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From the high tide to the highest peak of the day, seawater must be introduced from the sea to receive the tide, and then stored at the highest point of the salt pan.
The storage time ranges from half a month to a month. This is for making brine, which needs to be measured by a simple brine measuring tool made by Li Hongshen himself. After the brine reaches a certain concentration, it will be poured into the salt field below for sun-dried salt .
The shipment of sea salt depends entirely on the weather. After the difficult period of the first month, except for the rainy days, the salt field cannot crystallize. For the remaining months, one mu of land can produce about two to three hundred catties of crude oil every day. Salt crystallization.
The salt will be transported to the salt workshop in the tribe for a second cooking and filtering to remove the sediment, and then be ground to obtain better refined salt.
The production capacity of the salt fields makes Li Hongshen's tribe not short of salt. In addition to daily use and hoarding, Li Hongshen also teaches the people in the tribe to use salt to pickle chicken catches.
Chapter 7 White-bellied Sea Eagles and Pirates
With the passage of time, the rainy season dissipated, the temperature began to drop, and the weather became a little dry. Li Hongshen knew that it was going to be winter.
In the lord's trial, he was lucky enough not to be assigned to a place with four distinct seasons. This island has a subtropical climate all year round, so there is no need to consider fighting cold waves.
Li Hongshen just asked the people in the tribe to pay attention to the changes in the sunlight. The days seem to be shortened, and the time available for people's daily work is also shortened. Moreover, the temperature difference between day and night has changed somewhat, making people need to be careful of catching cold in the middle of the night.
There have also been some changes in Fengqi Valley. The caves dug out on the top of the hillside have been filled, and there are various materials inside.
The cave is supported by wooden stakes and beams made of arbors to prevent it from collapsing. In the innermost part, there are dried grains and flour, as well as refined salt and sucrose in sacks.
Cane sugar was made by exploring the sugar cane fields found inside the island. Li Hongshen also built a sugar cane workshop and a papermaking workshop next to the sugar cane fields.
The excess bagasse is used to make paper on site, and the unusable ones are scattered on the fields as fertilizer.
In addition to salt and sugar, there are several large wooden barrels in the granary, with thick hemp ropes wrapped around them. A piece of fiery red paper is pasted on the outside of the wooden barrels, which says linseed oil, which is extracted from linseed of vegetable oil.
In addition, there are various clay pots, which store milky yellow paste, which contain chicken oil and fish oil.
Turn through the interior to another warehouse, where many cured fish and wax chickens are hung on the beams with hemp ropes, which are meat that has been processed and stored.
Going further outside is the utensil room. There are also several large wooden barrels here, which are also filled with oil, but the words on the outside of the oil barrel clearly state that these are tung oil.
There are many leather armors hanging above the oil drums. They are spread by wooden hangers and hung on the beams. If these leather armors are taken outside and exposed to sunlight, the reflection of the oily light can be clearly seen.
Near the cave wall, there is also a well-built weapon rack with an iron blade wrapped in a fish skin scabbard.
And there are rows of spears and iron guns beside the knife rest, these are all weapons that have been forged in the past six months.
In addition to the little crocodiles in Fengqi Valley, there are a few more residents. These are the scouts Li Hongshen invited from the northern arbor forest.
With a white head, a white belly, a black mouth, a black back and black pupils, as the only bird of prey on the island, it was 'brought' back by Li Hongshen with his nest.
This time he still used fish as bait, but the poison was turned into wine, which was made from the first batch of grain received, and after waiting patiently for a few days, he finally drunk all the white-bellied sea carved.
After bringing the white-bellied sea eagles back to the camp, they arranged for the people in the tribe to relocate, and brought the nests of these sea eagles to Fengqi Valley, and pressed them on the largest plane trees.
After the sea eagles got drunk, the people led by Li Hongshen took turns to communicate with the sea eagles all night.
Finally, after listening to me all night for a week, these sea eagles were addicted to Li Hongshen's charming smile.
However, Li Hongshen did not treat them badly. Fengqi Valley, which exists as a natural wonder, can give them a better growth rate.
The huge sycamore tree can better shelter the sea eagles from wind and rain, and sometimes the tribe will give them extra meals.
And now it happens to be their breeding season, and there are special people feeding them every day to replenish their physical strength.
So in the end they were really fragrant, but Li Hongshen didn't let these natural scouts move freely.
