Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 324 I heard that Wu Yan is really better than Xue

Xie Bao asked with a smile, "How many of you have eaten Wu Yan?"

Several private salt dealers shook their heads honestly.

"I've seen it, and I tasted it on my tongue, but how can I be willing to eat something so precious?"

Jie Bao got up suddenly and said: "It's too late now, if you don't want to be a guest, you can stay in our village to rest."

Several salt merchants didn't know why, but they really planned to spend the night in Niugang Village tonight, so they all thanked Xie Bao for his kindness.

Jie Bao asked the farmer to cook the fire. A farmer set up an iron pot in the courtyard, threw the washed and peeled large pieces of roe deer meat into the pot, added green onion and ginger, poured clean water, and grabbed a handful of fine meat. Throw the white salt into the pot.

Seeing this scene, Li Cai and the traders who came to collect the salt were all very distressed. Although they felt that Jie Bao's asking price was too expensive, they all had to admit that this was the best salt, and that it was just thrown into the pot by the dealer. This lot will cost more than [-] yuan to say the least.

The farmer closed the lid and began to cook the meat. Jie Bao sat there drinking tea with them.

Li Cai and a few private salt dealers were surprised when they looked into the pot. There was a lot of sticky and oily things boiled in this pot of soup, and salt was put in early. At this time, a layer of foam floated on the boiling pot.

But they found that the foam floating on the soup at this time was only the pinkish white of flesh and yellow of fat, and no other variegated colors were seen.

These few people are veterans in the salt industry, and instantly understood the power of this pot of stuff.

A private salt dealer couldn't help but whispered, "This salt is so clean?"

They all know that salt these days has a high content of impurities. If other salts are used to cook this broth, the foam that floats up at this time must be grayish, and this pink and white delicate foam is obviously enough to show that the purity of the salt is high. to what extent.

"Everyone is tired too, I asked the farmer to bring some fruit to drink with."

Everyone's eyes were drawn back by Xie Bao's words, and they saw that Bao asked the farmer to bring some wild fruits such as sour plums picked from the mountain. These wild fruits were all thrown into the mountain spring water and chilled. It was gratifying, and in addition to a large pot of wild fruits, Jie Bao also asked the farmer to put a small plate with fine white salt in front of each person.

Li Cai and a few private salt dealers instantly understood Jie Bao's intentions. People in this era are very obsessed with pure salt. The best way to taste the legendary Wu salt is to dip fresh fruit into the salt.

Xie Bao can put fruit and salt in front of them at the same time, so is he so confident in his products?
Li Cai murmured in his heart. Lijiacun also makes private salt, so naturally they used their own sea salt to dip their fruits in, but no matter what they did with the sea salt they made, it would inevitably have a bitter taste, and at most it could only be served cold Vegetables, you need to add more sour vinegar to cover the sour and bitter taste, that is their best product.

If you use their salt to dip the fruit, not only will it not give the fruit a taste, but it will make the originally delicious fruit difficult to eat.

Li Cai couldn't help but took a plum, and after biting a bite, dipped the sour plum into the salt plate in front of him.

The white salt in the dish is as pure as snow, and when the bright red plums dip into it, a few salt flowers stick to it, which makes people feel very sour.

Li Cai put the plum dipped in salt into his mouth, bit it lightly, "Hiss!"

The cool juice of fresh plums is in the mouth wantonly, the pure salty taste and the fresh sour taste are blended together in an instant, complementing each other, instantly making the mouth salivate and appetite!

Li Cai couldn't help but widen his eyes!He finally understood why dignitaries like to eat fruit dipped in salt. Every bite reminded him how pure the salt he was eating was!

With a sword like water, Wu Yan beats snow, and a slender hand breaks a new orange.

Dip the fruit with the highest grade of white salt and eat it. This is not eating fruit, this is eating money!

Li Cai was instantly surprised and jealous.

He has seen this person from Niugang Village make salt before, and the quality is not as good as him. I haven't seen him for a while, but Jie Bao in front of him can actually make such good salt!
Moreover, anyone can tell how high the quality of the salt is after dipping the fruit. The fresh taste of the fruit makes any bitterness and sourness in the salt stand out. Only then does Li know that all the salt he has eaten is impossible. Gives such a high level of flavor to fruit after dipping it.

Xie Bao's Yan Neng passed such a test, which is enough to show that the quality of the batch of white salt made by them in Niugang Village may have really reached the level of Wu salt.

Wu Yan, one hundred cents a catty, is really not expensive.

