Chapter 124: This taste is sour (monthly pass)
Chen Dexing shook his head, but he didn't feel lucky at all.
But Chen Dexing felt that Chen Kaizhi was really clever and could he fool others in this way?
But...what is the salt made...why does this person Chen's words feel that they are not reliable at all.
Chen Kaizhi was not in the mood to care about Chen Dexing's thoughts, so he directly started asking the salt dealer to get what he needed.
The salt making process in this era is indeed a terrible sight. For example, the salt in the basket of salt dealers is roughly processed well salt. There are many minerals in it that have not been filtered out and are yellowish-brown and condensed into blocks! As for the taste, Chen Kaizhi has tasted it a long time ago, and the bitter taste is overwhelming the salty taste. If this thing was placed in later generations, no one dared to eat it.
But Chen Kaizhi knew that the salt making in the Great Chen Dynasty was at this level, so don’t expect it.
As for finishing the coarse salt, Chen Kaizhi is still very confident, because as long as he has basic chemistry knowledge, it will not be a problem, and junior high school students can do it.
He took a deep breath and knew that this was the one who could protect his life now. While preparing to work hard, Chen Kaizhi was inadvertently looking at these salt dealers.
This place... should be just a stronghold for salt dealers, and it may be used to stock up on goods, because there is also a backyard here, which must have hidden a cellar or a warehouse.
Obviously, this is a big gang, and a single stronghold is so large that the size of this gang is probably more than a hundred people.
All of them are equipped with weapons, and the weapons are absolutely extraordinary. At least those crossbows are likely to have been leaked from the army and are of high value on the market.
There should be more than 30 salt vendors living here, with clear division of labor and each performing their own duties. This high organizational nature means that their leaders are by no means ordinary sluts.
This salt dealer gang is actually a big wave of storm. It not only needs to fight with officers and soldiers, but also has fierce competition among each salt dealer gang.
The result of failure in competition is death.
Because of this, the leaders of the gang that can grow and grow and flourish, are definitely not ordinary people, and all the people he recruits are capable people.
Several people stared at Chen Kaizhi at any time, obviously just in case.
So at this time, Chen Kaizhi would certainly not be stupid enough to resist or escape.
What he can do now is to refine salt, and at the same time, he will not let them master their own unique secret skills, because once they master it, they will lose the value of exploitation.
For salt dealers, a person who has lost his value can only die.
For this reason, Chen Kaizhi asked them for a lot of things, sixty or seventy percent of them were useless things, just to cover up their eyes and ears.
Immediately afterwards, Chen Kaizhi asked Chen Dexing to get a bucket of coarse salt. There was a mill next to the patio of the backyard here. Chen Kaizhi poured the coarse salt into the grinding eye and then crushed it into powder.
Of course, Chen Kaizhi also added some other "products" in a fake way, just to mix fish with beads. Who would have thought that the coarse salt was so fine, but Chen Kaizhi carefully pinched a pair of this and a pair of that pair of that. People who didn't know thought that Chen Kaizhi was refining something elixir.
In fact, these "products" were thrown into the water by Chen Kaizhi and the ground salt powder, and then covered with cloth and filtered out directly.
Of course, the guards obviously don't know the name.
Instead, they felt that Chen Kaizhi was very ‘professional’, as if the more things Chen Kaizhi added, the higher his or her style was.
After filtering the salt powder dissolved in the water, Chen Kaizhi went through several more processes and finally made someone set up an iron pot and started cooking.
After the solution was boiling, Chen Kaizhi let it cool down, and then said to one of the salt dealers: "Brother, do you want to come and taste it?"
This is brine, and it will eventually need to be dried into powder, but the salt alone can determine whether the salt is good or bad.
The salt dealer was tall, like a bamboo pole. He seemed a little hesitant, but under the 'encouraging' eyes of others, he finally sneered: "Try it and try it."
He went forward, reached out to dip the salt water in the pot, and then put his fingers into his mouth and let it go.
The other salt dealers looked at Chen Kaizhi with murderous intent, looking fierce, but their attention was all focused on the salt dealer who was trying.
These salt vendors actually don’t believe in the so-called refined salt.
In essence, it was just because Chen Kaizhi's indifferent attitude scared them. It was really attractive for a scholar to say that he could greatly increase their profits.
Of course, this is also very likely to be minimal.
But so what? Anyway, it's just one or two hours. Now it's closed and beat the dog. Even if Chen Kaizhi fooled it, as long as it is exposed, wouldn't it be killed if you want to kill it?
The salt vendor sneered at first, waited for a while, but his face became strange.
Another bearded salt vendor suddenly looked tense and said sternly: "Lao Liu, isn't it poisonous?"
As he said, he shook the knife in his hand, and seemed to be trying to slash.
The man named Lao Liu suddenly shouted: "Let's go!"
Just be slow and decisive.
It can be seen that Lao Liu is very urgent.
Lao Liu is an old salt dealer. He has been in contact with his tribe since childhood, including salt, well salt and sea salt. Even the fine salt of wealthy families, he has been involved in it.
In other words, Lao Liu is definitely an expert in the salt trade industry. Because of this, he is very familiar with the taste of every salt.
But……
At this moment, Lao Liu's eyes were full of shock.
The taste of this salt water is not even bitter. A strong salty smell spread throughout the body in the taste buds. In terms of taste and taste, it is even many times better than the salt I have ever been exposed to in the past.
He looked shocked, as if he felt an illusion, so he reached out and put his hand into the pot and took another sip.
It still tastes like this, as if there is no impurities, just the simplest salty taste, without a slight bitterness.
This taste...this taste...so sour.
Until now, his eyes suddenly lit up and he said happily: "Compared with this salt, the salt we sell is simply no different from dogs."
Lao Liu is not a literati, so whenever metaphors are involved, it is inevitable that they will be indecent.
But such an exaggeration made several other salt vendors stunned.
Chapter completed!