Chapter 168

"Chang sun Chong"

In the ink mansion, Merton's face was dignified! Unexpectedly, the two of them joined hands.

"If Huaiyu hadn't stopped there, I would have smashed the broken shop!" Chumo said angrily.

Wei Chi Baolin raised his hand angrily and waved his fist.

"Chang sun Yin people are there, we can't take advantage of them!" Qin Huaiyu shook her head and said. In their circle, Chang sun Chong is the most insidious and has many means. If they rush, they will be caught in the trap.

"Huaiyu is right!" Merton nodded. Among the three, Qin Huaiyu knows the advance and retreat best.

He had seen the means of Chang sun Chong. If he hadn't been better at it last time, he might have really lost his reputation.

"Should they be allowed to bully us like this?" Wei Chi Baolin said angrily. He was the most upright and couldn't stand it.

"Isn't it salt? What a big thing, can't you eat salt without his king's family!" Merton said indifferently.

Qin Huaiyu shook his head and said, "you don't know, although I don't monopolize salt and iron in the Tang Dynasty, there are strict restrictions on the salt administration in each place. The fine salt in other places has basically improved to Chang'an city."

Salt tax has always been a great source of finance. Although there was no salt and iron official camp in Zhenguan period, it was impossible for the imperial court to let go of such huge wealth. The salt administration in each place was strictly divided in order to levy taxes.

Since Wang Zhe started his horse, he must have been sure of this, so he had no fear.

"Since the Wang family doesn't sell fine salt and fine salt from other places can't come in, we can make salt ourselves!" Merton sneered.

"Make your own salt?"

Qin Huaiyu and the three immediately looked at Merton and looked suspicious. Should Merton even know this!

Merton smiled and didn't explain, but directly led the three people to the back kitchen of the ink house.

As soon as he got to the kitchen door, Qin Huaiyu saw several sacks of salt stacked at the kitchen door.

"Is this coarse salt?" Chumo leaned over, picked up a large salt grain, put it in his mouth and tasted it. Suddenly, Chumo spit out his tongue bitterly.

"Not only crude salt, but also Yuncheng crude salt!" Merton said.

"Morton, don't you want to grind these coarse salt into fine salt?" Chumo asked. The taste of coarse salt is so bad that even he can distinguish it, let alone others.

"Of course not?" Merton said angrily.

"Then what's going on?" Qin Huaiyu wondered.

"The biggest difference between coarse salt and fine salt is that there are many impurities. If we remove the impurities of coarse salt, we get naturally pure fine salt," Merton explained.

The three suddenly realized that Merton's plan was really ready to make his own salt.

"Master, three young masters!" Xu Jie came out of the kitchen and bowed.

"How's everything going?" Merton asked.

"Tell the owner that everything is ready!" Xu Jie said.

Qin Huaiyu followed Merton into the back kitchen curiously, and found that the back kitchen was full of pots and pans. A big pot had already been put up, and the fire was raging inside.

This time, with Qin Huaiyu's three free labor forces, Merton didn't use the people of the Mohist village at all, and the three were always extraordinarily interested in Merton's experiment and let Merton drive them.

Under the command of Merton, Wei Chi Baolin grabbed the coarse salt bag and poured the large coarse salt directly into the water basin. It soon melted and disappeared, and the clear water gradually became turbid.

"Keep pouring!" Merton looked at the water tank. The salt had almost melted. He motioned Wei Chi Baolin to continue pouring the crude salt until the crude salt no longer melted and the salt water was saturated.

"To make fine salt, filter out the sediment!" Merton explained.

One of the most criticisms of crude salt is its bitter taste. The other is that it has a lot of sediment. You can chew a grain of sand when you eat it, not to mention how sour it is.

Qin Huaiyu takes out an empty basin and covers it with 50% linen. Chumo and Wei Chi Baolin jointly lift the brine basin and pour it on the linen. The linen absorbs sediment and the clean water seeps into the empty basin. After repeating this three times, they finally get the clear brine.

"That's all right?" Qin Huaiyu said excitedly, only feeling that it was too simple.

