Chapter 596

In Lanzhou City, a huge workshop has begun to take shape. Huge warehouses are filled with cyan lake salt pulled from Chaka Salt Lake

"This salt is extremely bitter when offering sacrifices to wine in ink. Even cattle and sheep don't want to eat this salt. Mohou's salt making method can really turn it into edible salt?" Gao Shilian frowned. As far as he knew, Merton's salt making method is to purify coarse salt into fine salt, which is not the natural salt stone in the salt lake.

Merton explained: "Lord Gao, don't worry. The crystalline salt of Chaka Salt Lake is a natural and superior edible salt. It tastes bitter because it contains more impurities. As long as you remove other things in the salt, these salt like soil in Qinghai will become the most delicious table salt. If further purified, it can even become the best-selling fine salt in Guanzhong.

"Fine salt!" Gao Shilian was shocked.

These cyan salts are pulled out of Chaka Salt Lake and are as worthless as soil. If they can be turned into fine salt, their value will soar, and the profit will be astronomical.

Gao Shilian looked at Merton, who didn't change his face and his heart didn't jump. He couldn't help sighing, that is, Merton, who is a black sheep. How could anyone else be willing to give up these crazy profits.

"Sir, the new salt you want has been prepared!" the seven grade salt officer of the Ministry of industry sent by the imperial court came to report with a happy face when he saw Merton and Gao Shilian.

Merton laughed and said, "Lord Gao, if I can't wait to taste the salt in Qinghai, how does it taste?"

When they came to the salt workshop, they saw that the cyan salt grains had piled up like a mountain. Obviously, they had stored a lot of new salt.

Qipin Qingyi salt officer stepped forward quickly, picked out a few small pieces of salt with a tray and handed them to them. Merton reached out and took out a small grain and put it into his mouth. Suddenly, a violent saltiness filled his mouth, as did Gao Shilian.

"This salt tastes pure, which is a rare top-grade table salt!" Gao Shilian also tasted it, and his eyes brightened. This salt making method is indeed feasible.

Merton nodded with satisfaction. The taste of this salt is not as good as fine salt, but it has no bitter taste and can be eaten.

"From then on, there will be no fear of salt shortage in the northwest." Gao Shilian sighed. The lake salt of the important Chaka Salt Lake is everywhere, and the weight is large. The Northwest has always been short of salt. With this salt lake, the salt price of the whole Guanlong land will drop greatly, and countless Guanlong people will benefit from it.

"Yuncheng has dissolved salt, Mohist has snow salt, sea salt in Shandong and well salt in Sichuan. Now this salt has not been named. Lord Gao is interested in naming this salt!" Merton laughed.

Gao Shilian nodded, looked at the cyan salt block, and said in his heart, "this salt comes from Qinghai. The salt grain is big and a little cyan. What if it's called big green salt."

"Big green salt! It really deserves its name." Merton nodded.

"Thank you for naming me," said the salt officer in Tsing Yi.

"What's the yield of this salt?" Merton asked.

Qingyi salt officer replied, "this is just running, and the daily output is only 3000 kg. However, as long as there are enough raw materials and enough manpower, the output can be increased several times."

Merton nodded and said, "then according to the name of Daqing salt, the workshop will produce 70% crude salt and 30% fine salt to supply the whole land of Guanlong."

"Yes!" the salt officer in Tsing Yi bowed and replied.

Merton and Gao Shilian watched the production workshop of Daqing salt again, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Ink sacrificial wine, now salt has been produced, how to sell it." Gao Shilian asked.

Merton smiled at the speech. Now Daqing salt has just been put into production, and there is not much salt. There is only one way to gather so much wealth in a short time, that is, the salt ticket method.

In fact, if conditions permit, Merton is more inclined to implement the salt introduction law for thousands of years, I'm afraid he will earn more. However, the salt introduction law can only be promulgated by the imperial court, and the scope of sales is limited. Merton does not have so much power and energy to rectify the salt industry of the whole Tang Dynasty.

Finally, he came up with the most suitable salt ticket method for Daqing salt.

"Salt ticket method?" Gao Shilian frowned.

"Yes, from a young man's point of view, the price of salt remains high. First, the output of salt is small and the transportation is inconvenient. Second, many salt merchants peel and increase the price from the middle plate, or even shoddy. People spend a lot of money and buy inferior salt." Merton analyzed.

Gao Shilian nodded deeply, which was the disadvantage of the salt administration of the Tang Dynasty.

"Now Daqing salt is backed by an almost inexhaustible Salt Lake, and its output will increase sharply. In addition, relying on the smooth brick road, the transportation cost will be greatly reduced. In this way, if you want to make a name for Daqing salt, you are going to set up salt warehouses in various cities along the brick road from Lanzhou to Luoyang. Businessmen don't have to travel long distances. They just need to take the salt ticket issued by the salt factory and go to the nearest city In the salt warehouse, get the green salt.

In this way, each salt merchant needs to receive as much as possible, which not only reduces the transportation cost and storage risk, but also avoids the salt merchant hoarding, competition among salt merchants and private price increases. "

"This is a wonderful method! If it can be popularized, the price of salt will drop greatly, which is a blessing for the people all over the world." Gao Shilian praised the festival.

Merton shook his head and said, "this side relies too much on brick roads. There is no place for brick roads, so it will be difficult to implement."

Gao Shilian was not disappointed, but his eyes brightened and said, "when the three horizontal and five vertical plans are completed, it will shine brightly.

Merton nodded and said, "at present, the output of green salt is limited, and it is difficult for the people on both sides of the brick road from Lanzhou to Luoyang. I'm afraid there is more than enough heart and less strength in any further place!"

Gao Shilian nodded and said, "now the salt has been made. As long as the last 20% gap is filled, we can return to Chang'an city."

Merton nodded fiercely. The expedition took him too long.

"Boom!"

When Daqing salt and salt ticket law were published in ink journals, salt merchants in Chang'an city immediately caused a sensation.

In any era, salt is the top priority of people's life. On the one hand, it is related to the life of thousands of families, on the other hand, it is related to the tax of the imperial court. Salt tax in any dynasty is a small number that can not be ignored.

There is an important salt producing land in the northwest, which has a great impact on all aspects.

In particular, Daqing salt is backed by the inexhaustible Chaka Salt Lake and the brick road from Lanzhou to Luoyang. It has huge output and convenient transportation. It can be said that the conditions are unique.

Some big salt merchants can't help gnashing their teeth. Merton's salt ticket method directly broke their monopoly on salt, while some small salt merchants cheered one after another. They were subject to the big salt merchants and their profits were diluted. Now they have the salt ticket method. From now on, they don't have to be controlled by others. They can pick up goods directly from the nearby salt warehouse and make money easily.

Everyone knows that selling salt is a business that can make no loss. Once the salt ticket is issued, it is immediately sold out by large and small salt merchants in just a few days, and the last 20% of the disaster relief funds needed by Merton are finally replenished.