Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 6, The Way to Get Rich
Liu Jin gently buckled a little coarse salt, and then put it in his mouth to taste it.

"Bah~"

Soon, Liu Jin vomited it out.

The taste of this coarse salt is really bad. The snow-white and snow-white refined salt of later generations tastes only salty and does not have any other impurities. accounted for the bulk.

"This salt is so hard to eat."

Liu Jin spat several mouthfuls of saliva, and couldn't help saying at the same time.

"Of course the sea salt we cook is not as good as the pool salt in Shaanxi and Shanxi, nor the well salt in Sichuan, let alone the green salt that only rich landlords can afford."

"This sea salt is sold in the market for sixty or seventy yuan a catty, but this pool salt and well salt cost hundreds of yuan a catty. The best green salt is said to cost two to three hundred yuan a catty. It is incomparable and incomparable. .”

"But although the pool salt, well salt, and green salt are good, their output is not much, especially this green salt, the output is extremely low. Although our sea salt tastes bad, the output is very high."

Hearing Liu Jin's words, Zhao Heishan smiled, showing black and white teeth, and said all kinds of salt.

"This salt is also divided into pond salt, well salt, and green salt?"

Hearing Zhao Heishan's words, Liu Jin was slightly taken aback.

Naturally, he who came from later generations has never heard of the difference between this salt. He only knows that this salt is divided into iodized salt and non-iodized salt. He grew up eating iodized salt since he was a child. He just knows that eating iodized salt can prevent big neck disease .

"Of course, the salt produced in different places is completely different. Even if it is all sea salt, the sea salt in different places is also different."

"The sea salt we cook in Changli is white with yellow, and the sea salt produced in Shandong is white with red. They are different. This pool salt and well salt are also different. Pool salt is salt made from brine mined from a saltwater lake. , well salt is mined from brine wells, and sea salt is cooked from sea brine made from seawater, each type of salt is different.”

Although Zhao Heishan was a farmer, he knew a lot about salt, which made Liu Jin very curious and asked after thinking about it.

"Uncle Heishan, where did you know these things?"

"At first I didn't know about these things. The salt dealers who came to our village to collect salt told us. They have traveled all over the world, they are well-informed, and they do this for a living. Naturally, it is clear."

"These salt dealers each have their own territory, and the salt produced in each territory is also different. Sometimes you can tell if someone has crossed the border to do business."

Zhao Heishan smiled and said.

"This green salt can sell for more than two hundred renminbi a catty, which is many times that of other salts. What kind of green salt do you have?"

Liu Jin nodded, and then remembered that the green salt he said just now could sell for more than two hundred yuan a catty, which was more than ten times more expensive than the coarse salt, which was really unbelievable.

"I don't know what green salt looks like. It is said that this green salt is only used by officials, landlords and rich people. It is said that rich people use this green salt to brush their teeth in the morning."

Zhao Heishan shook his head and said.

Hearing this, Liu Jin probably understood what was going on. The sea salt boiled by Zhao Heishan and others was called rough salt in later generations. Because the rough salt was not refined, it contained a lot of impurities.

These impurities include insoluble soil, fish bone powder, shell powder and the like, as well as soluble magnesium chloride, calcium chloride and other impurities.

Because the content of these impurities is too much, the color of the salt looks impure, unlike the snow-white salt purified in later generations, and the taste is also very bad. Various flavors are mixed together, and they also occupy the main body. the taste of.

The price of green salt is expensive. It should be that this kind of salt contains less impurities and has a relatively pure taste. In addition, the production is limited and can only be supplied to powerful people, so the price is naturally very expensive.

"Perhaps this is a good way to make a fortune. If you can purify this crude salt to obtain the Baixue refined salt of the later generations, based on the price of green salt, a catty of salt is more than two hundred cash. At least it is impossible to make a fortune." any questions."

Thinking of this, Liu Jin's eyes couldn't help but light up.

Although Liu Jin is a scumbag, at least he is a person who has experienced formal chemistry education in later generations. He can understand the truth when he looks at this thing. As for refining coarse salt, it should be divided into two steps.

One is to remove insoluble impurities, which is relatively simple. These coarse salts are crushed, rolled into powder, and then re-melted into water, followed by filtration. The insoluble impurities are removed by filtration. Get rid of it.

After such a step, the silt, shell powder, etc. contained in the coarse salt can be removed.

As for removing soluble impurities, this involves chemical reactions. Although Liu Jin is a scumbag, he knows some of the most basic and fundamental things. These impurities are removed and refined salt is extracted.

"Uncle Heishan, can you sell me two catties of coarse salt?"

If there is a way to get rich, Liu Jin naturally wants to find out as soon as possible.

