The next day, just when Lu Chen was having breakfast, he saw Liu Jing running into the side hall with a smile on his face.

"Grandpa! Grandpa! Entering the side hall, Liu Jing gasped for breath while giving Lu Chen a salute.

"What's the matter? Yelling! Lu Chen glared at Liu Jing, picked up a napkin and wiped his mouth, when he saw Liu Jing's face full of joy, he teased Liu Jing again, "What?" Are you picking up money? So happy? Lu Chen said and put the napkin aside and looked at Liu Jing.

"Nope!" Liu Jing shook his head, "It's my grandfather who is happy!" Liu Jing looked at Lu Chen and said.

"Poof!" Liu Jing's words directly asked Lu Chen to squirt out the tea he had just drunk in his mouth, and directly sprayed Liu Jing, who was standing opposite him, with a full face, "Nonsense!" How can Grandpa be happy! My father doesn't have that ability! Su Chang on the side glared at Liu Jing directly, and hurriedly picked up a handkerchief to wipe it for Lu Chen.

"It's not! No! It's a happy event! The maidservant girl on the side was also helping Liu Jing wipe it.

"What's the happy event? It's worth all your shouting! Lu Chen took the handkerchief from Su Chang's hand, wiped his clothes, and asked without raising his head.

"Grandpa, do you remember the poisonous salt mine in the back mountain?" Liu Jing said with a smile.

"What? Lao Xu, have they got it? "How could Lu Chen not remember the poisonous salt mine in the back mountain, although Lu Chen has been busy with other things recently, but about the poisonous salt mine, he has been telling Du Chengze and Xu Gaofeng and his son to hurry up this matter.

"Grandpa, look!" Liu Jing reached out and took out a small deerskin bag from his arms, opened the pocket, and poured it into a clay bowl on the table, and the white and crystal salt flowed into the clay bowl like quicksand from the mouth of the deerskin bag.

Lu Chen took the pottery bowl with table salt in front of him, stretched out his index finger and dipped it a little, then licked it with his tongue, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Is this done?" Lu Chen looked at Liu Jing and asked very happily.

"It's done! This was sent by Xu Gaofeng this morning! Liu Jing nodded in response.

"Not bad! Not bad! Lu Chen, who was smashing the taste of refined salt in his mouth, nodded, "Go and call Lao Du and Lao Xu!" Lu Chen directly ordered Liu Jing.

"Yes!" Liu Jing received the order, turned around and ran out of the side hall.

Lu Chen looked at the refined salt in the pottery bowl, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Xiao Yu, you pit Lao Tzu in a shop, Lao Tzu will open another salt shop, see which of us is uncomfortable!" Lu Chen muttered to himself in his heart.

After all, it is still more difficult to get the "earth heating" out now, and the iron furnace shop has "given" those families, although this is also a pit, but if you want to fill this "hole", I am afraid it will take a while, but since your Xiao family started from Yantian, then Lu Chen doesn't mind recovering some interest first.

"Su Chang, how is this salt?" Lu Chen pushed the pottery bowl to the side, and at the same time looked at Su Chang who was standing beside him and asked.

"Back to Grandpa, this kind of salt, the maid has seen it here in the grandfather, even if he was in the palace at the beginning, the maid has never seen such white salt!" Su Chang looked at the salt in the pottery bowl and replied very seriously.

"What is the price of salt outside?" Since Lu Chen crossed over, except for the last time he accompanied Li Yanjun to go shopping, he had not personally gone to the street to buy things, and he was not too clear about the price, and the procurement power in the Lu Mansion was in Su Chang's hands, so Lu Chen asked Su Chang directly.

"A pound of coarse salt is ten dollars, and a pound of fine salt is thirty dollars!" Su Chang thought for a moment, and then replied.

At this time, the difference between coarse salt and fine salt is actually not too big in Lu Chen's opinion, but the color of fine salt is slightly lighter than coarse salt, but it is still yellow, after all, the methods of making salt in this era are nothing more than those three:

One is to boil the sea for salt, which is the earliest method of making salt, which is to boil seawater with firewood to allow the water to evaporate, leaving salt. However, this method is generally common in coastal areas.

The other is to take salt by wind, which is a salt production method that uses natural conditions, that is, to pour seawater or brine into a shoal or pond, let the wind blow and sun, and scrape the salt after the water evaporates. This method is more suitable in inland areas with dry climates, but is heavily influenced by the season and weather.

The last is to draw salt from wells, which is a salt production method using underground brine, that is, to dig wells on the stratum containing brine, draw out the brine, and then use firewood to boil or wind and sun to obtain salt. The salt obtained in this way is also known as well salt, and most of the Xiao family's salt mines use this last method.

However, no matter which one it is, in Lu Chen's view, it is the so-called "drying method", and the salt making method that Lu Chen now asks Du Chengze and Xu Gaofeng to use is naturally the "boiling method".

"Then you say, how much can we sell this salt for?" Lu Chen looked at Su Chang with a smile and asked.

"From the point of view of the servant, if it costs forty yuan a catty, there should be a lot of people who buy it!" Su Chang pondered for a moment, and then said.

"Nope! My father's salt is sold for twenty dollars! Lu Chen said with a smile directly, it is slightly more expensive than coarse salt, and much cheaper than those so-called fine salts, and when this refined salt is on the market, it depends on whether your Xiao family can sit still!

Hearing Lu Chen's words, Su Chang's eyes couldn't help but widen, such a fine salt, his grandfather actually only sold it for twenty yuan, which was somewhat unexpected by Su Chang, after all, according to what she thought in her heart, this level of refined salt, let alone forty wen, is estimated to be fifty wen a catty, and some people buy it.

After all, the salt of my grandfather does not have the bitter taste of the salt outside.

"Su Chang, do you think it's a little cheaper?" Lu Chen naturally noticed Su Chang's expression and asked directly with a smile.

"Yes!" Su Chang nodded directly.

"This is called small profits but quick turnover!" Lu Chen said with a smile directly.

Su Chang knew that Lu Chen had already decided, so he didn't persuade anything more.

Just as Lu Chen was drinking tea, Liu Jing took Du Chengze and Xu Gaofeng to the front hall.

"Meet Grandpa!" The two of them saluted Lu Chen together.

"No need to be polite! Sit down and talk! Lu Chen bowed slightly, and then motioned for the two to sit down and talk.

"Grandpa Xie!" After the two thanked them, they sat down on the chairs next to them.

"How much of this salt is made?" Lu Chen pointed to the refined salt in the pottery bowl on the coffee table, looked at Du Chengze and asked, after all, Xu Gaofeng is in charge of the process, and Du Chengze is in charge of management.

"Back to Grandpa!" Hearing Lu Chen's question, Du Chengze got up directly and replied, Lu Chen pressed his hand and motioned for Du Chengze to sit down and speak.