"Mr. begged me Jiangdong for salt, and I Jiangdong couldn't help!" After a little silence, Sun Quan also smiled bitterly.

In other words, if Zhuge Kongming needed anything else in Jiangdong, such as grain, grass or weapons, for the sake of Uncle Liu Huang being the first to send an envoy to Jiangdong to offer condolences, Sun Quan agreed if he couldn't say anything.

After all, Jiangdong is rich and rich, and there is no shortage of money and food, nor is there a shortage of soldiers.

But table salt, if it weren't for his official control in Jiangdong, the salt in Jiangdong would not be enough for them to eat in Jiangdong!

At present, Zhuge Kongming came to Jiangdong to ask for salt, naturally it was not a hundred and ten stones of salt, nor was it a one-shot deal. Instead, he wanted to purchase salt for hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the entire Hanzhong in Jiangdong.

Not to mention whether Uncle Liu Huang has so much money to purchase salt.

It's just that the salt in Jiangdong is almost not enough for their own consumption, where can they afford to chew hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Hanzhong?

"Mr. is rich in five cars, and he also knows that boiling salt is time-consuming and labor-intensive, but the income is not satisfactory; In addition, not every place along the coast is suitable for boiling salt, and the annual salt production in Jiangdong is not enough for Jiangdong soldiers and civilians to eat, where is there any excess outflow? ”

This is Sun Quan's true words.

His hometown is Wu County, and he has also been a Taishou in Wu County for a period of time, so he naturally knows that it is not easy to boil salt.

In addition, there are places where the sea is relatively turbid, and it cannot be used to boil salt.

If it is easy to boil salt, if there is a surplus of salt in Jiangdong, Sun Quan doesn't mind selling it to Uncle Liu Huang every year.

The problem is, there is no salt left in Koto!

……

"Indeed, in the case of boiling salt, not only you lack salt in Jiangdong, but the whole world is short of salt." Zhuge Liang said.

In the case of sufficient firewood, in the case of twelve hours of uninterrupted conditions, it is not bad that a skilled salt boiler can cook two or three catties of salt every day. There are only a few counties in the coastal areas of Jiangdong that can boil salt, and it is not possible to boil salt for the whole people.

Therefore, Jiangdong's annual salt production is indeed a cheat.

"But why make salt by boiling it?" Zhuge Liang asked rhetorically.

Sun Quan was asked rhetorically.

"Well, how else can you make salt without boiling salt?"

"Besides, didn't you Zhuge Kongming ask me Jiangdong for salt, why are you talking about the production of salt now?"

"Could it be that you Zhuge Kongming has a better way to make salt?

Thinking of this, Sun Quan's eyes lit up and he looked at Zhuge Kongming.

Sun Quan will not forget that Zhuge Pox was invented by Zhuge Kongming; He will not forget that the farming methods that are now popular in Jingxiang and spread to Jiangdong, as well as farming techniques such as fertilization, were also invented by Zhuge Kongming.

If Zhuge Kongming really has a new method of making salt, and the efficiency of salt making is very high, it is not impossible.

"In addition to boiling salt, is there any other way to make salt?" With blazing eyes, Sun Quan asked expectantly.

If Zhuge Kongming really has a new method of salt production, and can increase the output of salt, and hand it over to his Jiangdong, then he Jiangdong will definitely be the place with the highest salt production in the entire Han Dynasty in the future, and it may not be a problem to supply salt to the whole world.

At that time, Jiangdong will be truly rich and rival the country!

……

"There is a new method of making salt, naturally, and it doesn't hurt to hand over this method to you Jiangdong. It's just that Wu Hou can guarantee that I, Hanzhong, can purchase one million stones of salt in Jiangdong at cost price every year? Zhuge Liang shook his feather fan and asked with a smile.

There are only hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Hanzhong, less than a million people, and even according to the salt consumption of later generations, they don't need millions of stone of salt every year, or even 100,000 stones. But what about the future?

In the future, Uncle Liu's territory will definitely be more than just one Hanzhong, and the population under his rule will definitely be more than one million people.

At that time, it is not enough to say that millions of stone salt will not be good!

"Bang", the teacup in Sun Quan's hand was so shocked that it fell on the case.

He was genuinely surprised.

The purchase volume of millions of stone salt, even according to the current cost price of each salt-producing land, does Uncle Liu Huang have so much money to purchase?

Well, even if Uncle Liu Huang is not short of money, can he have a million stones of salt production in Jiangdong every year?

This is table salt, not grain!

The annual grain output in Jiangdong is naturally more than a million stones, but the salt of the whole world is combined, can there be an annual output of one million stones? I'm afraid that the total output of 100,000 stones is enough to choke, right?

The amount of salt purchased by millions of stones is also due to Zhuge Kongming's words!

"Unless, Zhuge Kongming's new salt production method, the annual salt production can easily exceed one million stones!"

Sun Quan was surprised and couldn't believe it, but he thought of it in his heart.

If it were someone else, not to mention whether there was a new way to make salt, just the amount of salt purchased by this million stones would be enough for Sun Quan to call someone to fork it out. But now it is Zhuge Kongming's words, but Sun Quan feels that this is not impossible.

"Sir, can you guarantee that with this new method of salt making, the annual salt production in my Jiangdong can exceed one million stones?"

Sun Quan asked Zhuge Liang with a hopeful gaze.

Millions of stone salt, if it is a new method of salt making, it can really have such a high output, and in the future, he Sun Quan can use money to smash other princes to death, and even, when paying tribute, he Sun Quan can do better than Liu Bei last year!

……

Zhuge Liang smiled, but he pouted disdainfully in his heart.

One million stones of table salt, converted into the weight unit of later generations, is about 50,000 tons. In later generations, some private black workshops can produce tens of thousands of tons of salt every year, and regular salt testing plants, even small factories, can easily produce more than 10,000 tons of salt every year.

Under the conditions of Jiangdong, it is not too easy to purchase ten salt farms with an annual output of more than 10,000 tons!

"If you use the method of drying salt, as long as Jiangdong is not lazy, the annual salt production will not reach one million stones, and the name of my card will be written upside down!" Zhuge Liang shook the feather fan and said categorically.

"How to dry salt?" Sun Quan was surprised and puzzled.

From ancient times to the present, salt has been made by boiling salt.

It doesn't matter if it's sea salt, well salt, or rock salt, it's all boiled to get salt.

How to dry salt?

"Wu Hou is a native of Wu County, adjacent to the sea, I think I have seen it, after the tide of the sea water recedes, there will inevitably be some sea water left in the small pits on some reefs. If there is no new seawater added and it is left in the sun for a while, the seawater in this small pit will dry, and a layer of white will be left in the pit. If Wu Hou tasted these white things again, he would definitely know that this was table salt. ”

Zhuge Liang explained.

Hearing this, Sun Quan instantly understood.

As Zhuge Liang said, he was originally from Fuchun County, Wu County, and grew up by the sea since he was a child. I didn't think about it at the time, but now I think about it in combination with Zhuge Kongming's explanation, and Sun Quan finally understands what the method of drying salt is.

Drying salt, drying salt, isn't it just that the sea water is dried, and there is only salt left? Please pay attention to the latest chapters in the future