Golden Fishing Village

The Yang family's salt-drying craft can also be said to be the craft of making salt plates. In its heyday in 1930, there were 250,000 salt plates in Hongyang. Of course, not all of these salt plates belonged to the Yang family, but the Yang family was the technical backbone of the major salt fields at that time, and had a leading position in this industry.

At that time, Dayang Village in Qiantan Town was just a small branch of the Yang family and was nothing.

Later, when the Japanese invaded China and attacked Hongyang, they destroyed the salt fields in Hongyang to cut off the source of salt in the mainland.

At that time, the Yang family was really good. They organized salt workers and fishermen to fight against the Japanese army, racking their brains to find ways to continue to produce sea salt to supply the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians in the mainland. They were definitely patriots.

The Japanese army was inhumane. After getting the list of salt fields, they massacred the Yang family members, almost killing all the backbones of the Yang family in the major salt fields in Hongyang at that time.

Dayang Village is located in a mountain village, and their branch is not doing well in the salt field. As a result, this turned out to be a good thing, saving their lives and the bloodline of the Yang family.

Ao Muyang asked: "Do you want to lead the villagers to engage in sea salt business? Become a private salt dealer?"

Yang Shuyong smiled bitterly and said: "Bullshit, I don't dare to do it even if I have a bear heart and a leopard courage. I am a party member and a veteran. I used to be the sharp sword of the country. If I am called to fight, I will return. If I return to fight, I will win the battle..."

"Let's get straight to the point, don't talk nonsense."

"Okay, I plan to build a salt beach field with ten or twenty units, and then show tourists the traditional salt drying technology, mainly to create a tourism project for the village." Yang Shuyong said.

Ao Muyang nodded: "This idea is good, but are tourists interested?"

Yang Shuyong said: "Let's give it a try. Your village has whales, dolphins, turtles and warships. It is said that an oarfish has appeared recently. There is nothing in our village. I have to find a way. Now the villagers look at your village with red eyes."

Hearing him say this, Ao Muyang could only agree: "Then why do you want me to stand on the platform? I don't know how to make salt. I just know that the salt obtained by directly drying seawater is industrial salt. The halogens and magnesium sodium in it are all over the standard. Eating it will kill people."

Yang Shuyong smiled and said: "I know, I'm not asking you to do technology, but to take a few people over to express your position to the people and tourists of the two villages, meaning that our two villages are now in the ice-breaking period and are no longer enemies."

Deng Gong once said that peace and development are the themes of the current era. Ao Muyang deeply agrees with this, so he agreed.

He asked: "When does your village plan to start this salt-drying project?"

"It's better to do it today than to choose a day!" Yang Shuyong said passionately.

Ao Muyang said, "You are really impatient."

Yang Shuyong is resolute and decisive in his work, and he maintains his military style, which is a good thing.

According to what Yang Shuyong said, Ao Muyang called up a group of village backbones including Ao Mudong, Ao Daguo, Ao Mufeng, and Ao Mucheng, and went to Wangjia Village to observe the salt drying work.

Ao Mudong and his friends were unwilling to go, and they still regarded Wangjia Village as an enemy.

Ao Muyang slammed the table and said, "? Can fighting make money? Can fighting make a wife?"

"My sixth grandmother was born because my sixth master fought with Wangjia Village." Ao Mudong said unconvinced.

Ao Muyang said: "Okay, go back and prepare your troops, be ready for battle, and go to fight with Wangjia Village. What about the others?"

Ao Wenchang smiled and said: "I will definitely be in the same team with you, the leader. You are the leader, and whatever you say is what I will obey."

Ao Daguo nodded and said: "Yes, that's what I mean."

Ao Mudong glared angrily: "Forgetting the past means betrayal! All of you are traitors..."

Ao Muyang glanced at him sideways, and he changed his words: "I am also a traitor, okay, okay, I will make peace with Wangjia Village in the future and try not to cause trouble."

"It's not try, it's a must. Making money is the right way. After making money, you can find a good wife and have a child, then go to Hongyang to buy a school district house and send your child to a good school. How great." Ao Muyang said earnestly.

Ao Mudong grinned and said, "Teacher Lu taught me well. When I have a child, I will let him go to school in the village."

Ao Muyang said, "Okay, I will thank Teacher Lu for your praise."

As he followed Yang Shuyong to Wangjia Village, Ao Daguo asked, "Old Yang, do you still have salt beach fields in your village? What are you going to do?"

Traditional salt drying requires salt beach fields. In the past, the coastal areas of Hongyan were full of salt beach fields. In the early 1960s, the traditional method of scraping mud to promote brine was replaced by the advanced method of directly evaporating seawater to make brine and salt beach drying. Hongyang's identity as a sea salt city began to change to a port city, and the salt fields eventually became beaches.

Yang Shuyong said, "There are still some in our second team, about 20 units. I estimate that if we clean it up well, we can at least clean up a dozen units."

Salt beach fields are generally 3 mu per unit, and a dozen units are about 40 mu of land. This area is not too big or small, and it is very suitable for tourism. If it is used for real salt drying, it is too small.

Regarding the architectural layout of the village, Wangjia Village is different from Longtou Village. Longtou Village is built on the mountain and facing the sea. The west end of the village is the dock and the ocean, and to the east is Longxiang Lake.

Wangjia Village is built on the sea. The seven teams, that is, the seven villages in the past, all face the sea. After they were merged, the shape of this village is a bit like a belt, a belt spreading along the coast.

The second team's sea-facing position is a mud field, and some ridges are built around it with mud. The ridges near the sea are relatively high, called "Putang", with a gap in the middle, which can be used to introduce tides or drain fresh water, and is specially built for salt drying.

Ao Muyang was busy with the work of closing the sea some time ago, and did not pay attention to Wangjia Village. In fact, Yang Shuyong began to plan to reopen the salt field after taking over the position of village director. Now the Putang of the second team has been rebuilt.

Yang Shuyong said that he would officially start the work of salt drying today, not only because he was vigorous and resolute, but also because he had made preparations. The abandoned Putang has been restarted after many days of busy work.

Putang is a relatively regular oval mud field, with three circular earth distillations in the center. These earth distillations are quite large, with a diameter of 3 meters and a depth of 60 centimeters. Three earth distillations can pour 120 to 150 dan of salt mud. Things related to sea salt are usually measured in dan, and one dan is about 100 kilograms.

The salty mud comes from the seabed. In Wangjia Village, an old fishing boat has been converted into a mud pumping boat. It is working rumblingly in the sea, pumping up the old mud from the seabed continuously.