"Can you really draw talisman and seal to communicate with the Salt God and restore the brine?"
On the ruins of Yanjing Village, the town army, government soldiers, Turkic prisoners, garrison soldiers, beacon guards, local powerful men, kitchen households, burners, firewood customers, etc. were all cleaning up together. Lu Huairang came to Huaiyu and asked in a low voice
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"Worth a try."
"How sure are you that it can happen?"
"It all depends on people." Huaiyu didn't guarantee it.
Lu Huairang was a little disappointed, but in a flash he was a little excited. He said in a low voice, "The three salt villages in Longyou are all cornucopias. Do you know how profitable this place used to be?"
Huaiyu smiled, "Didn't you say that you can easily make eight hundred horses a day?"
"Eight hundred horses is definitely an exaggeration, but the profit from salt is amazing, especially since the Qiang people from far and near eat salt, but they come here to trade directly with horses, furs, medicinal materials, etc. Salt here is used as money and silk.
Currency is even more useful than copper coins."
Huaiyu understood the meaning behind his words, salt and horse trading, which meant there was still money to be made.
"Is it very profitable?"
"This is a base."
Even if a mare is worthless, it can only be sold for one silk horse. The profit here is indeed too high. How much profit can be made if it is resold to Guanzhong.
People in the Tang Dynasty generally divided horses into sire horses, Dun horses and grass horses. Of course, a sire horse is a male horse that has never been gelded, a Dun horse is a castrated horse, and a grass horse is a female horse.
Huaiyu got some Glauber's salt, salt, etc. and started playing with bottles and jars.
"It has a wide range of uses, including pharmaceuticals, dough making, paper making, dyes, textiles, spice making, glass making, etc."
"What is this?" Although Fan Xuanfu has been helping out in the past few days, he has no idea what this mysterious alchemy is doing.
It would be better to push the consort Lu Huai to the front, and then pull Cheng Chumo, uncle Wang Da, and Qin Shixing brothers together. Now the consort, governor, commander of the army, town general, Sima, governor, etc. will all share the benefits.
He will naturally be safe at that time, and he will not be afraid if he eats a little bit, but eating alone is not a good idea.
"I'm working on a treasure."
In the face of huge benefits, it would be a lie to say that you are not tempted.
But now that there are piles of Glauber's Salt in front of him, Huaiyu no longer needs to work so hard to refine sulfur to make alkali. Using Glauber's Salt can skip that step.
It took Wu Huaiyu several days of trial and error before he succeeded in getting what he wanted, soda ash.
Huaiyu really wanted to tell Lu Huairang that he was the hospital commander and Jiuyou Yisuo was also his subordinate. He had to rely on himself to draw the talisman to ask the Salt God to restore the brine.
Huaiyu asked Lu Huairang to do it boldly. He concentrated on studying the painting talismans and asked the Salt God Grandpa. Lu Huairang went to work with satisfaction. Huaiyu called Ma Zhou and arranged for him to lead people to rebuild the Salt Temple and invite craftsmen to reshape the Salt God statue, etc.
After it was done, he came back to draw the talisman to pray to the gods.
"What is this for?"
Lu Huairang wants to directly intervene in the salt production business and seize the share. As long as he has salt in his hands, he will naturally be able to exchange for cheap cattle, horses, sheep, furs, medicinal materials and other native goods when he trades with the Qiang people. These Qiang people
Livestock and other products traded by people are cheap, and you can make a lot of money if you resell them.
"I have inquired about it. When this place was prosperous in the previous dynasty, the Dangxiang people drove horses to exchange for salt. A good horse in the two capitals of the Central Plains cost 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, but here it only costs a few thousand yuan."
Especially when everyone else is doing it, there's no reason why you shouldn't join.
The basic principle is that green vitriol decomposes during exercise and releases sulfur dioxide and sulfur trioxide. Sulfur trioxide and water vapor are condensed at the same time to obtain sulfuric acid.
"What are you doing? Are you preparing the materials for drawing talismans?"
The sire horse is not castrated and is not suitable for riding, especially as a war horse in the army. Otherwise, it will not be docile and will easily chase the female horse.
