Chapter 12 Mineral Salt, the Lifeblood of a Nation! (Ask for recommendation votes)
Wake up.
I looked at the sun, and about an hour passed.
He was now a true monk, and he didn't have to rest at all.
Brush your teeth and wash your face.
As a Bigu Realm, there is basically no dirt on his body.
It's just a habit for him.
If you don't brush your teeth or wash your face, it feels a little weird.
It's more like brushing your teeth, but it's about rinsing your mouth.
Remove some salt from the salt jar.
Use a bamboo tube to scoop up the water, and then dip a willow branch in some salt.
He stabbed him twice in the mouth.
"Goo-go......o-go
Bai Ji was rinsing her mouth, and the middle-aged fat man walked over with a lewd smile on his face.
"Sir is up?"
"Ahem, ahem!"
Bai Ji almost swallowed the mouthwash.
"Is the gentleman gargling?"
"Or else?"
It's that people have the gas to get up.
White millet is no exception.
"Sir is really a good man."
Meng Yi praised on the side.
How do you feel a little yin and yang?
"Eh, there's salt here?"
"You t...... Isn't it nonsense? ”
Bai Ji looked at Li Xin and wanted to shoot him to death.
What did you eat yesterday without salt?
Salt falling from the sky?
Meng Yi walked up curiously.
Glanced.
I saw a vat full of salt.
as fine as gravel, and as white as snow.
Meng Yi rubbed his eyes vigorously.
Some couldn't believe what they were seeing.
The old man must have not woken up in the morning, he was wrong!
No way!
Get straight to the point.
Grab a handful of white salt.
The expression on his face changed directly.
Completely solidified!
It's really salt!
Moreover, it is still such a fair-skinned fine salt?!
Salt is important!
There is no doubt about the role of the state!
Let's just say that during the Warring States period, bartering was very common because of the currency barrier between countries.
Salt, grain, silk are the most common.
Salt is necessary for the human body.
Without salt, man would have no strength.
If you don't have the strength, how can you fight?
Grain can be eaten almost enough, but salt can't be missing!
The earliest table salt was boiled in seawater.
Later generations unearthed salt frying utensils, which proved that the ancients had learned to decoct sea salt during the Yangshao period.
The Qin State is not like the Qi State by the sea, and the Qin State has cliff salt, and there are a lot of them.
However, the king of Qin was not satisfied, so he attacked Shu first.
Li Bing dug deep wells after occupying Shu and finally developed well salt.
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It's useless to have these!
The current craftsmanship is here.
The particles are very coarse!
And the color is greener and yellower!
In addition, during the Qin Dynasty, salt and iron were not government-run, but private.
It's a bit like the contractor system.
In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty also followed the Qin system.
Let the salt and iron merchants manipulate the price and obtain huge profits, and the princes are richer!
In the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the official camp of salt and iron was officially started to contain them.
During the Qin Dynasty, the status of merchants was not low, although they upheld the importance of agriculture and the suppression of business, but the status of the people was still very high.
For example, the famous Wulu, the widow Qing.
Wu Lu is the treatment of a feudal king!
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Regardless of these, salt is precious.
Now Great Qin has annexed the Six Kingdoms, and there are more than 20 million people in Qianshou!
The price of salt remains high!
Many Qianshou can only buy coarse salt, which is relatively cheap.
Even so, it's a big expense.
It is recorded in Yuelu Qin Jian that the price of salt is about 150 yuan a stone.
Folded down, 15 a bucket.
Is it expensive or not?
According to historical records, the price of grain at that time was about three dollars of rice.
It's not expensive, it's not cheap.
After all, you don't have to eat so much salt.
But that's talking about inferior sea salt.
A little yellowish!
It's not this fine salt as fine as snow!
Seeing that Meng Yi was a little strange, Qin Shi Huang and Li Xin also stepped forward.
Looking at a large vat full of salt, they were all stunned.
"Is this salt?"
"Nonsense!"
Bai Ji was a little speechless, and subconsciously stayed away from the three of them.
It's really unhygienic.
I don't wash at night and I don't brush my teeth in the morning!
Bah!
Are you embarrassed to say that you are the emperor?
Go, go, stay away from me.
Qin Dada obviously didn't take these into account.
With his mouth wide open, he kept spitting poisonous gas.
"This salt...... How is it made? ”
"Could it be that there is well salt here?"
"Well salt? It's just a salt mine. ”
Bai Ji understated the opening.
He didn't know where it was.
But it is true that there are natural salt mines.
After various filtration and analysis, it becomes salt.
Finely grated and ready to eat.
"Impossible!"
Meng Yi spoke directly, his eyes bloodshot.
"This can't be the case with mineral salt."
"This is by no means mineral salt!"
He can't be blamed.
The most important thing in the Qin Dynasty was well salt and pond salt, supplemented by sea salt mineral salt.
These two impurities are the most numerous and are not easy to filter.
The cost is high, and it is easy to get into trouble.
In particular, mineral salts are easy to be poisoned if they are not filtered well.
Meng Yi has seen mineral salt.
The color is a dull reddish tinge.
How can it be such a snow-white refined salt?
Bai Ji looked at the three half-petrified Tie Hanhan, a little confused.
Shouldn't this guy form a group to fool him and deliberately tease him?
What's so strange about just salt mines?
If it was a spirit stone mine, he would be surprised.
What about salt mines?
The auctions of the big guys in the fairy world are all kinds of elixir cheats, and he sells salt?
Bah!
Lose face!