Turning around, just when Lu Chen was having breakfast, he saw Liu Jing running into the side hall with a smile on his face.
"Master! Master!" After entering the side hall, Liu Jing panted and saluted Lu Chen.
"What's the matter? You're yelling!" Lu Chen glared at Liu Jing, picked up a napkin and wiped his mouth. When he saw the joy on Liu Jing's face, he teased Liu Jing again, "What? You?" Are you picking up money? Are you so happy?" Lu Chen put the napkin aside and looked at Liu Jing.
"No!" Liu Jing shook his head, "My father-in-law is happy!" Liu Jing looked at Lu Chen and said.
"Pfft!" Liu Jing's words made Lu Chen spit out the tea he just drank in his mouth, directly spraying it all over Liu Jing's head and face who was standing opposite him, "Nonsense! How can the father-in-law be happy! I don’t have that ability!" Su Chang glared at Liu Jing and quickly picked up a towel to wipe Lu Chen.
"No! No! It's a happy event!" The maid on the side was also helping Liu Jing wipe it.
"What happy event? It's worth your fussing!" Lu Chen took the handkerchief from Su Chang's hand and asked without raising his head while wiping his clothes.
"Master, do you still remember the poisonous salt mine in the back mountain?" Liu Jing said with a smile.
"What? Have Lao Xu and the others done it?" How could Lu Chen not remember the poisonous salt mine in the back mountain? Although Lu Chen has been busy with other things recently, he has been reminding Du Chengze and Xu about the poisonous salt mine. Gao Feng and his son paid close attention to this matter.
"Master, look!" Liu Jing reached out and took out a small deerskin bag. After opening the bag, he poured it into a pottery bowl on the table. The crystal white salt fell out of the mouth of the deerskin bag. Like quicksand, it flowed into the pottery bowl.
Lu Chen brought the pottery bowl filled with salt in front of him, stretched out his index finger to dip a little in it, and then licked it with his tongue. His eyes suddenly lit up.
"Is this done?" Lu Chen looked at Liu Jing and asked happily.
"It's done! Xu Gaofeng sent this this morning!" Liu Jing nodded.
"Not bad! Not bad!" Lu Chen, who felt the taste of salt in his mouth, nodded, "Go and call Lao Du and Lao Xu!" Lu Chen directly ordered Liu Jing.
"Yes!" Liu Jing took the order, turned around and ran out of the side hall.
Lu Chen looked at the refined salt in the pottery bowl, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, "Xiao Yu, if you cheat me out of one shop, I will open another salt shop and see who of us will suffer!" Lu Chen muttered to himself in his heart. .
After all, it is still quite difficult to build "local heating" now, and the iron stove shop has "given" it to those aristocratic families. Although this is also a pit, I am afraid it will still take a while to fill it. It depends on time, but since your Xiao family started from salt fields, Lu Chen doesn't mind recovering some interest first.
"Su Chang, how about this salt?" Lu Chen pushed the pottery bowl aside and asked Su Chang who was standing beside him.
"Back to my lord, my maid has seen this kind of salt in my lord's house. Even in the palace, I have never seen such white salt!" Su Chang looked at the salt in the pottery bowl and was very surprised. He replied seriously.
"What's the price of salt outside now?" Since Lu Chen traveled through time, except for the last time he went shopping with Li Yanjun, he has never gone shopping in person. He is not very clear about prices, and the purchasing in Lu Mansion The power was in the hands of Su Chang, so Lu Chen asked Su Chang directly.
"A pound of coarse salt is ten dollars, and a pound of fine salt is thirty dollars!" Su Chang thought for a moment and then replied.
In Lu Chen's opinion, the difference between coarse salt and fine salt at this time is really not that big. It's just that the fine salt is slightly lighter than the coarse salt, but it is still yellowish. After all, the method of making salt in this era is nothing more than Those three types:
One is to boil the sea to get salt. This is the earliest method of making salt. It is to boil seawater with firewood to let the water evaporate and leave the salt. However, this method is basically more common in coastal areas.
Another method is to extract salt by wind-drying, which is a salt-making method that uses natural conditions. It is to pour seawater or brine into shoals or ponds, let the wind and sun shine, and scrape out the salt after the water evaporates. This method is more suitable in inland areas with dry climate, but it is seriously affected by seasons and weather.
The last method is to draw salt from wells. This is a salt production method that uses underground brine. It is to dig a well in the stratum containing brine, draw out the brine, and then boil it with firewood or use wind and sun to obtain salt. The salt obtained in this way is also called well salt, and most of the Xiao family's salt mines use this last method.
However, no matter which method, in Lu Chen's opinion, it is the so-called "drying method", and the method of making salt that Lu Chen now asked Du Chengze and Xu Gaofeng to use is naturally the "braised method".
"Then tell me, how much can we sell this salt for?" Lu Chen asked, looking at Su Chang with a smile.
"In my opinion, if it costs 40 yuan per catty, there should be many people buying it!" Su Chang thought about it for a while and then said.
"No! My salt only costs 20 yuan!" Lu Chen said directly with a smile. It is slightly more expensive than coarse salt and much cheaper than the so-called fine salt. Once this refined salt is put on the market, it will be up to you and the Xiao family. I can’t sit still!
Hearing Lu Chen's words, Su Chang couldn't help but widen her eyes. Her father-in-law actually sold such fine salt for only twenty yuan. This was somewhat beyond Su Chang's expectation. After all, according to what she thought, this kind of salt would be sold for only 20 yuan. High-grade refined salt, let alone forty cents, is estimated to be fifty cents per pound, and some people buy it.
After all, my father-in-law's salt doesn't have the bitter taste of the salt outside.
"Su Chang, do you think it's a bit cheap?" Lu Chen naturally noticed Su Chang's expression and asked directly with a smile.
"Yes!" Su Chang nodded directly.
"My lord, this is called small profits but quick turnover!" Lu Chen said directly with a smile.
Su Chang knew that Lu Chen had already made up his mind, so she didn't offer any further advice.
While Lu Chen was drinking tea, Liu Jing brought Du Chengze and Xu Gaofeng to the front hall.
"Greetings, sir!" The two of them saluted Lu Chen in unison.
"No need to be polite! Sit down and talk!" Lu Chen nodded slightly, then motioned for the two of them to sit down and talk.
"Thank you, Mr. Sir!" After the two thanked him, they sat on a chair nearby.
"How much of this salt has been made?" Lu Chen pointed to the refined salt in the ceramic bowl on the coffee table and looked at Du Chengze and asked. After all, Xu Gaofeng was in charge of the craftsmanship, and Du Chengze was in charge of the management.
"Go back to the father-in-law!" After hearing Lu Chen's question, Du Chengze stood up and replied. Lu Chen pressed his hand and motioned to Du Chengze to just sit down and talk.
