"This is coarse salt? How could this be coarse salt? Sir, must he have seen it wrong?"

Ying Zheng looked at Zhao Long in shock, but of course he was more suspicious in his heart.

He thought what Zhao Long just said must be nonsense!

How could this be coarse salt?

This is the most exquisite royal fine salt that I have ever made!

Is Zhao Long talking nonsense or bragging?

"How could I have seen it wrong..."

Zhao Long said with a smile, "Look, the salt he has polished is quite fine, but it is definitely not real refined salt! If nothing else, anything I can make is better than him!"

hiss?

What did you say?

You said this salt is polished, that is indeed correct...

But you said that everything you create is better than this?

These words...

Ying Zheng felt a hundred disbeliefs in his heart...

"Sir, do you think you can make better salt than this?"

Ying Zheng looked at Zhao Long suspiciously and looked up and down, his face full of uncertainty.

"What's the point of lying to you?"

Zhao Long smiled and said, "I've seen it all. There is a piece of stone on our mountain that contains a lot of white salt. We can go back to get it and use it in the village first. It can also save some money. After all, we can go out from here.

It’s not easy to walk there, and it’s quite difficult to find a place hundreds of miles away to buy a few packets of salt..."

hiss?

"Mountain salt?"

Ying Zheng was shocked again when he heard this, "Isn't mountain salt very inferior?"

"Then you are wrong..."

Zhao Long said with a smile, "This salt, as long as it is made in the right way, is not good or bad, it's just whether it's troublesome or not."

"Sir, you can actually do this?"

Ying Zheng couldn't help but sigh after hearing this, "Sir, you are such a great talent... There is so much mountain salt in the world. If you really have a magic method, I'm afraid the world's salt production will be increased many times!"

"Ha ha……"

Zhao Long couldn't help laughing after hearing this, "Old Zhao, are you kidding me... Haven't we been short of salt outside for a long time? Moreover, there is plenty of mountain salt, well salt, lake salt, and sea salt!"

oh?

After hearing this, Ying Zheng felt something in his heart, "Could it be that Sir can also refine other salts?"

"Absolutely. As long as you use the right method, making salt is not difficult."

Zhao Long said with a smile, "It's just that we are not a national enterprise, so we can't make salt to sell!"

"oh?"

After listening to Zhao Long's words, Ying Zheng's heart suddenly moved and he couldn't help but asked, "Is it possible that now the country doesn't allow salt to be sold privately?"

"No, but it's different from ancient times. In ancient times, it was just to make money, and the technology of making salt was also poor, so there wasn't that much salt in ancient times..."

Zhao Long said, "The production of salt is not a problem at all now. Private individuals are not allowed to do it, mainly because they are worried about health problems. Moreover, salt is so cheap now that you can't make much money from salt alone..."

Um?

That's true...

After listening to Zhao Long's words, Ying Zheng nodded slightly.

But in my heart, I had other thoughts and considerations.

If we can really learn some good salt-making techniques from Zhao Long, it will naturally be a real good thing for Da Qin!

For example, Da Qin’s army used salt!

In ancient times, salt was not only used as a food seasoning, but also a military product.

If the military's diet does not contain enough salt, soldiers will easily suffer from fatigue or a series of sub-health problems.

On the other hand, salt itself can be used to kill viruses and disinfect.

It is especially effective for treating fresh wounds.

Of course it hurts a lot...

But it works great!

Therefore, in ancient military camps, everyone had to try their best to hoard a lot of salt!

However, due to the backwardness of ancient salt-making technology and the need for salt in many places, there has always been a big gap in the use of salt.

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the army and the powerful had been competing for the allocation of edible salt.

In later generations, with the development of private feudal commerce, merchants also joined the team to snatch salt.

Therefore, from ancient times to the present, salt has always been something robbed and used by the superstructure, or the armies attached to the superstructure.

But for real civilians, they cannot be used...

Therefore, many people are poor and weak...

If ordinary people in modern times cannot absorb salt for more than ten days, their bodies will suffer from various crises and problems.

But in ancient times, people could not touch salt for many years.

Therefore, it is very common to have physical problems.

Of course, they will also try their best to get some salt from other places to make up for their body's need for salt.

For example, you can get some salt from some wild animals, or from the water of some dead lakes.

Although it's not enough, it still allows me to survive a little...

It has to be said that the living environment of ordinary people in ancient times was so bad that modern people cannot bear it at all.

certainly……

In Da Qin, its own salt production was insufficient. Even after annexing Qi State and obtaining Qi State's sea salt, it was still not enough.

Because the Qin Dynasty is so big, with a huge number of gentry and dignitaries, and a huge army, everyone needs salt, but there is only so much salt...

There’s nothing we can do about the shortage…

Unless, the mass production of salt can be increased!

That's why Ying Zheng was so excited about Zhao Long's words!

"Sir, what you said is true. Why don't you take me and others to the mountains to get some mountain salt and cook it tomorrow?"

Ying Zheng was moved in his heart and said to Zhao Long, "To be honest, our Zhao family village is generally short of salt!"

"Really? Then this matter cannot be slowed down!"

After hearing this, Zhao Long immediately said, "Eating salt is more important. Let's get some after dinner! Then let the brothers come and get it!"

"good!"

"Right..."

Zhao Long said while kneading the dough, "So, no one in our village has ever made flour?"

"This...yes..."

Ying Zheng listened and nodded slowly.

He said to himself, if people like me don't know, then naturally these squires and soldiers below don't know either, let alone real ordinary people?

"Then this..."

Zhao Long said, "While taking advantage of this millstone, let the villagers take out some wheat and grind some flour for use back. There is an elderly person in the family who can't eat this wheat grain. If he eats it forcefully, there will be problems! Get this flour and go back."

, it would be better to boil some noodle soup and make noodles or steamed buns."

"oh?"

Ying Zheng was surprised for a while, "How much better would it be to grind wheat into powder? Can it also make so many things?"

"Isn't that right? In the north, we mainly eat pasta!"

Zhao Long laughed and said, "Steamed buns, pancakes, noodles, or deep-fried, there are so many ways to use them!"

hiss?

It turns out that in the north, the main thing to eat is not grains or wheat grains, but the flour that is ground so hard?
Chapter completed!