After returning to Texel Island with 500 serfs, Malin immediately led everyone to carry out construction. First, he built adobe houses for all 500 families as residences.

Then, 700 male laborers from 500 serfs were organized to start building roads. As for the salt boiling center by the sea, Marin specially invited several professional masons from Cologne to help build firewood and stoves. In addition, Marin also sent a boat to the mainland to pull a lot of bricks.

There is actually no technical difficulty in saving firewood stoves. The only troublesome thing is to build a high chimney. It is okay for ordinary people to build a furnace wall, but they are not professional masons, so they cannot build a high chimney well. If one is not done well, the high chimney will easily be poured out. Therefore, Marin specially invited masons to build a salt-boiled firewood stove.

The professional ones are professional. Several masons completed the task well and built 20 firewood-saving stoves with high chimneys. Kohler also retrieved the 20 large iron pots he had ordered from Amsterdam.

Because there were many places to be built on the island, Marin simply left behind the eight bricklayers borrowed from Wright. He also sent people to say hello to Wright and brought the families of the eight people. Because they formed an alliance in interest, Wright did not hesitate and immediately agreed to Marin's request.

It took a month to build the salt boiling center by the sea. The road from Thorenche to the salt boiling center was successfully completed. In addition, they also took the time to dig a ditch on the beach of the salt boiling center to lead to the sea and flooded the sea water to facilitate everyone to get the sea water. In addition, Marin asked them to dig a small drainage ditch for the salt boiling center...

After the road was repaired, the coal balls loaded and unloaded from Thorenche began to be continuously transported to the salt boiling center. This salt boiling center was named Salttown by Marin...

After 20 large pots were fully activated, after many tests, everyone finally confirmed that Nissan sea salt was 1,000 quarts...

Moreover, the new technology proposed by Marin was used to boil salt, which gave a very good taste of fine salt...

In fact, it is not considered an advanced technology. The main thing is that when the salt is boiled to the final stage, some of the sea water will be left behind and will not completely evaporate, but will be poured out.

This part of the sea water actually contains salts such as chlorine-magnesium and chlorine-potassium, which have higher solubility than salts. Magnesium salt is different from table salt. It is very bitter, while calcium salt is astringent. If the sea water is dried, the salt left is coarse salt. Among them, because of the doping of magnesium salt, calcium salt and other magazines, the coarse salt tastes slightly bitter.

The part of the sea water that is poured out is called "bite braised". If you pour out these bitter braised, you can barely count as refined salt. This refined salt also contains some magnesium salt, but the content is already very low. The bitter taste of refined salt is relatively light and difficult to taste. This is a little different from the refined salt that has been processed chemically in later generations.

In the Middle Ages, the British cooked salt but did not know how to remove bitter brine. Therefore, their salt could only be regarded as coarse salt. The mineral salts in salt mines such as Lüneburg were even more bitter and rarely had high-quality, bitter-free and refined salts.

In fact, the secret to removing bitter braised is that people accidentally took some salt grains under the bitter braised pork during the salt drying process and found that there was no bitter taste. Later, they left the bitter braised pork and only took out the fine salt with good taste. In the salt-boiled pork, people were accustomed to boiling sea water to obtain coarse salt from the bottom of the pot. Generally, no one poured out the bitter braised pork when cooking for half of the time, and they didn't know how to remove bitter braised...

The fine salt produced under the guidance of Marin is better than most of the current European salts. After tasting it, Wright immediately evaluated it as the best fine salt and believed that only nobles can eat this fine salt...

Wright didn't know the reason, thinking that the sea water quality in the Texel region was good. He didn't know that Marin just added one more step to dump the bitter braised rice. But it was this simple step that greatly improved the taste of the salt.

After the fine salt produced in Yancheng is poured out, Marin also adds some fresh water, dilutes some impurities such as magnesium ions, and then pours out... In this way, there will be even less residual bitter brine...

