Age of Apocalypse

In the dim underground river, the sound of running water echoed clearly. Under the leadership of Perth, Nader and Case took Jack and several clerks from the city hall, holding torches along the wet road.

Walk across the riverbed.

The mottled moss became sparse as Perth and the others went deeper, and were gradually replaced by moist and turbid, but gray and crystal white particles.

As he walked, Nader kept complaining, "This is my newly made robe, but now it's covered in mud and particles!"

Perth bent down, peeled off the particles mixed in the soil, and even twisted it up and immediately put it into his mouth to taste. The salty and bitter taste blooming on the tip of his tongue made Perth frown slightly and lick the corners of his lips.

This makes Perth very happy. You must know that these bitter and rough crystals are crude rock salt crystals that are simply processed from ore salt. This kind of salt only needs to be filtered out after sedimentation in rapids. It is an extremely cheap and rough crystal.

Salt.

Many commoners and serfs from ordinary families used this gray-black crystalline salt at home.

As he walked deeper, Case suddenly exclaimed, "Look, these white jade-like rocks are so shocking!"

Tick ​​tock! Tick tock! Tick tock!

Continuous pieces of white milk-colored rocks hang on the stone walls of the river, and sometimes the sound of spring water echoes above the underground river surface. The large water droplets shine through the only light, emitting crystal light.

The reflection of the river water reflects the hazy sparkling light, making the dim and silent underground river more dreamy and beautiful.

While everyone was looking around in admiration and joy, Perth suddenly jumped up! With a "swish", the cold light came out of its sheath, chipping off the white milky rock like dirt!

He eagerly stuffed it into his mouth and tried it gently with the tip of his tongue.

"Cough cough cough!" The intensely stimulating bitter and salty taste rushed straight to his forehead, instantly making his throat extremely thirsty!

Nader was so frightened that he hurriedly took the cowhide water bag. Perth, whose throat was dry and uncomfortable, immediately took it and drank several sips before he calmed down a little before giving up.

But even though the bitterness of the rock salt had made him miserable, even so, Perth could not conceal his joy, and said excitedly, "This is a salt mine, a raw salt mine! As long as it undergoes some processing, it can produce Botigeng town."

Better salt!”

The reason why I say this is because in Tulip Collar.

In addition to the distant Nanshan City in Feilengcui, which has an attached salt mine, and in several nearby towns, only the Benjamin family in Boti Town has a fixed tea and salt trade route, which has also resulted in a monopoly on the nearby salt market.

Therefore, even if it is gray-black crystalline salt, if it were not for Perth's vigorous development and investment, there would probably be only a handful of people in Tulip Town eating salt at this time.

But even so, the gold Madrid used by the territory to import salt every month can only be used as the demand for salt grows. Sometimes it is even necessary to buy raw salt stones at the price of crystallized salt for processing, not to mention the waste of manpower and material resources.

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This has long made Perth, as the lord, plan to change the path, and this discovery is simply an unexpected surprise!

Even Nader couldn't help but admired, "Mrs. Naji is indeed a highly favored elven clan, and her legacy is definitely much stronger than the vulgar gold, silver and jewelry!"

But Keith on the side became silent, thinking that it was natural.

But after thinking about it, I still recalled with some nostalgia, "The Tulip Collar was when Mrs. Nagy was pregnant. When I was a guard of the castle, I had seen Mrs. Nagy look at the map of the Tulip Collar countless times.

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I still remember her saying when she met me, "This is the most precious gift I give to my children." So I think, even though this place looks remote and may even be inconspicuous, it is Mrs. Najib's awakening choice.

location."

Faced with the extreme dullness of this topic, even Perth was affected by the original owner's emotions and showed a trace of sadness.

Nader quickly said, "Okay, okay, but the question now is, how can we live up to Madam's intentions and remove the salt mine here and make it into salt?"

However, Case looked at Perth, coughed twice and said, "Ahem, it doesn't matter. It's just that the construction of salt wells will require a lot of iron ingots and steel, which are things we are all lacking at the moment."

"You know how to build a salt well?" Perth asked in surprise.

Case couldn't help scratching his head and said with a smile, "Actually, my father was a salt merchant, and I have seen the structure of salt wells since I was very young."

However, Keith's father met a robber due to an accident when he was very young, leaving the young Keith and his young wife behind.

Nader shook his head and apologized.

Then he thought about it and couldn't help but said, "But the underground rivers here are far less solid than those rocks.

Years of water vapor erosion and accumulation of stalactites have overwhelmed them.

And once a collapse occurs, the "trade route" connecting Pearl Collar may be directly broken due to this accident."

Before Nader finished speaking, Perce quickly pushed him away, and a cold light suddenly appeared, blocking the long sword in front of him.

"Zi la!" There was a sound, and sparks from metal friction burst out, "Looking for death!"