Drive the servants out and ask Wang Si to guard the back at the door.
Shi Jin began to work, adding well water to the wooden barrel and stirring it with a wooden stick to fully dissolve the salt into the water.
When the solution is saturated, pour it into a funnel made of a wooden barrel.
The bottom layer of this large funnel is tied tightly with three layers of linen cloth, and the linen cloth is covered with a layer of charcoal powder.
There is also a layer of burlap on top of the charcoal powder.
On the linen cloth is a layer of fine river sand.
The black solution flowed through the large funnel.
When it flowed out of the linen at the bottom, it had turned into a gray-blue solution when it fell into the barrel below.
The original yellow-white fine sand at the top of the large funnel is covered with gray-black slag.
Looking at the color of the liquid, Shi Jin nodded.
Yes, you should be able to brew a lot of green salt.
Take the funnel away and pour out the slag and charcoal powder.
Shi Jin poured the filtered liquid in the wooden barrel into the large iron pot.
Add firewood to the iron pot and set it on fire.
Under the fire, the water in the pot gradually evaporates.
Soon a thick layer of coarse-grained salt was left on the bottom of the pot.
Shi Jin stretched out his finger and dipped some coarse salt in the pot into his mouth, tasted it, and spat it out instantly.
It's really salty, but that's right Not bad, almost the same as the green salt at home.
It seems that my salt selling plan is about to be completed.
After successfully boiling a bucket of salt, Shi Jin became more energetic, forgetting the fatigue after staying up late, and continued making salt.
When it was three o'clock in the morning, Shi Taigong hadn't seen Shi Jin yet, and the porridge was cold.
Shi Taigong turned around and asked, "Ah Fu, what are Dalang doing?
Why haven't you come to have breakfast yet?"
Shi Fu hurriedly replied, "The young master of the village is still busy in his yard.
He has kicked all the servants out and no one is allowed to enter."
When he heard that Shi Jin was hiding in the yard and didn't know what he was doing, Taigong Shi rushed to the backyard worriedly.
Seeing Taigong Shi coming, Wang Si didn't dare to stop him.
He hurriedly shouted, "Young Master, the Grand Duke is here!"
Hearing the shout, Shi Jin wiped the sweat from his face and opened the door to greet Shi Taigong.
Seeing the traces of smoke on Shi Jin's face, he said angrily, "Da Lang, what on earth are you doing?
Why don't you care about your body so much?"
Hearing Shi Taigong's scolding, Shi Jin smiled and said, "Father, you will know when you come in and take a look."
With doubts, Shi Taigong walked into the yard and saw salt boiling in a large iron pot in the yard, and there were several barrels of green and white salt blocks on the ground.
Shi Taigong immediately shouted in surprise, "Da Lang!"
Shi Jin replied with some pride, "Father, this is salt made by children."
Although what he saw in front of him looked very much like green salt, Shi Taigong was a little unsure and picked up a small piece of salt from the barrel and tasted it.
Shi Taigong was extremely surprised and said, "Dalang, this is really salt.
How did you make it?
There is no brine pond nearby."
Shi Jin hurriedly explained, "You don't need a brine pond, you only need a salt mine to make salt.
This method is a salt-making technique that I learned from a wandering Taoist priest.
With this method, our Shi family can make thousands of salts."
Tens of thousands of pounds of salt.”
If a wandering Taoist priest knows this, he can make a lot of money whether he donates it to the government or makes it himself.
Still need to travel Shi Taigong didn't believe what Shi Jin said at all, but he also knew that his son had been raised by him since he was a child.
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If he wanted to tell himself, he would have told himself already.
If he doesn't want to say anything, he can't be made to speak.
Taigong Shi had no choice but to say, "Da Lang, this salt-making technique is of great importance.
Don't let others know, otherwise there will be great disaster.
You must remember this."
Of course Shi Jin knew, otherwise he wouldn't have been hiding in the yard to operate by himself.
He had already asked the servants to help him, so there would be no need for him to work hard here.
Shi Jin hurriedly said, "My child understands."
Taigong Shi nodded and said, "That's good.
Is Taigong making this salt for his own use, or?"
With so much salt for home use, how long will it last?
Shi Jin said: "The child is ready to be sold."
