Everyone walked on the mountain for a day, during which they killed countless small animals, and all of them became everyone's lunch at noon.
Finally, near the evening, I came to the mountain stream with light brown water, which gushed out from under a rock, flowed down for less than a hundred meters, and then flowed into a crack in the ground again.
With the test results from the black water pool before, Ren Baqian has a lot of confidence this time, and this must be another kind of brine he found.
Ren Baqian continued to lick a little bit with his finger, although it was poisonous, but this amount would not cause any harm.
It was also very salty and bitter, worse than the taste of the black water pool, which made Ren Baqian shudder. Then with a happy face, he dipped a little bit with his index finger again, and lightly licked his middle finger.
"Not bad, a bit sweet." Ren Baqian nodded slightly.
"How is it possible?" Nagu suddenly didn't believe it, and wanted to go up and try.
But someone moved much faster than her. Several students followed Ren Baqian's example and dipped in some water and licked it. Their faces all twitched, like dried orange peels.
"Liar!" Tong Lan twitched and pointed at Ren Baqian to complain.
"Huh? Don't you think it's sweet?" Ren Baqian asked in surprise. "Does this water taste different to different people?"
As soon as he said this, other students also stepped forward to try, and then all of them slapped their faces.
A pair of hostile gazes were cast directly on Ren Baqian.
"Science is like this. No matter what other people say, it is not as good as trying it yourself. Not only to try, but also to think about why." Ren Baqian put on a kind face of being a teacher, and said in a persuasive way.
"You're clearly trying to trick us." Tonglan said contemptuously, looking around for any wild fruits.
Then his eyes lit up, and he jumped seven or eight meters away to pick off a wild fruit the size of a bunch of red cherries, and put it in his mouth with a proud face.
"From now on, you will know my painstaking efforts." Ren Baqian threw a piece of white rabbit toffee into his mouth while talking, and the expression on his face immediately relaxed.
"Get water." Ren Baqian said, this time he took a little more, there were twenty bottles. If the brine is what you think, then you have to experiment with the ratio of the black brine, there is no harm in bringing more.
After all, it is farther to get here.
After the guards filled the bottle with water, Ren Baqian looked at the sky and asked Nagu, "Is there a place to stay overnight?"
"The nearest one takes half a day's journey, and it takes too much time to come here." Na Gu said.
"Then look around here to see if there is any suitable place. Look for them all, and come back in half an hour, and hunt for some prey by the way." Ren Baqian said to the guards, most of the guards immediately dispersed, and some students followed went.
"Is it possible to produce edible salt from Blackwater Pool and here?" Na Gu asked after the guards left.
"It should be fine." Ren Baqian didn't say too much. "So your village may not need to hunt in the future."
"What do we eat if we don't hunt?" Nagu felt that Ren Baqian was talking stupidly, even if he could get salt, he couldn't eat it.
"In the future, there will be a salt factory in this mountain, which belongs to the Ministry of Industry and the royal family. You can choose to work in the salt factory, so you don't need to hunt hard. Of course, you can also continue hunting, but I'm afraid it will take a long way So many people will definitely scare the prey away. Or apply for compensation and then move the stockade to other places.”
"Oh!" Nagu nodded.
Ren Baqian looked at her, thinking that there would be a bigger reaction, after all, their village has always been here.
"Have you eaten salt since then?" Na Gu asked, she seemed to be more concerned about this issue. After all, in her opinion, the prey in the mountains are innumerable. Even if you don't catch them today or tomorrow, you can always catch them the day after tomorrow, and you won't starve to death.
The impact of the development of the salt field on the village here was beyond her imagination. But she knows that there is no strength without salt.
"Yes!" Ren Baqian nodded.
If not enough salt is produced here. Then go to the seaside of Yunguo, there will always be salt to eat.
"That's good!" Nagu said happily.
"My lord, can you really make salt here?" Two officials from the Ministry of Industry asked loudly, their faces full of disbelief.
The two of them didn't know until now what Ren Baqian and the others were doing in the mountains.
Ren Baqian took a careful look at the two of them, and only then remembered their identities. The sense of existence of the two is too low, and he has almost forgotten these two these days.
"Yes!" Ren Baqian nodded. "However, we have to go back and study how to do it."
"Great, great!" The two said again and again. Salt was a knot in everyone's heart. After so many years, there was nothing they could do.
Now that they can make salt here, it really makes the two of them feel excited.
After a while, all the guards came back, and one of them found a suitable place, which was the corner between the two mountain walls. Just pay attention to the beasts on the other two sides at night. And there is a protruding rock above it, which can be sheltered if it rains at night.
Ren Baqian took everyone to have a look, it would be considered good to find such a place in a short time.
Then everyone dispersed to look for prey. The animals in this area were unlucky. Even if they got into the hole, they would be caught by a few students.
When it was dark, the people returned and caught a total of more than a dozen small animals called dwarves that looked like fawns, more than 40 of a fat animal similar to mountain rats were strung together, and two A boa constrictor, a flower bear... and some wild fruits.
When Ren Baqian saw the giant panda that died innocently, he kicked it up.
