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What Dr. Mao held in his hand was the rock salt they used instead of table salt.

They came all the way from the sea, and the salt carried by the boat was almost used up, so Bai Chunsheng asked the people who stayed on the peninsula to prepare to cultivate salt fields by the sea to dry the salt.

Unexpectedly, God was not strong enough. Not long after they landed, the salt fields have not yet been reclaimed, and the rainy season here has arrived. The continuous rainy days have forced the suspension of the salt drying plan.

Fortunately, the local aborigines do not rely on sea salt. In fact, the aborigines have never thought of relying on sun-dried salt to obtain table salt. The salt they eat is a kind of light yellow rock produced in the mountains. This rock is rich in Salt, when the aborigines need salt, they will go to the mountains to dig this kind of rock. After digging, they will be hammered into small pieces with a stone hammer, then put into a large pot, add water to boil, and then stir it vigorously with a bamboo spoon while boiling. , Wait until the rocks are almost melted and only those without any salt are left, take out the useless stones, and continue to cook until the water in the stone pot is boiled dry, leaving a layer of light yellow salt at the bottom of the pot.

After eating the salt they brought themselves, these days, they eat this kind of boiled rock salt like the local aborigines. Although it looks strange with a light yellow color, the taste is similar to the table salt they often eat , Therefore, no one has ever discovered that with the replacement of this rock salt in their daily diet, there have been no soldiers in the military camp showing symptoms of mania for a long time.

Everyone thought it was because of the new environment, but now it seems that it has changed, but the key problem is not the environment, but the salt.

Although they are eating this kind of salt every day now, thinking that this rock salt is the key to purify the blood of the half-demons, the couple couldn't help but lick that rock salt rock in a weird way.

Dr. Mao: "..." Should we tell them that this piece of rock salt has just been picked from outside and hasn't had time to clean it?

Forget it, don’t clean it, you won’t get sick if you eat it!Besides, the prince and concubine are demons, not mortals, how can they be so delicate?

The couple were completely immersed in ecstasy, and they didn't care whether the rock salt rock was clean or not. Thinking of the complicated experiments in the previous life, Bai Chunsheng couldn't help asking: "Mr. Is the purification of the bloodlines on the soldiers really because of this rock salt?"

"It's absolutely true! I took back some of the food and water that the local natives often ate and drank, and tried repeatedly. In the end, only the half-demon blood that had been added with rock salt showed abnormalities. However, to be on the safe side, if possible , Can the prince invite two half-demon soldiers to marry quickly? It is best to marry the local aborigines, and let me see if the cub born will also be a half-demon..."

"No!" Bai Chunsheng's complexion changed, "If we harm other innocent people in order to clear up this little doubt in our hearts, then what is the difference between us and the royal family? We have worked so hard to bring them out , I just want them to live a normal life, Mr. Mao will not mention this kind of experiment in the future, even if the prince agrees, I will definitely not agree!" The clam spirit said to Dr. Mao without any scruples It shows that although the prince of their family is in charge of the outside world, he also has the power to make decisions about the outside world.

Dr. Mao was too impatient to speak out. After listening to Bai Chunsheng's words, when he thought back to his proposal that didn't care about others at all, his face was panicked with embarrassment. He was so eager for success that even basic morals The bottom line is forgotten, half-demons are also human, no matter how big their doubts are, they can slowly prove and dispel doubts with time, using half-demons and cubs as a means of verification is indeed a bit too cold-blooded.

"Indeed, there is no need to mention this matter again, and I will not agree to it." Wang Kunfeng also objected after calming down, "However, it is also a happy event for Mr. Mao to discover the magical effect of rock salt, but this matter is not suitable for the time being. Rumor has it that Mr. Mao is also requested to keep it a secret from the outside world.”

A mere white-patterned shell that is helpful to the half-demon form has brought disaster to the Hanlan Kingdom that once produced this kind of shell. If the royal family knows the existence of rock salt, there will be no peace in this continent. up.They have only just gained a firm foothold now, and everything has just begun. Small-scale battles can still be fought, and the previous struggles between countries can be ignored. If they don’t need to fight, they will completely lose in terms of numbers.

What's more, if we go deeper into this continent, we still don't know if there are any powerful demon clans. As the saying goes, wealth is not revealed, without confirming whether this kind of rock salt stone is only available here, this kind of thing It's best not to let anyone know about it. It's good for them to take advantage of it quietly. There's no need to publicize it everywhere. It will be troublesome if everyone wants to get a share of it.

