However, Qin Zheng could understand their conversation, so he said, "Why, is anyone in your village doing salt drying?"

Han Yuqing hurriedly said, "There are two children who are ignorant and are making trouble. Adults can't really take it. ￥f,"

Qin Zheng's tone was not a little stern, and said, "I will naturally argue whether it is true or not. What's going on and explain it clearly."

When Han Yuqing heard this, his heart trembled and said hurriedly: "Yes, there are two young villagers in our village named Han Gaoxiang and Han Gaozhi brothers. I heard that they went to Jinkou, Jimo last year to learn how to dry salt from the Japanese. When they returned to the village in September this year, they built salt fields to dry salt at the outer entrance of Langjun Bay. Adults, this little Japan knows what kind of dry salt can they learn from them."

Although Qin Zheng had no good feelings for the Japanese, he did not object to everything related to Japan. Of course, he was willing to absorb and adopt some advanced technologies mastered by Japan. Although in this era, Japan did not represent the world's advanced technology level, compared with the Qing court, Japan, which had experienced the Meiji Restoration, was indeed more advanced than the Qing court that carried out the Westernization Movement. This is because Japan's Meiji Restoration was a comprehensive reform from top to bottom, from the system to the economy. The Qing court's Westernization Movement was limited to a Westernization official and region, and it mainly carried out some innovations in artifacts and a small amount of cultural and educational aspects, but it did not touch the foundation of the Qing court's political system.

The climate in southwestern Japan is similar to that in the Shandong Peninsula region, and also has a marine climate. It has distinct four seasons and a high temperature period of only three or four months a year. Therefore, if salt is used to make salt in Japan, it is also feasible in the Shandong Peninsula region. In this way, if the two villagers in Hanjia Village learn the salt drying method from the Japanese, it may be really feasible.

So Qin Zheng said, "Take me to their salt field to see it."

Han Yuqing did not dare to disobey the order, so he had to take Qin Zheng and others along the beach to the north. After walking for about ten minutes, the group came to a beach and saw that someone had already opened a large salt field not far from the beach.

This is Han Yuqing who said to Qin Zheng: "Please wait for the military gate, I'll call them over to meet the military gate." He said that, and turned around and walked towards Yantian.

Qin Zheng and others looked carefully and saw that there were actually two pieces of salt field, divided into two large squares, with sides of about 200 meters. The surrounding area was made of stones, which looked about 30 cm higher than the ground, and the outer area was a circle of canals about one meter wide. In a large salt field, they were crisscrossed and divided into four parts. This divided a large salt field into sixteen small squares, each side of which was about 50 meters long, and it was also made of stones, but it was slightly lower than the outer circle cofferdam and slightly narrower. However, now every small square was filled with water. At this time, more than ten people were working on the cofferdam in the salt field. It seemed that the cofferdam should be repairing and sorting the cofferdam, including women and children.

It didn't take long, and Han Yuqing came over with two young people. When he saw Qin Zheng, he turned around and said, "Gao Xiang, Gao Zhi, come and see Qin Junmen."

After the two came to greet Qin Zheng, they saw that the two young men were about thirty years old. They were not tall, but they were quite strong. However, their faces were sunburned red, but they were much stronger than the farmers Qin Zheng and others saw in other places. It can be seen that their lives were better nutrition than farmers in other places.

After the ceremony, Qin Zheng asked, "I heard that you brothers have learned the method of drying salt."

Han Gaoxiang stepped forward and said, "When I got it, my brothers were selfish, so I followed my father and brother to cook salt. I saw that the people in the village were very hard to make salt and the salt production was not high. I also heard from the southerners that the salt production method in the south was used to make salt, which was several times higher than the salt production method. I also wanted to learn how to dry salt. However, the temperature in the south was very hot, which was very different from the Yin Islands. Therefore, the method of making salt in the south was not suitable for use on Yin Islands. Later, we learned that Japan also had a method of drying salt in Japan. The climate of Japan was similar to that in Yin Islands, so we asked around and finally knew that there were Japanese people in Jinkou, Jimo to dry salt in Jinkou, Jimo to learn how to dry salt in salt. It took more than half a year. I returned to Hanjia Village two months ago and built two pairs of Douzi salt ponds to dry seawater to make salt and salt."

Qin Zheng nodded and said, "You two brothers are also interested. I wonder how you learned how to dry salt in the salt field. Why did this salt field be built like this?"

