A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 122 The King of Qin Begs for Captives
Concubine Lu stared at the small open box with wide eyes, the things inside were so tempting.

"These are the salts you refined?"

"Yes, refined salt." Huaiyu nodded.

"Hey, it takes a lot of hands and feet to refine the salt into such fine salt, isn't it cheap?" Concubine Lu stared at the salt with red eyes.

"Well, it's really not easy."

Concubine Lu obviously thought that Huaiyu's salt was the same as the traditional refined salt, using the method of secondary refining, and Huaiyu naturally would not take the initiative to tell him the secret inside.

"This salt is like snow particles, the particles are as white as snow, the particles are crystal clear, large and full, and well-proportioned in size." Lu Huairang said, grabbed one and looked at it in front of his eyes, and then put it in his mouth. Sip and taste carefully.

"Salty, without bitterness."

Wanda also grabbed one and tasted it, "This salt is really different from the common salt, better than the best kyo salt."

"Look at this again."

Huaiyu took out another box, which contained bricks of salt instead of loose salt.

"This is?"

"The refined salt is pressed into shape with a mold, and then baked into bricks with fire." Huaiyu picked up two salt bricks and knocked them against each other, making a crisp sound without any fragmentation. "This piece is 16 taels." , exactly one catty."

"After the salt bricks are baked, the water content is extremely low, which is very convenient for long-distance export. Compared with the traditional crispy salt and knot salt, this is more convenient for horses to carry, and the quality of my salt bricks is also better."

"This salt brick is also called fire salt."

A ten catty piece of crispy salt is hard, but it is not complete, and the salt is like an ingot, which contains a lot of water. It is really as neat as a brick.

"Is there a seal on it?"

"Well, this is an exclusive mark. The mark has already been engraved on the mold, and it was printed on the salt brick when it was molded."

Lu Huairang recognized the imprint on it, "Baojing Jiyu, Yanchuan Town."

The brand of Huaiyu's fire salt is called Baoyu brand. At present, there are various salt manufacturers in Yanjingzhai, but no one has a brand name. Huaiyu is the first one.

Baoyutang Salt Workshop in Yanchuan Town exclusively produces fire-salt bricks and snow-white loose-grained salt.

"These salts are really exquisite. Erlang must sell some to me." Lu Huairang really wanted to get a piece of the pie, and wanted to buy from Huaiyu and resell it.

In fact, Wu Huaiyu had expected this a long time ago. She even took the initiative to take out the salt for today's meal.

The brick salt and granulated salt are actually not the traditional re-purification method as they thought, but Huaiyu directly improved the process when making salt.

This new craft is actually a craft that he thought of when he was drinking soy milk in the village because he was dissatisfied with the roughness and bitterness of the salt.

That was the famous Zigong well salt extracting method in Zigong, Sichuan, which was an improved salt production method invented by a salt well owner in Zigong in the Qing Dynasty.

The first thing is to mix the brine, prepare different brines according to specific proportions, and then boil the brine to remove impurities such as Glauber's salt. However, in the traditional method, there are still many impurities that are difficult to remove, which will make the salt bitter, so there is the extraction method. .

When the brine is heated and salt flowers appear, pour a certain proportion of soybean milk at this time, and then impurities that are difficult to remove such as calcium sulfate can be well precipitated, and the foam is removed with a sieve, which is called pulp extraction.

After getting the clear brine, continue to boil it over low heat for a long time, until the surface of the water is salted into snowflakes, then fish it out, which is called mother-child slag.Adding the mother-child slag to another round pot where the brine has been extracted and purified to make it into daughter crystals can speed up the crystallization into salt.

This is secondary crystallization.

The salt produced at this time still has certain impurities, and then the final purification process is carried out, the salt is shoveled into the wooden box, and the flower water is evenly sprinkled, the impurities can be removed again, and the white and crystal clear salt is produced, with a pure taste.

The flower water added at the end is actually light salt water.

This whole set of craftsmanship is the accumulation of thousands of years of experience in Zigong Salt Well, Sichuan. It can be said to be very good. When eating soy milk, Huaiyu remembered the documentary he had watched.

This ancient craft is no longer a secret in later generations, and even became a browsing program for local tourism, but at present, who can participate in it?He debugged for many days, and finally mastered the key points of each process. In fact, the key pulp extraction ratio has long been made public, but Huaiyu still pondered for a long time before completing it.

Compared with heating the prepared salt to melt in water, then filtering, reheating, and crystallizing, the cost is too high, and it is too time-consuming and labor-intensive. However, this kind of process that is directly improved in the salt-making process, although Soy milk is required.

But the cost of soy milk is not worth mentioning compared with refined salt, not to mention saving so much fuel and time.

"I haven't formally processed refined salt in large quantities yet," Huaiyu said with a smile.

Making refined salt in Zhang County cannot escape the dog nose of Lu Huairang, although he also plans to set up a small workshop, try to use slaves and people he trusts to make it, and even some of the key crafts, such as The ratio of extracting pulp, etc. should be kept as secret as possible, but it is impossible to hide the salt.

Why not take the initiative to cooperate with Lu Huairang.

And he also valued one of Lu Huairang's resources, that is, this guy is the son-in-law of the emperor, or a famous family in Guanlong. If he uses his resources to ship goods, and directly sends his precious jade salt to the upper class, then this salt can be sold as a luxury The price of the product can even successfully obtain a share in the original refined salt market.

