Start having a baby!I dressed as the mother of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty

Chapter 38 38. Laying a good foundation for the masses (thanks for the support!)

"If you want to save firewood and labor, you need to increase the salt content in the seawater and "make brine" first." Wang Zhi said to Du Feng.

The way to improve efficiency is not to directly boil seawater, but to prepare a high-concentration brine solution that is close to saturation.

"Sea tides rise and fall. Have you noticed that after the sea tide ebbs, the surface water on the beach evaporates, and salt crystals precipitate out?" Wang Zhi asked.

"Yes! Especially in summer, when the sea wind is strong, and it is sunny for several consecutive days, the beach is covered with white flowers, as if it has just snowed!" Yuan said excitedly.

"Let's go! Let's go to the beach and watch while talking."

Wang Zhi got up and went out with Du Feng.Ji Buzhi and the others followed.

Seeing this group of people walking on the tidal flat, the stove owner who cooks salt followed curiously.

"You scrape up the salt crystals on the surface of the beach and the wet sediment containing seawater below." Wang Zhi pointed to the crusted sand on the beach.The sand is white and bright because of the salt attached.

Someone fetched the shovel used to scrape the basin while boiling the salt, and picked up the sand.

"Turn these into piles, expose them to the sun, stir them, and let the water dry as much as possible. Can the high tide of sea water reach here?" Wang Zhi directed Du Feng and the others.

"If you can't get up, you will only come here when there is a big storm." The stove owners said.

"Didn't you scrape up the sand and pile it up? Close to the sea, build a dam, and dig another one to communicate with the sea. When the tide rises, the dam digs a gap to fill the gap with the sea water coming along the ditch, and then fills the gap. Plug it up. The circled seawater is dried, and then blown up and piled on the sand..."

"After repeating this many times, the salt content in the sand increased. Finally, another wave of sea tide was used to irrigate. After the gap was closed this time, the water was no longer allowed to evaporate, and the dried sand pile was pushed into the sea water, so that the surrounding The salt on the sand disintegrates into the water, and the water is collected and what is obtained is "brine."

"The salt content in the brine is high, and the salt will precipitate out soon after heating." Wang Zhi smiled, "Do you understand?"

"This will save firewood and labor! Let's do it together! Let's cook salt together for the brine!" Du Feng said happily, discussing excitedly with the stove owners.

Ji Bu and Zhi both looked at each other and smiled, secretly giving a thumbs up.The princess they support is really amazing!It's not the good-for-nothing Jiaoying who is only jealous in the palace.

Stove households do what they say!Immediately the division of labor was clarified, and sand was gathered to build dams, and ditches were dug to divert seawater.

Feeling that Du Feng's understanding was not bad, Wang Yan called him aside.

"Before decocting salt, set aside a spare "drenched brine". The heat of cooking salt should be mastered. At the beginning, use high heat, wait for the brine to boil, and then keep the simmer for continuous decoction. After decoction, the yellow brine will Produce white salt flowers and salt blocks, take them out." Wang Zhi confessed.

Although there are very few impurities in the salt flowers and hard salt lumps shoveled out of the prison basin, they are not all final products.According to its quality, only coarse salt can be obtained.

"There are two ways to improve the quality of salt." Wang Zhi thought about how to explain it so that Du Feng could understand it.

"The first is simple. Build a multi-layered "shower frame" with bamboo and wood, and lay thatch on each layer. Crush salt flowers and hard salt blocks and spread them on top. From top to bottom, sprinkle the brine on the On the shower rack, soak layer by layer. The salt obtained in this way is of high quality."

The brine itself is an aqueous solution of sodium chloride that is nearly saturated, so after watering, most of the sodium chloride salt blocks on the thatch will not dissolve again, but the impurity salt such as magnesium chloride that is already very small in it will dissolve again.The purity of sodium chloride is further improved through the procedure of rinsing brine.

"The second one is more complicated. Do you have beans here?" Wang Zhi laughed.

It is said that tofu was invented when King Huainan made alchemy.She wanted to teach Du Feng how to make tofu, and snatched Huainan Wang's first innovation.

Seeing Du Feng nodding, Wang Yan went on to say: "Grind the beans into a pulp. When the brine for cooking salt is boiling, add the soy milk and stir slowly. At this time, soft white lumps will be formed, and these lumps will be taken out. Here, it’s a delicacy called “tofu.”

"This tofu can be wrapped in cloth by your wife, squeezed and fixed into pieces, and sold for money." Wang Zhi said quietly, "It's delicious and nutritious food!"

"The remaining brine, the boiled salt, has a higher purity."

Du Feng was dumbfounded.

"I taught you, remember?" Wang Zhi asked him.

Du Feng swallowed, "I can't remember..." He shook his head in shame.

"You take your time to explore! There will always be a good way. We should go."

