Wen Yi and his entourage first set off from Mengqi City by boat to the sea, and arrived at the coastline of the Chiayi Plain from the sea.

Stationed here is the Yueshan Division, who had just been promoted to regimental commander not long ago.

Knowing that Wen Yi was coming, he came early with his subordinates to greet him: "See the lord of the country." ”

"No need to be polite, how is the training of the recruits?" Wen Yi Dao.

Yue Shan replied: "I'm disappointed, it's difficult to even operate a boat, and you can't form combat effectiveness without three or five months." ”

Wen Yi smiled: "What are you disappointed, it's not that I don't know how to soldier." The army needs at least a month of training to develop combat effectiveness, and the sailors are even more difficult. ”

"If you don't wipe the deck for half a year, you can't be a qualified sailor, don't be in a hurry to train slowly, what we have is time."

"Yes." Yue Shan breathed a sigh of relief, he was really afraid that Wen Yi would be in a hurry.

Wen Yi condoled with these generals under him one by one: "Wen (Hei) Mu, they are all battalion commanders, come on and surpass Yue Shan as soon as possible." ”

"Wu Heng, right? You are the company commander so soon, you can be regarded as one of the fastest people in our Tang Army to be promoted, do a good job. ”

He can name each of these people, and he can tell each other's identities and experiences. Of course, the main thing is that there are not many people who come.

The lowest level that can greet him here is also the company commander level, Yue Shan's regiment is only two battalions and ten companies, counting those who are on duty, there are only about a dozen people in front of him.

But in any case, the effect was very good, and everyone was very excited, feeling that they were valued, and that the lord of the country was a person worthy of allegiance.

Then he went to the barracks to inspect the circle, and condoled all the soldiers, and finally went to the salt works.

In charge of the salt farm was a man named Wang Youkun, who was also one of the first two thousand displaced people, one of the talents selected and cultivated together with Xiao Baishan and Gu Yi.

He didn't have Xiao Baishan's talent, nor did he have the good luck of Gu Yi to directly enter Wen Yi's eyes and ascend to the sky, and he had been working in the township of Jin'an County before.

After Tang Guoguo re-evaluated the results of officials, he, who is usually a little low-key, jumped to the top and amazed everyone.

This kind of calm and solid work style was deeply appreciated by Wen Yi, and he was selected as the person in charge of the salt farm this time.

"We captured a total of 13,000 natives in the Chiayi Plain, and then migrated 6,000 to Mengqi City. Another thousand Han people and a thousand Chinese natives migrated from Mengqi City to come here......"

"These 9,000 people were divided into three places and placed in Dongshi, Yizhu, and Tianxing...... Just three days ago, the construction of the housing was completed to solve the housing problem, and the next step is to excavate the salt pans. ”

Wang Youkun reported the situation here in detail, and he said it in a clear manner, just listening to it can make people understand the current situation here.

Wen Yi was very satisfied and said, "You did a good job, as a reward...... This place will be called Yancheng County in the future, and you will be the one who will be the county order. ”

Wang Youkun said calmly: "Thank you, Lord of the country." ”

But from his clenched fists, it can be seen that his heart is not as calm as it seems.

In fact, there are only three county-level units in the Tang Kingdom, Mengqicheng, Jin'an County and Langhu, and now there is another Yancheng.

Therefore, he is also one of the senior officials.

"Let's go, let's go to these three towns first."

Originally, Wen Yi was worried that the natives who had just been captured would escape or something, but after going around the three towns, he found that they were quite content with the status quo.

There is only one reason for this situation, Wang Youkun is well appeased.

He had to sigh again that Wang Youkun had a hand in governing the people, and he appeased the natives so quickly.

Since the natives had no intention of rebelling, he could rest assured that he would develop the salt pans.

In his previous life, Wen Yi stayed in the south for most of the time after work, traveled to the salt factory, and personally experienced the process of drying salt, so he still knows a lot about this thing.

Salt pans were excavated far from the coastline – so far away to prevent seawater from backing up due to high tides or storms.

The high and low parts of the salt pan are a group, the high one is the evaporation pond, and the low one is the crystallization pond......

A large pit is dug not far from the coastline, and the sea water enters the pit at high tide, and the water is not delayed after the retreat.

The seawater is extracted by a keel waterwheel and flows down the channel into the salt pans.

The brine is exposed to the sun in the evaporation pond for two to three days and then discharged into the crystallization pond for crystallization.

The evaporation tank is then filled with new brine for evaporation, and the two salt pans work simultaneously to maximize efficiency.

During crystallization, it should be turned once a day, otherwise it will stop crystallizing.

The specific reason is easy to forget.,It seems that if you don't turn it, it will form an isolation layer or something.,Anyway, he remembered to turn it at least once a day.。

What crystallizes is coarse salt, and the ancients called boiling the sea for salt is this coarse salt.

They don't know the method of purification and eat it directly, and if they eat too much, they will be poisoned, and even if they eat less for a long time, they will be chronically poisoned.

Wenyi knows two purification methods.

The first is activated carbon filtration, but he knows how to make activated carbon, which is to put the charcoal in a steamer and wash it with high-speed steam.

However, this method consumes a lot of firewood, and it is time-consuming, laborious and cumbersome.

The second method is simple, the super simple one, saturated washing and purification.

It is to crush coarse salt and dissolve it into fresh water to form saturated brine.

Saturated brine can no longer absorb dissolved sodium chloride, that is, salt, but can continue to absorb other impurities, and the remaining insoluble solid is relatively pure table salt.

This is the principle of saturated washing and purification.

However, the ability of water to absorb other impurities is not unlimited, and it will soon become completely saturated and can no longer absorb impurities.

At this time, it is useless to continue washing, you can only change the water.

If you don't grasp this degree well, the salt that comes out is as toxic as if it wasn't washed.

In the absence of scientific testing methods, this degree is difficult to measure.

But fortunately, Wen Yi knows an approximate value, that is, how much coarse salt can be dissolved in one ton of fresh water.

This is the secret that the salt farmer told him when he traveled and experienced life in the salt pans in his previous life.

In fact, it is not a secret method at all, modern people have long not used this method to purify salt, this so-called washing secret is deliberately made by the tourism company,

Let the god of salt agriculture mysteriously tell the tourists that this is the secret, I see that you are pleasing to the eye and only tell you one person, you don't pass it on to me.

Through this method, it brings unexpected surprises to tourists, satisfies their adventure psychology, and stimulates them to spend more.

I didn't expect this 'secret' to be used after the crossing.

In the case of mature technology, there is almost no difficulty in drying salt, and the first 10-acre experimental field successfully produces salt half a month later.

When everyone tasted the pure salty taste without a little bitterness, they couldn't help but cheer.

Even the most uninformed natives know the importance of salt, let alone others.

By this time, the salt of the white flower had turned golden yellow in their eyes.