"What the prince said is very true! This rock salt is so precious, it should be carefully protected!" Dr. Mao also thought of the key point, and hurriedly said. "Furthermore, please ask the prince to order someone to secretly investigate how many rock salt rocks like this are left in a radius of a hundred miles. It is best to take them back to the government, and private excavation is strictly prohibited!"

"That's true! I'll order people to investigate secretly, and then issue a notice to open a government-run salt farm under the order of the city lord." Wang Kunfeng said seriously.

"Add a sentence in the notice. It only says that the new city has been established. In order to prevent people from cooking salt privately and causing fires, it is strictly forbidden from now on to cook salt privately. Or if you need a lot of salt to open a restaurant, you can use your business license to pay for it." Bai Chunsheng hastily added.

So hastily said that the common people are strictly prohibited from digging rock salt rocks privately, even if the natives are afraid of their strength, it may cause uneasiness.It's better to do it in one step, and by the way, also set the salt distribution system, so that those who have registered household registration can feel the importance of household registration, and by the way, the real purpose of the government-run salt farm can also be concealed.

The discovery of rock salt kept the couple busy for a few days, and when they settled the matter, before they knew it, half of the rainy season was almost over.

This continent is very strange. There is no winter. There are only three seasons: rainy season, dry season and warm season. Among them, the dry season is the shortest at two months, and the rainy season is almost two months. The longest is the warm season. For eight months, the whole continent was warm as spring at that time, which was very suitable for the reproduction of animals and plants, but the current season was between the rainy season and the warm season.

The continuous rainwater has moistened the entire continent and brought countless different types of fungi to this land.This is the only chance for all kinds of fungi to grow in a year. Almost overnight, all kinds of fungi popped up in bamboo forests, on grasslands, and on hillsides.

The local aborigines like to eat these fungi very much, but it is a pity that these fungi only appear for a little over a month every year. Because of the continuous rainy weather and cannot be dried, the time to try new ones is very short, so that every year In the rainy season, people in every household, even children at home, will carry bamboo baskets and go to the wild to pick familiar mushrooms and come back to add meals. There are also many ways for the indigenous people to cook mushrooms, such as roasting mushrooms, stewing soup with mushrooms, roasting fish, putting Fried in animal fat on a hot plate...

Bai Chunsheng had been busy with the government-run affairs of rock salt collection before, and only after he finished his work did he realize that the whole city was eating small fungus, and only their city lord's mansion had no fungus!

I only found out after asking the cook that the people in the kitchen were worried that they had never eaten the local mushrooms, and if they ate their stomachs, they would be finished. Therefore, if the owner does not specify otherwise, the kitchen usually chooses safe ingredients that the owner is used to eating. And will not easily try dangerous ingredients.

What's more, the fungus here is not absolutely safe. Some people eat some fungus and it's fine, but some people will go crazy laughing, yelling, and hallucinations. Although the symptoms will be relieved after drinking the herbal medicine, but When they thought about what happened if they made food with fungi added, the prince and princess would go mad on the spot after eating it. The scene was so terrifying that they couldn't even imagine it!They will surely be beheaded by their angry masters!

When he learned that the kitchen didn't make fungus for them to eat because of this reason, Bai Chunsheng couldn't help but laugh: "I'm not made of mud, it will break when I touch it, those strange fungus don't matter, you can buy some ordinary non-toxic ones." Give everyone a taste of something new."

After the cook heard this, the expression on his face became even more indescribable.

Originally, they thought so too, but they couldn't stand the coercion of Uncle Yulin, and made him a pot of stewed pheasant soup with mushrooms, but after Uncle Yulin ate it, he suddenly went crazy and stood in the yard from the previous emperor. After scolding the emperor, he greeted the ancestors of the royal family. Later, it was General Helian who forcibly knocked him unconscious before carrying him back to the house.

However, how can such a trivial sequelae stop the mussel essence from the foodie empire?

With an order, Bai Chunsheng ordered people to buy all the edible fungi from the market that the local aborigines picked out of the city, which filled most of the veranda of the yard. Not only that, he also brought the craftsmen and masters of his own workshop They also invited them here. The purpose is, of course, to see if they can develop some new products for their workshop by taking advantage of the huge yield of various wild mushrooms in the rainy season.

After all, it seems that the aborigines like to eat mushrooms very much, but the growing season of fungi is too short. If they can find a way to preserve the fungus produced in the rainy season, then after the rainy season, the aborigines will want to eat delicious food again. The only way to exchange them is with prey or other food, melons and fruits.

