Heaven's Formula

"Excuse me, Lord Xia, the price of salt in Jinxia City... I don't know how much?" Kong Xuanzi asked with cupped hands.

"Coarse salt is ten cents and one tael. The price of refined salt is higher, tentatively set at five hundred cents and one tael."

"Is it expensive?" Chi turned and asked.

"It's quite cheap." Kong Xuanzi shook his head, "The price of salt in other places is basically around sixty or seventy yuan, which is almost six times the difference. It's just that this refined salt..."

"At present, it is only being promoted as a gift, and it has not yet been sold to the common people. After the tour is over, I can give you a few bottles to taste." Xia Fan said with a smile, "Now let's go to the steaming factory to have a look."

The so-called steaming factory is the No. [-] production area of ​​the salt field.The moment they stepped into the gate of the factory building, everyone was shocked by the scene inside.

I saw steam surging in the huge pool, making the indoor temperature like midsummer!Hundreds of workers are busy here. They only wear a single piece of clothing, and use long wooden paddles to stir back and forth in the pool. When the wooden paddles are drawn out of the water, some salt flowers can already be seen hanging on them.

To boil such a large pool of water, the fire must be indispensable, but everyone was stunned to see a trace of flame.It seems that this brick cooking pool has incredible power, which can generate high temperature by itself to make the salt water boil!

The stacking area on the other side of the factory building dispelled the last doubt of Penglai people.

There are a dozen "salt mountains" placed there, each of which is nearly one story high.People treat it in the same way as gravel, gathering it with a shovel, bagging it with a hoe... a lot of salt just spread out to the side of the road, and was trampled into the ground at will.This kind of attitude can only show one thing, the salt in Jinxia City is indeed abundant.

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3 Fifty Chapters of New Agriculture

Why are these salt pools heated without fire?

This question is entrenched in the minds of all visitors.

The same is true for Chi - she really wants to know the answer, but her self-esteem prevents her from speaking.There is no doubt that this should be the core secret of Jinxia City, and her inquiry is bound to attract perfunctory and rejection.As the owner of Penglai Island, she cannot let everyone lose face.

But unexpectedly, Xia Fan took the initiative to talk to her and said, "Are you curious, why can you boil water and boil salt without seeing any firewood here?"

Chi nodded subconsciously.

The moment her head shook, she regretted it.

How could the other party tell her Yancheng's trump card?

This move is tantamount to admitting her ignorance in this regard, and it will be difficult to take the initiative in front of this person.

"Because of the shock technique." Xia Fan did not show the slightest irony, but explained seriously, "Electricity is a secondary energy source with a wide range of uses, which can be easily converted into heat energy. I don't know if you have ever thought about why When the lightning strikes, there will be a huge sound?"

Level two... what?Chi blinked, then subconsciously added, "...I haven't thought about it."

"That's because the lightning heats the air, causing the latter to expand rapidly and make a crackling sound. It can heat the air, so it can naturally be used to heat other things." Xia Fan took out a copper wire pendant and peeled off the thin copper wire on it Come down, "Look."

As his words fell, the thin copper wire slowly floated up under the eyes of everyone.

Then several tiny blue lights jumped out from his palm and penetrated into the copper wire.

After a while, the copper wire showed a scorching bright red, as if it was already extremely hot.

Kong Xuanzi and the others let out a burst of exclamation.

The effect of driving the shock technique without using medicine is still so obvious, has the Privy Council's alchemy progressed to this point?

Chi didn't care about this, her eyes lit up and she said, "You mean, there are copper wires embedded in the bottom of these pools, and the streamer technique is used to heat the copper wires, and then make the water boil?"

"It's roughly correct, but the copper wire can't be in direct contact with the salt water, and the heat transfer can't rely on the pool itself. There are still many details worth studying." Xia Fan praised, "But you can quickly think of this point, It has reacted faster than many people."

Chi just smiled, and quickly covered the corners of his mouth, "If you tell me this, you won't be afraid of being sneaked out by me? For Yancheng, this should be a great secret, right?"

"There is no secret, these contents are all within the teaching scope of the school."

"School...does it mean private school?"

Xia Fan replied thoughtfully, "You can understand it this way, but Jinxia Academy's enrollment targets are all school-age children in the city. Anyone who is willing can apply to participate."

Chi was stunned.

The principle of the method of boiling salt can be learned by the whole city?

"Isn't that easy to leak out!" She couldn't understand for a while, what good would Jinxia City do by doing so?There are quite a few cities on the mainland by the sea. If they master this technology, the strength of the Privy Council will definitely be further improved.

A strange feeling rose in Xia Fan's heart.

It was as if the lady in front of her was not just a visitor from Penglai, but one of the investors of Jinxia City, who was monitoring and reviewing his policies. "Don't worry, the transformation of theory into actual production is not something that can be solved in one or two sentences, but this kind of knowledge can arouse students' interest in exploring the truth. I don't think it is a loss-making business. Aren't you also a beneficiary of it? one of them?"

