Chapter 222: Salt Farm
The sun is rising.
The golden sunlight shines through the gaps in the branches and leaves of the trees, reflecting a long sword like autumn water, reflecting a shimmering brilliance.
Spirit goose swordsmanship, the third move, collect the sword!
"Whew!"
The big trees around him were broken together, with Chen Hao as the center, and fell down in all directions!
"Very good, Uncle Shi will ask someone to collect it later, and there will be a lot of firewood. "Chen Hao is very satisfied with the results of his sword practice, by the way, what a good thing.
Looking down the hill from here, you can see forty or fifty brick houses, arranged in three neat rows, built a hundred zhang away from the opposite side of the mine.
The smoke has begun to rise, and except for cooking, everything else is making a fire to refine salt.
Half a month ago, with the entry of the first batch of 4,000 catties of salt vegetables, Chen Hao's salt refining workshop was officially started.
Before that, Wang Meng came first and installed a protective formation for Chen Hao in the waste mine, "Ground Guards and Leaves the Formation".
Although the power of this earth demon can protect a territory of 200 zhang square, if a monk at the peak of Qi cultivation wants to attack, he will need more than 20 powerful spell bombardments to destroy it.
And it also has the function of isolating the physical object, whether you are a qi practitioner or not, if there is no magic trick or no one uses the magic trick to open it for you, you can't use this formation to get out of *one* book* read * novel xstxt without destroying the formation.
When someone uses violence to destroy the formation, the formation center will emit a sharp sound to alarm. For Chen Hao, it is enough to have these functions, at least to save the salt of building the wall.
The only drawback is that when the formation is opened, it costs twenty-seven primary spirit stones per hour, which is considered to be very consuming spirit stones!
However, in the Overwatch Valley, there is a lack of everything, that is, there is no shortage of spirit stones, and Chen Hao can still afford the consumption of this formation. Even if you don't dig the spirit stones yourself, you can exchange a lot of spirit stones for a little salt.
Chen Hao also moved to the mine a long time ago, and returned to the comfortable and peaceful life of the past, getting up early every day to practice swords, studying the "Great Yan Array Technique", practicing on time and quantitatively, and impacting towards the ninth layer of Qi training.
After practicing the spirit goose swordsmanship, he put away the mandarin duck sword and walked towards the mine under the mountain.
When he arrived at the protective array, Chen Hao Mo used the formation to open the magic technique, and his divine thoughts guided the aura to form an invisible mysterious rune, which hit the formation shield that was invisible to the mortal eye, and the shield immediately opened with his mind.
"Boss Chen, morning. Pedestrians in the salt pan greeted Chen Hao.
"Early. ”
"Hello Boss Chen. ”
"Hello. ”
After the official start of construction, Shi San recruited fifty or sixty people one after another. Because the wages are slightly higher than in the city, there are many people who are willing to come. However, due to the requirement to be stationed in the salt works, many people were eliminated in the end.
As the house was built, the majority of the people who came behind were the family.
Of these hired people, Chen Hao lost all of them to Shi San's management. Seven women were in charge of the fire, and twenty cauldrons were tended. There are also ten people who are responsible for carrying water, although Chen Hao has already led the mountain spring to the pool dug by the mine money, but after all, there is no such thing as a water pump faucet, and if you want to use it, you still have to rely on manpower to pick it up from the pool.
Most of the others were sent to the mountains to cut wood, and the mountains behind the mine stretched so far that there was no need to worry about cutting down all the trees for decades.
"Uncle Shi, after breakfast, arrange for someone to fill the water tank in the mine. Chen Hao saw Shi San and said to him.
"Teacher Chen, I estimated that the 'salt water' was running out soon, and I was preparing to arrange it. "Shi Sandao.
After the initial practice of salt vegetable pulp, burned out is black, black, yellow, bitter and astringent coarse salt, after Chen Hao's configuration of the solvent soaked and stirred, the salt will be dissolved into the solvent, and those impurities will remain. After filtration, the solution with impurities removed is boiled again to obtain the salt of white flowers.
Therefore, Chen Hao configured the plant ash solvent for refining table salt, which was originally not named, but everyone spontaneously called the water "point salt water".
"Boss, are you still going to buy spirit stones today?" Zhang Wu also came over to ask Chen Hao for advice.
A lot of salt has been practiced these days, but Chen Hao didn't keep any of it, and asked the Zhang brothers to use it to buy food, daily necessities, and even a lot of furniture to improve the lives of the people working in the salt works.
These are benefits other than wages, as long as you live in the salt farm, Chen Hao will give everyone a copy of whatever she buys. Therefore, although it has only been a short time since the start of construction, the people in the salt field have already loved and loved Chen Hao incomparably.
You know, for example, a whole set of cloth clothes, in Overwatch City, only the rich can wear them, and the poor people mostly wear animal skins. But Chen Hao gave them two sets for each person, saying that they wanted to maintain hygiene and that the cloth clothes could be cleaned frequently.
The rest of the house utensils and so on, these people used to be almost all in Overwatch, except for a few animal skins used to be used as clothes and quilts, where would they think about what furniture.
But now every household has a whole set of fine porcelain, pots and pans, well-made wooden beds, tables and chairs, etc., which were unimaginable before.
The key thing is that this is all sent to everyone by Boss Chen for nothing!
In addition to not being able to take it away, it is equivalent to one's own property. You call these people, how can you not give up on Chen Hao? Because Chen Hao let them live like people.
However, as the utensils and clothes were all purchased, there was gradually nothing to buy. Chen Hao does not have a professional warehouse now, and he does not understand how people store grain for more than ten or decades. So he can only buy a few months' supply, and any more will easily spoil.
After the second batch of 12,000 catties of salt vegetables arrived, more than 30 catties of salt could be produced every day.
So Chen Hao decided to stock up on some spirit stones.
Because this thing will not deteriorate and is easy to store, at present, it will be consumed in large quantities, and it can be taken away by yourself in the future.
And Chen Hao still has a little compassion, the poor people in Watchman City, the easiest thing to get is the spirit stone. As long as you are willing to spend your strength, there are mines on all sides of the Watch Valley, and you can always collect a lot of spirit stones.
He exchanged salt for spirit stones, which was equivalent to giving many people an extra way to make money. Like those who don't have a skill, they can also rely on collecting some spirit stones to exchange for salt, which can improve their lives to some extent.
Hearing Zhang Wu ask himself, Chen Hao said: "A total of 100 catties of salt have been produced in three days, you can take 50 catties out today." After buying all the firewood in the market, the rest was replaced with spirit stones and brought back. ”
Although there are more than 30 people who cut wood every day, it is not enough for 20 cauldrons to burn, so Chen Hao still needs to purchase wood outside to replenish it.
"Boss, if you buy it like this, you might as well hire someone to dig it yourself. Zhang Wu suggested.
"Hehe, I have my own plans, you can change it. ”
If you dig it yourself, this cave will definitely need to be overhauled. Counting the investment, the time consumed, etc., it is better to purchase those collected sporadically by the poor than a few years or ten years.
Chen Hao didn't plan to stay in the Watch Valley and the White Horse Cave for a long time, of course, he didn't need to explain this to Zhang Wu.