Four kilometers west of Tehorenche, crossing a low hill is a narrow beach. The sand on the beach is very thin. If it is placed in modern times, it is definitely a good place for the beauty in swimsuits to "lie down" and bask in the sun.

Of course, it is the Middle Ages now, and everyone is wearing robes. Not to mention beauties, men dare not take off and lie on the beach like that. Otherwise, the priests of the church would definitely "rescue" you, a snake-spermist, and might even tie you up to the stake to play "human barbecue"...

Not far from the east of this beach, it is a small freshwater lake called Holung Lake, which can supply freshwater needed for life.

Building a salt boiling center is not that easy. First of all, you must choose a suitable venue, which must be by the sea. The sea water must be salty enough and clean enough to avoid any pollution.

Secondly, enough personnel must be recruited. Generally speaking, a large salt pot needs at least two or three laborers to take care of it. One person is responsible for the fire, one person is responsible for the pot, and the other person is responsible for the fuel handling. After the salt is boiled, the salt in the pot must be taken out and filled.

As for a salt boiling center, you must not just use one pot, so you have to set up a large row of salt boiling pots. Therefore, there are also a lot of people needed.

Not only that, the transportation of fuel and salt also requires a large number of manpower. For example, the salt-boiling center established by Marin on the beach near Lake Hollen, first of all, there must be enough salt-boiling stoves. Secondly, the salt-boiling workers must be built to facilitate life. Finally, from the port of Thollenche to the salt-boiling base, a flat road must be built to facilitate transport of coal balls.

Although it is only about 4 kilometers away from Thorenche to the Salt Centre. However, the western half of this road passes through a hilly area, and the construction is a bit difficult.

In addition, Marin had to send people to big cities to order a large number of large iron pots and bricks to build stoves and houses. As for housing, Marin thought about it and decided to use adobe houses. The construction cost is low and comfortable. In addition, the construction speed is fast. However, Marin still planned to use bricks and limes to build a stove for boiling salt.

Because he planned to use an energy-saving earth stove (also known as a firewood stove), and the high chimney of the energy-saving earth stove must be built with bricks...

In his previous life, Malin's hometown was in the countryside, and the village once promoted energy-saving earth stoves for a period of time.

The so-called energy-saving earth stove is actually very simple. It is to build the furnace wall around the stove chamber very thick so that when the fuel in the stove chamber is burned, the energy will not leak out to the surroundings.

You should know that for ordinary earth stoves, one or two layers of bricks are used around them, and the thickness is not enough. When the inside is burned, the temperature of the furnace wall is also high, and the energy is diverged everywhere through the furnace wall, which is similar to the effect of the kang.

However, if the furnace wall is greatly thickened, the flame heat in the stove chamber will not easily dissipate through the furnace wall. In this way, the energy utilization rate of the energy-saving stove will be greatly improved.

Moreover, the chimney of the energy-saving earth stove is high. Because the high chimney is prone to siphon effect, absorbing the smoke in the furnace, and also automatically sucking air from the air inlet, which helps combustion.

According to technicians who promoted provincial firewood stoves in their previous life, the fuel savings of firewood stoves save one-third to one-half of the fuel than the old-fashioned earth stoves, while the time for burning stoves saves one-quarter to one-third.

Therefore, saving firewood stoves are very powerful. Marin used this technology to cook salt, which is considered to be a strict control of costs, and is a model of capital management...

In order to build this salt boiling center, Marin decided to recruit labor force extensively. Because the island had a serious shortage of labor force and had to engage in their own professions. Therefore, if Marin wanted to have a manpower, he had to search on land.

At the end of the 15th century, Europe had recovered more than a hundred years, and in the 14th century, it had a large population that had been lost due to the Black Death.

Originally, many manor labor was short of labor. But a hundred years later, after several generations of reproduction, many manor labor began to have surplus.

For example, the number of land in a certain manor is certain, and the number of serfs recruited by the serf owner is also the same. However, the serf family may not have only one boy.

Therefore, if it were not for other industries that required a large number of labor, the serf owners were not very happy to support those extra men. Therefore, many serfs' sons could not even inherit the status of their father serfs.

