Chapter 25 Consumption Upgrades
"These beasts eat better than I used to eat. Every time he passed by the cowshed at the end of work, he would always look at the salt gourd hanging there, but now every livestock shed in Gala Cave has added this extravagant equipment that people could not imagine before, an upside-down gourd, and every animal can lick the snow-white fine salt from the mouth of the gourd as long as they want to eat it! Now, even his cattle and sheep can enjoy the taste that he couldn't enjoy as a toast before!
But everybody could see the benefits of giving salt, and the fur of the cattle and sheep was far more shiny and fat than before, and now in the evening, the little ones who herd them only had to blow two whistles, and the cattle and sheep would obediently return to the pen, and even the shepherds would not need it if it were not for the fact that there were many wild beasts in the mountains and forests nearby!
Moreover, there is so much salt that it is more than enough to feed cattle and sheep, not to mention to paint the walls!
Boiling salt in an iron pot is only 10 catties and 20 catties at a time, and boiling salt in a special bamboo pot can produce nearly 1,000 catties of salt at a time! So many products instantly flooded Gala Cave, so that the most conservative and stingy Yi people have to admit that feeding cattle and sheep with fine salt is not an excessive extravagance and waste, but ...... Restore the world to its original form?
They hadn't thought about it that much, all they thought about was how not to be crushed by the white gold gushing out of the ground!
Hua Lin taught them a new way of fishing, straight hook fishing.
The method is to cut the hollow reed into knuckle length sections, then take the thinnest bamboo swords left over from the bamboo pot, bend them and stuff them into the reed, and then thread the reed on the line and hang it down into the water.
Once the fish mistake the reed for a falling leaf and swallow it, the reed will break and the hidden bamboo strip will bounce open and string the fish on the fishing line.
In this way, the Yi people could make reeds with bamboo strips after dark, cast the fishing line at dawn, and then go about the day's work, and when it was getting late and the sun did not allow them to work, they would return to the place where they had cast their fishing lines in the morning, and harvest the day's catch, and send them to the kitchen, or boil or fry, and enrich the meal, and if there was any surplus, now they would not worry that the chimneys would not be enough, and they had salt!
In the past, it was a pleasure to sprinkle a few grains of salt on the fish, but now, without hesitation, they stuff the poor fish directly into the salt packet, and the distress is not the salt used but the reduced amount of the fish after marinating.
There's so much salt that it's so much that it's visible to the naked eye! It's so much that people have to find a way to dispose of it!
The cooks of Gala Cave had to cook for thousands of people, but after they had tried to use up the two gourds of salt for two days, the people had changed from their initial euphoria to a threat to hang them all on the tree of Pai Gang Toast while the moon was dark and the wind was high! They had to reduce the amount of salt they used, of course, much more than before, but it was obvious to the naked eye that they could not digest so much salt by eating it themselves.
Hualin's new measure: Ordering them to brush their teeth with twigs dipped in salt, using up some of the salt that is insignificant to the yield, even Paigang Toast questioned whether it was too much to try to consume their salt production in this way.
Eventually, the Gala Cave and the newly built thatched hut warehouse were filled with salt, a material that was once considered invaluable to Paegang Toast.
Paigang Toast, who knew very well how much he had paid to exchange for salt before, fell into a state of crying and laughing in the face of an inventory that could not be consumed, and he once thought that he was very smart! It turned out that he only needed to do this and this again to save the slaves and exchange them for some truly precious materials, how could he not have thought of it in the past! The information of the place where the beast was keen to appear was still given to Hua Lin, why didn't he think much about it!
He thought that he didn't have to think too much, just send people out to plunder slaves and livestock, and he could exchange salt from those merchants, so why bother to study how to get salt without going through the merchants!
As a result, what he thought was a shortcut was actually a long one.
"Send someone to exchange. Faced with the salt overflowing the warehouse, Hua Lin did not order to stop the production of salt, but issued a new order: "In the past, merchants exchanged salt for half price, and there is no customer in this world who can't win it at half price. ”
Paigang Tusi was appointed as the leader of the newly established caravan because of his frequent dealings with merchants outside the mountain, and Shakumen was also appointed as a member of the caravan because he led Lu Deli before.
A caravan full of salt bags set out from Gala Cave, and their goal was - "No tooth decay!"
It's wrong, it's to let the people of Yishan live a good life with salt to eat even their cattle and sheep!