Chapter 22: The Way to Make Money when Cooking

The people of Xidu are preparing meat for their livelihood and preparing for winter. Now the prey they get hunted will be salted so that the meat can be stored until winter. In this way, the cold and harsh winter will not starve to death.

The rebellious barbarian tribes also surrendered to Yao Yun because of salt.

However, Yao Yun, the largest slave owner in Xiguo, naturally didn't have to work hard for his livelihood. He came out to shoot the birds and shots as a real trip. It was a happy thing to be able to catch prey, and it wouldn't matter if there was no harvest.

Now, after shooting at the prey, the palace guards were in groups, away from the hunting crowd and started a picnic.

Dig a hole, bring a bronze tripod, boil water...

The tripod is used to cook things, but Yao Yun is not used to cooking things with a bronze tripod, so he can change it to pottery.

The palace guards have also made some achievements just now. Pheasants, wild ducks, and geese are placed together in a total of more than ten, which is very spectacular.

The chef of the palace was already busy, and Yao Yun was commanding everyone on the side and wandering around. Soon, Yao Yun saw Xingye carefully took out a small bag of things from the embroidered robe and opened it with great value.

This attracted Yao Yun's attention. When he looked closer, he turned out to be a piece of yellow turbid salt.

"Is this salt?"

"When you come back to the king, I really have salt in my hands."

Yao Yun took the salt and rubbed it with his hands. The particles were very thick, and then licked it, oh, it was bitter.

"This is coarse salt, which can only be used to pickle vegetables and meat, and cannot be eaten!" Yao Yun said dissatisfied.

Xingye was a little frightened: "God of your fault. I have already taken the best fine salt. Usually everyone eats this kind of salt."

At this time, Cangman also ran over and said, "Yes, lord, everyone eats this kind of salt. We all produce salt. We can't even eat it in other places that don't produce salt!"

Yao Yunruo thought: "Made by the salt decoction method?"

When Cangman heard this, his face changed. When he saw that there were people from the palace around him, there were no outsiders, he then focused his attention.

Yao Yun nodded slightly. The coarse salt produced by the decoction method can actually be eaten, and it will not kill people. However, because of the simple process, there are still many harmful substances in the coarse salt.

For people of this era, salt is originally an expensive thing, and it has fallen to the point where it is about to starve to death. Who cares if the salt you eat is a little harmful?

At this time, Yao Yun remembered the purification of coarse salt from his previous middle school years, so it quickly caught fire.

At the same time, fill a huge pottery basin with water and put a large bag of coarse salt in it.

"Master, don't~"

For a moment, everyone shouted loudly, and the king actually poured a whole piece of salt into the pottery basin, which made everyone's eyes look straight.

The grass, apricot leaves and the chef of the palace were all crying at this moment. Such precious salt was poured into the basin at one time, which was a waste of resources!

Yao Yun waved his hand and signaled them to be quiet and watch his performance.

Purified salt is nothing more than dissolution, filtration, precipitation, and crystallization. Yao Yun filtered the solution through silk, filtered several times, and then boiled it over fire. Soon, after the water evaporated, many fine yellow-white crystals appeared on the pottery basin, and what was obtained was not white salt like snowflakes.

"Master, this is still the same salt!"

"Didn't you see that his salt grains are much smaller? The coarse salt used to have a little mud and minerals, but now there is no more."

"The king is wise!"

Everyone said embarrassedly, feeling so bitter, a good piece of salt, so much was missing at once. If you were not the king, you would be beaten to death when you went out.

In fact, Yao Yun is also quite depressed. The main purpose of purifying coarse salt is to remove water-soluble potassium ions, barium ions, etc. in coarse salt. However, his current conditions are limited and he can only purify water-soluble sediment and a little mineral.

"You kid knows how to make trouble. You have made so many pieces of salt. You have made so many pieces of money. It's really a waste of money. We all produce salt, but we can't waste it like this." At this time, the bald dragon came over at some point, and the second elder Wu Tong was following behind him.

Yao Yun was unhappy when he saw that he was a bald dragon. He was now annoyed by the Dragon Prince who forcibly set a big goal for him, let alone the sarcastic look of this man.

"Uncle Long, you don't understand it now. This is called fine salt. Have you seen it? Is this much thinner, much cleaner and purer than before, and much less bitter? This is the quality. If you have high quality, you can sell it at a high price!"

The bald dragon looked disdainful and said contemptuously: "Salt is a precious thing. If you sifted it like this many times, it would be a waste of resources!"

Yao Yun was very confident at this time: "Quality salt is sold to noble families, not to barbarians, nor to common people. You don't understand the aristocrats' minds. They only choose good and exquisite ones. For such extravagant and extremely lustful things, they can buy them at a much higher price than ordinary prices. This is the way to make money!"

Yao Yun was very wise, and with that calm expression, the bald dragon suddenly recalled the scene when Yao Yun fought against the barbarian tribe. At that time, the prince was so confident, as if everything was under control.

The bald dragon was scared. As a divine dragon, he was a monster and monster, and it was really difficult to understand the minds of humans, let alone the minds of human aristocrats.

At this time, the second elder Wu Tong spoke: "What the king said makes sense. It is indeed possible. How extravagant people in the imperial capital are so extravagant? The uncle has seen it with his own eyes. Maybe he can really sell it at a high price!"

The bald dragon showed a surprised expression: "I don't believe it. Those noble people are smart. Who would be so stupid? Your salt is just a little more refined than ordinary coarse salt, and there is nothing special about it!"

Yao Yun nodded: "The salt on Gu's hand is indeed coarse salt, and it is not considered fine salt. But what if Gu made out fine salt like snowflakes? It would not be doubled or doubled by then, but ten times or a hundred times, and specialize in selling those noble people, making a lot of money!

There is no difference between bald longan eyes. After hearing this, I just think that my little king is bragging in order to protect his face, but the second elder Wu Tong's face changed drastically:

"King, you said you can make salt as pure as snowflakes!" Wu Tong shook his head, then his mind was unfolded, blocked the surroundings, and then bowed: "This method of making salt in Xidu Salt Well is from the old man. I wonder if the king can give me some advice?"

When Yao Yun was very surprised when he saw Wu Zhu respectfully and asked, he quickly helped Wu Tong up: "What can I say about this? Don't say that I'm giving me some advice, please communicate and learn!"

Anyway, they are all their own family members, and Yao Yun will teach the salt people in Xidu in the future to produce snow-like well salt.

Yao Yun was quite thick-skinned. When he was traveling to Zigong City, Sichuan in his previous life, he heard about the ancient well that made salt in ancient times. Because he was interested, he learned that in this way, he refined fine well salt in ancient times.

The process is quite complicated. Simply put, firstly, the brine is mixed, usually with black and yellow brine. The salts made from both are bitter and contain harmful substances. However, if the two are blended in a certain proportion, the barium ions and sulfur root ions within will form a white precipitate and then remove them.

Then, the method of "brown tofu" was used in the cross-train, and the brine was washed with soy milk, and a large amount of impurities were removed again. Then, salt was boiled and crystallized, so that you could get fine salt without bitter taste and snowflakes.

Yao Yun said a lot of words from the previous life, and Wu Tong was confused when he heard it, and probably felt like he was listening to the heavenly books.

However, Wu Tong also knows how to make salt. People who are half-understand or half-bucket of water are most likely to fool others. After hearing what Yao Yun said is reasonable and well-founded, he quickly believed most of them, and even called out a lot.
Chapter completed!