These people either go to other newly opened farms, become serfs, or go to the city to work as coolies. Even so, many people find it difficult to find jobs. As a result, many people become beggars and refugees. Those who are brave and strong have become mercenaries, and some become robbers...

The reason why German mercenaries were able to develop was not only the Germanic tradition of advocating martial arts, but also the surplus serfs could not find a job to do.

Marin now wants to go to those manors with a large population, recruit a group of honest and hard-working serfs to help him cook salt. Of course, they have to help Marin build the building of the salt boiling center and the road to Thorenchet...

For this reason, Marin went on another trip to the German region. He did not recruit people in the Netherlands because the people in the Dutch region had too much difference in accent from other parts of Germany.

Marin speaks German, Latin and Frisian, but he can't speak Dutch. Therefore, when communicating with the Dutch, Marin felt very laborious and had to lead a translation.

It seems that Dutch and Frisian are both Western Germanic languages ​​and cannot communicate with most German dialects. This is also one of the important reasons why the Netherlands and Greater Germany are alienated from Germany. For example, the Westphalia region where the Marin family is located has different accents, but if you say it slower, you can still communicate with the Saxons and Austrians. But facing the Dutch, the Germans in the German-speaking area are a little confused...

For convenience, Malin went directly to his hometown in Ruhr District to recruit extra labor from those manors...

With the help of old Hoffman, Marin quickly recruited 500 serfs and followed him to cook salt on Texel Island...

"Marin, is your salt-cooking method reliable?" asked Mrs. Mary worriedly.

"Of course it's reliable. The British made a lot of money on this!" When he quietly told Mrs. Mary about the profit of cooking salt, Mrs. Mary grew up in surprise.

"But, since cooking salt is so profitable, why don't others do this?"

"Mom, not everyone can buy a large amount of coal smoothly. The Netherlands lacks wood and firewood. They have to import firewood from other places, which is not as convenient as we use ships to pull coal. Moreover, the entire Western Europe, the Ruhr River areas in Britain and Germany, are rich in coal. The British have already started to make money by boiling salt, and the coal in the Ruhr area has not yet been developed. And I am the first German to make money by boiling salt!"

Marin said that it is very profitable to use coal to cook salt. However, there are few coal-producing areas in Europe. Western Europe seem to produce a lot of coal in the Ruhr area and northern England. If you want to learn this trick, you must have coal. Moreover, because technology is underdeveloped (mainly suppressed by the Holy See), many people do not know that coal has a much higher calorie value than firewood.

"Marlin, my child, you are so smart! But you have to think about one problem!"

“What’s the problem?”

"Sales issues! Child, you can cook a lot of salt, but you have to have a way to sell them in order to get wealth!"

"Well mom, do you have any suggestions?"

"Let's cooperate with the merchants of the Hanseatic League. Those Hanseatic merchants have many privileges in the empire. If you cooperate with them, you can ship in large quantities. Otherwise, your salt will be difficult to sell. Moreover, you must not be enemies with those Hanseatic merchants. If you are enemies with them, they will block your salt sales!" Mrs. Mary was very knowledgeable. He knew that Hanseatic merchants were walking sideways in the empire. He was afraid that Marin would be young and energetic and would have conflicts with Hanseatic merchants.

Speaking of which, Mrs. Mary's grandmother's family was also a merchant. At the beginning, her grandmother's family had offended the Hanseatic merchants, but was suppressed and almost went bankrupt. If the Brock family hadn't helped, Mrs. Mary's grandfather would have gone bankrupt and committed suicide. It was precisely because of this that when Mrs. Mary's grandfather took great risks to take in Mrs. Mary's father and married his daughter to him. Therefore, Mrs. Mary didn't want Mary to follow the old path. You should know that the Hanseatic Alliance was very powerful. They controlled the trade privileges of many cities in the Holy Roman Empire, paid less taxes than others, and were more convenient than others.

Although Britain and Denmark began to compete with the Hanseatic Alliance, the Hanseatic Alliance will not decline in the short term. The real decline of the Hanseatic Alliance will have to wait for the rise of Dutch merchants. But the Netherlands has not yet been truly developed and Antwerp has not developed. Therefore, the Hanseatic Alliance is still very awesome these days. At least, in the German region, they are invincible.

"I understand, mom, I will be careful about this!" Marin said solemnly.
Chapter completed!