Lin Xiao asked the workers to pour all the salt into a large iron pot, pour in a large amount of water, and then boil the water.
"Boy Lin, what are you doing? It's not a waste to pour all such precious royal salt into the water!"
Li Yujun looked at the buckets of cooked salt and felt a little sad. He felt sad that such good royal salt was wasted!
For a moment, he doubted whether there was really something wrong with his vision!
"Prince, please rest assured, Xiao Linzi is filtering the salt water."
Yu Xilin, who was following Li Yujun, opened his mouth to explain.
“What does filtering mean?”
Li Yujun was very interested in the word he had never heard of before, and asked quickly.
"Filtering means to remove the original bitterness from the salt."
Yu Xilin explained simply.
Although he didn't understand, Li Yujun still nodded blankly and stopped asking any more questions.
He doesn’t want to lose his old face!
Under the command of Lin Xiao, workers poured the melted concentrated brine into a sealed vat.
After a while, clear salt water began to filter out from the bottom of the vat.
After another half an hour, after Lin Xiao's inspection, the workers put the filtered salt water into the pot and boiled it.
As the liquid evaporates, white salt particles are slowly poured out.
Seeing this scene, Li Yujun's eyes widened.
This is how salt is made!
Although he was a member of the royal family of the Great Xia Dynasty, he had only heard of the art of making salt but had never practiced it, and he had never thought of making salt himself.
Now that he saw it, a picture of deputy salt production appeared in his mind, and a rush of blood rushed into his heart, making him tremble with excitement.
When the liquid in the pot has evaporated to almost the same level, the workers continue frying, and the refined salt as white as snow is completed.
"Your Majesty, please have a taste."
Li Yujun couldn't wait to twist some salt grains and put them into his mouth, his eyes sparkling.
Lin Xiao, he really knows how to make salt!!!
No, he is a salt-making genius!!!
"Okay, it's so delicious. Your salt-making skills are unparalleled. If our Daxia royal family can have such an outstanding descendant as you, it will be a blessing for our royal family!"
Li Yujuan exclaimed excitedly, and at the same time he was very happy that he could get to know such a genius.
"Your Majesty is so complimentary."
Lin Xiao shook his head modestly:
"There will be a big difference in the weight of the filtered salt. This is unavoidable. Please forgive me, Your Majesty!"
"It doesn't matter, I understand!"
Li Yujun waved his hand and said he didn't mind.
"Thank you for your patronage, three hundred copper coins."
Seeing that Li Yujun didn't care, Lin Xiao shamelessly stretched out three fingers to him.
When Yu Xilin heard that Lin Xiao actually wanted to collect money from the prince, he quickly stepped forward to stop him:
"Xiao Linzi, that's the prince!"
"Brothers, let me settle the score. I don't need any money, but brothers like me can't work in vain, right? They also have to eat!"
Lin Xiao said seriously, and after finishing speaking, he glanced at Li Yujun.
Li Yujun understood, and he quickly ordered:
"Come here, reward this young master with three ingots of gold!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Lin Xiao cupped his hands with a bright smile on his face.
Three hundred copper plates turn into three ingots of gold. It’s worth the money!
However, when she saw a piece of gold no bigger than the nail of her little finger, her bright smile froze on the spot.
Are these three ingots of gold?
Mini version?
I weighed it in my hand and estimated that it should be worth ten taels of silver.
This prince is also a bit stingy!
"I wonder if Mr. Lin can have a meal with us?"
Li Yujun asked.
At this moment, Lin Xiao has become his guest.
"Thank you, Your Majesty. This is what I have in mind. If Your Majesty doesn't mind, I would like to introduce a friend to Your Majesty."
Upon hearing this, Lin Xiao quickly said happily, she has been waiting for this sentence now!
What is the identity of the prince?
That's the emperor's brother!
If Zhang Yue could be introduced to the prince, wouldn't the clothes of the lover, the lipstick, soap and the like made by her become special items for the emperor in seconds?
Only then will she truly have a firm foothold in the Great Xia Dynasty!
Some people may be wondering after seeing this, doesn’t Lin Xiao still make a lot of money selling salt?
Why bother?
Let me ask, who would mind having too much money?
Furthermore, salt is a necessity for the common people. When the salt she makes becomes more and more popular, the court's salt will be unable to be sold.
By then, the imperial court's fiscal revenue will have dropped significantly. How can the Holy Father not be held accountable?
The first unlucky person must be Lin Xiao!
If you want to get away with it, you have to either obediently hand over your salt-making skills to the court, or become a new salt manufacturer for the court. Most of the silver you earn will belong to the court. Not only will you live a tight life, but you will also have to worry about your own health all the time.
Head on the item!
Lin Xiao was not willing to live in such a life of fear!
Therefore, she must pave the way for herself in advance to prevent her from having no way out in the future!
Back to the topic.
Li Yujun heard that Lin Xiao wanted to introduce a friend to him and agreed without thinking.
The place to eat is still Chen's Tavern.
Chen Yun originally wanted to ridicule Lin Xiao, but when he saw the prince was there, he had to swallow the words that came to his lips.
He glared at Lin Xiao hatefully, but did not dare to show any dissatisfaction.
He knew that Lin Xiao was no longer someone he could afford to offend.
The thought of taking revenge in person suddenly faded a lot.
"Your Majesty can come to the shop, it is a great honor for the shop!"
Chen Yun quickly put away his bad mood, put on a bright smile, and greeted the prince.
"Mr. Chen, I wonder if Mrs. Zhang, the concubine, has arrived?"
Lin Xiao ignored Chen Yun's flattering performance and asked directly.
"Here, here, we are in the private room on the second floor! I will take you there right now."
Although Chen Yun had hundreds of resentments in his heart, he still forced himself to put on a smile and led the prince and others to the private room where Zhang Yue was.
While walking, Chen Yun kept stealing glances at Lin Xiao, cursing in his heart:
"Don't think that just because you have the support of the prince, in the end you are still a country bumpkin who has never seen the world!"
"Your Majesty, that is Mrs. Zhang. She is inside. I will leave first."
After arriving at the door, Chen Yun stopped and turned around to salute the prince.
"Well, back off!"
The prince nodded indifferently and motioned for Chen Yun to retreat.
Chen Yun quickly saluted again and left.
Halfway there, he couldn't help but glance in Lin Xiao's direction a few times, feeling secretly resentful and cursing:
"Hillbilly, wait and see!"
…
In the private room.
Zhang Yue saluted Li Yujuan fearfully.
She had only seen the prince in movies and TV series, but now that she saw a living person, she was really frightened and didn't know what to do for a while.
She originally thought that the prince was just an ordinary prince with no threat, but she didn't expect that he was so elegant and noble, showing extraordinary magnanimity in his every move.