It actually, actually exceeded ten thousand catties.
This, this was only the first batch of five hundred acres of salt pans. There would be an endless stream of brine entering the crystallization pond.
Based on the current weather, the brine would crystallize in two to three days after entering the crystallization pond. This meant that the different salt pans could harvest salt every day.
Moreover, once the five hundred acres of salt pans entered a regular pattern, only a few dozen people would be needed to take care of it.
Previously, a thousand salt slaves worked day and night, but they could only produce a few hundred thousand catties of salt in a year.
Now, a few dozen people could produce a few hundred thousand catties of salt in less than a month.
Master Søren was right, the production had increased by more than ten times.
Once again, he had created an unparalleled miracle!
…
Following that, the entire Messy Rock Island entered a crazy period of construction. Whether it was the family warriors or the salt people, they seemed to not know fatigue and worked like crazy.
Moreover, these salt people could only eat porridge every day, but compared to the wild vegetables and rice from before, eating thick porridge every day was like living in heaven.
Not to mention, there was a mule that got sick along the way. Sauron ordered it to be killed, then minced into meat paste and put into the porridge. When everyone had the meat porridge, they were even more grateful to Master Sauron.
Even though Søren was very cold, and spent most of his time in the castle hiding from the scorching sun outside.
In reality, Søren was only recuperating the tendons and arteries in his arms.
The tendons and arteries in his right hand had been severely injured by Ling Ao, and he could barely lift it. The only thing he could do was to gently stroke Suo Ningbing's buttocks. Even using a little strength was difficult.
The tendons and arteries in his left hand were also injured from forcefully completing the first form of the ninth move of the Nine Strokes of Misfortune. However, the situation was much better. He could draw and write, but it was difficult to hold a sword.
Time passed day by day. Søren recuperated in the castle, and occasionally came out to patrol the salt pans to observe the progress.
He mostly listened to the reports of the family warriors and the leader of the salt people.
After these salt people understood the theory of salt drying, they immediately became more professional. Not only did they not need Søren's guidance in many aspects, but they also learned more thoroughly.
They dug the new salt pans and dried the salt at the same time, not delaying each other.
This Messy Rock Island was really a heaven-sent salting-ground. There was so little rain, and the conditions of the sun were so good. The daily salt production was getting higher and higher, and the rate of increase made everyone excited and even scared.
Time flowed like water. Two months had passed.
Now, with the help of Eros, Søren's left arm had completely recovered, and most of his right arm had also recovered.
In these two months, with the hard work of more than a thousand people, they had crazily opened up more than four thousand mu of salt pans.
The salt stored in the warehouse was already piled up like a mountain. There was no way to store it all. They had to put salt in other houses.
In the end, the chief warrior of the family, Suo Mu, came to report with a trembling voice.
Because in the past two months, the salt pans that had been opened up had produced 1.5 million catties of salt.
The warriors of the Suo Family and the salt men nearly fainted when they heard this number.
It had only been two months, and only a small portion of the salt pans had produced 1.5 million catties of salt.
Previously, three thousand salt slaves had cooked day and night, but they could only produce more than a million catties of salt in a year.
Now, the salt production was increasing every day, and the rate of increase was dizzying. The latest day's production had already exceeded sixty thousand catties.
Was Master Søren really a god?
Looking at the sea salt piled up like a mountain on the salt pans, all the salt men were filled with the urge to kneel down.
Not only that, Søren also took out a group of women to purify and crystallize some of the salt, using plant ash and other raw materials to make the coarse salt fine.
After countless attempts, they finally obtained fine salt that was as fine as snow.
The appearance of this fine salt made Suo Ningbing and Ye Jingyu exclaim in surprise. The quality of this fine salt was higher than the one used in the Count's residence. It looked white and had almost no impurities.
Therefore, Suo Ningbing and Ye Jingyu brushed their teeth with this fine salt every day.
They also told Søren a dizzying price. Every gram of this fine salt cost about 380 copper coins, which was four times the price of normal coarse salt.
Moreover, there was no lack of demand for this fine salt. All the nobles in the kingdom used this fine salt, not only for cooking, but also for washing.
As for 380 copper coins, it was a sky-high price for the commoners, but it was nothing for the nobles.
In the past month, Søren had people purify and crystallize twenty to thirty thousand catties of fine white salt, and there was a new output of three thousand catties every day.
All of this was money that he had spent in vain.
…
However, after the ecstasy, the warriors of the Suo Clan also had a faint worry in their hearts.
