Chapter 102: Salt Making!
It's no wonder that even people like Liu Bowen were stunned on the spot.
You must know that not only in the Han Dynasty, but also in the three major dynasties of Li Tang, Great Song Dynasty, Ming and Zhu, salt making is also a secret art, and it is generally in the hands of the royal family.
Now Wen Hao said that he can make salt, and he has found a lot of things, Liu Bowen can not be surprised.
However, the surprise also aroused Liu Bowen's curiosity, and he really wanted to see if his lord could make salt.
The efficiency of the small soldiers is very high, in less than half an hour, everything Wen Hao wants has been prepared, and even the charcoal has been burned.
"Lord, this is what you want......"
Finally, when Yu Shan rushed back with two large bags of white powder and broken stones scraped off the stone wall,
Wen Hao no longer hesitated to start making salt in public.
Here, when he heard that his lord could make salt, not only Guan Yu and Zhang Fei came over, but even Dian Wei, who was guarding Crouching Tiger Pass, also rushed over.
They also want to see what their lord is capable of,
If you can really make salt, it will be a big thing, and it will be difficult for Crouching Tiger Pass not to rise.
"Wait, lord, if you really make salt, you might as well retreat from everyone, after all, this is a secret art....."
Seeing Wen Hao's unabashedly beginning, Liu Bowen hurriedly spoke.
"It's okay, it's all your own people, you can also take a look, maybe you will use it in the future!"
In Wen Hao's opinion, this is just a wilderness survival skill, not a secret art....
Besides, the people here are all their own people, and there is no problem with loyalty.
"Yes, my lord!"
Seeing Wen Hao so casual, Liu Bowen muttered in his heart,
"It is estimated that the lord is not very sure, otherwise how would he show this top-level secret technique in front of everyone...."
"Put this crushed stone powder in a stone mill! Add water, push and grind!"
After everything was ready, Wen Hao began to order.
Two baskets of gravel and powder were slowly poured into the grinding eye.
After the stone mill was pushed and turned several times, the gravel mixed with the powder and mud flowed out along the edging.
Then, Wen Hao stretched two layers of linen cloth on the mouth of the wooden barrel and placed it under the stone grinding tank.
The outflow of gravel and powder mud was poured on the linen, and most of the stuff was isolated,
Only some yellow-brown liquid flowed into the barrel.
Here, the stone mill keeps grinding the white powder of the gravel,
On the other side, Wen Hao smashed the burned charcoal into small pieces with a hammer, and then grinded it again, and then wrapped it layer by layer with linen.
Immediately afterward, he quietly summoned the universal hoe, and then transformed the universal into a funnel-like thing.
Layer by layer, Wen Hao carefully filled the charcoal boys wrapped in linen, and did not stop until they were almost filled.
By this time, the two bags of powder had been ground and the yellow-brown liquid that had flowed down filled a whole vat.
Without saying anything more, Wen Hao propped the funnel on top of the cauldron, and then slowly poured the yellow-brown liquid into the funnel.
Drip!
Due to the large size of the funnel, it took half a column of incense to drip a drop of slightly white-green liquid into the iron pot.
Subsequently, more and more liquid dripped into the pot, more and more,
It wasn't until there was almost half a pot that Wen Hao asked people to remove the stand.
"Boil the water in the pot until it's dry!"
Wen Hao gave an order, and a pile of dry firewood was ignited.
At this time, the people were already dumbfounded, they didn't understand why they used charcoal, they didn't know why they used sackcloth,
But can you really make salt this way?
This doesn't seem to be a secret art, as long as anyone has the strength to do it.
It's no wonder that everyone has such a reaction, salt making is the most mysterious thing in their hearts....
In fact, Wen Hao's salt-making method seems simple, but people who don't know really can't learn it.
The people of the Han Dynasty didn't know the function of charcoal at all, and they didn't know that the white fluffy thing on the stone wall was coarse salt....
Combined, it's not a secret art.
One stick of incense, two sticks of incense! The fire under the iron pot is getting stronger and stronger.
With Wen Hao's order, the soldiers did not dare to slack off, and the dry firewood was bundled one after another.....
It wasn't until an hour later that the water in the country was about to bottom out, and by this time the edges of the iron pot were already covered with small white particles.
After another half an hour, there was no drop of water in the iron pot at all, and Wen Hao ordered the little soldiers to stop.
The wind blows, cools.
Dangdang!
When Wen Hao poured all the white powder in the pot into a cloth bag that had been prepared a long time ago,
Then he shouted that everyone could come and taste it.
"Is this salt?"
To Wen Hao's surprise, all the generals, including Liu Bowen, showed puzzled expressions on their faces.
Seeing this, Wen Hao was stunned at first, and then laughed dumbly.
It turned out that in the Han Dynasty, due to limited technology, they ate some yellow granular salt, but now when they see such white and fine particles, of course they will not recognize it.
But since Wen Hao let them taste it, they didn't dare not taste it, right?
Liu Bowen took the lead and dipped a little bit of his finger on the tip of his tongue.
It doesn't matter if you taste it, Liu Bowen's eyes immediately widened, and his face was full of disbelief.
"Lord, this is really salt, and it's the best ....... salt!"
Even if it was a top strategist like him, he almost jumped up without excitement at the moment.
The kind of salt they usually eat has a bitter taste in addition to being salty.
Sometimes they really don't want to eat that salt if it's not for it.
But now Wen Hao has made salt, which is simply salty....There is no other strange taste, even if it is the best salt, it is not an exaggeration.
The other generals saw Liu Bowen's reaction and immediately followed suit.
Soon, several people's faces showed the same expressions as Liu Bowen.
"Big brother, this is really salt..... why is it ..... with what we eat?" Dian Wei and the others are really blind.
How many years had they lived, and for the first time they knew that salt could grow like this, and it didn't smell any strange.
The most important thing is that this salt was made casually with the most ordinary things!
In the huge Crouching Tiger Mountains, there is too much white powder on the stone wall, which means that there is no need to worry about the lack of salt in the Crouching Tiger Pass......
"Pass the order, if anyone who sees the process of making salt in the main metric today, if anyone dares to leak it out without permission, there will be no mercy! And the soldiers who participated in the salt making today are not allowed to leave Crouching Tiger Pass for half a step.....
However, at this time, Liu Bowen suddenly thought of something and hurriedly spoke.
Hearing this, Dian Wei and the others also nodded heavily.
With the secret method of salt making, Crouching Tiger Pass can do many, many things, but once this method is leaked, it is not worth much.
When Wen Hao heard this, he didn't stop it and didn't care too much.
There is a system, whether it is a soldier or a soldier, he is a diehard loyalist, and there is almost no possibility of leaking out.
But now that you know the importance of salt, it's not a bad idea to be careful.
ps: Brothers, this salt-making process is only applicable to the Xianwu Continent, and the earth can't be made without aura, and don't try it, don't try... Don't try.....