"If it takes another day to dry, the brine in the crystallization pool will be dried, and then we will have a lot of sea salt to harvest …"
The next day, the sun was exposed to the sun, and the seawater left in the crystallization pool was dried before noon.
Leave a thick layer of white sea salt in the crystallization pond.
Seeing this, I was excited that Wang Daotian jumped directly into the crystallization pool with craftsmen or gathered sea salt …
After some hard work, the sea salt will appear in the center of the crystallization pool.
Seeing this excitement, Wang Daotian once again sent out a heartfelt feeling, "It’s so fast. It took only two days for this crystallization pool to harvest a thousand kilograms of sea salt …"
"If I, oh, let’s build this saltworks department into a crystallization pond, I won’t be able to bask in 100 thousand Jin of sea salt that day …"
Here excited Wang Daotian directly to the side also become speechless by shock craftsmen ordered.
"What are you still doing? The horse bagged these sea salts and continued to transport brine to the crystallization pool …"
"There are still two hours before it gets dark, so we can get another round before it gets dark every day."
"It’s your honor …"
One thousand two hundred Jin of sea salt was packed in twelve sacks.
He Guozhong got the news at this time and came to the crystallization pool with a full face of excitement.
He froze when he saw the sack of sea salt in front of him.
Because he didn’t expect that it was so simple to dry salt in seawater, and so many salt workers could dry so much sea salt in such a short time …
It was not until this time that He Guozhong vaguely realized that this saltern, if well managed, would definitely become a cornucopia of wealth that could be produced continuously, as the guard said.
Since this saltworks is a treasure trove to measure, then tell He Guozhong the importance of himself and the 1,500 musketeers.
Once this cornucopia is discovered by others, adding this cornucopia to the sphere of influence of the tiger and leopard army will definitely cause others to envy it.
What’s more, in order to extend the huge interests, we directly sent troops to attack the saltworks and took them as our own.
In this case, we need our commander-in-chief garrison to defend it to the death and extend it to save this cornucopia for the governor-general of Shanshan
Thought of here, Guo-zhong He’s face excited has been replaced by dignified unconsciously.
After taking a deep breath, he said to Wang Daotian, "Master Wang will have seen the importance of saltworks …"
"In order not to let others spy on the secrets of the saltworks, we must do everything possible to keep them secret …"
"From the day on, in addition to leaving 50 musketeers to train new recruits, the garrison left 450 troops to patrol along the fence to ensure the safety of the saltworks."
"Master Wang, you should also pay attention here … there will be more and more crystallization ponds in the future. It is obviously not enough to rely on dozens of salt workers we brought from Datong."
"It is certain to recruit salt workers in the local army …"
"In order to keep the saltworks secret, we must strengthen the management of these saltworks. We must never let them leak the secrets of the saltworks … but we can’t directly send their families to Shaanxi and Shaanxi provinces to let them work for us completely."
"In addition, after the number of crystallization ponds is expanded, more and more sea salt will be exposed every day … The whole saltworks are kept secret, and all the sea salt exposed can be sent back to Shanxi by water, and it is absolutely not allowed to go to the official road to expose outsiders."
Wang Daotian nodded his head deeply and answered, "Colonel He is right. This cheating saltworks is really a cornucopia … whether it’s ourselves or the guard, we must make sure that the saltworks are safe …"
"Salt industry affairs officer to solve …"
"The saltworks can rely on you …"
"My idea is that since the fence around the saltworks has been built and the saltworks are so big, we can report to the Governor’s Office and ask the Governor’s Office to expand the strength of the saltworks garrison again …"
"Officer, it seems that if you really want to keep the saltworks and ensure their safety … there is less need for a division garrison and more artillery …"
Guo-zhong He nodded and answered, "I will consider your proposal … When merchant ships come over, I will bring my opinions back to the Governor’s Office and ask the Governor’s Office to consider our opinions …"
Facing this gratifying result, Wei Zheng knew that he wanted to change the whole salt industry and had taken the first step.
In order to ensure that it is possible to carry out salt industry reform in the future, it is only after a short hesitation that the garrison secret expansion division decision is made
Chapter three hundred Sailors
After getting four thousand recruits again, it is located in the range of saltworks. Almost every family has a person to join the Tiger and Leopard Army as a member of the saltworks garrison division.
In this case, whether it is the family members of the Tiger and Leopard Army or the Tiger and Leopard Army, these recruits’ families will become the most loyal supporters of the Tiger and Leopard Army and will never betray the Tiger and Leopard Army.
In this way, the family members of the Tiger and Leopard Army’s five thousand recruits became the most suitable salt workers in the saltworks.
Because they are that last people who will leak the secret of the saltworks.
The number of salt workers in the saltworks has changed from hundreds to more than 5,000 today because of the expansion of the Tiger and Leopard Army in just half a month, and the number of cement crystallization ponds has changed from two to more than 40 now.
With more crystallization ponds, the output of sea salt has also increased …
Forty or fifty thousand Jin of sea salt a day is no longer a problem for Wangdaotian and Yanchang.
More importantly, with the further increase in the number of crystallization ponds, the sea salt production continues to increase every day …
And this brings another problem …
There are not enough merchant ships in the fleet …
According to Wang Daotian’s estimation, the number of crystallization ponds will definitely exceed 500 after the whole saltworks is turned into crystallization ponds. According to the calculation, the daily output of sea salt in the whole saltworks is 500,000 kilograms.
According to the calculation that it takes ten days for merchant ships to travel between Shanxi and Laizhou Bay, the salt field can produce as little as five million kilograms of sea salt.
So much sea salt can’t be transported to Datong, Shanxi at one time without 50 large merchant ships.
Of course, it has also been discussed that the refined salt workshop will be moved directly to Laizhou Bay, which will save the province along the way.
However, Shandong is not yet the site of the Tiger and Leopard Army. Wei Wei dare not take this risk. Before the Tiger and Leopard Army occupied Shandong, it is impossible to move to Shandong and put a big economic lifeline of the Tiger and Leopard Army under the eyes of the enemy.
The only way to solve this problem is to expand the fleet size.