Take Zhang Juzheng as an example. The powerful prime minister only dared to make some fuss about the number of fields. He never touched the salt tax! As for the price of grain, he could only regulate it through market means and suppress it to a certain level.
Within the scope, there is still a huge profit margin for those who intervene in the food! As for the salt, he did not touch it! This shows how powerful these people are!
Moreover, the news of Liu Haojia building a salt factory has already spread, but they have done nothing. This shows that in their eyes, Liu Haojia is not important at all! They feel that Liu Haojia has no channels and not enough manpower, and the market has been overtaken by them.
The divisions are all over, and even the salt produced cannot be sold. Maybe this salt factory will eventually fall into their hands!
But they never expected that Liu Haojia's breaking point was not in the civilian market, but in the Jiubian army! As long as he opened this market, he would have enough power to erode other markets!
On this day, the salt field on the seaside was filled with dense crowds! There was even a gong and drum troupe that made the drums loud! It turned out that today was the official start of the salt field!
When the time was almost up, Liu Haojia, surrounded by everyone, finally reached the height. He had just led people to walk around again to confirm that the salt field could start working normally.
At this time, Zhang Zhi came forward and bowed and said: "Master Hou, the time has come. Do you think we should start now?"
Liu Haojia nodded and said, "Let's get started!"
According to the rules, it is natural to worship the gods before starting work. Especially at the seaside, there are more sacrifices to the gods of the sea. So amidst the sound of gongs and drums, Liu Haojia was in front, Zhang Zhi was behind, and others followed and presented sacrifices.
Then after a series of complicated procedures to worship the gods, Zhang Zhi handed a red flag to Liu Haojia. Liu Haojia, who was standing on a high place, waved the red flag in his hand vigorously, and chants of response immediately rang out not far away, and at the same time more people
People waved red flags to indicate that the gates could be opened to release water!
After receiving the order, the well-prepared salt workers worked hard to open the gate! At this time, the tide was rising, and the sea water poured into the filter tank!
The heights of these salt fields are not consistent. The first layer of salt fields and the filter tank are relatively high, the second layer is relatively low, and the third layer is the lowest and has the largest area. Then it is raised layer by layer! The reason for this arrangement is to use the gap principle
Let the seawater pass through the filter tank to filter out most of the impurities.
The first layer of filter pool is made of large pebbles. These pebbles can directly intercept large pieces of seaweed and other things. The second layer of filter pool is made of fine sand that has been washed repeatedly. After the seawater passes through, smaller impurities will be removed.
Be filtered out!
The gate opened, and I saw waves of water pouring into the purification pool and quickly passing through the pebbles. Some vegetation, seaweed, and even small fish and shrimp floating in the seawater were blocked by the pebbles. Then it became clear.
A lot of seawater flowed to the second purification tank. The seawater filtered by the sand was really clear, without a trace of debris! Then the clear seawater flowed into the salt field! 33??qxs??
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The officials and gentry standing next to the salt field were amazed by the scene in front of them. They all said that Wu Ninghou was clever and could use such methods!
The third layer of salt field is the lowest and the largest salt field. The filtered seawater is dried here and concentrated into brine. It will be pumped by water trucks to the highest salt field. The brine will be processed there for the third time.
filter.
The third filter pool is not pebbles and sand, but smashed charcoal! Charcoal can absorb impurities that fine sand cannot block, and the filtered brine is as clear as well water without any impurities. This brine is exposed to the sun
The salt particles are small, the color is pure, the taste is neither fishy nor astringent, it is truly top quality!
Soon the salt field was filled with sea water. The salt workers lowered the gates one after another to completely isolate the sea water. Then a large number of salt workers rushed up to replace the pebbles and fine sand in the filter tank. The pebbles and fine sand will be cleaned again.
, waiting for replacement when the Yantian gate is opened next time.
At this time, Zhang Zhi had already carried the corners of his robe and ran to the salt field to scoop up a bowl of sea water. He walked up to Liu Haojia with the sea water and handed it over, and at the same time said: "Master Hou, the filtration method you mentioned really works! Look, this
The water is extremely clear and transparent!”
Liu Haojia looked down and found that the sea water in the bowl was indeed extremely clear, so he nodded and said, "I'd better ask the master to take a look."
Zhang Zhi turned around and waved to the crowd, and three old salt workers walked out of the crowd. It was probably the first time for these three old salt workers to see such a powerful person as Wu Ninghou.
He took two steps forward, one step back, and finally reached Liu Haojia!
When they had just finished kowtowing and were hesitating whether to get up, the leader was grabbed by the impatient Zhang Zhi and dragged over, saying, "Come, let's take a look at the sea water."
As soon as they saw the sea water, the eyes of these three old salt workers lit up! They gathered around and looked at the white porcelain bowl in Zhang Zhi's hand. They saw that the water in the bowl was rippling and there were no impurities. One of the old salt workers couldn't help but nodded and said:
“Good water! There is indeed no debris!”
Another one also nodded and said: "Indeed, this filtering method is really wonderful!"
Finally, the old salt worker dipped his finger into the seawater and wiped it in his mouth, then smacked his lips and said: "The salty taste has not changed, but the fishy smell has faded a lot. What's the reason for this?"
The old salt worker who spoke first said: "Didn't Mr. Hou say that we need to use charcoal to filter it? By then, maybe even this fishy smell will be gone!"
The three old salt workers were so busy discussing that they completely forgot that Zhang Zhi was still in front of them. Zhang Zhi also knew that these old craftsmen were like this. They were always very selfless when it came to their craftsmanship, so he simply turned back.
He said to Liu Haojia: "Master Hou, it seems that these old salt workers say that this water is good and should be able to produce good salt!"
Liu Haojia also heard the discussion of the old salt workers, nodded and said: "In this case, I will wait until the brine comes out, then let the salt workers identify the quality, and then wait for the salt to come out!"
Hearing this, Zhang Zhi cupped his hands and said, "In that case, I would like to send you off to the Marquis! But I won't leave the salt factory. I want to keep a close eye on you."
Liu Haojia said: "In that case, you should work harder!"
Then Liu Haojia told the others a few words and then turned and left. Because he had other things to deal with, namely the employees of the salt field. Because this year's project is over, it would be a pity to let these trained people go in vain, so