As a lord, I was forced to farm

Chapter 181
The guy behind was dubious, "No way, didn't you say that salt is only available in Zeyan County?"

"Is there really salt in the sea?"

Although salt stones have been found in other territorial cities, the scale is too small, at most enough for a certain part of the territory to eat, and in most cases, it still needs to rely on Zeyan County.

"I don't know, trust the lord."

"Do you think the lord wants us to cook with seawater, but the food cooked with seawater is a bit bitter..."

Seawater is salty. There are actually people in Suling Town who cook seafood directly with seawater, but the cooked dishes not only have some impurities and sand, but are also slightly bitter. After that, everyone gave up their hearts.

"If we can really find salt, maybe we will be able to eat salt often."

When it comes to salt, it is inevitable to mention Zeyan County again and again.

A brown-haired guy was filled with righteous indignation, and his words resonated with many people, "The people in Zeyan County are greedy. How long has it been since the price of salt has risen again!"

Salt is in short supply, and half of the people in Suling Town cannot eat salt.

There is even a phenomenon: Seeing who is rich and honored to buy salt, there will be crowds of people, go to the family to say a good word, please the host family, maybe they can pour some salt water for everyone, and they will be able to settle down. meal.

Some people were more indifferent, saying: "It's expensive for a reason, and if he raises the price, what can we do about it?"

"Hey! You kid, where are you helping!!"

Jiang Ran heard the fight behind him clearly and thoughtfully.

Not to mention, even if she made the salt, Zeyan County's monopoly on table salt would not be shaken for a while.

The well salt in Yanze is particularly pure, with a light jade color on the outside, like white jade that has been in the charm for many years, and a touch of crystal, with a mild and elegant salty taste.

It doesn't matter if the taste is perfect. According to Li Tianliang, it is especially easy to get salt from Zeyan County.

Generally speaking, there is brine under the salt well. To turn the brine into salt, it still needs to be incinerated to crystallize it.

However, the salt well in Zeyan County is just a drop of brine under the crystallized salt...Natural crystallization does not need to be processed countless times like ordinary mineral salt.

It is a bit exaggerated to say, but in the salt wells in Zeyan County, the salt is indeed used as it can be obtained.

Otherwise, Yanze County would not be known as the "Hometown of Well Salt" and "Land of Jade Salt".

But Jiang Ran never thought about going head-to-head with Zeyan County.

She's going a different route.

The first is to meet the town's own needs and get rid of its dependence on Zeyan County. If there is any excess salt, it will avoid Zeyan County and go to the low-end market, targeting those groups who cannot afford Zeyan...

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After a while, Jiang Ran brought a group of people to the beach.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, beside the endless ocean, but there was nowhere to go, where to find salt.

The weather was hot, and Chen Mao was sweating profusely. He asked, "Lord, what should we do?"

Sun-drying salt is not a one-day job, but generally in hot summer, if there is no rain, sea salt can be extracted from seawater in about 4 days.

This time, Jiang Ran mainly told them that seawater can make salt, and then taught Chen Mao how to build salt fields and purify sea salt.

There is already a small pool by the sea, which Jiang Ran sent someone to make two days ago. After evaporation, it is filled with sea salt crystals with extremely high salt content.

Jiang Ran signaled to the brown-haired man to put the brine into a pot to settle. The soil and impurities sank to the bottom of the pot, while the clean sea water was sucked away. Jiang Ran said, "Light a fire."

Everyone is not stupid, and began to understand that the lord is going to use this pot of sand and seawater mixture to turn salt.

A dumb young man muttered to himself, "But how is that possible?"

This little fool thought that the lord was going to use salty sand and stones as salt for them...

A fellow who had a good time with him slapped the silly boy on the head, hating iron for being weak, and raised his tone so that everyone could hear: "My lord, if you can make salt, you will be able to! Great lord Adults are omnipotent!"

It caused countless people to laugh, "Yes, yes, what the lord says is what he says."

After a little turmoil passed, the little fool's partner lowered his voice, and said in that simple ear: "You can just think about this in your heart, why are you still saying it..."

In his words, he also didn't believe that Jiang Ran could really extract Bai Jingjing's salt.

The gossip of these people did not reach Jiang Ran's ears, but even if he knew, Jiang Ran would not care, and still calmly ordered his subordinates to work.

During the heating process, the sea water is evaporated until all that is left is salt crystals.

There are already some traces of white, but it is mixed with sand and stone, and the white is dyed into mud color.

Chen Mao looked carefully. Unlike the others, the smart Chen Mao had already noticed something different, his eyes gradually brightened, and the light pierced people, "My lord, what should I do next?"

"Come here, bring the cloth and move the things to the Lang River."

The Lang River finally flows into Suyuanhai, which is very close to where Jiang Ran and the others are now.

A piece of brown soft cloth was quickly brought over, and Jiang Ran ordered someone to fold the cloth into two layers, then poured sea salt into the cloth, followed by a basin below, and then poured water into it.

"Salt can be divided into sea salt, mine salt and well salt according to its source, and we want to make salt from sea water."

Jiang Ran said to Chen Mao: "This is called sun-dried salt method. The main steps of making salt are seawater evaporation, precipitation, continuous filtration and concentration..."

"And our current step is filtration, the purpose is to separate impurities and salt. This step must be carried out at least three or four times to wash out clean salt."

Fearing that he might not be able to remember, Chen Mao took out a pen and paper to record what Jiang Ran said, and drew a flow chart of making salt.

The first filtration has filtered out large particles of sand, stones, branches, etc.

Jiang Ran folded the cloth again, this is a four-layer cloth filter.

The water has become very clear, and the guys who were skeptical before had no more thoughts in their minds. They all stared at each other, showing incredible expressions, "Can it still be like this!?"

However, this is just the beginning.

The clear brine is put into the pot and continuously boiled to evaporate.

When a layer of white crystals adhered to the bottom of the pot, everyone's minds went blank, even the man with a tough heart lost his composure, like an ignorant child.

"This, this, this is really salt!!!"

Chen Mao was much calmer than the others, but he rubbed a little white crystal on the pot with his index finger as if possessed, put it in his mouth, and after tasting the real salty taste, his mood was complicated, and his eye sockets were actually a little warm , "It's really salt."

Before Chen Mao was elected as an official by the lord, he lived a poor life. Although he could not miss a sip of salt, he only had a little salt in his meals every three days.

As soon as Chen Mao said this, everyone screamed in surprise, and their faces turned red with excitement!

The Mulen man and his partner who had questioned before were dumbfounded when they were excited, "They actually made the salt out..."

Blushing with shame, the dumb man said, "I shouldn't doubt Lord Lord..."

And just when everyone was so excited that tears filled their eyes.

"Take the tail and go back."

A calm voice sounded, the voice mixed with the coldness, and everyone's high emotions came to an abrupt end.

That's right.

How did the lord manage to be so calm!
uncomfortable.

(End of this chapter)