When the morning sun slowly shone down, it announced that it had been a week since their arrival in America. At this time, the camp had gradually taken shape.
Not only had the red brick houses been erected in rows, but the brick kilns had also been in operation for several days. The molten iron on the blast furnace had been baked and was beginning to appear. It was imaginable that steel would be produced very soon. It was only a matter of time.
In the reclaimed fields not far away, people began to sow some seeds of vegetables and fruits. Many of them had already sprouted. One could imagine that fresh vegetables would soon enter the taste buds. Everything was progressing towards the most beautiful situation.
However, just as Li Chengdao was surveying the entire camp, Wang Gui, who was almost equivalent to his advisor, ran over.
As one of Crown Prince Li Jiancheng's confidants, this future Prime Minister had also followed Feng Li to America.
It was also because of this person that Li Chengdao's arrangements were so orderly. Even if there were any negligence, it was easily resolved by this person.
However, this person did not seem to care about these trivial matters at all. He even did many things himself. This also saved Li Chengdao a lot of trouble. After all, he only had foresight and not ability. The capable people of this era were definitely dozens of streets ahead of him. Li Chengdao was very clear about this.
Therefore, Li Chengdao had never put on any airs, and there was no need to put on any airs.
And at this moment, the information brought by the future Four Great Prime Ministers of the early Tang Dynasty left him dumbfounded.
"Lord Wang, are you saying that there isn't enough salt?”
Li Chengdao was still unable to react when he saw the person in front of him who was no longer young. He spoke in a stunned voice.
There was nothing he could do. He had thought of countless possibilities and countless possibilities of lacking salt, but he had never thought of lacking salt.
This was the seaside, facing the sea. In this era, there was no need to rely on seawater pollution. It was almost an inexhaustible sea salt, and there was actually a lack of salt. Was this not a joke?
"Your Highness, do you think you can transfer some manpower? The sea salt is obviously not enough to satisfy the consumption of thousands of people. Although the sea fish can make up for it, it is not a long-term solution!”
Wang Gui's voice also caused Li Chengdao to gradually recover from his daze.
It turned out that because of his great construction, the number of people who had been planning to boil sea salt had been greatly reduced, resulting in a sharp decline in salt production. If not for the fact that the sea fish could extract enough salt, the salt would have run out by now, and it was impossible for people to leave salt.
After understanding the cause and effect of the matter, Li Chengdao's expression did not look relieved. Instead, he was even more confused.
"Boiling salt?" What the hell was that? Wasn't it a salt drying place? This made him puzzled. Among the question marks, he was naturally tempted. After informing Wang Gui, Li Chengdao and Wang Gui went to the salt making place.
However, he was soon dumbfounded when he saw the situation in front of him.
It was really boiling. On the shore, iron pots were neatly arranged, and thick flames were roasting them. The seawater was constantly evaporating, as if they were using the most clumsy method to obtain sea salt.
This scene really made Li Chengdao a little dumbfounded. He really did not expect sea salt to be obtained in this way.
He didn't know that before the Song Dynasty, sea salt was made by frying. Sea salt was made by scraping the soil and pouring the bittern, then taking the bittern and burning firewood to boil the salt. Since the Northern Song Dynasty, the method of sunning sea salt was not very effective due to technical reasons. Therefore, frying salt was still more effective than sunning salt. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, most of the sea salt producing areas had switched to the method of drying, and the technology had gradually improved.
At this moment, it was naturally due to the awkward situation of boiling salt.
Of course, this shock did not last long. Instead, he quickly began to take action. This was the early stage of construction. If a large number of people were trapped in boiling salt, then what was the point of him playing? He would just be an honest landlord.
The solution was naturally very simple. He changed the boiling salt into sun-dried salt. For him, who owned cement, it was not difficult to do this. As for the process, there was not much technical content. Simply put, it was just a layer of window paper. After Li Chengdao said it, this layer of window paper was pierced.
Most of the people who followed Li Chengdao to the American continent were coastal farmers. After Li Chengdao's simple description, they quickly built a salt pan that was similar to the later generations.
On the flat coastal wasteland, it was built according to a certain number of ponds. The pond ridges were generally about half a foot high, and they were built into square ponds. The side length of each square pond was generally 8 steps from top to bottom. The beach ponds were dug down one by one from top to bottom, and the drop was generally 3 inches. There was a pool door between the upper and lower ponds for water to flow down. Under the bottom of the pool to build Tuotai, commonly known as salt mound, used to store salt. Two or three large ditches were dug around the beach pool, commonly known as salt ditches, to prepare for tidal water storage. A water gate was opened on the ditch embankment facing the sea, and a gate was set up to prepare for opening and closing. Outside it, a "tidal ditch" was opened, which led directly to the sea to guide the tide into the ditch for the salt ditch to receive the tide.
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