Firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar tea, three meals a day to spend the New Year, being a man is the same as eating, you have to live with salt and taste.

Making refined salt is simple –

dissolve the salt block,

precipitation of impurities;

Filtration of impurities;

boiling crystallization;

In less than half an hour, the pale yellow salt cube became the refined salt of the white flowers.

Song Che pinched a handful, sprinkled it on the pancake, handed it to Nangong Yue and Lu Jingxiang, and motioned for them to taste it.

They took a bite and their eyes lit up.

Lu Jingxiang couldn't help but exclaim: "The salt shop is not as delicate as what you make!"

Nangong Yue said: "If you can use this process to open a salt shop, Boss Song will definitely become the richest person in Daliang."

The process of removing impurities and evaporating and purifying is not new in contemporary times.

Besides, salt and iron are controlled by the state, and you want to be dominant? I'm afraid that a hundred heads are not enough to cut off.

"Hey, it doesn't matter if you make money or not, it has always been incumbent on Song to benefit the people!"

Song Che puffed up his chest, covered in a thousand rays of light, and gave it to the two beautiful girls, so fascinated that he didn't want it.

Then he took a pen and paper, recorded the process of refining coarse salt, and handed it over to Chen Qing, the village head, so that the villagers could have refined salt to eat, which was also counted as a reward for their stay.

Nangong Yue was not lightly injured, it has rained heavily in recent days, the road is muddy and difficult to walk, anyway, he has arrived in Dengzhou, and there is militia protection, it doesn't hurt to rest for a day or two.

In the early hours of the next morning.

A burst of gongs and drums woke up Song Che, and when he pushed the window to look, it turned out that his relatives were buried.

The old village chief in the cold rain, the white-haired man sent the black-haired man, and his eyes were full of infinite sadness.

Although Song Che was an outsider, he also went out to comfort him.

"Official, I'm really sorry to disturb your dreams." The old village chief wiped his tears and was still guilty.

What a simple and kind group of people! But tragedy befell them!

God, what's the use of just shedding tears? It is time for you to open your eyes to the sin and filth of this world, and it is time to show mercy and retribution!

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The sky was bright.

Anyway, being idle is idle, it is better to do what you can, Song Che found Li Tao and asked about the defense of the village.

It was learned that there were a total of 80 militiamen in Chenjiazhuang, which were served by the prime of each family, and the weapons and equipment were all agricultural tools, or sharpened wooden sticks to make long spears;

There are two entrances and exits of Chenjiazhuang, one is a bamboo forest, the other is a terraced field next to the bamboo forest, the village is built on the mound, the geographical location is quite high, there are bamboo forests and terraces as a buffer, it is a place that is "easy to defend and difficult to attack";

The most important thing is that the villagers of the Chen family are very united, and the militia is only one of them, and if the Japanese invaders come, the old and young, women and children, can also defend the village with weapons - this is why this village can be so green on this land.

"Among the ten miles and eight townships, only our Chenjia Village is reluctant to leave, and the other villages have either migrated to other places and become homeless, or have been burned and robbed by the Japanese ......."

Li Tao recounted what happened on this land while taking Song Che to the bamboo forest.

The bamboo forest is the choke point into the village, where most of the militia is guarded.

It is not difficult to see that Li Tao has some military knowledge.

Along the way, Song Che has seen many militias spontaneously organized in towns and towns, either indiscriminately filling the numbers or hanging their children, while the militias trained by Li Tao have queues, discipline, and their own defense tasks.

Who said that a son-in-law would only eat soft rice?

The village chief of the Chen family recruited this five-year veteran as his son-in-law, perhaps the most correct thing, just like the old man of the Shen family, the blessing that he had cultivated in eight lifetimes could recruit a golden beetle son-in-law like Song Che.

"I heard that Huainan has dispatched 50,000 sailors to help the north fight against the Japanese, why is the Japanese in Dengzhou still so serious?" Song Che asked.

"Officers and soldiers? A group of gall mice who eat public food! They will only defend the county seat and the state town, and they will not care about the life or death of our village and township people, twenty or thirty widows, they can scare these waste farts and urine! ”

Li Tao scolded bitterly, sad in vain: "We, the people in the coastal areas, are like abandoned children, and even the most basic salt is a luxury, and it is precisely because of this that Xiuhe and they will take risks to buy it in the county seat, and they will ...... Killed by those brutes! ”

It shouldn't, it shouldn't!

Dengzhou Military Port is known as 100,000 sailors and armies, even if they don't act, the 50,000 sailors in Huainan and the muskets and artillery should also be powerful.

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What the hell are you doing!

During the conversation, the bamboo forest arrived.

Because of the rain, the militiamen were all dressed in coats and hats, and climbed the bamboo tops to keep a watchful eye on the wind and grass, while the rest of the militia hid in the bamboo forest.

According to Li Tao, the militia of 80 people was divided into two groups, each group of 40 people, 30 people in the bamboo forest, and 10 people in Tiankan, and they were guarded day and night.

The bamboo forest is a buffer zone, growing so densely that it is most suitable to set traps, but they only have one trick to stumble.

"I also want to set up a few dark crossbows in the forest, but unfortunately I am not a shallow learner, and there are no materials in the village; I want to dig a few pits in the forest, but this is a hilly zone, and if you dig less than half a foot down, it will be hard soil, alas......"

Li Tao sighed.

Song Che pursed his lips, due to material limitations, it is difficult to set up a launch mechanism, but the leaves in front of him are all over the ground, which is a natural camouflage, why not make some "subsidence"?

It is also feasible not to be able to kill people, maim people, and lose their combat effectiveness.

"Captain Li, you should have seen the 'Beast Trap' in the army, right?" Song Che asked suddenly.

Li Tao said: "That's a lot, generally used to clamp horses' feet, but it is made of iron, and it needs to build bearings, and the process is too complicated." ”

"Can you make a replica of one for me out of bamboo? You don't need to have bearings, you just need to open and close like a 'door', the surface is flat and supported by the ground, and the back is made of bamboo skewers to make barbs, well...... It's like this. ”

Song Che used a wooden stick to draw a simple pattern on the ground.

Li Tao thought for a moment and nodded, "Every man in the village has the skill of weaving bamboo baskets, and things don't look difficult, so they can be made on the spot." ”

After speaking, he summoned two militiamen, briefly conveyed the essentials, and then cut down the bamboo and used local materials.

Song Che found a hoe and began to dig a pit in the ground, the pit was two feet long, one foot wide, and one and a half feet deep, just enough to "swallow" people's legs and stomachs with one foot.

The peasant man was really ingenious, and in less than two quarters of an hour, a "barbed device" was completed, which was not much different from Song Che's request.

Song Che called all the militia to his side and demonstrated the mystery of the barb in public.

He first put the barb at the mouth of the hole, the surface was flush with the ground, and the thorn was facing the pit, and then fixed the ends of the head and tail with both hands, and then asked the militia:

"Which fellow comes to try his feet, remember to step slowly, and don't lift your feet after stepping on it."

"I'll do it."

Li Tao was not ambiguous, and stepped on it with one foot, and the mechanism was like "opening his mouth", swallowing his ankle and Achilles tendon in one gulp.

"Hiss......"

Li Tao gasped: "Sting...... It stabbed in, and it hurt...... It hurts so much! ”