"Uh..." Chi was speechless for a moment.

"Let's go, it's time to visit the farmland," Xia Fan said.

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The farmland in Jinxia City is only half a mile away from the salt field. It was originally just a barrier to prevent the land from being alkalized. If the east city wall and the salt field are regarded as two parallel lines, the farmland is the "green belt" in the middle.

Due to the unexpectedly good soil-fixing and fertilizing effects of the phylloxera provided by the elves, the experimental field project has now entered the formal production stage. The newly reclaimed land extends south along the coastline, and the planned area almost reaches the mountains in the east of Gaoshan County under.

According to common sense in the past, these lands with extremely high sand content have no value for cultivation at all, and no one would choose to locate farmland by the sea, but the people of Penglai were surprised to find that under these snow-covered lands, there are actually many Clusters of green seedlings.

In other words, the Jinxia farmer not only planted winter wheat in the sand, but the wheat was also growing vigorously.

But what really stunned them was not the scene in the farmland.

Compared with the fields that have been cultivated, those new areas that are being cultivated make everyone in Penglai seem to have come to a completely different era——

I saw more than a dozen giant beasts moving slowly in the gravel, with shiny metal rakes dragging behind them, the width alone was as much as six feet!The land that had not been turned for thousands of years was as soft as batter in front of the metal coulters, and a large amount of sand that had been pushed out formed a series of towering "low walls" beside the giant beast's feet.

Anyone who sees a special plow rake can intuitively feel its weight and stiffness—the exaggerated body size, as well as the size of a coulter, are by no means designed for cattle or manpower.Even if five or six adults lift it up, they may not be able to lift it out of the sand.

Only those giant bipeds can pull them.

Every time it took a step, its wide feet would sink into the mud and sand. Even so, its body was still as stable as a rock, and it didn't look weak at all.

"Is that... a creation of mechanism?" Kong Xuanzi murmured. Penglai Island has also recorded the ingenuity of mechanism technique, but the real objects are mainly hidden weapons and bows, and the biggest ones are dummy puppets.Compared with the giant beast in front of them, those things are as thin and fragile as embroidery needles.

Chi noticed the controller on the mechanism beast.

Some of them are clearly not human.

Flaxen or chestnut hair, long pointed ears, and mostly light gray pupils... She realized that they were not only demons, but also overseas demons.

No wonder the residents of the city accepted her so highly. It turned out that the cooperation between demons and humans had already progressed to a very deep level in Jinxia City.

"Master Xia, good afternoon." A plump blue-haired woman noticed the appearance of a group of people and walked towards this side with graceful steps—she was the elder Shuzhou, the high priest of Xenia. "Are you here to review the training results of the new batch of fighters?"

"Good afternoon, Ms. Senia." Xia Fan replied with a smile, "I just showed people around for a while. Having said that, it is quite good to exercise the balance of the manipulator in this way."

"That's true." The high priest covered his mouth with a smile. "At least they can find a stable job after leaving the army. But I think that opening up wasteland is your first goal."

It was Xia Fan's idea to use Xuanwu Mechanism Beast to replace the cattle.If you want to talk about modern agriculture, it is nothing more than chemical fertilizers, water conservancy construction and mechanized farming.Needless to say, the first two, phylloxera and soft bamboo are the first tree spirit plants ordered from the elves. One can make the land fertile and full, and the other can automatically absorb rain and dew and allocate water supply. The effect is no worse than nitrogen fertilizer or tap water irrigation system how much.

And the last important task of mechanization naturally fell on the mechanism beast.

Chapter 351

Facts have proved that the mechanism beast is quite suitable for this kind of work.

In the absence of rubber products, the current tires are not suitable for running on soft ground at all, and metal tracks involve technical problems. As a result, feet with a pair of wide pads have become the most versatile choice.

It takes two to three weeks of training for a qi-sensing person to master the operation skills of the astronomical instrument. At the same time, one of the main uses of the Xuanwu type is to reduce the logistical pressure, carry heavy objects and move quickly with the troops, and train positive movements in the wasteland. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

"So these dozen are your guests?" The high priest stroked his chest and said, "I am a refugee from World Island, the high priest Xenia of Noah's tree boat, very happy to meet you."

No one could ignore the tall and straight image of this elf lady—even if she was wearing a winter coat instead of a gown, the open neckline and high chest still caused a commotion in the Penglai team.

"What is the position of the high priest?"

"Sounds like at least a pastoral level official."

"Isn't her collar too low?"

"Where are you staring! Don't be rude, she is not from the Central Plains."

"Why did she say she was a refugee?"

Everyone whispered for a while.

Chi stood up and simply cupped his hands in return, "I am the owner of Penglai Island, Chi."

"It's so small." Senia looked at the top of her head unexpectedly, "The horn on the top of your head..."