Speaking of this, there is another thing that makes Bai Chunsheng feel uncomfortable. The monetary policy has not been promoted in the local area, because the aborigines like bartering things, and they don't trust gold and silver. Up to now, they are only used as decorations And luxuries, only those who are well-fed and have a better family will exchange precious food or prey for some gold and silver to make jewelry.

In this way, Bai Chunsheng and the others can only do as the Romans do, and conduct various transactions by bartering for the time being. When various transactions in the city start in the future, sooner or later there will be the primitive method of exchanging goods with money. After all, when buying valuables, you can't catch up with dozens of prey to exchange them in one go, right?

Bai Chunsheng's idea is to exchange the finished mushroom sauce with the aborigines for fresh wild mushrooms picked in the wild, and then use these raw materials to make a large amount of mushroom sauce with different flavors. When the rainy season is over, they want to exchange it for other mushrooms. materials, or when hiring indigenous people to work, they can actually use this mushroom sauce as compensation.The natives who are currently employed by their city lord's mansion are paid with food and sauces, and they don't even recognize the money.

I have to say that there are so many varieties of wild mushrooms here, even if you only take more than one catty of each to sample, it is still full of more than 100 meters long verandah.

Bai Chunsheng finally understood why the cook at home refused to prepare local fungus for himself and Master Cat as ingredients. Nima, except for a very few of these fungi that he could confirm should be non-toxic, the others all looked like mutated plants, Either it looks like an alien creature, there is a fungus as big as a human head, and there are spider-like patterns on the umbrella cover, it doesn't look very friendly...

"Thank you for your hard work, the chefs in the kitchen. This month's bonus will be doubled." Bai Chunsheng is well aware of the truth that "overtime work without overtime pay is a hooliganism". He added so many tasks to the master chefs in the kitchen for no reason, so give more Overtime pay should also be paid.

The chefs in the kitchen were still a little uneasy at first, thinking that in order to evade responsibility, they deliberately did not provide new ingredients to the prince and princess, fearing that it would be cold. Unexpectedly, instead of punishing them, the princess doubled their bonuses , is really a pleasant surprise!

However, this overtime pay is not for nothing.

Next, Bai Chunsheng ordered people to vacate the large kitchen in the temporary palace, and led the master chefs in the workshop to frantically toss those poor little bacteria.

It's true that these professionals have tossed out a lot of fungus making sauce methods.

Among the mushrooms that were delivered, some were very delicious. Only a small amount of fried mushrooms was needed to make a whole jar of sauce very delicious.Some mushrooms are like chicken, which can be made into chicken oil. Some canopies are thick and meaty, and after drying, they taste like well-made five-spice beef jerky. Cut them into cubes and put them in the sauce. If you don’t taste them carefully, It can pass off as beef sauce...

Of course, those mushrooms that had side effects after eating were eventually removed from the list of alternative ingredients, but it was not wasted. The bad-hearted river clam spirit ordered people to exchange food for many of these mushrooms, and joined hands with Dr. Mao. According to the different side effects of the fungus, many medicines with different effects have been made. In particular, there is a fungus that can temporarily paralyze people's nerves. The medicine made can almost replace the effect of anesthetics. I have been happy for a long time.

There are also several kinds of wild fungi that can make people eat nonsense, temporarily lose the ability to think, and fall into a coma. They were also made into medicine by the river clam spirit and ordered by Dr. Mao. In the battle, you must fight with other hostile forces. If you encounter special circumstances, you must invite the other party to taste their special mushrooms, hehe!

The natives love to eat mushrooms. However, how can the long-standing fixed and simple cooking method compare to the various cooking methods in the palace kitchen?In the past few days, the palace has been using various mushrooms to cook sauces with different flavors every day. The rich and delicious aroma makes the passing natives almost unable to walk. They have the courage to ask what the palace is doing. It's delicious, why does it smell like fried mushrooms?But the taste is obviously more delicious than the mushrooms fried by themselves?

The princess did not disappoint the natives. Within a few days, news spread that a new flavor of mushroom fried sauce had been developed in the workshop of the palace. According to those who had the honor to try it, the deliciousness was indescribable. People will never forget.

The most exciting thing is that the princess ordered people to release the news, saying that the workshop of the palace wants to buy wild mushrooms in large quantities. As long as they are edible, they can pick them and send them over. Waiting for the finished fungus sauce.

Almost overnight, all the people in the city went out to pick the mushrooms.

During this season, the fungi in the wild grow very quickly. Usually, the freshly grown fungi are picked on the first day, and they can be found in the same place the next day. With a large number of people, the palace received thousands of catties of wild fungi on the first day. , The sauce made in advance is almost not enough.