He understands now that many things are very profitable, but the more profitable the things, the sooner the power behind them is divided, and there are rich and noble families standing there. If you don't have a certain strength, rush in If you offend others, it will cause disaster.

Lu Huairang is a pretty good meat shield, and it's a good deal to let him stand in front of him and share some of his pie.

"Don't worry, when I get out the salt, I will share it with you."

After hearing this, Lu Huairang was very satisfied. Although he really wanted to say that he wanted to buy a share in Huaiyu's kitchen, but Huaiyu didn't open his mouth, so he couldn't mention it.What's more, he didn't realize that Huaiyu had mastered the new technique of refining, and thought that it was only refined by the traditional old method, but the refinement was better.

"That's a deal,"

The bean curd in Yanjing Town is also very tender. Huaiyu recently opened a new tofu shop because he loves to drink it. It sells soy milk and tofu brains as well as tofu. To sell bean sprouts, he used a tofu shop to buy a large amount of beans, which could cover his extraction method.

Cheng Chumo picked up a piece of brine dried tofu and put it on the plate in front of Huaiyu, and said with a smile: "Don't forget about you, Brother Cheng."

"Don't worry, it's all there."

The salt grains that are as frosty as snow, white in color and pure in quality, and the crystal clear fire salt like bricks and jade, touched the hearts of everyone present.

Obviously, they also saw that Huaiyu must have mastered an unusual purification process.

"I thought I came here to train troops and fight against thieves and Qiangs, but now I have a lot of leisure every day, and this place is like a pension." Cheng Chumo sighed.

Wanda laughed at him, "It's really hard work for you to help those starving women every day, even though you're not in good shape."

"Look how pitiful they are." Cheng Chu smiled silently. Yanjingzhai attracted a large number of victims of the Qin and Wei wars. On to the officers.

Cheng Chumo, the eldest son of the Duke of Chang'an from Chang'an, and the commander of the Pingyue Mansion, the fifth-grade scarlet robe, is truly outstanding in this place. Every day, I don't know how many people want to take the initiative to throw themselves into their arms and send their daughters away, just to be able to get married. .

Even the local tycoons are catching up.

Even Wu Huaiyu brothers want to make friends every day, let alone Cheng Chumo, Huaiyu has Fan Xuanfu by his side, so he can only reluctantly say no to those girls, Cheng Chumo is so chic and happy, no one cares about him, As long as it is not forcibly robbing the women of the people, no one else can interfere with this matter of your choice and my wish.

This guy is almost a groom every night.

Even Ma Zhou is now a little confused by the comfort in front of him. If he hadn't remembered that he had promised Huaiyu to marry Mrs. Wu before the war, he would have been dragged over by some powerful surname Liu or Yang.

"I don't know what happened to Chang'an."

Huaiyu's words brought everyone back to reality from the joy and comfort in front of them. Yes, it has been a few days since I came here. Although there are no Turkic people in Longyou now, the Qiang people are also honest.

But Jieli and Tuli entered Guanzhong with one hundred thousand cavalry.

"Strange, why hasn't there been any news lately?" Cheng Chumo said.

"Could it really make the wolf cubs arrogant and rampant? Concubine Lu, you are well-informed, so hurry up and ask around. If the wolf cubs really invade Gyeonggi, then we can no longer stay in this ravine, and we have to lead our troops to fight back. King Qin destroys the captives!"

Lu Huairang actually quite likes this life now, especially after being far away from Chang'an, he doesn't have to face Princess Wanchun every day. Outsiders only know that Princess Shang is a beautiful concubine, but they don't know that the emperor's son-in-law is not easy to be, the princess of the Li family Nor is it a gentle Lord.

There is no such thing as the unrestrained and happy life in Longyou Tiangao Emperor Yuan. He doesn't have to wait on the princess, and he doesn't have to worry about the censors' officials finding fault. He likes to make money, and he also likes this small family in the countryside of Longyou, Biyu Township. Wild girls.

Here, no one should look up to him.

He went to Chang'an, but he was actually nothing.Even in the Qinzhou Governor's Mansion, he is nothing.

"If there's no news, it means that everything is fine. Let's just do our own errands well, and don't care about those nosy things." Lu Huairang said with a smile.

"How about I take a batch of salt to Qinzhou tomorrow?" Cheng Chumo said.

Lu Huairang had no choice but to say, "Forget it, I'll go. You are in command of the Pingyue Mansion, and the regiment is here in Zhang County. If you leave the country for no reason, go to Qinzhou, be careful and ask the crime."

It has not been long since the Battle of Longxi, but everyone still remembers Chang'an very much. Although this mountain and wild place is very leisurely, no one really wants to stay here for the rest of their lives.

At least Cheng Chumo, Wu Huaiyi, Ma Zhou and others were unwilling to sit around and miss the battle between the Gyeonggi court and the Turks.

But Huaiyu, he knew that although Jieli was aggressive, he couldn't find any chance after entering the customs. In the end, Weiqiao Baima retreated for the alliance.

He has recently researched how to make alkali from Glauber's salt, soap made from alkali, and secret refined salt. In addition, he can get along with Pan Xuanfu all day long. He is very fulfilling in love and earns a lot of money. He really likes the slow pace of this place.

Before camping in Longyou, he was forced to drive ducks into battle and lead troops into battle. To be honest, he didn't want to do it again. Now sometimes when he thinks back to those two battles, Huaiyu's heart beats faster, and he sometimes even wakes up in the middle of the night.

(End of this chapter)