Digging salt wells is the same as digging water wells. The project volume and technical requirements are also very different depending on the geographical conditions. In Qingzhou City, which has abundant rainfall and eight rivers surrounding the city, digging wells is a job that requires only effort and no intelligence. , even a young man can do it, who can't do it? Find a piece of flat land and dig a hole straight up. When it is as deep as one person, water will naturally come out! And if it were Danxia Country, where there might be one or two rains throughout the year, drilling a well would be an extremely difficult project. If a local powerful person wanted to dig a well, he would have to find someone who was proficient in reading water veins in advance. The "water master" looked at the water eyes and discussed with the clansmen in the village. Each family contributed money and manpower, and three teams took turns digging. , locked up again, and had to wait for the arrival of the clan leader every day before opening a well to draw water. The story spread to Qingzhou and was regarded as an overseas legend. Talking about it in restaurants and restaurants often made the people who had never left Qingzhou city burst into laughter.
Hualin also knows that in those places where brine has been collected for generations, the places where brine is easy to come out have been occupied by people long ago. If latecomers want to reap the benefits of brine, they have to spend a lot of effort. It often takes more than ten years to build a well. It can only be achieved by scattering all the wealth of the owner of the well. But in the Yishan Mountains, the Yi people are completely amateurs at farming and grazing, and there are inexhaustible clean streams around them. Who is going to do the work of digging wells? It is possible that the place where the brine was produced has never been touched, and it would not take ten years to produce the brine. However, all his preparations were done to the highest standards.
Around the planned well hole, he first ordered the barbarians to level the land, and then dig a large well head with a diameter of one meter. This large well head had to be dug to the bottom of the floating soil and to the rocks. When digging the big wellhead, the other Yi people could not be idle. They had to cut down trees or bamboos. Not to mention, probably because cutting down was indispensable for traveling or opening fields in the Yi Mountains. The Yi people were actually doing this work. He did a good job, and by the time the wellhead was dug, countless large trees and bamboos had already accumulated next to it.
Then, Hualin guided them to build a boom and hoist the rocks from the mountain into the well head piece by piece. They built them along the well wall to make a stone well wall, and placed iron bars made of barbarian swords across the well. Reinforcement on the top - this is to prevent the surrounding soil from shaking and collapsing when digging the well.
Next, the well was officially dug. A wooden frame like a seesaw was set up at the mouth of the big well, and something like uneven bars was placed at one end. The group of barbarians looked at it with curiosity. If Hualin hadn't been so powerful, he would have taught them He had a deep understanding and did not dare to disobey the order. He had already thrown away his hoe and machete. He sat beside him and tore apart the dragon gate array. He played for three days and three nights but still could not come up with a result.
After the wooden frame was installed, the three unlucky guys selected by Hualin climbed onto the uneven bars, hugged the uneven bars with both hands, and then stepped on the seesaw with both feet under the command. The other end of the seesaw drove the drill to hit the rock, and hit the rock. Dig out the source of brine.
At this time, some of the other Yi people continued to chop down trees and bamboo, while others were picked out by Hualin to break bamboos to make pots and weave bamboo pots for boiling salt.
They didn't know that what they were making up was "Bamboo Pot".
Bamboo is not fire-resistant, how can we make a pot?
Plus, it’s square! square! Where in the world is there a stove with a square hole? Even if there is one, this "bamboo pot" is already ten feet long. How big is this stove?
If Hualin explained to them, he might not be able to convince them even if he tried all his words. Fortunately, he was very powerful with his fists, and people from all walks of life knew it. He didn't dare to ask more questions, and he just went about his work obediently, knitting everything. , how is it more difficult to weave bamboo mats than to weave straw mats? Soon, the "bamboo pots" that looked like giant trays were weaved.
After weaving the bamboo pots, they were given an even more bizarre new task - fetching water to fill the newly dug salt well!
"Crazy," thought Chief Paigang, who thought he was very knowledgeable. He had heard Hualin say that the job here is to dig salt wells, but isn't digging wells just to collect water? Why do you still need to water it?
