"Eldest Sun Chong"

In the Mo Mansion, Mo Dun's face was solemn! I didn't expect the two of them to join forces.

"If it weren't for Huaiyu stopping there! Lao Tzu is definitely going to smash that broken shop! Cheng Chumo said indignantly.

Yu Chi Baolin also raised his hand angrily and waved his fist.

"The eldest grandson Yin is there, we can't take advantage of it!" Qin Huaiyu shook his head and said, in their circle, the eldest grandson Chong is the most yin and has many means, if they make a rash move, they will definitely fall into the trap.

"Huaiyu did the right thing!" Merton nodded, among the three, Qin Huaiyu knew the most about advancing and retreating.

He had seen Changsun Chong's methods, if he hadn't been superior last time, maybe he would have really lost his reputation.

"Are you just going to let them oppress us like this?" Yu Chi Baolin said angrily, his temper was the most upright, and he couldn't stand it.

"Isn't it just salt, what a big deal, without his Wang family, can't you eat salt!" Merton said unconcernedly.

Qin Huaiyu shook his head and said: "You don't know, although my Datang does not carry out a monopoly on salt and iron, but the salt administration in each place has strict restrictions, and the fine salt in other places has fundamentally advanced to Chang'an City." ”

Salt tax has always been a large source of finance, although there was no salt and iron official camp during the Zhenguan period, but the imperial court could not let go of such a huge wealth, and the salt administration in each place had a strict division in order to collect taxes.

Since Wang Zhe is out of the horse, he must have taken this seriously, so he has no fear.

"Since the Wang family doesn't sell fine salt, and fine salt from other places can't come in, then we can't make our own salt!" Merton sneered.

"Make your own salt?"

Qin Huaiyu and the three of them immediately looked at Merton, their faces full of suspicion, Merton shouldn't even be able to do this!

Merton smiled slightly, did not explain, but directly led the three of them to the back kitchen of the Mo Mansion.

As soon as he arrived at the door of the back kitchen, Qin Huaiyu saw several sacks of salt stacked at the door of the kitchen.

"Is this kosher salt?" Cheng Chumo leaned over and picked up a large grain of salt, put it in his mouth and tasted it, and suddenly stuck out his tongue bitterly.

"It's not just coarse salt, but it's the coarse salt of Yuncheng!" Merton said.

"Merton, aren't you going to grind these coarse salts into fine salts?" Cheng Chumo asked rhetorically, the taste of coarse salt was so bad that even he could distinguish it, let alone others.

"Of course not?" Merton said angrily.

"So what's going on?" Qin Huaiyu and the others were puzzled.

"Compared with coarse salt and fine salt, the biggest difference is that there are more impurities, if we remove the impurities of coarse salt, we get naturally pure fine salt." Merton explained.

Only then did the three of them suddenly know that Merton's plan was really ready to make his own salt.

"The owner, the three young masters!" Xu Jie came out of the kitchen and bowed.

"How's everything going?" Merton asked.

"The owner of Qiqi is ready!" Xu Jie said.

Qin Huaiyu and the three of them curiously followed Merton into the back kitchen, and found that the back kitchen was full of pots and pots, and a large cauldron had already been set up, and there was a raging fire inside.

This time, with Qin Huaiyu's three free laborers, Merton did not use the Mojia villagers at all, and the three of them always had an extraordinary interest in Merton's experiments, and let Merton drive them.

Under Merton's command, Yu Chi Baolin grabbed the coarse salt bag and poured the large coarse salt directly into the basin containing the water, which soon melted and disappeared, and the water gradually became turbid.

"Keep pouring!" Merton looked at the water tank, the salt had almost melted, and motioned to Yu Chi Baolin to continue pouring coarse salt until the coarse salt no longer melted and the brine was saturated.

"If you want to make fine salt, you need to filter out the sediment first!" Merton explained.

One of the most criticized things about coarse salt is its bitter taste, and the other is that there is a lot of sediment, and you can chew a grain of sand while eating, not to mention how sour it tastes.

Qin Huaiyu took out an empty basin and covered it with fifty percent linen cloth, Cheng Chumo and Yu Chi Baolin teamed up to lift the salt water basin and poured it on the linen, the linen cloth adsorbed sediment, and the clear water seeped into the empty basin, and so on three times, and finally got clear salt water.

"That's it?" Qin Huaiyu said excitedly, only to feel that it was too simple.