Liu Jin is very clear about the situation at home. Although Liu Jin is wearing the clothes of a scholar, there are more than ten acres of land at home, but because of Liu Jin's study, the house is already desolate. Liu Jin's mother saves every day. Eat frugally, don't even dare to take an extra bite of rice.

What's more, there is also a deadly enemy Tang Huo. Without money, it is difficult to compete with Tang Huo. Only with money can there be more ways to deal with Tang Huo.

"Why don't you sell it or not? If you want my salt, then you think highly of me, Zhao Heishan."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Heishan immediately picked up a shovel and filled a small pot with several catties of salt into it.

"Uncle Heishan, I only have 10 Wen, you take it first, and if it is not enough, I will make it up later."

Naturally, Liu Jin would not take Zhao Heishan's things for nothing, so he took out 10 Wen coins from his pocket. The 10 Wen coins were given by Liu Jin's mother, Wang Shi, before going out, saying that Liu Jin is a scholar, so he can go out without taking it with him. Some money, but the family is too poor, so there is only 10 Wen.

"You're out of touch now. It's my honor that you can look up to me, Zhao Heishan, and call me uncle. I can't accept your money."

Zhao Heishan said angrily when he saw it.

Although he is poor, Zhao Heishan is a very good person. Otherwise, he would not have helped Liu Jin's family often. Now that Liu Jin wants his own salt, in his opinion, Zhao Heishan is worthy of him.

"Uncle Heishan, you must keep the money. If you don't accept it, I don't want the salt. I'll find someone else to buy it."

When Liu Jin saw Zhao Heishan's refusal, he also put on a straight face, and stuffed 10 Wen into Zhao Heishan's hand.

Zhao Heishan and his son can only cook two pots of salt a day, which together weigh less than 10 catties, and they can earn more than ten yuan a day by cooking salt.

Boiling salt takes time and firewood, and the salt produced is very little, and the quality is poor. How can I have the heart to take several catties of salt for nothing?

"Brother Jin, just take it. My dad said, if it wasn't for your family's loan of food to my family, I would starve to death. A few catties of salt are nothing."

Zhao Erhu on the side also said foolishly.

"Then your family also helps my family farm every year, and I didn't say thank you to you."

Liu Jin shook his head and said, forced 10 words to Zhao Heishan, picked up the small jar of salt and walked towards the beach.

"Go, Huzi."

"Let's go to the beach to catch crabs."

While talking, he said to Zhao Erhu who was stunned behind him.

"Okay~"

When Zhao Erhu heard this, he immediately grinned, Pidian and Pidian wanted to follow Liu Jin to the beach to catch crabs, but they looked at their father Zhao Heishan in fear.

Zhao Heishan looked at Liu Jin, then at Zhao Erhu, and looked at the pot that had been refilled with brine, but he didn't make a sound to stop him. Immediately, Zhao Erhu caught up with Liu Jin like a runaway wild horse.

The relationship between Liu Jin's family and Zhao Erhu's family is very good. The two also grew up playing together. When they were young, their favorite thing was to go to the beach to catch crabs and eat them back.

In this era, there is no pollution, and the seaside environment is very good. The sea water is very blue, very blue, and the sea and sky are connected by rough waves, which makes people feel relaxed and happy.

On the beach by the sea, the sand is very clean, and there are many kinds of small animals. Crabs are also very common. Among them, there are many large crabs. They can be seen everywhere and are easy to catch. In some places with rocks , that's a lot more.

Unlike later generations, marine fishing was very popular, and the meshes of the fishing nets used were very small. In addition, some people put cages and nets in the sea, and once exhausted the water, resulting in the depletion of marine fishery resources.

The large yellow croaker and small yellow croaker that once flooded the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, and the Bohai Sea are almost endangered, so that the price is high.

In this ancient time when no sails could go to the sea, the fishery resources in the ocean were extremely rich, so much so that when Liu Jin was walking on the beach, he could see dead sea fish washed up on the beach by the sea.

"If you don't use such a treasure house, you'll have to smash it on that one-third of an acre of land."

Tired of catching crabs, Liu Jin sat on the reef by the sea, looked at the vast ocean in front of him, and couldn't help shaking his head.

Liu Jin, who traveled from later generations, really couldn't figure out why the sea was banned. There are countless fish, shrimps and crabs in the ocean that can be eaten. If you catch them casually, you won't starve to death.

There are countless treasures in this ocean, and the profits of ocean trade are astonishing. If a piece of silk from the Ming Dynasty can be transported to the west, its value is comparable to that of gold.

"Damn Zhu Chongba, a small peasant is a small peasant after all. After becoming an emperor, the structure is still very small."

　With regard to Zhu Yuanzhang, the merits and demerits of history have their own conclusions, and here is just a one-sided talk.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)