Zhu Houzhao, the lonely Ming Dynasty, angrily snatched Yan Shenggong at the beginning!

Chapter 24 Purification of Coarse Salt, Japanese Bandits Attack!

Looking at the cheerful kitchen households queuing up for registration, Zhu Houzhao had a meaningful smile in his eyes.

In the eyes of the Yanhu people, Zhu Houzhao is a boy who spreads wealth, and he came here to show kindness and kindness to the people.

As long as they are registered, they will be paid two months' wages and receive half a month's food. In the past 800 years, they have never met such a good customer.

Some people even secretly pinched themselves, trying to make sure if they were dreaming.

When they felt the pain in their thighs, their faces were full of smiles, especially when they received the money and a large bag of food, the smiles were even more blind, and they kept nodding and bowing to thank Zhu Houzhao who was smiling next to him.

There will be no pies in the sky, but below the temptation is a deadly trap.

These salt households may not know that after accepting Zhu Houzhao's benefits today, their future fate, including their children who are about to enter private schools, will all be in Zhu Houzhao's hands.

Either follow Zhu Houzhao to the dark, or die without a place to bury him.

They didn't know about the reforms that Zhu Houzhao said. This was just what Zhu Houzhao found casually.

Once they accepted Zhu Houzhao's job, what they were engaged in was selling and making illegal salt.

According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, those who sell illegal salt will be punished heavily.

In the future, it will be fine for them and their children to listen to Zhu Houzhao's words. If they have the slightest intention of betrayal, Zhu Houzhao will let them know what it means to be unforgiving of the law and what it means to be sinister.

Without local snakes like Zhang Ze, the recruitment speed is very fast.

In less than 5 days, almost all the salt households in Antonwei who were engaged in the salt industry joined Zhu Houzhao's Yuanbao Chamber of Commerce and became Zhu Houzhao's employees.

Although Antonwei is not the main production base of table salt, under Zhang Ze's operation for many years, its production scale is no worse than other regions.

Zhu Houzhao gathered all the salt households from the original small workshops to start large-scale unified work.

And divided the crowd into several teams, those who dry the salt specialize in drying salt, those who transport the salt specialize in transportation, and those who are young and strong and easy to manage are selected to be responsible for the later purification and finer fine salt processing.

Zhu Houzhao's future salt products will be divided into three types.

The top-quality fine salt is specially provided to those noble families, and the price is also the most expensive.

Medium fine salt, which is not as fine as fine salt, but not as unacceptably bitter as ordinary coarse salt, is mainly sold to small landowners and wealthy families.

The last one is low-grade coarse salt, which is the kind of rough sea salt. It is only slightly purified and filtered. It can be eaten, but the taste is not much better.

The main channel for the sale of such coarse salt is the ordinary people, and the price is also the cheapest.

"It's all done. I'll only teach it once. Whether you can get a monthly commission of one or two silver in the future depends on your memory and hard work."

In the small-scale production workshop in the cottage, Zhu Houzhao was wearing a white coat and a mask. While fiddling with the things in his hands, he taught a group of wide-eyed men around him, trying to write down every step.

There is no need for Zhu Houzhao to worry about drying salt. He just mentioned it a little bit. These salt households who have been dealing with salt for a lifetime know the general process.

What he mainly teaches is the final procedure of coarse salt purification.

Although this knowledge can be seen everywhere in later generations, in the current Daming, it is still at the top of the technology.

"Coarse salt turns into fine salt. The steps are very simple, namely screening, melting, filtering, evaporation, and crystallization!"

He casually grabbed a box of coarse salt and put it on the table. Zhu Houzhao took out a sieve and started the formal steps.

The salt households looked at the small basket containing about fifty or sixty catties of salt, and at Zhu Houzhao's size, which was less than their waists, with horror in their eyes.

My little son, that's fifty or sixty catties of salt, you just picked it up so casually, it will give us a feeling that we can do it if we do it.

Seeing Zhu Houzhao's blushing and breathing, Yanhu's eyes were full of shock and admiration.

Such a good person, so strong, and so smart, he is really a child prodigy from heaven.

"Look at me, look at the salt!"

Noticing that everyone was staring at him, Zhu Houzhao patted the table to get everyone's attention.