In order to prevent the failure of the test, and for the safety of the camp on the island, the handsome and charming lord Lao Li showed a sincere smile and directed the male sea eagle to patrol the surrounding territorial waters every day, waiting for the person to be closed. arrival.
Finally, at the end of the seventh month when Li Hongshen entered the lord's trial, the cries of sea eagles came from the sky.
Accompanied by a rapid and ear-piercing cry, a huge sailboat came out from the unknown mist in the distance, and floated towards the south beach of the island.
When Li Hongshen saw this huge sailboat, he quickly took out a simple telescope, which was slowly ground into glass balls melted from the sand in the stream, stuck in a bamboo tube, and could be stretched.
Watch as the handcrafted behemoth flies from its tallest mast a black banner with a classic pirate skull topped by a pair of scimitars crossed over each other.
Even if you look at it from a distance, it will feel very big, but it is dilapidated. Almost all the sails have holes, and there are traces of being burned, which looks abnormally decayed.
The cabins on both sides are traces of various repairs, and there are holes above the waterline. With the ups and downs of the waves, water enters inside, making people doubt whether the ship can still sail safely.
There are still bones on the deck of the pirate ship, as well as many dirty pirates. It seems that these pirates have experienced a fierce battle and drifted for a long time.
Li Hongshen did not dare to be careless when he saw such a scene. This is a group of brutal pirates who have experienced wars. He seriously doubts that these pirates have eaten people. The pirate on the deck is the most powerful evidence. .
He ordered all the people in the tribe to wear leather armor, wear iron blades on their waists, carry spears and iron guns and quiveres on their backs, and hold hunting bows in their hands.
Leading the crowd to wait for the opportunity in the woods near the south bank, it is estimated that it will take at least two hours for the pirate ship to rely on the thrust of the waves to float over.
Li Hongshen didn't know if the pirates had artillery fire, and he didn't know if the pirates had any energy left, but he knew that he needed to eliminate the pirates, no matter what.
Regarding Li Hongshen's decision to wipe out this pirate team and the upcoming battle, the entire tribe, men, women and children, did not complain at all.
They all knew that if the pirates were allowed to land on the island, there would be too much uncertainty waiting for them, and they didn't want to bet on how unreliable this brutal pirate team was.
The tribe finally lived a prosperous life under the leadership of the patriarch. They did not allow these pirates to destroy them. Li Hongshen took advantage of the time to make more traps in the woods behind the beach, and took all the carefully prepared earthen grenades .
He used the saltpeter he found near the iron mines in the west, and the sulfur he found in Fengqi Valley, and mixed it with charcoal powder. According to the ratio of saltpeter powder 75 to sulfur powder and 15 to charcoal powder, he made black gunpowder simply.
Finally, the mixed scrap iron pieces are put into a thinned bamboo tube, and a hemp rope soaked in tung oil is drawn out of the outside, so that a minimalist earthen grenade is completed.
This kind of grenade can be said to be a big killer in the lord's trial. For thousands of years, there are very few people who can produce this kind of big killer in the lord's trial. At least you can't do it if you have the skills and resources. weapons.
Time passed bit by bit, relying on months of bravery training and military integrity, the clansmen in the mountains and forests did not have any commotion, and all of them were recharging their energy.
And waiting for them will be an unknown battle, and this will be a battle that is bound to see blood and either you die or I die.
Finally at noon, the pirate ship, which had been drifting since morning, docked under the influence of the current.
8 The First Drop of Blood
When the pirate ship drifted more than 90 meters away from the beach, it had completely stopped power.
Because Li Hongshen raised the sand on the seabed south of the island by several layers to prevent such ships from landing directly on the shore.
Li Hongshen, who was in the woods, could hear cheers from the pirate ship sporadically, and then saw a few cables thrown down from the pirate ship, and the pirates rowed down along the cables, seemingly defenseless.
Li Hongshen was not in a hurry, he was going to let the pirates swim for a while, use the sea water to consume their strength, and deal with them after most of them landed.
More than 60 pirates descended from the sailing ship one after another, and the first ones were about to swim ashore, and they didn't know what was waiting for them after they landed.
The clansmen waiting in the woods are all ready, their bows and arrows have been put on, and everyone is watching these pirates quietly.
Finally, the few pirates at the front stood up from the sea water and marched forward with big strides.
When they landed, they immediately lay down on the beach. It could be seen from the large undulating chest that these people were really exhausted.