Chapter 18 The dream of making salt to make money is shattered
"Come on, immediately send someone to the Wushuang supermarket in Pingkangfang, buy some radishes and come back, I want to see if it really works."
"Your Majesty has good things, but you can't forget us!!" A rough voice appeared at the door, and Li Shimin knew who it was when he heard it, and after scolding with a smile, he said, "Why don't you come in yourself and wait for me to invite you?" โ
"Hehe, I'm not afraid of disturbing the meeting between His Majesty and Fang Xiang, Lao Chen has also felt that this is not good spirits recently, and he often falls asleep, Fang Xiang has good things, but he can't forget me."
Cheng Biting Jin is more casual in private, but this kind of thing can only be done by him, Li Shimin is also used to his rogue appearance, he is an alternative among the generals, but having such a gag person will make the monarch and the minister lubricate a lot.
"Okay, okay, just have your share!"
On the other side, Chen Mo slept until three o'clock in the morning before getting up, and the door had been open for a long time, but no one dared to wake him up, after all, he was the biggest in the family.
After getting up, I was not used to looking at the willow branches used to brush my teeth, in addition to poking a mouth full of blood foam, the cleaning effect was really worrying, and after throwing away the wicker, he said: "Come on, go find me some pig hair and pig water!" โ
Although the servant who served Chen Mo didn't understand why, he knew that his master's words must be listened to, so he hurriedly ran out obviously to find Pig Mao and Pig into the water.
Chen Mo asked the pig to go into the water not for anything else, just to eat, after eating the meal cooked by the cook yesterday, Chen Mo was very disappointed, if it wasn't for the radish as a raw material, the meal would be extremely bland.
"Chef, let her come out!" asked someone to move a couch out, and Chen Mo felt that he was still not used to half-lying down, and it seemed that it was really inconvenient to have furniture such as stools.
The cook who was cooking in the kitchen was called out, looking very worried, she listened to the girls after the master ate the meal yesterday, not very good, and frowned, this morning she tried her best, wanted to make amends, and now she was called out, don't you plan to ask her?
"Master... Did you call me for something? The cook asked worriedly.
Chen Mo nodded and said: "I ate the food yesterday, and I feel that it is okay overall, but there are still shortcomings, of course this is not your problem, it is my taste that you don't know yet, what I want to teach you today is how to make the taste I like, but in the future, whenever I eat, I have to do it according to this standard, understand?" โ
"Yes, sir, I must remember it clearly."
As long as she doesn't drive her away, she can learn what flavor she likes to cook, and she still has this confidence in this regard.
"Did the pig go into the water and find it?" Chen Mo asked.
A small servant next to him came out and said, "Master, the pig went into the water and found it in the kitchen, it means too much, I'm afraid it will smoke you." โ
"Just find it, let's go, let's go to the kitchen." After Chen Mo finished speaking, he got up from the couch and led a group of people to the kitchen.
"Separate the water oil and plate oil for me, and don't throw away the pig intestines, wash them for me and salt them, wash the pig hearts and put them aside, wash the pork liver, keep the pork kidneys, and don't want the rest of the scattered ones, cook, put this water oil and plate oil in the pot and boil the oil to squeeze it dry, divide it, don't mix it together, and the oil that comes out is also packed separately, understand?"
"Take the meat oil, I know, but what are you going to do with the meat oil, master?"
Of course, meat oil is also eaten, but noble people generally don't eat pork in their families, and lard naturally won't appear in noble families, in the eyes of the cook, Chen Mo is a nobleman.
"Of course, it's used to make stir-fry, and I'll teach you how to stir-fry after you've refined the oil, why haven't you pickled the pig intestines yet?"
Seeing the servant standing aside helplessly after washing the pig's internal organs, as if he didn't know what to do, Chen Mo asked out loud.
"Master, this has to be pickled... What a waste of salt. โ
The preciousness of salt naturally goes without mentioning, the salt bought back is basically enough to eat, and if you want to pickle, you need to buy it separately, but when Chen Mo saw the so-called salt, he immediately shook his head.
No wonder he felt a little bitter when he ate last night, this salt... It hasn't been purified at all, and I'm afraid that eating this salt will cause food poisoning!
"You can't eat this salt!" Chen Mo looked at the salt and said seriously.
"Eat! The lord can eat it, you see. The two cooks went to Chen Mo and dipped them in a little with chopsticks, put them in their mouths and said.
"Don't eat like this, this salt tastes a little bitter to prove that it has not been purified, there are other impurities in it, eating too much will cause harm to people, so I will teach simple purification inside, and then all the family will eat purified salt, understand?"
Although they don't understand what purification is, but seeing that Chen Mo said it so seriously, as servants, they can't object, although they feel that this is purely a blind toss, but even if it is a blind toss, they have to cooperate.
After making a wooden bucket and filling it with water, Chen Mo said, "Pour all the salt into it." โ
"Ahhh Duยทยท Pour it all in, sir, it's too wasteful. โ
This salt is too precious, it will be gone if you put it in the water, and you can't make it like this if you have money, the servant was a little worried, but under Chen Mo's strong gaze, he still did it, and the small half bag of salt was poured into the water, and it quickly dissolved in it, but the water looked black and yellow, and I knew that it was not clean at a glance.
"Find a piece of silk to pour on top of another empty bucket, then pour the brine into the empty bucket to filter the impurities, and when the water is completely clear, the world will go to the pot and steam it, and all the water will be steamed, and then it will be done."
Let Chen Mo do it himself? Of course it's impossible, in fact, he just knows that it's so pure, and he doesn't know anything else.
Of course, what Chen Mo didn't know was that the salt in the Tang Dynasty was actually not as unpalatable as he thought, and the reason why the salt he ate was unpalatable was because the salt he bought was coarse salt, and salt such as sea salt and well salt was much better than these coarse salts, but the common people generally couldn't afford to eat these two kinds of salt.
"Hey, isn't this just boiling salt, don't worry, sir, I will, I did this when I was in Shuzhong, but at that time it came out of the brine, this is the first salt poured into the water to become brine, the others are the same, but the coarse salt will become fine salt after cooking, and the same taste as boiled salt must be easy to sell, coarse salt is ten wen a bucket, the fine salt is a hundred wen a bucket, this in and out is ten times the price, the cost is just water and firewood, master, this is a good deal."
After Chen Mo finished speaking, the servant's brain was enlightened, Chen Mo didn't expect that he already had the technology to boil salt at this time, it seemed that there was no need to think about making money with salt.