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The changes on this side of the island soon spread through the mouths of the maritime merchants who began to run around in order to make money.

For those who eat by the sea, the island is said to have descended from the gods as far as the four of the four harbors that stand on the reef and are nearly 200 meters tall and give direction to ships sailing at night.

In particular, the four seaside cities of Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Zhangzhou and Chaozhou were quickly broken by the two lighthouses erected in the western and northern ports of Liuqiu Island.

The fishermen were fine, and with the lights that could be seen from far away from the lighthouse, they were only fishing in the offshore area. But for those maritime merchants who saw that the port of Liuqiu Island could bring great benefits to them, it was a guiding light to make a lot of money.

What's more, the four ports on Liuqiu Island still have relevant personnel responsible for receiving those maritime merchants who enter the port overnight, even at night. Moreover, the street lamps that emit bright light also illuminate the harbor as if it were daytime.

It is precisely because of this that there are more and more maritime merchants who run these night boats. First, the two ports on the west and north sides of the island also had maritime merchants trading at night, and then even the two ports on the east and south sides became lively.

As more and more maritime merchants began to flock to the four ports of Liuqiu Island day and night, a large number of slaves, artisans, and various resources and goods gathered. Soon the four ports became four large trading markets.

As for the official of Liuqiu Island, that is, the materials that the port authority can take out, except for a small part of them from the main time and space, most of them come from those resource points that are scattered all over the major lands and regions of the earth in the Datang time and space.

To Li Anran's surprise, among all the goods he sold on the island, sea salt was the best. Almost every day, you can see many maritime merchants coming with the goods purchased by the port authority, and then exchange them for a shipload of sea salt.

At the beginning, Li Anran still felt that everyone relied on the sea to eat the sea, and he was afraid that he would not be able to buy salt? But later, it suddenly dawned on me that I had made the mistake of empiricism. Don't look at the inexhaustible salt in this ocean, but it also has to be able to process it.

In ancient times, the manufacturing process of sea salt was quite simple, and it was generally made by boiling fish in large pots by relying on the sea. And this method is not only extremely inefficient. Moreover, the sea salt produced will also cause poor color due to impurities in the seawater.

But for Li Anran. Salt production is quite simple. The sea salt manufacturing equipment, which integrates a series of functions such as extraction, filtration, and distillation, can produce sea salt 24 hours a day as long as there is enough energy.

It's just that after discovering that the sales of sea salt are quite amazing, and those sea salt making machines that were originally intended to be used for piggyback are slowly out of supply. Li Anran had to send someone to find a suitable area. Several salt pans of considerable size have been opened.

Naturally, the salt pans are not high-tech techniques. By simply taking advantage of the daily high tide, seawater is automatically poured into the square salt pans, which are then mass-produced through an improved process.

Although the quality of this sea salt is certainly not comparable to that of sea salt produced with high-tech equipment, it is for those maritime merchants. The best sea salt has the price of the best sea salt, and the price of ordinary sea salt has the price of ordinary sea salt.

What's more, after the process of Yantian has been improved, the mass-produced sea salt is enough to kill similar products in the Tang Dynasty in terms of quality. Coupled with the fact that the price is at least 20% lower than the market price, it is strange that it is not popular with those maritime merchants.

The large salt pans in the bay alone are not high-tech techniques, but the amount of sea salt that can be produced every day is not only terrifying, but also the quality has been improved by technological improvements.

In addition to sea salt, what made Li Anran speechless was that it was originally just to prevent the seafood caught from the sea every day from spoiling because it couldn't be eaten, so the salted fish and salted meat that were pickled into salty goods actually became "sought-after" commodities.

After investigating, Li Anran realized that the reason why these salty goods are so easy to sell is still in a salty word.

You must know that in ancient times, although the salt industry could not be completely controlled by the government, it was not something that ordinary people could touch casually. As a human being, it's okay not to eat sugar, but if you don't eat salt, you can easily get sick or even die.

Due to the backwardness of ancient salt-making technology and the troubles of transportation, the price of salt is not expensive, but it is not cheap. If there is a bad year or natural and man-made disasters, the price of salt will skyrocket a lot.

In addition to being rich in salt, these salted fish and salted meat are also meat, and the meaning of the combination of the two is different. In addition, the direct sale of sea salt not only requires corresponding qualifications, but also has to dredge up the relationship, and this salty goods have become a "side ball".

As for the question of why the people in the mainland do not pickle salted fish, salted meat, and salted chicken, it is actually very simple, because the mainland does not produce salt, and the price of salt is relatively high. The cost of doing so is too high, and the price is not competitive if it is sold, so it is not cost-effective at all.

Under Li Anran's inquiry, through the reports of the people below, it was discovered that the popularity of this salty business is also a coincidence. At the beginning, these salted fish and salted meat with a relatively "weird" taste did not see any business opportunities at first.

However, they felt that these things would last longer than most food, so some of the maritime merchants bought some and threw them on the ships as food for the boatmen, and later inadvertently brought them back to their homes by several of the shipwrights.

Don't look at the smell of salted fish and salted meat, it does smell a little weird, especially salted fish, because the fishy smell is too strong and will give people a stinky feeling. But for the vast majority of people who can barely eat enough to eat, this is not a problem at all.

What's more, although salted fish smells stinky, as long as it can be processed and cooked, the taste is not bad. Coupled with the rich salty taste that can be obtained without adding salt, it has become popular in the villages where the boatmen lived.

After a few shipwrights returned home with salted goods one after another, a maritime merchant saw a business opportunity inside. In addition, the price of these salted fish is very cheap because of the unique environmental advantages, so I tried to purchase a batch at the port and brought it back to Datang.

Because salted goods are not salt after all, the cost of obtaining sales qualifications and dotting all aspects is eliminated, and the purchase price is already low, and it is a test of the water, so the price of this batch of salted fish will naturally not be high, and the result is accidentally popular.

Don't look at those people at the bottom of the society, there are not many people who are literate and hyphenated, but it does not prevent these people from having their own wisdom. I found that I only need to put a few pieces of salted fish into the usual vegetarian dishes, which can not only improve the effect of freshness and flavor, but also can be used as a meat to improve the food, the most important thing is that the price is not expensive, and the number of people who buy it will naturally increase.

As the saying goes, where there is demand, there is a market.

After the success of the first test of the waters, the maritime merchant naturally would not miss such a good opportunity to make money. As a result, large quantities of salty goods began to flow into the mainland through the wharves and ports of the four coastal cities of Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Zhangzhou and Chaozhou.

No matter what era it is, there may not be many people with vision, but there is never a shortage of people who follow the trend.

No, after the salty goods business became more and more popular, other maritime merchants naturally followed suit, and as a result, the salted fish on the island were in short supply.

As for the flow of so much salted fish into the mainland, will there be problems in terms of sales? Although the number of sales of salty goods on the island seems to be a lot, compared to the huge market in the territory of Datang, it is just a "drizzle" at all.

Seeing that the business of this salty food is so hot, after seeing the application that Su Xiaomei specially found for the people below who want to increase the production of salted goods, Li Anran approved it with a big stroke of the pen, and at the same time, because of the sudden outbreak of foodie attributes, he took it and pushed it on this matter.

As a result, some maritime merchants soon discovered that in addition to the salted fish that was only marinated with sea salt, there were also spiced salted fish, thirteen spiced salted fish, spicy salted fish, spicy salted fish, and a variety of salted meat, bacon, smoked fish, sausages, salted eggs and other products made with the same taste and different ingredients. (To be continued......)