After resting for a night, Nalan Jinnian took her to a beach early the next morning according to the location selection conditions proposed by Nuan Nuan.
It is inconvenient for a carriage to enter the beach and cannot walk.
The two got off the carriage in a fishing village and walked hand in hand on the light yellow beach.
Wen Nuan took off his shoes directly and stepped on the fine sea sand with his bare feet.
"Why don't you take off your shoes and step on them to feel them?"
Nalan Jinnian held her little hand with one hand and her shoes with the other. He looked at her white little feet and shook his head: "No! What's so good about this? Be careful not to step on the shells." It hurts your feet. If your feet are too hot, put on your shoes."
"I can't wear it. I have to feel the temperature of the sand! Sunbathing in the sea requires a certain temperature! If the temperature is higher, will the seawater dry faster? Take off your clothes too and step on them , let’s go to a few more places and get a feel for it!”
It seemed like such a fallacy, but Nalan Jinnian believed that she was just doing it as she pleased.
Can you feel the temperature? Can you touch it with your hands
Not wanting to spoil her mood, he also took off his shoes and held them in his hands.
Nuan Nuan directly took them over and placed the two pairs of shoes side by side on the beach: "Okay, why are you carrying them? Just leave them! Are you afraid of someone stealing them?"
Nalan Jinnian smiled: "I'm afraid you won't be able to wear it when you want to!"
It's not comfortable to walk on the sand. Besides, they walked for two hours to get there. It's noon now, and the sand is burned by the sun and is tight to their feet.
The two of them just walked towards the seaside, leaving a series of long footprints on the calm and traceless beach.
Nalan Jinnian looked back, feeling soft in his heart, and held her hand tightly.
This feels good!
It seems that from now on, they will continue to walk side by side until the end of each other's lives.
Wen Nuan came to the beach, took some sea water with his hand and tasted it: "It's so salty, and a little bitter!"
The first basic condition for building a salt farm is good seawater quality, high salinity, and a broad and flat beach area.
The second basic condition is high temperature, low precipitation, and sunny wind, which is conducive to the evaporation of sea water.
Wen Nuan glanced at the beach: "The salinity of the sea water here is enough. It would be nice if it could be flatter and wider!"
Because there is no modern equipment, the tide can only be collected naturally.
And sun-dried salt can only rely on sunlight!
The advantage of using the solarization method to produce raw salt is energy saving and low cost!
The disadvantage is that due to the influence of geography and climate, it is impossible to build salt pans on all coastal tidal flats, and it is impossible to dry salt all year round.
Anyway, if the air is dry, the sunshine is long, the sun is strong, and the evaporation is large, the salt production will be high, otherwise the production will be low or even no production!
Therefore, salt can only be produced from March to November of the year. Naturally, the bigger the beach, the better.
Only in this way can more salt be produced and refined.
It just so happens that there is no shortage of labor force in Nalan Kingdom now. There are too many idle people. Building a large Yancheng can also give more people work.
Nalan Jinnian did not expect that Wenwen still felt that it was not big enough: "In terms of flatness and vastness, this beach is the largest in this area. We can also go further south, away from the sea near the border of Southern Border, where the beach It will be wider and more vast. But I don’t think the sea water there is salty enough like here.”
Otherwise he wouldn't have brought her here to see her first.
Wen Nuan nodded: "Well, let's build a salt farm here first! Then we'll have a look in the south. If it's suitable, we can build another there! In the future, we will have two large salt farms in Nalan Kingdom. We, the people, will buy salt. It’s two or three cents a pound! Then we sell it to other countries at the current price, so the national treasury will be full soon!”
Nalan Jinnian nodded.
When the country becomes rich, the people's lives will naturally become better!
In this way, the cohesion of the people has become stronger.
When a country becomes rich, its soldiers can be trained to become stronger!
If anyone dares to think of destroying their own country and destroying the current prosperous days, the people will be the first to disagree!
Why worry, Nalan country cannot have long-term peace and stability
Then Wen Nuan took out a kettle made of gourd and filled it with sea water: "I'll take it back and try boiling salt tonight."
What is obtained by drying sea water is only coarse salt. Coarse salt cannot be used directly and must be purified.
If you measure the production, it is more troublesome. It needs to go through dissolution, filtration, chemical removal of Ca and Mg ions, etc.
However, no matter how difficult things are, they are all done by humans.
It is impossible to achieve the scale and output of modern times!
That is wishful thinking!
Nalan Jinnian took the gourd from her hand and said, "Well, let's go to the next beach? It's not as big as this one, but there are some places that are relatively flat."
Nuan Nuan nodded: "Okay! Let's go and have a look tomorrow to see if there is any beach where a salt farm can be built."
It cannot be as large-scale as in modern times. We can only build a few more in various places and accumulate a little to make a lot. This is not impossible.
"Um."
The two returned to the carriage, and Wen Nuan said to Lin Feng: "Lin Feng, go get a bucket of seawater and take it back!"
"yes!"
Lin Feng immediately went to a nearby villager to buy a wooden barrel, then fetched a bucket of water and took it back.
When we returned to town, half of the water had been shaken away.
This seaside town is called Changning Town, and Nalan Jinnian has a three-story mansion here.
It was almost evening.
When they entered the house, a housekeeper immediately said: "Master, the strict manager is here!"
A steward stepped forward respectfully and saluted the two of them: "Yan Han has met the master and Princess Hui'an!"
This person is from Nalan Jinnian and will be responsible for the management of the salt farm in the future.
All of Nalan Jinnian's salt business was managed by him.
Very loyal.
Nalan Jinnian nodded: "Strictly speaking, go have dinner beforehand. I'll tell you something later."
"Yes!" Manager Yan stepped back respectfully.
Nuan Nuan returned to her room to freshen up, and then had dinner with Nalan Jinnian, and then went to a laboratory specially designed by Nalan Jinnian.
Before Wen Jiarui's mission, Wen Nuan had already thought about building a salt farm, and she had already drawn a set of tools and asked Nalan Jinnian to find someone to make them.
Although they set off in a hurry this time, Nalan Jinnian had told his subordinates to bring the set of tools.
So while they were still at sea, this set of refining tools had been delivered.
Yan Han walked into the house, looked at the bottles and jars in front of him, and asked Lin Feng curiously: "Lin Feng, the master said that seawater is used to make salt. Are these tools used to make salt?"
It was hard for him to imagine how Princess Hui'an could get rid of the toxic substances in the sea salt. After all, it was something dissolved into the water!
And it cannot be seen when it dissolves into water.