Wang Wenxian is half merchant and half peasant, and in him, he also has two personalities, the cunning of a merchant and the tenacity of a peasant, strangely and harmoniously blended.

For example, he drove all three of his sons away, leaving only a grandson Wang Xiu who was not very sober. The soldiers of the Salt Transportation Division are constantly arresting people, and the caravans are also being detained, maybe the soldiers who captured themselves are already on the way, but so what?

The old man has been a stove all his life, and the salt works by the sea are his crops, you can kill my head, but don't want me to give up my field!

Wang Wenxian has been waiting, who knows that he waited and waited, and he actually waited for Tang Yi. The old man was surprised, delighted, and strange!

It's not that he didn't look for Tang Yi, Tang Yi was perfunctory at the time, and then he didn't see anyone at all. Wang Wenxian only ignored Tang Yi's withdrawal, and scolded Tang Yi a lot, and when he met, his old face was burning, and his hands were rubbing back and forth, and there was no place to put it.

"Mr. Wang, this official came here this time to tell you that the counterattack is about to begin!"

The old man seemed to have been given a shot in the arm, and the whole person was in good spirits, and he was five years younger all of a sudden!

"My lord, I knew you wouldn't care! In the place of the big guy, I thank you for your grace! ”

"There's no need to be polite, the official asked you, is there any salt?"

Wang Wenxian said excitedly: "Yes, it's still the same sentence, you can have as much as you want!" ＂

Tang Yi frowned, and suddenly laughed, "Sure enough! Wang Wenxian was puzzled and looked at it suspiciously.

"Hehe, if I'm not mistaken, you should use the salt drying method, right?"

"This ......" Wang Wenxian's eyes widened in horror, this is the secret he has hidden for many years, and it was unexpectedly revealed by Tang Yi, is the legend true, he is really a Wenqu star, can he be a prophet?

Wang Wenxian was so shocked that he couldn't speak. Tang Yi said to himself: "Using the salt drying method, the firewood iron pot is saved, and it costs some labor at most, the cost of ten catties will not exceed a penny, and the output is huge, no wonder you dared to fight a price war before!" That's right. I'm curious, how did you discover the salt drying method? ”

The secret that has been hidden in his heart was easily revealed, and Wang Wenxian could only tell it with him......

Since the Xia Dynasty at the latest, there has been the practice of boiling the sea for salt, and after thousands of years of development, the technology of extracting salt has not made much progress, but it is indeed developing.

For example, in the Ming Dynasty, the major salt farms generally adopted the method of combining drying and cooking. Stove households build salt ponds along the coast. Taking advantage of the high tide, seawater is introduced, and the power of sunlight and wind is used to take away the water and evaporate little by little, leaving behind concentrated seawater - bitterline.

Skilled salters will put lotus seeds in the brine, and when the lotus seeds are floating on the surface, it proves that the concentration of the brine is sufficient.

The next step is to pick the brine home. Put it in a large pot and heat it, and almost one pot can boil eight to ten catties of salt. For every 100 catties of salt, almost 400 catties of firewood are needed, plus iron pots, and the cost is not low, which is also the reason why a large number of stove households went bankrupt and fled.

Wang Wenxian also used this method at the beginning. Once there was no food at home, he worked on an empty stomach, and he was so tired that he was next to the salt pond, and his family quickly carried him back, and asked for half a catty of millet from a neighbor's house. Boiled him a pot of porridge.

Wang Wenxian woke up, and when he saw that his wife and children were surrounding him, he suddenly became anxious. If you don't boil salt for a day, you will have no income, and you want your family to starve to death!

He was so anxious that he dragged his tired body, staggered, and ran to the salt pool, and a scene appeared that surprised him.

Due to his late arrival and the abundance of sun, a layer of salt crystals had already appeared under the salt pond.

Wang Wen had an idea, he took some and put it in his mouth, salty, no different from the boiled salt.

Since then, Wang Wenxian kept pondering, he secretly made a small pool, put the brine in, caught up with the sunny day, one day, a layer of salt appeared at the bottom of the pool, continue to add the brine, a few days of effort, he harvested 100 catties of salt.

After discovering this, Wang Wenxian was almost crazy with joy!

It turns out that you can get salt without cooking firewood, and although it takes a little more time, you can save money on firewood

And no matter how big the pot is, the pool for drying salt can be infinitely large, and there is as much salt as you want!

He seemed to see the salt of Baihuahua turn into silver of Baihuahua, and it all flowed into his pocket. However, Wang Wenxian is very scheming, this method will not work if others know it, but if he is drying salt alone, he will definitely learn from others to find out.

After thinking about it, Wang Wenxian found a few good friends, and when the wine was hot, he shared the secrets he found with everyone, invited them to cook salt together, and also told the big guy that he must swear to the sky and never let it leak out.

These people were all poor men, and when they heard the opportunity to get rich, how could they hesitate, and they all agreed.

Soon, Wang Wenxian relied on the salt drying method to get 20,000 catties of white salt, sold it to a salt merchant, and harvested the first gold in his life.

Relying on the advanced salt drying method, Wang Wenxian's salt is of good quality, sufficient quantity, and the business is getting bigger and bigger, but he has always strictly guarded the secret of drying salt, and only the most trusted stove households can participate in salt drying, and the rest is still boiling salt according to the ancient method......

