drove the family out, and told Wang Si to guard the door.

Shi Jin began to work, adding well water to the barrel and stirring it with a wooden stick to let the salt fully melt into the water.

Once the solution is saturated, it is poured into a funnel made of wooden barrels.

The bottom of this large funnel was tied tightly with three layers of linen, and the linen cloth was covered with a layer of charcoal powder.

There is also a layer of burlap on top of the charcoal powder.

On the linen cloth is a layer of fine river sand.

The black solution flowed through the large funnel, and when it came out of Mai at the bottom, it had already turned into a gray-blue solution when it landed on the barrel below.

The original yellow-white sand at the top of the large funnel is full of gray-black slag.

Looking at the color of the liquid, Shi Jin nodded.

Yes, it should be able to boil a lot of green salt.

Take the funnel away and pour out the slag and charcoal powder.

Shi Jin poured the filtered liquid from the barrel into the large iron pot.

Add firewood under the iron pot and burn it fiercely.

Under the high fire, the water in the pot gradually evaporates. Soon a thick layer of coarse-grained salt was left at the bottom of the pan.

Shi Jin stretched out his finger and dipped some coarse salt in the pot and put it in his mouth to taste it, and spit it out in an instant.

It's salty, but it's salty!

It's not bad, it's about the same as those green salts at home. Looks like my salt selling plan is coming to an end!

After successfully boiling out a bucket of salt, Shi Jin became more energetic, forgot the fatigue after staying up late, and continued to make salt.

When the sun was up, Shi Taigong hadn't seen Shi Jin yet, and the porridge was cold.

Shi Taigong turned his head and asked, "Ah Fu, what is Da Lang doing, why haven't you come to breakfast yet?" ”

Shi Fu hurriedly replied, "The young owner is still in his yard and doesn't know what he is busy with. He drove out all his men and let no one in! ”

Hearing that Shi Jin was hiding in the yard and didn't know what he was doing, Shi Taigong rushed to the backyard worriedly.

Seeing that Shi Taigong was coming, Wang Si didn't dare to stop him. He hurriedly shouted loudly, "Young Zhuang Master, the prince is here!" ”

Hearing the shout, Shi Jin wiped the sweat from his face and opened the door to greet Shi Taigong.

Seeing that Shi Jin had smoked traces on his face, he said a little angrily, "Da Lang, what are you doing, why don't you take care of your body so much!" ”

Hearing Shi Taigong's reproach, Shi Jin smiled and said, "Father will come in and take a look!" ”

With doubts, Shi Taigong walked into the courtyard and saw that salt was boiling in the big iron pot in the courtyard, and the ground was filled with several buckets of green and white salt.

Shi Taigong suddenly shouted in surprise, "Da Lang, this ......"

Shi Jin replied with a little pride, "Father, this is the salt made by the child!" ”

Although it looked like green salt in front of him, Shi Taigong was a little uncertain and picked up a small piece of salt from the wooden barrel and tasted it.

Shi Taigong was extremely surprised and said, "Da Lang, this is really salt." How did you make it! There are no brine ponds around here! ”

Shi Jin hurriedly explained, "There is no need for a brine pond, only a salt mine is needed to produce salt. This method is a salt-making technique learned by a child and a Taoist priest, with this method, our historian can make thousands of catties of salt! ”

If you understand this, whether you dedicate it to the government or make it yourself, you can earn a lot of money. You also need to go to the tour party!

Shi Taigong didn't believe what Shi Jin said at all, but he also knew that his son had been raised by him since he was a child.

If he wanted to tell himself, he would have told himself a long time ago. If you don't want to say it, you can't get him to speak.

Shi Taigong had no choice but to say, "Da Lang, this salt-making technique is very important, don't let others know, otherwise there will be a big disaster." Remember! ”

Of course Shi Jin knew, otherwise he wouldn't have hid in the yard by himself to operate, and he would have asked those family members to help him a long time ago, so why do he need to work hard here.

Shi Jin hurriedly said, "The child understands! ”

Shi Taigong nodded and said, "That's good, is Taro making this salt for his own use, or is it ......?"

