The First Family of Tang Dynasty

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The next moment, when these dude sons of the top honorable families of the Tang Dynasty stood in front of the salt mountain that was several feet high and composed of finely broken white salt grains.

All of them grinned exaggeratedly and bulged their eyes, like salted fish that were about to die.

He couldn't say a word for a long time, but every now and then, he grabbed a handful of white salt grains from the salt mountain, then let go of his hands and let the salt grains fall from between his fingers.

Or they are admiring the salt field not far away, and those salt workers are using tools to continue pulling and pulling in the salt field.

They did this in order to keep the salt crystals from being too thick. Looking at the salt worker in front of them, they picked up a handful of wet white salt grains from the salt field.

And these salt pans are still a certain distance from the coastline, and there are mainly barren saline-alkali land nearby.

The Han and Tang dynasties were here, and the pools were built with cement, so that the sediment and impurities would not contaminate the sea salt being sun-dried.

Then there is the bitter cloth next to it, which is used to prevent the rain. If there is rain, you must quickly cover the salt fields with the bitter cloth.

One of the disciples of Wu Xun listened to Cheng Kun explaining the advantages and disadvantages of this salt drying method with a three-inch incorrupt tongue.

But after all, compared to the past boiled salt method, it is not too convenient, and it uses the least manpower and material resources to produce the most sea salt.

"This salt mountain is the harvest of our salt farm when we started to dry the salt."

"...If the weather is good in this salt field, like today, there is sun and wind, then one acre of salt field can produce about 100 catties of sea salt."

"Our salt farm is not very large at present, but there are also 1,000 mu of salt fields. In one day, we can get about 100,000 catties of sea salt for consumption..."

"The villain also invited some old local salt workers and salt merchants to cooperate. I also heard them talking about making salt by boiling salt."

"They use thatch as fuel, and they work both day and night, boiling brine, evaporating the water, drying it, and then adding brine to boil it.

When the pot is full, throw in a few pieces of soap clips or hemp kernels, and the brine will condense into salt..."

"In one day and night, six pots of salt can be boiled, and more than 300 kilograms of salt can be obtained in one day. However, one stove requires two people to take turns to burn the fire, and two people to take turns to carry brine.

There are also two people in charge of observing the stirring of the brine. In addition, the consumption of thatch also requires one or two people to harvest and transport…”

"And our method of drying salt, thousands of acres of salt fields, requires only dozens of people, no fuel, stoves and other things..."

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While appreciating and listening to Cheng Kun's words, Li Ke, who was originally just admiring all this with novelty and surprise, and other noble children.

They were all shocked by the convenience of this method of drying salt, and Cheng Chubi became more and more complacent.

The sun-dried salt method is definitely the best way to prepare table salt before industrialized production of table salt. Of course, it is also necessary to pay attention to the time and place, and these factors.

In the land of China, the emergence of the salt drying method may have appeared in some small areas, but it has never been on a large scale.

Cheng Chubi remembered very clearly that until the Ming Dynasty, the method of boiling salt was still the main method in Shandong.

But in fact, the Jiaodong Peninsula area is definitely the most preferred place for the salt drying method. First, the annual average sunshine period here is very long, and second, it is windy.

Cheng Chubi still remembered that he once traveled with a classmate to Weihai in Jiaodong, which is known as one of the cleanest and tidy cities in China.

This made Cheng Chubi curious, until he came to Weihai for a whole day, and that day, the wind was howling.

He even saw a rat burrowing out of a hole, and it was blown away by the blowing wind.

Even at night, staying in the hotel, the wind through the window gap is like a ghost.

Until I asked the locals, I knew that there was no wind blowing here three hundred and sixty-five days a year, and that such wind was only average.

Cheng Chubi finally understood the reason why there were no rubbish, cigarette butts, or even dead leaves on the ground in Weihai. Well, the wind is strong enough to leave anything behind...

Of course, this is only Cheng Chubi's own experience and hearsay, but in addition, Shandong's sea salt production in later generations can account for 70% of the country's total, which is enough to prove that this area is definitely suitable for drying salt.

Just as the people were talking about it, on the side, Tian Can Xu Jingzong, who was in the combination of Heaven and Earth, sneaked up to Cheng Sanlang.

First, Saburo Chong gave a convincing salute on his face.

"Xiao Cheng Taibao improved this method of making salt, and it will benefit the people of the Tang Dynasty and the people of the Tang Dynasty."

The disciples of Xun Gui looked at them with strange expressions. Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu, who were regarded by Luoyang officials as Cheng Sanlang's eagle dogs, were indeed shameless sycophants.

People who are several decades old are actually flattering, and they seem so shameless.

But this Xu Jingzong turned a blind eye to the eyes around him, pointed to the salt mountain in front of him, and said aloud.

"Xiao Cheng Taibao knows that I have always spent a lot of money in the production of salt in the Tang Dynasty, so that the price of salt is very expensive, and the method of boiling salt is not easy to obtain salt. Therefore, the price of salt in different parts of the Tang Dynasty is also different."

"Before Xiaguan, I had checked the relevant records. After the Northern Wei Dynasty moved to Ye, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com boiled salt by the sea in the four states of Cang, Ying, You and Qing.

Cangzhou is the most, with more than 1,300 or 400 Xuan stoves, and Qingzhou is the second, with nearly 600 stoves…

Combined with the power of the four states, we have collected more than 209,700 husks of salt all year round, and the military capital has been able to afford it. "

"And since the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Shandong and Hebei have gone through the turmoil at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and all industries have withered. So far, the industry of salt production has not returned to the old view."

"And since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, private salt production and sales have not been banned, but at the end of the Sui Dynasty, most of the salt fields in various places were annexed by local aristocratic families."

"There are nearly a dozen salt farms in Qingzhou today, and most of them belong to Shandong families. Even if the salt farmers who work in the salt farms work hard for a year, they are just getting enough food and clothing..."

Looking at this Xu Tiancan talking here, the important thing is that he can still say something.

One of the honorable children, he really admired Xu Jingzong, who was over sixty years old, while Li Yifu, who was on the side, was calm on the surface.

But in fact, he was almost mad with jealousy in his heart. He knew that he wanted to follow Cheng Saburo to the land of Shandong, and it was not that he had not done his homework.

But I really hadn't paid attention to the details of this aspect of the salt industry, but Cheng Saburo actually jumped here to make salt, just so that Xu Jingzong's shameless old man just grabbed the lottery of Nuoda.

It really made Li Yifu so jealous that he wanted to use a knife to give this lame old man three knives and six holes to vent his anger.

As Xu Jingzong spoke eloquently, he still did not forget to glance at Li Yifu, whose expression was distorted to the point of hideousness because of jealousy.

Silly boy, this time I understand that Jiang is old and spicy, right? Hehe, as a licking dog, not only do you have to lick well and timely, but the most important thing is to lick your level well.