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Chapter 101 Snow Salt

After answering Zhu Yuanzhang's questions, Su Chen could finally start selling salt.

"The product we are selling in our live broadcast room tonight is salt, which is an indispensable necessity for everyone. Everyone, be prepared to rush to buy it!"

As Su Chen said this, he took a kilogram bag of salt from the table next to him.

Su Chen put the salt in front of the live broadcast camera and flipped it up, down, left and right so that every audience could see it clearly.

Many ancient people already knew how good the quality of the salt inside was just by looking at the outer packaging. They were all excited and thought that they should be faster when they rush to buy, otherwise they would be unable to grab anything like last time. .

Before selling goods live, Su Chen briefly introduced salt to everyone.

"I don’t think the anchor needs to say how important salt is. If people don’t eat salt, they will feel so weak that they won’t even have the strength to walk."

"In your ancient times, salt was strictly controlled by the imperial court and was a monopoly commodity."

"Due to the small number of salt producing areas and backward technology in ancient times, the annual salt production is far from meeting the needs of the people across the country."

"Coupled with the high cost of salt and high taxes, the price of salt remains high. At the highest level, it is said that there is one tael of gold and one tael of salt."

"In many dynasties, salt tax often ranked first among the country's annual taxes, and many of the richest people in the world were salt merchants, which shows how huge the profits from salt are."

"As the saying goes, the wool comes from the sheep, and the profits from selling salt are huge, so the price of salt sold to the people will definitely not be low."

"After checking the information, the anchor found that many people eat low-quality coarse salt, and some poor people even use salt cloth."

Su Chen's words aroused the recognition of many people under the sky, and they simply spoke to their hearts.

You must eat salt. If you don't eat salt, you won't have the strength to work.

But salt is expensive, far beyond what ordinary people can afford.

Therefore, many people can only buy the slightly cheaper coarse salt. Each coarse salt is dark yellow in color and tastes bitter.

But there is no way, this is already the salt they can afford.

And in order to save the use of salt, I usually only add a little bit when cooking, just to have a little salty taste.

As for some poorer people, when they heard the anchor talking about salt cloth, they took it seriously.

The method of making salt cloth is to dissolve coarse salt in water, then throw in a rag and soak it to become salt cloth.

If you usually need salt, throw the salt cloth into the pot and cook it with the wild vegetables. After boiling for a while, you can take it out and the wild vegetable soup in the pot will have a salty taste.

A piece of salt cloth will last them a long time. If they are richer, they can buy some vinegar and make a vinegar cloth.

Su Chen's words not only aroused the recognition of the common people in ancient times, but also the emperors of various dynasties.

Salt was extremely profitable and contributed a lot to the court's tax revenue every year.

Things are rare and expensive, and it is precisely because salt production is small that the price is so high.

As emperors, they naturally hope that every household can afford cheap salt.

In this way, it will not only benefit the people, but also bring more tax revenue to the court.

But there is nothing they can do. There are only so many salt producing areas. Due to technical reasons, the annual salt output is only a small amount, which is far from meeting the needs of the people across the country. After Su Chen introduced the salt, in order to clearly demonstrate the quality of the salt to everyone, he picked up the scissors and cut a hole, and poured the salt into the plate along the gap.

The fine sand-like snow-white salt cascaded down like a waterfall, shocking the ancients in front of the screen that there was such fine snow-white salt in this world.

Ying Zheng: Is this really table salt? I can't imagine that table salt can be so white. I've learned a lot today.

Liu Che: This snowflake salt is better than the salt used in my palace. I really don’t know how it was made. Even though it looks smaller than sand, it is still so white.

Cao Cao: If I can have such snowflakes and salt, why can't I win the world?

Yang Jian: Snowflake salt looks like top-grade table salt, and it definitely tastes better than the table salt I eat!

Li Shimin: This is the first time I have seen such clean snow salt. No matter how expensive the snow salt is, I must get it. The more the better.

Li Longji: It is indeed a good thing for future generations. Even the quality of salt is far superior to that of my Tang Dynasty.

Wang Anshi: Judging from the appearance of snowflake salt, the salt-making technology of later generations was extremely advanced. If only this technology could be mastered, it would definitely bring more tax revenue to the court.

Chongzhen: Hey! This snowflake salt is good, but it must be very expensive. I don’t have much money in the treasury, so I’m afraid I won’t be able to get much.

Yangzhou salt merchant Jiang Chun: I have been dealing with salt for decades, and this is the first time I have seen snowflake salt of such good quality. I will grab it no matter what.

Seeing the exclamations filling the live broadcast room, Su Chen just smiled and didn't say anything else. He had expected this to happen.

After all, with modern production technology, the quality of salt produced is definitely far superior to that of ancient times. It is not at the same level at all and there is no comparison.

"The anchor has one more thing to add to everyone. Everything sold in the live broadcast room is iodized salt."

"Many people may not understand why table salt should be iodized. This is because iodine deficiency in the human body not only affects growth and development, but more importantly, affects the brain development of fetuses and infants, causing intellectual impairment."

Many ancient people were thoughtful after listening to it, and even thought of the people around them.

It seems that there are indeed a few short people around me, much shorter than people of the same age.

And I have also seen children with low intelligence, and there are many fools like this.

Now after the anchor said this, they realized that it couldn't be because of iodine deficiency!
  If this is the case, then I will have to grab the iodized salt on sale no matter what.

"A pack of iodized salt is one pound, and one pound is 500 grams. The pack of instant noodles sold yesterday is 100 grams."

"Salt is still sold by the box. There are ten packs in one box. There are one million boxes in total. Each person is limited to purchase one hundred boxes. One box sells for two taels of silver..."

Before Su Chen finished speaking, the ancients who learned about the price of salt immediately exploded and were shocked and dumbfounded.

They never expected that snowflake salt of such high quality could be sold so cheaply.

Ten packs of salt per pound cost 2 taels of silver, which means a pound of snowflake salt costs 2 taels of silver. This price is cheaper than coarse salt, which they simply cannot believe.

A box of snowflake salt of this quality would cost at least one thousand taels of silver, and it was priceless.

"One million boxes of iodized salt, 3! 2! 1! Connect!"

(End of this chapter)