My father is Yuan Shu?But I want to be a Cao thief

Chapter 51 Then we make our own salt
"So Sun Ce just controlled the salt merchants and strangled our necks? How can we talk about fighting in all directions?" Chu Feng asked coldly.

"My lord, there is nothing I can do about it. There is too little salt in the Huairu area, and they all rely on the east. It is not an exaggeration to say that they depend on people. At the moment, we can only stabilize the hearts of the people and ask for salt at the same time!"

Liu Ye also spoke.

"My lord, what Zi Yang said is correct. We must stabilize the hearts of the people, contact salt dealers from all over the place, and let them smuggle in. As long as this time passes, Sun Ce will naturally give up."

Lu Su also hit the nail on the head.

The blockade is naturally a good thing, but the smuggling of salt dealers is also normal, but it may be more difficult to satisfy everyone in this situation.

"Contact the salt dealer? Satisfy by smuggling? Hmph, the method of being choked by someone can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. Is it like this every time? Not to mention how to ensure the success of the smuggling?"

"The smuggled sea salt is not only expensive, but also loses people, it's just a stopgap measure!" Chu Feng waved his hand, not agreeing with this approach.

"But my lord, there is no other way than this right now!" Liu Ye sighed, feeling a little anxious in his heart, it was really a troubled time,
After finally solving the famine and curbing the salt merchants, this Sun Ce really misses the people in Jiangbei!

"Then we'll make our own salt!"

Chu Feng said in a deep voice: "Didn't he, Sun Ce and Chen Deng, curb the salt merchants? Then we will make our own and sell them in the past. I want to see who is better!"

"Self-made?" The three looked at each other.

"My lord, our Shouchun doesn't rely on the sea, and we don't have brine from lakes and wells. How can we make our own salt? If making salt is so simple, we wouldn't be in the official business of Yantie!"

Lu Su sighed, a little helpless.

Regional materials rarely make it up, and they can't do anything about it.

Chu Feng pondered in his mind. He knew very well that table salt is very easy to refine. It is almost necessary for historical novels in later generations, and he still uses the salt mines that can be seen everywhere.

Including that he wrote novels before and checked the corresponding information, but he has never operated it manually after all, but mineral salt can indeed be processed into edible salt,
Still better refined salt!
No matter, try again.

"The refined table salt does not necessarily have to be sea salt, lake salt, or well salt." Chu Feng said without beginning or end, and the three of them looked at each other in dismay.

Could there be other types of salt?
However, when they thought of some inventions of Chu Feng, several people had some expectations, and hurriedly said: "My lord, I don't know what else can be used to refine table salt?"

"You'll know by then!"

"Xu Chu, Zhao Fan, don't be familiar with the camp, go out with me!" Chu Feng got on his horse and shouted.

Immediately, Lu Su, Zhao Fan and others rode their horses to follow behind. They were also curious about how Chu Feng made salt. If it could be done, Chu Feng could be compared to a sage.

Chu Feng rode his horse in front, and he spent a whole day examining and approving documents, checking files, and looking through records from various places, and found many salt fields.

That is, a field where nothing can grow.

At that time, because the priority was to stabilize the country and rectify military affairs, he just paid a little attention to it, and never thought that Sun Ce would actually restrain him.

About two quarters of an hour, Chu Feng stopped his horse.

Looking around, the fields were dry, and there were dead trees and grass everywhere. However, Chu Feng's gaze stayed on a slightly raised salt field.

Not a single blade of grass grows on the salt fields, it is bare.

Chu Feng strode forward, and Lu Su and others hurriedly followed.

Chu Feng used his saber to pry open a piece. It was indeed rock salt, the so-called mineral salt, and such a large salt field, it is estimated that it could be extracted for countless years.

He stuck out his tongue and licked it lightly. It tasted bitter and salty, and he was sure of it now.

Immediately smiled and said: "That's it!"

Behind them, a group of people were all stunned for a moment, looking at Chu Feng in disbelief, Lu Su hurriedly said: "My lord, this is bitter salt and poisonous salt, it is not edible."

"If you eat it by mistake, you will have diarrhea, and even turn purple all over your body. People dare not eat it unless they have to. If they eat too much, they will die."

"Of course I will die,"

"This thing is rich... rich... anyway, this thing is rich in some elements. If these elements are not processed and eaten directly, they will definitely have diarrhea, turn purple or even die!"

Chu Feng coughed lightly and said directly.

To be honest, he doesn't know what this thing is rich in. Who told him not to care about this thing? In short, if you eat too much, you will die, and people can't digest it.

Lu Su: "???"

Yan Xiang: "???"

Liu Ye: "???"

The three Wang Zuozhi were all a little curious at the moment, could poisonous salt really be eaten like coarse salt from sea water?Curious but also skeptical.

If it is true, there are still many exposed salt fields like this, wouldn't it be...

"My lord, can you process it into something edible?"

Lu Su asked, and several other people also looked forward to it.

"Should...should be fine, right?"

Chu Feng raised his eyebrows. Although this thing is simple, writing a novel requires book knowledge, and there is a big probability difference between theory and practice.

"Come on, help dig the salt block!"

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a long time,

General's mansion, backyard.

Chu Feng and the others had already returned, and they also brought dozens of catties of mineral salt.

Xu Chu and Zhao Fan are in charge of crushing the mineral salt at the moment, Lu Su is looking for the container that Chu Feng requested, Yan Xiang is in charge of finding charcoal, Liu Ye is looking for silk cloth and so on.

After a long time, the mineral salt has been put into the container, and there is still clear water in it, but after the clear water touches the mineral salt, it directly dyes the clear water, and immediately begins to boil.

Liu Ye, Lu Su and others watched eagerly from the side. They knew about this step of boiling salt, but other boiling salts did not add water to it.

For a long time, the mineral salt has been dissolved in water.

And the clear water has boiled and started to churn.

"Xiaohuo, let this thing attached to the wall crystallize!" Chu Feng pinched his chin and commanded. The process of refining salt is very simple, crushing-distillation-crystallization-filtration-recrystallization.

There is no way, if you know the principle, you can probably guess it. The main thing is to filter the impurities inside. Chu Feng himself has written the general process, so he knows it.

After a while, a large number of crystals appeared around the container, obviously re-crystallized table salt, but this step was only to extract the table salt in the mineral salt,
After a while, a small bowl of salt came out, and Lu Su asked eagerly, "My lord, what then?"

"Pour it into that clear water, and pour it here after it dissolves!" Chu Feng commanded.

The salt was dissolved in water again, and immediately after, Lu Su picked up the basin of water and poured it into the container made by Chu Feng. There was a piece of silk cloth in the middle of the container, which was wrapped four layers, and inside was charcoal.

It didn't take long for a basin of salt water to be filtered.

At this moment, the color of the filtered salt water changed from turbid to fairly clear. Chu Feng pondered for a while and said, "Pour out this water and filter it again!"

"Ok!"

Repeatedly, filtered three times.

At this moment, the water in the container is clear and flawless, obviously all impurities have been filtered out.

"Okay, you can heat the crystal!"

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