It turned out that because of Yi Xiaotian's instructions yesterday, the soldiers worked hard at night to dig out the first real coarse salt mine today.
For soldiers, coarse salt is something they are very familiar with. Before there was pork jerky, which was abundantly produced in Youjian Mountain Villa, if you wanted to add some flavor to the rations you carried with you when you were marching, you would use salted salt cloth.
, or some coarse salt you carry with you, is the foil for all their flavors.
Coarse salt is not completely unprocessed, but it is still not comparable to the refined salt crystals scraped directly from the salt well.
Even if coarse salt has undergone some simple processing, it still contains many impurities mixed in when mining salt mines.
One pound of salt, half a pound of sand, doesn’t that mean coarse salt?
This kind of good friend who is quite friendly to the soldiers, it is indeed a novel thing for them to mine it with their own hands one day.
But Yi Xiaotian told them that from now on he would make everyone eat refined salt...
Just this sentence——
This sentence ignited the enthusiasm of all the soldiers, so all night long, hundreds of soldiers worked hard in this mountain col. Just now, they finally mined a huge piece of coarse salt from the cracks.
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"Have you done all the things I asked you to do now?"
Yi Xiaotian couldn't hide the excitement on his face. He held the big salt block and rushed directly to Huang Yueying and Zhen Luo. The two nodded quickly and took out a large number of well-sewn sachets from the bag beside them.
Ordinary large cloth bag.
Yes, the big cloth bag, the key is what is stuffed inside, so Zhen Luo and Huang Yueying really don't understand the meaning of Yi Xiaotian wanting such a thing.
"Sir...they're all here!"
“It helped a lot!”
Yi Xiaotian nodded heavily, affirming the two women's efforts. Being able to feel needed will bring great satisfaction to people, this is the case for Zhen Luo, and even more so for Huang Yueying.
On the other side, Yi Xiaotian hurriedly took the cloth bag and greeted another group of soldiers who had been busy near the shallow beach for a long time:
"If you have enough pebbles, send them up as soon as possible!"
In short, after half a stick of incense, everything was gathered in front of everyone.
At this moment, there was total silence in the Lumen Mountain Col.
The furnace in the center was burning with blazing flames, and in the huge bronze cauldron above the furnace, the water was scalding hot and still boiling.
"Sir... this is already the biggest 'pot' I can find. I really can't find it in the bigger ones..."
The big cauldron is the key, and around the cauldron there are many kinds of pots and pans brought by Xu Chu. In short, this seemingly gaudy scene is really overwhelming.
Xu Chu scratched his head. Like Le Jin, Zhen Luo, and Huang Yueying who were surrounding the cauldron, they were still in the fog.
And Yi Xiaotian stood in front of the cauldron and shouted to the soldiers who surrounded the open space on the third floor and the third floor:
"The era when the common people did not have access to refined salt will cease to exist from today on!"
"Xu Chu! Do as I say, step by step, and don't make any mistakes!"
"coming!"
Xu Chu responded and directly followed Yi Xiaotian's instructions and started a series of operations that others could not understand at all.
And then everyone understood why Yi Xiaotian only called Xu Chu for help - because only a person with natural power like Xu Chu could fiddle with this big cauldron like this...
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Under the shocked eyes of everyone.
The huge salt mine was thrown into the boiling water. Many soldiers who were hesitant to speak just wanted to call out to their general, but were stopped by Yi Xiaotian with a wave of his hand——
"What are the general and the village owner doing! If the salt mine is thrown into the water, can the salt still be eaten?"
This was the common thought of everyone, but Yi Xiaotian took his time and directed Xu Chu to stir the boiling water in the cauldron with a huge spoon.
Round, round, and round.
The water became increasingly turbid, and everyone's hearts were tightly clenched together.
And the salt mine slowly disappeared under the nervous gazes of everyone.
Soon, the pebbles Yi Xiaotian asked the soldiers to pick up, as well as the cloth bags Huang Yueying and Zhen Luo made overnight, were all put to use——
Under Yi Xiaotian's command, Xu Chu poured the turbid salt water into small containers filled with pebbles and cloth bags one after another.
Just this step made Huang Yueying suddenly want to understand something——
She walked forward and looked at the fine gravel and various impurities left on the surface of the rocks and cloth bags in surprise. She instantly realized that Yi Xiaotian was filtering boiled salt water.
From the moment she discovered this fact, she began to look forward to what magical things would happen in front of this small open space in the end.
Everyone was exhausted. The key is that the salt mine is huge, there is a lot of water, and the containers are quite heavy. Even moving these containers is quite laborious.
But under Yi Xiaotian's command, everyone saw the results of their efforts——
The water became clear.
After repeating this operation over and over again, the water becomes clearer and clearer.
Finally, when Yi Xiaotian ordered everyone to re-inject all the filtered water into the cauldron, all the efforts came to fruition at the last moment.
"Add fire, add fire! Boil the water dry!"
Yi Xiaotian himself also joined the lineup of adding firewood. As the saying goes, the flames are high when everyone collects firewood. The big cauldron is heated by the scorching fire, and the water in the cauldron decreases rapidly with the change of time.
After about half an hour—
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An extremely harsh sound came from the bottom of the cauldron, and along with the harsh sound, bursts of smoke came out of the cauldron.
At this moment, everyone was quite nervous.
During this process, Huang Yueying, who had already anticipated the result, looked at the sweating man in front of her in disbelief.
"First...sir...is it over?"
She clenched her hands nervously and asked first.
Yi Xiaotian slowly walked to the cauldron, looked inside for a moment, and then burst into laughter.
He didn't care about the temperature inside the cauldron, and directly stretched out his hand to grab hard from the dark inside of the cauldron.
From the moment Yi Xiaotian took his hand out of the cauldron, his name was recorded in the history books in another way——
Thousands of years later, people often talk about this extremely prosperous variety of cuisines.
They can't forget the existence of Yi Xiaotian, who is called the ancestor.
Yes, this is what is called changing history. On this day, Yi Xiaotian grabbed a handful of crystal clear salt from the tripod.
He randomly threw salt as white as snow into the hands of the soldiers, as if thinking that they were announcing the victory of the battle.
This is refined salt...pure enough to crush the so-called fine salt - the real refined salt extracted from the coarse salt mines that are called poor.
While tasting the unimaginably fresh salt, the soldiers recalled their past experiences and the heroic words Yi Xiaotian had spoken today.