"oh oh…"

Everyone nodded quickly and looked at the steps in Zhu Houzhao's hands.

"The reason for screening is because there are some other things in the coarse salt, such as small fish, shrimp, small shells, small stones, etc., so the first step needs to be screened out."

While Zhu Houzhao was explaining, he shook the sieve, large and small salt grains fell down from the holes of the sieve.

Zhu Houzhao's speed is very fast, and he can get fifty or sixty catties of salt in less than two quarters of an hour.

Putting the unsifted salt aside, Zhu Houzhao came to a large water tank next to him with the salt that had been sifted by Gao Feng.

"The next thing to do is to melt, which is to put it simply, to turn the salt into brine again!"

While pouring salt into the water tank, Zhu Houzhao explained to the people around him.

"The main purpose of melting it again is to mix the dirty things inside with water."

"These dirty things are difficult to melt, but salt is different."

After pouring the salt into the water tank, Zhu Houzhao beckoned, and two soldiers with sticks stepped forward and began to stir vigorously in the water tank.

"Stirring increases the rate at which the salt melts and also makes the brine more uniform!"

"Okay, let them continue to stir, let's go to another place."

Without the stirred brine, Zhu Houzhao came to a water tank on the other side.

"Since the stirring and sedimentation over there will take a certain amount of time, I prepared it in advance yesterday."

"The reason for sedimentation is to let the dirty things sink to the bottom, and the cleaner salt water is on top."

When he came to the new water tank, Zhu Houzhao asked everyone to line up to watch it one by one, and explained the reason to the salt workers.

After everyone had finished watching, Zhu Houzhao asked someone to pour out the clean salt water and started the next step.

Although the brine has been cleaned up after precipitation, it is still mixed with many small impurities, which require finer filtration.

For the filter, Zhu Houzhao chose the kind of silk fine mesh, which has several layers in total.

After several times of filtering, some black impurities were left on the fine net.

Feeling about the same, Zhu Houzhao called everyone to a large pot with filtered salt water and started to boil it.

"Everyone knows the next steps. I believe you have done it when you cook salt on weekdays."

"It is to keep burning, keep stirring, so that the brine can be heated evenly."

"But here I want to tell everyone, don't burn the pot dry. It feels almost the same. When there is still some water in the salt, you should stop the fire and let the residual heat of the pot evaporate the water."

Boiling salt is very slow, after nearly an hour, the pot of salt is almost boiled.

As the fire was extinguished, the remaining temperature of the pot evaporated the water little by little, and white crystals appeared at the bottom of the pot.

Picking up the shovel and shoveling a bit, Zhu Houzhao put the crystal into the small stone mortar next to him, and finished the final processing by himself.

"Everyone has seen the steps. After this step is completed, the coarse salt will become fine salt and it will be officially completed."

"Of course, if you want to be cleaner, then you can clean the processed fine salt according to the steps just now."

Putting the hammer in his hand aside, under the gaze of everyone, Zhu Houzhao reached out and squeezed out a white and fine salt powder, and put it in his mouth.

There is still a hint of bitterness, but it is very small and completely negligible.

Nodding in satisfaction, Zhu Houzhao beckoned and said, "Come on, everyone have a taste and see how it tastes?"

The old man in charge of the foreman of the salt factory stepped forward and held up the mortar, and let everyone present squeeze a little bit.

"How about it?"

Zhu Houzhao looked at everyone with a smile.

In response to him, everyone excitedly smirked and nodded repeatedly.

"Okay, I believe everyone has seen the steps clearly, and today is not considered a formal job. Let's talk to the people in our respective groups first, pondering, experimenting and experimenting."

Zhu Houzhao, who had been busy all morning and his stomach was already growling, felt that everyone should have learned about it, so he took off his white coat and asked everyone to try it out first.

However, as soon as the crowd dispersed, Zhu Houzhao was planning to go back to Anton to have lunch for the commander's yamen, when Zhang Yong, who was in Antonwei, rushed in hastily.

Before Zhu Houzhao asked what was going on, Zhang Yong hurriedly came to him and reported anxiously.

"His Royal Highness has an accident, Japanese pirates are attacking!"

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