Houmen Fenghua: Meet the best evil mother-in-law

Chapter 539 Prepare to Play Big One

Li Wenchong stared at her for a long time.

"Why are you looking at me like this?" Gu Qingling felt weird.

Li Wenchong: "Why didn't I know, you can practice salt? As far as I know, the Yao family has never touched anything related to salt."

"Do you not believe me?"

"No." Li Wenchong refused to admit it, "I don't believe you, it's just about salt... You know, salt is run by the government, and you can't touch it casually."

He wanted to remind Gu Qingling that no matter where she got the salt refining formula, things like salt are definitely not something ordinary people like her can touch.It's better not to take out those shady things, or else...

He is not easy to explain to his brother.

Gu Qingling rolled her eyes: "What are you thinking? Our family has never touched salt, but I know how salt is extracted. Moreover, I just gave you a method. Whether it is useful or not, you need to find someone experiment."

Then, Gu Qingling wrote down the refining methods of well salt and sea salt, and asked Li Wenchong to arrange someone to try it.

She dare not say that the method she gave is [-]% effective, but the general direction is correct, as long as you find a few craftsmen who specialize in this area, I believe they will be able to test the results soon.

"How do you know these methods?" Li Wenchong frowned, looking at the "salt drying method" and "salt refining method" written on the paper, feeling a little puzzled.

"Have you forgotten what our family does? The essential oils and essential oils in our family are 'refined'. For these things, the craftsmen in each workshop of our family are familiar with them. If you lack talents in this field , I can lend you a few more."

Gu Qingling is really not lying, whether it is essential oil or wind essence, some secret related technologies will be used, and these also have some similarities with salt refining.

The salt refining technology in this era is still relatively rough, and they mainly credit the "rock salt" that exists naturally in nature.

Rock salt can be taken directly for consumption without excessive processing.

High-quality rock salt is generally colorless, transparent or white, and it is used for the royal family and some dignitaries; it is almost mixed with impurities or sludge of some metal compounds, showing other colors, which are what ordinary people see in their lives. of salt.

Rock salt is mainly produced naturally from the salt lake or Hechi, where the climate is hot, and the surface of the salt lake is often thickly condensed with crystal clear rock salt, which is generally in the hands of officials or some powerful families.

The common people can't afford salt and feel that salt is expensive. Apart from this reason, another reason is the limited production of salt lakes.

The method Gu Qingling gave Li Wenchong included three refining methods of sea salt, pond salt, and well salt, which just made up for the gaps in the four types of salt mines in ancient times.

Pool salt, also known as lake salt, refers to natural crystals in salt lakes, or made from brine on the surface of hot lakes.

Needless to say, sea salt can be boiled, stewed and then boiled, or stewed and then dried, or directly dried. The specific method depends on the specific conditions of each sea area and local area.

Well salt is "drilling wells to extract brine", mining underground natural brine and solid rock salt.

Gu Qingling not only wrote about the specific methods of obtaining salt from three kinds of salt mines, but also described the characteristics of their distribution.Although holding this thing, you can't find all the salt mines immediately, but if it goes well, you only need to find some of them, and that will be a surprise.

"Do you know what it means when you take this thing out?" Li Wenchong stared at her with burning eyes and asked.

"Will it shake the foundation of those aristocratic families?" Gu Qingling said, "It is said to be official salt, but in fact most of the rock salt is in the hands of certain aristocratic families. This is the real reason why your royal family is controlled by others. For example, that Lou family. Once you get a new way of refining salt and have a new way to get it, you can break their monopoly, and then... the rest, don't I need to say?"

Li Wenchong laughed: "You have given me a big problem, but... who made you my woman? I will take this job. But I have to think about it carefully, how to make this matter work out. You guys The Yao family has never touched salt before, so they suddenly took out this kind of thing... If there is no reason, it's hard to explain."

"That's your business. Since you want to marry me, you have to make some contribution."

Professional things should be left to professional people. Li Wenchong found a group of people to travel secretly, divided into three groups, and visited three different salt mines.

Like rock salt, lake salt is almost on the surface. If it wasn't for Gu Qingling's reminder, Li Wenchong really wouldn't know. In fact, lake salt has been mined by various families long ago, but it has always been in the name of "rock salt". Appeared, fooling everyone.

"Damn!"

When Li Wenchong saw the report sent back by the team, he was so angry that his lungs almost exploded.

"These aristocratic families are too much! Too much!"

"They have obviously found a new way to refine salt, and they still say that rock salt is rare all day long, so that the king's brother will give in and back again and again."

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Seeing him like this, Qingzhu calmly handed him a cup of tea: "Master, drink some tea to calm down. If the old lady knows that you are angry for these people, I'm afraid she will feel distressed."

Li Wenchong glared at her: "Will she feel distressed? The sun is coming out from the west."

"Anyway, you are also Jiuye's father. Even if you don't look at the face of the monk or the face of the Buddha, even if the old matriarch is doing it for the good of Jiuye, you still have to feel sorry for the master, right?"

Li Wenchong choked, are you sure this is comforting words?
He stared at Qingzhu, thinking that this kid did it on purpose, or what, why did his words become more and more annoying?

"Besides, before the master didn't know and couldn't do anything with these people, but now the master knows everything and got the evidence, so I'm afraid he won't be able to deal with these people?" Qingzhu continued, "Thinking about it from another angle, Since the lake salt is real, does that mean that the well salt and sea salt mentioned by the old lady may also be true? These two, those aristocratic families don’t know yet, we don’t know what the well salt looks like, but how big is the sea? Ah, as long as you hold this in your hand, will you be afraid that Dayan will not have any salt? As long as Dayan has salt, will your majesty be afraid that you will not be able to deal with those wealthy gentry?"

Li Wenchong looked at Qingzhu in surprise: "You kid, you seem to be much smarter!"

Qingzhu was speechless: "Zhuzi, the slave is in your heart, how stupid is it?"

"You know it yourself, don't you?"

"The slave doesn't know, otherwise, the master told the slave?"

Li Wenchong quickly praised Qingzhu's superb martial arts skills, number one in the world, and there is no one more powerful than him in the world.He praised Qingzhu so much that his tail almost turned up, triumphantly.

Look, people with well-developed limbs and simple minds are so easy to coax.

After coaxing the green bamboo, Li Wenchong began to write to Emperor Mingguang, telling him about the "lake salt" that the family had discovered.

(End of this chapter)