Felicia was also aware of Surin's plans, but she knew better that the biggest drawback of this series of plans was that she could not transport the collected salt out within two months and buy the seeds back.

Su Lin saw her solemn face, and also knew what her worries were, so he walked over and took her hand and said with a smile and comforted: "Don't think too much, the plan always has to come step by step, as for those annoying problems, let's slowly figure out a way." ”

"I'm not as optimistic as you. ”

Seeing the smile on his face, Felicia also shook her head, since getting along for a long time, she also knew that Su Lin was the kind of person who was very optimistic no matter what the situation, according to what he said, there will always be a way in a desperate situation, if not, it can only mean that you haven't found it.

Then Surin and Felicia set out to inspect the blacksmiths, and in a short time the two of them were outside an iron shop, which was very empty and dusty, and it seemed that no one had worked here for a long time.

Then Kersma came over with five people, all of whom were wearing short sleeves, all of them were in their thirties, and the muscles in their arms were very developed.

"Lord Duke, these five are the blacksmiths in our town, but they were all forbidden to strike iron before, so the blacksmith shop has been abandoned for a long time. Kersma explained.

"Would you be willing if I asked you to strike iron again?" asked Surin as he looked at the few of them.

When the five blacksmiths heard this, they immediately nodded and said excitedly: "Lord Duke, of course we are willing, our family has always made a living by striking iron, and later Hebrew was afraid that we would build weapons in private, so he forbade us to strike iron." ”

Immediately afterwards, Su Lin asked them to melt all those weapons into farming tools, but after hearing this, the five of them immediately shook their heads and said, "Lord Duke, the equipment in our current blacksmith shop is not yet up to the temperature that can melt steel weapons. ”

Hearing this, Su Lin also fell into deep thought, and immediately found a discarded sword and asked them to make this sword into a hoe, while he observed the ironmaking technology of this era on the side.

Soon the five of them took off their clothes and began to work, first lighting the charcoal in the stove, then throwing their swords into it, while someone next to them was pulling bellows to speed up the burning of the charcoal.

In a short time, the blade of the sword was burned red, and one of them immediately clamped it out of the iron pier of the house with iron tongs, and the other immediately took out an iron hammer and struck it vigorously.

At this time, there was a sound of bells and bells in the blacksmith shop, and when the hammer smashed on the red-hot sword, it was also a spark, and the sword body slowly turned into a red-hot sticker, and then it was beaten into a hoe.

The last blacksmith put the red-hot hoe into the water, and immediately made a sizzling sound, accompanied by a burst of white smoke, and when it came out of the water, it was the usual hoe, and it was ready to use with a wooden handle.

After going through the whole process, Surin also asked them to continue to build farm tools, and then took Felicia and went out.

"Why do you look unhappy, are you dissatisfied?" asked Felicia as she looked at him frowning.

"The current ironmaking technology is too weak, so it can only be slowly improved in the future. ”

After observing, Su Lin already understood that the iron-making technology of this era was still in block ironmaking, directly extracting wrought iron from iron ore, thinking that it was similar in another world, the European Middle Ages had always been block iron-making, and the technology had not improved.

However, Su Lin was also distressed at the thought of burning the sword red and turning it into a farm tool, after all, the sword is steel!

Then Surin and Felicia rode up the hill to see the hunting soldiers.

When I arrived, I saw that I had already hunted a lot of prey, and they were piled up like a hill.

When Gru and Starr saw Surin coming, they immediately ran over and said with a smile: "Lord Duke, look at our harvest today, it's not bad!"

Hearing this, Su Lin also swept the pile of small prey like a hill, and saw that there were still some cubs among them, and immediately said to the two of them: "Don't beat the cubs in the future, so there will be no prey on the mountain, let everyone gather!"

"Yes, Lord Duke. ”

Soon the thousand soldiers were gathered and standing, and Surin walked up and down in front of them, constantly looking at them.

Seeing them standing staggered, and from time to time they exchanged heads, Su Lin couldn't help but shake his head, these people were not so much soldiers as farmers with weapons.

"Do you want to be knights?" asked Su Lin with a smile as he looked at the group.

"Of course, we've dreamed of being knights since we were kids. Many people said in unison, their faces full of anticipation.

Su Lin nodded and said in a deep voice: "Very good, but your dream will not come true, from now on, I want you to remember that you are real professional soldiers, and you only have two tasks, to protect your family and defend the country, and expand your territory." ”

His words also stunned everyone, almost everyone's dream in this era is to become a knight and obtain a knighthood and land.

