Three Kingdoms New Malaysia Super League

Chapter 237 Salt Purification Art
Before leaving, Ma Chao didn't worry about political affairs at all.He has Jia Xu, Fazheng, and Yang Fu as three conspirators in his writing, Pang De in his military, and Brother Chou in secret.Even, the two major forces of Eastern Qiang and Shenbumen are also relying on their arms.The Ma family could have been hit hard only by a monstrous disaster like a thunderbolt.

And the only source that can create this disaster is Chang'an.Ma Chao entered Chang'an as the head of the Ma family, which was a turmoil for the Ma family, and it was also a disturbance for the Chang'an court.His going to Chang'an is not so much a matter of entering the court as a hostage, but rather a necessary process for the development of the Ma family: only by turning the eyes of the Chang'an court to Ma Chao alone, can the forces behind Ma Chao gain a period of calm development .

Therefore, no matter in terms of family hatred or national hatred, it is inevitable for Ma Chao to enter Chang'an.

Before he left, what he was most worried about was actually the things that had changed because of him.For example, new crops, roasted tea techniques, distilled wine, steel filling methods, improved papermaking techniques, etc. Fortunately, these new things have now reached a large scale in Fufeng, and there are dedicated personnel to take care of them, so Ma Chao feels at ease.

But the only thing that he can't forget is whether those craftsmen in the arsenal can fully master the salt purification technology...

Before leaving, Ma Chao specially called the three giants of the arsenal: Han Feng, Zheng Hun, and Pu Yuan to his front, and demonstrated to them the technology of salt purification.

In fact, the salt purification technology is very simple, nothing more than a few steps: dissolution, filtration, detoxification, evaporation and crystallization...

In Ma Chao's view, this is a small process experiment, but for the Big Three, this is another milestone technology.Especially Han Feng, who also knew the huge profits behind the salt purification, Huwei used Ma Chao's name to mobilize [-] of Ma Chao's personal guards to stand guard in the arsenal.

The arsenal has everything, Ma Chao ordered, hammers, iron brazing, salt sieves, linen, charcoal, wooden barrels, iron pots, and even five hand-cranked stone mills.Ma Chao checked everything, and found that everything he needed was quite a lot.

"Look at it, your master is delicate and expensive now, it's a big deal to use it once." Ma Chao said with a smile, took a small hammer and carefully smashed a few pieces of salt rock into small particles, and called a guard to take the salt. The salt powder was poured into the stone mill eye, and the guard turned the stone mill by hand, and the brown salt powder slowly flowed out from the edge of the stone mill. Ma Chao put the salt stone powder into the wooden barrel, added water, and stirred with a wooden stick to make the salt fully Melt into the water, and when the solution is saturated, he said: "This is the first step, dissolve, smash the salt block and pour it into the bucket."

Afterwards, Ma Chao poured the solution into another wooden barrel covered with a double layer of sackcloth. After a while, the sackcloth was covered with gray-black slag.After removing the linen, the solution in the bucket turned brown. At this time, the color of the solution became lighter, but there were still a lot of impurities. Then, a wooden barrel was covered with four layers of linen, and after filtering again, a light red solution was left. .Ma Chao saw that the impurities had been filtered out, and explained the main points of this process: "This is called filtration, no matter how many times you filter, the filtration is not complete until the color of the solution turns into this light red."

At this time, it is still not possible to evaporate and purify, but the detoxification stage should continue.Ma Chao took a huge funnel and ordered the guards to smash the charcoal. Before the guards could do anything, Han Feng, Pu Yuan, and Zheng Hun went on stage in person and smashed the charcoal first. Ma Chao used four layers of charcoal Wrap the linen cloth and stuff it into the funnel, squeeze it tightly, find a shelf, fix the funnel on the shelf, pour the solution into the funnel, after a while, the light blue solution flows out slowly, grab a handful and taste it, Yes, only salty taste, no bitterness, although some salt is lost in the process, but it can be guaranteed that the boiled salt is absolutely edible.

"This process is the most critical part. Although some salt may be lost during this period, I would like to warn everyone that anyone who sells the salt without going through this step will be punished by the military law!" At the time, Ma Chao looked very solemn.After all, this is a major event related to the health of Ma's shop and the entire Han people.

"My lord, any kind of charcoal is fine?" Han Feng also knew that this link was very important, so he asked this very level question.

"Well, I don't have ordinary charcoal, but bamboo charcoal is the best. Bamboo charcoal has a stronger adsorption capacity..." Ma Chao nodded, very satisfied with Han Feng's sharp question.

After that, Ma Chao ordered the guards to set up an iron pot and pour the solution into the pot to boil.But I was far away from the iron pot: it's hot...it's easy to get some salt in the summer.

Seeing the solution bubbling and boiling in the pot, Ma Chao felt uneasy. After all, this knowledge was taught in chemistry in junior high school.But whether it will work or not is still up for debate.After the water in the pot gradually evaporated, Ma Chao saw a thick blue-colored hard shell left on the bottom of the pot, removed the firewood, broke off a piece from the pot and put it in his mouth: "Well, the taste of pure table salt, not bad……"

Before Ma Chao gave orders, Zheng Hun and Pu Yuan had already cut off a big piece of their nails and stuffed them into their mouths. Although Xian's face was twitching, he was still reluctant to vomit... Seeing Ma Chao's signal, the rest of the guards swarmed towards the iron pot and plucked it out. Putting one piece into their mouths, a few guards were so salty that they shed tears, they all knelt down to Ma Chao, and shouted: "My lord is really a god!"

'God man fart! Ma Chao didn't take it seriously: just now he estimated that the smashed salt block weighed about ten catties, but in the end only about three catties of refined salt were boiled out. This loss is too great.

However, Ma Chao also knew that this was unavoidable: it was much better than ordinary people eating salt blocks by luck... Besides, China has been going down for thousands of years, and until the population reached more than one billion in the later period, there is no such thing as I saw that I ate up the salt.I might hit the seaside by then. At that time, didn't I want to make as much salt as I wanted?
Thinking of this, Ma Chao ordered Han Feng, Zheng Hun, and Pu Yuan: "The three of you, put aside all the research and development at hand recently, and devote yourself to the rush to manufacture this salt purification tool. After Meng Ta and Hanzhong reach an agreement , and carry out large-scale mass production. As for the shipment, it must be handed over to Meng Da, who has fallen into the eyes of money now!"

"My lord is wise!" The three clasped their fists together, completely convinced by Ma Chao's arrangement.

"By the way, bring these samples to Meng Da and ask him to set a price..." Ma Chao clapped his hands and said, "Are those things ready?"

"Don't worry, my lord. The glass just happened to be blown yesterday, and it has been carefully packed into the box. According to your instructions, a lot of fur silk was specially added to prevent shock..." Han Feng knew what Ma Chao was asking, and stepped forward to answer road.

"Well, yes, the Ma family has an arsenal, which can at least support a hundred thousand troops!" Ma Chao was filled with gratitude: Sure enough, technology is the primary productive force!No matter what era, the most scarce thing is...talent!
"Those are just colored glass. I'll tell you how to make colorless glass after I come back from Chang'an." Ma Chao said as he rode on the elephant dragon horse and was about to rush back to his backyard, as if he remembered something, and urged: " Remember, the glass making method is the biggest secret of the Ma family, so you must keep it secret. In addition, don't make too many glass products, just ten pieces a month..."

"No!" Seeing the figure of Ma Chao galloping away, Han Feng, Zheng Hun, and Pu Yuan's hearts twitched endlessly: Could it be that the lord has really descended from the sky to come here, how can he make out any unimaginable things?
(End of this chapter)