After taking care of the salt merchant, Tang Ping would naturally not stay in Jiangyou any longer.
I followed a group of salt merchants to Fuyi County, and Tang Ping also said that it would take some time to dig wells to cook salt, so he asked everyone to dispose of the salt as soon as possible before the price dropped.
It also made these salt merchants feel even more grateful.
When we arrived in Fuyi County, the handover of salt wells in the past seemed to be extremely smooth.
Moreover, in the past, the salt wells of each family were not paid for free, the government paid them.
You can receive cash or wait for the new official salt to be released and get the salt funds.
Then Tang Ping distributed all the pepper seeds and explained to them clearly how to plant them.
There are even several varieties of these peppers, and Tang Ping explained them clearly to everyone.
In addition to the brewing technology of bean paste, all the recipes for some Sichuan dishes eaten that day were handed over to the salt merchant.
Now when these salt merchants look at Tang Ping, it is no different from looking at one of their own people.
When the craftsmen brought by Tang Ping began to work, twenty drilling rigs were used to dig out more than ten salt wells in half a day, hand-pressure the water wells and then connect the windmills.
When there is wind, the brine is automatically pumped up. When there is no wind, manpower or animal power is used. The efficiency is many times higher than in the past.
"Everyone, I heard that there is a fire well nearby?"
"There is indeed a fire well, not far over there!" Old Man An pointed over there: "But that thing is a bit dangerous. In the past, salt workers accidentally discovered that it was easy to light a fire, but sometimes the fire well would suddenly erupt. There is a lot of fire, and it can hurt people if there is a fire source nearby.”
What they are talking about is actually natural gas. In addition to producing salt, Zigong is also the main producer of natural gas in Sichuan.
As for the sudden large amount of gas that Old Man An mentioned, it is a blowout. A large amount of natural gas is ejected at once. If it is not utilized properly, it will indeed cause danger.
"Take me to see it!"
Tang Ping led his people to follow Old Man An, and when they turned two corners, they saw an area surrounded by signs with banners prohibiting fire pillars.
The ancients also knew that this thing was dangerous, especially when there was an open flame.
"There, that's all sealed up, and down there is the original fire well."
Tang Ping nodded, and then asked the craftsman to go over and take a look.
In fact, historically, the demand for natural gas
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It has been used since the Han Dynasty, and the Linyi Huojing has a history of 2,000 years, but the use of natural gas is quite backward and primitive.
The reason why Tang Ping dared to say that the cost of mining salt in Shuzhong has been reduced to one-tenth of the original price is that it is more convenient to open wells and collect brine, and secondly, he found someone to make something that can extract natural gas.
Local materials are used to cook the brine using natural gas, eliminating the cost of logging and other costs for burning firewood in the past.
After so many toilets were built in Chang'an City, in order to deal with the feces, Tang Ping found someone to trial-produce a biogas digester. It was just successful before he came out. The biogas pumping thing was slightly improved and used here to extract natural gas. No problem.
Soon, the craftsmen installed a gas extraction device at the fire well, and a long closed pipe was also connected to the salt boiling field on the side.
After opening the valve, I heard the sound of steam coming out. When a craftsman brought a fire stick closer to it, there was a buzzing sound, and red and blue flames ignited.
"It's burning, it's burning!" Of course, salt merchants have thought of using it this way in the past, but either the gas output was unstable or it caused a fire.
After several attempts, the gain outweighed the loss. It was better to use the original wood to boil salt, so the fire well was sealed.
Soon, the pumped salt brine was sent here to start cooking the brine.
As a large amount of water is evaporated, coarse salt is precipitated.
Up to this point, there is actually not much difference from the salt production process used by these salt merchants in the past.
Then the workers took out the coarse salt and added some fresh water to form a saturated salt solution, and then used the gauze they brought to filter the impurities.
Then add the filtered liquid of plant ash, filter and boil again.
The salt merchants watched Tang Ping's people operating there. These workers had been trained by Tang Ping in Chang'an in advance. It must be said that their operations looked much more high-end than the messy salt fields in the past.
When the salt farm is fully completed, they will become the foremen here and start training new salt mining workers.
Tang Ping did not object to them watching here. In fact, there is nothing to keep secret about the purification of coarse salt. Even if these salt merchants have learned it, they do not have the technology to extract natural gas and well brine. The price is still much more expensive than purchasing it from the government. Well, why bother doing so thanklessly?
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Some salt merchants are so interested now because they mainly want to know where they have lost and why Tang Ping can make salt with better quality and cheaper price.
From this look, I could see that it was getting dark before finally a batch of fine salt was finished.
When the salt made under their eyes was brought to them, several people got their hands on it, dipped a finger in it and stuffed it into their mouths.
"There's really no sand!"
"Not as bitter as our salt!"
"Hey, I'm convinced. I, Mr. Wu, am really convinced. Several generations or even more than a dozen of us have been dealing with this salt well, but it's surprising that it's not as good as the salt made by Ping Guo Gong."
"That's right!" Old Man An also looked at the salt well under the setting sun with some sigh: "It's because Ping Guogong is kind-hearted and still thinks about us. If the government digs its own well to make salt, we will lose completely in terms of price. I'm afraid. It will be closed down in a few years.”
At first he was forced by Tang Ping to agree to the bid, but now he naturally wants to tell everyone that there is nothing wrong with following Tang Ping, so that his behavior at that time is not only not wrong, but also meritorious.
Tang Ping looked at the plate of snowflake-like salt in front of him and felt relieved. No matter how many plans he had before the things came out, he might not dare to say that he would be 100% successful.
Now not only have the salt merchants in Sichuan been conquered, but the new salt production plant for the Tang Dynasty government has also been considered a success. They will just wait to build more salt wells here and then produce salt on a large scale.
Of course, Tang Ping couldn't leave for the time being. These steam engines were drilling wells here, so he had to follow them. After the reserved quantity was drilled, he could return to Chang'an with the steam engines and drilling rigs.
There are two things that Datang needs to keep secret now, one is gunpowder and the other is steam engine.
One is a strong deterrent in the military, and the other plays a huge role in people's livelihood.
As long as we keep these two things and give Datang a little time, Datang will be able to soar into the sky.
In the remaining days, Tang Ping left some Xuan Jiaqi to guard the salt field, and then took everyone to have a good sightseeing tour in Shu.
We went to Mount Emei and Mount Qingcheng, and of course we also went to Jinguan City and Chengdu.
Compared with his trip to Sichuan a thousand years later, it has a different flavor.
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