Sighing, Wang Zhi said nothing more.With the level of human cognition at this time, it is difficult for him to understand it all at once.There must be a process for people to accept new thinking and new things.

"Benefactor! Teach us to go again!" Du Feng knelt down with a plop.

Seeing this, the kitchen households also came over and knelt down and begged.

Ji Bu frowned: "It's not because the Prince refused to stay. It's because we have something important to do..."

"It's about my livelihood! I beg you to help me to the end!" Du Feng and the others kowtowed and knelt down.

Wang Zhi's face showed embarrassment.On the one hand, they went to Guangling to finish their official business and rushed back to the capital.After being out for so long, she misses her two daughters very much; on the other hand, she disguises herself as a man and lives in a humble home, fearing that people will find out about her daily life.

Zhi Du and Ji Bu looked at Wang Zhi, waiting for her to make a statement.

"I have a hobby, and I like to live alone. I'm afraid it's inconvenient here..." Wang Zhi hesitated.

"My house is vacated for the nobleman, and I will live in my father's place!" A young man answered.

"The nobleman stay here! Zhu Song just got married, and the newly built house is very clean. It's perfect for a nobleman to live in." Du Feng and the others chattered and begged Wang Zhi.

In desperation, Wang Zhi had no choice but to nod.

Live in someone's new house.Although simple, it is really clean.

"Your Majesty, we have to go to Guangling as soon as possible. If we don't return to Beijing for a long time, I'm afraid the emperor and the crown prince will be worried!" Ji Bu said.

"I have my own measure." Wang Zhi responded.

Why doesn't she want to return to Beijing as soon as possible?The two milk dolls haven't seen each other for a while, so I'm afraid they'll forget about her mother.

But she proposed an improvement plan for cooking salt to the stove households, and she wanted to know whether it could achieve the expected effect.Helping kitchen households to improve salt cooking technology, realize product upgrades, let the masses eat high-quality salt, and allow kitchen households to earn money is also a good thing.

Think of it as laying a good foundation for the masses!After all, this Liu family will be her son's world!
Wu Wang Liu Bi?An old gangster, isn't it just a matter of handling him?Stand aside!This time I came out to turn him over.

So, Prince Wang turned into "Director Wang", and together with the kitchen households, blowing the sea breeze, stepping on salt mud, building a shower rack, laying thatch, grinding soybean milk, and cooking brine...

General Ji and Captain Zhi led the guards to put down their long swords, and also turned into laborers, patted their shoulders and backs with the kitchen households, calling them brothers.

"Benefactor! This, what is this called? I forgot the name again!" Mrs. Yuan ran to Wang Zhi with tofu in a ceramic basin, and asked earnestly.

"Tofu, this is called tofu." Wang Zhi replied, looking at Zhu'er who was pulling at his mother's skirt.

"My mother said that the people in the tavern said it was pig's brain! It's better than pig's brain!" Zhu'er said with a smile, "I used to eat beans and my stomach was full, and I always farted! It's good to eat this tofu, so I don't fart!"

Zhu'er's words made everyone laugh.

Money meets food.The snowflake salt that has been boiled white, and there is such a delicious by-product as tofu, how can the stove owners not be excited?There is an endless stream of people from all over the world who come to observe and learn from the Buddhist scriptures.

For a time, tofu became the most attractive delicacy.The nearby tavern is famous for its tofu, and the diners are flocking to it and are full of praise.

"My lord, should we go?" Ji Bu asked Wang Zhi.

"Let's go. Let's say goodbye. Everyone pack up and get ready for the road tomorrow." Wang Zhi also felt a sense of accomplishment.

"Does the nobleman want to leave?" Du Feng and the kitchen households were reluctant to part, "We discussed it, and we will go to the tavern tomorrow to hold a farewell banquet for the nobleman."

"No, no need!" Wang Zhi waved his hands, "We are in a hurry to go to work. We have already stayed here for a long time!"

"The nobleman is a god! He has helped us so much, the gods bless us!" An old man said and was about to kneel.

Zhu Song hurriedly helped the old man, "Father!" He smiled shyly, "This is my father. Everyone discussed that I should be vacated for the nobleman's house, a statue for the nobleman, and a living shrine..."

"What birth temple?! Don't!" Wang Zhi was terrified!

In her opinion, Le Meng, as a master of pharmacy, follows her mentor, establishes a project, gets funding, works in a laboratory, and publishes a paper.Apart from tinkering with some cosmetics for myself, I really didn't put the knowledge I learned into practice.Every day she calls for "industry-university-research integration", but only here, in BC, she seems to have realized "industry-university-research integration".

At a young age, you want to be enshrined in a statue?Jiansheng Temple, being enshrined, can you continue your life or be cursed and burp early?I can't afford it!

Wang Yan laughed a few times: "Okay! Everyone can hold a farewell banquet. Don't build a shrine!"

　Happy new month to all of you!Also ask for a lot of support!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)