, and a big face leaned over here.

Speechlessly, he stretched out a hand to push the gorilla, what are you doing to make a fuss? However, Ling Tao was stunned again.

"Wait, the gorilla grinds its teeth and says that it wants to ingest the trace elements in the stone, the gorilla found it here, and now it is even more 'tricked' the villagers of Zhoujia Village here, that is to say, there should be a thing they must have here, grinding teeth ......", thinking of this, Ling Tao's eyes became brighter and brighter!

Ignoring Tie Ding's strange eyes, Ling Tao leaned down. Break off a stone from the cliff in front of him, and take this hand to look at it carefully, facing the sun. It is obvious that there are some fine white crystals on the stone that reflect the light, of course. If you don't pay attention, you won't be able to see it at all, but it is real.

At this moment, a few gorillas not far away broke a few stones from the cliff and threw them in their mouths, crunching their teeth, as if the stones were delicious.

Frowning, Ling Tao crushed the stone with his fingers, he took a little of the powder in his hand, and he was not afraid of getting dirty, so he put it in his mouth, frowning. It tasted bad, but his eyes lit up.

"That's right, that's it, how do you say that, looking for a child behind your back"? Ling Tao took a sip of the stone powder in his mouth and muttered to himself with some excitement.

"What did Mr. Ling find"? Tie Ding on the side asked, puzzled by Ling Tao's actions.

"Brother Tie, don't you know if you try it"? Ling Tao pointed to the cliff in front of him and said with a smile, looking forward to the way Tie Ding ate stones.

Tie Ding frowned, and also followed Ling Tao's example, and got a stone down. Pinch into powder, put a little in this mouth, and then, raise eyebrows. took a mouthful of stone powder, looked at Ling Tao excitedly and said in horror: "Salt mine"?

"That's right, look at these gorillas. I grind my teeth with this stone every day, and it seems that I am ingesting the salt in the stone. Besides, didn't you try it just now? This stone powder is salty and bitter, it must be said that the salt mine is undoubted, and it seems that the salt content is not low", Ling Tao said with a smile.

The problem that bothered him was solved at once, how could he not be happy.

"Really talking about the salt mine, now it's okay, I'll go and let everyone try it now to see if we can get salt", Tie Ding said excitedly, and he didn't need Ling Tao's orders, he jumped down and started to work.

There's no way not to be excited, after eating food without salt for so many days, a person can fade out of a bird, and after a long time, people will die.

"That's right, there was a time in history when there was an open-pit salt mine here", Ling Tao looked at the huge valley and muttered to himself, but what made him wonder was that since there were salt mines all around, why could plants still grow, anyway, Ling Tao was not good at chemistry and biology, and he couldn't understand ......these things.

Tie Ding ran to the bottom, and immediately arranged a few people in a hurry, knocked down a few stones on the cliff, smashed them into small particles, and borrowed a stone mill from the villagers, grinded the particles into powder, and finally dissolved them into water and stirred, and found cloth, filtered the muddy water dissolved in the stone powder, and filtered out the residue, so that after that, almost got the clear water, and then poured the water into the cauldron, and began to burn the fire, as the water evaporated, gradually, the yellow-white crystals began to appear in the pot.

When the water is completely boiled, there will be a large yellow-white crystal left in the pot, and Tie Ding is not afraid of the soup, so he directly breaks off a piece and puts it in his mouth, and his eyes suddenly narrow, and it is bitter.

"Really say that there is salt mine", Tie Ding said as he looked at the surrounding cliffs with bright eyes, so excited that he almost cried, not only because he didn't have to eat tasteless food in the future, but also because these salt mines are resources.

Refining salt from salt mines, this is a good thing that other forces don't have, and if you get it to the base city, you can sell it for money and exchange it for all kinds of materials! The so-called inappropriate family does not know the price of rice, Tie Ding once said that the leader of the Big Knife Gang, all of a sudden will associate so much.

"What salt mines"? Zhou Taigong came here quickly, of course he knew Tie Ding's fiery move, when he came here, his old man was also stunned when he saw the yellow and white crystals in the pot, and he didn't need to be said by others, he twisted a piece and put it in his mouth, it was salty and bitter, but he was reluctant to spit it out.

