Chapter 22 The way to make money during the picnic

The people of Xidu are shooting for their livelihood and preparing meat for the winter, and now the prey they hunt will be salted so that the meat can be stored until the winter, so that they will not starve to death in the harsh winter.

The unruly barbarian tribes were also soft on Yao Yun and surrendered because of salt.

However, Yao Yun, the largest slave owner in Xi Kingdom, naturally does not have to rush for his livelihood, he comes out to shoot for real fun, it is a happy thing to be able to hit the prey, and it doesn't matter if there is no harvest.

No, after shooting the prey, the palace guards formed a group, away from the hunting crowd, and began to picnic.

Dig a pit, serve a bronze tripod, and boil water......

The tripod is used to cook things to eat, however, Yao Yun is not used to cooking things with bronze tripods to eat, so people change them to pottery.

The palace guards also made some gains, and the pheasants, ducks, and geese added up to a dozen or so placed together, which was very spectacular.

The kitchen lady of the palace was already busy, Yao Yun was directing everyone on the side, circling around, and soon, Yao Yun saw Xingye carefully take out a small bag of things from the embroidered robe, and opened it preciously.

This caught Yao Yun's attention, and when he looked closer, it turned out to be a yellow, cloudy piece of salt.

"Is this table salt?"

"Back to the king's words, the slave family does have salt in their hands. ”

Yao Yun took the salt, rubbed it with his hands, the particles were very coarse, and then licked it, phew, bitter.

"This is coarse salt, which can only be used to pickle vegetables and meat, and cannot be eaten!" Yao Yun said dissatisfied.

Xingye was a little frightened: "The king forgives the sin, the slave family has taken the best fine salt, and everyone usually eats this kind of salt." ”

At this time, Cang Man also ran over and said: "Yes, King, everyone eats this kind of salt, we all produce salt in Xidu, and other places that don't produce salt can't eat it if you want to!"

Yao Yun thought thoughtfully: "Made by the frying salt method?"

When Cang Man heard this, his face changed, and he saw that there were all people from the palace around him, and there were no outsiders, and then he nodded solemnly.

Yao Yun also nodded slightly, the coarse salt made by the frying salt method is actually edible, and it can't be eaten, but because of the simple process, there are still a lot of harmful substances in the coarse salt.

For people in this era, salt is an expensive thing, and they are all reduced to the point of starvation, who cares that the salt they eat is a little harmful.

At this time, Yao Yun remembered the purification of coarse salt from the middle school days of the previous life, so he quickly made people burn.

At the same time, fill a large clay pot with water and put a large bag of coarse salt into it.

"King, don't~"

For a while, everyone shouted, and the king actually poured a whole piece of salt into the clay pot, which made everyone's eyes straight.

Xiaocao and apricot leaves, as well as the kitchen lady of the palace, tears came out at this moment, and such precious salt was poured into the basin at one time, which was simply a tyrannical thing!

Yao Yun waved his hand, signaling them to be quiet and watch his performance.

Purified salt is nothing more than dissolving, filtering, precipitation, crystallization, Yao Yun filtered the solution through silk, filtered it several times and then decocted it with fire, soon, after the water evaporated, many fine yellow-white crystals appeared on the pottery pot, and the white salt obtained was not snowflake-like.

"King, this is still the same salt!"

"Don't you see that his salt is much smaller, and that there used to be a little bit of sediment and minerals in the coarse salt, but now there is no more. ”

"The king is wise!"

Everyone sneered, and called a bitter thing in their hearts, a good piece of salt, so much less at once, if you are not the king, you will be killed when you go out.

In fact, Yao Yun is also more depressed, the main thing in coarse salt purification is to remove potassium ions and barium ions dissolved in water in coarse salt, but he is now limited in conditions, and can only purify insoluble sediment and a little mineral.

"You kid knows how to toss, a good piece of salt, you have lost so much, it's really a loser, we all produce salt, but you can't waste it so much. At this time, the bald dragon came over at some point, followed by the second elder Wu Tong.

When Yao Yun saw that it was a bald dragon, he was not happy at that time, he was more annoyed by this dragon lord who forcibly set him a lofty goal, not to mention the mocking appearance of this lord.

"Uncle Long, you don't understand, this is called high-quality salt, have you seen it, am I much finer than before, much cleaner and purer, and much less bitter, this is quality, high quality can be sold at a high price!"

The bald dragon looked disdainful and said disdainfully: "Salt is originally a precious thing, and if you sift it so many times, it is simply a tyrannical thing!"

Yao Yun was very confident at this time: "Fine salt is sold to noble families, not to a barbarian, nor to the common people, you don't understand the mind of the nobles, they only choose good and fine, for this kind of poor and luxurious things, they can buy them at a much higher price than usual, this is the way to make money!"

Yao Yun said that the head was the way, coupled with that calm expression, the bald dragon suddenly recalled the scene when Yao Yun was fighting against the barbarian tribe, and the prince was also confident at that time, as if everything was under control.

The bald dragon was frightened, as a divine dragon, he belonged to the spirit monster monster beast and the like, and it was really difficult to understand the mind of human beings, let alone the minds of human nobles.

At this time, the second elder Wu Tong spoke: "What the king said is very reasonable, it is indeed possible, how the nobles of the imperial capital are so poor and extravagant, the uncle has seen it with his own eyes, maybe he can really sell it at a high price!"

The bald dragon showed a surprised expression: "Ben Long doesn't believe it, those nobles are smart, who would be so stupid, your salt is a little finer than ordinary coarse salt, there is nothing special!"

Yao Yun nodded: "The salt in Lone's hand is indeed still coarse salt, and it is not refined salt, but what if Lone makes snowflake-like refined salt?

In the eyes of the bald dragon, there is no difference between these, and when he heard it, he thought that his little king was bragging in order to save his face, but the second elder Wu Tong's face changed greatly:

"King, you said you can make salt as pure as snowflakes!" Wu Tong shook his head, and then the power of his mind unfolded, sealed the surroundings, and then clasped his fists: "This method of making salt from Xidu Yanjing is from the hands of the old decay, I wonder if the king can give some advice?"

Seeing Wu Zhu respectfully and shamelessly asked, Yao Yun was very surprised, and hurriedly helped Wu Tong up: "What can't you say about this, don't mention some teaching, let's exchange and learn!"

Anyway, they are all their own family, and Yao Yun will also teach the salt people in Xidu in the future, so that they can produce snowflake-like well salt.

Yao Yun's face is still quite thick, when he traveled to Si ~ Sichuan Zigong City in the previous life, he heard that there was an ancient well that made salt in ancient times, because he was interested, so he learned about the fine well salt that was refined in ancient times.

The process is quite complicated, to put it simply, first with brine, generally black brine and yellow brine, the salt produced by both is bitter, containing harmful substances, but if the two are blended in a certain proportion, the barium ions and sulfur ions inside will generate a white precipitate, and then remove it.

Then, the method of "brine dotting tofu" is used to wash the brine with soybean milk to remove a large number of impurities again, and then boil the salt and crystallize, so that you can get snowflake-like refined salt without bitterness.

Yao Yun said that the head is the Tao, and a large number of terms from the previous life were spoken, and Wu Tong heard it in a fog, probably having the feeling of listening to the book of heaven.

However, Wu Tong also knows how to make salt, this kind of person who doesn't understand it or not, and who is swaying with half a bucket of water is the most likely to be fooled by others.

When the bald dragon saw this scene, he was stunned: "This kid really understands, why does it look unreliable!"