Merton shook his head and said, "of course not. This is just the first step. Don't look at the clear salt water. In fact, there are a lot of impurities in it."

Crude salt contains other soluble substances, and the biggest problem of Yuncheng pool salt is the high content of magnesium, which seriously affects the taste. Just in the purification experiment, the simplest step is this step.

Merton picked up a limestone already prepared and put it into a basin of clean water. It was boiling immediately.

After a burst of boiling, the limestone quickly turned into lime slurry. After the lime water became clear, Merton carefully poured the upper lime water into the salt water.

The salt water became turbid again, and then clarified again soon. Only a thin layer of white sediment was left on the basin. The salt water on the upper layer was poured out. Merton put a spoonful of alkaline surface into the salt water again, and the salt water became turbid again. After clarification, a layer of white sediment is left on the bottom of the basin again.

When he poured out the clarified brine again, Merton finally breathed a sigh of relief. Due to the limitations of conditions, there was no precise device, which could only be estimated.

A pot of salt water was poured into the pot, and the raging fire burned. Soon, the salt water boiled, and a thin layer of salt crystals appeared on the whole water surface. The whole kitchen can ask for a strong salty taste.

"That's all right?"

Qin Huaiyu stared at Merton to finish all this. Although they didn't understand the principle, they always had a feeling of ignorance.

There is no need for Merton to operate the rest. He will directly hand it over to Xu Jie.

Within half an hour, Xu Jie appeared in front of Merton with a happy face.

"Master! Three young masters." Xu Jie took a stack of snow-white fine salt and handed it to the four people.

"It's really fine salt!" Chumo pinches a little and puts it into his mouth. Suddenly, a salty taste rushes into the taste bud. There is no bitterness of coarse salt at all. It tastes better.

"Hahaha, I'll see how Chang sun Chong and Wang Zhe break our salt! The fish champion is saved!" Wei Chi Baolin said excitedly. The Taiyuan Wangs may have a monopoly on fine salt, but they can't reach the coarse salt.

"No, it's better than Yuncheng fine salt!" Qin Huaiyu shook his head. He had seen Yuncheng fine salt with his own eyes, far from the white salt in front of him.

Merton looked at the white salt grain in front of him. I'm afraid it's the purest salt in the world! Yuncheng fine salt is just brine with good quality and does not have much technical content.

"This is a brand-new salt, please name it!" Xu Jie said excitedly. Salt has always been a huge profit, and such pure salt is in short supply. It is conceivable that once this salt appears in Chang'an market, it will cause a sensation.

In order to distinguish from Yuncheng fine salt, Xu Jie thought of another name for the first time and set up another signboard.

"In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Xie Taifu once collected women's generals on a snowy day. The duke said, 'what's the difference between heavy snow and heavy snow!'" brother Zi said: 'sprinkle salt in the air! You can imitate it!' predecessors compared salt to snow. Today salt is better than snow! Just call it snow salt! "Merton thought.

"Snow salt!"

"OK! It's called snow salt!"

"Wang Zhe is stupid this time! He still wants to break our salt. As soon as the snow salt comes out, I see how he cries!"

Qin Huaiyu raised his eyebrows and vomited his airway. The previous resentment was immediately cleared away.

"How much is lost in refining snow salt?" Merton asked.

"Tell the owner that the loss is less than 30%," Xu Jie replied. Merton uses processed crude salt with high salt content.

In other words, ten kilograms of crude salt can be refined into at least eight kilograms of snow salt. With the consumption of lime water, alkali and labor, it is also a huge profit. Mojia village has added a daily gold business.

"Write down all these steps and let Uncle Zhang continue to test the addition ratio of lime water and alkaline water, so as to achieve the best. First refine enough snow salt for standby." Merton ordered.

"Yes, boss!" Xu Jie said excitedly. Merton let him participate in the refining of snow and salt. Obviously, he didn't regard it as an outsider, which moved him.

"The fish champion building?" Qin Huaiyu asked.

"Close the business temporarily, and give them a surprise when the Mohist food city opens!" Merton sneered.

"Hey, hey!" Qin Huaiyu and the three of them immediately smiled insidiously. They were looking forward to such a situation.