Chapter Twenty-Seven: Su's Boiling Salt
The salt clan should be the largest tribe in the vicinity, because it guards the salt mine, but it seems that it is not easy to mine, so the amount of salt has not been much, and it is often attacked by other tribes, and every family has a scripture that is difficult to read.
Su Yang is naturally very keen on the salt mine, and as his memory becomes better and better, he can always find useful information from what he has seen and heard in the past.
At this moment, a variety show and food show he had watched appeared in his mind, which happened to be about how to extract well salt, and how to purify it, although it was impossible to be too detailed, but he still knew the main steps.
In the picture, the brine is mined and extracted, not the brine that he thought he had to add. This brine is not the spice water of the braised meat, but the natural salt brine (the kind of tofu), which is salt after purification.
In addition, the salt ore of the crystalline body is often associated with the salt brine, that is, the seawater is buried in the ground and evolves after an unknown number of years.
There is a tribe called the salt clan, and if the salt ore crystallized is mined, it will be directly violently broken and then eaten. If you get brine, pour the brine directly on the red-hot charcoal, and then scrape off the salt particles that adhere to the charcoal after evaporating the water.
Theoretically speaking, there are few crystals in salt mines, and there are relatively many salt brines, and it can even be said that even if salt mines are encountered in later mining, they will be artificially injected into brine after water injection, because it is convenient to extract them from the ground, and then boil them to produce refined salt.
Su Yang pondered that his pottery and bamboo tools could come in handy, they were all excellent tools for boiling salt.
"How do you exchange these two kinds of salt?" He continued to ask, stalking is a compulsory course for salesmen.
"One bamboo tube of stone salt for one skin, two bamboo tubes of black salt for one skin." The woman in the lead is very skilled in quoting, and she also knows that Su Yang has pottery in her hand, otherwise she will not talk for a long time.
Su Yang quickly calculated, with the information he knew, a hundred catties of brine could probably get ten to fifteen catties of refined salt, and the bamboo tube in the woman's hand could probably hold less than one catty of salt.
If you want to marinate a pig of more than 200 catties into bacon, you will need about five catties of salt, and Su Yang has a bottom in his heart.
"How do you change that kind of salt water? I don't want black salt, just salt water. ”
The woman obviously didn't expect Su Yang's thinking to jump so much, and she was stunned for a while before she spoke: "The salt water of the Manjie bamboo tube can be poured with charcoal and scraped out two bamboo tubes of black salt, you change the salt water, and I will give you two Manjie salt water for a skin." ”
Su Yang thought about it, about twenty catties of salt brine, you can get two to three catties of refined salt, and you can make double the profit after changing hands.
"You can exchange, but I want to make a big deal with you, you give me a hundred full of salt water first, and I will give you a hundred clay pots next time."
Su Yang finally made the other party understand how much salt water is about a thousand catties, and then the woman was stunned again, this is really a big deal, after understanding, the woman couldn't wait to agree, because their tribe has a lot of salt water, but it is not easy to scrape out black salt, and now Su Yang only needs salt water, which is not equivalent to making it in vain.
"You can change it, but how do you take the salt water away?" The woman suddenly made a difficulty, there was no tool to hold so much salt water, if it was only a small amount of salt water, she could also use a bamboo tube to take it vertically, but there were so many that she couldn't send it at all.
Su Yang said with a smile, "This is simple, I'll bring someone to get it myself, but you have to give me half a full stone salt today, it should be regarded as a hard fee, and I can only get Matsu to agree to this transaction after I go back." You have to be clear that we will need a lot of people to bring the brine back. Also, if this deal is successful, we will continue to exchange pottery for your brine next time, how about it, whether it will work or not. ”
The woman was in trouble again, and did not reply to his words immediately, but hurriedly discussed with the other clansmen, and the final result was naturally agreed, but the woman was only willing to give two barrels of stone salt and three barrels of black salt for the hard work, which was equivalent to cutting off half of the gift.
Su Yang didn't care so much, he smiled directly, now he has five catties of salt, and he can marinate more than two hundred catties of bacon after he goes back, why not do it.
"Su Yang, what if your Matsu doesn't agree to change?" The woman voiced concern.
Su Yang replied very chicly: "Don't worry, I can call the shots in this matter, even if I don't agree, I will pay for the salt this time next time I come to the market, and I won't miss you." ”
At this point, both parties were satisfied, and as soon as the things were delivered, they continued to do their own things.
Chun was a little dumbfounded holding five buckets of salt, he really didn't understand the doorway, swollen Su Yang said that he got so much salt for nothing in a long time, you must know that this is worth three and a half pieces of skin.
Jiang Li of the chaotic tribe was also stunned again, this completely broke the rules of bartering in the bazaar, he had never heard of such a thing before, including the clay pot that Su Yang had booked before, it was too contrary to common sense, and what others never dared to think of, Su Yang just did it.
And Su Yang didn't plan to stop, and ran to the stalls of other tribes with infinite energy, and continued to talk about booking clay pots.
Two days later, Su Yang took a total of eighteen tribes, and the goods worth eighteen skins arrived in advance, plus the other items he brought, a total of twenty skins, and he also managed to exchange them all for animal skins, plus five catties of salt, which was a huge amount of money.
These skins can be processed into about forty pieces of winter clothing, or even sixty pieces are fine. Coupled with the previous inventory of the Rock Tribe, it is enough to ensure that the tribesmen will not be frozen in winter.
"Call it a day, go back to the tribe first. When the time comes, I will go to the salt family. ”
Su Yang took more than 20 people, left quickly, and set off early in the morning, as long as there was no delay on the road, he could rush back to the rock tribe in the evening.
On the way, he picked a lot of bean-shaped fruits, about five or six kinds, and these had to be taken back to test whether they were poisonous and tested with rabbits.
After noon, when he arrived within the range of the Chaos Tribe, he was shocked by the news that these people from the Chaos tribe had actually picked about four boars as many macaque drunken fruits, which was a good thing, the more the better.
"Jiang Li, I will come to your tribe to trade in two days, and this barrel of black salt is for you. Also, if you want more clay pots, I can trade them to you first, and when you have the items, just pay me the bill. "Su Yang's promise is not light, it means that he will give the goods first, and then collect the money.
"Su Yang, this is the case after you mess with us and the tribe." Jiang Li clasped his hands together, and the other sixteen people from the chaotic tribe also made the same move.
Su Yang smiled, sure enough, it was not in vain, he would be rewarded if he paid, and he got the friendship of the chaotic tribe. In today's system where things cannot be privatized, friendship is the most valuable thing.
"Spring, do you say it's possible to move the bazaar to the Rock Tribe next year!" Su Yang asked half-jokingly.
Chun's eyes were full of doubts, as if he understood or not, and finally shook his head, indicating that this was simply impossible!