On this day, Suo Mu couldn't help but come in front of Søren and said: "Master, because of your miracles and wisdom, once all the salt pans enter production, we can produce more than ten million catties of salt within half a year. This is a great fortune."
Suo Mu's words were very conservative. In fact, the output in half a year was more than ten million catties.
Then, Suo Mu worriedly said: "But even if the output reaches ten million catties, or even twenty million catties, it would only be about twenty thousand gold coins. There is still a long way to go to reach one hundred and fifty thousand gold coins."
According to Søren's estimation, at this rate of development, the total output of the salt pans could reach at least fifteen million catties in four months.
But this salt would only be twenty thousand gold coins, which was far from enough to recapture Tianshui City.
Then, Suo Mu said: "Master, we are now facing three fatal crises."
"The first crisis is that the seventy to eighty thousand catties of food we brought will soon run out. Even if we eat porridge every day, it will only last for twenty days. After twenty days, we will run out of food. "
Søren had already noticed this point. Fortunately, there was enough salt. Otherwise, if they only ate porridge every day, it would be very difficult for these salt people to bear such high-intensity labor.
Suo Mu said: "The second crisis is that yesterday, we found a ship peeping at our salt pans from afar. This ship must have been sent by Gui Xingfu."
"What did they find?" Søren asked.
Suo Mu said: "Because of the distance, they only saw the salt pans and didn't see the salt on the pans. So they thought that we were digging fields to grow food and laughed at us. But Gui Xingfu will definitely send people to monitor us. I am afraid that the secret of our salt pans will be discovered one day. "
There was no doubt about this. Even if Søren was trapped on this rocky island, Gui Xingfu would still monitor him for a long time.
Suo Mu said: "The third crisis is that we are hoarding more and more salt, but we can't sell it. We don't have enough ships to transport the salt out, and we can't find a big buyer. "
In four months, there would be more than ten million catties of salt. It would be enough to supply the Raging Wave Kingdom for more than a month. Indeed, there wouldn't be a big merchant who could consume such a large amount of salt.
Suo Mu continued: "Moreover, the routes around our rocky island are all blocked by the Gui Clan's fleet. Even if we have enough ships, it will be difficult to transport the salt out. "
It was true. Usually, one ship would not be discovered under the cover of the night, but it would be difficult to hide the tracks of hundreds of ships.
At that time, Gui Xingfu would get people to disguise themselves as pirates and easily snatch the salt ships.
These three crises were very fatal. If they were not resolved, the survival of the entire island would be killed instantly.
Søren did not say anything. Instead, he looked through the sea towards the west.
Now, whether it was opening up the salt pans or drying the salt, they had all entered the proper stage.
After all, these salt people were professionals. Once they understood the principle of drying salt, they quickly became even more proficient than Søren. The mistakes that they made before were gradually corrected. The drying of salt became more and more standard, and the production increased.
Now was the time for him to leave, and also to resolve these three crises.
"I will leave the territory tomorrow, and will be back in half a month at most." Søren said: "At that time, not only will I bring enough food and a fleet, I will also bring more than 50,000 gold coins."
Suo Mu was stunned. Even if there were more than two to three million catties of salt stored in the salt pans ten days later, they could at most sell for three to four thousand gold coins. How could there be 50,000 gold coins?
However, he was already used to his master's miraculous hands. If he said he would bring 50,000 gold coins, then there would definitely be 50,000. As for how to do it, it was not something that he, the chief warrior, could think of. He was far from being as smart as his master.
…
That night, under Suo Ningbing's reluctance, Søren and Ye Jingyu left the rocky island in a small boat.
These two months were almost the happiest two months of Suo Ningbing's life. Although she lived in a simple castle, and her skin was a little wheat-colored under the wind and sun, she could be with Søren every day, and she did not need to be afraid all the time.
Moreover, she cooked all three meals a day. With the limited ingredients, she racked her brains to make exquisite food for Søren, and then watched Søren devour it. This kind of life was really wonderful.
Although Søren's hands were getting more and more dishonest and bad. Almost every day, her breasts and the wonderful place below her waist were touched by him.
Moreover, her indulgence and pampering had also developed a very bad habit of Søren. Every time he used his brain, when he was writing something, when he was drawing a blueprint, he had to touch something in his hands to get inspiration.
Therefore, every time Suo Ningbing was touched by him, her legs would go weak. Not only that, after she fell asleep, she would often have very embarrassing dreams.
She had just married and became a widow. Her whole body was as clean as ice and as clean as jade, and she had never been touched by a man. However, she was after all already twenty-six years old. Every part of her body was completely mature, and she really could not stand being teased.