Fortunately, this sauce is quick to make. The main ingredients are all kinds of mushrooms. The amount of bean paste is not large. The master chefs and craftsmen brought over from the workshop are used to this kind of work. It started to operate normally, and hired many local aborigines to help deal with the fungus, which gave the aborigines who had nothing to do during the rainy season an extra income.

Houses cannot be built during the rainy season, and everyone still lives in temporary bunks. However, compared to the old days in the mountains and old forests, there is a strong roof to block the rain, and the beds are dry. They are very satisfied.

In previous years, during the rainy season, the old and the weak, women and children would often get sick, and some would die if they couldn't bear it. But this year, there was not a single sick person in the whole new city, even those diehards who were hesitant to move into the city. After seeing the comfortable life in the city, he couldn't help putting down his face and moved in cheekily.

Those who moved in later naturally had no kang for burning fire, and could only live in the newly built temporary house, but compared with the damp wilderness, it was considered very good.

Seeing that everything was going well in Xincheng, Lord Cat took people to Zhucheng, which had just been conquered. One-third of the aborigines there ran away, and the rest were natives who were originally slaves. Wang Kun Feng was too lazy to repeatedly explain the difference between slaves and civilians to them, and simply ordered that all people living in the city must apply for household registration, and then rearrange their residence according to their household registration. The management is also stricter than the new city they built themselves. , each team of soldiers stationed here is responsible for leading a group of people, and they went to the mountains to cut down a lot of bamboo during the slack season and came back to weave a batch of bamboo baskets, bamboo baskets, bamboo plaques, bamboo mats and other supplies for different purposes. When the rainy season ends and the city buildings are repaired and the land is reclaimed for cultivation, they will be put into use in large numbers. They have limited manpower, so if they don't hurry up and make it now, they may not be able to spare manpower to do these things.

Although Wang Kunfeng seems to be enslaving the aborigines to work overtime, in fact this guy is really soft-hearted.You know, when the Bird Demon occupied this city, he asked these natives to farm in the field by themselves. No matter whether they had farm tools or not, they had to pay offerings when the season came. Now Wang Kunfeng asked these natives to make farm tools first. , Wait until the time for farming, and then take out the seeds they brought, and plant them together with the seeds commonly used by the local aborigines. With advanced farming tools, the life of these first-generation farmers will be much easier.

The couple has been busy for more than a month, and finally finished their chores at the end of the rainy season, and started the more busy farming in the warm season. Sometimes they are so busy that they rarely see each other for half a month.

After finally finishing the farming work, he was busy with the repair of the bamboo city and the construction of the city wall, as well as the re-division of the functional areas of the buildings in the city, until Jiang Hong and Bai Ji stopped their son outside the study with a straight face. I just remembered that my son will be one year old next month, right?

Although he is still a small mussel, the whole mussel has grown fatter by two laps. It's a pity that his two fathers are busier than the other. Xiaohe mussel has been living with his two grandfathers, and he probably doesn't know his two fathers anymore.

"Go, have someone send a letter to Zhucheng, and tell Kun'er that you must come back at the end of this month. Although we are no better than ordinary people, a child's first birthday is still a big event. If you don't catch the week, you have to celebrate it?"

Bai Chunsheng: "..."

Wang Kunfeng didn't wait until the end of the month, and came back five days later, and brought many new bamboo shoots. After the rainy season, many bamboo shoots unexpectedly grew in the warm and humid bamboo forest. Let's call it the spring bamboo shoots here. I know that my river mussels like it. To eat fresh ingredients, he specially ordered someone to dig up hundreds of catties of bamboo shoots and bring them back. In addition, he also brought a luxurious nursery box made of a special colorful ore, which was covered with soft sand, and used it as a baby for his son. Birthday gift.

Seeing this luxurious nursery box that took a lot of time to look at, the expressions of the two fathers of the Bai family finally improved a lot.

Xiaohe Mussel’s first-year banquet was very grand, and the palace started preparations several days in advance. The guards took turns to hunt many large prey in the wild, and even used boats to catch many rare fish in the deep sea. , the people of the whole city can go to the canteens all over the city for free.

The palace was even more lively, with a banquet of 99 tables. All the people who came to this continent with them took turns to come to the palace to have a wedding banquet. The gifts for the little prince were also varied, from coral gems in the sea to rare animal skins. There are all kinds of medicinal materials, regardless of whether children can use them or not.

Anyway, the clam is still young and has not yet transformed into form. When he can transform into form, gifts and so on will really be in line with children's aesthetics.

Wang Kunfeng and Bai Chunsheng sat on it with their own mussels in their arms, smiling so hard that their faces almost froze.