Then, the remaining salt is heated and the water is evaporated. Then, someone uses a copper hammer to smash the salt particles. In this way, the fine salt produced in Yancheng is all powdery white salt similar to the fine salt in later generations...

This white powdered salt was definitely considered high-end salt in medieval Europe, and no wonder Wright gave a high evaluation.

Even, because of the high grade, Wright took the initiative to increase the purchase price to 4 shillings. Of course, the benefits of his 3 Finney remain unchanged...

After cost calculation, these 20 large salt-boiled pots only consume 15 chartron briquettes per day because they use firewood-saving stoves. In other words, the 50 chartron briquettes provided by Hoffman Manor cannot use up to 50 chartron briquettes per day, and only less than one-third of them are used.

In fact, Marin can expand the production of salt. However, Marin feels that at the beginning, it is necessary to test the market reaction and do not need to produce so much. Otherwise, if you produce too much, it will be troublesome if you can't sell it.

The 20 salt boilers, plus the labor for transporting coal, use less than 100 people in total. Then, there are 600 more young and strong laborers...

This time, Marin brought 500 serf families on the island, with a total of 3,100 people. The number of young and strong laborers alone reached 700 people.

At present, only 100 people cook salt, Marin simply took the remaining 600 people to reclaim wasteland near Denburg...

Now it is early March in early spring. Just in time, spring plowing is about to begin. Marin has 1,000 horses in his hand, which can be used to cultivate land and reclaim land. However, these horses lack plowing.

So Marin sent Kohler to nearby cities and recruited a group of blacksmiths with good skills to settle in Denburg. At the same time, he purchased a lot of iron ingots, wood, and some forging equipment...

When the group of blacksmiths arrived on the island, Malin immediately arranged for them to work with the carpenters on the island to make a batch of curved plows and various iron labor tools.

Afterwards, these farm tools were distributed to the serfs. The farmers of the three farms were arranged to take care of the original 800 Yugram farmland.

Under Marin's arrangement, all the human feces and horse feces on the island were poured into the fields. This caused widespread protests from the serfs, who felt that Marin's doing so would have dirtyed the grain fields and would make the grown grain "disgusting".

But Marin had no time to pay attention to their protests. Under the suppression of 400 big-headed soldiers, the serfs had to do it. Otherwise, the angry serfs would have to beat Marin up. However, Marin had a castle and 400 tough big-headed soldiers who had seen blood. These honest serfs, although they felt disgusting, could only do it.

While arranging the serfs to farm, Marin also asked Kohler and Sauer to lead their men to pick up the families of these guys from door to door according to the addresses given by the big-headed soldiers.

The reason why Kohler was sent was because Kohler was the most sleek servant under Marin and was very good at doing things. For example, those families were detained by the former owner of the manor and refused to let him go, Kohler had enough eloquence to negotiate with him. He could even bargain and use money to redeem him.

Therefore, only Kohler is suitable for this matter, and Schwartz is barely capable, and Schwartz and others are not suitable. Marin himself is actually suitable, but he is now the lord, and he has a lot of things in the territory and is too busy. Moreover, he personally takes action to pick up the family of a soldier, which is a bit too much. If the family of his generals comes to pick up the family, it is almost the same. But the family of Schwartz, the number one general, has long been placed in the Hoffman Manor. Therefore, he doesn't have to win people's hearts anymore. Those big-headed soldiers are not worthy of their own...

After Kohler left, Marin calculated the cost himself. He found that the actual price of fine salt in Yancheng with a daily 1,000 quarts was 3 shillings and 9 quarts. After deducting the price of coal balls and transportation costs, as well as labor costs, a total of about 9 finneys. On average, his profit per quart of fine salt was as much as 3 shillings. 1,000 quarts was 3,000 shillings. And 3,000 shillings was 150 pounds (or 225 marks), equivalent to 600 Ducat gold coins...
Chapter completed!