The workers rushed into the salt pond excitedly, and first opened the valve next to the pond, allowing the bitter brine that would no longer crystallize into sea salt to flow into the sea along the salt ditch. What was left at the bottom of the pond was mixed with a small amount of bitter brine and seemed a bit sticky.
grains of salt.
The top of a long wooden stick is a wooden board that is lifted up horizontally. When you push hard on the bottom of the pool like pushing snow, the crystallized sea salt is pushed up...
The sea salt piled together contains bitter brine, which is sticky and unsightly. However, as the bitter brine gradually flows out and the remaining moisture evaporates under the sunlight, the originally black piles of salt become
Be dazzlingly white.
When the sun shines, sea salt beats snow!
As the bitter brine in the crystallization pond slowly drains away, the remaining salt grains at the bottom of the pond gradually dry out, like the bitter frost after autumn or the thin snow in winter, and become crystal white. Regardless of the shock in their hearts, the workers use
The bamboo broom sweeps up the remaining layer of sea salt at the bottom of the pool and puts it into piles of snow-white salt, and then uses a dustpan to load it on a wheelbarrow that is different from the past. Car after car of sea salt quilts
They were transported to the open space behind the crystallization pond with a cement floor, and were easily piled into a hill.
A salt mountain that is as white as snow!
When the last car of sea salt was pushed out of the salt pond and piled on the salt mountain, the workers opened the gate above the crystallization pond, and the brine that had been sedimented, filtered and sun-dried for several days flowed into the pond again. After another day or two, another
Pool sea salt.
When all the processes were completed, all the workers wiped their sweat, and the noble merchants opened their mouths and stared blankly at the salt mountain reflecting the white light in the sun!
This... is so salty?!
Everyone can hardly believe their eyes...
Boiling sea salt has been practiced since ancient times.
Farmers either make salt for themselves or make salt for aristocratic families. The whole family works hard to cut firewood in the mountains and carry seawater from the sea. Each pot can only hold up to thirty kilograms of seawater, making it smoky and scorching.
After drying it, I could only get a pound...
Local farmers are better off. After exorbitant taxes and the fact that their families have to eat a kilogram of food, they can’t have much left over every month for their hard work. Moreover, seawater is highly corrosive, and the iron quality of the iron pot is not good, so the pot needs to be boiled many times.
If you are not careful, you will burn through the bottom of the pot, which is another expensive expense.
As for the laborers who worked for the wealthy families, they were even more miserable. The salt they worked so hard to produce was not their own. Their eyes were damaged by the fireworks, and their hands and feet were sore from the sea water. In the end, they could only exchange
Return some food to fill your stomach, and the whole family will not be full...
But look at the scene in front of you again. Some pools were dug on the beach and dried in the sun. People went down to use rakes and sweeps with brooms to easily get such a salt mountain. Isn’t it probably tens of thousands of kilograms of sea salt?
When the workers thought about their past hard work, they really wanted to cry; suddenly they thought that in the future, there would be such a good way to easily obtain sea salt. Although the salt was not theirs, they could still make a living and have enough to eat every time.
But they were all ecstatic.
As for the gentry and merchants, they were all dumbfounded and dumbfounded, with mixed feelings in their hearts. It can be said that they are filled with sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, and fearful of all kinds of flavors. They don't know what it feels like...
Naturally, I am happy. With such an easy method of making salt, the output will only be greater than what Fang Jun originally promised. This investment will naturally make a lot of money.
But there are many people who are regretful and unwilling!
The output of sea salt is indeed quite large, and this transaction is worthwhile. Even if you borrow a large amount of money from a "bank" and have to pay a large amount of interest every month and every year, you are still making a lot of money.
But the problem is such an extremely simple method of drying salt. How come I have never thought of it before? The history of many nobles and merchants boiling salt in the sea can be traced back to their ancestors hundreds of years ago. If it starts from that
I knew this method of drying salt when I was young. What kind of amazing wealth have I accumulated over the years?
What makes everyone most angry is that just by building a few pools on the beach, filling them with seawater and waiting for the sun to dry the seawater, such a fool can make salt, but this damn Fang Jun actually did it.
Hold tens of millions of wealth into your arms?
The robbery of the palace is not as fast as this...
Fang Jun looked at the mountains of sea salt as white as snow, feeling proud and proud!
