"It's really salt, so much..."

An old pirate threw himself on the salt pile and cried and howled, which made Adelaide feel even more embarrassed. Although these natives have little experience, they are by no means stupid. Adelaide, who has the most contact with them, often understands them.

Some clever tricks often succeed. But are these guys crazy or stupid today? What is salt produced by drying sea water? Have people in the Ming Dynasty never seen sun-dried salt?

"The beach-drying method for making salt began to spread during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, and was promoted on a large scale during the Xianfeng period. During this period, the most commonly used method among the people was the torrefaction method. These locals may have never seen such a large-scale production like ours.

Salted."

Old Professor Li Mingyuan appeared in time and stopped the frantic Ade from continuing to use sticks to teach the out-of-control workers. According to Professor Li, although classics record examples of using the solarization method to obtain salt in the Northern Song Dynasty, the strange thing is that for a long time

The drying method is only applied to inland lake salt well salt, but for the largest seaside salt fields, the ancients have been accustomed to the backward method of "boiling the sea into salt". At most, they can only use the sun to dry out a relatively thick salt brine, and then still use firewood.

Solid salt is obtained by boiling it - so the ancient saltworks workers were called "zao households".

Many of those pirates were once kitchen households in the Ming Dynasty. Everything in the Ming Dynasty was hereditary. Kitchen households cooked salt for several generations. They took brine from land and sea, fried it in the sun and boiled it in the sea.

Waves, brine turns into salt... These people must have suffered a lot when they were young. They were deeply impressed by the hardships of making salt, but now they see these "short-haired" people quietly making a few pools, adding some sea water, etc.

They can get a large amount of clean and snow-white sea salt by drying it, which is probably a great stimulus to them... So much suffering in the past was all in vain, and people have been doing stupid jobs for several lifetimes... It is really uncomfortable to think like this.

It's worth it, anyone would go crazy if I changed it.

Ade, Pang Yu and others learned about these situations at the subsequent symposium. We must always grasp the labor ideology, and collective symposiums are a good way. Basically, we can always understand the situation clearly, and then we can take corresponding countermeasures.

However, there seems to be no countermeasures available this time, except for proper enlightenment, which is to give them a few packets of refined salt as a souvenir.

However, it turns out that those cunning old pirates once again fooled the young guys in time-the refined salt was taken to the market and sold by them, and the price was much more expensive than white rice. Of course, cleverness is just cleverness after all.

Ade's carefully designed modern management system was vulnerable to a blow - soon members of the government army came to inform. Only then did the travelers discover that their previous belief that salt was of little value in coastal areas was wrong.

The monopoly on salt and iron in ancient China is a rule that has been passed down since the Han Dynasty. Of course, seaside residents have always secretly made private salt since ancient times, but even if you live by the sea, it is not easy to make private salt.

The traditional method of boiling salt requires a lot of fuel. The brine needs to be boiled and heated in an iron pot or iron plate, and lime is used to help crystallize it to obtain small seed salts. However, iron tools were not easy to obtain in the Ming Dynasty. Boiling salt will cause too much corrosion damage to the iron tools.

Iron pots become scrapped quickly, and most ordinary people are reluctant to use the only iron pots at home to do such things.

Even if there are those who have the strength to make private salt, sales and transportation channels are still controlled by the government or gangs. On Hainan Island, it is pirates and guards officers and soldiers, and ordinary people still cannot get this benefit. The two gangs under Ade

People - pirates and guards officers and soldiers have all been involved in the business of selling smuggled salt. They are also competitors with each other, and they have fought several fierce battles.

However, when the time travelers decided to join this market, the salt farms of pirates and guardsmen all had to close down. The small seed salt obtained by the traditional salt boiling method contains a variety of impurities, has a bitter taste, and has a discolored color.

Black, in terms of quality, it cannot be compared with the crystallized salt made by modern crystallization methods. Not to mention that the petty bourgeoisie across the country have higher requirements for edible salt - after obtaining the coarse salt, it must be re-dissolved and used with industrial grade salt.

It is filtered through a filter and then crystallized to produce edible salt.

The Qionghai brand homemade salt finally brought to the market in the Ming Dynasty is no different from the ordinary salt sold in modern stores except that it is not specially iodized: it is snow-white in color, the crystal particles are small, it is basically not affected by moisture, and the taste is the purest fresh salty taste.

.At the same time, the official salt sold in Hainan Island was still mixed with sand in salt bags according to the tradition. In comparison, consumers certainly made the right choice. After a while, the salt market in Lingao County and even the entire Hainan Island

Completely monopolized by Qionghai brand.

Of course, this is already the second year. At first, people just used homemade salt instead of rice to exchange for supplies, or simply exchanged it for rice directly.

Amidst all the hustle and bustle, New Year's Day of 1630 AD arrived quietly. Most travelers had no idea about this holiday. Five days ago, on Christmas Day, they had just put the first batch of prisoner-of-war laborers into the wild.

