bookandnovel Chapter 230 60 Tons Of Salt
Chapter 230 60 Tons Of Salt
Luke seemed to have run out of ideas about the valley.
That's because Luke didn't discover such profitable tools as perfume, soap, glass, porcelain, cotton, and tea.
Not only Luke, as long as anyone knows the existence of these money-making tools, they will want to take the valley for themselves.
Therefore, improving the strength of the territory is undoubtedly the most important thing at this stage.
To Li Fan's annoyance, everything in the world seems to be an infinite loop.
Population is needed to increase strength.
If you want a population, you need funds and you need to open up your territory.
If you want funds, you will attract covetousness after opening the territory.
Dealing with covetousness requires an increase in strength.
And to increase strength still needs population...
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With the help of [Section 1 Alien Growth Gymnastics], the strength of the territory has just improved a lot.
Now it is difficult to continue to improve.
Li Fan then thought of a solution.
That is the Orc Empire.
There is a Warcraft Mountain Range in the Orc Empire.
While this monster mountain range brought losses to the orc empire, it also provided the orc empire with countless furs, monster materials, and magic cores.
And Li Fan's goal is the magic core.
The purified magic core is a good thing that can speed up cultivation.
The reason why Yolande was able to break through to level 4 fighter at the age of less than 40 was largely because he used countless magic cores.
If Anna and the others can have a large number of purified magic cores, they will definitely be able to further shorten the time required for promotion.
Therefore, Li Fan's next plan is to contact and trade with the orc gathering place.
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If you want to trade with the orc gathering place, the easiest way is to bring what the other party needs.
And what do the orcs need most?
food and salt.
Although there are countless monsters living in the Warcraft Mountains, hunting them is obviously not an easy task, and not all monster meat is edible.
However, the orcs have a lot of food.
For example, the orcs in Li Fan's territory consume more than 30 catties of food every day.
Faced with such a terrifying food intake, it is hard to imagine how difficult it is for the orcs to rely on hunting monsters to maintain sufficient food.
If not, how could the orc empire drive the orcs with too low basic attribute points to the sinful forest as "weak" orcs?
Li Fan even heard from Anna that some orc tribes would drive the old orcs in the tribe to the mountains, leaving these old orcs without labor to fend for themselves.
Therefore, as long as Li Fan goes to the orc gathering place with food and salt, he must have the opportunity to communicate with the orc there.
Of course, he can't bring too much, otherwise the orcs might give up the deal and choose to start the fight directly.
Thinking of this, Li Fan decided to prepare the salt promised to Luke first, and took the food to the orc gathering place.
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The matter of extracting table salt must not be exposed.
Keep this secret, it is endless wealth, expose this secret, it is the source of destruction.
For the sake of safety, every time Li Fan needs salt, he will only take a few close people to the salt mine.
These people are Ying, Anna, Dina, and Dozina.
Because the four of them have a 2-star favorability towards him.
As for Xiaoqing, Xiaobai, and Qixi who are also 2 stars, they are too young, so Li Fan didn't call them.
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After Li Fan and the others arrived at the salt mine, Li Fan first asked Ying to check if there were other people around.
After confirmation, he will start digging the salt mine.
Li Fan generally does not move those salt mines that are exposed on the surface, but only digs the part underground.
Several of them are very strong, and it is not troublesome to dig the salt mine.
Soon, a large piece of salt mine weighing hundreds of kilograms was continuously dug out.
Then it will be put into Li Fan's own space ring immediately.
At this time, Li Fan would lament that the space ring is an artifact, especially the 50 cubic meter space ring in his hand.
You know, in the Magic Continent, most people's space rings are only one or two cubic meters.
For example, the 5 cubic meters in Dozina's hand can only be owned by the nobles.
As for a space ring of 50 cubic meters, I am afraid that there is no second one in the entire Magic Continent.
Because of such a large space ring, Li Fan was able to take the salt mine without anyone noticing.
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Not long after, the 50 cubic meter space ring was filled.
There are nearly 100 tons of salt mines in it.
All are used to extract table salt, which is enough to extract 30 tons of table salt.
As long as they go back and forth twice, they can get together the more than 40 tons of salt promised to Luke.
After the salt mine was dug enough, Li Fan did not leave in a hurry, but worked with Ying and the others to find a way to refill the excavated area of the salt mine.
Seeing that there are not many traces left around, it is estimated that after a few rains, the weeds will completely disappear.
Li Fan brought Ying and the others back to the valley.
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After returning to the valley, Li Fan came to a small town far away from Li Tiantang, where he set up a warehouse in the corner of the valley.
He first poured part of the salt mine into stainless steel drums with a size of 20 cubic meters.
Then he called Tietou, Guli, Qingmu, Baiqi, Big Eyes, Big Ears, and some people who knew the basics and could be trusted.
As soon as Tietou and Gu Li entered the warehouse, they skillfully lit a fire under the stainless steel drum.
When it's about the same time, take out the solution in the cotton cloth filter bucket.
After filtering until the color of the solution became lighter, they continued to take out charcoal to filter the solution.
During this time they will not say much and will not ask any questions.
As for what's inside the stainless steel drum? What is the use? They don't care.
And after leaving, they will keep silent about everything here.
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Until they filtered a slightly blue solution, everyone except Tietou, Guli, Aoki, Baiqi, Big Eyes, Big Ears, and Ying, Anna, Dina, and Dozina will be in Leave now.
Li Fan and those left behind will continue to heat the stainless steel drum.
After waiting for only coarse salt to remain in the barrel, Li Fan put all the coarse salt into the interspatial ring.
After all the salt mines have become coarse salt.
Li Fan will take away all the things including the residue filtered out of the salt mine, and find a place to dispose of them when the time is right.
In this way, in a process known to only a few people, Li Fan filtered the salt mine into coarse salt.
It can be said that unless the last ten remaining people betrayed him, even if someone ransacked the warehouse, they would not be able to discover this secret.
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It took a full 5 days before and after, and Li Fan filtered out a full 60 tons of table salt at once.
Now not only did Luke have the 91,000 catties of salt that he had promised, but the extra 29,000 catties just happened to be used to exchange magic cores with the orcs.
"As long as you prepare the food, you can go."
Thinking of this, Li Fan called Alicia over.
All the materials in the territory have been recorded by Alicia. Li Fan has to ask Alicia how much food can be exchanged for the magic core in the territory now.
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In the study of the castle, Alicia suddenly showed a wry smile after hearing Li Fan's plan.
Then Alicia said to Li Fan: "Master, actually, I also have something to report to you recently, that is, the food in the territory is almost running out."
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Three big question marks popped up in Li Fan's head immediately.
He immediately said: "Impossible. Didn't there be 1.4 million catties before? Didn't it be calculated at that time that it would be enough for us to support ordinary crops until they mature?"
Alicia smiled bitterly again, and explained: "According to the original daily consumption of 20,000 catties in the territory, the food is only enough to last until next month. However, the 131 dwarves captured need to consume more than 5,000 catties per day. food, and as more people practice in the territory, the daily food consumption is still increasing. Now our remaining food can only last for more than ten days."