The laborers rushed into the salt pond in a hurry, first opening the valve next to the pool, so that the bitter brine that would not continue to crystallize and precipitate sea salt flowed into the sea along the salt ditch, and what remained at the bottom of the pond was a little viscous salt mixed with a small amount of bitter brine.

At the top of a long wooden stick was a wooden board that was lifted horizontally, and when it was pushed hard at the bottom of the pond like snow, the sea salt that had crystallized was pushed......

The sea salt piled together contains bitter brine, which is slimy and unsightly, but as the bitter brine gradually flows out, the little bit of water left by the sun also evaporates, and the pile of salt that was originally black and slimy becomes white and dazzling.

The sun shines, and the sea salt beats the snow!

As the bitter brine in the crystallization pool slowly dries, the remaining salt particles at the bottom of the pool are gradually dried, like the bitter frost after autumn and the thin snow in winter, which is white. Ignoring the shock in their hearts, the laborers used a bamboo broom to sweep up the remaining layer of sea salt at the bottom of the pond and put it together in piles of snow-white salt, and then used a dustpan to load it onto a different kind of wheelbarrow. Truckloads of sea salt were transported to the cleared ground behind the crystallization pond and easily piled up into a small mountain.

A salt mountain that is whiter than snow!

When the last cart of sea salt is pushed out of the salt pond and piled up on the salt mountain, the laborers open the gate above the crystallization pond, and the brine, which has been precipitated and filtered and dried for several days, flows into the pool again, and after a day or two, it is another pool of sea salt.

When all the processes were completed, all the laborers wiped their sweat, and the scholars and merchants opened their mouths, all staring blankly at the salt mountain in front of them that reflected the white light in the sun!

This...... It's out of salt?!

People could hardly believe their eyes......

Since ancient times, boiling salt has long been used.

The farmers either boiled salt by themselves, or boiled salt for the wealthy families, and the whole family went up the mountain to chop firewood, went to the sea to pick seawater, and each pot could only hold 30 catties of seawater at most......

The local farmers are better, except for the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, plus their own families have to eat a catty, and there is not much left every month after hard work. Moreover, the seawater is corrosive, and the iron quality of the iron pot is not good, and the iron pot is boiled many times, and it will burn through the bottom of the pot if you are not careful, which is an expensive expense.

As for the laborers who work for the wealthy families, they are even more hard, and the hard work of boiling out the salt is not their own, their eyes are damaged by the smoke and fire, and their hands and feet are sores by the seawater, and in the end, they can only exchange for a little belly-wrapping food, and the whole family can't eat enough......

But take a look at the scene in front of you, dig some pools on the beach, bask in the sun, people go down to retreat with rakes, sweep with brooms, and easily get such a salt mountain, I'm afraid that there will be tens of thousands of catties of sea salt?

When the laborers remembered their previous hardships, they really wanted to cry without tears; Suddenly, I thought that there was such a good way to get sea salt in the future, and although the salt was not my own, I was ecstatic to be able to eat a full meal at such an easy time.

And those scholars and businessmen were dumbfounded, dumbfounded, and had mixed tastes in their hearts, which can be described as sweet and sour, and they didn't know what it was like......

Joy is naturally joy, such a light and economical salt production method, compared with Fang Jun's original promise of output will only be more, not less, this investment will naturally make a lot of money.

But there are many people who regret and are unwilling!

The output of sea salt is indeed quite a lot, and this transaction is worth it, even if you borrow a large amount of money in the "money bank" and have to pay a lot of interest every month, you still have a lot of money.

But the problem is that such a simple method of drying salt, how could I not have thought of it before? The history of many scholars and merchants boiling salt can almost be traced back to the generation of their ancestors hundreds of years ago.

The most indignant thing for everyone is that he built a few pools by the sea, filled them with seawater and then waited for the sun to dry the seawater, such a fool can make salt, this hateful Fang Jun actually took tens of millions of wealth into his arms?

The robbery of the palace is not as fast as this......

Fang Jun looked at the white and snowy sea salt like a mountain, and his heart was full of pride and pride!

