Ancient Rome: From Slaveholder to Supreme Emperor

Chapter 369 Ye Tian wants to open up a pioneering work

“Susan, pay close attention to the situation of Pompey’s army at all times! Once they are hit by the plague in large numbers, find a way to get Samonay to attack and wipe them all out!”

Ye Tian ordered to Susan.

This time, Pompeii’s army is really going to be destroyed, and Pompeii and his son will also be doomed.

“Yes, my master!”

Susan respectfully.

“Keep your men from getting too close to the headquarters of Pompey’s army!”

In the end, Ye Tian reminded and said that once the plague really broke out, it would be terrifying.

Plague generally refers to acute infectious diseases, which are mostly caused by viruses. With the medical technology of this era, it is difficult to control. Only by isolating patients at the fastest speed, or directly killing and incinerating, can it be extinguished.

Otherwise, once all these plagues broke out, although “Nine Three Zeros” would not have any influence on Ye Tian and his female slaves, the people who were killed and injured were all his people. Huge loss.

If there is no one in the territory, what is the use of the territory.

Susan quickly went to perform the task Ye Tian gave her.

Destroying the Pompey Legion and capturing Samona is what Ye Tian is going to do now.

After completing these, he can return to Rome, a strong return.

Ready to go to war!

Grey Na’s training for the slaves became more rigorous and cruel. Half of the more than 5,000 slaves were eliminated and assigned to other positions.

Eighty-nine Dragon and Phoenix teams currently have Sophie Marceau training.

After all, the Amazon female warriors have received military training since childhood. In one aspect, they are more professional than Daisy and Dinah.

Although Campania is a granary, although there are fewer mines, there are also mines.

After becoming the city lord and copying the homes of thirty nobles, Ye Tian spent a lot of money to buy almost all the mines from other nobles, and then began to invest in blast furnace ironmaking technology, and began to frantically smelt iron.

Countless slaves were directly put into use.

Western salt!

Ye Tian plans to start drying the salt today.

In Rome, and even in the Mediterranean region, most of their methods of obtaining edible salt are boiling salt. Although drying salt has begun to appear, the technology is not mature, and most of the obtained salt is coarse salt with high impurities.

The salt drying method used by Ye Tian is the relatively simple salt field method. Ye Tian sent people to look for an extremely wide beach with mild climate and light, abundant and extremely flat seaside beach, and then sent a large number of coolie slaves to build salt fields.

The salt field is divided into two parts: one is the evaporation pond and the other is the crystallization pond.

Now, the seawater is introduced into the evaporation pond. When the water evaporates to a certain extent after being exposed to the sun, it is poured into the crystallization pond and continued to be exposed to the sun. The seawater will become a saturated solution of salt, and then the salt will gradually precipitate out. The crystals obtained at this time are common The crude salt, the remaining liquid is called mother liquor, from which multiple chemical raw materials can be extracted.

Of course, Ye Tian didn’t plan to deal with these mother liquors, just let them return to the ocean.

The process and steps of obtaining the coarse salt are still very simple, and Ye Tian can make it easily.

Coarse salt, of course, is also table salt.

After obtaining the coarse salt, Ye Tian intends to continue to use fresh water to dissolve, filter, purify and clean it, and then dry it in the sun to make them whiter and purer.

Ye Tian could of course make refined salt, but it was too complicated, and he had to exchange some chemicals from the system, which was very expensive and not worth the loss.

In a word, although the salt that Ye Tian is drying out is still only coarse salt, its purity and color are far better than the edible salt of this era.

It is winter, the weather is cold, although there is no sun, the weather is still very dry, and there is a strong wind, the sea water is easy to dry, so it is also suitable for drying salt.

Ye Tian was sunbathing at the seaside, so naturally he couldn’t hide the elders of Campania, and Ye Tian didn’t plan to hide them either.

Ye Tian opened up such a huge salt field.

As long as he is not a fool, he probably knows what Ye Tian intends to do.

But Ye Tian produced edible salt so aggressively, once these edible salt flowed into the market, it would cause a terrible impact.

Because edible salt has always been controlled by the government, the official control of edible salt is too strict, and the amount is very small, so that edible salt is very precious, even more precious than grain, almost equivalent to gold

In ancient Rome in the era of kingship, edible salt even became the salaries and currency of Roman mercenaries.

It is conceivable how huge the edible market is, and there are too many benefits in it.

Therefore, when the elders learned that Ye Tian was going to open up this terrifying golden mountain, they couldn’t sit still and wanted to get in touch with Ye Tian.

It’s just that they misread Ye Tian this time.

Ye Tian intends to sell edible salt, but he does not intend to sell it too high, but to sell it to the commoners at a low level, breaking the control and monopoly of the nobles and officials on edible salt.

Selling edible salt at a high price will not make much profit at all. It is better to open up the market, make small profits but quick turnover, make crazy money, and at the same time wildly harvest the reputation of the common people.

Once the control of the aristocrats over edible salt is broken and a scene where everyone can easily buy edible salt is created, it will be a meritorious deed that will benefit the future.

This is a pioneering work, this is a great cause!

For the whole era, Ye Tian is a great man.

Ye Tian’s actions definitely benefited everyone and everyone, and the people didn’t support who he supported.

Don’t underestimate the use of edible salt. In ancient times, in addition to using salt as a flavoring agent in daily cooking, in fact, the meaning of salt to ancient people is more like the meaning of refrigerators to modern people. Salt is the most important preservative raw material for preserving vegetables, meat, fish and milk. Salted vegetables, ham, salted fish and cheese products can be preserved for months or even years.

Ancient farmers often needed to exchange grain for salt to make pickled food.

Once the people of Rome easily bought a large amount of salt from the shop under the name of the Satan Chamber of Commerce, Ye Tian’s reputation would definitely reach an extreme.

If Ye Tian does a few more things that benefit the country and the people, it is estimated that he will become emperor, and the people will raise their hands and welcome him warmly.

If edible salt is cheap, for the common people, Ye Tian has helped them avoid a tax that has grown very burdensome.

Ye Tian naturally knew what he was doing.

(I’m really sorry, the author’s rhinitis has been recurring for several days, it’s very uncomfortable, the update is so slow!),