Felicia didn't agree much with Surin's words, she was also a knight herself, she was trained as a professional knight, and her recognition of knights was also very high, but now she couldn't speak, so she could only wait for the evening.

At this time, the whole team became very quiet, although they had not been in contact with the outside for a long time, but they still had a knight's dream in their hearts, and now suddenly someone said that their dream could not be realized, and they were naturally a little resistant.

Su Lin also laughed when he saw them like this, and then said to them very easily: "There are two kinds of knights, one is the knight group formed by the king and lord, these knights don't have to worry about weapons and equipment, and the other is the free knight, who must bring their own horses and raise their own weapons, what kind of knights do you think you can become?"

After hearing this, everyone was even more silent, most of them only had the life of becoming free knights, and the knights in those knights were all noble children, and ordinary people couldn't enter at all.

"Hope is good, but reality is cruel, but don't worry, I will train you to be a stronger soldier than a knight, a soldier. ”

"Now I want to tell you the most important point, and that is the vocation of a soldier, and the duty of a soldier is to obey orders, and I hope you will remember that. ”

After roaring a few times, Su Lin was also about to walk back, but it was Felicia who stopped him, and said with a displeased face: "Why do you say that knights are inferior to soldiers, knights are the strongest in terms of combat power, and everyone aims to become knights." ”

Seeing her angry look, Su Lin couldn't help laughing, knowing that knights were the mainstream in this era, and those so-called soldiers were more farmers, so naturally they didn't look like soldiers, let alone professional soldiers.

Immediately, he thought of an idea, and then said: "Let's do it anyway! Let's train ten people separately, and try to see who is more powerful in half a month." ”

"It's good, it's better. Felicia replied confidently, and the word "win" was almost written in her eyes.

At this time, on the beach, a group of people are warping salt ore on the beach, then transporting it back to be crushed by a stone mill, filtered with fresh water, and finally boiled to produce salt.

Surin watched the workers at work in an orderly manner at the mill, bags of white salt stacked into small mounds.

Then he dipped a little of it with his hand and put it in his mouth for a while, and found that in addition to saltiness, there was a faint bitter taste, and he couldn't help but secretly say: It still doesn't look good!

In modern times, sea salt is the main source of edible salt, but there is also a technology to remove impurities in sea salt, in the past, mineral salt is the most popular edible salt, and sea salt can not be directly used for consumption, because there are harmful substances such as magnesium chloride that cannot be removed.

Originally, he thought that these substances could be eliminated by filtering fresh water and recrystallizing again, but now it seems that it still can't work, but fortunately, there is no big problem if you don't eat it for a long time, and the scope of this sale is also very wide, and basically it will not cause harm to people.

If you put it in modern times, these products are completely substandard, but now you have to raise funds quickly, so you have to do it, and there is evil hidden behind the huge wealth, which is also a helpless move.

After returning in the evening, Felicia lay down at the table and carefully studied the map of the continent, biting her lip and frowning as she drew on it with a quill pen.

"What's the matter, women frown, but it's easy to get old!" Su Lin laughed and joked.

"You're still smiling, I haven't figured out how to get out of here yet. Felicia said without looking back.

Surin is also very aware of the current situation, Buori will not open the gate connecting to this side of the Great Desert of Gert, and he has offended Thor, the son of the city lord, so it is impossible to transport salt from the land, if they take the sea route instead, they don't even have a boat, and this road will not work.

Thinking of this, Su Lin couldn't help but sigh, and said in a deep voice: "The amount of salt collected this time is also very large, so you have to find a few big cities to digest it, but when you go out, it will take half a year, and it would be great if you could get there all at once." ”

Felicia, who was on the side, was also amazed when she heard this, and hurriedly patted Su Lin's next door and said: "I thought of a way that can allow you to quickly reach other cities at once, in all big cities there is a flying beast, which is specially responsible for transporting those rich people to other places quickly." ”

"Why didn't you say it earlier?"

Hearing this, Su Lin also laughed, this flying beast is an aircraft of this era, and it is much more convenient to shuttle the continent with it.

Felicia also replied embarrassedly at this time: "I also just thought of it, and this flying beast is available in Buori, but even if you rush back with the boat, and then pull the salt out to sell, buy the seeds and rush back, there will definitely not be enough time!"

These words also poured a basin of cold water on Su Lin, who was happy, and his heart sank instantly.