Taigong Shi asked hurriedly, "Do you have a way to ship goods?"
When Shi Jin heard this, he immediately patted his head.
I only think about how to make money and make private salt, but I forget the important thing: who to sell to.
Of course, you can carry a pole and sell it along the street, but how long will it take to sell so much private salt, and it is too easy to attract those vampire-like government servants.
Looking at his son's stunned look, he knew that he had not thought about these things.
But Shi Taigong thought it was normal for him to be like this.
Taigong Shi thought for a while and said, "Since Da Lang wants to sell, I know a lot of these people.
Da Lang can sell the salt to them safely."
To be able to maintain such a large family, Shi Taigong is certainly not the kind of pedantic person.
Since he knew that Shi Jin made these salts for sale, Shi Taigong naturally wanted to consider Shi Jin's interests and arrange the after-sales matters properly.
The Zheng Family Store in Zhengxian County, the Wang Family Store in Xiagui, the Chen Family Store in Huayin, and the Li Family Store in Pucheng are all businesses that have received "salt banknotes" and have been allowed by the government to specialize in selling salt.
Although these companies can get official salt, who would object to having too much money?
Moreover, official salt is not only expensive, but also often mixed with sand and gravel, making it of poor quality.
In order to pursue profits, they prefer to buy private salt and sell it as official salt.
After hearing the message from Shi Taigong that there was a large amount of private salt for sale, the shopkeepers of these shops rushed over.
In the middle hall of Shijiazhuang, the shopkeepers of these families were sitting together drinking tea and chatting.
Shi Jin asked his servants to bring up all the 1,500 kilograms of salt produced in the past five days in buckets.
When these shopkeepers saw the pile of salt, they shouted in shock: "This..."
Shi Jin smiled and said, "It's all green salt, ready for sale.
Which of you wants it?"
The shopkeepers finally came to their senses, and one by one they stepped forward and dipped their fingers into it to give it a try.
They have all been dealing with salt all year round.
When these shopkeepers tasted it, they knew that this salt was the finest green salt, the kind used by wealthy people to brush their teeth.
The shopkeeper of the Li family shouted excitedly, "60 yuan per pound, our Li family will take care of all this salt."
Before he finished speaking, another voice sounded.
"Fuck you, you want to swallow this batch of goods for 60 Wen per catty.
Our Wang family is willing to buy it for 80 Wen per catty."
Nowadays, a pound of ordinary salt costs 230 cents.
This batch of salt is of high quality and the price can be higher.
As long as you buy it and sell it again, you will make several times the profit.
These salt merchants competed with each other, refusing to give in to each other, and the prices kept rising.
In the end, it was Shi Jin who considered a long-term cooperation in the future, so he decided to share it equally with each family at the price of 120 Wen per pound, so that they did not break up.
After the price was agreed upon, the clerks brought by each salt merchant immediately weighed and checked the quality quickly.
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While the clerks were busy at work, the salt merchants sat with Shi Jin and chatted casually.
The shopkeeper of the Wang family raised his hands and said: "These green salts are of the highest quality.
I don't know where Brother Shi got them from."
Shi Jin smiled but didn't answer.
The shopkeeper of the Zheng family immediately said, "Shopkeeper Wang, do you understand the rules?
There are some things you cannot ask."
The shopkeeper of the Wang family seemed to have just woken up and said: "Yes, yes, I made a mistake.
I gave you tea instead of wine, and I will punish myself with three cups."
The shopkeeper of the Wang family stood up and drank three glasses in a row, then bowed his hands before sitting down.
At this time, the shopkeeper of the Li family raised his hands and said: "Brother Shi, if you still have a large amount of green salt to sell in the future, remember to come to us."
Shi Jin said, "Definitely, definitely" After chatting with each other for a few words, the clerks in the shops were busy working for less than half an hour and settled everything.
Pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other hand.
These salt merchants drove the carriage back happily, calculating the price at which they should sell the goods and how much profit they could make.
Looking at the 180 taels of white silver, Shi Jin also smiled happily.
Money, this is the real money I earned in the Song Dynasty Just relying on this skill of making salt by hand, even if I don’t rebel in the future, I can become a rich man and live a happy life: