"What do you mean, husband?"
Cao Jie didn't understand what he meant.
Su Yi shuffled the cards and said,"The sea salt of Xuzhou is in the hands of the Mi family. Now that the price has suddenly increased by three times, it is naturally Liu Bei's intention. He wants to take advantage of the moment when the Hedong salt is cut off to make a huge profit."”
Cao Jie came to a realization and frowned."With the soaring price of salt, the people must suffer. Didn't Liu Xuande always think of himself as a benevolent person? How could he be so cruel?”
"Benevolence?"
Su Yi smiled disdainfully,"Benevolence and righteousness are just a business. Whether we talk about it or not depends on how much we can earn. Now that Liu Bei is raising an army of ten thousand, can benevolence and righteousness be used to pay those soldiers?"”
Cao Jie's body trembled slightly. He thought to himself that his husband's evaluation of Liu Bei seemed to be very different from the evaluation of others.
"Sigh, I wonder when the salt pond in the east of the river will resume its supply of salt.”
Cao Jie sighed faintly, seemingly in no mood to continue playing mahjong.
Suddenly.
Su Yi shuffled the cards halfway and stopped.
"Young Master, are we still playing mahjong?”
Da Qiao saw that he was suddenly lost in thought and asked in a low voice.
"Hualala!"
Su Yi overturned the cards that he had placed and smiled."The opportunity to make a fortune has come. Earning money is more important than playing mahjong!”
"A chance to make a fortune?"
The eyes of Da Qiao and the other two women flickered as they looked at Su Yi.
Zhou Tai's eyes lit up and he said happily,""Li Heng, what kind of profitable business have you thought of again?”
"Two words, selling salt!"
Su Yi raised two fingers.
"Selling salt?"
Zhou Tai's excitement turned into confusion, but he said,""Selling salt now is a huge profit, but the salt pond in the east of the river has been cut off, and the sea salt in Xuzhou is in the hands of the Mi Family.”
"Who says we don't have a supply?"
"If I remember correctly, there are a few salt mines near Xu County. There are salt blocks all over the mountains and plains.”
"There are salt mines near Xu City?"
Zhou Tai was a foreigner, so he didn't know much about Xu City's geography.
Cao Jie said," There are a few salt mines near Xudu, but I heard from my father that they are all salt. They are poisonous and cannot be used as table salt."”
Everyone came to a sudden realization.
Not to mention Zhou Tai and Xu Chu, even a rich young lady like Da Qiao knew that salt was different from table salt. It was mostly used for medicinal purposes and could not be eaten.
Su Yi did not think much of it and said,"Since the salt is poisonous, then we can just extract non-toxic salt."”
Everyone was shocked, and they looked at Su Yi in surprise.
"Husband, since ancient times, it has never been heard that salt can be extracted from salt.”
Cao Jie looked at him and asked.
Su Yi smiled faintly,"Since ancient times, there has never been a person like me, your husband."”
Cao Jie was shocked again. His eyes flickered with suspicion and surprise as he sized up his husband.
"Xu Zhongkang!"
Su Yi suddenly shouted.
"Old Xu is here, what orders does Young Master have?”
Xu Chu, who had been silent all this while, quickly went forward and said.
Su Yi waved his hand and said,"Bring your brothers and immediately go to the nearby salt mine. Bring back as many ores as you have. The more, the better."”
"I'll go right away." Xu Chu did not ask further and cupped his hands.”
"You Ping."
Su Yi then looked at Zhou Tai."Immediately build a few tents in the open space outside the village. Prepare enough buckets and build more than ten stoves. Prepare enough iron pots and firewood."”
"I'll do it now."
Although Zhou Tai was suspicious, he still obeyed.
Su Yi called for a pen and paper. He wrote down more than ten materials and handed them to Cao Jie."I will have to trouble Furen to make a trip to Xudu and purchase all of these things for me. The more, the better.”
Cao Jie took the list and looked at it a few times. The confusion on his face increased.
"Husband, why do you want us to do these things?”
Cao Jie could not help but ask.
Everyone looked at Su Yi with puzzled gazes, waiting for their young master to give them a reasonable explanation.
"Didn't I say it before? I want to extract salt from the salt!”
Su Yi took a sip of wine and said casually.
"Refining salt from salt is something that has never happened since ancient times. Could it be that he can really do it?”
Everyone looked at each other, their suspicious eyes revealing a hint of surprise.
In the next few days, Cao Jie, Zhou Tai, and the others could only be skeptical and follow Su Yi's instructions.
Shops were set up, and carts of salt ore were transported back, piling up like a mountain in the shacks.
Everything was ready. Su Yi rolled up his sleeves and personally demonstrated.
He first smashed the salt mine into small pieces, then poured them into the stone mill, grinding them into powder and spilling them out.
After that, he poured the mineral powder into a wooden bucket and added water to stir it, allowing the salt powder to completely fuse into the water.
Next, he poured the salt water into another wooden barrel covered with two layers of linen.
Soon, a large area of grayish-black slag was filtered out from the linen cloth.
After removing the linen, the salt water in the bucket turned brown.
After that, the salt water was filtered repeatedly with four layers of linen cloth until only a light red solution was left.
After several rounds of filtering, the salt water was finally detoxified.
Then, he wrapped the charcoal particles in linen and stuffed them into the bottom of the funnel. Then, he used the funnel to slowly seep out the filtered liquid, obtaining light green salt water.
Finally, he poured the mixed salt water into the iron pot and boiled it.
He worked from early morning to evening. Finally, the first pot of green salt was freshly served.
Su Yi scraped off a small piece and tasted it. The taste was not bad, and he had succeeded.
"Hmm, it seems that this 'salt making method' is not useless!”
Su Yi secretly sighed.
He turned around to look at everyone and asked,"The salt is out of the pot. Who wants to taste it?"”
Everyone looked at each other, not daring to try.
"Let me do it. At most, I'll be poisoned to death!”
Zhou Tai was bold. He rolled up his sleeves, scraped off a large piece of green salt, and put it into his mouth.
After smacking his lips a few times, Zhou Tai's eyes suddenly widened and he shouted in ecstasy,""The taste of this green salt is even better than the sea salt of Xuzhou!”
In the shed, it instantly exploded.
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