"Well, why can't the Baron of Quint buy white salt?" The Black Rock Territory is the second neighbor a day and a night's journey away from the Storm Territory. Nalant still doesn't know what is happening in the Quint Territory, so he prefers the serfs to stay close to them.
I'm curious, even if the tax is tripled, it doesn't cost much salt to pickle fish.
"Sir, I can't buy it anymore, Baron Quint..." At that moment, Kenby Cowdung carefully told what happened yesterday.
"Refuse to sell white salt to the Storm Territory? Even the tax on the transaction has been doubled?" After hearing this, Nalant, who was still acting like an old god, suddenly became angry. This was too much.
"What a bastard! Sooner or later I'm going to let him know why the flowers are so red!" Under normal circumstances, good relations will be established between noble neighbors.
After all, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. If any danger comes, the nobles can also form an offensive and defensive alliance. Now that the Stormland has a lord, Quint actually wants to take advantage of them. This simply does not take him seriously as a lord.
"Sir, please calm down!" At this moment, Thomas brought over a cup of tea made from tulip powder. "Sir, I heard the noble gentlemen talk about it at the Tulip Castle ball before, saying that Baron Quint is famous.
Stingy and mean! He is not only stingy to the serfs, but also to the nobles!"
"Last time, Baron Delin from the Tulip Territory went to buy white salt from it, but when he bought it back, he found that it was mixed with a lot of sand!"
As a servant of Tulip Castle, Thomas also heard many interesting things discussed by the nobles, so he told Nalant about them.
"Huh? He is so mean and mean, and there are still nobles who go to him to buy white salt?" The nobles also resorted to fraud in transactions. After his reputation spreads, there may be no nobles trading with him.
"Sir, there is nothing we can do about it. There are three elves in Baron Quint who have opened salt mines. Therefore, if there are no salt mines nearby, nobles can only go to him to buy white salt. After all, salt mine elves are relatively rare.
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"Sir, it is rumored that Baron Quint is the illegitimate son of the Dark Iron Earl. Although the canonized territory is relatively remote, the three salt mine elves were given to him by the Dark Iron Earl, so this Baron Quint is actually better than the average viscount.
Be rich."
"The count's illegitimate son? The salt mine elf!" Suddenly, Nalant realized that there seemed to be no naturally formed mineral deposits underground in this world. Both iron ore and gold mines were bred by yellow elves.
"Then have you ever heard of anyone using seawater to make salt?" Narant suddenly asked a few people.
The few people who heard this looked at each other, and Thomas was also stunned for a moment, and then replied: "Sir, white salt is also a mineral deposit, and it is also transformed from the yellow elf! Although seawater is also salty, it seems that it cannot turn into salt!"
Thomas reminded him as quietly as possible to avoid damaging his master's dignity.
This time it was Narant's turn to look weird. In his previous life, sea salt accounted for the largest proportion of salt consumed by people.
But this world also has an endless sea, and people actually only rely on the salt mine elves to fetch well salt for food.
"Thomas, how much is the market price of white salt per pound?"
"Sir, the price is basically ten copper plates per pound. Unless you go directly to a territory with salt mines like the Baron of Quinte to buy it, it is usually five copper plates per pound. However, that price is only for caravans sent by nobles. Common people
You can't buy it at a low price." Thomas replied immediately.
"Ten cents a pound, as expensive as wheat?" Nalant felt incredible when he heard this. In his previous life, a pack of salt cost one or two yuan, which was enough to last for a long time.
Nalant slapped the armrest of the chair and stood up, "Thomas, go and carry a big pot to the carriage. The bigger the better, and also get a tablecloth and a few wooden basins!"
Although the mineral deposits in this world were transformed by elves, Nalant felt that since sea water is salty, it should also contain salt.
Therefore, he wanted to give it a try. If salt could be extracted from the sea water like in his previous life, then he would make that Quint cry and sing about conquest.
"Yes, sir!" Although he didn't know what his elder wanted to do, Thomas still followed it honestly.
Soon, two carriages drove from the Baron's Castle to the Village of Doom.
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"Kenbi Cowdung, find some strong serfs!" Nalant ordered to Kenbi at the entrance of Doom Village.
Soon, Kenby brought several serfs to the beach.
There were two ways to make sea salt in ancient times. The first was to use firewood to burn seawater to obtain sea salt.
The second is to use salt fields to dry sea salt.
As for the second kind of sun-dried sea salt, Nalant obviously has no way to make it now. After all, the beach is completely occupied by fishmen, so he can only choose to use firewood to burn it.
Fortunately, this world lacks everything except green mountains and green waters, and large tracts of forests have not yet been cultivated.
He ordered a few serfs to set up a simple stove, then gathered firewood and scooped out sea water. Nalant's salt burning in this other world officially began.
"Sir, are you going to cook something? Do you want me to go back to the village and get two pieces of fish?" Kenbi Cowdung winced and looked at the empty cauldron with only sea water, and he was courteous.
Snapped!
Quick's backhand gave Kenby Cowdung a headache. His lord was doing big things, but Cowdung, who had no ambition, only knew how to eat.
Although he, Quick, didn't know what the big deal was for, it was definitely not for food.
Kenby Cowdung became more obedient after being beaten to the bone, and kept watching the sea water in the cauldron boiling less and less.
"Well, you guys, take this cloth, filter the water in the iron pot and pour it into the wooden basin!" Seeing that a quarter of the seawater had been burned, Nalant gave instructions to the group of people.
Soon, several people quickly started filtering the seawater with tablecloths.
Although the tablecloth is not silk, it is fine linen that only nobles can afford, so the filtering effect is still good, and the brown turbidity is quickly filtered out.
"Well, pour it on and continue burning!"
The filtered seawater continues to be put into the pot, but this time the cooking time is longer.
When the seawater was burned like thick gruel, red and white crystals appeared around the iron pot.
"That's it! Pour out all the water in the pot this time!" The water in the pot at this time is commonly known as salt brine, and can be used to make some tofu. Unfortunately, Nalant doesn't need it at the moment.
When the brine was poured out, Kenby Cowdung and the guards looked curiously at the red and white crystals stuck to the pot.
"Sir, what is this? Why do these things appear in the originally clear sea water after it is boiled?" Quake felt very magical.
"This is salt!" Narante smiled, grinning from ear to ear.
No wonder he was so happy. When crystals began to appear on the bottom of the pot, Narant knew that the seawater in this world could also produce salt.
"What? Is this salt?" Everyone looked strange. Although they usually didn't eat snowflake salt like the nobles, the color was not so outrageous at all. It was almost as red as this.
"If you don't believe it, try it!"
"Ah! Bah!" Quick, Kenby and others really raised their hands and put a little sea salt in their mouths.
But the next moment he started spitting.
"Sir, it's really salty, but it's too bitter!" Quick and others said with grimaces and disgust.
"Bitter is right, because this is just coarse salt and needs to be refined!" Nalant smiled and looked at everyone.