She did not know how many times she had shakily muttered Lan Ling's name in her dreams. She did not know how many times she had woken up from her dreams, changed her wet pants, and washed her hot body with cold water.
Now, Suo Ningbing could not even tell whether she was Suo Ningbing or the sister that he had mentioned, Lan Ling.
In fact, she was even more willing to be that Lan Ling, because in this way, she would not only be his relative, but also his lover. This kind of extremely intimate relationship really made her extremely intoxicated.
Now, Søren was going to leave again, and she was going to enter the most difficult days.
She really thought several times that she might as well not live in Tianshui City, and live with Søren on this island for the rest of her life.
But she could not say such words, because she knew that many times even if you surrendered, the enemy would not let you go.
Moreover, a stubborn and proud person like Søren would absolutely, absolutely not surrender. He would rather perish together than surrender.
… …
After Søren left Stony Island by ship, he made a big circle on the sea before landing at a pier in the north.
This was already a county of the kingdom, and did not belong to Gui Xingfu's sphere of influence.
After going ashore, Søren and Ye Jingyu disguised themselves and traveled at night to Royal City without stopping.
He needed an astronomical amount of gold coins, an astronomical amount of food, and a huge fleet. He did not want to sell hundreds of thousands of kilograms of salt, nor millions of kilograms, but tens of millions of kilograms, or even more.
There was only one person in the entire Raging Wave Kingdom who could afford such an astronomical amount of salt, and that was the royal family.
Along the way, he concealed his identity and traveled day and night. Finally, four days later, Søren appeared outside Royal City.
The two entered Royal City under the identity of wild warriors, because his current face could not appear in Royal City, and the nobles could not enter Royal City without the king's order.
Half an hour later, Søren appeared outside Duke Linting's mansion.
He directly took out the jade pendant given by Linting and said to the Duke's mansion's servant: "Please report to His Excellency the Duke that an old friend wants to see him."
A quarter of an hour later, he appeared in Duke Linting's secret room.
… …
"Søren, you asked Gui Xingfu for a rocky island where even weeds could not grow?" Duke Linting asked.
"Yes." Søren said. He did not expect the news to spread so quickly.
"Old ginger is still spicier. You really can't beat that old fox Gui Xingfu. Not only were you humiliated, but you were also trapped in that barren land until your death." Duke Linting said: "Now the whole Royal City is calculating the time of your death. Are you here to ask me for help? Then I have to tell you, I can help you, but don't expect too much. My help will not exceed five thousand gold coins. "
Søren could not help but be stunned.
"You may think that I have no conscience. In the big bet with Zhi Ning, you helped me win seventy thousand gold coins, but I can only help you five thousand gold coins, right?" A trace of pain flashed in Duke Linting's eyes: "On the fifth day after you left Royal City, one of my vaults was robbed. Not only were all the gold coins stolen, but hundreds of people were also killed."
"Was it Prince Zhi Li's revenge?" Søren asked.
"Of course it was him." Linting's face twisted in pain: "The location of my vault is top secret. Even the people guarding it don't know where they are. Other than me, only my most trusted concubine knows. Now … she has disappeared. "
Suddenly, Søren could feel the pain in Linting's heart. He had not only lost gold coins, but also his feelings. He no longer knew who he could trust around him.
"How many gold coins did you lose?" Søren asked.
"Ninety thousand." Linting said: "Seventy thousand was won from Zhi Ning, and the other twenty thousand came from my gold account."
Ninety thousand gold coins. Not only did Zhi Li recover a lot of his losses, but it also hurt Linting.
"So now, I can only support you five thousand gold coins at most." Linting said: "Moreover, people have to help themselves in order to get help."
Linting's last sentence was said mysteriously, as if there was a hidden meaning.
Søren cupped his hands and bowed: "Your Excellency, you have done me a great favor. How could I ask you for money? On the contrary, I want to do business with you and help you earn an astronomical amount of gold coins. "
"An astronomical amount? How much gold coins?" Linting said: "Fifty thousand?"
"More than that." Søren said.
"Eighty thousand?" Linting's breathing became rapid.
"More than that." Søren said.
"A hundred thousand?" Linting was trembling.
"More than that. Far more than that." Søren said.
A hundred thousand gold coins was far more than that? How could there be such a big business in the world? Linting said: "How much gold coins is that?"
"This business has been around for generations. It has earned more than a million gold coins. It is more than the kingdom's annual tax." Søren said.
Hu Jinting's eyes widened in disbelief.
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