redvbooks Chapter 179 Has a plan [2 more]
Chapter 179 Has a plan [2 more]
Chapter 179 Confident
Suning was extremely happy, and he was confident about this purification.
Suning smiled, "The salt will come out later."
After speaking, he continued to increase the firepower.
Let the whole palace feel a little hot, especially in this weather.
It made a group of ministers so hot that they wanted to find a fan and fan themselves well.
The longer it cooks, the more uncomfortable it is for everyone.
I can't leave yet, because we are discussing major issues of people's livelihood now.
Just when Li Shimin wanted to urge him to finish the work, he suddenly found out.
The water was slowly boiled dry, and the pot was covered with a layer of white crystals.
Until the water was completely boiled dry, a large piece of crystals was deposited on the bottom of the pot.
It was the first time for everyone to see such a snow-white salt-like crystal, and they couldn't help but exclaimed.
"Is this salt?"
"It's amazing, the salt came out again, what kind of spell is this?"
"I didn't expect that even the salt melted into the water, and it could be boiled out.
Suning also laughed when he saw this thick layer of crystals, "It's finally cooked. It would be nice if the firepower could be stronger."
But what everyone is most concerned about is whether this snow-white salt can be eaten?
Of course Li Shimin also had this question, "Su Ning, is the salt like this enough?"
"Of course not, it's just a filter, and people will still be hit if they eat it."
"Ah?" Li Shimin was a little puzzled, "Then what's the use of filtering?"
"The next step is to use tofu water, which is the key."
So he asked someone to pour all the tofu water into the pot, and started cooking again.
It is almost exactly the same as the first step of filtering, boil and filter again.
Then filter it with tofu water, and continue for five times.
The gypsum and other substances in the tofu water can neutralize the potassium kaempferen, and then filter it.
All the potassium kaempferen remains on the gauze, as long as the gauze is changed every time it is filtered.
Until the last time, the whole process took nearly an hour.
Just to purify a few catties of salt, of course, less than half of the salt is left after purification.
Because when it is cooked, it will evaporate.
But the resulting salt will be incomparably whiter, and free of sap.
If the technology of later generations is used, at least two-thirds of the salt can be left.
Because of the technology of later generations, the volatilization of these brines can be well suppressed.
So there will be a lot of salt left, but it is completely impossible to do it now.
But it's not bad to have so many left.
When everyone saw the white salt crystals, their eyes widened.
"General Su." Changsun Wuji approached, "Is this all right?"
"Okay, you can eat the salt as long as you mash it, and this kind of salt is easier to mash than freshly mined salt."
This salt-like crystal is much looser than the newly mined salt.
It's almost all grainy, so it's fine to mash.
But you'll have to try it to know.
But seeing such pure white salt was an eye-opener for Li Shimin.
With a red face, he patted his thigh, "Mix this salt into the meat, and try it on a dog."
"Yes!"
Immediately, someone took the purified salt and mixed it into the meat.
Then he pulled another dog up and put the meat in front of the dog.
The dog was very excited to see the meat and ate it directly.
This made everyone's hearts rise to their throats, if nothing happened to the dog.
Then it means that this method is useful, if it dies, it means that this method has completely failed.
Everyone didn't want the dog to die, so they stared at the dog that ate meat.
The dog found it a bit salty on the first bite, but ate it anyway.
Even wanted to eat a second piece.
After seeing the dog eating the meat, everyone stared at him intently, wanting to see if it would eat.
Because the salt will not attack immediately after eating, and the salt of Suning has been diluted with water.
So everyone deliberately waited for a stick of incense, if ordinary people eat salt.
It will attack within less than half a stick of incense at most, resulting in abdominal pain.
But after the dog passed by, there was no abnormality.
Looking at everyone with his tongue out, he obviously wanted to eat another piece.
Seeing this scene, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.
Li Shimin smiled, "Great, this method is successful!"
The rest of the ministers also started discussing, with excited expressions on their faces.
"I didn't expect this method to be really useful."
"That is, can General Su's method go wrong?"
"Why didn't we think of it before?" Su Ning was very calm on the surface, but in fact he was in a panic.
He saw this method by accident when surfing the Internet before, and he didn't know if it would work.
This kind of thing happened suddenly today, so I had to try it.
I didn't expect it to work, but everyone is happy.
Changsun Wuji immediately expressed his congratulations, "Congratulations, Your Majesty, from now on the Tang Dynasty will never lack salt!"
"The national treasury is full again!" Du Ruhui was also beaming, "General Su really did a great job!"
"Yes." Fang Xuanling followed suit, "Although I don't know the principle, this method is too miraculous."
Li Shimin laughed loudly after hearing this, "Now Datang's salt wells, salt fields, salt mines, sea salt, etc., are enough for Datang to use for a hundred years."
In fact, Li Shimin underestimated that these salt wells, salt fields, salt mines, and sea salt are all discovered now.
There are more that have not been found, enough for the entire Tang Dynasty to use for thousands of years without any problem.
Especially those salts, which accounted for most of them.
Now with this purification method, the salt is also edible.
So he looked at Suning with a smile on his face, "Su Ning, you have contributed to the purification of salt, I will give you all the salt fields in Chang'an,
All the salt produced is freely distributed by you. "
The salt fields in Chang'an are not small, producing tens of tons of salt every year.
But it is a pity that these salt pans are all salt.
Therefore, using the current purification method, the annual salt must be halved at least.
But this is also good, so he quickly thanked him, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"
I didn't expect to get a few salt pans today, which is really great.
Both Suning and Li Shimin were happy, and one got the purification method.
Once the salt field is obtained, the problem that plagued Datang salt from then on will be basically solved.
After bidding farewell to the emperor and all the ministers, Suning returned home.
He took Fang Tingting with him, and rode on Pioli to check his own salt field.
Li Shimin granted himself three salt fields in total, all of which were salt fields.
These salt pans are close to each other, adding up to more than 300 mu of land.
Looking at the endless but so fertile salt fields.
But no one came to mine, and now these salt fields belong to themselves.
Suning immediately asked people to come over to mine the salt fields and prepare to process the salt into fine salt.
Then sell it. After all, there is so much salt in your own house that you can eat salt as a meal.
After eating for several lifetimes, I can't finish it.
And the price of salt in Datang is very expensive, it is simply outrageously expensive.
Because Datang has exempted a lot of agricultural taxes, but the treasury cannot be without taxes.
Therefore, a large part of the part of the tax that was waived was added to the price of salt.
All dynasties have done this, because it is a historical inevitability.
Not long after, many salt miners were recruited from the Su Mansion.
When everyone saw the salt, they all retreated.
After all, for Suning, it was a piece of cake, but for them it was even more difficult.
(End of this chapter)