One hundred and forty-eighth chapter [Peach kills]
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Ying Lian held four stone balls in his hands and kept turning, stretching his neck and staring at him, as if he had discovered a mountain of contact maps. The curiosity of the fireworks regained his style in the army, and walked around Bai Dong, stalking back and forth, and the camp tent was full of his footsteps. The young master and young official were more imitated, squatting beside Bai Dong, sticking his head out for a while, and then retracting again, looking very funny. In other words, Ying Quliang and Lao Gan Long performed more normally, and both of them were competing with tea. After a while, they drank several big bowls, but they were still asking for it...
It's so strange. This kid set up a stove in the big tent and put a large piece of coarse salt in the pot. What is he going to do? The contemporary Bian Que and Qin Yue people said that if the fine salt produced in Qi could be dissolved in water to clean the wounds for the injured soldiers, the coarse salt that the old Qin people often eat should be forgotten. It contains evil poisons, which not only cannot save people, but also causes the injured to die quickly! Even if it is boiled for salt water to braised meat, there is no need for so many, right? It will be so salty.
Bai Dong didn't explain, and looked at the temperature of the salt water, so he poured it into the bucket, took the fine yarn of Yuedi and covered the mouth of the bucket, and asked the young master Shaoguan to help him hold the bottom of the bucket and pour it back into the kettle. At this time, the white veil had turned yellow and black. After cleaning the bucket, the filtered salt water was poured back into the bucket, and replaced it with a new yarn and filtered it again. This was done for four or five times, until the white sand would never change color again, and the fire was regenerated and the salt water in the kettle was continued. Soon, most of the salt water in the kettle was boiled away, and there was no intention of removing the fire.
"Boy, what are you doing?"
Jungage couldn't help it anymore, so he came to Bai Dong, stared at him with two big eyes like cow eggs, indicating that I was very confused. Old Gan Long sneered and shook his head to mock his old opponent: "General... For generals, you should be as stable as mountains, and for literary works, you should be as restless as autumn water. You are so restless. How can you achieve great things? It can be seen that your "Book of Books" is a strange way after all..." In fact, he was also curious, but his personality was calm and could withstand more than Jungage.
"Haha, General, don't worry, wait until the water in the cauldron is dry, there will naturally be surprises."
"Ping'anlang, don't tell me such a simple method to get fine salt. If the people of Qi and Yan heard about this, they would immediately go crazy!"
"The second brother has good eyesight, but what I want is not fine salt, but fine salt! It is a hundred times better than ordinary Qi's fine salt, and ten times better than the best fine salt of Qi's country, one gold or one liang. If you sell it for two gold or one liang, someone will rob it!" Bai Dong smiled slightly. The Bai family had already eaten the filtered fine salt in secret, but he issued a ban order. Anyone dared to leak it out and immediately expelled it from Baijiazhuang. It was not that Bai Dong was cruel, but this matter was too important. If the time was not right, it would be known to everyone. It would harm Lao Qin and even cause unpredictable changes in the world. If it weren't for the Qin-Western Alliance, he thought of a wonderful chess move, he would not have taken it out until now.
"Serious salt? It is ten times better than the best fine salt in Qi State!"
The stone ball in Ying Lian's hand was rotating wildly. He was really afraid that he would suddenly become confused. This matter was too horrible. An ordinary piece of salt turned around in this kid's hand and could such a change be achieved? Since the stinky kid had such a method, why didn't he take it out earlier?
The salt in the world. Eighty percent of the salt comes from Qi, Yan, Wei, Qi and Yan are sea salt, and Wei State produces pond salt, among which the fine salt of Qi is the best. Although Qin has well salt, it has never found a large salt pond so far, so it is still subject to the Three Kingdoms. Not to mention ordinary people in Qin, even ordinary nobles cannot eat fine salt every day. That thing is too expensive and rare. If you use this method, you can easily get a better "fine salt" than the fine salt of Qi State. What a great fortune it would be? Old Qin will become the richest country tomorrow! A bad boy...... He wanted to bite Bai Dong.