"That's right, I'm a dragon." Chi raised his head and said, "And I've been over a hundred years old since I was born—"

"What a cute little girl!" Before she could finish speaking, the high priest had already bent down, hugged her lovingly, and even touched the pair of horns on the top of her head, "Did the dragons in the mainland look like this?" ? Much better-looking than those guys from the empire!"

"Ahem...the priest——"

Kong Xuanzi wanted to speak out to stop him, but was stopped by Chi stretching out his hand.

"It's okay, she didn't mean anything."

"Ah... I'm sorry," Senia stood up and put her hands together, "I just couldn't help it when I saw such a cute dragon demon. Please don't mind my rudeness."

"Didn't the dragon descendants of the Holy Wing Islands look good when they were young?" Xia Fan asked curiously.

"When they were born, their entire body was covered with scales, including their faces." The high priest nodded without hesitation. "As they grow older, these scales will gradually recede, and finally gather on the back and waist."

"You're talking about that flying lizard, right?" Chi snorted softly, "Isn't it normal for a crawling monster to have many defects?"

"I feel the same way too." Senia smiled.

Xia Fan secretly twitched the corners of his mouth, okay...the chain of discrimination between monsters was thus born.

"Lord Xia, these new fields that have just been reclaimed are indeed sandy land, why can we still grow wheat?" Kong Xuanzi took the opportunity to ask just when Miss Long and the high priest of the elf reached a consensus.

"This is all inseparable from the help of the elves." Xia Fan smiled, "I can ask Ms. Senia to introduce you to the specific situation."

"No way, if Lord Xia and His Highness the Princess were not willing to take them in, these spirit tree seeds would be useless at all." Senia replied modestly.

In this way, the visit to Penglai was successfully concluded with some commercial praise from the two.

And Chi's purpose went all the way to the end, but he couldn't find a chance to say it.

……

When the sun was about to set, the group returned to the residence arranged by the secretariat, looking a little discouraged.

Even if no one mentions it, everyone is more or less aware of one point - Jinxia City doesn't need dragons that much. They have solved many inherent problems of farmland and salt industry through other methods, and the means have surpassed everyone. imagination.

If you can still see a little shadow of the past in other towns in the past, but in Jinxia City, it seems to have completely broken away from the scope of Weichu era and Yongguo. Feel the difference.

Chi is even more so.

She returned to her bedroom and lay down on the bed without saying a word, feeling an indescribable loneliness in her heart.

Long and people have cooperated for hundreds of years and created a prosperous era together, but in the end they fell apart because of betrayal.While she learned about this period of history, she also experienced the unwillingness of her ancestors.

Although they are monsters, they are extraordinary beings who can benefit the world.Chi still remembers the light in her grandmother's eyes when she was talking about appearing from the clouds and being cheered by tens of thousands of people, and also remembers the loneliness of her back sitting alone in the ancestral hall.

Since then, an idea in her heart has taken root - to bring dragons back into the eyes of the world, and make Penglai once again a bridge connecting dragons and people.

For this reason, Chi thought of a way to avoid betrayal.

She will make certain sacrifices, but if it can get things back on track, she can accept these sacrifices frankly.

That is to form a partner with those in power, so that life is connected, life and death are shared.

Only when it is about the interests of life and death can the occurrence of betrayal be fundamentally prevented.

If you want the other party to agree, you must have great benefits, and the ability of the dragon is undoubtedly the best bargaining chip.At the beginning, Chi's target was the kings of the six kingdoms, but after leaving Penglai, she found that the demon had become an evil that the world could not avoid.However, the expansion of the Privy Council was faster than she had expected, and the local government had gradually become a puppet. Therefore, the moment she inquired about Jinxia City, she immediately changed her itinerary and went directly south to Shenzhou.

After a day of contact, Jinxia City can be said to be more open than Chi imagined, and the attitude of those in power is far better than expected.Although Xia Fan is not the person with the highest status, in terms of performance, he is also the real power chief second only to Princess Guangping, and he can be regarded as the most ideal candidate in five years.

It's a pity that Penglai also lost in opening up.

The help of the elf tree species to agriculture is no less than that of the Rain Ceremony, and it is more flexible and convenient to use. The ability she is proud of has been hit in all aspects here.

And this kind of blow is more unacceptable than many setbacks suffered in the past.

After all, once the model of Jinxia City is popularized, it means that the past glory will never be reproduced, and the famous dragon and Penglai will be completely forgotten by the world.

dong dong.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door.

Chi Qiang propped himself up and sat up, "Come in."

It was Kong Xuanzi who walked in.

"Are you worried about me?" Seeing his expression, Chi instantly guessed what the other person was thinking.

"Yes." Kong Xuanzi said bluntly, he sat down on the side of the bed, "Master Chi, I have something to say."

"If it's words of consolation, then it's waived." Chi closed his eyes and said.

"I don't know if this is consolation, but...do you still remember the purpose of your ancestors' cooperation with others?"

"...what are you trying to say?"