On the second day after the Dingyuan cannon completed the experiment, Gao Buer asked the blacksmith to be responsible for continuing to cast twenty guns, and at the same time sent people to find a beachhead at the mouth of the sea, and set up forty or fifty frying pans with a diameter of about two meters and a depth of about half a meter, ready to boil seawater to make salt.

Standing in front of a large puddle outside the salt farm, Gao Buer said to Steward Qian: "Uncle Qian, how many days has the seawater in this pool been?" ”

"Back to the owner, the water in here has been almost a month, according to your instructions, I poured it into it soon, and now it is a little slippery to the touch."

"That's very good, go back and have people dig five or six more according to this standard, and store seawater according to the previous method."

"Okay, owner, it's just, can this really boil out the salt that people eat?"

"You can rest assured, light the fire, start to pour the filtered brine into the pot, keep injecting seawater and stirring in the process of boiling, and wait for the water in the pot to start boiling, add soy milk, add twenty-four or five times, basically you can make edible salt."

With the instructions of the money steward, the smoke billowed on the beach, the crowd was busy, constantly stirring the seawater with special tools, with the evaporation of water, slowly condensed at the bottom of the pot in addition to the white crystals, obviously it was table salt, according to Gao Fuji's instructions, the water in the pot continued to dry and continue to inject, and when the salt crystals in the pot were more than half, stop filling water, but the soybean milk continued to be added and scraped out.

Wait until the water is basically consumed, Gao Fuji ordered to withdraw the fire, and use the residual temperature to dry the salt, just like that, four days is to produce about 20 catties of salt per pot, 50 cauldrons, 1,000 catties of salt at a time, and the quality is almost the same as well salt, but the cost is lower, and the output is also greater.

The salt merchants, who had been in contact with them for a long time, waited at the salt field early and quickly pulled the salt away.

Steward Qian stood beside Gao Buer, his face flushed, and he said with a smile: "I didn't expect so much salt to be produced in four days, this is a profitable business, as long as the sea is not dry, it will be inexhaustible." ”

Gao Buer said with a smile: "What Uncle Qian said is not bad, but the imperial court policy is changeable, what we can do is to make a good profit before the salt and iron franchise, and the output of this sea salt is extremely high, and when there are more salt refiners, we will not do it, this thing is a small profit but quick turnover." ”

"What the owner said is very true, I will send people to strengthen inspections, do not let people get close to the salt farm, and try not to leak out of this technology." Just say and go and arrange.

Gao Buer didn't think so, knowing that it was impossible not to leak secrets, but it was just a matter of time or time, after all, it was such a big piece, and it was difficult not to get people's attention, but the more salt was boiled, the cheaper the salt price would be, which was a good thing for the people, so he didn't want to really make this salt field airtight, after all, the power of the masses was the greatest, and it was almost impossible to expect Zhuangzi to reduce the price of salt.

After more than ten days, the conch that went out for sea trials returned to the dock of Hangzhou Bay, and the mottling of the hull showed how fierce the competition between him and the sea was, but despite this, the sailors accompanying him were indeed in good spirits, and could sail two or three thousand miles in the sea without any loss, which was already their most ideal big ship.

On the day of the conch's return, it naturally ushered in a warm welcome from the people, and the merchants who took the sea route at home had already asked the money steward more than once to discuss the procurement matters, and signed the purchase agreement after the return of the sea trial after a comprehensive evaluation.

Now that the sea trial has returned, the merchants who took the sea route have also sent people to sail with the ship and come back to return.

"Shopkeeper, don't you know, this ship is fast at sea, full of three masts, and can run seventeen or eighteen miles in an hour, which is sixty percent faster than our old-fashioned ship."

"Don't you know, the host, this ship is easy to handle, and it sails smoothly on the sea."

"Boss, this ship is very good anti-pirate, we met pirates rowing sampans in the South China Sea, our ship didn't stop, a charge drove the pirates into the sea, buried in the belly of the fish, can't get up by help, the key is that they can't catch up with our big ship, rockets are useless to ships, with this ship, our family can go further."

In the tea shed on the shore, the crew of each ship are reporting to their own bosses, and the bosses who heard the report immediately hurriedly asked the money housekeeper to negotiate, although each ship called out a high price of 150,000 yuan, but there were many people who placed orders.

Due to the limitation of shipbuilding capacity, only one ship can be delivered every year, so they all want to compete for the first, you know, a year earlier than others on the sea, it means infinite possibilities and unlimited wealth, and you can't afford to delay.

In the end, under the persuasion of the squires and parents, Gao Fuji had to build another production line, which is the maximum capacity, and the delivery of two ships a year is also the limit, after all, this is a system project, and it is impossible to get so many people in the short term, so someone actually placed an order to make an appointment for ten years.