So we had a great time talking about the next purchase.

Li Cheng also wanted to insist on cooperating with Liu Mo on the basis of rent, but the "sea ban" was like being strangled by the throat. There was no room for bargaining, so he had to cooperate obediently!

Perhaps because the residents on the island do not have a deep understanding of commodity prices, the price of purchasing land is much lower than Liu Mo expected.

Each acre of land in Jiang Lin Mansion costs about one hundred taels of silver, and Liu Mo bought one hundred and forty acres of land at fifty taels per mu of coastal land through ruthless bargaining.

This was a big step forward in making salt.

Then, Liu Mo asked Zhao Da to go to Jianglin Mansion and apply to Huang Shouren for lifting the ban, while he stayed to start the construction of the salt field.

There is no need to worry about the labor force. Currently, the island is still closed to sea, and the islanders are completely unemployed. Now Liu Mo wants to build a salt field, and there is work to do, so everyone is rushing to come.

Some were so afraid of failing the interview that they simply proposed that they only needed to take care of the food three times a day. This made Liu Mo extremely happy!!!

Now that we have the labor force and the land, we can start working directly.

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A few days passed, and Liu Mo felt that his mental state was not good.

Dried fish, dried fish, salty sea fish.

Kelp, shells, unknown seafood.

He relied on these for three meals a day, so much so that the sight of these damn things made him want to vomit.

"Damn it, Yaya, I should go to Jiang Lin Mansion myself and let Zhao Da stay here." Liu Mo murmured.

It's okay that he's not used to the diet, but what worries him is the progress.

It turns out that although the beach area of ​​Dongnae Island is large, it is all hard rock ground.

This means that digging out a piece of land for drying salt requires a huge amount of work.

Another thing is that the Daxia Dynasty is not the modern earth. There are excavators and shovels.

All the work has to be done manually with a hoe and a hoe.

Looking at the piles of hard rocks on the beach, Liu Mo had one head and two heads.

The only good news is that the construction of the canal is going smoothly. If nothing else goes wrong, it will be completed in three days.

Just when he was at a loss what to do, a weathered and smooth rock on the south coast caught Liu Mo's attention.

Memories suddenly come flooding back!

In the northwest of the Earth Sea, there is a city called "Danzhou".

The thousand-year-old salt fields that remain along the Yangpu Peninsula in Danzhou are unique and very interesting.

The local ancients used a method of making salt called "Sea Mud Sun-salting Method"!

They did not build salt fields, but used salt-drying stones of different sizes and shapes to dry the salt!

Sun salt stone…

Ha, read more books when you have nothing to do, it will come in handy at critical moments!

So Liu Mo had a new plan!

He asked the residents of Dongnai Island to use local materials to cut the volcanic rocks on the seaside and make salt-drying troughs like inkstones, which were placed on the beach. This formed a very unique salt-drying field.

Generally, seawater is introduced into a salt pool and then dried in the sun until the water evaporates, the concentration increases, and the salt is obtained after crystallization. However, the process of sea mud sun salting is a bit different.

Sea mud sun salting is to introduce seawater into the mire for preliminary evaporation, and a large amount of salt is accumulated in the mire. After a period of time, the salt content increases to a certain level, and then the brine with high concentration is filtered out as the preliminary raw material

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The filtered brine with high concentration is collected for later use.

Then, a thick layer of straw is laid at the bottom of the sun-salted salt stones to filter out sand and impurities, and the brine is poured into these stone troughs. The wide and shallow stone troughs are blown down by the sun and wind during the day, and the rocks heat up quickly.

The speed of making salt is greatly improved.

Rely on memory and do the same thing.

About four or five days later.

The particles are uniform, the color is bright, the saltiness is moderate, and the natural sea salt processed by the original method is completed.

I picked it up and tasted it, and the taste was still the same, a strong earthy sea salt taste.

The first experiment was successful, and Liu Mo was not in a hurry to report the results to Huang Shouren.

It doesn’t matter whether it’s the earth or the Great Xia Dynasty.

As big leaders, they don't like the process, they only care about the results.

Huang Shouren has no intention of looking at your research results. He just wants to see the salt tax paid in vain.

Therefore, the successful development of new salt is only the first step, and there are more challenges waiting for Liu Mo.

The first thing to do is purification.

Whether it is seawater sun salt or sea mud sun salt, what you get is coarse salt.

The level of science and technology in the Daxia Dynasty was not high, and the cost of purification was very high. Therefore, ordinary people in the Daxia Dynasty could not even afford coarse salt, and only the nobles could afford fine salt.

Therefore, only by mass producing fine salt and selling it at a price close to the people can the private salt market be completely destroyed.

The purification of coarse salt is very simple for modern people on earth. Just dissolve it (put it in water), filter it, distill it and crystallize it a few times, and finally grind it to get delicious fine salt.

Liu Mo naturally masters the purification technology, but the key issue is how to keep it secret!

The residents of Donglai Island have made a living by fishing for most of their lives, and their folk customs are relatively simple. Most geniuses who can learn by themselves through secret learning have not been born.

The men sent by Lin Yuan need to be careful.

It is impossible for Liu Mo to do all aspects personally, and he always has to teach relevant techniques to the relevant persons in charge.

For this reason, the most extreme way to prevent leaks is that when Liu Mo built the infrastructure, he deliberately divided into multiple "production workshops", and each person in charge performed his or her own duties.

Once the plan is finalized, the next step is to wait for construction.

Containers, filtration equipment, and distillation equipment all had to be designed by Liu Mo.

Building these devices also takes a certain amount of time, and before I knew it, more than ten days had passed.

Counting the time, it has been a month since I left Linyang.

Liu Mo, who had been sunbathing on the island for so long, missed Lin Shiqi extremely.

During this period, he wanted to go back to Linyang City many times, but conditions did not allow him to do so until Zhao Da came back.

His promise to Li Cheng has not yet been fulfilled, and the sea ban has not yet been lifted. If he leaves midway, the islanders of Dongnai Island will definitely become suspicious.

Looking forward to the stars and the moon, a few days later, Zhao Da arrived late.

I have to say that Huang Shouren, the prefect of Jianglin, treated Liu Mo really well.

Without seeing any finished product, Huang Shouren specially petitioned him to understand the ban.

The moment he saw the lifting of the ban, Li Cheng couldn't help but burst into tears. The ban on the sea had harmed the islanders who depended on the sea for their livelihood.

Therefore, Li Cheng immediately stated that all residents on the island would make salt for Liu Mo free of charge.

Liu Mo is not an idiot. After all, if he really agrees, he doesn't know how to be a human being.

Wages must be paid, and we can't really let the other party work illegally for us for the rest of our lives.

After some "courtesy", the two parties finally reached an agreement that repayment must be repaid, and the unpaid working time was limited to three years.

Three years of free labor is enough for Liu Mo.

After receiving the lifting order, although he missed Lin Shiqi very much, Liu Mo did not return to Linyang immediately.

A single "Donglai Island Factory" cannot disrupt the entire Jianglin private salt market.

He has already set his sights on other islands.

With this lifting of the ban, are you worried that other island residents will refuse to cooperate with you?

For them, Liu Mo will naturally not be the "Madonna"!

In the initial stages of my career, you rejected us one by one.

Now, Mr. Liu must make you pay some price.

After the plan was finalized, Liu Mo set out to find the first "disaster" target.
Chapter completed!