Straw horses are the cheapest. Regardless of whether they are Dangxiang, Turkic or Central Plains people, they generally do not ride mare. They are ashamed to ride mare. There are many specific reasons. One of the reasons is that mare is mainly used for breeding.
She spends most of the year pregnant, and has to take care of the pony after giving birth, so she cannot be used for riding or carrying things.
Glauber's salt contains sodium sulfate. The crude Glauber's salt is first heated with water to form a saturated solution, and then clarified to remove sediment. Then the steam is melted, evaporated, crystallized, separated and dried to obtain pure Glauber's salt.
This guy has always been really smart in these areas, and he can find every opportunity to find his way into everything.
Even according to the current Qiang people's normal transaction price, the fine grass horse only costs about ten pieces of silk, which is only more than 3,000 yuan, which is several times different from the price in Chang'an.
"In the early years, Dangxiang horses were even sold for one silk horse and one straw horse."
Xiaojing cooks brine and makes salt for other retail households.
Huaiyu looked at the excited Lu Huairang, guessing that this guy had found some opportunity to make money again. Sure enough, this guy suggested to Huaiyu that the upper well with the highest amount of brine should be designated as an official salt well, and only the official salt farm could take brine. Of course, they
Definitely have to get involved.
The superficial reason is to facilitate management, but in fact, we are taking this opportunity to reshuffle the salt production industry in Yanjingzhai. We have the power, so of course we have to use it.
If you go down to the well, you will get the brine for the local powerful people, but they will also have to take a share secretly.
In this way, you can make a profit by making salt, and you can make another profit by trading with each other.
As for cleaning the salt well, there is no rush now. We have to invite the Salt God back to clean the well. Otherwise, if the Salt God hasn't invited the brine to come out, we will be in trouble.
Such a person is not a consort, who should be a consort?
However, the interests of Yanjing Village are too great and involve a wide range of things. There are probably many backers behind the powerful people in those places. If he doesn't get Lu Huairang to take the lead, it may not be easy to settle things afterwards.
When Huaiyu saw those Glauber's salt, he thought of making soda ash, but making soda requires sulfuric acid. Fortunately, the Taoist alchemy predecessors had long invented the production method for sulfuric acid. The oldest method is to use green vitriol, or ferrous sulfate, as the raw material.
It is tempered in a distillation kettle to obtain sulfuric acid, but the alchemy priests call it green vitriol oil.
Then add Glauber's salt and limestone, and the carbon powder is reduced and carbonated at high temperature to obtain crude black ash. After leaching, evaporation, refining, recrystallization, and drying, heavy soda ash can be obtained.
"Anyway, there is no brine in the salt well now. At this time, we proposed to adjust the division of the salt well, and there was little opposition from everyone. Moreover, now that the salt well village is in ruins, it is up to you, Erlang, to invite the salt god father-in-law back. I have soldiers and horses in my hands.
From now on, Hospital Town will be stationed in Yanjing Village, and you will guard the nine salt roads. Who among them would dare not to cooperate with us?"
If he really wanted to get involved, what would happen to Lu Huairang?
This alkali production method is relatively backward, consumes a lot of Glauber's salt, and has a lot of waste liquid. In particular, it needs to raise the furnace temperature to 1,000 degrees, which consumes a lot of heat. But if it is only a small-scale production, these are not problems.
A blacksmith's closed bellows furnace can reach a temperature of a thousand degrees using charcoal.
Commonly used Dunmu horses are divided into fine, medium and rough horses. The current price is generally around twenty silk horses, eighteen horses, sixteen horses, and grass horses are about half the price of Dun horses.
Fan Xianji asked him curiously.
Fan Xuanfu stared at the small white powder that Wu Huaiyu produced with his eyes wide open, like a magic trick, and asked, "Is this some kind of universal elixir that can do anything?"
"I kid you not, not only can it be used to make soap, but it can also be used as a detergent for rinsing wool, and it can also be used as an alkali for tanning leather.
If you purify it again, you can consume soda ash, and you can also use it to make steamed cakes. The dough will become more fluffy, and when mixed with alkaline water and added to pasta, the noodles will be more elastic and malleable."
"Add lime water to make caustic soda, which not only has a strong cleaning effect in removing oil stains, but can also be used in papermaking, etc. It is also a good thing."
