Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 828 Haiyan wins over snow
The workers rushed into the salt pond excitedly, first opened the valve beside the pond, and let the bittern that would not continue to crystallize into the sea salt flow into the sea along the salt ditch, what was left at the bottom of the pool was a little bit of sticky bittern mixed with it. grain of salt.

At the top of a long wooden stick is a plank that is pushed up horizontally. Push it hard like pushing snow on the bottom of the pool, and the crystallized sea salt will be pushed up...

The sea salt piled together contains bittern, which is sticky and unsightly, but as the bittern gradually flows out, the little water left by the sun will evaporate, and the piles of black salt piles will become dark. Be white and dazzling.

When the sun shines, sea salt beats snow!
As the bittern in the crystallization pool slowly dries up, the remaining salt grains at the bottom of the pool are also gradually drying up, like the bitter frost after autumn and the thin snow in winter, all white.Regardless of the shock in their hearts, the laborers used bamboo brooms to sweep up the remaining layer of sea salt at the bottom of the pool and put them into piles of snow-white salt, and then used a dustpan to load them on a wheelbarrow that was different from the past. .Carloads of sea salt were transported to the open space behind the crystallization pond with a concrete floor, and they were easily piled up into a hill.

A salt mountain as white as snow!

When the last load of sea salt is pushed out of the salt pond and piled up on the salt mountain, the laborers open the gate above the crystallization pond, and the brine that has been filtered by sedimentation and dried in the sun for several days flows into the pond again. pool sea salt.

When all the procedures were completed, all the laborers wiped their sweat, and the gentry merchants opened their mouths, staring blankly at the salt mountain that reflected the white light in the sun!
Is this... the salt? !

You can hardly believe your eyes...

Since ancient times, boiling sea salt has been used for a long time.

Farmers cook salt by themselves, or cook salt for aristocratic families. The whole family goes to the mountains to cut firewood and fetch seawater. Each pot can only hold [-] catties of seawater at most. It's done, only a catty...

The local peasant households are better off. Exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes are added, and their own family has to eat a catty. After hard work, there is not much left every month.Moreover, seawater is highly corrosive, and the iron quality of the iron pot is not good. If the iron pot is boiled too many times, it will burn through the bottom of the pot if you are not careful, which is another expensive expense.

As for the laborers who work for the aristocratic families, they are even more hard-working. The salt they worked so hard for is not their own. Return a little food to wrap the belly, the whole family can't eat enough...

But take a look at the scene in front of you. Some pools were dug on the beach, and they were basking in the sun. People went down and raised them with rakes and swept them with brooms. Such a mountain of salt was easily obtained. Wouldn’t it be tens of thousands of catties of sea salt?

When the laborers think of their hard work in the past, they really want to cry; suddenly they think that there will be such a good method in the future, and they can easily obtain sea salt. Although the salt is not their own, but such an easy job can make a full meal. But they were all ecstatic.

And those gentry merchants were all dumbfounded, stunned, with mixed feelings in their hearts.

Huanxi is naturally happy, such a light and easy way of making salt, compared with the output promised by Fang Jun at the beginning, will not be less, and this investment will naturally make a lot of money.

But there are also many people who regret and are unwilling!

The production of sea salt is indeed quite a lot, and this transaction is worthwhile. Even if you borrow a large amount of money from the "bank" and pay a large amount of interest every month and every year, you can still make a lot of money.

But the problem is so simple and extremely simple, why didn't I think of it before?The history of many gentry and merchants boiling sea salt can be traced back to their ancestors hundreds of years ago. If they knew this method of drying salt from then on, what amazing wealth would they have accumulated over the years? ?

The most resentful thing for everyone is that - just build a few pools by the sea, fill them with seawater and wait for the sun to dry the seawater, such a fool can make salt, this hateful Fang Jun actually did it Take tens of millions of wealth into your arms?
How come robbing the palace is not as fast as this...

Fang Jun looked at the mountain of sea salt that was as white as snow, full of pride and pride!
Each salt field is bounded by a salt ditch, about one mile in length and width, and covers an area of ​​about half a square kilometer. It is divided into countless sedimentation ponds, evaporation ponds, and crystallization ponds.This place is far away from the estuary of the Yangtze River. It is a corner of Huating Town extending in the sea. It is surrounded by flat rivers and is unobstructed. In summer, the wind is strong and the seawater evaporates easily.It is only affected by the rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River, and the output is affected during this time period.

