Wentang

Chapter 305 Kelp
A worship ceremony cast a veil of mystery on this ordinary but extraordinary event, and the noisy crowd became quiet.

"Draw water!" Deng Jian shouted loudly.

Following his order, the [-] workers who had prepared earlier stepped on the pedals together.Ten groups of bone dragon water wheels slowly turned.

"Huh la la..." Ten small streams gathered in the canal to form a water dragon, rushing towards the salt field.

A total of 30 yuan The salt field is divided into two groups; the first group is 20 yuan, ten evaporation pools and ten crystallization pools.The second group of ten pieces is the refined salt crystallization pool.

The first group extracts coarse salt, which contains many impurities, and it will be chronically poisoned if taken for a long time.But for the people of the Tang Dynasty, some salt is good to eat, who cares whether there are impurities, as long as it is not directly poisoned to death.

But Yue Shan was not prepared to let the common people eat such salt.He also plans to improve the physical fitness of the whole people, increase the average life expectancy, and then let the population explode, and rely on the population advantage to dominate the world.How can the common people eat coarse salt directly?

Purify, must purify.

And the purification is not as complicated as everyone thinks, it is actually very simple.

Dissolve coarse salt in water, then add a certain amount of lime or plant ash, most of the impurities will become solid precipitates, and you can get relatively pure salt water after filtering.

Pour salt water into the ten salt ponds in the second group, and use the power of nature to re-evaporate and crystallize, and you can get relatively pure table salt.

Of course, it is definitely far from the standard of edible salt in later generations, but it will not cause any major damage to the human body, so you can eat it with confidence.

The efficiency of ten groups of bone dragon water trucks seems to be very high, but compared with the ten salt fields, it seems a bit insufficient.It takes almost half an hour to fill a salt field, which is not enough for one day.

At this time, it was too late to reinstall the bone dragon water truck, but there were more solutions than difficulties. Deng Jian found Yueshan and suggested to fetch water manually.

Yue Shan naturally wouldn't object, he also felt that the ten sets of bone dragon water trucks were too slow, and he couldn't waste all his time fetching water.After getting permission, Deng Jian immediately reorganized the manpower to fetch water manually.

As soon as they heard that there was work to be done, the onlookers became more active one by one.But everyone was just shouting to sign up from a distance, but they didn't swarm over.

This is also the result of Yue Shan's training.In the past, I heard that there was work to be done, and these people wanted to surround the staff with water, and it was easy to trample and hurt people, not to mention that the efficiency was low.

So he came up with a strategy of combining lottery and queuing.

Everyone lined up and put the wooden sign with their name in the box, and the staff will draw blindly, whoever is drawn will go.This method gets all users.And the concept of queuing has gradually become popular.

With the addition of the artificial team, the water injection efficiency has increased several times, and it only took more than an hour for all the paddy fields to be filled with water.It looks very beautiful sparkling under the sea breeze.

In fact, the work of fetching water is very boring, and the legendary salt planting by clearing the water did not happen. Many people left disappointed after watching it for a while.

After the salt fields were filled with water, they just waited, and Yue Shan didn't stay long. After chatting with Deng Jian about the details of drying the salt for a while, he returned to the camp.

It was almost noon at this time, Master Sun Ren took his men to have a meal in advance, and then went fishing in the sea with a new fishing net.

We didn't return until it was getting dark, and at the same time brought back several boats full of fish.

Seeing so many fish, the people are the happiest.After a little thought, he knew the reason. Yue Shan had food in his hands, so those migrant workers would not have to worry about food, so of course they were happy.

To be honest, Yue Shan had never seen so many sea fish in his previous life, and he came over curiously to have a look, but he didn't recognize any of them.Some of them looked familiar, but they just couldn't remember their names.

Uh, as an inland landlubber, it doesn't seem strange that I don't know sea fish.But one thing makes him very happy, these fish are very fat and big.

Sun Renshi took people to take a bath after getting off the boat. It was very uncomfortable not to take a bath for a whole day at sea.And seawater stains that are not clear for a long time can also damage the skin-it should be like this.

The work of handling the fish was naturally handed over to the logistics staff, and the craftsmen who weaved the fishing nets also came to sort out and repair the fishing nets.

Yue Shan originally came over out of curiosity to have a look at how they work, but when he saw a few strings of familiar things hanging on the fishing net, he couldn't help showing an expression of ecstasy.

Kelp is kelp.

He ran over immediately, and after a closer look, it turned out to be kelp.

This kind of seafood product, which is the most common in later generations, can be sold in any supermarket, but it is easy to be ignored because it is so common.

For example, Yue Shan, who has been to the beach for so long, has never thought that there are kelp in the sea besides fish.

This thing is even more versatile than table salt.For people in the Central Plains, it can replace table salt, and for people in the Western Regions and Central Asia, it is a life-saving medicine.

Kelp grows in the sea and contains a lot of salt itself, which can completely replace table salt to provide salt for human beings.The point is, this thing contains iodine, iodine, iodine, important things have to be said three times.

People living in the interior may not be able to understand what this means, but people in the Western Regions and even those living in Central Asia can definitely understand.

In the era of underdeveloped technology, human beings' intake of iodine depends entirely on food.Unfortunately, the Western Regions and Central Asia in Everbright are very iodine deficient, and they can hardly get iodine through food.

And then... goiter, commonly known as big neck disease, has been bothering them for thousands of years.

It was not until the [-]th century, when science and technology developed, that iodine could be artificially extracted and added to food, that this persistent disease was eradicated.

But now it is the Tang Dynasty, think about it, as long as the news is released that he has a good medicine for treating big neck disease, will the people in the Western Regions go crazy and buy it?
At that time, the price is not just for him to open...

Thinking of a bright future, Yue Shan picked up the kelp that was still on the ground by the workers, ran to the bathhouse quickly and carried Master Sun Ren out.

"Um... Yuehou, can we wait until I come out of the shower to talk about something? This is too unsightly." Master Sun Ren said awkwardly, clutching between his legs.

"What do you wash, get out of here quickly. If this matter is done, I will promise you a man from Jianguo County." Yue Shan cursed.

"Really?" Master Sun Ren kicked over the bathtub and ran out with his buttocks naked.

meeting room.

"That's the thing, Yue Hou, are you kidding me?" Looking at the piece of kelp on the table, Master Sun Ren stammered.

Do you think this thing is worth a man from Jianguo County?Lie to a child?

"Yes, that's it. Do you remember where you found this kind of thing?"

(End of this chapter)