The ruins of Yanjing Village were filled with cheers, and everyone was filled with excitement and joy.
As the saying goes, as soon as the brine comes out, money and silk will come. From then on, you can fish for silver from the water.
On that day, many kitchens and kitchens had already resumed work. Although some workshops had not yet resumed operations, as long as the stoves were set up and the pots and pots were set up, salt could be made quickly and the rest could be done slowly.
The fire in the kitchen cannot be stopped, and a large amount of firewood is needed. Therefore, a large number of victims and people have a job. As long as they still have some strength, they can earn a wage by chopping firewood and carrying firewood. And collecting brine and carrying
Brine, etc. also require a lot of manpower.
The green smoke is rising from Yanjing Village. The stove farmers are back, the burners are back, the wood-burners and the porters are all rushing back.
Huaiyu visited every kitchen and found that the quality of the salt they produced, whether it was crystal salt or water salt, was very average, even poor.
In future generations, even pickles would probably look down upon this thing.
But in the hands of these Shaoshou, the salt family is very proud to say that this is good salt, at least better than the salt in Yanguan Village in Chengzhou and Yanquan Village in Qinzhou, let alone the Qiang salt in Mintao.
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In other words, the salt from Shuofang Wubaichi and the salt from Hedong Jiechi can compare with them.
After the salt was boiled in each kitchen, the first pot of salt was specially sent to Huaiyu. The pot from the well produced fifteen kilograms of salt, and the pot from the well produced one kilogram and eight taels. The pot from the well produced fourteen kilograms of salt.
, sent one catty and six taels, and the man from Xiaojing produced ten catties of salt, and also sent one catty.
"How busy has Erlang been lately? I never see you?" Lu Huairang asked Huaiyu with a smile. This guy always had a sharp nose and could penetrate everything. He had already noticed what Huaiyu was doing recently and took this opportunity to ask.
The advantage of this is that they can compete in an orderly manner, and even have pricing power over salt sales, and have the initiative when trading with foreign salt merchants.
After hearing what he said, Huaiyu believed that the quality of the salt was indeed average, or that most of the salt at this time was average.
"The pickles pickled in this salt brine are extremely fresh and tender."
Hospital Town now has a large area of land enclosed in Yanjing Village, and barracks, warehouses, and playgrounds have been set up. There are only fifty town soldiers left in the town, as well as some assigned criminal garrison soldiers and some Turkic prisoners.
His mission is to guard Yanjing Village, maintain order here, and ensure the interests of the court.
The ringing of caravan bells was clear and sweet, the salt sellers were haggling over prices, and a long row of thatched wooden houses were even built beside the river beach. They were tea shops and restaurants, and there were even newly opened brothels, gambling houses, inns, and goods stores.
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But he felt that if some of the first salt-making processes could be improved, wouldn't it reduce a lot of costs? If the quality of the salt produced in the salt well could be improved and the cost could be lower than the secondary refining method, then there would be a lot of potential in this.
Big business opportunities and benefits.
When the hospital town came to Yanjingzhai to guard, and Pingle Mansion also re-elected a large number of soldiers to return to Zhang County, there were no expected thieves here, Qiang resistance and harassment, etc. They seemed to suddenly disappear overnight.
Gone.
Caravans, donkey teams, convoys, porters, etc. can go back and forth smoothly. Each of the nine tourist centers has built a fort at a dangerous location on the salt road. The fort where they are located has even become a safe place for the caravans of passing salt merchants to stay overnight.
It gradually attracted some nearby people to open tea shops and inns here, and many nearby people also came here to sell vegetables, etc., and soon formed some small markets.
You rely on the mountain to eat the mountain, and you rely on the salt to eat the salt.
Huaiyi, Cheng Chumo, etc. basically all have some side jobs.
Even next to the kitchen, heaps of white glauber's salt began to pile up again.
After some private competition, the local powerful and kitchen households could only compromise and let them join the game. They even quickly re-reached a cooperation agreement. Various industry chambers of commerce were re-established here, and interest alliances were re-constructed. Outsiders would think again.