Merton shook his head and said, "Of course not, this is just the first step, don't look at this salt water." In fact, there are a lot of impurities melted inside. ”

Coarse salt contains other soluble substances, and the biggest problem with Yunchengchi salt is that the magnesium content is too high, which seriously affects the taste. And it just so happens that in the purification experiment, the easiest step is this step.

Merton picked up a limestone that had been prepared and placed it in a basin of clear water. Immediately it was boiling.

After a while, the limestone quickly turned into lime slurry, and when the lime water gradually cleared, Merton carefully poured the upper layer of lime water into the salt water.

The brine became cloudy again, and soon cleared again, leaving only a thin layer of white precipitate on the basin, and the upper layer of brine poured out, and Merton once again put a spoonful of alkaline noodles into the brine, and the brine became cloudy again. After clarification, the pelvic floor is again left with a white sediment.

Pouring out the clarified brine again, Merton finally breathed a sigh of relief, due to the constraints of the conditions, there was no sophisticated device, and all this could only be estimated.

A basin of salt water was poured into the pot, and the blazing fire burned, and soon, the salt water boiled, and a thin layer of salt crystals appeared on the entire water surface, and the whole kitchen could ask for a strong salty taste.

"Is this okay?"

Qin Huaiyu and the three of them watched in amazement as Merton completed all this, although they didn't understand the principle, they always had a feeling of not being clear.

The rest of the things don't need to be operated by Merton himself, and they are directly handed over to Xu Jie to take over.

In less than half an hour, Xu Jie appeared in front of Merton with a happy face.

"Owner! Three young masters. Xu Jie held a stack of snow-white fine salt and handed it to the four of them.

"It's really fine salt!" Cheng Chumo pinched a little and put it in his mouth, and suddenly a salty taste rushed to the taste buds, there was no bitterness of coarse salt at all, and the taste was better.

"Hahaha, this time, I see how Changsun Chong and Wang Zhe will cut off our salt! This time, the fish champion was saved! Yu Chi Baolin said excitedly, the Taiyuan royal family may be able to monopolize fine salt, but they are beyond their reach for coarse salt.

"No, this is better than Yuncheng fine salt!" Qin Huaiyu shook his head and said, he had seen the fine salt of Yuncheng with his own eyes, and it was far from being as white as the salt in front of him.

Merton looked at the white grains of salt in front of him with fascination, this is probably the purest salt in the world! Yuncheng fine salt is just a salt brine of good quality, and it does not have much technical content.

"This is a brand new salt, please name it!" Xu Jie said excitedly, salt has always been profitable, and such pure salt is in short supply, you can imagine how much of a sensation it will cause once this salt appears on the market in Chang'an.

In order to distinguish it from Yuncheng Fine Salt, Xu Jie immediately thought of taking a new name and setting up another signboard.

"Taifu Xie of the Eastern Jin Dynasty once gathered his children on a snowy day, and said: 'What is the heavy snow like!' The brother said: 'Scattering salt in the air can be imitated! 'The predecessors used salt as a metaphor for snow, and today salt is better than snow!' Let's call it snow salt! Merton thought for a moment.

"Snow Salt!"

"Good! It's called snow salt! ”

"Wang Zhe is dumbfounded this time! He also wanted to cut off our salt, and as soon as the snow salt came out, I saw how he cried! ”

Qin Huaiyu raised his eyebrows and said angrily, and his previous grievances were suddenly swept away.

"How much does it cost to refine snow salt?" Merton asked.

"Qi Yu Dong, the loss is less than 30%!" Xu Jie replied. Merton uses processed coarse salt, which is inherently high.

That is to say, ten catties of coarse salt can be refined into at least eight catties of snow salt, plus lime water and alkali and artificial consumption, which is also a huge profit.

"Write down all these steps, and let Uncle Zhang continue to test the addition ratio of lime water and alkaline water, and strive to achieve the optimum, first refining enough snow salt for later use." Merton commanded.

"Yes, owner!" Xu Jie said excitedly. Merton let him participate in the refining of snow salt throughout the process, apparently not treating him as an outsider, which touched him deeply.

"What about the fish-shaped building?" Qin Huaiyu asked.

"Temporarily closed, wait until the Mojia Food City opens, and give them another surprise!" Merton sneered.

"Hey, hey, hey!" Qin Huaiyu and the three of them suddenly smiled sinisterly, they were looking forward to such a situation.