With the matter of liquor and beer as a guarantee, Tang Yang felt much more at ease.
He also gained more confidence in digging deeper and finding something that could leverage the world's wealth.
Seeing that the waiter was still standing aside, Su Nianqing reminded him in a low voice: "Your Majesty... there is someone!"
Only then did Tang Yang realize that the waiter was watching, and let go of Su Nianqing.
In order to ease the embarrassment, Su Nianqing picked up a skewer of barbecue and handed it to Tang Yang: "Sir, try the marinated meat here. It tastes really good."
"Okay." After Tang Yang took it, he started eating.
The taste is indeed very fragrant, but the taste is too bland, as if there is no salt.
It's obviously cured meat, but if you don't add much salt, can it still be cured meat?
Su Nianqing saw the clues. After she tasted it, she asked the waiter: "Why is there so little salt in the cured meat?"
The waiter showed helplessness in his eyes: "Girl, you look like a wealthy family. You don't know the price of salt. The salt in our Xia Kingdom is controlled by the four major salt merchants. The price is more than three times higher than last year. If we are still like this If it’s like usual, I’m afraid the store will suffer a huge loss.”
"The four major salt merchants have tripled the price of salt? Don't the government have control?" Tang Yang frowned.
"Oh, Sir, you may not understand the situation in the deep mansion. Behind the four major salt merchants are the Dugu family, the Guangling Wang Lin family, and many officials as backers. Which government dares to take charge?
Furthermore, the salt merchants cook the salt pot by pot at the seaside. They can sell it at whatever price they want. Why should the government care? "
The waiter said helplessly.
“Has the salt trade not been nationalized yet?”
"What do you mean, Master?"
The waiter scratched his head. If Tang Yang hadn't been wearing silk and satin, he would have thought that Tang Yang was a mountain cannon who ran away from some mountain village. Why didn't he know anything?
Su Nianqing was also surprised that Tang Yang had such a lack of common sense despite his extraordinary methods. He immediately replied: "Sir, none of the ten countries in the world has nationalized salt."
Listen to this!
Tang Yang's eyes lit up!
He seemed to have seen an opportunity to truly leverage the wealth of the entire world!
Of course, having such an idea is not to nationalize salt and iron. Considering the current situation, if he dares to do so, it is tantamount to becoming an enemy of all the forces in Xia Kingdom, which can only seek death.
The reason why he thought he had found an opportunity was because the waiter had given him two pieces of information.
First!
Xia is a coastal country, which means that with the right methods and sufficient manpower and material resources, countless salt can be obtained from the sea.
second!
The current method of making salt is still in the stage of cooking seawater to make salt.
This method consumes a lot of wood, resulting in low yields.
Presumably, the four major salt merchants are raising prices crazily not only because they have power and backing, but also because cooking seawater to make salt consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, and production capacity is limited. If they want to make more money, they can only increase prices.
If these two pieces of information are correct!
That gave Tang Yang a chance!
In ancient times, seawater was used to make salt.
It is roughly divided into two stages.
The first stage is the current stage of cooking seawater to make salt.
The second stage is the beach tanning method! Using sunlight to dry seawater, you can get a lot of salt.
At first glance, maybe the beach tanning method is more ancient.
But the difficulty of the beach tanning method is not basking in the sun, but how to introduce seawater into the evaporation pond.
Since the seawater will rise and fall, the evaporation pond must be at a certain distance from the seawater. Under ancient productivity, there were no tools and we could only rely on manpower to pull seawater into the evaporation pond tank by tank.
If it takes so much effort, it would be better to set up a big pot directly on the beach and cook it directly to save more effort.
It was not until the emergence of waterwheels and other tools that beach drying became popular.
If the Xia Kingdom is still in the stage of cooking seawater to make salt, it means that the current productivity of the Xia Kingdom has not yet produced an exquisite and labor-saving waterwheel!
And Tang Yang graduated from the Department of Chemistry, a standard science student. As the saying goes, if you learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well, you will not be afraid of traveling all over the world.
Making an advanced waterwheel is a piece of cake for him!
In this case, he can use the beach drying method and obtain salt that far exceeds theirs!
At present, salt has not been nationalized, which originally seemed to be a disadvantage, but the lack of nationalization means that as long as Tang Yang produces salt, it can be sold to other countries.
Salt is the first of all tastes, and no one can live without it.
If we can dominate the world's salt market by relying on large quantities, we can truly leverage the wealth of the entire world!
However, all this requires a prerequisite.
That is, the beach-drying method is not used to make table salt. China is indeed a country near the sea.
If the above information is all wrong, then Tang Yang can be said to be happy in vain.
In order to get the exact answer, Tang Yang and Su Nianqing returned to the palace after eating the barbecue.
Found the current map of Xia Kingdom!
According to the map, Xia Kingdom is extremely long and narrow.
The territory in the west is almost occupied by other countries.
Only the eastern coastal area remains consistent with its heyday.
Although the overall shape of the country is rather strange, it has a coastline from south to north.
Although half of the territory is in the northern region, beach tanning will be affected in winter, but summer is about to enter, which is the best time for beach tanning.
Later, Tang Yang called in a craftsman who was proficient in making salt!
Ask about the current methods of making salt!
He told Tang Yang that currently, except for the western countries which have their own natural salt pools, the rest of the table salt in the world is made by cooking sea water!
Tang Yang couldn't hide his excitement at this answer!
However, he quickly calmed down. Currently, the four major salt merchants all use seawater cooking to make salt, which means that all the salt-making sites on the coastline are occupied by them.
If Tang Yang wants to get the opportunity to make salt, he still needs to pull out his teeth and obtain a large number of salt making sites from the four major salt merchants.
Although this move is definitely difficult, Tang Yang cannot let go of the opportunity to leverage the world's wealth!
No matter how tough the backends of the four major salt merchants are, he will still take some away from them.
Persimmons can be either soft or hard.
The four major salt merchants should also be weak and strong. Tang Yang needs to find out the details of the four major salt merchants.
He will attack whoever has a weak backing!
He wants the salt, and he won't give up the wine.
Only by taking a two-pronged approach can we be more secure.
Therefore, he arranged for eunuch Cao Bao to find out the details of the four major salt merchants.
Tang Yang took Su Nianqing and rushed into the imperial dining room.
His purpose this time is very simple. After brewing distilled liquor, he will try to see if it can be accepted by people in the current society!
at the same time!
All major forces also returned to resume their lives.
Both the Dugu Party and the Lin family were very confused.
According to the report from the spies, Tang Yang left the palace and seemed to have just played around and had a barbecue.
In their eyes, both Tang Yang and Su Nianqing were all scheming, and the purpose of leaving the palace was definitely not that simple!
However, after further investigation, it was discovered that Tang Yang seemed to have just asked the waiter about salt, and then Tang Yang entered the imperial dining room!
He didn't come out for five days in a row, and he even turned down the morning court due to poor health!
What is this going to do?
Is it possible that he wants to learn cooking?
They don't believe it at all!
There is fraud in it!
If there is something fishy about Tang Yang, it must be in the imperial dining room!
Dugu Bingyu ordered Dugu Yingyue and Lin Yanran to let them find out.
But in the end, he was driven away by eunuch Cao Bao.
Dugu Bingyu increasingly believed that there was something fishy going on in order to figure out the situation.
She decided to go to the imperial dining room to find out in person.
