Chapter Fifty-Seven: This is how salt is made
Hearing that Liang Baoyu was able to extract salt from mineral salt, Niu Jinda, the commander of the army, was also slightly stunned.
Since leaving Chang'an City, Liang Baoyu, this kid is still peaceful, and the thunder camp is also well managed, and those officials' nephews and nephews may dare to play a little temper in other camps, relying on their own identity to say a few words to the chief officer, but in the thunder camp, they are restrained and honest.
It's not that these soldiers with extraordinary backgrounds were impressed by Liang Baoyu's personal charm, but that these people really can't fight Liang Baoyu, the chief officer.
Compared with his identity, Liang Baoyu is an upright Yongxing uncle, and his uncle's title is enough for him to crush all the second generations.
Compared with the position, the entire Thunder Battalion is Liang Baoyu's final say, and if the matter is small, he will even be punished if he kicks it, and he makes too much trouble and directly talks about the law in the army, who dares to bare his teeth with him?
Of course, the most important thing is Liang Baoyu's name as the head of the three evils of Chang'an, no matter how unscrupulous the thorny head is placed under his hands, if you want to blow up your wings, you have to weigh it carefully in your heart...... If you want to make a mistake, can you be the first of the three evils in Chang'an?
The only thing that made Niu Jinda feel dissatisfied was that even in the army, Liang Baoyu, a bastard, still couldn't endure hardship, and his temper didn't change at all, and he couldn't eat and live with the sergeants at all.
But Liang Baoyu didn't violate military law by doing this, this kid had already studied the laws and regulations of the army thoroughly before going out, which made people angry, but he couldn't catch his handle without leaving his hand!
Therefore, Niu Jinda, who is a handsome man, although he has a lot of complaints about Liang Baoyu, is still satisfied on the whole, after all, being able to obey the thorns in the Thunder Camp can already be regarded as a credit.
Liang Baoyu can make salt from mineral salt, Niu Jinda doesn't believe it very much, but when he thinks of this kid's previous unbelievable methods, and when he thinks of his son who has put on a prosthetic leg, and now sits and walks like an ordinary person, Lao Niu can't help but have a sense of hope in his heart!
It's really too short of salt for the army, and Datang is too short of salt!
Over the past few years, the Turkic people have been on the border every year, the trade route is not smooth, and the gate valve family is deliberately controlled, the salt in Shandong cannot be transported, and most of the salt ponds on the grassland are abandoned and cannot produce salt, which is because the price of salt has been extremely high in recent years.
Previously, the Zuo Wuwei army was stationed in Longyou for three years, and the soldiers used vinegar cloth instead of salt, and the hardships were indescribable.
If a soldier does not get salt supplements for a long time, his physique will get worse and worse, which Niu Jinda, who is a handsome, knows this.
If the eighth child's child can really refine edible salt from mineral salt...... The combat power of my left Wuwei army can be increased by at least three percent!
And the mineral salt contained in that salt mountain is probably enough for the entire Tang Dynasty to eat for decades!
At the thought of the far-reaching impact of being able to successfully produce table salt, Niu Jinda couldn't help but feel hot in his heart, and even the marching speed of the entire army increased a lot!
Before the sunset had risen, Liang Baoyu's Thunder Camp had already begun to set up camp on the river beach next to the salt mountain.
This was the location he had specifically requested in order to facilitate the extraction of table salt from the mineral salt.
The handsome Niu Jinda personally rushed to the Thunder Camp, and there were a lot of generals of all sizes, and everyone wanted to see what was going on with the salt-making method that made Zuo Wuwei's army change the route and speed of the march.
A large cauldron was erected on the pebble-covered tidal flats by the river, and a large piece of salt ore was retrieved by Pei Ying and others.
In front of a group of onlookers, Liang Baoyu ordered people to smash the salt mine, grind it into a fine powder with a stone mill, and then pour it into a large wooden barrel with water and stir it continuously, and the salt was completely dissolved to complete the first link.
The saturated saturated salt solution was poured into another wooden barrel covered with a double layer of linen, leaving countless slags on the linen, and the color of the water in the barrel became much lighter to the naked eye.
The hazel water was filtered again, this time using four layers of linen.
After filtering again, the water turned a faint red, and these changes were visible to the naked eye, and the hearts of all the onlookers involuntarily lifted...... It works!
Liang Baoyu looked at the mineral salt solution that no longer had too many impurities, and poured the pale red water into a wooden bucket that had been prepared a long time ago.
The inside of the wooden bucket is a tight charcoal wrapped in linen, and as the solution continues to seep down, the outlet under the wooden bucket begins to slowly flow pale cyan water.
Carefully catch the water with a clean wooden barrel, Liang Baoyu tasted it himself, only salty, no other strange taste, and succeeded!
A raging flame rose under the large iron pot that had been prepared for a long time, and the thoroughly filtered salt solution was poured into the iron pot to boil, and when the water evaporated, there was a hard shell with a blue glow at the bottom of the pot!
Everyone's breathing involuntarily became short, and even Lao Niu, the commander of the army, looked at Liang Baoyu with a blank look.
Removing the firewood, Liang Baoyu knocked a small piece on the hard shell, stuffed it into his mouth, and in a blink of an eye, he grinned and spit it out, salty!
"That's what salt making looks like, there's nothing unusual."
Liang Baoyu waved his hand, with a high-spirited face, and a group of generals who had long been unable to bear it rushed to the iron pot!
Headed by Niu Jinda, the handsome, so the generals up and down held a salt tasting conference on the river beach, and the hot salt shell was knocked into small pieces and stuffed into the mouth, which was hot and salty and very sour, but no one was willing to spit it out!
"This is green salt, the best green salt!"
"This thing is sold in Chang'an East Market, I'm afraid it will cost 500 Wen a catty, right?"
"This kind of green salt is only willing to be used by rich and noble people to dip it in wicker to clean their teeth, and he is not used to eat it at all!"
Da Shuai Niu Jinda broke a piece of green salt the size of a fingernail, put it in his mouth and tasted it slowly, except for the saltiness of salt, there was no other strange taste...... It's really the best green salt!
The entire Zuo Wuwei army went crazy, the salt mountain was chiseled, large pieces of mineral salt were transported to the river, a cauldron of boiling salt was propped up, and the vigorous salt-making movement began.
After boiling salt by the river for three days, the handsome Niu Jinda reluctantly continued to drive with his men, and this place had been built into a huge salt farm and handed over to the local garrison.
In the Taiji Palace, His Majesty Li Er looked at the urgent report delivered by the messenger to him, and his heart churned!
"Guanyinwen, come and see, this kid hasn't arrived at the grassland yet, and he has made a great contribution, he is really my lucky general!"
"Erlang doesn't dislike the old man now, and he is out of tune?"
"Hahahaha, because I love my son-in-law, I will wake up laughing when I sleep!"
"Didn't Your Majesty see this secret report, and it was also written that the eighth child did not forget to enjoy it in the barracks, and he needed to be served by others for food and clothing?"
"It's good that he can make it like this...... I secretly told you that I originally sent Lao Ba to be in charge of the Thunder Camp, and I was ready to use the great merits he made to exchange his life for him. ”
"Huh?!"