The place where Zhu Zhen made salt was actually the general's mansion given to him by Zhu Yuanzhang.
For him, it is very safe here and no one will disturb him.
When Zhu Yuanzhang came here, he couldn't wait to see how Zhu Zhen made the salt.
In Zhu Zhen's general's mansion, there were several simple equipment and a pot set up.
Just looking at these things, it looks like the same thing.
However, when Zhu Yuanzhang saw Zhu Zhen playing with the raw materials of salt, his face turned dark.
"Is this the salt ore you use to make salt??"
"Yes! Otherwise, I will get seawater to make salt??"
"Then do you know that these salt ores are poisonous, and the salt produced from them will kill people!!"
"Salt ore is indeed poisonous, but the salt I make from it is not the poisonous salt!!"
In the Ming Dynasty, there were actually many people selling private salt.
Among them, those who are more conscientious will at most charge a higher price for their private salt.
But those who are evil-hearted are different. Some of them directly use salt ore to make salt.
For those who are lucky, there will be no major problems after eating mineral salt. At most, they will have minor problems such as diarrhea and nausea.
If you are unlucky, you will probably die.
But even so, countless people still take risks and go to the mountains to mine salt ore and make poisonous salt.
Because the benefits are too high.
For this reason, Zhu Yuanzhang repeatedly attacked those who sold illegal salt and did not give them the opportunity to harm the people.
At the same time, the salt officials were strictly ordered not to collude with government and businessmen, and deliberately reduced the share of salt for the common people, so that the common people had no salt to buy and had to buy private salt.
In Zhu Yuanzhang's heart, he hated poisonous mineral salt.
He originally had expectations that Zhu Zhen could produce cheaper new salt, but when he saw that Zhu Zhen actually used salt mines to make salt, he was extremely disappointed.
However, Zhu Zhen ignored Zhu Yuanzhang's disappointment.
He picked up the hammer and started working.
Under Zhu Yuanzhang's gaze, he directly smashed the salt ore, ground it, and then filtered it.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang had no hope for such poisonous salt ore, he did not stop Zhu Zhen after Zhu Zhen started working.
However, the harder Zhu Zhen worked, the greater the disappointment in his heart.
Because Zhu Zhen's operation is too simple, it can even be said that there is no technical content.
Zhu Yuanzhang just read it once and remembered Zhu Zhen's salt-making process.
Then, he saw Zhu Zhen put the salt water in the pot and started to boil it.
"Is this the end??"
"Yes! This is the complete production process. How about it? Is it very simple and cheap? ?"
"It is indeed very cheap, but unfortunately, these salts are poisonous!!"
"Whether it is poisonous or not, you will know later, Father!!"
In order to convince Zhu Yuanzhang, the salt he made was not poisonous.
He ordered people to get some chickens, ducks, birds, dogs, and pigs.
After hearing Zhu Zhen's arrangement, Zhu Yuanzhang probably knew Zhu Zhen's plan.
He had no objection to this.
In his opinion, the existence of these animals could just make Zhu Zhen give up his plan to make poisonous salt.
Although, this may be a blow to Zhu Zhen.
However, there are still some blows in life. Otherwise, if you have a smooth life, you may not be able to withstand sudden blows.
Zhu Zhen didn't know what Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking.
After the animals were delivered, Zhu Zhen's salt was also made.
Open the pot, it's full of snow-white refined salt.
Seeing such fine-looking salt, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help feeling sorry.
"These salts are so beautiful. When we see these beautiful salts, we can't help but want to put them in our bags and treasure them well!!"
"It's a pity that these salts are poisonous salts, they are useless!!"
At this time, Lao Zhu hoped that these fine salts were all edible salts.
Unfortunately, all his past experiences told him that although these salts were extremely beautiful, they were inedible.
If anyone is fooled by their good looks, they may pay the price with their lives.
Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's words, Zhu Zhen just smiled and did not refute again.
Instead, he started to use the newly made salt to feed the animals.
In Zhu Yuanzhang's view, Zhu Zhen's behavior is more like not giving up until he reaches the Yellow River, and not looking back until he hits the south wall.
Since Zhu Zhen wanted a result, Zhu Yuanzhang asked Zhu Zhen to take a good look at the result.
So, he sat there and waited for those poisonous salts to take effect.
After Zhu Zhen finished feeding the animals, he was also waiting.
However, his face was all relaxed and there was no trace of nervousness at all.
He even asked people to go out and buy some food and come back, and ate it next to Zhu Yuanzhang.
"Father, do you want to eat some?"
"If you don't want to eat, we will go back to the palace in a moment!!"
"No rush, no rush!!"
Zhu Zhen was really not in a hurry at this time. Even if he waited for a long time, he was not worried about what would happen to these animals.
After all, this is the way mineral salt was used in later generations, and it is absolutely not poisonous.
Regarding Zhu Zhen's heartless attitude, Zhu Yuanzhang could only sigh.
He wanted to say something to Zhu Zhen and teach Zhu Zhen, but in the end he held back and did not say anything.
He thought that after the animals were poisoned, he would teach Zhu Zhen a lesson.
However, he waited and waited for a long time, but he did not wait until the animals were poisoned and died.
Not only that, the animals are more energetic than the last.
After a while, there was already a lot of animal feces on the ground.
The appearance of this scene directly made Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes widen.
"How is this possible? How could these animals be okay? How come they didn't die from the poison??"
"Does that need to be said? Of course the salt I made is not poisonous!!"
After saying that, Zhu Zhen grabbed a little salt, sprinkled it into the water, and drank it in one breath.
He was using this behavior to tell Zhu Yuanzhang that the salt he made was really not poisonous at all.
Zhu Zhen's behavior really shocked Zhu Yuanzhang.
At the same time, it also allowed Zhu Yuanzhang to confirm that the salt produced by Zhu Zhen was really not poisonous.
However, this matter was still too incredible for him.
"This, these salts are obviously extracted from salt mines! Could it be said that this salt mine is not poisonous??"
As soon as these words came out, Zhu Zhen was speechless.
According to Zhu Yuanzhang, he must use other salt mines to verify that the salt he made is not poisonous.
This process is too troublesome.
Therefore, Zhu Zhen could only use his special skill.
"Father, this has nothing to do with whether it is a poisonous salt mine or not, this has to do with technology!!"
"This salt-making technology is actually... a magical skill taught to me by an immortal!!"
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