Salt is an indispensable substance for maintaining human body functions, and no country or nation in ancient and modern China or abroad can lack salt, so how did salt come from?

The source of salt is divided into: sea salt, pond salt (lake salt), well salt, rock salt (mineral salt), for the Central Plains, the pool salt of Hedong Jiechi, the well salt of Shudi, and the sea salt in the coastal areas are the three major sources of salt in the Central Plains. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The salt in the sea water is inexhaustible, so the amount of sea salt is very large, from north to south, there are Cangzhou Salt Field, Zhou Jiaolai Zhou Salt Field, Huainan Yancheng Salt Field, Wujun Salt Field is the most famous.

In addition to rock salt, how to get salt out of the liquid (lake water, well water, seawater) is a problem, but in fact, the method is very simple, that is, boil salt, just look at the literal meaning, some people may think that boiling seawater dry to get salt, but in fact this is not the case.

The sea water is salty, and it is true that it contains salt, but the concentration is not high enough, so when the seaside salt works boil salt, they do not directly put the seawater into a container to boil, but what they want to cook is dark brown brine under the tidal flats.

This kind of brine is a highly concentrated brine formed by the infiltration of sediment after the sea water pours on the beach, and boiling such brine requires the same amount of water and the same amount of firewood, and the sea salt obtained is much more than simply boiling seawater.

This is common sense for the stove owners of the salt farm, but it may not be for others, and if Yuwenwen is not "prescient", he will inevitably fall into the wrong thinking.

He is now looking at a prison basin, wondering whether this object is a "cultural relic" of the Han Dynasty.

The prison basin is a tool for boiling salt, that is, a brine container, because it is made of metal, so the price is expensive, the prison basin in front of Yu Wenwen is said to have come from the Han Dynasty, but his first thought is "this is not scientific".

A salter was explaining the general process of boiling salt next to him, and Yu Wenwen was not interested in this at all, but he was very interested in this salt.

The salt dices that boil salt are compiled as stove households, and their ancestors have been imprisoned in the salt field for generations, and they are busy boiling salt every day, and they have lived by the sea for generations, although they have a sea view every day, and they live in a sea view house, but this is not a poetic life, because the reality is very cruel.

On the shore of the salt field, when the tide comes, the ocean is endless, and when the tide recedes, the tidal flat is pale white, which is the salt crystallized in the tidal flat, and the brine rich in salt is collected and boiled with tools, and the person who boils the salt is the salt dice.

Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, salt Ding can be said to be no moon and no day in the fire, the most tormented is the dog days, salt Ding to boil salt between the big stove back and forth, one stove is boiled and then the next stove, the weather is hot and abnormal, and the day is kept by the stove is even hot.

If there is an adjective, then you can think of the salt as the golden pill refined in the Dan furnace, which is subjected to high temperature every day.

The skin was white at first, then it was gradually reddened by the sun and fire, and then it turned black, the skin was like iron, and the flesh was like dried breasts, both men and women, young and old, because the whole family went into battle to ensure that the daily quota was met.

The salt stove is so hot, can I leave it for a while? No, the heat should be controlled when boiling salt, and the salt mother should be put in at the critical moment, otherwise missing the opportunity will lead to a decrease in the output of this stove salt, and the whole family will be unlucky.

For passers-by, a shade of a tree only brings a little coolness, but for the stove household, it is a rare cool world, just like the Guanghan Palace in the sky.

Boiling salt, of course, to make a fire, then you need a lot of firewood, hundreds of years of boiling salt, so that the trees around the salt works are almost cut down, so the stove households can only go to the inland areas to cut firewood, collect dry branches and hay, which also requires the whole family to go out.

Children who can walk follow their parents to collect firewood in the bushes, and older children climb trees to break dead branches, and work hard to collect bundles of firewood to carry back, and they have to collect again after a long time.

The whole family cooks salt together, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, the daily wage is nearly 100, and there are almost three times a month, and it is good for ordinary people to work as casual workers every month, which seems to be good, but the problem is that this is the entire income of a stove household.

Generally speaking, a household is counted as a family of five, two elders, husband and wife, plus a child, under normal circumstances, the monthly consumption of rations for five people must have seven stones, even if the price of rice is 300 wen per stone, three yuan can only buy ten stones of rice.

It seems to be enough to eat, but in addition to food and clothing, the family has other expenses.

The stove households live in thatched huts, and there are many hurricanes on the seaside in summer and autumn, and the thatched huts are about to collapse even if they do not collapse after the storm, so they have to spend money to repair: boiling salt is so hard, it is easy to have headaches and brain fever, so you have to spend money to buy medicine to cure diseases.

The clothes are torn and need to be repaired, and the original clothes of the child who have grown taller are not out of size and need to be changed; If the water tank is broken, it has to be replaced or repaired, and there are places everywhere to spend money, where is there enough money to spend, not to mention that wages are often not paid in time.

Therefore, rice is not affordable, and the stove households eat brown rice porridge with wild vegetable roots, and there is no meat, at most small fish and shrimp as side dishes.

There is seafood by the sea, so why not fish and eat it? The fish are big and have a lot of meat?

The problem is that the fish needs to be cooked to the minimum requirement of being able to eat, which requires oil and simple condiments, and where can the impoverished stove households afford it, even if the fish is boiled in clear water, it is very firewood-intensive.

Therefore, the life of the stove households is similar to that of the flower child, the house is surrounded by four walls, there is not even a decent bedding, there are many mosquitoes in the summer, and there are no warm clothes in winter, so cold that the whole family can only huddle together to keep warm.

Such a bleak life, but saddled with usury that has not been repaid for several lifetimes, and the name of the stove is actually a slave.

The salt in front of Yu Wenwen was about the same age as him, but he looked like a middle-aged man in his forties.

The mother-in-law is thin and weak, looks like a reed stick, has a son, about three years old, extremely malnourished, with a large head and a small body, yellow muscles and thin muscles, it is good to say that it is like a bean sprout, Yu Wenwen thinks it can be described as an alien ET.

Yang Ji, as the right to Guangzhou Thorn History, has not been idle in the past few months, and has rectified the salt works in Guangzhou, eliminated the accumulated shortcomings, eliminated the rats, and let those stove households

Get back on your feet.

Before the arrears of wages could be calculated, the new government first distributed a year's rations to each household, a certain amount of money, and Huangzhou's "famous" meat floss, sausages, and salted eggs.

It was the first time that the stove households had lived such a "luxurious" life, and everyone in the family had summer clothes, new bedding, white rice, and meat.

Life has taken a turn for the better, wages have doubled and the day is over, and the enthusiasm of the stove households to cook salt is unprecedentedly high, but now the salt works no longer need them to boil salt.

After listening to the explanation, Yuwenwen came to the seaside not far from the salt stove, where there is a special salt pan, divided into several levels, and there are vertical shaft windmills to pump water.

People who do not belong to this era have proposed a salt-making process that does not belong to this era, and the stove households who have been reborn have turned this process into reality in a short period of time.

Therefore, the rules of the game in the salt industry are about to change.