Li Er: " Nonsense. I've seen refined salt before. It's not like this."”
"Yo, Li Er, you've seen refined salt?"”
Cheng Wu, Cheng Dali, Li Congming, and Xiao Pei all looked at Li Er.
You were the one who wanted us to hide our identities.
If you let it slip…
Li Er: " I'm a businessman. It's normal for me to have seen refined salt.”
"In the past, when I was in Wuyuan, I saw the refined salt that was provided to the royal family to rinse their mouths. The grains were bigger than this, and they were colored, not snow-white.”
Fang Yang nodded." Oh, that's mineral salt. It's a natural salt mine with extremely high purity. It's refined salt after being ground into powder."”
"You know about this too?"
"Is this some kind of secret?"”
Li Er: " Uh…the mouthwash that the royal family uses is, of course, a secret.”
"You've seen it, so what's so strange about me seeing it?" Fang Yang patted Li Er's shoulder.”
Li Er: …I'm f * cking lying. If I were an ordinary businessman, how could I have seen refined salt?
Fang Yang: " The mineral salt is bitter and cannot be eaten. It can only be used to rinse your mouth. However, the mineral salt with large granules can be eaten, but it is also very bitter.”
"It's better than edible salt.”
Fang Yang: "Right, Marquis Zhuge used marsh gas (in ancient times, it referred to natural gas) to burn salt. It's in the south of Chengdu, Yizhou…"
"Yi County, Rongzhou."
Fang Yang: " Yes, doesn't Yi County produce well salt? That's refined salt."”
If Cheng Wu had not mentioned it, Fang Yang would not have known what Zigong was called in the Tang Empire.
Li Er: " You might not know this, but the salt well in Yi County has already been fully exploited. Unless a better drilling method can be invented, there is no way to extract new salt water. Fuyi County stopped producing salt more than 70 years ago. The production was so small that the tribute wells had already stopped working.”
Fang Yang nodded in realization. That's right, Zigong's salt wells encountered a huge problem during the Sui and Tang Dynasties and quickly declined. It was not until the Song Dynasty that new drilling technology was invented that they began to mine again.
Later on, in the Qing Dynasty, the drilling had already reached a depth of 1,000 meters.
Therefore, Zigong was later said to be a thousand-year-old salt well.
Zigong Zigong referred to self-use and tribute, meaning that the salt produced could be supplied to Yizhou for self-use and the royal family.
It seemed that there was a problem with the Great Tang's salt.
Fang Yang: " I extracted this refined salt from coarse salt. The method is very simple. It's just that the salt maker hasn't thought of it yet.”
After the crude salt was extracted, it could be purified by adding water and boiling it again, regardless of whether it was dried in seawater or something else.
Of course, because there were other things in the seawater, it was impossible to eat them directly. Eating them would cause kidney failure.
Although the ancients could not summarize the term organ failure, they also knew that this disease existed.
As a result, the Great Tang's salt was all coarse salt, and there was no way to make fine salt.
"This is good stuff." As she spoke, she dipped her lips into the water and ate a little.
"Mm, it's not bitter at all. This taste is too good!”"If I sell it for money…" Li Er was surprised.
"Stop!" "Li Er, I think you're complaining that you have too many brains and too long a life." Fang Yang interrupted.”
"Previously, the imperial court didn't control the iron business.”
"Salt is something that will definitely kill you if you touch it. How many brains do you have?”
Li Er was stunned for a moment before remembering that although the Great Tang did not pay much attention to the salt business, it did prohibit private business.
Li Er: " How about this? You tell me the method and I'll use it myself. I'll also eat refined salt. The coarse salt is too bitter."”
Fang Yang: " No, I think you have ulterior motives. If the authorities find out and implicate me, I don't have enough brains!"”
Li Er shot himself in the foot.
"Actually…"
Li Er stomped on Li Congming's foot under the table.
"Ah!"
"Actually what?" Fang Yang turned around. Don't shout when you're eating."
"Yes, Master." "I mean, there's no need to be afraid of getting burned.”
"Oh?" Tell me."
" Our family has been doing business for many years," Li Congming said." We know some people in the government. We just need to tell them the method of extracting refined salt from coarse salt."”
"Firstly, we can inform the Imperial Court of the method and make friends with the Imperial Court, so that we won't be unable to find anyone to help us when we need help.”
"Secondly, we've already told the Imperial Court about the method. We can make our own refined salt and eat it ourselves. There won't be any problems.”
Fang Yang nodded." That's true. No matter how much money you earn, it's not good to lose your life."”
"How about this, Li Er? I'll tell you the method. When you go back, you can use your method to send it to the Imperial Court. This way, I'll have an extra amulet, right?”
Li Er: " That's a good idea, that's a good idea.”
Fang Yang told him the method to extract the refined salt.
Li Eryi was dumbfounded.”
"Just this? That simple? Just add water and boil it? It's done?"
"Just boil it and it will naturally condense into fine salt?”
Fang Yang didn't mind." That's right. How hard can it be? Do you have to send salt up to the sky and then drop it back down to become fine salt?"”
"Damn it, those officials from the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Revenue can't even think of such a small solution?"”
Fang Yang: " Li Er, do you not want your head anymore? How dare you scold an official?"”
Li Er was speechless.
Cheng Wu: " Actually, it's not the fault of the officials from the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Works. We've been eating salt for thousands of years, but we've never seen anyone invent a way to extract fine salt to remove impurities. If everyone has a brain as powerful as Little Fang, then the world will change.”
Li Er thought for a moment.”
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