Life in Film and Television: Starting from the Jinshui Bridge

Chapter 285
To put it bluntly, it is actually very simple. The main thing is to lay the stone slabs at the bottom of the salt pond. The requirements are extremely high and there must be no leakage.

Otherwise, the tidal seawater cannot be brine by the sun, and it cannot be finally formed into salt crystal particles.

Of course, the sea salt produced in this way is not the pure fine salt of later generations, but coarse salt with a lot of impurities, which needs to be further purified.

Naturally, Liu Meng doesn't need to refine all of them into refined salt, as long as the initial purification can be exchanged for a large amount of materials.

On the Yantian construction site, Liu Meng only stayed for a while, and then went back to his room alone. These soldiers and refugees who had enough to eat naturally did not need Liu Meng to supervise them.

Regardless of the busy work on the construction site, Liu Meng came to the simple pier alone after lunch the next day, took out 20 catties of rice, white flour, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other miscellaneous grains from the space, and piled them up on the On the coast, waiting for the arrival of Mao Kexi and the others.

Just after noon, a large number of ships appeared on the distant sea, and Liu Meng knew that the three of them had come to fetch food.

Not long after, the sea boat docked, and the three people who hadn't disembarked all looked in disbelief and surprise at the mountain of food bags piled up on the shore.

They really didn't expect that Liu Meng could get so much food in just one day.

Millions of catties of grain, as long as you save some food, can feed more than 20 soldiers and civilians for a full month.

While the three lamented Liu Meng's great energy, they also became jealous of Liu Meng.

To be honest, all three of them wanted to succeed Mao Wenlong as Liao governor, but they were unable to support so many soldiers and civilians.

But now, Liu Meng has this ability. The three of them wanted to take Liu Meng down and force Liu Meng to work for them, but they were worried that they would not be Liu Meng's opponent.

The most important thing is that Liu Meng who has food, as long as he shouts, not to mention the [-] refugees waiting to be fed, even his own soldiers will join Liu Meng's men without hesitation, and turn against the three of them .

Not to mention that the three of them have personal guards, people are starving to death these days, how can there be so much loyalty.

Don't forget, it is an eternal truth that if you have milk, you are a mother.

No, before the three of them got off the boat, the soldiers and strong men who came with them had already rushed to the shore, excitedly carrying the food.

All three of them had a feeling that as long as Liu Meng raised his arms at this time, these hungry soldiers and refugees would surrender to Liu Meng's men without hesitation.

Naturally, Liu Meng would not do this now. What he wanted was not enough soldiers, but capable generals.

Isn't it a common saying?A thousand troops are easy to get, but a general is hard to find!

Although these three are traitors, it is undeniable that all three are rare good generals in the late Ming Dynasty.

Otherwise, after the Qing Dynasty occupied the capital, the remaining Nanming regime was not brought down by these few people as the vanguard?

Liu Meng greeted the three of them, cupped his fists and said to them:

"Three elder brothers, just take the food, come to me after eating, I will try my best to satisfy the three elder brothers!"

Hearing this, the three of them had their own thoughts in their hearts. Except for Mao Youde, who was straight-minded, the other two had bad premonitions in their hearts.

why?Because this batch of food can only be eaten for one month, so what about the future?
If you want to have enough food, you have to be manipulated by Liu Meng. Sooner or later, Liu Meng, who has a steady stream of food, will become the new owner of Dongjiang Town.

It's a pity that even if the two knew it, there was nothing they could do. From the looks of it, they could only take one step at a time.

The big deal is to bring people who are willing to follow you and take refuge in those civil servants, right and left are people who are subordinates.

They actually thought wrong, not to mention how those civil servants who sucked human blood and cannibalized human flesh would treat them.

As long as Liu Meng armed his [-] soldiers and won several battles, the three of them would sooner or later be subdued by Liu Meng's powerful strength.

Don't forget that in the late Ming Dynasty, the status of military generals had surpassed that of previous dynasties, and it was more comfortable to follow military generals than to follow civil servants, right?

What's more, is he still a general who can feed himself and win battles?

The three had different expressions, but they all clasped their fists in gratitude to thank Liu Meng, thanking Liu Meng for his help.

After the soldiers moved the grain to the ship, the three of them had their own thoughts and couldn't wait to take the boat back to Phi Island.

Watching the sea boat leave, Liu Meng curled up a smile and whispered softly:
"Hey! If you want to have enough food, you will all be mine sooner or later!"

The large-scale construction of Shicheng Island was launched vigorously. The soldiers and civilians on the island all enthusiastically devoted themselves to the construction of the salt pond.

Although it is now the Little Ice Age, the sun is still scorching hot in summer. Half a month later, the first batch of three tons of coarse salt was produced.

Liu Meng arranged manpower, roughly prepared two meals of salt, and assembled with the soldiers who had recovered after half a month of full food.

Now the appearance of the thousand soldiers has changed drastically. Although their clothes are still worn out, they are already equipped with alloy armor manufactured by Liu Meng's blacksmith shop. Each of them has an alloy waist knife and an alloy spear. Although they have not yet experienced Liu Meng's rigorous training. .

But the momentum is very different, his face is rosy, his body is much stronger, and his strength can be regarded as a rare elite soldier in this world.

Don't forget that many of these Dongjiang soldiers were soldiers who fought against Jiannu and survived.

As far as the current strength is concerned, when encountering the same number of Jiannu soldiers, they also have the same not weak combat power.

Today, he led the soldiers to go to Tieshan, the nearest North Korean country, to sell sea salt in exchange for the supplies Liu Meng needed.

Why not go inland? Liu Meng is also worried. Yuan Chonghuan is still monitoring Dongjiang Town. If he knows that Liu Meng has made Haiyan, maybe he will attack Dongjiang Town.

Liu Meng is not in a hurry either. In October of this year, when Hou Jin invaded Daming Fudi and threatened the capital, Yuan Chonghuan would return to the capital and be imprisoned by Emperor Chongzhen. head.

At that time, it was time for Liu Meng to exert his strength. With the harassment of Hou Jin and the rebellion of the peasant army, no one had the energy to pay attention to Dongjiang Town, which existed in name only.

This trip, because Liu Meng led a thousand soldiers, no one dared to tease Liu Meng's tiger beard, even if it was a large amount of supplies escorted back and forth, no one who was not open to the bandits dared to rob.

Liu Meng also exchanged a large amount of materials such as ore and sulfur saltpeter that he urgently needed.

When he returns to Shicheng Island, Liu Meng can use the space blacksmith to manufacture miniature rifles and alloy cannons that are ahead of this era.

After returning to Shicheng Island, Liu Meng immersed himself in making weapons, and the soldiers also began super training according to Liu Meng's plan.

Get up early every day, first do a five-kilometer cross-country cross-country, one-hour queue training, and gun training in the afternoon. Of course, they are all wooden guns made by carpenters.

(End of this chapter)