Brown grabbed a handful of things and put them in front of Xu Zheng, Xu Zheng was stunned when he saw it for the first time, only to see that the color of this thing was black, and it was hard to imagine that it was salt.

Xu Zheng showed a strange expression on his face, took a little bit with his fingers and rubbed it on his fingertips, it felt rough and astringent, in all fairness, it felt like mud and sand more than salt.

"Is this salt?" asked Xu Zheng.

Leni nodded and said, "I don't believe you taste." ”

Xu Zheng tasted a little with an open-minded expression, and spit it out with a busy sigh, only to feel salty and salty, but the taste was bitter and astringent, and there were obviously many impurities. According to the chemical knowledge of the previous life, the main ingredient of table salt is sodium chloride, and it also contains a small amount of other chlorides, such as potassium chloride and magnesium chloride. But in addition to these chlorides, the super inferior salts made by Leni with the most basic methods also contain calcium sulfate, magnesium sulfate, sodium sulfate, potassium sulfate, magnesium carbonate and other organic compounds, which are the main cause of bitterness and astringency. Sulfides...... If you eat this for many years, you will either get cancer or other diseases, so where can you eat this kind of salt? You should really tell her some of the previous methods of making salt, lest she use this method to make salt, and the things she makes will harm and harm others.

Just as he was about to speak, his heart suddenly moved again.

Salt making, salt making!

By the way, why didn't I think of this? Salt is necessary for life, and it is necessary to use it in many ways, and now Aosen Manor is close to the endless sea, which is the best place to rely on the mountains and water to draft water, why not improve the salt production method, build salt pans and salt factories, and use this as a great plan for the manor to start and make money?

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but be very excited, and said, "Aunt Lenny, how many people like you can make salt?"

Leni was stunned and said, "Not too much." There are more Terrans, and some Orcs will too. ”

"It's all like this...... Xu Zheng looked at the salt that really didn't look like salt, and said, "The coarse salt?"

Leni nodded, "Pretty much." Some are slightly better. ”

Xu Zheng laughed: "I haven't been able to find a way to make everyone rich." Aunt Leni, you've been a great help!"

Leni was excited: "I, do you?"

"Yes!" Xu Zheng said affirmatively: "You gave me a good idea." Aunt Lenny. ”

"In!"

"Do me a favor. Go and tell all the people who know how to make salt to get ready. I'll go to the council hall first. Tomorrow...... I don't know exactly when. Anyway, there will be important announcements!"

"Good. Leni became excited, deeply happy that Xu Zheng had given her a heavy responsibility.

Xu Zheng rushed towards the conference hall non-stop.

The council chamber is a newly renovated building. It is a square shape and is a small two-story building. In Xu Zheng's design, it is the town hall in the future, where many public matters will be discussed and decided.

But at this moment, when Xu Zheng rushed in, there were only four people sitting inside. Hawke, Bruce, Ruther, and Nordin.

The three of Hawke had sad faces, but Nordin looked at the three with a smile.

I saw Xu Zheng come in. Nordin happily called: "Xu Zheng!"

"What's the matter? Xiao Chu and my father?"

Nordin said with a grin: "When Xiao Chu and Uncle Aosen were training, they found that many people couldn't swim, and the Terran beast land had them, so they took them all to the lake. One by one, they all rushed into the water, and they would have a week off, and the whole church would not swim. ”

"Do you have time to sit here, of course you can swim?"

Nordin said proudly: "Of course! Have you forgotten that when we were in the Tiger Clan Village, we went into the water to fish together? But the others didn't work, and when they got into the water, they screamed like old ladies. ”

Xu Zheng said: "Speaking of which, it's just right. How many of the people who went out together to look for silk threads and nets came to the manor?"

"Most of them. ”

"Good. I'll give you a task. You take them around looking around. Let's see if we can find the kind of magic beast that spits silk, and collect the silk. I'm greatly useful. ”

"Weaving fishing nets?"

"Well, this time it's not just about teaching you how to fish. He also taught you how to raise fish in the sea. ”

Nordin was very excited and said, "Okay." "Hurriedly ran out.

Lu Se looked at it and moaned at Xu Zheng: "Xu Zheng, we're running out of money......

Bruce also said: "I knew that construction would cost a lot of money, but I didn't expect it to cost so much. ”

Hawke looked at Xu Zheng with an anxious look on his face and said, "Golden head, think of a way." Manage my business, this method of making money is obviously not as good as you. ”

Xu Zheng said confidently: "I have a way!"

Hawke looked at Xu Zheng in disbelief: "Don't say that you have any strange ideas." It's good to have your ideas spoken out after the manor has developed, but now...... It's a bit ahead of its time. ”

Xu Zheng said with a smile: "This time I don't have wild ideas, the idea is definitely in line with our current situation." ”

Hawke and Bruce were overjoyed, looked at Xu Zheng, and urged: "Don't sell it, say it quickly!"

