Chapter Forty-Eight: Am I Going to Make a Fortune?
To be able to successfully take away the fishing salt, and to buy so much in a fit of anger, on the way back to the village, everyone should have been a little happy in their hearts.
This is the village taking the lead in collecting it.
Let's not mention that only if Liu Lizheng goes, the meaning will be different, which shows that Lizheng has allowed them to continue fishing.
It is only said that they only learned when they chatted with the errand of the salt depot of the river berth that only Li Zheng took the lead in going to the river berth to collect fishing salt would it be so smooth.
It turned out that there was no "official" guarantor of Li Zheng to report the number of catties of fishing, and the corresponding fishing salt could only be purchased according to the catty, which would be quite troublesome.
At least if there is no guarantee, the river berth will definitely send someone to the village, first to check the fish from house to house, and then will weigh them, and after the measurement, each household will write two guarantees and press their fingerprints.
One is a promise that their own fishing salt will not be used in other ways, and even cured meat will not work.
If the neighbors know that other families are using fishing salt for the side but do not report it to the government, they will be punished.
And once it is found that it really dares to be used in other places, even if it is fishing salt that cannot be used for cooking rice and pickling pickles at all, those who exceed one stone will die, and they will be supported by more than a cane.
It is conceivable that no matter which step is above, if the river park is embarrassed, it will become very troublesome.
Even if it is not difficult to be a person, like Wang Yusheng, they also know it in their hearts, even check the scales, and then sign the guarantee letter to each neighbor, at least the official sent by Hebo will stay in their village for a few days. Staying involves food and accommodation, don't we arrange it? If you arrange it, the food should not be too bad, and the whole village has to pool money everywhere.
But this is not the case in the village.
There are also two ways in the village, only to produce documents and to collect them in person.
Only a document was issued, and the representative Li Zheng only promised the official that there are indeed people fishing in our village, and the specific fishermen catch how many catties and how much fishermen will use, then you can send someone to check it yourself, it has nothing to do with him. Guarantees are given only in the case of fishing in the village. If there is any problem in the future, Li Zheng will only be limited to the joint responsibility of whether there are actually people fishing.
The second way is that the river anchorage does not need to send people.
According to the laws of the imperial court, in order to facilitate the lives of the people and consider the inconvenience of travel, if each village is going to collect it in person and signing it according to the handprint on the "Salt Ticket for Transferring Officials", it is equivalent to Lizheng promising to have it.
For example, if there are really people in the village who do not catch fish and conceal it or the number of catties is wrong, and even dare to use fishing salt elsewhere, they will be held equally responsible.
How many boards the party was beaten, Li Zheng followed a lot of boards, and if the party was executed, Li Zheng would also die.
It can be seen that Li Zheng went in person, and the representative made a guarantee for the people of the village and made a guarantee to the official, saving a lot of trouble.
So they should have been happy, but when they remembered the scene of Li Zheng's younger brother being flogged for thirty boards, their buttocks tightened, and they felt very uncomfortable.
The young men who came to receive the salt were not fools, on the contrary, they were more intelligent in the village, and they could understand after a little pondering that there was such a coincidence.
For this little fish, they have to pay such a big price.
No wonder I used to stop it, this is really cleaned up.
Think about it from another perspective, if you are Lizheng, once you let the villagers fish, the first thing is that your family will suffer first, then what will they choose?
At this time, three ox carts walked slowly towards the village on the dirt road.
Wang Yusheng looked at the back of Liu Laozhu in front of him, and his heart was so depressed.
Because Li Zhengbo, who was still at the mouth of the market and was very fearless at the river berth, was already stiffening his back at this time.
How pitiful the back looks.
Wang Yusheng suddenly smashed the car board with his fist, he hated it so much, he really wanted to find someone who understood and asked: What's wrong with this world? Has our village done anything hurtful to the heavens and reason, how can it be one step at a time!
So on the way back, the only person who is emotionally stable is Xu Tianxin.
The main thing is that she is busy, studying what is called fishing salt, or pink.
Pink salt, she has only seen imported Himalayan rock salt in modern times, not to mention edible, but also used in salt baths.
Then what did they use to dye in ancient times?
Xu Tianxin sat behind Liu Laozhu to block the wind.
Liu Laozhu was sad in front, and she opened the salt bag in the back and looked carefully.
The more Xu Tianxin looked at it, the more he felt that what his grandmother said was wrong, and it was not at all like everyone rumored that he deliberately dyed things to distinguish between fishing salt and edible salt.
Because iodine will react chemically when it encounters starch to change to this color.
But this is completely illogical, the common people can't afford to eat starchy food, and selling it so cheaply can basically be said to be poverty alleviation salt, will it take the trouble to mix starch? No way.
As for the rumored dyeing with some kind of grass juice or vegetables, Xu Tianxin twisted a little bit and tasted it, and after a closer look, he always felt that it was not.
An intuition, or that sentence, if it is sold so cheaply, the imperial court will use a lot of manpower to dye the juice? Of course, she will have to test it again to be sure.
Xu Tianxin pulled out the red sand mixed with fishing salt, thinking that this was even more impossible.
Red sand soil is definitely a trick to blind the eyes, which is nothing more than to make the fishing salt short of two catties, so that everyone thinks that it is dyed by red sand, and it also has the effect of disgusting people.
I have to let the poor people pickle some fish and smear some mud and sand, and eat a mouthful of soil if they can't wash it.
But she is not afraid of the red sand inside, if she wants to disgust her, there is no way, she can filter it out.
Xu Tianxin thought about it, and always felt that he had to start with the aspect of being able to eat the dead, so what kind of salt was it?
If you want to blame her, she has good conditions in a modern family, her thinking is limited, and she always feels that no matter how cheap the salt is, at least it must be boiled into brine before it can be sold.
Or an elderly brother in the live broadcast room, took a closer look at the fishing salt and said: It won't be taken out and sold after fishing in the sea, right? In that case, it can indeed eat people to death.
Xu Tianxin was stunned, what does it mean to finish fishing in the sea.
For example, when a modern person goes to the sea, he feels that he is very clean in the sea, but when he goes ashore and basks in the sun, he will find that there is a layer of fine sand floating on his skin.
Scraping that layer of sand off their bodies is the fishing salt they have here.
The co-authorship of the ancient one did not give a filter.
Xu Tianxin: "......!!! ”
And after being reminded by this eldest brother, the family members who had been chemically damaged in the live broadcast room and Xu Tianxin also understood that this fishing salt did not dye at all. Because it is not pure sodium chloride crystals, there are impurities, no, it is a lot of impurities that will cause red salts. Like potassium chloride, there is a designation, and the red color mainly comes from iron oxide or iron hydroxide impurities, which contain ferrous ions under the action of air oxygen to form ferric ions, and its color is reddish.
It's so disgusting that she must filter the salt before salting the fish when she goes back. Otherwise, even if the marinade is finished, you can't wash the impurities on the top of the fish, and you will die if you eat too much.
Well? Wait, that doesn't seem to be the most important thing.
Importantly...... The family members in the live broadcast room have begun to remind and are shouting: "Hurry back, let's hurry up and go together to do the big thing of the Nine Clans, making salt." ”
The fine salt of 100 wen was made from fishing salt for three yuan, and it was proper, and when it was discovered, it fell off its head.