King Luhuang of the Ming Dynasty: My father, Ming Taizu

Chapter 69 Teaching Craft
  soon.

The Peiping salt movement sent people from the Yamen department to say goodbye in a hurry.

Salt Transport Envoy Han Mingzhe secretly made up his mind.

I need to tell Lord Kuo of Tobe what happened here!

This Changlu Saltworks is in complete chaos!

The money was squandered by His Highness King Lu!
  Inviting tens of thousands of kitchen households to a meal would probably cost two to thirty thousand taels of silver!
  To know.

They are not all strong laborers.

The old, weak, women and children in their family are eating together today!
  How much silver is that!

Next, Prince Lu may not necessarily do anything in order to win over the people!

At the same time, he also executed the salt department ambassador who was the most proficient in salt affairs!
  In the future, the production of Changlu Salt Field will be even more unsafe!

Tanggu Salt Field.

at this time.

Zhu Tan narrowed his eyes slightly.

The sea breeze blows.

beside him.

Standing respectfully were talented people elected from hundreds of kitchen households.

These people are recognized as the best at making salt.

Their eyes looked at Zhu Tan, full of gratitude.

Zhu Tan smiled and said: "The efficiency of your salt production is too low now! I have to teach you how to improve the process!"

Everyone was confused.

The prince wants to teach everyone how to make salt?

This is incredible no matter how you hear it!

Zhu Tan doesn't care so much.

He didn't have time to explain anything to these kitchen households.

He immediately began to explain the salt refining process to them.

original.

The salt fields on the seaside should be the most productive.

First introduce seawater into the salt field, and then use the evaporation effect of wind and light to quickly obtain a large amount of sea salt.

After further purification, it becomes table salt.

But this process is still a bit difficult for today’s kitchen households.

There are too many impurities in sea salt and if it is not refined well, the taste of the salt will be difficult to swallow, and eating it may even lead to poisoning.

Historically, it was not until the late Yongle Dynasty that the steaming and drying method of sea salt became mature, and decoction was no longer the main production method of seaside salt.

The kitchen households were completely renamed as salt households.

Now what Zhu Tan wants to teach these kitchen households is the steaming and drying method.

It is an improved and enhanced version of the steaming and drying method that he made based on his work experience in his previous life!

In addition to steaming and drying, refining is more important. This aspect also needs to be improved.

Next.

It's just a long salt-making course.

From the construction of terraced salt fields in stages, to optimizing the layout of the salt fields, to improving the introduction of seawater and pre-setting filter areas to remove impurities in advance.

Then use black materials to speed up the evaporation and crystallization process.
  After hearing these words, many kitchen households were stunned.

at last.

Someone react!

Even excited!
  He suddenly fell to his knees and said in a trembling voice: "Your Highness! This is the way to dry sea salt!"

As soon as this statement came out, everyone also reacted!
  With this method.

Although the initial investment in building salt fields is high, compared to the decoction method, the labor savings are huge!

It’s so easy to get tons of salt!
  No more thankless work of chopping wood to cook salt!
  suddenly.

Someone said with a sad face: "Can the salt produced in this way be eaten?
  Although it has been filtered, there are still a lot of impurities! "

Everyone heard this. There is also some concern.

Someone said: "Your Highness's idea has already saved everyone a lot of trouble! Next, at least making brine will save a lot of process! Do we still expect His Highness to give us the process of refining salt? How is it possible!"

Zhu Tan was stunned.

I don’t mean to show off and slap you in the face, why are you jumping out to praise me!
  Cough slightly.

Zhu Tan said: "Everyone be quiet! I am about to teach you how to refine sea salt!"

Everyone looked at Zhu Tan.

His face was full of shock!

There was some discussion at first, but now everything fell silent!
  Only the sound of the wind on the beach and the roar of the waves are left.

Everyone knows how important the method of refining sea salt mentioned by the prince is!
  For these kitchen households, it may be an opportunity to change their destiny!

The crowd was eerily quiet.

Even if someone farts intermittently, the sound alone will make everyone around him look angry at him!

Zhu Tan smiled slightly.

Let’s start with the refining method of table salt.

The first step is to collect the coarse salt while removing large impurities.

Next is washing, with multi-stage sedimentation tanks set up, each tank used for a different washing stage to further remove impurities.

Subsequently, impurities are further precipitated through precise temperature control, batch recrystallization, and the addition of alkaline substances such as plant ash during re-washing.

Then, filter the treated brine with fine cloth or bamboo sieve.

Finally, the treated brine is boiled or dried to crystallize.

After such an operation.

Although there is still a gap with modern refined salt.

But not much anymore!

The craftsmen listened to the entire process.

Everyone was a little confused.

Normally, the salt that crystallizes after filtering it once or twice is ready for sale.

Why are you filtering so many times now?
  a long time.

Suddenly someone in the crowd stammered excitedly and asked: "Your Highness! After processing it like this, will it be made into fine salt?"

Zhu Tan smiled slightly and said, "Exactly! And it's better salt than the best refined salt!"

The salt from Changlu Salt Farm is the best quality sea salt in Ming Dynasty.

Coupled with the production process of red sandalwood.

Even the well salt and lake salt from the mainland cannot compare with the salt from Changlu Salt Field!

More importantly, the output produced in this way is huge!
  It even far exceeds the current output of Changlu Saltworks!
  Hear Zhu Tan's affirmative words.

Everyone is excited!

What is the price of the best refined salt?
  Ordinary salt costs 1 cent and 2 cents of silver per pound!
  The best refined salt, because it is more delicate and has less bitterness and impurities, costs as much as 3 taels of silver per pound!
  But that kind of refined salt requires an astonishing amount of labor and processes, and causes a lot of losses.

Generally only the rich and powerful can afford it.

Now, Changlu Salt Field will have an annual output of tens of thousands of kilograms of salt!

At the same time, it’s all the best refined salt!

So how terrifying will the development of Changlu Saltworks be in the future?

By then, everyone in the entire Ming Dynasty would only want to eat salt from the Changlu Salt Farm!

Everyone couldn't help but think about it.

Although the processes just mentioned are more, as long as the production is done in an assembly line manner, because the most labor-intensive step of boiling the brine in the frying pan is omitted, the production cost is actually much saved than before!
  suddenly.

Zhu Tan's cold voice sounded.

Suddenly everyone was brought back to reality.

"I, the king, will tell you his ugly words first!

This king has only passed on the sea salt refining process to 107 of you!
  One counts as one!
  No one is allowed to leak the craftsmanship!
  This king will appoint you as the stewards of each salt field!
  Guide the construction of various processes of salt refining in the salt field!
  From now on, you can get a salary!

100 taels of silver per person per year!
  If the salt farm makes more money, it will pay you more!
  After taking advantage of this king, don’t have any other evil thoughts!
  Anyone who dares to reveal my salt-making technology will die! "

(End of this chapter)