Xu Zheng ignored the two of them and asked Lu Se: "Big housekeeper, what price do we buy salt?" ”

Ruther flipped through the account book and said, "The purchase price of a pound of salt is fourteen silver coins. If you buy it for 1,000 catties at a time, you can get it 9% off, which is 126 gold coins. It looks cheap, but it's actually expensive. To be honest, a pound of salt is fourteen silver coins, which is still the lowest average price, and I have also received eighteen silver coins. In case of special circumstances, it will affect its production, such as a natural disaster, and it will be more expensive, up to twenty-five silver coins. In the past, when I was in Fengzhai, I saw that salt must be grabbed, because it really hurt the big and small thieves in the village. ”

"So expensive?" Bruce asked, puzzled, "Salt is just a condiment, and there is a lot of it in the sea, how can it be so expensive?"

Hawke nodded, not expecting salt to be at this price.

Lu Ther said: "It's not just a condiment, both of them are royal and grandson nobles, and they rarely have contact with ordinary life, and this salt is very useful." First of all. It is necessary for life, and everyone must eat the necessary salt every day to be healthy, not just for seasoning. For example, lack of salt will cause whitehead, weak limbs, and so on. Of course, it's also a seasoning necessity, something that doesn't have a salt flavor and is hard to swallow. ”

Both Bruce and Hawke know this. Nodded at the moment.

"In addition to this," said Ruther, "it is indispensable to store food, such as making pickled products when winter comes. Life is clean and inseparable from it. Healing and disinfection are inseparable from it. In this night battle, many of the defenders temporarily treated it with salt water, as you have seen. It is very useful and useful. Even the dyes used in the clothes you wear are made of salt. In the past, the two of them lived richly, and it was not easy to feel the importance of it in basic life. ”

Hawke gasped, "So useful?"

Ruther smiled: "Of course, it's just that it doesn't deal directly with you. So you can't feel it. In fact, it is needed in all aspects of life, so salt is purchased in large quantities. A thousand catties of salt are only twenty-seven gold coins, but there are now tens of thousands of people in the manor, and they use it every day, and this consumption is amazing, and the total price is of course expensive. ”

Hawke nodded and said humbly, "Understood." Thanks a lot. In the past, Virgil also produced salt. I didn't know it was so profitable. And it's so versatile, it's still a great housekeeper. Knowing so much. ”

Xu Zheng asked again: "Big housekeeper, where do we buy land salt?"

Ruther: "There are three main sources of salt that we buy. One is Dotlanar in the western continent, it is an inland city, the groundwater is rich in salt, almost all the residents of the city can make salt, and there are many workshops in the city to collect water and make salt, so Dotlanar also has the reputation of salt city. The second is Chilian, the coastal city of Binsu City, which is rich in sea salt, and not only that, but all the villages around Binsu will produce salt, and it is the largest salt export base for the land. The third aspect is the retail merchants from all over the country, whether it is salt production from groundwater or from the sea, which is purchased by the merchants, gathered together, and sold to all parts of the mainland. ”

Hawke knew some of these things, and Bruce was completely puzzled, but he listened to them with relish, and hurriedly asked, "How is the salt made?"

Ruther said, "I don't know much about this. I have only vaguely heard some of the salt merchants mention, it seems that they all use the boiling salt method and the boiling salt method, and then refine and process the coarse salt after obtaining it, and finally get the kind of white flower salt that we eat, the whole process is not only complicated, but also time-consuming and laborious, which makes the salt so expensive. If it weren't for the fact that it was so expensive, the salt makers would not be profitable at all. In the end, it has to be shipped to all parts of the mainland, counting the difference and freight in the middle, the rich nobles still feel that there is nothing, but for ordinary people, salt is really expensive. He sighed and said: "In the past, when the thieves did business, they liked to rob the most, salt was one of them. You know, when Tim married a wife, he used twenty catties of salt to exchange for a woman. ”

Bruce and Hawke were dumbfounded when they heard it, and it was difficult to associate Bai Huahua's salt with a woman with big breasts and big ass, but Xu Zheng laughed and said, "A woman is also white when she is stripped naked, but it is the same as Bai Huahua's salt." ”

This sentence attracted the unkind eyes of the three of Lu Se, and they all glared at Xu Zheng viciously.

Xu Zheng touched his nose and said, "Let me guess, whether the so-called boiling salt method and boiling method are to first take salty groundwater or seawater, pour it into the pot, raise the fire at the bottom and keep boiling, and finally get coarse black salt crystals after the water is boiled dry." After obtaining the salt crystals, a large number of salt crystals are collected, and water is added again for secondary boiling, and the fine white refined salt is obtained by precipitation method.

The three of them were dumbfounded, and Ruther said, "It seems to be so!" It's similar to what I've heard, but they're not as subtle as you say. ”

Bruce looked at Xu Zheng with strange eyes and joked: "It seems that everyone in your hometown is also a master of salt making." ”

Hawke said more directly: "Youkai!"

Xu Zheng was stupid, and he couldn't say that he knew the method of making salt, and he knew more and more details, which was far more clever than this.

Lu Se was surprised and delighted, and probably knew that Xu Zheng already had some earth-shattering thoughts, and said, "You wait, I'll ask a salt merchant to come to the manor and ask." "To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!)