So we had a great time talking about the next purchase.
Li Cheng still wanted to insist on cooperating with Liu Mo on the basis of rent, but the "sea ban" was like being strangled by the throat. There was no room for bargaining, so he had to cooperate obediently!
Perhaps because the residents on the island do not have a deep understanding of commodity prices, the price of purchasing land is much lower than Liu Mo expected.
Each acre of land in Jiang Linfu costs about one hundred taels of silver, and Liu Mo bought one hundred and forty acres of land at fifty taels per mu of coastal land through ruthless bargaining.
This was a big step forward in making salt.
Then, Liu Mo asked Zhao Da to go to Jianglin Mansion and apply to Huang Shouren for lifting the ban, while he stayed to start the construction of the salt field.
There is nothing to worry about in terms of labor. At present, the island is still closed to sea, and the islanders are completely unemployed. Now Liu Mo wants to build a salt field, and people are rushing to come when there is work to do.
Some people were so afraid of failing the interview that they simply proposed that they only needed to take care of the food three times a day. This made Liu Mo extremely happy!!!
We have the labor force and the land, so we can start working directly.
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A few days passed, and Liu Mo felt a little bad mentally.
Dried fish, dried fish, salty sea fish.
Kelp, shells, unknown seafood.
He relied on these for three meals a day, so much so that the sight of these damn things made him want to vomit.
"Damn it, Yaya, I should go to Jiang Lin Mansion myself and let Zhao Da stay here." Liu Mo murmured.
The discomfort with eating was okay, but what worried him was the progress.
It turns out that although the beach area of Dongnae Island is large, it is all hard rock ground.
This means that the amount of work required to dig out a piece of sun-salted land is huge.
Another thing is that the Daxia Dynasty is not the modern earth. There are excavators and shovels.
All the work has to be done manually, hoe by hoe.
Looking at the piles of hard rocks on the beach, Liu Mo's head was as big as two.
The only good news is that the construction of the canal is going smoothly. If nothing else happens, it will be completed in three days.
Just when he was at a loss what to do, a weathered and smooth 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 fields that remain along the Yangpu Peninsula in Danzhou are unique and interesting.
The local ancients used a method of making salt called "Sea Mud Sun-salting Method"!
They did not build salt pans, but used salt-drying stones of different sizes and shapes to dry the salt!
Sun salt stone…
Ha, read more books when you have nothing to do, it will come in handy at critical moments!
So Liu Mo had a new plan!
He asked the residents of Dongnai Island to use local materials and cut the volcanic rocks on the seaside to make salt-drying troughs like inkstones, which were placed on the beach. This formed a unique salt-drying field.
Generally, seawater is introduced into a salt pond and then dried in the sun until the water evaporates, the concentration increases, and the salt is obtained after crystallization. However, the process of sea mud sun salting is a bit different.
Sea mud sun salting introduces seawater into the mire for preliminary evaporation, and a large amount of salt accumulates in the mire. After a period of time, the salt content increases to a certain level, and then the highly concentrated brine is filtered out as the preliminary raw material.
The filtered brine with high concentration is collected for later use.
Then, a thick layer of straw is laid at the bottom of the sun-salted salt stones to filter out sand and impurities, and the brine is poured into these stone troughs. The wide and shallow stone troughs are blown down by the sun and wind during the day, and the rocks heat up quickly. The speed of making salt is greatly increased.
Rely on memory and do the same.
About four or five days later.
With uniform particles, bright color and moderate saltiness, natural sea salt processed by original methods is produced.
I picked it up and tasted it, and the taste was still the same, a strong earthy sea salt taste.
The first experiment was successful, and Liu Mo was not in a hurry to report the results to Huang Shouren.
Be it the earth or the Great Xia Dynasty.
As big leaders, they don’t like the process, they only care about the results.
Huang Shouren has no intention of looking at your research results. He just wants to see the salt tax paid in vain.
Therefore, the successful development of new salt is only the first step. There are more challenges waiting for Liu Mo next.
The first step is purification.
Whether it is sun-salted from sea water or sun-salted from sea mud, all you get is coarse salt.
The technological level of Daxia Dynasty was not high and the cost of purification was very high. Therefore, ordinary people in the Great Xia Dynasty could not even afford coarse salt, and only the nobles could afford fine salt.
Therefore, only by mass-producing fine salt and selling it at a price close to the people can the private salt market be completely destroyed.
The purification of coarse salt is very simple for modern people on earth. Just dissolve it (put it in water), filter it, distill it and crystallize it several times, and finally grind it to get delicious fine salt.
Liu Mo naturally masters the purification technology, but the key issue is how to keep it secret!
The residents of Donglai Island have made a living by fishing for most of their lives, and their folk customs are relatively simple. Most of the geniuses who can learn on their own through secret learning have not been born yet.
The men sent by Lin Yuan need to be careful.
It is impossible for Liu Mo to do all aspects personally, and he always has to teach relevant techniques to the relevant persons in charge.
For this reason, the most extreme way to prevent leaks is that when Liu Mo built the infrastructure, he deliberately divided into multiple "production workshops", and each person in charge performed his or her own duties.
After the plan is finalized, the next step is to wait for construction.
Containers, filtration equipment, and distillation equipment all had to be designed by Liu Mo.
Building these devices also takes a certain amount of time, and before I knew it, more than ten days had passed.
Counting the time, it has been a month since I left Linyang.
Liu Mo, who had been sunbathing on the island for so long, missed Lin Shiqi extremely.
During this period, he wanted to go back to Linyang City many times, but conditions did not allow him to do so before Zhao Da came back.
His promise to Li Cheng has not yet been fulfilled, and the sea ban has not yet been lifted. If he leaves midway, the islanders of Donglai Island will definitely become suspicious.
Looking forward to the stars and the moon, a few days later, Zhao Da arrived late.
I have to say that Huang Shouren, the prefect of Jianglin, treated Liu Mo really well.
Without seeing any finished product, Huang Shouren specially asked him to understand the ban.
The moment he saw the lifting of the order, Li Cheng couldn't help but burst into tears. The sea ban has harmed the islanders who depend on the sea for their livelihood.
Therefore, Li Cheng immediately said that all residents on the island would make salt for Liu Mo free of charge.
Liu Mo is not an idiot. After all, if he really agrees, he doesn't know how to be a human being.
Wages must be paid. We can't really let the other party work illegally for us for the rest of our lives.
After some "politeness", both parties finally reached an agreement that repayment of kindness must be repaid, and the unpaid working time was limited to three years.
Three years of free labor is enough for Liu Mo.
After receiving the lifting order, although he missed Lin Shiqi very much, Liu Mo did not return to Linyang immediately.
A single "Donglai Island Factory" cannot disrupt the entire Jianglin private salt market.
He has set his sights on other islands.
With this lifting of the ban, are you worried that other island residents will refuse to cooperate with you?
To them, Liu Mo naturally would not be the "Madonna"!
In the initial stage of my career, you rejected me one by one.
Now, Mr. Liu must make you pay some price.
After the plan was confirmed, Liu Mo set out to find the first "disaster" target.
"Which island was the most arrogant at the beginning? Gulan Island, that's it! Zhao Da, we will leave for Gulan Island tomorrow!"
