Life in Film and Television: Starting from the Jinshui Bridge

Chapter 284
Hearing Liu Meng's words, the strong men standing below all looked at each other, everyone in Haiyan knew that.

But cooking sea salt requires a lot of firewood, but the sea salt obtained in this way is not as good as the firewood consumption. It can be said that the gain outweighs the loss. Why do the adults of this thousand households talk about sea salt?

Liu Meng glanced at the expressions of the people below, and continued:
"From today onwards, soldiers, strong men, women, and children must participate in labor, and I will distribute food enough for one day as salary to everyone!

Next, cooks and adult women and children line up! "

Hearing Liu Meng's words, there was a commotion below, some were ecstatic, some were unbelievable, but the women, children, and cooks gathered around all of a sudden, looking up at Liu Meng excitedly.

Liu Meng didn't explain anything, and ordered the refugees to wait where they were, while he led a thousand soldiers to the warehouse to carry the grain, and first made a thick porridge for everyone to have a full meal.

It's not that Liu Meng is reluctant to part with the food. You must know that the population on the island has not had a decent meal for a long time, and their weak stomachs will not be able to bear it if they suddenly eat dry rice and meat.

Only by slowly using porridge and rice to restore the stomach and intestines, can they recover to eat dry rice and meat, and soldiers can start training that requires great physical strength.

Liu Meng's idea is very simple. With the help of space and sufficient meat supply, he will train these thousand soldiers to become the strongest soldiers in the world, and ride horses to sneak attack the small group of Houjin soldiers.

Don't forget, as long as it is the head of a real slave, it can be sold for a lot of money and military merit.

Find any city at random, and you can exchange for a large amount of gold and silver, food, or materials such as metal ore, sulfur and saltpeter that Liu Meng urgently needs.

Supporting war with war is the way for a small group of elite soldiers to survive.

Opening the gate of the warehouse, these hungry soldiers, whose eyes were dazed, kept rubbing their eyes as if they were dreaming, for fear that this was the environment.

Liu Meng raised his foot, kicked a soldier's ass, and cursed:
"Damn it! Why are you staring blankly? Why don't you hurry up and carry the food, let everyone have a full meal first, so that I can work for me!"

The soldier who was kicked was a rather sturdy man. Although he was also thin and out of shape, it can be seen from the thick joints that this boy was once a powerful soldier.

Nonsense, who can survive the troubled times, which one is a weak soldier.

The strong man was kicked by Liu Meng, he didn't dare to get angry, he just laughed dryly, then howled, and rushed into the warehouse.

I don't know where he got so much strength, he first put a [-]-jin bag of grain on his shoulders, then picked up another bag and put it under his armpit. While swallowing his saliva, he rushed out of the warehouse and towards the barracks.

Behind them, the soldiers swarmed in, carrying food with strange screams, and rushed to the open space of the barracks.

Liu Meng also followed these excited soldiers and returned to the barracks.

In the barracks, the crowd was chattering endlessly, although their faces were full of excitement, but no one rushed forward to loot the food.

Quite a few children and half-children kept swallowing their saliva, their eyes widened, wishing they could swallow the food into their stomachs with their eyes.

After seeing Liu Meng come back, all looked at Liu Meng expectantly, waiting for Liu Meng to speak.

Liu Meng walked back to the high platform, without any nonsense, he waved his hand and said:
"It's all there. Women and girls build the stove, move out the pots and bowls, and prepare to cook porridge. The middle-aged men go out to cut firewood... let's go!"

Hearing Liu Meng's order, all the soldiers and civilians cheered and took action one after another.

In less than half an hour, the camp was full of fireworks and the smell of rice porridge.

After another quarter of an hour, everyone lined up in a long queue in an orderly manner, carrying their own rice bowls with gaps, and eating one by one.

What satisfied Liu Meng was that these people were very orderly. The soldiers in the battalion were the first to cook. Obviously, in times of war, everyone knows:
Only when the soldiers are full can someone guard everyone's safety;
After that comes children. Children are the continuation of our lives and our hope in the future;

Then there are strong men and women.

After a meal, everyone's rice bowls were licked clean, and almost no water was used to wash them.

Everyone showed a sense of satisfaction that had not been seen for a long time, but no one took a rest, put down their jobs, and gathered in the barracks, waiting for Liu Meng's next arrangement.

Liu Meng had long used charcoal pencils to draw the blueprints of the sea salt drying field on a few pieces of white paper based on the memories he saw on the Internet while eating.

Don't underestimate the peasants in the Ming Dynasty. Many of them were craftsmen, and many of them had some craftsman skills.

Liu Meng first asked the refugees who knew stonemasons to stand up and let them choose the best stonemasons themselves.

After some hesitation, a man in his forties came out.

Liu Meng also walked down the high platform, looked at the man named Liu Laosan, and asked:
"Liu Laosan, can you make stone slabs with uniform thickness?"

Hearing this, Liu Laosan was taken aback for a moment, nodded and shook his head, and faltered and said:
"Master Qianhu, Mr. Qianhu, it's not a problem to build stone slabs, it's just, just, the villain doesn't have the right tools..."

Hearing this, Liu Meng also realized that suitable tools are needed for quarrying, digging, and transporting.

On Shicheng Island, there are really no such tools, nothing else:
On the entire Phi Island, there were no iron weapons, so where did they come from?

Thinking of this, Liu Meng nodded and said:

"Don't worry, I'll get the tools out when I get back..."

After finishing speaking, he asked the craftsmen who were good at all kinds of work to group themselves, and Liu Meng went to the warehouse alone.

In the space, Liu Meng used the iron ore collected in the Song Dynasty to hurry up and refine tools such as hammers, iron wedges, crowbars, and chisels;

He also refined tools such as axes, planers, and saws needed by carpenters;
Add tools for digging, such as hoes, picks, and shovels.

He went back and summoned the carpenters to cut down the wood to make sticks of suitable length, and then installed these tools.

I was busy until the afternoon before I got all the tools I needed in order.

Next, people are divided into three groups, one group is masons and strong laborers, responsible for quarrying and making slabs;
The remaining women and children are responsible for cutting firewood and preparing dinner for everyone.

One group was in charge of finding a suitable location on the seashore and began to dig out a suitable salt pan. In fact, they dug out several connected pools with baffles to open up the seawater.

The first pond absorbs the tide, draws salty seawater into the pond, and turns it into brine with high salt content through sunlight;
The second is brine making, which is further sun-dried into thick brine with a lot of salt;
The third is the crystallization pond, which took almost half a month to dry out the coarse salt.

Although it takes too long, it is convenient. As long as there is enough sunshine, a lot of salt can be produced in July, August, and September.

Calculated based on 300 tons of seawater and 9 tons of salt, on this beach, enough salt fields can be produced to meet the needs of the entire population of several 10 people on Phi Island at the end of September.

(End of this chapter)