It's difficult to get in.
Huaiyi and Cheng Chumo's Pinglefu group was stationed in the county town on the other side of the river. They were only two miles apart and could see each other every day.
Huaiyu in Yanjingzhai is more comfortable.
The tofu in the village is also very famous. Brine the tofu with salt, and the tofu will be very tender. After a busy day, the salt workers like to order some pickles to cook the tofu, some local wine, and some salted pig ears.
That's really better than a living god.
Salt production at the official salt farm also has to be paid.
Now in Yanjingzhai, there are not only government-run salt fields, but also 65 large households that have obtained the qualification to boil salt. There are also many small businesses. Each of these large salt households has more than one kitchen.
Yanjingzhai not only produces salt, but the pickled vegetables, bacon, and salted fish are also very unique and fragrant, especially the pickled pork legs, which are marinated with braised mud.
"Is the salt in the past also of this color?"
"What a good thing, so mysterious?"
The nine police stations in the Youyi Station only caught some stupid thieves who did not know how to live or die, and killed two small Qiang people who did not know the situation, and then the nine salt roads were open again.
Zhao Zongchang looked at the salt sent by each family and said, "As a rule, it is delivered every 10 days. Today is the first pot of salt, so everyone specially sent 10%. This is also a good news. The salt is very good, even better than usual."
It’s two points better.”
"This is the rule."
“Is there a big price difference?”
Nine teams of soldiers patrolled the nine salt roads and commanded a group of beacon shops.
Kitchens with only thatched roofs were erected, with green smoke curling up all day long. The firewood market was booming again. A large amount of firewood was delivered every day, and various kitchen houses bought it and piled it around the kitchens.
, coded neatly.
"Salt."
"What Erlang is talking about is the green salt used by the noble officials of Chang'an. These salts are all re-refined. Just like our salt, they add it to water to dissolve it, then filter it, and then boil it again to form salt.
This cost is not low, it is even higher than the cost of boiling salt directly.
In the past, the salt households in Yanjing Village were all monolithic. They had already formed an alliance of interests, and it was difficult for outsiders to get involved. However, this time the situation was broken due to the Turkic invasion. Huaiyu and the others were too fierce. Not only Lu Huairang was the prince-in-law, but also Cheng Chumo and Wanda.
He is the legitimate son of the Duke, Huaiyu, Chumo still holds troops, Wanda, Lu Huairang, etc. also hold important positions.
Whether it is exchanging grain or money, it is very smooth, especially if you trade cattle and horses with the Qiang people for furs and medicinal materials, you can still make another fortune.
The soldiers in Youyisuo are quite well-off now. Although they patrol the salt road every day, they still have criminals, garrison soldiers and prisoners doing hard work. There is still some extra oil and water for guarding the pass and patrolling the road. Even the small market has to ask them for help.
There is no danger in paying money and it is very comfortable. Many local families even take the initiative to send girls to them, hoping to establish a strong relationship.
Huaiyu has been very busy recently. He, Lu Huairang, Cheng Chumo, Wang Da and others have been busy fighting for territory recently. The old pattern of the restored Yanjing Village has also been broken by these outsiders. Now these dragons crossing the river and the locals
Snakes, as well as some forces, are all fighting for territory here, fighting openly and secretly to reconstruct the pattern here.
The most indispensable thing in Yanjing Village now is salt. The salt is brine continuously and the salt is boiled day and night. One stove in the well can cook 60 kilograms of salt in two shifts a day. One hundred stoves can equal 6,000 kilograms of salt.
Everything is coming back.
In this rebuilt Yanjing Village, it is impossible to say that there are nine tripods in it.
This thing actually doesn't cost much. Just hire some salt-making craftsmen to do the work, and the rest is to hire laborers, then get the brine, buy firewood, boil the salt, and package it.
In the evening, Huaiyu, Lu Huairang, Cheng Chu, Mowu, Huaiyi, Ma Zhouwu, Junwei, Wanda and the others gathered for dinner again in the backyard of the Zhensi Yamen in Hospital Town.