"My lord, although this food is a bit unpalatable, I can't find much to eat for a while." The guard said with an aggrieved face, full of expressions that adults are just making do with it. And there are so many other prey, it's not you who eat this bad food.
"Forget it, deal with it quickly, save the bear's paw for me." Ren Baqian stared for a long time, and finally sighed.
The giant panda is a national treasure on earth, but in this place, it is a kind of animal that is not very delicious and is everywhere, and can do nothing but be stupid.
Of course, the attack power is actually not weak, similar to that of a bear.
Then he found a place to rest near the mountain wall and watched the guards set fire there. Some other guards and some students took the prey to a nearby water source for processing.
An hour later, Ren Baqian used two wooden sticks to insert four bear paws and turned them over the fire continuously, and the aroma of barbecued meat and seasonings also wafted out.
But it's not just the ones in his hand, the other meats roasted on the fire also exude aroma.
Ren Baqian waited for the bear's paw to cool down a bit and took a bite. The taste was average, and it was not very fat. It was worse than a pig's trotter. He immediately lost the desire to continue chewing. He threw the bear's paw to others and took it himself. I picked up two dwarf beast legs and gnawed them, and the taste was much better.
As the moon got higher and higher, the howling of wild animals began to be heard in the distance, and occasionally the sound of animals running in the woods not far away could be heard.
Everyone was not worried about wild beasts attacking, if someone really came, then the supper would be available.
It's a pity that instead of waiting for supper, there was a pouring rain.
The weather in the mountains changed at every turn. It took less than a minute for the first drop of rain to fall on the face, and most of the fire was knocked down, and everyone shrank under the big rock.
"Keep an eye on the top, don't fall down." Ren Baqianqian told Wanwan, he was afraid that if the soil loosened, the boulder would smash himself into meatloaf.
"Don't worry, my lord." Shi Hu turned his head, his face full of rain.
Many guards were outside, blocking most of the wind and rain for Ren Baqian and the many students inside.
It had been raining for two hours, and the guards outside were almost completely soaked.
Early the next morning, Ren Baqian and his party ate some wild fruits to fill their stomachs and set off back.
It rained last night, and the road on the mountain was much more difficult to walk, especially the leaves were covered with water, and by noon everyone was wet and dry.
At night, everyone returned to the village hungry and wiped out almost all the remaining rations in the village.
The hunting team went out for two days and hasn't come back. If they don't come back tomorrow, everyone will be hungry.
After a night's rest, Ren Baqian drove most of the guards out to hunt early the next morning, and the students all went fishing by the river, fishing with their fingers.
I was basking in the sun in the stockade.
At night, the guards who had been driven out to hunt came back with their prey, and the two hunting teams also came back with their prey on their front and back feet, finally keeping everyone from starving.
In the evening, Ren Baqian returned to Earth with two kinds of brine, and asked the laboratory to help test and find out the mixing ratio.
When he returned to Dayao, he had completely let go of his heart, and there was no problem with making salt.
As soon as I turned on the radio, I heard the empress' furious voice.
"Li Qianqiu, how many days do you have to arrive in Yusheng City?"
"Your Majesty, the minister's forward will arrive tomorrow."
"Wait until all the troops arrive before attacking and killing them all." The Empress said coldly.
"Yes!" Li Qianqiu said in a deep voice.
After hearing this, Ren Baqian's heart skipped a beat, what happened to Yusheng City? Could it be that the city is broken? So fast? Dayao is really fierce.
After listening for a while, he finally understood that Yusheng City was indeed broken, and it was directly dug into the city by a sect of Daxia. There are 100,000 Great Xia troops attacking fiercely.
It broke in just half a day.
Less than 300 of the 2,500 troops withdrew, and 5,000 of the 40,000 civilians died in battle.
Yes, die in battle.
Ordinary civilians in Dayao also have considerable combat effectiveness.
However, it is still difficult for untrained civilians to affect the overall situation when facing the 100,000 Daxia army and the masters of many Daxia Jianghu sects.
In this battle, the Great Xia Army suffered more than 10,000 casualties, while Dayao lost more than 2,000 soldiers and 5,000 civilians.
The battle loss ratio of the two sides has reached two to one, such a ratio is already terrifying for Dayao.
You must know that Daxia currently has more than 500,000 troops on the front line, and there are still 200,000 troops in Daxia ready to go.
And Dayao's total military strength, plus the recruits who are still in training, is only 110,000. At present, it is the 30,000 troops of the Northern Protectorate, the 8,000 troops of the Central Protectorate who have not yet arrived, and the 1,200 flying cavalry led by the empress, but 50,000.
So far, after the two battles in Ziyue City and Yusheng City, the Dayao Army has lost more than 6,000 people, while the Great Xia Army has lost no more than 70,000.
Among them, the Jianghu sects of Daxia played a huge role.
Next, Dayao will use 44,000 warriors to block the 430,000 Great Xia army and the warriors from Jianghu sect whose exact number is currently unknown. At the same time, he must be careful of the 200,000 Great Xia army that may be thrown into the front line at any time.