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Chapter 309: Salty! Really salty!

Qiao Qi next to him quickly replaced it with an empty barrel.

The people around him were dumbfounded.

Oh my god! Is it so magical?

Why do you pour a ladle of water into the cylinder and then press it up and down, and the water flows out continuously?

After pressing five or six buckets of water, enough to boil a pot of salt, Li Min stopped.

The surrounding people were all shocked by this magical pressurized water well.

Li Min smiled slightly and taught Qiao Qi how to use the pressure well.

Next, it’s time to start actually boiling the salt.

In the past, when they boiled salt, they first naturally precipitated the water from the well, and then put the precipitated clear water into a pot to start boiling.

After the water eventually evaporates, what remains is coarse salt.

However, because the locations of salt wells are different, the impurities contained in them are different.

Some impurities are also soluble in water.

These impurities cannot be removed by evaporation and crystallization.

Therefore, salt wells in some places contain less impurities and no toxins, so the salt boiled from these salt wells can be eaten.

However, the salt wells in some places are rich in toxic impurities, and the salt cooked in these salt wells is inedible.

And this large area of ​​salt wells is a salt well containing toxic substances.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t be a deserted beach until now.

As for Li Min, after the well water was pumped out, he had already used the system to detect any impurities in it.

These impurities can be removed by adding barium carbonate and sodium hydroxide, which is caustic soda.

And even the dosage has been calculated by the system.

Next, Li Min handed over the barium carbonate and caustic soda that he had purchased from the system to Qiao Qi.

These barium carbonate and caustic soda are all distributed in packages.

In each pot, add one bag of barium carbonate and one bag of caustic soda.

This way, you don't have to worry about them calculating the wrong portions.

Li Min put a bag of barium carbonate and a bag of caustic soda into the pot in front of Qiao Qi.

Then let them wait for an hour. After an hour, take out the clear liquid on the upper layer and start cooking.

An hour later, a lot of sediment appeared at the bottom of the pot of well water.

Qiao Qi ordered people to take out the clear liquid on the upper layer and put it into another pot. Next, the salt can be boiled.

In the past few days, the villagers who divided their labors to cut firewood have cut down several large piles of firewood.

Nowadays, some of the salt is boiled with firewood.

But Li Min also knew that boiling salt was very inefficient.

This large pot of salt will probably take a whole day to boil.

Therefore, Li Min did not continue to stare at the scene, but turned around to rest.

On the second day, Li got up and rushed to the scene, only to find that the salt boiling work had come to an end.

After the salt is cooked, a thick layer of fine salt as white as snow will appear on the bottom of the pot.

Seeing this salt and the people who cooked it, they couldn't help but be shocked.

Oh my god!

Is this really the salt they cooked?

But, how can it be so thin and white?

The salt they used to eat was mostly coarse salt.

Moreover, the color of these coarse salts is dark yellow, and they taste bitter and astringent.

The color and the salt they cooked at this time are simply heaven and earth!

At this moment, Qiao Qi couldn't help but reach out and pick up a pinch of salt and put it into her mouth.

After eating, Qiao Qi was so excited that the corners of her eyes began to turn red.

The surrounding villagers couldn't help but asked nervously: "Old Qiao, how does it taste?"

"Salty! So salty!"

Is it just salty?

Qiao Qi's words made these villagers dissatisfied.

This old Qiao kept half of what he said.

The villagers who were cooking the salt couldn't help but stretched out their hands, picked up a pinch of salt, and put it in their mouths.

And then, their expressions were almost exactly the same as Qiao Qi's.

Their eyes were red with excitement, and they said in surprise: "Salty! So salty!"

No wonder Qiao Qi just said salty and nothing else.

It turns out that this salt is really just salty.

It's not as bitter or astringent as they imagined.

In other words, the salt they boiled and the salt given to them by the Governor to treat their illnesses were actually exactly the same?

It's not bitter at all. This salt is not poisonous salt at all, but good refined salt!

This kind of salt had never appeared before in the Tang Dynasty.

Even among those aristocratic families, there is no such exquisite fine salt.

As a member of an aristocratic family, the food they eat is naturally the best salt.

However, no matter how high-quality the salt they eat is, it is impossible to filter out all harmful impurities without chemicals.

The salt they cook will definitely sell for a good price!

Compared with their surprise, Li Min also went over and pinched a pinch of salt to taste it, and couldn't help but frown.

The cooked salt still has a slight odor.

However, only later generations of people like Li Min, who are very sophisticated, can taste it.

For example, in the Tang Dynasty, people who ate any kind of bitter and astringent coarse salt every day could not compensate for the peculiar smell.

Of course, even if it has a slightly peculiar smell, it is unique in Datang.

If Li Min is willing, he can definitely sell it at a very high price.

In Datang, the price of salt was extremely expensive because it was a specialty market.

The price of a pound of salt is ten times that of a pound of rice!

A bushel of rice costs five cents, and a bushel of salt costs five hundred cents!

In the Tang Dynasty, one dou weighed about twelve kilograms, so the price of each kilogram of salt was about fifty-two cents!

The price of a pound of salt is at least equivalent to more than 100 yuan in future generations!

From this price, you can see how evil the family is!

If it weren't for the fact that although salt is a necessity, it is consumed in very small amounts, and people probably wouldn't even be able to afford it.

As for the refined salt cooked by Li Min, even if it sells for 100 Wen per catty, even if it costs 200 Wen per catty, there will be wealthy people vying to snatch it.

However, Li Min decided to greatly reduce the selling price, directly reducing the price of salt to thirty coins.

Let the price of this salt be reduced to the point where it is cheaper than the coarse salt sold at the market price.

When the time comes, Li Min wants to see how the Taiyuan Wang family will respond.

If they don't lower their prices, how can they compete with Li Min?

And if they lower the price, even if it is lowered to twenty cents, there will probably be many people willing to buy the refined salt that Li Min sells.

Rather than buying the salt in the hands of the Wang family.

Li Min's cost of making these salts was actually very low.

In addition to the upfront investment, all Li Min actually needs to pay is nothing more than some labor costs.

But the salary of ten cents per person per day is not cheap at all.

Even if each person can only cook an average of twenty kilograms of salt per day, and excluding their food expenses, the cost of each kilogram of salt is only about one penny.

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