With so much salt for your own use, that's when you're going to use it. Shi Jin said: "The child is ready to be sold!" ”

Shi Taigong hurriedly asked, "Do you have a way to ship?" ”

When Shi Jin heard this, he immediately patted his head. I only think about how to make money, I think about making illicit salt, but I forget one important thing - who to sell it to?

Of course, you can carry a flat pole and sell it along the street, but when will so much private salt be sold, and it will be too easy to attract those vampire-like officials.

Looking at his son's stunned appearance, he knew that he hadn't thought about these things.

But he is like this, Shi Taigong thinks it is normal.

Shi Taigong pondered for a while and said, "Since Da Lang wants to sell, I know a lot of these people, Da Lang can sell these salts to them, safe and proper!" ”

can maintain such a big family, of course Shi Taigong is not the kind of pedantic person.

Since he knew that Shi Jin made these salts to sell, Shi Taigong naturally wanted to think about Shi Jin and arrange the after-sales affairs properly.

The Zheng family shop in Zheng County, the Wang family shop in Xiatai, the Chen family shop in Huayin, and the Li family shop in Pucheng are all merchants who have obtained "salt money citations" and are allowed by the government to specialize in selling salt.

Although these companies can get official salt, who would dislike having a lot of money!

Moreover, the official salt is expensive, not to mention, and it is often mixed with sand and gravel, and the quality is poor.

In pursuit of profits, they prefer to buy illicit salt and sell it as official salt.

Hearing Shi Taigong's message that there was a large amount of private salt to sell, the shopkeepers of these shops hurried over.

In the middle hall of Shijiazhuang, the shopkeepers of these families were sitting together drinking tea and chatting.

Shi Jin asked Jiading to bring up all the 1,500 catties of salt produced in the past five days.

When the shopkeepers saw the pile of salt, they exclaimed, "This...... This ......"

Shi Jin said with a smile, "It's all green salt, ready to be sold." Which of you wants? ”

The shopkeepers finally came back to their senses, and one by one stepped forward and tried it with their fingers.

They all deal with salt all year round, and these shopkeepers know that this salt is the best green salt when they taste it, and they are the kind that those rich and noble people use to brush their teeth.

The shopkeeper of the Li family shouted excitedly, "60 Wen per catty, our Li family has all this salt!" ”

As he finished speaking, another voice rang out. "Put your damn bullshit, I want to swallow this batch of goods for 60 wen a pound. Our Wang family is willing to buy it with a pound of 80 Wen! ”

Now ordinary salt costs 230 yuan per catty, this batch of salt is of high quality, and the price can be a little higher.

As long as you buy it and sell it, it will be several times the profit.

These salt merchants compete with each other, and the price is rising slowly.

In the end, Shi Jin considered that he would cooperate for a long time in the future, so he decided to divide it equally among each family at a price of 120 wen per catty, so that they did not tear their faces.

After agreeing on the price, the men brought by the salt merchants immediately weighed and checked the fineness quickly.

The guys were busy, but the salt merchants were sitting with Shi Jin and chatting casually.

The shopkeeper of the Wang family arched his hand and said: "These green salts are the best, I don't know where Brother Shi got it?" ”

Shi Jin smiled but did not answer.

The shopkeeper of the Zheng family immediately said, "Shopkeeper Wang, do you understand the rules, there are some things that you can't ask!" ”

The shopkeeper of the Wang family seemed to have just woken up, and said: "Yes, yes, yes, I lost my word." Under the tea instead of wine, self-punishment of three cups! ”

The shopkeeper of the Wang family stood up and drank three glasses in a row, and then bowed before sitting down.

At this time, the shopkeeper of the Li family arched his hand and said, "Brother Shi, if there is a large amount of green salt to be sold in the future, remember to find us!" ”

Shi Jin said, "Definitely, definitely!" ”

After a few words of conversation with each other, the guys in those shops were busy for less than half an hour, and they were all settled.

Pay with one hand, deliver with the other.

The salt merchants drove back happily in their wagons, calculating how much they should sell the goods at what price, and how much profit they would make.

Looking at the 180 taels of white silver, Shi Jin was also smiling.

Money, this is the real money I earned in the Song Dynasty!

With this hand-made salt-making technique, even if Lao Tzu does not rebel in the future, Lao Tzu can be a rich man and live a free life!