Link was stunned when he heard this, looked at Taika who was out of breath on the ground, hurriedly grabbed Taika's shoulder, and asked impatiently, "Have you confirmed it?"

Taika's shoulder was a little painful when he was grabbed by Link, and he grinned and exhaled in pain, and let Link let go before he said: "It's confirmed, it's indeed mineral salt, I found it in a cave when I led the search team to find refractory materials, this is a sample." As he spoke, he pulled out a half-white crystalline stone-like object and handed it to Link.

Link hurriedly took it, looked at this piece of very rough mineral salt, took out the dagger, and gently scraped it on the mineral salt a few times with the blade, scraping off some turbid gray powder, Link carefully glued the gray powder into his mouth with his index finger, licked the tip of his tongue slightly, and a salty taste accompanied by a bitter taste came from the taste buds, Link's heart moved, this is indeed mineral salt.

Link spit out the salty salt in his mouth, feeling that his mouth was still a little bitter, and he understood that there were some trace elements attached to this piece of mineral salt, looking at the very excited Taika, Link asked: "What is the process of discovery, is it easy to mine?"

Taika said excitedly: "We saw a goat sneaking into the cave, we were going to follow it to find the sheep, but we didn't expect it to enter the cave and start licking the rock wall, we knocked down some rock wall and took it outside to find that it was mineral salt!

Hearing this, Link breathed a sigh of relief, if the mining is too cumbersome, the commune still needs to invest some of its strength in the iron ore now, now this cave mining is not cumbersome, the commune can mine in the leisure stage of iron ore mining.

As far as Link knows, the salt should be buried deep underground, except for the natural salt pans formed by dry lakes in the saline land in the desert, I have not heard of any direct mining of mineral salt, but Link is not a geologist and is not interested in the formation of mineral salt, as long as it can be used by the commune.

Weighing the mineral salt in his hand, Link knew that this kind of salt still can't be eaten directly, there are likely to be trace amounts of toxins, and the taste is not very good, some down-and-out adventurers will buy this cheapest mineral salt stone, make it into a salt bowl, and when eating, light a bonfire, heat up the black bread mixed with stones, dip it in the salt bowl and eat it, a little more particular civilians will not buy this kind of salt stone, or have to mix it with water, make it into brine, and after exposure to the sun and filter, make it into coarse salt to sell it at a good price.

After a little calculation, the newly discovered salt mine was no less valuable than the iron mine, and the newly formed fourth production team was built near the salt mine, and Link planned to personally inspect the area around the cavern, and the new stockade was about to be built, and the labor force of the commune finally had some use.

It's winter now, both mountain goods and prey are very scarce in the rocks, the iron mine is enough for the captured slaves, the repair of the stockade and the charcoal kiln is also quickly completed, a large number of laborers have begun to be idle, Link can only let the men participate in military training before, and there is a clay mold for the dwarves to take the men to make iron pots and hoes, but the new refractory materials have not been found, the blacksmith workshop has to remake the regenerator every few days, the blacksmith workshop cannot absorb so much labor, Link has been planning to build a new stockade to form the fourth production team, and now the problem of location is also settled。

Looking at the very excited Taika, Link looked at the Tyr apprentice priest from the desert tribe, and nodded secretly in his heart, in the process of Link's annexation of several tribes in the desert, he got some apprentice priests, these apprentices are literate and hyphenated, and also have some knowledge reserves, in the early days of the establishment of the commune, they all served as literacy class teachers, public treasury managers, discipline officers and other positions, which are rare talents in the commune, and also have a high fighting enthusiasm in previous battles, this Taika is particularly prominent, in the previous invasion of the gnolls, he assisted Niata in preparing defensive materials, after Niata fell down the wall, he led the mountain people to resist the invasion of a wolf.

Patting Teka on the shoulder, Link smiled and said to Teka, "Let's go see the cave later, it's hard work, you go and rest first." ”

Teika nodded, leaving the hot blacksmith workshop, Link smelled the choking smell in the air, smiled at the dwarven leader, and comforted Eric, expressing that once the trade route was re-established, the dwarves needed ale would be the first to be transported into the rocks.

Looking at the dwarven leader who finally coaxed the past, Link smiled bitterly in his heart, these dwarven craftsmen even when they were slaves in the Santarin Society, the Santarin Society never cut off their barbecue and ale, but I didn't expect that after following him as a free citizen, the standard of living was greatly reduced, this dwarf leader had to talk to himself about the supply to them before the Santarin meeting every time he saw him, talking about the golden foam of the ale and the thick sand coconut sauce and honey on the barbecue, every time the two of them finished talking, they were drooling, and they could only go back and sigh and gnaw on the dried meat。

Thinking of the food in the rocks, Link couldn't help but sigh, the food eaten by the mountain people is the wheat smuggled from outside the rocks, and the rice that Link is familiar with is not at all, it is said that the king of Cormier can buy rice imported from the Karatu continent, ten pounds of rice can be replaced by a cow, the mountain people in the rocks have stored a lot of jerky, goat meat, wild boar, badger meat, but these jerky have an unpleasant fishy smell, the mountain people are reluctant to smear the precious spices and grass on it, just simply smoke it, smear it with coarse salt, and forget it after drying。

The mountain people did not raise much livestock, because raising too many livestock would attract orcs to plunder, so they simply raised some goats and domestic pigs, and some chickens, but the mountain people did not have the habit of castrating the meat with livestock, and the goats and pigs raised by the mountain people were either smelly and unpalatable or the meat could not be called old, and only chicken was the most satisfying to Link.

As for the materials seized from the orcs, goblins, and gnolls, only the wheat in the flax bag can be eaten with confidence, and other things Link doesn't dare to swallow at all, if it just grows "meat squirt" like the dried meat of the mountain people, Link who has experienced desert life can eat it without changing his face, but the captured materials often appear in the orc blood wine, goblin jerky and other terrifying things, Link really dare not try.

"I really want to go to Cormier's royal capital, I heard that the steel regent is the first beauty in the kingdom?" Link thought as he walked inside the stockade, listening to the troubled roosters in the stockade.