Even so, according to observation records, now is the time of the year when the temperature is the highest. On sunny days, about 0.2 millimeters of seawater can be evaporated every day, and a salt field can evaporate [-] tons of seawater.The proportion of salt in seawater is about [-]%, and [-] tons of sea salt can be produced.

There is no reference, and Fang Jun does not know how much the weight of a catty in the Tang Dynasty is different from that of later generations. Based on the calculation of a catty, thirty catties is a Jun, and four Jun is a stone. Since a stone is a dendrobium, it is 120 catties. Five thousand dendrobiums of sea salt are produced...

Naturally, the sun can’t shine like this every day, and the sea breeze is blowing. Except for cloudy days and rainy days and low winter temperatures and slow evaporation, it can produce 40 million dendrobium sea salt a year.

At the beginning, Fang Jun promised that each salt field would produce [-] dendrobium of sea salt per year. Now it seems that Fang Jun made a mistake in his calculation, and the output was much higher than expected.

Is it a disadvantage?
Fang Jun didn't think so.

No matter what era it is, salt is the most important basis for survival just like food.People will starve to death without food, and they can't live without salt!Salt is not only an important condiment, but also an indispensable substance to maintain the normal development of the human body.

Salt regulates the balanced distribution of water in the human body, maintains the osmotic pressure inside and outside the cells, participates in the formation of gastric acid, promotes the secretion of digestive juice, and can increase appetite; at the same time, it also ensures the pH necessary for the action of pepsin and maintains the balance of pH in the body. and normal circulation of body fluids.

It is impossible for people not to eat salt. Eating too little salt will also cause low sodium content in the body, loss of appetite, weakness of limbs, dizziness and other phenomena; in severe cases, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, rapid heart rate, weak pulse, muscle fatigue, etc. will also occur. Symptoms include cramps, blurred vision, and decreased reflexes.

However, since ancient times, the official operation of table salt has not only enriched the country's finances, but has failed to allow more people to eat high-quality salt. Official salt is too expensive, and most of the salt that circulates among the people is private.However, in the early Tang Dynasty, there was no official salt management, but most of the people could afford salt, and the price of salt was not high. This shows that whether the people can afford salt has nothing to do with whether it is monopolized by the state.On the contrary, due to the monopoly of the state, the price of salt has skyrocketed, and the people have suffered...

What kind of way is the most normal?
Without a doubt, competition!

Competition can improve product quality, reduce product prices, and directly benefit the people!
The more salt is produced, the cheaper the price will be, so that ordinary people can afford salt!

So presumably, what is the loss of some money?
Not to mention that Fang Jun originally planned to cede this interest to the emperor and the merchants of the Jiangnan gentry, so as to divide the alliance of the Jiangnan gentry.

People with a keen mind and a flexible mind have estimated the huge pile of sea salt and roughly calculated the income that a salt farm can get each year.

In addition to being excited, he also became more in awe of Fang Jun.

This is not awe of Fang Jun's method of turning stones into gold, but the wealth Fang Jun created for the emperor.The gentry merchants present at the scene, because of the restrictions on the purchase of shares in the salt farm, at most occupied a third of a salt farm, but what about the emperor?

There are five salt fields!
How much wealth is this?

Dedicating such a huge amount of wealth to the emperor, what kind of status will Fang Jun, who is already much loved, be in the eyes of the emperor?

The number one minister of the Tang Dynasty may not be counted, but the number one favorite minister of the Tang Dynasty, who else is there?
Your Majesty is now at the peak of his spring and autumn, and Fang Jun's backing is as solid as a rock; even if the throne is passed on in the future, the relationship between Fang Jun and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will also be unbreakable!
It is almost conceivable that as long as Fang Jun doesn't risk his life and run to rebel, he will be the emperor's most trusted and favored minister in the next few decades...

Who can shake such a stable position?
This is a thigh that can't be thicker, the sooner you hug it, the higher the return.On the other hand, whoever offends him, even if he doesn't kill you, will not live a good life for decades...

(End of this chapter)