Our family is in decline

"Sir, this is today's breakfast."

Susan handed Lance a sumptuous breakfast, soft, sweet and milky white bread, three boiled eggs and a glass of milk. The value of this meal alone was as much as an average person's day.

Since his strength improved, his appetite has increased a lot, and this little thing is just an appetizer.

Lance was obviously in a good mood today, because he rarely slept for eight hours last night, which was a little indulgence.

"Just tell me if you have anything~"

Susan knew that she didn't like others watching her while she was eating, so she would either go to the table and eat together or walk away. Standing aside would probably mean something was wrong.

"Barton is waiting at the door. He wants to see the Lord."

This was the first time he came to the door, and Lance understood what decision he had made.

"When did you come?"

"In the morning, I didn't wake up my lord at that time."

"Then let him wait and leave him alone." Lance raised his hand and sent Susan away regardless.

He wanted to know how long the captain could persist. If he gave up halfway, it would mean that it was of little use. Only those who truly live to die can face the next monsters.

"Find someone to go to the farm and notify Walter. Ask him to sort out the situation on the farm and come over with the account books to report his work to me."

"yes."

Susan didn't mention Barton's matter again, she knew that the adults would consider him.

The work that needs to be done still needs to be done. Even while eating breakfast, Lance still has to think about the development of the town.

Now that the bandits entrenched on the old roads have been wiped out, the long-dormant channels for external communication have also been opened.

To be honest, he doesn't want to open it, because with such a big bomb under his butt, the more people come in, the higher the possibility of trouble.

But if you can’t block it, how can you make money if you block it?

If a territory wants to develop healthily and long-term, it must communicate with the outside world. It needs to obtain external resources and information. At the same time, some of the resources produced by the territory, such as wool and linen, need to be sold in exchange for money to operate the territory.

Nowadays, the situation of the territory seems to be prosperous, but in fact, he spent money to support it.

He is losing money every day, and a lot of it, because those public projects have no return, or no return in a short period of time.

If the territory does not have a stable income, no matter how much money he has, it will be consumed, so he must find a way to survive in the territory.

Thinking of this, Lance quickly finished his breakfast in a few mouthfuls, and then hurriedly left here to inspect the beach.

Square fields were planned out on the seaside, and some people could be seen walking on them.

He developed the first major product for the territory - salt fields.

As the saying goes, you can rely on the mountain to eat the mountain, and rely on the sea to eat the sea. Hamlet is located on the seaside, and Lance cannot let go of this easiest channel to obtain resources.

Just like fishing, salt fields do not require large-scale resource investment and have no technical barriers. With a little labor, pure salt can be obtained continuously.

As for the salt-making process, he had to thank the chemistry he learned in compulsory education back then. In addition, the protagonists in the novels he read all went to make salt, so he had a rough memory of the process, otherwise he would really have lost it.

Simply put, salt field drying uses the solubility differences of different substances in seawater. When water evaporates due to the high solubility of sodium chloride, the first thing to precipitate is salt with higher purity.

It is necessary to collect a small amount of salt when the crystals first begin to precipitate, use this salt and distilled water to make a saturated solution of sodium chloride, and then put the subsequent coarse salt to be elutriated.

Since it is a saturated solution, the sodium chloride in the coarse salt will not continue to dissolve, but all the impurities will be dissolved. The crystals after elutriation are salts with higher purity.

As long as a certain amount of high-purity salt is obtained, the range can be expanded to continue making saturated solutions. Repeating the above steps can obtain a continuous stream of high-purity salt.

In order to improve efficiency, he is now using the salt boiling method. Anyway, there is not much here, but there is a lot of wood waste cleared from the project, and what he lacks is time...

Moreover, the salt boiling room can be used to smoke fish and meat because it is left open for a long time.

Salt is a necessity at any time, and salt can be used to pickle by-products, which can extend the shelf life of caught fish. In this era, salt and meat are scarce resources, and there is no need to worry about sales channels.

"Hello, sir!"

The small salt-cooking workshop is very simple, because there are several large pots boiling inside and it is very hot, so several workers are shirtless, stirring the large pots and adding sea water to them from time to time.

Lance redesigned the flue of the stove and connected it to a thatched house at the back, which was filled with smoked dried fish made from various sea fish.

"grown ups!"

"How is it going?"

"everything is normal."

"I need more salt to speed up the progress in these two days."

"Yes!" Several workers couldn't help but work harder when they saw the lord inspecting.

Lance inspected the textile factory and the blacksmith shop one after another.

The world he is in now has strong religious power due to the existence of extraordinary power. Although there has been some progress in science and technology, it is still severely curbed. There has not yet been a steam engine.

Naturally, the city in his memory did not have steam spinning machines. Most of them were manual workshops, and efficiency depended entirely on people.

This is actually more beneficial to Lance, otherwise others will start climbing the technology tree, and he still has no advantages, and the value of the resources produced in the territory will be greatly reduced.

There is no shortage of iron ingots in the blacksmith shop. The scrapped copper and iron seized can be used for a long time, but the efficiency is really unsatisfactory.

To give a very simple example, Leonard's armor that was penetrated by the wolf has not been repaired until now.

Normally, one or two blacksmiths would be enough for a town of a thousand people, because there are usually not so many orders.

However, Lance's explosive troops require a large amount of armor and weapons. It is indeed a bit outrageous to leave these to a skilled blacksmith and an apprentice, but now this situation will make do.

In order to come up with a reasonable development plan, Lance did not stop. He busily visited various places in Hamlet, and even went out to the fields and docks to talk with some fishermen, farmers, and workers.

Until Susan came over and called him back.

"Sir, Walter has arrived."

Lance looked up at the time and saw that it actually took him half a day to get here. Could there be something wrong with the farm?

"Let's go back."

Lance always acted responsibly and went back without too much nonsense.

Things on the farm are not what they were before.

He has soldiers and cannons, not to mention that he is no longer the person who used to miss arrows. If those guys want to cause trouble, he can kill them all by himself on the farm.

As your strength increases, your confidence will naturally increase.