After listening to Wang Wenxian's narration, the doubts in Tang Yi's heart were also solved. In fact, in ancient times, there was not no salt drying method, and the reason why the official insisted on boiling salt was because it was easy to control.

How many pots there are in a family, and it is clear how much salt one pot can produce. If it is replaced with dried salt, it is difficult to say how much can be produced by the huge salt pond. Therefore, in the official records, almost all of them are salt boiling methods, and in fact, there should be many people like Wang Wenxian who have discovered the mystery of drying salt.

There are a lot of high-quality private salt on the market, maybe it is sunburned.

Of course, knowing this mystery, for Tang Yi, there is not much difference except for the lack of a golden finger that turns stones into gold.

On the contrary, Wang Wenxian has mastered the method of drying salt, which means that he has countless salt in his hands, which can be described as a soldier's essence and sufficient food.

"My lord, I would like to ask, how did you calculate that the villain knows the salt drying method?"

"It's not counting, it's watching." Tang Yi chuckled and said: "If you boil salt at home, your face should be black, your face is similar to those sailors who have been at sea all year round, black, red, black and red, isn't it tanned?" In addition, your ankles and toes are swollen, most of which are the result of years of walking in brine. Go back and ask a competent doctor to give you a good recuperation, your body is your own, and everything is over if you fall. ”

Wang Wenxian was dumbfounded, Tang Yi's ability to observe was really admirable, and he sighed: "My lord, the villain must follow your instructions, and when this time is done, he will hand over the family business to their juniors." By the way, when will the sell-off begin, the villain will arrange it immediately. ”

"Who told you you were going to sell salt?"

Wang Wenxian was stunned, "Wasn't it ...... last time?"

"Last time was last time, let's change things this time." Tang Yi smiled slightly, "You don't have to worry about anything else, as long as you prepare the salt, someone will transport the salt away." ”

Wang Wenxian hesitated, Tang Yi spread his hands, "If you can trust me, do what I say, if you can't believe it, this official can't help." ”

"I can trust you!"

Just kidding, he has evacuated his family, Tang Yi is the last straw, don't believe him!

Wang Wenxian hurriedly arranged it, and asked the family to pour out the best yard, and all the products in it were replaced with the latest and greatest, so that Tang Yi could stay.

After dinner, Tang Yi was pacing in the courtyard, and a head emerged from the wall, shaking two big eyes, and kept probing and shrinking his head.

Tang Yi recognized it at a glance, it was the stunned boy he had just arrived at Wang's house and met.

"What are you looking for, do you want to find this official?"

"Humph!" The kid raised his nostrils high, "I'm looking for a hero!" ”

"Hero? Tan Guang! Tang Yi was funny in his heart, this kid is also wonderful, he was thrown several times by others, and his head was still blue, and he was stunned to fall out of his feelings.

"What, do you want to compete with him?"

When it came to martial arts, the kid shrunk his neck in fright, "I, I don't compete, I want to learn from a teacher!" ”

Tang Yi was bored and called Tan Guang over.

"Reward you for being a good apprentice and teach you with your heart!"

Tan Guang nodded, took a few steps to the wall, stretched out his hand, grabbed Wang Xiu's neck, and lifted it hard, Tan Guang was tall, and the wall was a little shorter, so he actually brought Wang Xiu in.

He looked at Wang Xiu with a smile, "Do you want to learn kung fu?" ”

"Yes." The stunned boy said boldly.

"Hehe, just think about it, let me tell you, there is only one secret to Master's kung fu, that is, if you want to beat someone, you have to be beaten first! And voila! ”

said that it was too late, Tan Guang shook his hand, let go of Wang Xiu, followed by a stumbling block, and fell to the ground, followed by a miserable scream, earth-shattering......

The next ten days were spent almost in a cycle of falling, getting up, and falling.

When Tang Yi was tired, he looked at this pair of living treasures and apprentices, and his mood suddenly improved a lot.

Why didn't Tang Yi choose to sell salt this time, directly suppress prices, and sabotage the salt merchants' plans?

The situation is different, there was a conflict between Yan Maoqing and the salt merchant before, he adjusted the salt area, and the big salt merchant was not sure how much benefit he would have, so he chose to watch from the sidelines.

But this time, the big salt merchant and Yan Maoqing cooperated directly, the two sides cooperated tacitly, Tang Yi shot at the salt merchant, which was to hit Yan Maoqing, in the eyes of outsiders, he was the vanguard on the front line of the party struggle!

Would Tang Yi be that stupid?

Of course not, he changed his tactics, didn't the salt merchant buy the salt on the market? I will fulfill you, secretly provide a large amount of salt to small and medium-sized merchants, and then resell it to large salt merchants, as much as you want, and you will not be able to eat all the salt on the market! Aren't salt merchants known as the richest in the world? Then let's see, do you really have endless gold and silver?

In fact, Tang Yi also prepared another hand, even if the salt merchants did not have enough money, the transportation company still had a lot of silver to lend them.

As soon as he thought of becoming a creditor of the salt merchant, Tang Yi was full of excitement, and unconsciously sneered: "Pay back? If you don't pay back, you will use your daughter to pay off your debts! (To be continued.) )