The sun rises in the east, and the temperature of the earth slowly rises, but the cold at dawn is still not to be underestimated, especially the moment when people just wake up from sleep, it is particularly biting.

After Li Yuan woke up, he put on his robe, and then put on a thick coat, and as soon as he walked out of the tent, the two guards immediately bowed down and greeted: "Governor, you are awake."

"What time is it?" Pontus had to go and see the horse." Li Yuandao.

The guard nodded and said, "It's time to go back to the Grand Governor. If last night's salt had been poisonous, the horse would have reacted somewhat."

Li Yuan nodded yes, and then walked to the place where the horses were tied accompanied by his personal guards, the rising sun slanted on the top of the hill in the east, and the morning breeze blew through his body, although it was cool, but it made people's spirits lift.

Zou Laohan's tent happened to be set up next to the horse's resting place, just because his beloved donkey Dahei was also tied here, so that he could see the passport material at any time, Li Yuan had not yet approached, and Zou Laohan had already heard the sound and got out of the tent.

"Governor, you're here!" Old man Zou smiled and said.

Li Yuan returned the salute, strode over, and said with a smile: "Old man, where was the horse tied last night?"

Zou Laohan didn't talk nonsense, and hurriedly took Li Yuan to the yellow horse used to test the poison last night, but saw that in a sunny shadow away from the stable, the yellow horse was tied to one side alone, and the foam chewing in his mouth was rushing at this time, and behind it, the donkey Da Hei was shaking his tail honestly.

Li Yuan walked quickly to the side of the two animals, the big black stretched out his mouth to rub, and was ruthlessly pushed away by Li Yuan, only staring at the yellow horse, looking up and down, circling around the yellow horse, opening the horse's lips for a while, and approaching the nostrils for a while to look closely.

"Pontus doesn't know how to heal horses, but it doesn't seem to be anything out of the ordinary with this yellow horse. What do you think, man?" Li Yuan frowned and asked.

"I just pulled two bubbles of, and nothing else. I came to see it every half an hour, and I didn't see anything strange." Old Man Zou smiled, then turned around and glared at Huang Ma secretly.

Li Yuan stepped forward, stretched out his hand to untie the horse's reins and said, "Whether it is poisoned or not, see if it has the strength and how the spirit is." The most straightforward way to do this is to ride it for a while."

Then Li Yuan waved his hand, and a personal guard immediately turned over and urged the horse. With a thud, the yellow huss trotted up in the clearing, stirring up the soft sand and blowing in the wind, and after a moment he ran around the makeshift camp and returned to his place.

"Everything is as usual, but it seems that my strength has increased, and I am very happy to run." The guard smiled as he threw his hand on his horse.

Li Yuanxi smiled and said continuously: "That's good, that's good, that is to say, there is poisonous salt above the surface, and the slightly lighter color under the lower foot is really edible salt after purification."

Without further ado, Li Yuan immediately gathered all the guards and set off to go to the salt wells again, preparing to consider the next step, and everyone had to act immediately.

Under the light of the morning light, the desolate scenery in the forbidden land shines with a kind of bleak poignancy, especially the huge tombstone, the white light shines horizontally, it seems more mysterious, and although there are more than ten salt wells in the wilderness, although it is pitch black, but because of the sunlight, on some stone walls near the wellhead, there is something that refracts the colorful light, like a lot of gems dotted on it, very peculiar, maybe only the torch shined last night, and failed to find the special of this thing.

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Li Yuan ordered people to dig back and forth several times at different depths in different salt wells to determine whether the situation was the same as the one dug last night, and the results obtained were satisfactory. The whole area, basically dig down a little deeper, and the next convenience is no longer poisonous salt, but lighter coarse salt, as long as it is purified, it can be eaten, and the larger the amount of digging down.

In other words, in addition to the surface of the bottom of the well and the stone wall, the thickness of the poisonous salt, the bottom of the whole area is full of valuable coarse salt, the amount is astonishing.

At the mouth of the well, something that glows colorful in the sunlight is also confirmed to be a crystallization with color, shining like a gem, but I don't know which substance it is, but Li Yuan knows that no matter which substance, it may be a useful thing.

Therefore, Li Yuan used

Different cloth bags contained different samples, and they planned to take them back to Liu Zhenren to take a look, and they could only turn to these alchemy warlocks for help in these things.

The soil in the salt well has actually been stiffened, and no one knows about the salt layer precipitated underneath, if it weren't for Li Yuan and his entourage coming this time, I don't know when they will be forgotten by the world.

Li Yuan was pleasantly surprised in his heart, but he was also sorry for Ma Xifan, the king of Chu in the past, only a little bit, even if he dug a little deeper, this huge salt reserve would be in his hands, and once the Chu State had a salt well in hand, the rise of national strength was just around the corner, and it was impossible to tell how much history would be rewritten, whether it was fate or luck, it was really embarrassing......

With the passage of time, the souls of the dead were buried, the salt wells were forgotten, and the word of mouth of the people who were naturally afraid of the gods became a forbidden existence, which became the desolate appearance that the living people are not close to.

In the final analysis, although there is enough evidence to prove the transformation of the sea into a mulberry field in later generations, people's minds are often more profound than the knife work of nature.

This time it can be said that there is an amazing huge harvest, Li Yuan is already satisfied, if it is really the heavens, this salt well is exactly what he thinks, maybe he can have enough money to complete many plans in his heart.

Before I came, I was a little worried, worried that the effort would be in vain, but now it seems that the hard work was worth it.

The rest is how to obtain this salt on a large scale, cook it or stir-fry it, and then transport it out for food supplies and money, which is the most urgent task. In addition to satisfying Wu Ping's own needs, it is also the most important thing to persuade his father-in-law Zhou Zong to participate in it, and to sell these private salts to various places through legitimate sales channels.

"Congratulations to the Grand Duke, congratulations to the Grand Duke! Now there is the salt you want in this salt well, which is a great creation for our Wuping, which is equivalent to gold and silver everywhere! However, this place is less than ten miles away from the border of Jingnan, and in order to ensure that the salt well is safe, the last general suggested that soldiers and horses should be sent here as soon as possible to set up a fence to guard it." Lin Sichang said with excitement on his face.

Li Yuan stretched out his hand to hold the sword at his waist, looked at the Xiaosu wilderness in front of him, and nodded, "Since God has given me such an opportunity, I should cherish it. But since you know that this is gold and silver everywhere, then it is absolutely not enough to simply set up a fence, not to mention that the Jingnan border is less than ten miles, just around these terrains, there are no hills and ravines to block, if the army is attacking, how can you hold it without high walls?

Sichang, the governor of Pontus wanted to build a fortified city here, garrison soldiers and horses, and then recruit a large number of people to move here, and mine salt here under the protection of soldiers and horses. What do you think?"

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