There are so many business opportunities here.
They occupy the right time, place and people, seize the opportunity, and do whatever they want, very conveniently.
Salt is produced here in Yanjingzhai. After the salt production industry was resumed in the Sui Dynasty, which was interrupted for more than 200 years due to the Five Husbands, a rule was left, allowing households to collect brine to make salt and sell it, but the salt produced also had to pay taxes.
This tax is divided into two parts, one is to pay one-tenth of the salt directly, and the other is to collect money and silk.
Zhao Zongchang, the salt official, told Huaiyu that the Tang Dynasty, like the previous Sui dynasty, did not have a monopoly on salt, and that salt wells and ponds in various places were not allowed to be collected by the people.
Everyone is busy.
Autumn is getting colder. This evening, I stewed tofu with pickles in the yard, braised fresh fish from Zhanghe River, roasted lamb, stir-fried local chicken, and prepared a few plates of cold dishes. It was really like a fairy.
Relying on his noble status, Prince Consort Lu did not even care about his ugly appearance. He intervened everywhere, not only opening a salt cooking stove, but also an inn, a mansion, a tavern, a brothel, a gambling house, and a tea shop.
"Of course it's big."
"It's nothing, I just want to get some refined salt. You are all here today, so I'll let you have a look." Huaiyu said and went to carry a box back.
For several days, Yanjing Village was bustling with activity. More and more people came here after hearing that Wu Huaiyu invited the Salt God to return to his throne and produce salt again.
There are many ways to purify salt, but if cost considerations have to be taken into consideration, they are also limited.
Moreover, several people basically opened kitchens to make salt secretly.
It’s not the nobles, nobles, or officials who are powerful, but who can afford such salt?”
The several businesses he made went very smoothly, and he is now famous here, second only to the Salt God Eunuch, and is even regarded by everyone as the spokesperson of the Salt God Eunuch.
Rich and powerful families, traders and caravans all came, and hungry people also came to seek a way to survive.
From chopping firewood, carrying water, carrying salt, and even building workshops and houses, you can find a way to survive and earn rations everywhere. In this early autumn just after the war, people can see hope here.
Part of the salt and money handed over must be turned over to the imperial household tax, part of it must be turned over to the Qinzhou Governor's Office, and some must be turned over to the Weizhou Prefecture, Zhang County, and the plains who were originally stationed in Zhang County.
Letong Military Mansion and so on, there are many people who can share this money.
"I remember that when I was in Chang'an, the salt I used seemed to be quite white, with even grains, bluish-white color, and large, plump grains."
Huaiyu opened a branch of Qianjintang here, and began to make alkali, soap, Xuanming powder, watermelon cream and other medicines. He also opened a teahouse and tavern. Even Xu Erlunzi asked his father-in-law to come forward and open a firewood purchase shop.
Hou San also formed a partnership with other town soldiers and started doing business secretly.
The salt in Yanjingzhai is more useful than the imperial court's Kaiyuan Tongbao copper coins, which are hard currency.
He felt that he had found another way to make a fortune, which was no worse than the way he used Glauber's salt and sebum.
Ordinary people are mainly not qualified to enter.
"The brine in Yanjing Village is really good. Every winter, local kitchen farmers use salt well brine mud to marinate meat, then stack, press, wash, shape, dry, and hang to air-dry. After two or three years of fermentation and maturity, its flavor is unique and salty.
It’s fragrant and sweet, especially the pork hind legs taste better after being marinated and air-dried, and can be eaten raw.”
The place looks different almost every day, attracting people from the surrounding area continuously, and also collects money, food and goods.
After hearing this, Huaiyu fell into deep thought. The method of using secondary dissolution, filtration, refining and decoction had indeed greatly increased the cost. This refined salt was naturally more expensive.
Fifteen kilograms of salt from the well are given to one kilogram and eight taels, which is exactly one part.
"My salt is not ordinary boiling salt, neither crispy rice cake salt nor water salt loose salt." Huaiyu opened the box with a smile.