A salt dealer suddenly stood up:
"One hundred cents a catty, I bought it!"

Finally, the first business with a good income was made, and when seeing those salt dealers leave, Xie Bao was so happy that he almost wanted to yell.

He looked back at his Niugang Village with great pride in his heart.

In the following days, the news that Xiebao's Niugang Village had refined salt for sale quickly spread.

Although Haizhou is one of the main salt producing areas in the Song Dynasty, the salt produced in this area is of poor quality, and the demand for high-grade refined salt is still very high.

After the news of Xiebao's Niugang Village producing refined salt spread, it soon attracted more traders to come to buy it.

And Xie Bao himself began to make up his mind.

The sales of salt in Niugang Village are so hot now, all because of the salt-making method brought by the master Sun Xin. Anyone who has this method can make a lot of money every day. Impression of being able to do something?

If you want to stand out, you must have more performance.

After careful observation, Xie Bao found that although there were many private salt dealers coming to Niugang Village, the price they were willing to charge for the white salt in Niugang Village was at most 130 yuan. I can't go up, this is still in the case of many vendors competing with each other, and the price of real Wu salt can be at least [-] Wen.

I asked some private salt dealers, and those salt dealers also said that although the refined salt produced by Xiebao is of sufficient quality, compared with the best Wu salt, the price is definitely not up to par. How many years did Wu Yan produce? How could the salt produced by Xie Bao achieve such a reputation in a short period of time?
Xie Bao gradually felt that there was a lack of a breakthrough. As long as he could spread the reputation of Niugang Village's white salt, he would definitely be able to increase the price of this salt.

Jie Bao settled accounts in his heart. Now there are more than 130 people in Niugang Village under his command, and more than 70 of them are specially prepared for the future salt industry. Moreover, Sun Xin said before that the scale of Niugang Village in the future will be this level.

These days, ordinary salt workers can produce about 900 catties of salt a year, but now the refined salt they make is more labor-intensive, so on average, one person can produce 2000 catties a year, which is not bad. The cost of production is about ten yuan. If it is sold for one hundred yuan a catty as it is now, then the net profit will be ninety yuan. The profit that the whole village can obtain from a year's production is [-] taels, including the premium. , Barely reached [-] taels.

And 2000 taels is exactly the initial start-up capital scale of Haizhou Construction Supervisory Committee that Sun Xin proposed at the Supervisory Committee. Xie Bao knew that Sun Xin was manning him according to such an amount, but since he came, could he still use it? Are you earning this amount of money?
He called several salt households under his command and asked them: "Is there any way to put a mark on our table salt, so that people can know that it is the good salt produced in our Niugang Village?"

After several salt workers heard the words and thought about it carefully, an old salt householder suggested: "We can add some coloring things to the salt. I know some people add lime to the salt, so that the salt will look whiter, but our Salt is already white enough, and adding more will have no effect.”

Xie Bao thought for a while, "This method is fine, if you don't mix white, you can mix other colors."

As soon as he reminded, someone immediately thought of it, "I heard that there are people in the pharmacy who specialize in making medicinal salt, that is, mixing medicinal powder into the salt. This kind of salt smells fragrant, but it is used for medicinal purposes. , and the color will change."

Xie Bao's eyes lit up instantly when he heard it, "This is a good idea. There is a doctor in our village brought by Sun Ji. Later, I will ask him to study a prescription to see how to mix some salt into the salt. The color is so that people can recognize at a glance that it is the salt produced in our Niugang village."

Another person said: "When it comes to making medicinal salt, I heard that someone in the south burns salt in a bamboo tube. After a long time of burning, the salt will turn purple. It is extremely expensive, and only the best salt can be made into bamboo salt, and it is also a rare and precious medicinal material.”

Xie Bao nodded, but he had done medicine before, and said: "The processing of medicinal materials is the most troublesome. Bamboo salt needs to be burned out of bamboo tubes. This process may not be as easy as it sounds. You can also ask someone to do it first." Study slowly."

At this time, the oldest Dengzhou old Yanhu in the audience spoke slowly.

"There is an easiest way to make our Yanba different from other people's homes, but you have all forgotten..."

The seniority of this old salt worker is the highest among their group of salt households. According to calculations, they are all their uncles or even grandparents, and the ancestral craftsmanship has never made mistakes in cooking sea for many years. This time, their family To be able to come to Haizhou, Xie Bao came to invite him personally.

When everyone was actively expressing their opinions just now, the old salt worker kept thinking and didn't speak. At this time, when he spoke, everyone looked at him.

(End of this chapter)