Each salt pan is divided by a salt ditch, about one mile in length and width, covering an area of about half a square kilometer, and is divided into countless sedimentation ponds, evaporation ponds and crystallization ponds. This place is far away from the mouth of the Yangtze River, is a corner of Huating Town extending in the sea, surrounded by a horse and a flat river unobstructed, strong wind in summer, easy to evaporate seawater. It is only affected by the rainy season in Jiangnan, and the output is affected during this time period.

Even so, according to observations, it is the hottest time of the year, with about 0.2 millimeters of seawater evaporating every day on a sunny day, and a single salt pan can evaporate 20,000 tons of seawater. The salt content of seawater is about 3 percent, which can produce 300 tons of sea salt.

There is no reference, Fang Jun does not know how much difference between the weight of one catty in the Tang Dynasty and later generations, so he calculates according to one catty, thirty catties are jun, four jun is stone, and one stone is one hundred, one hundred and twenty catties, then a salt field can produce five thousand hubars of sea salt every day......

Naturally, the sun is shining like this every day, and the sea breeze is whistling, except for the cloudy rain and the low temperature in winter, slow evaporation, how can you produce three or four hundred thousand sea salt in a year.

At the beginning, Fang Jun promised to produce 100,000 pieces of sea salt per salt pan per year, but now it seems that Fang Jun made a mistake in his calculations, and the output was much higher than expected.

Isn't it a loss?

Fang Jun didn't think so.

No matter what era it is, salt is as important as food. People will starve to death without food, and they will not live without salt to eat! Salt is not only an important condiment, but also an indispensable substance for maintaining the normal development of the human body.

Table salt regulates the balanced distribution of water in the human body, maintains osmotic pressure inside and outside cells, participates in the formation of gastric acid, promotes the secretion of digestive juices, and can increase appetite; At the same time, it also ensures the pH necessary for pepsin, maintains the balance of pH in the body, and the normal circulation of body fluids.

People can't eat salt without it, and eating too little salt will also cause the sodium content in the body to be too low, loss of appetite, weakness of limbs, dizziness and other phenomena; In severe cases, symptoms such as anorexia, nausea, vomiting, rapid heart rate, weak pulse, muscle spasms, blurred vision, and decreased reflexes may occur.

However, since ancient times, in addition to making the state financially rich, the official salt has not allowed more people to eat salt, and the official salt is too expensive, and most of the salt circulated in the private sector is private salt. However, in the early Tang Dynasty, there was no official salt administration, but most of the people could afford to eat salt, and the price of salt was never high, indicating that whether the people could afford to eat salt had nothing to do with whether it was monopolized by the state. On the contrary, due to the monopoly of the state, the price of salt has skyrocketed, which has suffered the people......

What is the most normal way?

Undoubtedly, it's competition!

Competition can improve product quality, reduce product prices, and directly benefit the people!

The more salt is produced, the cheaper the natural price is, and the common people can afford to eat salt!

Presumably, what is the loss of some money?

Not to mention that Fang Jun originally planned to give this benefit to the emperor and the merchants of the Jiangnan Shi clan, so as to divide the alliance of the Jiangnan Shi clan.

People with flexible eyes have estimated this large pile of sea salt, and have roughly calculated the income that can be obtained from a salt farm every year.

In addition to being excited, he also became more and more in awe of Fang Jun.

This is not a means of being in awe of Fang Jun's turning stones into gold, but the wealth that Fang Jun created for the emperor. The scholars and businessmen present, because of the restriction on the purchase of shares in the salt farm, are at most the thirds who occupy a salt farm, and what about the emperor?

There are five salt pans!

How much of an asset is that?

Dedicating such a huge fortune to the emperor, what kind of status will Fang Jun, who is already highly favored, have in the eyes of His Majesty the Emperor?

The first minister of the Tang Dynasty may not be counted, but the first favorite minister of the Tang Dynasty, who else can he be?

Your Majesty is now in the prime of spring and autumn, and Fang Jun's backer is as solid as a rock; Even if the throne is inherited in the future, the relationship between Fang Jun and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is unbreakable!

It is almost conceivable that as long as Fang Jun does not run to the death to rebel, he will be the emperor's most trusted and favored minister for decades to come......

With such a solid position, who can shake it?

This is a thigh that can't be thicker, and the sooner you hug it, the higher the reward. On the contrary, whoever offends him, even if he doesn't kill you, he won't have a good life for decades......