But now there is no time to bite it, and a miracle has happened. As the moisture in the kettle gradually evaporated, a layer of white as frost appeared at the bottom of the kettle, as white as snow and as clean as jade. Seeing Bai Dong gently scrape off these wonderful things, then lay a few layers of silk paper on the bottom of the kettle, pouring them on and slowly baking them. The saliva of the monarch and ministers was almost gone. They smelled the smell of fine salt. This is a good thing, which is extremely delicious to mix meat soup, and even they may not be able to eat it every day.
After the final baking, it was salt that was close to later generations. During the Warring States Period, no one could master this simplest chemical refining method. The best fine salt in Qi State was actually a bit bitter, and coarse salt was not something that people could eat. If you eat too much, you would get poisoned. Bai Dong took some salt into the pottery plate prepared by the guard and smiled and said, "Please try it, is this refined salt a hundred times better than Qi State?"
After dipping some fine salt with his fingers into his mouth, Lao Yinglian suddenly became energetic and asked the guard to send the meat soup. He had already prepared several hot bowls of meat soup and brought them into the refined salt refined by Bai Dong. The king and his ministers couldn't stop eating it, looking at each other speechlessly, just wanting to cry... This life has been wasted, and it has only been so pure and salty that he has eaten this pure and salty taste! Several people looked at Bai Dong at the same time, and they all had a resentment in their eyes.
"Stupid brat, since you have such a method, why is it only willing to show it today? Don't let me guess, has Baijiazhuang eaten this kind of salt long ago?" Everyone in the tent was amazed, but the young master and young official were not very surprised. Ying Lian knew that the youngest son lived in the Bai family, and he had no time to eat and drink, so he immediately thought of the key.
"Your Majesty knows. Yes, since you came to Liyang, the Bai family has eaten this kind of refined salt. Lao Qin's coarse salt is not delicious, it is bitter and astringent, and you will have stomachache if you eat too much."
"Okay... you guys have the face to say it? I'm here to ask you, as a guest minister of the Great Qin Dynasty, you should do your duty as a minister when you eat my Qin salary. Why do you have such a means of refining salt but refuse to offer it to the country and only care about your own enjoyment? You... you're so angry!" Old Yinglian was really sad. He thought that if he had eaten this salt, he might not have been confused. A generation of heroes got a confused disease when they were old, and they were all eaten by those unclean salt!
"Your Majesty, don't blame me. I have conducted an investigation and found that the price of salt in the world is ten times the price of grain! In Lao Qin, even ordinary scholars, it is difficult for me to eat salt every day. Just now, I saw with my own eyes that using the boy's method to extract refined salt will consume more than half of the amount of salt, and this is not the most critical. Coarse salt tastes bitter, even if someone can afford it, the amount of salt is not too much. Lao Qin can still support it. But if the method of refined salt is promoted too early, the amount of salt will be doubled if the people in the world eat such a wonderful taste. Master. This is the case with people's hearts. If you have good things, you will abandon the bad ones. Then you will become a noble literati and literati and officials pursuing refined salt every day, and the people will have even more salt to eat. If you promote it rashly, wouldn't you become a sinner who harms Lao Qin?"
"You boy... always have a set of reasons..."
Ying Lian thought about it and felt that Bai Dong was right. Lao Qin is not a salt-producing land, and he always had to buy foreign salt. It would be fine if there was no such refined salt refining method. Once this method was promoted, the amount of salt used would inevitably increase exponentially. It would be possible that the people would have no salt to eat. Eating without salt is more terrible than not having food. People will have no strength and their bodies will have white hairs. What kind of combat power can they have to say?
"We are short of salt in our country, but Wei is not short of it. Wei can dominate the world, although it has undergone two generations of reforms by Wenhou and Wuhou, but the benefits of salt and iron are also important reasons. Qi is rich, and it is also due to salt! So I think that if this refined method is passed on to Wei, the King of Wei will be very happy. I, Old Qin, can exchange it for millions of military resources, and it seems that it will not be a loss..."
"Don't suffer a loss? I think I'm suffering a great loss!"
The mushroom interrupted Bai Dong's words: "Why are you smart and confused at a moment? Wei State produces salt, so you gave this method to Wei State. Isn't it like a capital enemy? Not to mention that it was exchanged for millions of military funds, even tens of millions of dollars, that's my old Qin."
