Chapter 12 Mineral salt, the lifeblood of a country!(1/2)
Wake up at the beginning.
I looked at the sun and it took about an hour.
He is now a real monk and he doesn't have to rest at all.
Brush your teeth and wash your face.
As a fasting realm, there is basically no dust on his body.
This is just his habit.
If you don’t brush your teeth or wash your face, it feels a bit weird.
It is better to say that it is brushing your teeth than rinsing your mouth.
Take out some salt from the salt tank.
Scoop up the water with a bamboo tube, and then dip the willow branches with some salt.
He poked it into his mouth twice.
"Gudu Gudu..."
Bai Ji was rinsing his mouth happily, and the middle-aged fat man walked over with a wretched smile on his face.
"Sir, are you up?"
"Ahem!!"
Bai Ji almost swallowed the mouthwash.
"Sir, are you rinsing your mouth?"
"What about that?"
People are angry at getting up.
Bai Ji is no exception.
"Sir, really cares about people."
Meng Yi praised him.
Why do you feel a little sarcastic?
"Hey, is there salt here?"
"Are you talking nonsense?"
Bai Ji looked at Li Xin and wanted to pat him to death.
Without salt, what did you eat yesterday?
Is salt falling from the sky?
Meng Yi walked up curiously.
Take a glance.
I saw a large jar of salt.
As thin as sand and as white snow.
Meng Yi rubbed his eyes hard.
I couldn't believe what I saw in front of me.
I must have not woken up in the morning and read it wrong!
impossible!
Start directly.
Hold a handful of white salt.
The expression on his face changed directly.
Completely solidified!
It's really salt!
And, is it such fair fine salt?!
Salt is important!
There is no doubt about the role of the country!
In the Warring States Period, because of the lack of currency between countries, barter is very common.
Salt, grain, and silk are the most common.
Salt is necessary for the human body.
Without salt, people will have no strength.
If you don’t have the strength, how can you fight?
The food can be eaten a little bit, but the salt cannot be less!
The earliest salt was boiled in sea water.
Later generations unearthed salt-decontaminated utensils, proving that the ancients in the Yangshao period had learned to cook sea salt.
Qin is not like Qi, which is close to the sea. Qin has cliff salt, and it is particularly abundant.
However, the King of Qin was not satisfied, so he attacked Shu first.
After Li Bing occupied Shu Kingdom, he dug a well deep and finally developed well salt.
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It's useless to have these!
The current production process is here.
Very coarse grains!
And the color is greener and yellower!
In addition, during the Qin Dynasty, salt and iron were not official, but private.
It's a bit similar to the business contract system.
In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty also followed the Qin system.
Let the salt and iron merchants manipulate prices and make huge profits, and they are rich and powerful!
During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, the official salt and iron operation was officially started to curb them.
During the Qin Dynasty, the status of merchants was not low. Although they insisted on valuing agriculture and suppressing commerce, their status was still very high.
For example, the famous Wushu and the widow Qing.
Wu Zhu is the treatment of Fengjun!
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No matter these, salt is very precious.
Now the Great Qin annexes the six countries, with more than 20 million people in Guizhou!
The price of salt remains high!
Many Guizhou Heads can only buy relatively cheap sea salt coarse salt.
Even so, it is a huge overhead.
It is recorded in the Yuelu Qin Slips that the price of salt is about 150 qian per stone.
Combined, 15 per bucket.
Is this expensive or not?
According to historical records, the price of grain at that time was about three cents of rice.
It is not expensive to say it is expensive, nor is it cheap to say it is not cheap.
After all, you don’t have to eat that much salt.
But this is about inferior sea salt.
A little yellowed!
It's not this fine salt as thin as snow!
Seeing Meng Yi a little strange, Qin Shihuang and Li Xin also walked forward.
Looking at the large tank of salt, I was all confused.
"Is this salt?"
"nonsense!"
Bai Ji was speechless and subconsciously got a little far away from these three people.
To be continued...