At this time, everyone is mainly focused on supervising that group of workers.

In fact, if a brother didn't happen to have a perpetual calendar software program in his laptop, most people might not be able to know the current accurate date. Poor old Jack missed Christmas by accident. During those few days, he and the military team

The brothers worked together in the mine to guard workers, and it was not until several days later that they thought of cutting down a Christmas tree for themselves.

"As the locals do, we will celebrate the Spring Festival together."

Xie Xi and others comforted him in this way, and the poor foreigner could only smile to express his acceptance. Speaking of which, he was quite unlucky. Everyone lived together in this era, and the Chinese people can still have a sense of historical substitution. Read the history books

What did the Ming Dynasty look like? But an American traveled to 1629 but could not even find his motherland - the "Declaration of Independence" was not signed until 1776. At this time, there were only early British and French colonists on the American continent.

, and a large number of native Indians.

On New Year's Day, Master Li in the kitchen added a few more dishes to everyone, including the captives. Of course, the captives didn't know anything about the Western calendar, but this did not prevent them from experiencing the joy of the New Year just like the others. Especially everyone

I was also given a piece of soap - not a modern product, but something I made myself after traveling through time to the Ming Dynasty. Of course it couldn't be compared to Lux or Diaopai, but it was enough for washing clothes and bandages.

The perverts in the chemistry team have been researching zha drugs for a long time, but they have not produced any serious results, but they have produced many by-products. For example, soap and candles. The former is a by-product of making glycerol using the alkalinization method.

The latter is also done easily. People in the chemistry team are not good at technology but they know economics very well - they currently occupy the majority of the labor force and resources of the public. If they are delayed in coming up with products, they will inevitably be complained by everyone.

So from time to time, I would come up with some small things to appease people's hearts... Some time ago, I heard that they even made margarine, but no one dared to eat it.

At the New Year's party that day, everyone sat together to chat and said some blessings to each other. But then, Pang Yu stood up and made a very bold suggestion to the collective meeting of the public on behalf of all the colleagues in the engineering team:

Build a hydroelectric power station on the Wenlan River next to Lingao County!

"Oh my god! Are we going to build a hydropower station?"

Including Jie Xi, most people's reaction after hearing this suggestion was that Pang Yu was crazy. The engineering team had just built a few small houses and wanted to build a hydropower station... The first reaction in many people's minds was immediately

It's the Three Gorges Dam.

But then Pang Yu gave a detailed introduction to the energy crisis they had encountered recently - Wang Ruobin of the arsenal had complained many times that his machine could not start working for many days because the battery of the wind turbine always ran out of power. At the beginning,

He owns the generator for a small machine tool, but recently many machines on the ship have been moved down and put into use, including the water pump every morning, the thresher in the logistics department, the small movie in the human resources team... In addition, there are also other machines in the Green Zone yard.

Several new electric lights were installed. The power supply was extremely tight.

The next step in the use of electricity is even bigger: the chemical team needs electrolyzed salt to make potassium chlorate zha medicine, the arsenal Xu Hui needs to use electric welding and cutting to use oxygen bottles to transform mortars, and Xiao Lang needs to use the industrial machine tools on the ship to process the gun body.

...All of this is obviously not something that a mere civilian wind turbine with a power of 1 kilowatt and a voltage of 48 volts can afford.

"We have a full range of hydroelectric power generation equipment on board, and now is the time to put it to use."

After that, Pang Yu stood up and gave up his seat to a comrade next to him, who would do the detailed explanation work.

Lin Hanlong, male, 32 years old, his title on his business card is the site manager of the Hainan Provincial Water Conservancy and Hydropower Construction and Installation Company. In fact, he is a small contractor affiliated to the company and has always worked independently.

His main business is construction for remote villages in mountainous areas such as Hainan, Guangdong, Fujian and other places. The projects contracted include roads, bridges, small hydropower, small water supply and other projects. Because the country has special construction funds for underdeveloped areas, he has been

I have been doing some projects since then. And because it is a national project, I can always get the project payment in time, so I never owe the workers wages. I have a good reputation among the majority of migrant workers. I claim to be a conscientious contractor.

Unlike most unlucky people who boarded this ship for tourism, Lin Hanlong and his three or four brothers were on a business trip this time. They brought a complete set of the main equipment of a small hydropower station with them. The original plan was to go to a county in Guangdong.

I went to a certain village for construction, but ended up traveling through it with people and machines.

Times have changed, and the location has changed, but this project has not gone bad - soon after arriving in Lingao, Lin Hanlong began to consider the possibility of building a hydropower station on the Wenlan River. This was not because he was crazy, in fact, it was at the original location

...or in other words, there was indeed a medium-sized hydropower station at that location more than three hundred years later: Baiyantan Hydropower Station.
Chapter completed!