My whole family was in exile, and I relied on my space to buy half of my country.

Chapter 333
The use of waterwheels not only solved the problem of water shortage in saline-alkali land, but also inspired Jiang Tangtang from another aspect.

Because some saline-alkali lands are far from the sea, ponds need to be dug multiple times to store water, and finally reach the saline-alkali lands through canals.

Jiang Tangtang discovered that although such multiple infiltrations cannot turn seawater into fresh water, it can filter most of the impurities in seawater during this process.

Using this filtered water to extract fresh water improves efficiency and allows for better equipment maintenance.

As for the use of distillation to extract fresh water, the large amount of energy consumed is not something people consider for the time being in the face of life and death.

Jiang Tangtang organized manpower to build freshwater extraction workshops in several bays where water shortages were serious and where large numbers of people gathered.

In addition to the freshwater extraction workshop, a new breeding farm was also established.

After the sea rice is harvested, a large amount of rice stalks remain.This is very good fodder and can be used to raise cattle and sheep.

Whether it is building a seawater extraction workshop or a breeding farm, it requires a lot of manpower and material resources.

What's more, she wants to shorten the construction period, recruit a large number of people, and produce various efficiency-improving tools for free for workers to use.

Just the orders for tools such as shovels, shovels, and handmade carts have made the blacksmith shop's business boom.

The blacksmith shop once again expanded in size, and many families sent their children to be apprentices.

In addition to the blacksmith shop, the bricks and tiles needed to build houses also made the brick and tile workshop run at high speed again.

Under such emergency repairs regardless of cost, fresh water extraction workshops and breeding farms were quickly set up.

Although the efficiency is good, Jiang Tangtang's contribution is also huge.The money and food she got from selling saline-alkali land from various aristocratic families were all invested in the construction, and she also spent a lot of money out of her own pocket.

Fortunately, the large-scale fresh water extraction workshop will soon allow her to recover the money she invested.

As early as when he was preparing for the Tamsui workshop, Jiang Tangtang went to the porcelain shop and ordered many jars of different sizes.

When the fresh water extraction workshop produced fresh water, she gave the water a name and started selling it in packages.

Jiang Tangtang chose three names and asked the major managers of the workshop to vote. In the end, the name Pure Water was chosen by Jiang Tangtang as the name for the water extracted and sold in the workshop because it received the most votes.

In terms of packaging, Jiang Tangtang drew on modern experience and divided the water jars into various specifications to meet the needs of different people.

In addition to this, water jars can also be recycled.

After everything is done, the newly recruited water sellers in the workshop will transport the water to the nearby market and start selling it.

This market was slowly formed because a large number of farmers moved to the bay to farm.Later, due to the construction of workshops and breeding farms, more and more people came to the bay, and the scale gradually expanded.

As the number of people increases, demand gradually expands, and more and more types of things are sold on the market.

Some workers took advantage of their breaks to catch shrimps and crabs from the sea to sell, others picked wild vegetables, or farmers sold the sea rice they were reluctant to eat.

Some businessmen also seized the opportunity, rented houses and opened grocery stores, selling necessities such as cloth.

However, no matter how many kinds of things are sold in the market, there is not a single shop that sells water.

Although the drought has been going on for such a long time, there have been people who have been willing to exchange money for water, but this is the first time that people have seen water being sold in cans like this.

Most people don’t understand, thinking how can water be put in jars and sold as merchandise?

After all, before the drought, water was the most common thing.In addition to being unable to accept that anyone should spend money to sell, there is also a sense of blaming the government.

Yan Hongbin is the salesperson recruited by Jiang Tangtang.

He was originally humorous and very eloquent, and Jiang Tangtang specially trained him. At this time, he did not panic when faced with people's doubts and accusations, "Do you know how the water in this was obtained?"

No need for Yan Hongbin to say this, everyone also knows that this water is produced in the fresh water extraction plant that was recently built.

"Then do you know how much manpower and money it takes to extract such a tank of water from seawater?"

Yan Hongbin looked at the crowd and said: "Not to mention anything else, the cost of building the workshop is not a small amount, not to mention that in order to extract fresh water, money has to be spent continuously every day."

The common people who were noisy just now and felt that the government should not collect money became quiet.

Many of them participated in the construction of the workshop, and some stayed to work in the workshop after it was built.

Some people could not stay in the workshop, but they were reluctant to leave. They still stayed in the bay and found some odd jobs to make ends meet.In addition to freshwater extraction workshops and breeding farms in the bay, the saline-alkali land of the family also often needs to recruit workers.

The fresh water extraction workshop collects a large amount of wood every day, and the big chimney in the workshop is not stopped day and night.

And all this firewood has to be bought from them.

Someone was the first to speak: "It's hard to come by this water, so we should sell it for some money."

(End of this chapter)