"Haha, General, I see clearly. I think the King of Wei will think so, right? So he will definitely agree with a few million military funds, but the King of Wei will soon have a headache... Wei is a big country, and the nobles and scholars in the country are several times that of my old Qin, and the big merchants are even more eccentric. Even ordinary citizens are ten times richer than my old Qin. These people can afford salt. If there are better salt, they will be willing to spend money. The boy heard that the Wei State has 360,000 armored armor and 360,000 yuan.
Among them, 100,000 were the most elite Wei Wushu in the world. These people did not farm or work, and they were all responsible for food, drinking and flowers. If they had refined salt, they would inevitably be indispensable. The boy also heard that the Wei State had great merchants who were in a big way, but they were not the patriotic nature of the old Qin merchants. Many of them made their fortunes with the salt industry. If they had refined salt, they would immediately abandon the coarse salt. Where would they calculate the loss? The boy also heard..."
"You boy need to be said, I am not stupid. Wei uses salt and iron to benefit the world. The Chinese people have long been accustomed to using salt every day, and merchants have also used it to seek profits abroad. If there is a method of refining refined salt, the salt production of Wei will not increase, but the loss will increase exponentially, and Wei will lack salt... But refined salt can be sold for more money. They will not go to Yanqi to buy coarse salt after making money?"
"Haha... The emperor said it well, Wei will naturally go to Yanqi to buy salt, but Yanqi is willing to sell it, right? If Yanqi refuses to sell it or raises the salt price, what will happen to Wei?"
Bai Dong smiled and said, "At first, Yan Qi might not have noticed it, but when they found that Wei bought a lot of salt and found that fine salt appeared more than fine salt, what if? Yan State is weak and the salt production is not as good as Qi State. The world's salt is profitable. It was originally a double division between Qi and Wei State, but now Wei State wants to monopolize it, but Qi State has to become a 'hard worker' that provides raw materials for people. Will Qi State be willing to do it?"
"Haha, Qi's salt production volume is even greater than that of Wei, so naturally they will not be willing to be taken away by others. They will be more eager to obtain a method to extract refined salt; but who is Wei Ying? If this method is used by him, it will inevitably be strictly confidential. Qi's country cannot obtain the method and was seized by Wei, so they will naturally hate Wei. I think that Qi will join forces with Yan to increase the salt price. In this way, Wei will hate Qi in turn. Boy, your move is amazing! In ancient times, Yan Ying divided peaches to kill soldiers. Are you dividing salt from other countries and provoking the relationship between Wei and Qi?"
Gan Long looked at Bai Dong with a smile, and the more he looked at him, the more he liked him, this was the talent of the country. He gave him the words to him. Ying Quliang looked at Bai Dong silently and was secretly shocked. He had underestimated Ping'anlang before, and thought that he had tricked and tricked his skills. Although he was also revitalizing literary affairs, he became lazy and could not become a great person in the end. Unexpectedly, he could come up with a method of salt refining, and he could come up with various subsequent methods to provoke the Three Kingdoms invisibly. If this matter could be done, he would be fully qualified to write the family motto of Ying.
Only the young master and young official still couldn't understand, wasn't it just salt? Why were the father and the senior doctor excited like this? The brother of the Bai family is so smart, and he didn't think about how to make Hen again from the little grizzly bear. That's the most interesting thing...
"Uncle Gan blamed me wrongly. Why did I provoke it? As soon as the salt refining method was released, Wei and Qi will turn against each other for their interests. I can't even stop it at that time." Bai Dong felt very unfair.
"Well, the dispute over interests is the fundamental dispute! It's terrible... boy, do you know that the day when Wei Ying was happy to get the salt refining method was when Wei Qi turned against him? The princes of the world, I, Qin, live in the west, and it is still difficult to compete for power with Wei; Chu's disciples are strong, but the court is full of dusk; Han and Zhao are the lackeys of Wei, and the rest of the small countries are even less important. Those who can compete for power with Wei are Qi. If you divide the peaches and kill the soldiers with this hand, you may not be able to really change the situation of the world..."
The mushroom twisted his beard and pondered for a long time. When he looked at Bai Dong again, his eyes were filled with strange light, as if he had seen a piece of gold.
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