Chapter 2815: Xu Jingzong shows his level and style (please subscribe and vote)

The next moment, when these dandy sons of the top noble families of the Tang Dynasty stood in front of the salt mountain that was several feet high and made of fine white salt grains.

They all grinned exaggeratedly and bulged their eyes, like salted fish that were about to be killed.

I couldn't say a word for a long time. I just picked up a handful of white salt grains from the salt mountain from time to time, then let go and let the salt grains fall from my fingers.

Or maybe you are admiring the salt fields not far away, where the salt workers are continuing to pull and pull in the salt fields with tools.

They acted like this in order to prevent the salt crystals from becoming too thick. They looked at the salt worker in front of them and picked up a handful of wet white salt grains from the salt field.

These salt pans are still a certain distance from the coastline, and the area nearby is mainly barren saline-alkali land.

The merchant houses of the Han and Tang dynasties built ponds here with cement so that sediment and impurities would not contaminate the sea salt being dried.

Furthermore, the tarpaulins next to it are used to prevent rain. Once rain comes, you have to quickly cover the salt fields with tarpaulins.

A group of martial arts disciples listened to Cheng Kun explaining the advantages and disadvantages of this salt-drying method with his sharp tongue.

But after all, compared with the past method of boiling salt, it is not very convenient, and it uses the least manpower and material resources to produce the most sea salt.

"This salt mountain is what we have harvested from the salt drying in our salt farm until now."

"...In this salt field today, if the weather is good, like today, with sun and wind, then one acre of salt field can produce about a hundred kilograms of sea salt."

"Our salt farm is not that big yet, but it has a thousand acres of salt field. In one day, we can produce about 100,000 kilograms of edible sea salt..."

"The villain also invited some local old salt workers and salt merchants to cooperate. I also heard them talk about making salt by boiling salt."

"They used thatch as fuel, working day and night, boiling brine, evaporating the water, and then adding brine to cook it after the water was dried.

When the pot is full, add a few pieces of soap clips or sesame seeds, and the brine will condense into salt..."

"In one day and night, six pots of salt can be boiled, and more than three hundred kilograms of salt can be obtained in one day. However, one stove requires two people to take turns lighting the fire and two people taking turns to carry the brine.

There are also two people responsible for observing the mixing of the brine. In addition, one or two people need to cut and transport the thatch..."

"And our salt-drying method, which covers a thousand acres of salt fields, only requires dozens of workers and does not require fuel, stoves, etc..."

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While admiring and listening to Cheng Kun's words, Li Ke and a group of noble disciples who were just admiring all this with novelty and surprise on their faces.

They were all shocked beyond measure by the convenience of this salt-drying method, and Cheng Chubi became even more proud.

The sun salt method is definitely the best salt production method before the industrial production of table salt. Of course, it also needs to pay attention to the right time, place and people.

In China, the emergence of the salt-drying method may have appeared in a few areas, but never on a large scale.

Cheng Chubi remembered clearly that until the Ming Dynasty, salt boiling was still the main method in Shandong.

But in fact, the Jiaodong Peninsula area is definitely the best place for the salt-drying method. First, the average annual sunshine period here is very long, and second, it is windy.

Cheng Chubi still remembers that he and a group of classmates once traveled to Weihai in Jiaodong, which is known as one of the cleanest and tidiest cities in China.

This made Cheng Chubi extremely curious until he came to Weihai and walked around for a whole day. On that day, the wind howled.

He even saw a mouse emerging from its hole and rolled around by the strong wind.

Even if you wait until night, staying in a hotel, the sound of wind through the window is like the sound of ghosts.

It wasn't until I asked the locals that I learned that there is no wind blowing here 365 days a year, and the wind force can only be considered average.

Cheng Chubi finally understood the reason why there was not a single piece of trash, cigarette butts, even dead leaves, or toilet paper on the ground in Weihai. Well, the wind was strong enough, so there was no need to leave anything behind...

Of course, this is just Cheng Chubi's own experience and hearsay, but coupled with the fact that Shandong's sea salt production accounted for 70% of the country's sea salt production in later generations, this is enough to prove that this area is definitely suitable for salt production by the sun salt method.

Just as a group of people were talking about it, Xu Jingzong, Tiancan from the Tiancan Dique group, came to Cheng Sanlang's side with a secret jab.

First, Sanlang Chong saluted with a heartfelt look on his face.

"Xiao Cheng Taibao's improvement of this method of making salt will benefit the common people and benefit all the people of the Tang Dynasty."

A group of distinguished disciples looked over with strange expressions. Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu, the two guys who were regarded by Luoyang officials as Cheng Sanlang's lackeys, were indeed shameless sycophants.

A man who is several decades older is actually flattering me and seems so shameless.

But this Xu Jingzong turned a blind eye to the gazes around him, pointed at the salt mountain in front of him, and spoke loudly.

"Xiao Cheng Taibao knows that the production of salt in the Tang Dynasty has always been very expensive, so that the price of salt is very expensive, and the method of boiling salt is not easy to obtain salt. Therefore, the price of salt in different places in the Tang Dynasty is also high and low."

"I have consulted relevant records before I went to the official position. After the Northern Wei Dynasty moved to Ye, salt was boiled by the sea in the four prefectures of Cang, Ying, You, and Qing.

Cangzhou is the most popular, with more than 1,300 and more than 400 stoves installed, followed by Qingzhou, with nearly 600 stoves...

Combining the efforts of the four states, we can collect more than 29,700 hu of salt throughout the year, and the military and state funds can be collected."

"Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the land of Shandong and Hebei has experienced the chaos of the late Sui Dynasty, and all industries have withered. To this day, the salt production industry has not returned to its former glory."

"Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there has been no ban on private salt production and sale. However, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, most of the salt farms in various places were annexed by local aristocratic families."

"Today, there are nearly a dozen salt fields in Qingzhou, large and small, and most of them belong to aristocratic families in Shandong. Even if the salt households who work in the salt fields earn a year's hard work, they can barely get enough food and clothing..."

Looking at Xu Tiancan talking here, the important thing is that he can still say something meaningful.

A group of noble disciples really looked at Xu Jingzong, who was over sixty years old, with admiration, while Li Yifu on the side looked calm.

But in fact, he was so jealous that he almost went crazy. He knew that he wanted to follow Cheng Sanlang to Shandong, and it was not because he had done his homework.

But I really haven't paid attention to the details of the salt industry, but Cheng Sanlang actually jumped here to engage in salt production, which happened to allow shameless Xu Jingzong to grab the big prize.

It really made Li Yifu so jealous that he wanted to copy a knife and give it to this lame old guy to make three cuts and six holes to vent his anger.

While Xu Jingzong was talking, he did not forget to glance at Li Yifu, whose expression was twisted to an almost ferocious level due to jealousy.
Chapter completed!