So the next purchase was very pleasant.

Li Cheng also wanted to insist on cooperating with Liu Mo in the form of rent, but the "sea ban order" was tantamount to being choked by the throat, how could there be room for bargaining, so he had to cooperate obediently!

Perhaps because the residents of the island do not have a deep understanding of prices, the price of buying land is much lower than Liu Mo expected.

Each mu of land in Jianglin Mansion was about 100 taels of silver, and Liu Mo bought 140 mu of land at a price of 50 taels per mu of coastal land after ruthless bargaining.

The matter of salt production has taken a big step forward.

Then, Liu Mo asked Zhao Da to go to Jianglin Mansion and apply to Huang Shouren to lift the ban, while he stayed behind to start the construction of the salt pan.

There is no need to worry about the labor force at all. At present, the island is still in a state of sea closure, and the islanders are completely unemployed. Now Liu Mo wants to build a salt pan, and he has work to do, and he is rushing to be the first to come.

Some were afraid of failing the interview, so they directly proposed that they only need to eat three meals a day, which made Liu Mo very happy!!

If you have labor and land, you can go straight to work.

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After a few days, Liu Mo felt that his mental state was a little poor.

Dried fish, dried fish, salty sea fish.

Kelp, shells, unknown seafood.

He lives on these for three meals a day, so much so that he wants to vomit when he sees these things.

"Yaya's baba, I should go to Jianglin Mansion by myself and let Zhao Da guard here." Liu Mo muttered.

It's okay that he doesn't adapt to the diet, but what bothers him is the progress.

It turns out that although the beach of Dongrai Island is large, it is all hard and rocky ground.

This means that it is a huge amount of work to dig up a site for drying salt.

Again, the Great Xia Dynasty is not a modern earth, what excavators, bulldozers.

All the work has to be dug manually with a hoe and a hoe.

Looking at the piles of hard rocks on the beach, Liu Mo was one head and two big.

The only good news is that the construction of the canal is going well. If nothing else, it will be completed in three days.

Just when he was at a loss, a weathered and smoothed rock on the south coast caught Liu Mo's attention.

Memories come flooding back!

In the northwest of the Earth Sea, there is a city called "Danzhou".

The thousand-year-old salt pans along the coast of Yangpu Peninsula in Danzhou are unique and very interesting.

The local ancients used a salt-making method called "sea mud salt drying method"!

They didn't build salt pans, but used different sizes and shapes of salt stones to dry salt!

Salt Stone...

Ha, it's okay to read more books, you can use it at critical moments!

So Liu Mo has a new plan!

He asked the residents of Donglai Island to use local materials, cut the volcanic rock by the sea and cut it into a salt trough like an inkstone, and placed it on the seaside tidal flats, which formed a very distinctive salt drying field.

Generally, salt drying is to introduce seawater into the salt pond, and then dry it until the water evaporates, the concentration increases, and the salt is obtained after crystallization, but the process of drying salt in sea mud is a bit different.

Sea mud salt drying is the introduction of seawater into the mire for initial evaporation, and a large amount of salt accumulates in the mire. After a period of time, the salt content is increased to a certain level, and then the brine with a high concentration is filtered out as a preliminary raw material.

The highly concentrated brine filtered out is collected for later use.

Then, a thick layer of straw is laid at the bottom of the salt stone to filter the sediment and impurities, and the brine is poured into these stone troughs, and the wide and shallow stone troughs are blown by the sun and wind during the day, coupled with the characteristics of the rock heating up quickly, the speed of salt production is greatly improved.

With memory, as concocted.

About four or five days later.

The particles are uniform, the color is bright, the saltiness is moderate, and the natural sea salt processed by the original method is manufactured.

I picked it up and tasted it, and the taste was still the same, a strong smell of earth sea salt.

The first experiment was successful, and Liu Mo was not in a hurry to report the results to Huang Shouren.

Whether it's the earth, or the Great Xia Dynasty.

As big leaders, they don't like the process, they only care about the result.

Huang Shouren didn't have the heart to read your research results, he just wanted to see Bai Huahua's salt tax paid.

Therefore, the successful development of new salt is only the first step, and there are more challenges waiting for Liu Mo in the future.

The first is purification.

Whether it is salt drying in sea water or sea mud, all you get is coarse salt.

The level of science and technology in the Great Xia Dynasty is not high, and the cost of purification is very high. Therefore, it was difficult for ordinary people in the Great Xia Dynasty to even eat coarse salt, and only high-ranking officials and nobles could afford to eat fine salt.

Therefore, if fine salt is mass-produced and then sold at a price close to the people, the private salt market can be completely crushed.

For modern people on earth, coarse salt purification is very simple, dissolve (put in water) filtration, distillation and crystallization, a few times you can go, and finally grind it to get delicious fine salt.

Liu Mo naturally masters the purification technology, and the key question is how to keep it secret!

Most of the residents of Donglai Island have made a living from fishing for most of their lives, and the folk customs are quite simple, and most of the geniuses who can rely on stealing and self-taught are not born.

The subordinates sent by Lin Yuan needed to be on guard.

It is impossible for Liu Mo to do all the links himself, and he always has to teach the relevant technology to the relevant person in charge.

For this reason, the most extreme way to prevent leakage is that when Liu Mo builds infrastructure, he deliberately divides multiple "production workshops", and each person in charge performs his or her own duties.

Once the plan is finalized, the next step is to wait for construction.

Containers, filtration equipment, and distillation equipment all have to rely on Liu Mo's design.

It also takes a certain amount of time to build these devices, and before you know it, more than ten days have passed.

Calculate the time, it has been a month since I left Linyang.

Liu Mo, who has been sunbathing on the island for so long, misses Lin Shiqi very much.

During this period, he wanted to go back to Linyang City many times, but before Zhao Da came back, the conditions did not allow it.

His promise to Li Cheng has not been fulfilled, and the sea ban has not been lifted, and if he leaves halfway, it will definitely make the islanders of Donglai Island suspicious.

Looking forward to the stars, looking forward to the moon, a few days later, Zhao Dashan was late.

I have to say that Huang Shouren, the prefect of Jianglin, is really good to Liu Mo.

Without seeing any finished products, Huang Shouren specially asked him to understand the ban.

At the moment when he saw this lifting of the ban, Li Cheng couldn't help but burst into tears. The ban on the sea has made them miserable for the islanders who depend on the sea for their livelihoods.

As a result, Li Cheng immediately said that all the residents of the island would make salt for Liu Mo free of charge.

Liu Mo is not a stupid person, people say that if you really agree, you won't be a person.

The salary must be paid, we can't really let the other party work for us for the rest of our lives.

After some "politeness", the two sides finally reached an agreement that they would repay the favor, and the unpaid working time was limited to three years.

Three years of free labor is enough for Liu Mo.

After getting the ban lifted, although he missed Lin Shiqi very much, Liu Mo did not return to Linyang as soon as possible.

A single "Donglai Island Factory" cannot disrupt the entire Jianglin private salt market.

He had already set his sights on the other islands.

With this lifting of the ban, are you worried that the residents of other islands will refuse to cooperate with you?

For them, Liu Mo naturally will not be a "virgin"!

At the beginning of your career, you rejected us one by one.

Now, Liu Ye must make you pay something.

After the plan was determined, Liu Mo set out to find out the object of the first "scourge".

"Which island was the most arrogant in the first place? Gulan Island, this is it! Zhao Da, depart for Gulan Island tomorrow! ”