The Legend of the Great Wilderness

Chapter 79 Precious Salt
Gu Yi roared unbearably, and drove away the mine slaves who were like children waiting in line to sit on the Ferris wheel, leaving only Xiao Yan and a subordinate in charge of the mill, and they didn't need to contribute, only the future Pour in the peeled millet, and then sweep out the pounded ones. Two people are enough to take care of ten stone mortars and donkey head pestles.

But before it was too long, Xiao Bing came to look for Gu Yi in a panic. The speed of the water mill was too fast. Ten stone mortars were activated at the same time, and a lot of millet was pounded out in a short time. Yi had no choice but to order a temporary stoppage of work, which is a typical manifestation of productivity exceeding demand.

Moreover, the pounded millet is still mixed with millet bran, so it cannot be used directly, and it has to go through the process of blowing the wind to remove the bran before it can be used. However, how to separate the millet bran from the piled up millet has become another problem.

If in the outside world, using the principle that rice is heavy and bran is light, and the wind force is used to lift the millet bran mixed in the millet, although the efficiency is a bit slow, it can be regarded as a way, but in this deep well-like hollow valley, even a breath of wind can No, so what's the point?You can't blow slowly with your mouth, can you?
In desperation, Guyi had to invent another wooden "hand-cranked bran-removing drum", which was very common in the countryside in ancient times. There were several windows on an octagonal spinning drum , by shaking the wooden handle to turn the wooden drum, so that the millet and millet bran poured into the interior roll, as long as the shaking speed is controlled, the rice and bran can be easily separated by centrifugal force.

The birth of the "Hand-cranked Bran-removing Drum" naturally surprised the miners. They looked at Guyi with reverence in their eyes, and they worked extraordinarily hard on the work he assigned. Obviously they regarded him as a "Luban" level master.

Guyi doesn't care about these small things that he "invented" casually, as long as he can meet the requirements, he never thought about the impact that these things he made at will have a great impact on the world...

The brewing experiment and the cultivation of distiller's koji are carried out simultaneously. After all, what he has now is only sweet wine koji. It is not enough to make good wine with this thing alone. The quality of distiller's koji is gradually accumulated. After hundreds of thousands of generations Only through the elimination and selection of the best wine koji can we select the best wine koji and pass it on as the "seed koji" to ensure that the quality of each wine is consistent.

In terms of the "professional terms" that Gu Yi inherited from Gu Yi's father in the small wine shop in his hometown, this process is called "raising music". Just like in the original world, you can buy ready-made distiller's yeast for a few cents, and everything has to be cultivated from scratch.

Therefore, this led to Guyi not so much making wine as doing experiments. All the large and small pottery jars bought from [Shuiwatun] were put to use, and the processed millet was steamed. Cooked, tuned, watered, put into the altar, sealed cellar.

Fortunately, he now has a lot of helpers under him, who can finish the work by opening his mouth to direct, otherwise such a large-scale experiment, he alone would not be able to carry out the work.

Everyone, including Ge Qiao, was commanded to turn around and never idle for a moment, while he himself held a stack of booklets bound with parchment paper and used a A "pencil" cut from Qingdai, a girl who paints her eyebrows, keeps writing and drawing on the booklet and making various records. In the eyes of everyone, this behavior is three points more mysterious and seven points more mysterious. I don't know how to feel serious.

After finishing the work of brewing wine, without waiting for everyone to breathe a sigh of relief, Gu Yi found work for everyone again. This time, they bought back a large amount of brine, packed them in straw bags and piled them on the Under the shed, if it was eaten, it would be enough to marinate more than 100 of them into mummies.

But Guyi obviously didn't buy these brines for food. After some "market research", Guyi found that the world was extremely "salt-deficient", and even those high-ranking officials lived on natural salt crystals. For Gu Yi, this is undoubtedly another way to make money.

Dilute the bittern soil with water, filter out the saturated salt, use specially fired charcoal to absorb impurities, and then use a filter made of coarse to fine quartz sand and layers of brocade cloth for multiple filtration .

Finally, set up a big cauldron, add black stones to stew and boil the crystals, and boil the salt to get pure and white salt particles, which is what the world's dignitaries call "ice bittern snow crystals". In fact, in Gu Yi's opinion, this thing is at best It counts as coarse salt, not even refined salt.

But for this world where even the "high-grade bittern" eaten by the dignitaries is astringent and bitter, and it may be mixed with gravel that can collapse a big tooth, this kind of white as snow and fine as sand "Ice bittern snow crystal" is a strange thing that they have never heard of, and they have never seen it!

Seeing that Guyi was able to "refine" "ice bittern snow crystals" from the black bittern mud, not only those miners, but even the Baimin people regarded it as a miracle, and almost didn't kneel down to rush to Gu Yi's "snow crystals" "Heavenly Master Shangxian" kowtowed, which startled Gu Yi. After asking, he found out that for people in this world, salt is not just a seasoning he imagined, but an extremely A rare necessity for survival.

If people don’t eat salt, they will have no strength, and they will be weak and prone to diseases. However, more than 90% of ordinary people in this world are eating "light food", that is, "original food" without oil and salt. It is amazing to use fire to roast , Boiling with water is considered a delicacy.

Why do people in this world have a rich nature, but they only eat a few things?

The main reason is that they lack effective cooking methods and seasoning aids. Most of the natural ingredients have an original taste, and they are fishy and bitter in the mouth, so they are not considered edible.

For ordinary people, salt is a good nourishing medicine for strengthening the body and exorcising evil and curing diseases. For soldiers and Jie people who rely on strength for food, salt is a natural treasure to enhance their strength!

Earlier, Guyi took out a bit of salt froth filtered out of the brine crystals he swindled from Ge Qiao, and Baimin, Roufu, and Maoren were convinced and regarded him as the leader, because salt, no matter in Baimin Among their warriors, servants, and tribes of hairy people, they are all rare materials that are controlled by officers, leaders, and chiefs. Only when they make meritorious deeds, they will get a little bit as a reward.

As soon as Gu Yi met, he took out the "Brine and Snow Crystal" that they had never seen before and gave them to eat. How could the savage and hairy people with brains not much smarter than gorillas be so obedient under Guyi's hands?
　Trouble: wake up early to ask for votes, do not ask for votes actively, some villains will always forget to vote!
　　
　
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