Each salt field is divided by a salt ditch, about one mile in length and width, covering an area of about half a square kilometer, and is divided into numerous sedimentation ponds, evaporation ponds and crystallization ponds. This place is far away from the Yangtze River's estuary.
Huating Town extends into a corner of the sea, surrounded by unobstructed plains. In the summer, the wind is strong, making it easy for seawater to evaporate. However, due to the influence of the plum rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River, the output during this period is affected.
Even so, according to observation records, now is the time of year when the temperature is the highest. On a sunny day, about 0.2 millimeters of seawater can be evaporated every day. A salt field can evaporate 20,000 tons of seawater. The salt content in seawater is about 3%.
, which can produce 300 tons of sea salt.
There was no reference, and Fang Jun didn't know the difference between the weight of one kilogram in the Tang Dynasty and that of later generations, so he calculated it based on one kilogram. Thirty kilograms are jun, and four jun are stones. Since one stone is one dendrobium, and one hundred and twenty kilograms, then one piece
The salt fields can produce 5,000 hu of sea salt every day...
Naturally, the sun is shining and the sea breeze is blowing like this every day. Excluding cloudy days and rain and low temperatures in winter and slow evaporation, we can still produce 300,000 to 400,000 pieces of dendrobium sea salt in a year.
At first, Fang Jun promised that each salt field would produce 100,000 hu of sea salt per year. Now it seems that Fang Jun’s calculations were wrong and the output was much higher than expected.
Did you suffer a loss?
Fang Jun didn't think so.
No matter what era we are in, salt is the most important basis for survival like food. People without food will starve to death, and people without salt will still not survive! Salt is not only an important condiment, but also an indispensable substance for maintaining the normal development of the human body.
Salt regulates the balanced distribution of water in the human body, maintains osmotic pressure inside and outside cells, participates in the formation of gastric acid, promotes the secretion of digestive juices, and increases appetite; at the same time, it also ensures the pH necessary for the action of pepsin and maintains the pH balance in the body.
and normal circulation of body fluids.
People cannot do without salt. Eating too little salt can also cause low sodium content in the body, resulting in loss of appetite, weakness in limbs, dizziness, etc. In severe cases, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, accelerated heart rate, weak pulse, and muscle weakness can occur.
Symptoms such as spasms, blurred vision, and weakened reflexes.
However, since ancient times, in addition to enriching the country's finances, the official operation of salt has not allowed more people to eat salt. Official salt is too expensive, and most of the salt circulated among the people is private salt. In the early Tang Dynasty, it was not implemented
Salt is government-run, but most people can afford it, but the price of salt has never been high. This shows that whether the people can afford salt has nothing to do with whether it is monopolized by the state. On the contrary, due to the state's monopoly, the price of salt has skyrocketed, which has suffered for the people.
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What is the most normal way?
There is no doubt that it is competition!
Competition can improve product quality, reduce product prices, and directly benefit the people!
The more salt is produced, the cheaper the price will naturally be, so that the common people can afford salt!
Presumably, what does the loss of some money count?
Not to mention that Fang Jun originally planned to cede this benefit to the emperor and the merchants of the Jiangnan gentry, in order to divide the alliance of the Jiangnan gentry.
People with a sharp mind can estimate the annual income from a large amount of sea salt from a salt farm.
While feeling excited, he also became more in awe of Fang Jun.
This is not to be in awe of Fang Jun's ability to turn stones into gold, but to the wealth that Fang Jun created for the emperor. Due to the restrictions on the purchase of shares in the salt farm, the noble merchants present could only occupy at most three percent of a salt farm, but what about the emperor?
There are five salt pans!
How much wealth is this?
By dedicating such a huge amount of wealth to the emperor, what status would Fang Jun, who was already highly favored, have in the eyes of the emperor?
The most powerful minister of the Tang Dynasty may not be considered, but the most favored minister of the Tang Dynasty, who else could he be?
Your Majesty is now in the prime of life, and Fang Jun's backing is as solid as a rock; even if the throne is passed down in the future, the relationship between Fang Jun and His Royal Highness will remain unbreakable!
It is almost conceivable that as long as Fang Jun does not commit suicide and rebel, he will be the emperor's most trusted and favored minister in the next few decades...
Who can upset such a stable position?
This is an extremely thick thigh. The sooner you embrace it, the higher the reward will be. On the contrary, if you offend him, even if you are not killed, you will not have a good life for decades...