Li Wenchong stared at her and looked at her for a long time.
"Why are you looking at me like this?" Gu Qingling felt strange.
Li Wenchong: "Why don't I know that you can practice salt? As far as I know, the Yao family has never touched anything related to salt."
"Don't you believe me?"
"No." Li Wenchong refused to admit it, "I don't believe you, it's just something like salt... You know, salt is all done by the government, not just any way you can touch it."
He wanted to remind Gu Qingling that no matter where she got the salt recipe, salt is definitely not something ordinary people like her can touch. Don’t take out the shameful things, otherwise...
He is not easy to explain to his elder brother.
Gu Qingling rolled her eyes: "What are you thinking? We haven't touched salt before, but I know how salt is extracted. Moreover, I'm just giving you a method, whether it's useful or not, and you'll have to find someone to experiment."
Then, Gu Qingling wrote down the method of refining well salt and sea salt, and asked Li Wenchong to arrange someone to try it.
She dared not say that the method she gave was 100% useful, but the general direction was correct. As long as you find a few craftsmen who specialize in this area, I believe they will be able to experiment and get the results soon.
"How did you know these methods?" Li Wenchong frowned and looked at the "salt drying method" and "salt refining method" written on the paper, and was a little confused.
"You forgot what our family does? The essential oils and feng oil essence in our family are 'refined'. The craftsmen in our workshops are all familiar with these things. If you lack talents in this area, I can lend you a few."
Gu Qingling really didn't lie. Whether it is essential oils or Feng Jing, they will use some confidential related technologies, which have some similarities with salt refining.
The salt refining technology of this era is still relatively rough, and they mainly believe in the "rock salt" that exists naturally in nature.
Rock salt can be eaten directly without excessive processing methods.
High-quality rock salt is generally colorless, transparent or white, for royalty and for certain powerful people to eat; if it is almost the same, some impurities or sludge from metal compounds will be mixed into other colors, which are the salts that ordinary people see in their lives.
Rock salt mainly comes out of the salt lake or Hechi, and the climate there is hot. The surface of the salt lake is often thickly condensed with crystal clear rock salt, which is generally controlled by officials or some powerful families.
People cannot afford to eat salt and think it is expensive. In addition to this reason, the other reason is that they are limited by the limited production of salt lakes.
The methods Gu Qingling gave Li Wenchong, including three methods of refining sea salt, pond salt and well salt, just filled the gaps in the four types of salt ore in ancient times.
Pond salt, also known as lake salt, refers to the natural crystals in salt lakes, or is made of brine on the surface of hot lakes.
Needless to say, sea salt can be cooked, cooked after making braised or dried after making braised or dried directly. The specific method depends on the specific situation of each sea area and the local area.
Well salt is the "drilling wells to obtain brine" and exploiting underground natural brine and solid rock salt.
Gu Qingling not only wrote about the specific methods of obtaining salt from three salt ores, but also described the characteristics of their distribution. Although you cannot find all the salt ores immediately with this thing, if it goes well, you only need to find some of them, which is a surprise.
"Do you know what it means to take out this thing?" Li Wenchong asked with a bright look at her.
"Will it shake the foundations of those aristocratic families?" Gu Qingling said, "It is said to be official salt, but in fact, most of the rock salt is in the hands of some aristocratic families. This is the real reason why your royal family is controlled by others. For example, the Lou family. Once you have a new way of practicing salt and have a new way of taking it, you can break their monopoly, and then... I don't need to say anything else, right?"
Li Wenchong laughed: "You gave me a big problem, but... who made you my woman? I took this job. But I have to think about it carefully and how to make this happen. Your Yao family has never been in contact with salt and suddenly took out such things... If there is no reason, it will be difficult to explain."
"That's your business. Since you want to marry me, you have to make a little contribution."
Professional matters should be left to professionals. Li Wenchong found a group of people to travel secretly, divided into three groups, and visited three different salt mines.
Lake salt is like rock salt, almost on the surface. If Gu Qingling hadn't reminded him, Li Wenchong would have really not known that lake salt had been mined by major families, but it had always appeared in the name of "rock salt" and fooled everyone.
"Damn it!"
When Li Wenchong saw the news sent back by the team, he was so angry that he almost blew his lungs out.
"These families are too much! Too much!"
"They have clearly found a new way to refine salt, but they still say that rock salt is rare all day long, so that my king's emperor's brother will give in and give in and retreat again and again."
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Qingzhu looked at him like this and comfortedly handed over a cup of tea: "Master, drink a sip of tea to calm down. If the old lady knew that you were angry about these people, she would be heartbroken."
Li Wenchong glared at her: "Will she feel sorry for her? The sun is coming out from the west."
"No matter what, you are also Master Jiu's father. Even if you don't look at monks and Buddha's faces, the old lady will have to feel sorry for Master Jiu's good, right?"
Li Wenchong was choked, sure this was a comforting word?
He stared at Qingzhu, thinking that this kid did it on purpose or something, why did he speak more and more annoyingly?
"Besides, the master didn't know what he could not do with these people, but now he knows everything and has obtained evidence, and is still afraid that he can't deal with these people?" Qingzhu continued, "Watch it from another perspective, since lake salt is real, is that the well salt and sea salt mentioned by the old lady may be real? Those two families don't know what well salt looks like, but we don't know how big the sea is. As long as this is held in your hand, you will still be afraid that the Great Swallow will not deal with the Great Swallow in the future? As long as the Great Swallow has salt, His Majesty is still afraid that the Great Swallow will not deal with the Great Swallow's gentry?"
Li Wenchong looked at Qingzhu in surprise: "You boy, you seem to have become much smarter!"
Qingzhu was speechless: "Bamboo, how stupid should a servant be in your heart?"
"You know it in your heart, don't you?"
"I don't know, otherwise, the master will tell the slave?"
Li Wenchong quickly praised Qingzhu for being the best martial arts and the best in the world. There is no one in the world who is better than him. He praised Qingzhu so much that his tail was about to rise up, and he was proud.
Look, people with developed limbs and simple brains are so easy to coax.
Chapter completed!