Han Gaozhi said: "The method of drying salt is always 'dried in a pond, it is 'dried in a pellet, boiled in a plate, and its shape is scattered'. The salt field is called 'douzi'. The 'douzi' is also used as the 'douzi'. A pair of drying buckets is composed of 4416 square meters, which is the same as the paddy field, which is about 80 acres. However, the bottom must be neat and flat, and it is best to use a stone slab as the base. When drying salt, you should first take advantage of the high tide to introduce sea water into the deep canal around the douzi, use a water truck to enter the first row of four square meters of the douzi, and then dry it for several days. Then, the water truck in the first row of grids is inserted into the second row of grids, so as to the third row of grids, and the fourth row of grids. The less the sea water is, the salt becomes, the more salt it becomes. When the fourth row of grids, you can directly dry salt. This cycle continues and salt production continues."

After listening to Han Gaozhi's speech, Qin Zheng also understood roughly that this method is to use natural evaporation. Although the temperature in the Yin Island area is not high, the date of salt production can be greatly shortened by four sets of squares, which can achieve the goal of increasing salt production.

Qin Zheng asked again: "How many days can you produce salt in such a bucket? How much can you produce salt?"

Han Gaoxiang said: "The temperature is not high now. If you start from the first row of squares, it will take 15-20 days to dry it into salt. The brines in the first three rows of squares have been made. They will take about 3-4 days to dry it in the fourth row of squares. If it is summer, it will only take 5-7 days to dry it into salt. In the fourth row of squares, salt can be produced in just one day, and salt can be collected at a time. "

Qin Zheng nodded. Although the salt yield rate alone is not high, it can be compensated by expanding the salt field. If 10 dou can be built in such a salt field, the salt production is almost the same as that of Langjun's salt field. Moreover, once the dou can be built, it can be used repeatedly, and the manpower consumes much less than boiling salt, and there is no need to consume waste coal. Therefore, it is true that the efficiency of drying salt is higher than boiling salt.

Qin Zheng said again: "Is there any salt that has been made in the dry? Take it to show me."

Han Gaoxiang agreed, went to the Yantian to get a small pot of pottery and handed it to Qin Zheng with both hands.

Qin Zheng uncovered the lid and saw that the salt was snow-white. From the appearance, he looked similar to the salt cooked. He dipped it a little in his mouth. It was lighter than the salt cooked, and the bitter taste was obvious, but it was still within an acceptable range. If the yield could be expanded, it would still be more competitive than boiled salt. Of course, boiled salt should not be abolished. Premium salt can still be boiled by the boiling method, while drying salt is used to produce coarse salt to meet the needs of the general public. It is divided into different quality salt to meet the needs of different classes.

Of course, any new technology is not achieved overnight. It takes enough time to be accepted by the public. Sometimes it may cause recurrence. As long as the villagers see that the efficiency of salt drying is much greater than that of boiling salt, they will naturally turn to salt drying. In the old time and space, by the Republic of China, salt drying was generally realized in Yindao, and it took only more than ten years before and after. The natural law of success and defeat can be seen. The arrival of time travelers can also speed up this process.

So Qin Zheng asked again: "How long does it take to build a dou of salt fields?"

Han Gaoxiang said: "There are twelve people in the family of the villain brothers. It will take about a month to build a dou of salt fields."

Qin Zheng thought for a while and said, "If I want to build 100 salt fields on Yin Island, I will arrange the personnel and funds, and you brothers will be responsible for teaching and commanding. You can negotiate the issue of remuneration. What are you willing to do?"

Han Gaoxiang and Han Gaozhi looked at each other, and couldn't help but feel happy. In fact, their brothers learned how to dry salt, and they really wanted to popularize salt-drying technology to Yindao and improve the lives of the villagers. However, the two brothers were alone and alone. After they returned to the island, it took more than two months to build two pairs of douzi. It only started to produce salt a few days ago. If Qin Zheng's support was to build 100 dou salt fields, a large-scale production could be formed. Of course, the salt-drying method could be popularized to the entire Yindao. Therefore, Han Gaoxiang immediately said: "Report to the adults, our brothers are willing to build salt fields for the adults."

At this moment, more than a dozen people came from the road, led by an old man over fifty years old. He came to Qin Zheng, gave a deep bow, and said, "I don't know that the leader of Qin has made a big move to visit Yin Island, and he has missed the welcome. Please forgive me."

Qin Zheng knew this old man. His name was Han Quanming. He was the chief of Yindao and the village chief of Hanjia Village. Langjun Salt Farm is his family's property.

Han Quanming's family was a large family in Yindao, and the ninth generation was a salt official, who was responsible for the tax filing of the salt industry. By the time of the tenth generation, he also donated an official position as the prince's entourage. During the Xianfeng period, Han Zhongpan, the fifteenth generation ancestor of the Han family, who was Han Quanming's father, inherited the family business, and further developed on the basis of the past. He purchased three large sailboats and set up a special "Chunsheng" business, which was used to transport grain, oil, bamboo and wood, as well as local specialties in the Shandong Peninsula and Jiangsu, and bought sweaters and tiring. At the same time, the family also had more than 2,000 acres of land.
Chapter completed!