"With salt, there won't be so much meat food wasted in the future", Zhou Taigong tasted the salt, and almost burst into tears.

Then, so everyone boiled, and they all gathered around, and twisted a piece of salt extracted in a rough step from the pot and put it in their mouths, although the taste was very fast, and their brows were furrowed, but they were reluctant to spit it out, how long had they not tasted salt?

The yellow-white crystal salt cubes in the pot will soon be divided one by one, although it is unpalatable to death, no one is willing to spit it out, and without the experience of not eating salt for a long time, I don't understand the taste of fading out of a bird.

When I tasted the smell of salt, my eyes lit up, and when I saw the surrounding cliffs, it was like seeing piles of salt mountains.

The yellow-white salt crystals in the pot are just because there is no thoroughly purified coarse salt, and there are a lot of impurities in it, so it will be yellow-white, as long as it is purified again, it will be able to get snow-white refined salt, that is to say, there will be no shortage of salt here in the future, and it can be said that there is a salt mine around, with salt, the mutant beast meat obtained from hunting will be able to be salted and stored without fear of spoilage.

Soon, Tie Ding will take Zhou Taigong to Ling Tao's position on the cliff, Zhou Taigong was so excited that he couldn't speak anyway, who would have thought that there would be a salt mine around them, and they were still struggling with no salt to eat.

"Mr. Ling, ...... next"? Tie Ding looked at Ling Tao and asked.

Ling Tao smiled: "This is not easy to do, in order to remember that there should be blacksmiths and stonemasons in the village, right?" Let the blacksmith build the cauldron, the stonemason makes the stone mill, the more the better, divide half of the people to mine the salt mine, grind, boil, and deposit to get edible refined salt, and the others should not be idle, from now on, you have to patrol the surroundings well, here is a treasure, there is more salt from purification, and it will be sold in the base city in exchange for all kinds of materials we need ......".

In a few words, Ling Tao planned the next development direction here, salt is an important material, I have not heard that salt in ancient times was in the hands of the country, and its importance even exceeded that ......of other industries.

"Okay, we'll go half", after getting Ling Tao's prompt, Tie Ding left with Zhou Taigong in a hurry.

It's not that the two of them can't think of this, it's just because Ling Tao is the 'Dinghai Divine Needle' here, and it depends on Ling Tao for such an important matter.

"Salt mines, and it's open-pit this, the salt content is not low, no wonder there will be an inexplicable and wonderful basin here, it turns out to be like this for a long time, there should be an important salt-producing area here at some point in history, but I don't know why it's abandoned, so that no one realizes it at all", looking at the basin in front of him, Ling Tao muttered to himself.

Then everyone was in full swing, digging salt ore, building iron pot stone mills, steaming and cooking salt, all of them smiled, a few hours later, the first batch of snow-white refined salt was made out, and a group of women happily took it to cook, how long has it not tasted salt, thinking about it is drooling.......

At this time, even Ling Tao and Tie Ding forgot about building a stone cave on this cliff to live in.

Boom, ......, when everyone was in full swing, a mountain cliff on the edge of the basin collapsed, a large number of stones collapsed and rolled down, the ground shook, and smoke and dust rose everywhere.

Ling Tao was speechless, but it was the gorilla who saw people digging salt mines, and actually participated in it, and accidentally collapsed a mountain cliff .......

"These guys, isn't it looking for trouble, if you mess around like this, the natural barrier here will be lost in the future, and you can't mess around with the salt mine, you have to plan it well", Ling Tao pouted and said to himself......

As the days passed, these hundreds of people were busy in full swing, and a lot of refined salt was refined, and there was no problem with eating, with salt, plus there was no shortage of food, and there was also strength, the people of the escort team trained more and more hard, and their strength improved significantly.

On this day, Tie Ding found Ling Tao and proposed: "Mr. Ling, because a large amount of salt has been refined here, we are afraid that the people here will not be able to eat it for ten lifetimes, or I will take someone to transport a batch to the base city to sell, and then come back with other materials?" For example, weapons and ammunition, we have the most these things here."

Ling Tao pondered for a while, thought for a while and said: "It's okay, but you don't have to go, stay here, just right, I also have something to do to go to the base city, and I will transport a batch of them by the way......." (To be continued......)