our family is gone

Chapter 100 Salt Making
"My lord, this is today's breakfast."

Susan handed Lance a sumptuous breakfast, soft, sweet and milky white bread, three boiled eggs and a glass of milk. The value of this meal alone was equivalent to a day for ordinary people.

Since his strength improved, his appetite has grown a lot, and this thing is just an appetizer.

Lance was obviously in a good mood today, because it was rare to sleep for eight hours last night, which was a little indulgence.

"Just tell me if you have anything~"

Susan knew that she didn't like to be watched by others when she was eating, so she either went to the table to eat together or walked away. Standing on the side probably had something to do.

"Barton is waiting at the door, he wants to see the adults."

This was the first time he came to him on his own initiative, and Lance understood what decision he had made.

"When did you come?"

"In the morning, I didn't wake up my lord at that time."

"Then let him wait and leave him alone." Lance raised his hand regardless and sent Susan away.

He would like to know how long the captain can hold on, if he gives up halfway, it means that it won't be of much use, only those who really live to die can face the next monsters.

"You find someone to go to the farm and inform Walter, and ask him to sort out the situation on the farm, bring the account book and come over to report to me."

"Yes."

Susan didn't mention Barton's matter again, she knew that the adults would have his consideration.

There was still work to be done, even while eating breakfast, Lance still had to think about the development of the town.

Now the bandits entrenched on the old road have been wiped out, and the long-silent channel of foreign exchange has also been opened up.

To be honest, he didn't want to open up, because with such a big bomb under his ass, the more people come in, the higher the possibility of trouble,

But you can’t block it, how can you make money by blocking it~
For the healthy and long-term development of the territory, it must communicate with the outside world. He needs to obtain external resources and information. At the same time, some resources produced by the territory, such as wool and linen, need to be sold for money in order to operate the territory.

The current situation in the territory seems to be booming, but in fact it is all because of his sudden spending of money to support it.
Every day he was losing money and not a lot, because those public works did not pay off, or did not pay off in a short period of time.

If the territory does not have a stable income, no matter how much money he has, he will be consumed, so he must find a way to survive for the territory.

Thinking of this, Lance quickly finished his breakfast with a few mouthfuls, and then hurriedly left here to inspect the seaside.

A square field was planned on the seashore, and some people could be seen walking on it.

He developed the first blockbuster product for the territory - Yantian.

As the saying goes, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the sea to eat the sea, Hamlet is located by the sea, it is impossible for Lance to let go of this easiest way to obtain resources.

Like fish catches, salt fields do not require large-scale resource input, and there are no technical barriers. It only takes a little labor to continuously obtain pure salt.

As for the salt-making process, I have to thank the chemistry that was taught in compulsory education back then. In addition, the protagonists of the novels I read all go to make salt, and I remember the general process, otherwise he would really be in the treasure house.

In short, the sun-dried salt in Yantian is to use the difference in solubility of different substances in seawater. When the water evaporates due to the high solubility of sodium chloride, the salt with higher purity will be precipitated first.

It is necessary to collect a small amount of salt when the crystals are just beginning to precipitate, use this salt and distilled water to make a saturated solution of sodium chloride, and then put the subsequent coarse salt into it for elutriation.

Because it is a saturated solution, the sodium chloride in the crude salt will not continue to dissolve, and all the dissolved impurities are. The crystals after washing are salt with higher purity.

As long as a certain amount of high-purity salt is obtained, the range can be expanded to continue making saturated solutions, and a steady stream of high-purity salt can be obtained by repeating the above steps.

In order to improve efficiency, he is now using the boiling salt method. Anyway, there is not much here, but there are plenty of wood waste from the project, and what he lacks is time...

And the house built to cook salt can also be used to smoke fish and meat because it is open for a long time

And no matter when salt is a necessity, adding salt can marinate by-products, which can extend the shelf life of caught fish. In this era, salt and meat are scarce resources, so there is no need to worry about sales channels.

"Hello sir!"

The small workshop for boiling salt is very simple, because there are several large pots boiling inside, which are very stuffy, so several workers are shirtless, stirring the large pots, and adding sea water to them from time to time.

Lance redesigned the flue of the stove so that it connects to a thatched hut behind, which is full of smoked dried fish made from various sea fish.

"grown ups!"

"how is the situation?"

"everything is normal."

"These two days speed up the progress, I need more salt."

"Yes!" Several workers couldn't help but work harder when they saw the lord inspecting.

Lance inspected the textile factory and blacksmith shop one after another.

The world he lives in now has a very strong religious power due to the existence of extraordinary power. Although there has been some progress in technology, it is still severely restrained. So far, there has been no steam engine.

Naturally, the cities in his memory did not have steam spinning machines, and most of them were in the manual workshop mode, and the efficiency depended entirely on people.

This is actually more beneficial to Lance, otherwise others will start to climb the technology tree, and he has no advantage at all, and the value of the resources produced by the territory will be greatly reduced.

There is no shortage of iron ingots in the blacksmith shop, and the seized scrap copper and iron are enough for a long time, but the efficiency is really unsatisfactory.

To give a very simple example, Leonard's armor pierced by the wolf has not been repaired until now.

Normally, one or two blacksmiths in a town of a thousand people is enough, because there are usually not so many orders.

However, the Lance blaster needs a lot of armor and weapons. It is indeed a bit too outrageous to hand these over to a skilled blacksmith and an apprentice, but now this situation can make do with it.

In order to come up with a reasonable development plan, Lance did not stop. He was busy visiting various places in Hamlet, and even went out to the fields and docks to talk to some fishermen, farmers, and workers.

Until Susan came and called him back.

"My lord, Walter has arrived."

Lance looked up at the time, and it took half a day to come here. Could there be something wrong with the farm?
"Go, go back."

Lance has always acted vigorously, and went back without too much nonsense.

The situation on the farm is not what it used to be.

He has soldiers and cannons in his hands, not to mention that he is no longer the person who can shoot arrows crookedly before, those guys want to make trouble, he can kill through the farm by himself.

As the strength increases, the confidence will naturally increase.

(End of this chapter)